Ford and Carter

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Ford and Carter
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Gerald Ford

• Took over as President when Richard Nixon resigned

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Title IX

• Said that schools have to provide equal funding
  for both men and womens sports
• Gave women opportunities to play traditional men
  sports

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Jimmy Carter

• Defeats Ford 1976
• Becomes first Southern Democrat to be elected
  President

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Camp David Accords

• Agreements settled issues between Israel and
  Egypt (leader of the Arab countries) over border
  disputes
• Looked at as Carters greatest contribution at
  President

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Regents of UC vs. Bakke

• Supreme Court case that said it was illegal for
  universities to achieve racial diversity through
  racial quotas
• A blow to affirmative action

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Three Mile Island

• Partial nuclear meltdown at a nuclear energy
  plant in Pennsylvania
• Led to widespread protests against the use of
  nuclear power and safety of nuclear power plants

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Iran Hostage Crisis

• 1977, Iranian Revolution ousts U.S. backed
  government
• The Ayatollah Khomeini, a radical Muslim cleric,
  takes over as head of the government

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Iran Hostage Crisis

• November 4, 1979, 500 college students seized the
  American embassy in Tehran
• 52 U.S. hostages were taken and held against
  their will for 444 days
• This proved to be Carters downfall

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