Détente – the chance to end the Cold War (149) - a podcast by Ian Sanders

Today we speak with Richard Crowder, the author of “Détente – the chance to end the Cold War”.
Help support the podcast buy the book here UK listeners https://amzn.to/34yNeB2
US listeners https://amzn.to/3kHU3pOBetween 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev coined the name Détente. 
The leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, hoped to forge a new relationship between East and West. We talk about some of the key moments such as where Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s Secretary of State agreed the end to the war in Vietnam, the 1973 Arab Israeli war where the world stood on the brink of armed conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States and the Helsinki Accords where the agreement to uphold human rights unleashed dissident movements against the Communist Parties of Eastern Europe.
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I am delighted to welcome Richard Crowder to our Cold War conversation…There’s further information on this episode in our show notes, plus a book giveaway which can also be found as a link in your podcast app here. https://coldwarconversations.com/episode149/
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