- President Jimmy Carter
- Accomplishments
- Lead the coeliction
- Observed 30 some elections in may other country's
- wanted people's input
- Created two new cabinet-level departments
- Declared Amnesty to Vietnam draft dodgers
- Encouraged energy conversation
- "Land For Peace" - Camp David Accords
- Signed a treaty with Panama that would five control of the Panama canal back to Panama on December 31, 1999
- Mugahideeen- (people doing jihad)
- sent money to help rebels
- Started against the Soviet Union
- Fighting the communist-we wanted to stop communistism
- Energy Crisis
- ran out of supply and people had to wait in line for hours for gas - more exspensive
- $15.85 per barrel rose to $39.50 per barrel
- Carter got the blame
- ****Iran Hostage Crisis - hostage people were taken and kept for 444 days, because Ayatollsah Khomeini is a supreme leader of Iran. Government took over the government of Iran that we supported. He did anything we told them to do
- They over though the Shaw. 1977 Iran has been a major problem for us. He was able to get out. United states wanted to sent a rescue to save the hostages. a failed attempt
- Iraq invaded Iran
- they were released on January 20, 1981 The day Reagen got be President
- We supported Iran
- President Reagen 1980 Election
- It was a blow out
- more at with Being tuff on Communism
- 58.8% for the election
- People liked what he did
- Background
- Born February 6 in Illionosi
- Radio Announcer in Iowa
- Got be in Films
- married twice
- He was the president of the screen actor skills
- Governor of California
- Assassination
- March 1981
- Was trying to impress Jody Foster
- in the movie he was trying to kill the president
- he stocked her
- He went to trial and went into insanity
- He is still in the institution
- He has a mental disease to make her believe that Jody will love him
- So he killed the President
- Accomplishments
- Tax cuts
- eduction of Nuclear Arms2nd Term tried ending the cold war
- Detente wanted to get ride of it
- he started supporting anti-communist
- Really putting a lot of money Military
- This is were the major debt after Reagen years
- Missile defense System
- we have a satellite that can help us with missiles
- End of the Cold war
- We had close ties with our allies and the USSR didn't
- china started siding with us after 1972
- Soviet Economy was in shambles whereas the US's were flourishing
- Huge deficit
- High inflation
- corruption
- Social Problems
- Shortage of basic needs (food, housing)
- Strong anti-communist presidency of Reagen
- Gorbachev's willingness for change and reform
- Glasnost and perestrokia
- admitted soviet mistakes
- took blame for the cold war
- communist system had failed
- allowed eastern Europe to do what they wanted
- Arms reduction talks
- SALT, INF, Reagen-Gorbachev meetings
- Soviet mistakes
- invasion of Afganistan
- Ignoring social converns
- spent everything on military
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