ease tensions with communist China by extending the hand of friendship
Henry A. Kissinger
Soviet Union was communist.
Detente
Kissinger
To limit the production of nuclear missiles.
Detente
Detente
Henry A. Kissinger
US President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev were sobered by the Cuban missile crisis and sought to ease tensions between their countries.
Soviet Union was communist.
Detente
the anti-ballistic missile (ABM)
Kissinger
The Cuban Missile Crisis helped to escalate and de-escalate tensions with the Soviet Union. It escalated the tensions because the Soviet Union repeatedly told the US that they would not place missiles in Cuba and that there was no reason for concern and then they went ahead and did it anyway. This caused tensions to escalate because the US and other countries could no longer trust the Soviet Union. Tensions de-escalated because the US was able to gain the support of so many other countries. This showed the Soviet Union that they had no support and that their testing the US and placing missiles in different places would not be tolerated at all. So, they removed their missiles from Cuba and the tensions partially de-escalated.
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To limit the production of nuclear missiles.
The United States and the Soviet Union engaged in arms negotiations during a period of relaxed tensions also known as detente.