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President Jimmy Carter

Elections

• 1st he won against Gerald Ford
• 2nd lost against Ronald Reagan; because he had high inflation and interest rates
• ABC- Anybody But Carter

Accomplishments

• First day of office declared that all Americans who fled the country in

Jimmy Carter- He gave Vietnam dodgers full amnesty. The problem was signing the Camp David accords. It was signed between Egypt and Israel.

1977- Iran became a major Problem.

1981- 52 Prisoners released from the hostage crisis.

Ronald Reagan- 1980 elect

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
• Ol

Vietnam:

• 1950-1975
• goals:
  • stop communism
• The french Connection:
  • France gained control of Indochina in the mid late 1800s
  • during WW2 France worked with Japanese control Indochine
  • Japanese surrender
  • Korean War just ended
• Ho Chi Minh
  • tried to get independence
  • trie

• 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 Pe

Jimmy Carter cont.:

• green president
• gave panama canal back to panama
• signed camp David accords

Regan's 1980 Election

• ran against jimmy carter and john Anderson, who did not do anything.
• blowout
• won because of Carter's failures
• republicans wanted to be like h

James (Jimmy) D Carter-

• Observed 97 elections in many countries to raise democracy.
• Did a lot of peace things in Africa after presidency.
• Set up a lot of health organizations in Africa.
• Declared amnesty to Vietnam dodgers.
• Signed a treaty with Panama givi

Jimmy Carter Continued

Jimmy Carter (D) 39th  1977-1981

Background

• born in small town Georgia
• Only president to be on Welfare, he grew up poor
• he joined the navy and fought in WW2
• He took over his father's peanut farm-it was successful and he ended up very

Jimmy Carter cont.-

• elections- 
  • 1980-
    • Jimmy Carter
    • Ronald Reagen
    • John Anderson
    • Carter lost
    • carter lost because he was soft on communism
• accomplishments-
  • lifted the coalition
  • gave the Panama canal back to Panama
  • Camp David Accords
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan-
  • U

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 t

When we invaded Iraq Bush said our reasoning was "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people." Although the chief counter-terrorism adviser, Richard Clark, believed that

Cold War (1945-1990)

• us vs ussr
• definintion:
  • a political, stratgic and ideological struggle between the us and the soviet union
  • spread throughout the world-europe, asia, africa and latin america
• discussion
  • communism vs. democracy
  • socialism vs capitalism
• caus

teh cold war 1945-1990 US vs Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Definition- a political strategic and ideological struggle between the US ans the Soviet Union. Spread throughout the world Europe- Asia, Africa and Latin America

communism vs democracy o

I had the accomplishments of President Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the US. His vice president was Walter Mondale. They were democrats. He was in the office for his four years of his term. He lost the re-election for his second

President Jimmy Carter

• He pardoned all of the Vietnam draft dodgers who fled the country
• Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union during his presidency
• Boycotted the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow due to the invasion
• Iran hostage crisis: For 444 days Ir

Today we continued our blog discussion with President Carter.

-Elections

• Won against Gerald Ford and they were really close
• Lost against Ronald Reagan
• 1980 election lost because of high inflation that was caused by him

-Iran Hostage Crisis

• Ayatollah Khomei

today we did blog discussions. 

We took notes.

Jimmy Carter

Iran Hostage crisis

• Islamic revolution
• Ayatollah Khomeini became the leader
• strict government
• Us and Iran
• November 4th
• Iran took Americans hostage for 444 days
• 52 Americans hostage
• Attempted to rescue them- failed
• After "The Shaw"
• Ira

Continued president discussions.

Notes:

Iran Hostage Crisis

• Between US and Iran; Iran had been a puppet of the US, Great Britain, France for a long time and many wanted to cut those strings; the leader was called “the Shaw” and he was who we supported a

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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 offic