Détente

Examples of Détente in the following topics:

• Détente and Human Rights

  • Détente was a period in U.S.
  • The most important treaties of détente were developed when the Nixon Administration came into office in 1969.
  • There is debate among historians as to how successful the détente period was in achieving peace.
  • Détente ended after the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, which led to America's boycott in the 1980s Olympics in Moscow .
  • Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, based on an anti-détente campaign, marked the close of détente and a return to Cold War tension.

• The Cold War and Containment

  • It represented a middle-ground position between détente and rollback.
  • President Richard Nixon (1969–74), working with his top advisor Henry Kissinger, rejected containment in favor of friendly relations with the Soviet Union and China; this détente, or relaxation of tensions, involved expanded trade and cultural contacts.
  • President Jimmy Carter (1976–81) emphasized human rights rather than anti-communism, but dropped détente and returned to containment when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979.

• Containment in Vietnam

  • Nixon, who replaced Johnson in 1969, moved away from containment to his foreign policy of détente, or a relaxation of tension.
  • Although it continued to aim at restraining the Soviet Union, detente was based on political realism, or thinking in terms of national interest, as opposed to crusades against communism or for democracy.
  • Distinguish between Goldwater's stance on victory, Johnson's adherence to containment, and Nixon's move toward détente as foreign policies in Vietnam.

• Containment

  • It represented a middle-ground position between détente and rollback.
  • President Richard Nixon (1969–74), working with his top advisor Henry Kissinger, rejected containment in favor of friendly relations (or détente) with the Soviet Union and China.
  • President Jimmy Carter (1976–81) emphasized human rights rather than anti-communism, but dropped détente and returned to containment when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979.

• The Ford Administration

  • As president, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War.
  • Ford continued the détente policy with both the Soviet Union and China, easing the tensions of the Cold War.

• The Ford Inauguration

  • As president, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War.
  • Ford continued the détente policy with both the Soviet Union and China, easing the tensions of the Cold War.

• The Reagan Administration

  • Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," he supported anti-communist movements worldwide and spent his first term forgoing the strategy of détente by ordering a massive military buildup in an arms race with the Soviet Union.

• Containment in Foreign Policy

  • This détente, or relaxation of tensions, involved expanded trade and cultural contacts.
  • Nixon, who replaced Johnson in 1969, referred to his foreign policy as détente, or a relaxation of tension.

• Conclusion: Political Crises in the 70s and 80s

  • He made substantial progress in foreign policy, however, establishing diplomatic relations with China for the first time since the Communist Revolution and entering into a policy of détente with the Soviet Union.
  • This graph of the number of people in jail, prison, and juvenile detention by decade in the United States shows the huge increase in incarceration during the war on drugs that began in the 1980s, during the Reagan administration.

• The Election of 1972

  • Nevertheless, Nixon's campaign boasted of détente with the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, both popular with most Americans.