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Chapter 24 Section 3 The Ford and Carter Years
  • 1974-1980

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Essential Questions
  • How did Ford confront economic problems and
    handle foreign policy of the 1970s?
  • What was significant about Carters election in
    1976?
  • What was Carters approach to solving economic
    problems?
  • What was Carters foreign policy?
  • What were Carters achievements and failures in
    foreign policy matters?

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Rough Road for Ford
  • Ford gave Nixon a full pardon for Watergate
  • Inflation rose form 6 in 73 to 10 in 74
  • Ford started the WIN campaign, (Whip Inflation
    Now) It failed.
  • Ford urged Americans to cut back on use of oil
    and gas
  • He cut government spending, interests rates went
    up triggering the worst recession in 40 years

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Fords Foreign Policy
  • Ford followed Nixon by keeping Kissinger on as
    Sec. of State
  • Kept negotiations with China and the USSR
  • Signed the Helsinki Accords which promised
    greater cooperation between Eastern and Western
    Europe
  • Ford wanted to still give money to aid South
    Vietnam, Congress refused, the South fell in 1975
  • The US ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodia, 41
    US troops died while saving the 39 member crew.

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Carter in the White House
  • Former peanut farmer and Gov. of Georgia
  • Promised he would never lie to the American
    people
  • In the Election of 1976 Carter and Ford squared
    off over energy, inflation, and unemployment
  • Carter won by a close margin
  • He talked to the American people through FDR like
    fire-side chats by radio and TV

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Carters Domestic Agenda
  • Carter urged Americans to cut back their
    consumption of oil and gas
  • The National Energy Act taxed gas guzzling
    cars, removed price controls on oil and gas
    produced in the US, and gave tax credits for
    development of alternative energy.
  • In 1979 inflation hit 11.3, 14 by 80.
  • Carter gave his now famous malaise speech in
    which he complained of a crisis of spirit in
    Americans. It looked like he gave up. ( Reagan in
    1980)

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  • In the 1970s the US economy changed
  • Less manufacturing jobs, more jobs in
    communication, transportation, and retail.
  • Overseas competition hurt the US. (EX . West
    Germany, Japan, Korea.
  • Iron, Steel, clothing were hit with cut-backs,
    lay-offs and plant closings


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Carter and Civil Rights
  • Carter appointed more women and African Americans
    to his administration then ant other previous
    administration
  • Appointed Andrew Young as US Ambassador to the UN
  • Although in Bakke vs. the University of
    California an affirmative action program was
    ruled unconstitutional

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Human Rights Foreign Policy
  • Carter felt the US should promote human rights
    around the globe, such as freedoms and liberties
    listed in the Dec. of Independence and Bill of
    Rights.
  • The US gave control of the Panama Canal back to
    Panama as of 12/31/99.
  • The feeling of Détente with the USSR ended due
    Carters protest on civil rights issues.
  • SALT II talks were delayed, not ratified by the
    Senate, and the USSR invaded Afghanistan

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Triumph in the Middle East
  • The Camp David Accords Carter invited the
    leaders of Egypt and Israel to Camp David (Summer
    of 78)
  • Israel agreed to with draw from the Sinai
    Peninsula
  • Egypt recognized Israels right to exist
  • Carter was the peacemaker

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The Iran Hostage Crisis
  • Jan. 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini led islamic
    militants in overthrowing the Shah or King of
    Iran. ( They wanted a strict religious state)
  • Nov. 4th 1979 armed students stormed the US
    Embassy and captured 52 hostages because we let
    the Shah into the US for medical treatment
  • Diplomatic, economic, and military action failed
  • 444 days later the hostages were released just
    two hours after Reagan was sworn into office

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