The shift in American foreign policy toward the communist world that sought to relax tensions and provide firm guarantees of mutual security is known as

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Détente refers to the shift in American foreign policy in the 1970s that aimed to reduce tensions with the communist world, particularly the Soviet Union. It involved negotiations and agreements on arms control, trade, and cultural exchanges, as well as efforts to promote human rights and democratic reforms. Mutual assured destruction was a strategy based on the idea that both the US and the Soviet Union would be deterred from launching a nuclear attack if they knew it would result in their own destruction. Glasnost and perestroika were policies of openness and economic restructuring, respectively, introduced in the Soviet Union in the 1980s under Mikhail Gorbachev. Containment was a US strategy during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism by containing it to areas where it already existed.

The Shift in American Foreign Policy Toward the Communist World