Détente

<p>Between 1968 and 1975 there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West for which Brezhnev coined the name Détente and - perhaps - a chance to end the Cold War. 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. <p/>Yet the greatest changes of the era took place outside the sphere of international diplomacy. The 1960s brought social collision across the world from the anti-war protests in America to the student demonstrations on the streets of Paris and Mao Tsetung's Red Guards in China. A new generation whom advertising executives dubbed the baby-boomers brought new attitudes to towards sex gender race the environment and religion. <p/>In this book Richard Crowder explores the years of Détente and introduces us to the key players of the era whose stories form the narrative of this book.</p>