A relaxing of tensions was the characteristics of the period of détente during the Cold War.
The Détente refers to a period in which Cold War tensions eased between the Soviet Union and the United States in the late 1960s.
These period was characterized by warm personal relationships between US president Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
Therefore, the Option C is correct.
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