1. Chapter 30

2.  Ford pardons Nixon  Economic Problems  Gas Prices  “WIN”

3.  April 1975  The fall of Saigon  Ho Chi Minh City  The Helsinki Accords

4.  Gerald Ford  Jimmy Carter  The “Outsider”  Walter Mondale

5.  Carter’s background  Carter’s Domestic Policies

6.  Panama  SALT II  Leonid Brezhnev  The Afghan-Soviet War (1980)

7.  Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat  Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin  The Camp David Accords (1978-1979) Egyptian President Anwar el-Sādāt (left) shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin as U.S. President Jimmy Carter looks on at Camp David, Maryland, Sept. 6, 1978

8.  Shah Reza Pahlavi  Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini  Jan. 1979: The Shah flees Iran  Nov. 1979: Start of the Hostage Crisis

9.  444 Days  Operation Eagle Claw  Cyrus Vance  The final deal

10.  The “Energy Crisis”  The Department of Energy  Stagflation  Carter’s relationship with Congress  The “crisis of confidence”

11.  The 1980 election  Ronald Reagan  Reagan’s Background  Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

12.  Smaller government  Reaganomics  Tax cuts  Cutting government programs  Deregulation  Dealing with Inflation

13.  The “Boom” Years  Job Creation  The return of the “Trickle Down Theory”

14.  The “Evil Empire”  Containment in Latin America  The Sandinistas  The Contras  Congress steps in

15.  Military Expansion  The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

16.  Sandra Day O’Connor  Reagan survives an attempted assassination

17.  Walter Mondale  Geraldine Ferraro  Reagan wins the election

18.  The Iran-Contra Scandal  Oliver North  Results of the scandal

19.  Mikhail Gorbachev  Intermediate range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)  “tear down this wall”