Brinksmanship increased tensions, and eventually caused war. Nixon took office during war, and switched to detente.
Soviet Union and its satellite nations
The Eisenhower policy of nuclear brinkmanship was taking the country from crisis to another. Brinkmanship was eventually replaced with the Detente Policy by both the United States as well as the Soviet Union. Efforts began to thaw the Cold War.
The policy of detente, also known as the Nixon Doctrine, was created to relax tensions between the 2 superpowers, The Soviet Union and the United States. Detente is a spanish word meaning "relaxation of tensions."
Reagan did not think a policy of détente would deter and attack upon the United States.
It led the United States to pursue a friendlier relationship with China.
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treat Organization. This treaty was signed by the United States and other countries. The terms of the treaty state that each country that signs agrees to protect all of the others that sign.
to decrease the tension during the cold war
President Richard Nixon ended the detente with the soviets
Detente between the United States and the Soviet Union led to a softening of the tensions between the two nations. It eventually led to the end of Cold War.
The United States retreated from detente when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. In 1981, Ronald Reagan proposed etc
the threat of nuclear war.
When two or more nations experience a lessening of hostilities the result is called detente. The United States and the Soviet Union experience this in the early 1980s.