Ford And Carter Years

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• After Nixons resignation President Gerald Ford
  pardoned Nixon wanted to end Watergate once and
  for all

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• Only President never to be elected as President
  or vice president

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• Economy in bad shape
• Infaltion high
• OPEC raised oil prices
• Gas prices rose dramatically

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• WIN
• WHIP INFLATION NOW

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• Americans were asked to cut back on using gas and
  oil

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• Cut spending and asked the federal reserve to
  raise interest rates
• Fords policy faied

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• Results of Fords cuts and high interst rates was
  the worst reccession in 40 years

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• Ford was President when Vietnam War finally ended

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• Jimmy Carter

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• Foreign policy will be based on Human Rights

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• Major Developments in Carters Administration

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• Panama Canal Treaty signed
• Gave control of canal to Panama in 1999

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• Collapse of Détente
• Human rights violations in Russia and China

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• Salt II treaty signed but never ratified
• Camp David Accord

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• Egypt and Israel signed the first treaty
• The first Arab country and Isreal

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• Israel gave back territory won in the 6 day war
  in 1967
• Egypt recognized Isreal right to exist

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• Three Mile Island

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• Meltdown of the core

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