Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 (39th)
Background
- He was born in small town Georgia
- Only President to get Wel-Fare checks, he grew up poor
- Join Navy and fought in World War 2
- Came back and took over a Peanut Farm and became wealthy
- Senator and Governor of Georgia
- Oldest President still alive
- Only President to get Peace Prize after leaving office.
Accomplishments
- Focused on Peace talks in a lot of countries
- He helped get medicine to Africa
- He gave complete amnesty to Vietnam draft dodgers
- He encouraged energy conversation in the White hous
- Camp David Accords- Jimmy helped broker this peace deal , between Israel and Egypt
- He signed a treaty with Panama giving the control to the Panama Canal again
- Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan- The purpose was to help the communist gov't that have been in there since 1978
- Western countries conspired to get rid of this gov't
Energy Crisis-
- Occurred in the US during the Iranian Revolution
- Exportation of oil was stopped
- Wide spreed panic resulted driving the price of oil far higher than it had been
Iran
- Hostages were taken from Iran, 444 days. The US troops tried to save the prisonier, failed attempt with 8 death of US troops
- Ayatollah Khomeini in 1977 the islum revolution took place in Iran, and took over the gov't we were for, They thought we had control of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini over threw the gov't we liked and church and state are one.
- Hostages got free when Iraq invaded Iran which allowed our hostages to get free
- They were realsed January 21, 1981, Day Reagen took office
- We helped Iraq and helped Sadam Who Sane
Elections
- We wanted to be a people person
- 1979 vs Ford the President
- It was a close election
- 1980, vs Ronald Reagan blew it out
- Cater didn't do good in the past which caused the lost.
Ronald Reagan
- Born on Feb 6 1911
- HE went to college and played football
- Radio announcer in Davenport, Iowa
- Iowa Hawkeye Home Game announcer
- Contract in Hollywood and was a actor
- Married twice and had four kids
- Governor of California
- Ran against Ford, but lost
Election
- 1984, Walter Manwale
- another blow out
- People liked him
Assassination
- March 30th, John Hinckely shot at the President to impress Jody Foster
- John Hinckley stalked Jody and went to the same
- Innocent because of insanity, he had a mental diease, if someone famous loves you, you have to do something to make them notice
- 2 months after he took office
- Reagan survived
- Hickley will never be released,
Accomplishment
- lowered taxes
- reduction of nucular weapons
- during second term he try to end the Cold War
End of Cold War
- opposed Detente, if we keep it how will we every get over the war
- He believed he stood for the end of war and end of communist
- He started to support anti- communist all around the world
- we went into massive debt because of military cost.
- Missile Defense System- if someone send a missile our way, we send a dumby missile to defeat the missile
- Reagan and Gorbachev- had many meetings to help end the war,
Reason we won
- we had every lose Allies, they didn't
- China started siding with us after 1972
- The Soviet economy was in shambles whereas the US's was flourishing
1. Huge deficit
2. High inflation
3. Corruption
4. Social problems
5. Shortage of basic needs
- The strong anti-communist presidency of Reagan
- Gorbachev's willingness to change and reform
1. glasnost and peresrtokia
2. admitted Soviet mistakes
3. took blame for Cold WAr
4. communist system had failed
5. alllowed Eastern Europe to do what they wanted
- Arms Reductions Talks
1. SALT, INF, Reagan and Gorbechev meetings
- Soviet Mistakes
1. Invasion of Afaghanstian
2. Igroning social cocerns
3. spent everything on miltary
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