President Jimmy Carter

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President Jimmy Carter the 1970s

• Ms.Eraqi

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Carters Challenges

• U.S. Inflation
• Foreign Policy
• New Congressional Power
• Viet Nam Syndrome

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At Home U.S.A.

• By the end of the 1970s, interest rates on homes
  up 17
• Cost of a 30-year 100,000 mortgage up from 421
  in the 1950s to 1,425 per month in 1970
• High oil prices
• US passenger cars averaged only 13.4 mpg
• Oil Crisis of 1979
• shortages, lines at gas stations.

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Viet Nam Syndrome

• http//pewresearch.org/pubs/432/iraq-and-vietnam-a
  -crucial-difference-in-opinion

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Carter Policies Dovish

• Human Rights
• SALT II

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Carter Policies Hawkish

• MX Missile

• Trident D-5 Missile

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Foreign Policy

• End US support for repressive regimes
• Iran
• Peace in Middle East
• Camp David Accords

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Arc of Crisis
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Foreign Policy cont.

• Carter wants a peace in the holy lands
• Asks Palestinians to meet with Israelis
• Barriers Israel wont deal with the PLO unless
  it renounces its commitment to the destruction of
  Israel
• Too many Issues
• US domestic policy concerns
• question of Israels boundaries and its
  settlements program

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Camp David Accords

• Camp David, 1978
• Meeting between Israel and Egypt
• Egypt became the first Arab country to recognize
  Israel
• Israel promised to return the Sinai Peninsula
• Longest lasting Arab-Israeli peace agreement

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Iranian Revolution

• Irans Shah (king) was overthrown in Iranian
  Revolution
• US installs Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in power,
  1953
• Shahs regime repressive, closely tied to the
  west
• US reliant on Iran for oil and support for its
  Middle Eastern goals
• Carter supports the Shah, who is overthrown in
  1979
• US allows Shah to come to USA Iranians mad at
  USA

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Iranian Revolution cont.

• Iranian rebels took the US Embassy and held 66
  people hostage (14 would be released later),
  November 1979
• Plan was to occupy the Embassy for a few days as
  a symbolic gesture
• American media hyped the taking of Embassy
  personnel
• Extremely nationalistic response of the American
  people unease with government powerlessness
  yellow ribbons

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November 4, 1979
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Iranian Revolution cont.

• Carters efforts to negotiate, enforce the
  release of the hostages
• Failed rescue effort, April, 1980 leaves 8 U.S.
  soldiers dead
• US used Algeria to facilitate negotiations
• USA agreed not to overthrow the new regime in
  Iran
• Ayatollah Khomeni becomes new leader
• Hostages released just after Reagans oath of
  office

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Rescue Mission April 1980
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Congressional Power

• War Powers Resolution 1973
• Limits Presidents Powers to send troops into
  action without approval of Congress

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Carter Approval Ratings
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1980 Elections
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Carters Image Then
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Carters Image Today