Chapter 30

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

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

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

 Carter’s background  Carter’s Domestic Policies

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

 Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat  Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin  The Camp David Accords ( ) 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Military Expansion  The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

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

 Walter Mondale  Geraldine Ferraro  Reagan wins the election

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

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