What term is used to describe the effort to ease tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s?

a) Helsinki Accords

b) cop d'etat

c) Warsaw Pact

d) detente

The answer would be (D. dentente).

Correct answer is:

d) Detente

Detente is that the easing of strained relations, particularly during a political scenario. within the context of the cold war, the drop-off of tensions between the East and West, in conjunction with domestic reform within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, worked along to realize the tip of communism in eastern Europe and eventually the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics altogether.