Detente, a way of making amends between two parties.

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  • Period: to

    War Impacts Powers

    Relations between the Soviet Union, China and the USA deteriorated during the Vietnam War.

  • Post Cuban Missile Crisis

    Post Cuban Missile Crisis
    A hot-line is established after Cuban Missile Crisis between the USSR and the US. Both agreed to only use underground tests for nuclear explosions

  • Or as the Chinese say "Pin Pon"

    Or as the Chinese say "Pin Pon"
    China invited an American table tennis team to China in order to improve relations.

  • Nixon and China

    Nixon and China
    Richard Nixon met Zhou Enlai in February 1972.

  • Nixon in USSR

    Nixon in USSR
    Nixon meets with Leonid Brezhnev

  • Brezhnez in the US

    Brezhnez in the US
    Brezhnev vists the United States.

  • Nixon in USSR 2

    Nixon again visits Russia

  • Helsinki Agreement

    USA, USSR, Canada and other major European powers accept European frontiers set up after World War Two. This recognised that Germany was divided and East European countries agreed to allow their people human rights such as freedom of speech.