After Watergate and the 1980s

Carter Presidency Elected President in 1976, campaigned on the promise “I will never lie to you” Born Again Christian & Southerner Liberal values vs. Personal integrity Spoke out against human rights violations

Camp David Accords, 1977 Egypt & Israel Recognition of Israel’s right to exist Egypt regained control of Sinai Peninsula 1967 borders & the Palestinian state Collapse of peace: Radical Palestinian violence Israeli settlements

Foreign Affairs Panama Canal treaty, 1977 Improved relations with China, 1979 Stabilized regimes considered important to U.S. interests

Jimmy Carter & International Affairs Iranian Revolution , January 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini U.S. admittance of Reza Shah Pahlavi Hostage crisis at U.S. Embassy in Tehran, November 1979

Carter’s Cold War December 1979, Soviet Red Army invades Afghanistan Carter administration halted most trade with Soviets & withdrew SALT II U.S. led ban of 1980 Olympics in Moscow CIA begins funding Afghan guerrillas

1980 Election Reagan appealed to nostalgia for a rosier past Selected his former opposition in the Republican primary as his VP candidate, George H.W. Bush Proposed a set of Republican values that were fiscally and socially conservative

Religious Right Pat Robertson Jerry Falwell & the Moral Majority feminism “encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children [and] practice witchcraft.” Jerry Falwell & the Moral Majority “Moral Americans must be willing to put their reputations, their foturnes, and their very lives on the line…”

“Reaganomics” Supply-side economics Military Keynesianism and SDI Tax cuts Cuts in federal spending Military Keynesianism and SDI Deregulation

Inequality in the 1980s Increase in rural poverty Reduced access to middle class opportunity Increased poverty of women and children

Social Issues War on drugs, 1982 Law enforcement vs. Health AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Homelessness

The “New” Cold War Leftist insurgencies in the Third World threatened U.S. power The Evil Empire Team B Slaughters in Central America

Nicaragua Sandinista rebellion, 1979 CIA support and train the Contras Congress passes amendments restricting aid to the Contras Iran-Contra affair, 1986

End of the Cold War Mikhail Gorbachev March 1989, open elections in Soviet Union December 25, 1991, dissolution of the Soviet Union Fall of Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989

After Watergate and the 1980s Key Terms: Camp David Accords, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Afghan War, Jerry Falwell, Supply Side Economics, Team B, SDI, Iran-Contra Affair