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Confidence votes 319K. The French to English translation for the word 'detente' is 'relaxation'. The word can also mean lessening, thaw, or trigger. There is also a detente in Spanish, which can mean detain, arrest, or restrain.
Richard Nixon (right) meets with Leonid Brezhnev during detente. From the mid-1960s the Cold War appeared to soften, with a gradual but noticeable easing of tensions between the US, USSR and some of their allies.ome of the factors that contributed to the rise of detente include: An American cartoon depicting the superpower relation during detente. Fears about nuclear weapons. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 triggered paranoia and public concern about the dangers of nuclear war.