Today we continued the Presidential Blogs
Gerald Ford-
Took over when Nixon resigned. Only Vice President and President to never be elected. Had two assasination attempts within three weeks.
He didn't serve for very long.
He pardoned Nixon (saying he deserved to not go to jail), which made people think, 'is the president above the law?'. They wanted to know why Ford would give Nixon a pardon. Maybe they had some sort of bargain?
Offered conditional amnesty progaram for Vietnam War draft dodgers who had fled to countries such as Canada because they didn't want to fight in that war. It said, we'll forgive you if you come back and such.
"Whip Inflation Law" called for americans to reduce their spending and cnsumption in an attempt to stop inflation. Prices kept going up because they kept buying.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act (1975) established special education in school through U.S. : made special ed programs, elevators, handicapp exsessable...
Continued detente with the USSR. Easing of tensions from the Cold War. Starting to end, ease relations.
Wanted to help South Vietnam when North interefered, but congress refused. All Vietnam then became communist.
Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act was passed to allow refugees to immigrate to the US, our vietamees population went up.
For the next elections, Carter won against Ford.
Next we started the Cold War Projects:
Causes of the Cold War:
- Happened in 1945-1990
- United States v. Soviet Union and Democrats v. Communists (dem is freedom comm is control you)
- One of the causes was that the governments were so different, they thought they would push their ways onto eachother. Try to change one another.
- Free Trade we thought would be good for us and would help the economy better
Soviet Union didn't want it, wanted to keep to themselves
- Power, they struggled for power between one another. We tried to gain allies, and they tried to take control of areas. Set up missles near eachother. Try to see who could dominate the world with their government system.
- Germany; soviet union had the East of it, and the U.S., Britian, and France took the West. It put tensions between the countries, they didn't agree on how to control Germany.
- Soviet Union didn't like our Truman Doctarine where we would help any country that was threatened by communism, it was aimed at them.
- Marshall Plan- US rebuilding European countries.
- They both had the Atomic Bomb/ nuclear weapons. There was a fear that we would attack eachother. It intensified the war, until we came to an agreement not to use them on eachother.
- Truman didn't like Stallin, who only saw reason with an iron fist (using military).
- There was a red scare in 1917 and Russia first got taken over by the Sov's, so it could be argued that it started then, we started mistrusting them.
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