Which u. s. president abandoned détente? gerald ford jimmy carter ronald reagan george h. w. bush

The correct answer is Ronald Reagan.

Detente is a French word meaning release from tension. It is a name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.

This policy started in 1971, when President Richard Nixon visited the secretary general of the former Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, in Moscow, in the year 1972.

Detente ended after the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. The new President, Ronald Reagan, was an advocate for an anti-detente campaign. The Cold War tensions between the two countries returned and Reagan emphasized military presence as the key to Soviet-American relations.  He believed detente was misused by the Soviet Union as a way to achieve its imperialistic goals.

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