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Nixon's Détente Research Paper

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In 1971, Richard Nixon attempted to improve relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. This period in history is known as détente, which is the French word meaning release from tension. In the end of the 1980’s, relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union were freezing, which led to few economic transactions, exchanges of hostel words and gowning concerns from citizens (both U.S. and Soviets) about their countries’’ military completion. It was clear the détente was slowly collapsing (Njølstad P. 135). There were main five factors that lead to the collapse of the détente, lack of mutual trust, absence of common values and visions, no real economic interdependence, mutual lack of restraint, and victim to the dynamics of the arms

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