Carter
Election of Carter
- Election 1976
- Ford (Republican) vs. Carter (Democrat)
- Carter won 297 to 240
- Won both Democrat majority in both houses
Humanitarian Efforts
- Camp David- Carter invited President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Meacham Begin of Israel to a summit conference
- Restarted Chinese diplomatic relations
- Agreement that would give Panamanians control of the canal by the year 2000
Economic and Energy Issues
- Energy Crisis—due to increasing energy prices by OPEC and instability in the Middle East there was a major fuel shortage US—Carter gave a speech that included a series of proposals for resolving these issue EX: 55 miles per hour to conserve car energy
- The inflation rates by 1974 was more 10%
- 13% by 1979
- America was paying large amounts of money for foreign oil – as the US paid for more foreign products than they were able to selling their own goods over seas
- Started an dependence of foreign oil
- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi—shah of Iran (with the help of American CIA in 1953) was over thrown in January 1979 by a group that believed
Beginning of the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979
- SALT II agreements—limited the levels of lethal strategic weapons in the Soviet and American arsenals—never ratified
- Iranian Hostage Crisis—November 4, 1979—a anti-American Muslim group of militants stormed the US embassy in Iran and took workers hostage
- i. Captors demanded that the American authorities ship the exiled shah, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, back to Iran
- Issue continued until the end of his term