Detente

• Didn't  want to disrupt international peace
• Mutually assured destruction (lessened tension)
• Missile crisis
• Vietnam

Detente is a french word that means 'easing of tension'

• Khrushchev was replaced by Brezhnev in october 1964, he began to spend more onthe arms race
• Brezhnev stated that he would intervene in country's affairs to prevent them from…