WORLD HISTORY

COLD WAR ERA

IMPACT OF COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The diplomatic initiative to relax Cold War tension around the globe was
A
the policy of detente
B
the Brezhnev doctrine
C
the Warsaw Pact
D
the Pentagon Papers
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -détente, period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1979. The era was a time of increased trade and cooperation with the Soviet Union and the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) treaties. Relations cooled again with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Detailed explanation-2: -Détente, French for “relaxation, ” is “a process of managing relations with a potentially hostile country in order to preserve peace while maintaining our vital interests, ” Henry Kissinger, then U.S. secretary of state, told a Congressional committee in 1974, while warning that such a relationship faces “sharp limits.”

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