AHC: Earlier Detente

With no PoDs prior to the 1955 Geneva Summit, how can tensions between the US and USSR be as low as possible, particularly in the late 50's and 1960's? With the given changes, how is world history altered?
 
With no PoDs prior to the 1955 Geneva Summit, how can tensions between the US and USSR be as low as possible, particularly in the late 50's and 1960's? With the given changes, how is world history altered?
Hey! I recently had a thread similar to this: End the Cold War very early

A lot of the PODs mentioned there (kill Stalin, stop Korea, etc) might not fit your parameters but it might be worth checking out. It also depend on how you want the detente to happen. For example in my thread people took "End the Cold War" in a variety of directions, up to and including total nuclear annihilation. I guess the Cold War is technically over with everyone dead, but it's not exactly what I intended.

I'm thinkin off the top of my head maybe Gomulka isn't reinstated in Poland in '56? This could lead to a Polish uprising at the same time as the (OTL) Hungarian uprising. Maybe throw in some discontent in Eastern Germany and you've got the keys to a collapse of the Warsaw Pact.

Or, if you want to go a route that preserves the Soviet Union, you could find someone better than Krushchev to head the USSR. As I understand it Brezhnev did a lot of damage and perhaps have Yuri Andropov succeed Krushchev directly at some point in the 1960s. I'll leave the details of that up to others as I don't have a very firm grasp on Soviet politics.
 
I'm thinkin off the top of my head maybe Gomulka isn't reinstated in Poland in '56? This could lead to a Polish uprising at the same time as the (OTL) Hungarian uprising. Maybe throw in some discontent in Eastern Germany and you've got the keys to a collapse of the Warsaw Pact.

Or, if you want to go a route that preserves the Soviet Union, you could find someone better than Krushchev to head the USSR. As I understand it Brezhnev did a lot of damage and perhaps have Yuri Andropov succeed Krushchev directly at some point in the 1960s. I'll leave the details of that up to others as I don't have a very firm grasp on Soviet politics.
Some interesting answers; remember, we're not trying to stop the Cold War so much as ease tensions between the great powers.
 
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