may 10th

[3Jake T]

PRESIDENTIAL BLOG DISCUSSION

• President Jimmy Carter

1. worked out peace deals through out the middle east
2. helped small communities all around Africa establish health systems
3. he wanted to be the peoples president, but when  he became president, he realized that would be hard to do.
4. gave complete amnesty to people that fled the country to avoid the war draft

• Soviet invasion of afghanistan

1. soviet union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979

• 1979-1980 energy oil crisis

1. prices skyrocketed
2. people had to wait in line just to get gas

• Iran hostage crisis

1. political crisis where 52 hostages taken for 444 days
2. Islamic revolution took place and took over the government that we liked.
3. the radicals thought that Iran was just America's puppet, which meant that they would do what we told them to do.
4. since 1977, they have been a problem for the United States
5. after 2 negotiations that failed, the United States tried a rescue mission that failed and resulted in 8 american deaths and 2 Iranian civilian deaths
6. Iraq eventually invaded Iran, which led to Iran freeing the hostages
7. the were released the day that Ronald Regan took the oath of office

• Ronald Regan election

1. ran against Jimmy Carter and John Anderson
2. it was a blowout looking at the electoral college votes
3. the people wanted a president that would be hard on communism
4. republicans like to use Ronald Regan as a comparison

• backround

1. born in 1911
2. was a radio announcer, in Davenport, Iowa
3. got a contract in Hollywood and was in 53 films
4. married twice and has four kids
5. president of the screen actors guild
6. became president in 1980

• assination

1. John Hinkley Jr. was trying to impress actress Jodie Foster
2. he was a stalker
3. went to trial and was proven innocent by reasons of insanity
4. he is still in the insane asylum

• Ronald Reagen accomplishments

1. reduction of nuclear arms
2. reduced taxes
3. tried ending the cold war during is term

• Ending the cold war

1. imposed easing tensions with the soviet union but he didn't like it so it didn't go on
2. started supporting anti-communists
3. spent a lot of money on the army build up
4. went into massive debt due to military spending
5. took about 30 years, but the United States finally had a nuclear defense system
6. Gorbachev and Reagen had multiple talks about ending the cold war
7. the Soviet Union still saw him as a communist dictator
8. wasn't liked even in his own country
9. the Soviet Union did have much allies which ultimately led to the ending of the Cold War.