Good Morning!!!! 1.Intro to President Jimmy Carter 2.President Jimmy Carter DBQ Essential Question : Was Jimmy Carter’s Presidency a “miserable failure”?

A Time of Political Transition Unpopular Republican Presidents during the early 1970s – Richard Nixon: resigns over Watergate Scandal – Gerald Ford: Nixon’s former Vice President, unpopular because of stagflation (high unemployment and increasing prices) Democrat Jimmy Carter elected President in 1976 – “I won’t lie to you!”

Carter’s Foreign and Domestic Policy Domestic Policy objectives – Desires to end Stagflation: high unemployment and high prices – Desires to end dependence on foreign oil National Energy Act Foreign Policy – Trying to promote diplomacy over military action Camp David Accords: peace in the Middle East – Iran Hostage Crisis: 66 Americans taken hostage in a major disaster in Iran

Results of Carter’s Administration Fails to win re-election in the 1980 Election – “Miserable failure, are the words that come to mind.”—President Ronald Reagan, Carter’s successor Was the Presidency of Jimmy Carter a “miserable failure”?

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