A CRISIS IN CONFIDENCE

Ford Presidency ■Became president after Nixon leaves office ■Trusted by most Americans until he pardons Nixon ■Stagflation –High inflation, high unemployment, no growth –WIN- whip inflation now = failure ■Foreign Affairs –Helsinki Accords- human rights –SALT II- limit nuclear arms production –Khmer Rouge- Cambodia, US non-involvement, 1.5 million people died –Boat people and mass migration out of Indochina- 1 million people

Carter becomes President ■Inexperienced ■Amnesty for draft evaders in Vietnam ■Economics –Gas , –Fuel shortages (OPEC) ■Rustbelt vs Sunbelt –Proof in the politics- Carter- GA, Reagan- CA ■Televangelist- resurgence of fundamentalist Christianity, Billy Graham ■Bakke v. University of California –Affirmative Action is legal, but you cannot have a “quota” ex: 12 of 100 admitted are minority

Carter and Foreign Policy ■SALT II- contested in Congress, the SU invades Afghanistan 1979 = sanctions –Boycott 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow, end of grain sales ■Human Rights- Nicaragua ■Return of the Panama Canal to Panama by 1999 ■Middle East –Israel and Egypt ■Camp David Accords- Egypt formally recognizes Israel 1978 (Israel was created in 1948) –Iran hostage Crisis ■US supports the Shah- 1950s-1970s, fled in Jan 1979 ■Fundamentalist Islam led by Ayatollah Khomeini ■Shah allowed in US to get medical treatment, Iranian students were enraged and invaded the US Embassy and took 66 Americans hostage