| rdfs:comment | - Détente was a foreign policy developed and employed by both USA and USSR during the Cold War period of 1966-1977. The main idea was to ease the tensions between the superpowers and create ground for a mutual coexistence. It was an adjustments of the containment policy where USA tried to prevent communism from spreading to the rest of the world.
- Détente was a foreign policy developed and employed by both USA and USSR] during the Cold War period of 1966-1977. The main idea was to ease the tensions between the superpowers and create ground for a mutual coexistence. It was an adjustments of the containment policy where USA tried to prevent communism from spreading to the rest of the world.
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* The détente is a period of thawing out or un-freezing in roughly the middle of the Cold War.
* 1971 - Détente becomes the foreign policy of US president Richard Nixon towards USSR.
* 1964-1982 - Leonid Brezhnev is in office as the Head of the USSR. Brezhnev pushes for détente at the helm of the USSR.
* May 1972 - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I (SALT I) is signed.
* Nov 1973 - US international negotiator William Henry Cameron is taking a negotiating trip to Peking ("The Solid Gold Kidnapping").
* Jan 1974 - Oscar Goldman engages himself in direct conversation with the Russians. However, some parties would not like such talks to proceed, and plan to murder Oscar ("Survival of the Fittest").
* Mar 01, 1974 - Soviet Col. Vasily Zhukov proposes a joint U
- Détente (, meaning "relax") is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term is often used in reference to the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente; a 'thawing out' or 'un-freezing' at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War. Détente was known in Russian as разрядка ("razryadka", loosely meaning "relaxation of tension").
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* The détente is a period of thawing out or un-freezing in roughly the middle of the Cold War.
* 1971 - Détente becomes the foreign policy of US president Richard Nixon towards USSR.
* 1964-1982 - Leonid Brezhnev is in office as the Head of the USSR. Brezhnev pushes for détente at the helm of the USSR.
* May 1972 - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I (SALT I) is signed.
* Nov 1973 - US international negotiator William Henry Cameron is taking a negotiating trip to Peking ("The Solid Gold Kidnapping").
* Jan 1974 - Oscar Goldman engages himself in direct conversation with the Russians. However, some parties would not like such talks to proceed, and plan to murder Oscar ("Survival of the Fittest").
* Mar 01, 1974 - Soviet Col. Vasily Zhukov proposes a joint US-USSR nuclear powered manned mission to Mars ("Doomsday, and Counting", see above).
* Aug 1975 - The Helsinki Accords are signed.
* Feb 1976 - As a gesture of promoting friendship and trust, a Soviet troupe tours the US. The star of the troupe is gymnast Tanya Breski. Steve Austin protects her during her stay in the US ("Love Song for Tanya").
* Jan 1978 - Oscar and Russian diplomat Dmitri Zhukov (upon consulting his party and his government) agree to take the same stance in negotiating between two Middle East powers ("The Antidote").
* Feb 1978 - An exhibition of Russian masterpieces of fine art is taking place at the National Gallery in Washington, for cultural exchange and much more. The news goes: In an unprecedented expression of openness and trust, [the USSR] has given new meaning to the concept of Détente by allowing viewers an intimate look at [her] people, traditions, mind and heart ("The Madonna Caper").
* Oscar Goldman states that If we don't get that painting, we might be back in a Cold War..., indicating a quite notable state of détente then ("The Madonna Caper").
* Mar 1978 - General Simeon Norbukov and Oscar Goldman team up their agents Andrea Mestrova and Steve Austin in tracing a mobile launcher developed by the USSR and missiles developed by the US from a terrorist group ("The Moving Mountain").
* Dec 24, 1979 - The Soviet war in Afghanistan starts. The détente ends.
* 1989 - Oscar meets Russian General Dzerinsky, and both believe that previous conflicts should give way to détente again ("Bionic Showdown").
- Détente (, meaning "relax") is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term is often used in reference to the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente; a 'thawing out' or 'un-freezing' at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War. Détente was known in Russian as разрядка ("razryadka", loosely meaning "relaxation of tension"). The period was characterized by the signing of treaties such as the SALT I and the Helsinki Accords. A second Arms-Limitation Treaty, SALT II, was discussed but never ratified by the United States. There is still ongoing debate amongst historians as to how successful the détente period was in achieving peace. After the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the two superpowers agreed to install a direct hotline between Washington D.C. and Moscow (the so-called red telephone), enabling leaders of both countries to quickly interact with each other in a time of urgency, and reduce the chances that future crises could escalate into an all-out war. The U.S./U.S.S.R. détente was presented as an applied extension of that thinking. The SALT II pact of the late 1970s continued the work off the SALT I talks, ensuring further reduction in arms by the Soviets and by the US. The Helsinki Accords, in which the Soviets promised to grant free elections in Europe, has been called a major concession to ensure peace by the Soviets. Détente ended after the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, which led to America's boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Ronald Reagan's election as president in 1980, based in large part on an anti-détente campaign ("Détente ... Isn't that what a turkey has with his farmer — until Thanksgiving Day?"), marked the close of détente and a return to Cold War tensions. In his first press conference, president Reagan said "'Détente' has been a one-way street that the Soviet Union has used to pursue its aims."
- Détente was a foreign policy developed and employed by both USA and USSR during the Cold War period of 1966-1977. The main idea was to ease the tensions between the superpowers and create ground for a mutual coexistence. It was an adjustments of the containment policy where USA tried to prevent communism from spreading to the rest of the world.
- Détente was a foreign policy developed and employed by both USA and USSR] during the Cold War period of 1966-1977. The main idea was to ease the tensions between the superpowers and create ground for a mutual coexistence. It was an adjustments of the containment policy where USA tried to prevent communism from spreading to the rest of the world.
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