Friday, May 10

[2Teresa]

assigned blogs

Jimmy Carter

• Was a peanut farmer and governor of Georgia before being president
• Strongly emphasized human rights as President
• Has been a very active former president
• Only U.S. Pres. to have received the Nobel peace Prize after leaving office

Iran Hostage Crisis

• U.S. and Iran
• Islamic government came to power and through over the U.s government
• On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The immediate cause of this action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, a pro-Western autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment. However, the hostage-taking was about more than the Shah’s medical care: it was a dramatic way for the student revolutionaries to declare a break with Iran’s past and an end to American interference in its affairs. It was also a way to raise the intra- and international profile of the revolution’s leader, the anti-American cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The students set their hostages free on January 21, 1981, 444 days after the crisis began and just hours after President Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address. Many historians believe that hostage crisis cost Jimmy Carter a second term as president.

Ronald Reagan- 40th 1981-1989

• Was a radio broadcaster in Iowa, an actor and Governor of California
• Survived an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.

accomplishments

• 1983 invasion of Grenada
• 1986 bombing of Libya
• Publicly described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire"
• Supported anti-communist movements world wide
• opposed to Detente
• Ordered a massive military buildup in an arms race with the USSR
• Reagan and Gorbachev- ended the cold war
  • had numerous meetings with the soviet leader Mikahil Gorbachev which helped bring an end to the cold war
  • Why we won:
    • Soviet economy was in shambles whereas the US's was flourishing
      • Huge Deficit
      • high inflation
      • Corruption
      • Social Problems
      • Shortage of basic needs(food,housing)
    • Strong Anti-communist presidency of Reagan.
    • Gorbachev's willingness for change and reform.
      • glasnost and perestrokia
      • admitted soviet mistakes
      • took blame for the cold war
      • communist system had failed