Relaxation (Cold War)
Relaxation refers to the phase of the Cold War between the Cuban missile crisis and the "fresh war", which begins with the war in Afghanistan and Reagan's arrival in power; some of them, however, adopted it at the Helsinki Conference in 1975. It follows peaceful coexistence and is marked by the refusal of direct confrontation in favor of power struggles and wars on "peripheral" that is to say mainly in the Third World. The Détente does not imply only mutual recognition between the NATO countries and the Eastern bloc, but involves continuous negotiations, diplomatic agreements and commercial and even cultural exchanges between the two sides.