Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972.
A colony controlled directly by the English king was known as a Crown colony
The reason why state delegates met in 1787 was "<span>to discuss a better system of government," since it had become clear by this time that the Articles of Confederation needed to at least be seriously revised. </span>