The correct answer is True.
It is true that while President Nixon was associated with détente, he armed anti-communist dictators in Iran, the Philippines, and South Africa, and helped to overthrow the socialist regime in Chile. This was reminiscent of the Cold War tactics of the Dulles brothers in the 1950s.
The meaning of the French word "détente" is release form tension. It is a period of time in the Soviet Union and the United States relations, characterized by a more amicable or peaceful approach between the two superpowers. It began around 1971 and one of their most renown moments was when US President Richard Nixon visited Moscow, Russia, on May 1972, to talk to Russian leader Leonid Brezhnev.
