1. Presidents, Presidents, Presidents! PART 2 Week 2-8
US History 2
Ms. Lyons

2. Ford’s Domestic Policies
Forgave Nixon & did not punish draft opposers & deserters
Some people were NOT happy about this
1973: OPEC starts oil embargo on US
Why? US supports Israel
Effects
Rationing
Researched energy alternatives
Inflation = 10% (A LOT)

3. Election of 1976
Jimmy Carter wins
Honesty
“Down home” values

4. Carter’s Domestic Policies
“Stagflation”
Stagnant economy AND inflation
Oil dependence
40% of oil the US used = foreign
Created a deficit
Corporate bailouts
Car industry (Chrysler)
Supported nuclear energy
as alternative to oil

5. Carter’s Foreign Policies
Helsinki Accords (1975)
Promise to respect human rights
Refuse to give aid to countries that violate human rights
Camp David Accords (1977)
Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
USSR violates détente
USSR invaded Afghanistan
US cut off exports to USSR & boycotted 1980 Olympics in Moscow
Iran takes US hostages
Iran was mad after the US medically treated their old dictator

6. Election of 1980 Reagan won by a lot Iran hostages were
Inflation = #1 priority
Against “big” government
Iran hostages were
released the same day
he took office

7. Reagan’s Domestic Policies (1st term)
Supply-side economics
Tax cuts for the rich & they will reinvest in the economy
“Trickle down” effect
Subsidies to farmers
Gave money not to plant crops so prices would go up
Failed: Prices did not go up 
Immigration Reform & Control Act (1986)
Employers cannot hire illegal immigrants

8. Election of 1984 Democrats: Walter Mondale Republicans: Ronald Reagan
VP: Geraldine Ferraro
*Jesse Jackson lost the Democratic nomination
Republicans: Ronald Reagan
VP: George Bush
Reagan wins again!
He was the 1st president to serve 2 terms since Eisenhower!

9. Reagan’s Domestic Policies (2nd term)
Deep cuts in federal programs & tax cuts for rich
late 1980’s: gap between rich & poor was at its biggest since WWII
Debt still rising
Trade imbalance (more exports than imports)
Trade deficit = $150 billion

10. Reagan’s Foreign Policies (2nd term)
Iran-Contra affair (1986)
Sold weapons to Iran & sent the $ to the contras in Nicaragua
Détente … again
Gorbachev takes over USSR
Glasnost (openness, democracy)
Perestroika (free market)
Arms reduction (US & USSR)
Other world issues
Increase in terrorism
Nancy Reagan’s anti-drug campaign (“Just say no”)
US sanctions South Africa under apartheid

11. Election of 1988 Dukakis (D) vs. George Bush (Senior)
Jesse Jackson lost the Democratic nomination again
George H. W. Bush wins!

12. Bush’s Domestic Policies
Big deficit, increased unemployment
Savings & loan industry scandal
US taxpayers bailed them out
1992: riots in LA
4 white cops found innocent after beating of black man, Rodney King

13. Bush’s Foreign Policies
End of Cold War
1989: Berlin Wall torn down, USSR dissolves
US imprisoned Panama’s dictator for drugs
: Persian Gulf War
US invades Iraq (after Saddam took Kuwait’s oil)
“Operation Desert Storm”
1991: ethnic cleansing in the Balkans
Bosnian Serbs killing other races

14. Election of 1992
Bill Clinton (D) vs. George H. W. Bush (R) vs. Ross Perot (I)
Bill Clinton wins!
Wins again in 1996 (2nd term)

15. Clinton’s Domestic Policies
1993: Universal health care
Rejected by Republican Congress
Gov’t shut down
Rep. Congress vs. Dem. President (disagreed)

16. Impeachment Bill accused of sexual relations with intern
1998: House = impeached him; Senate = innocent
STILL… the 1990’s: longest period of US economic growth in history

17. Clinton’s Foreign Policies
Former Yugoslavia
Kosovo: Serbs massacred Albanians
Trials & many arrested for war crimes
NATO expanded
1999: adds Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland
South Africa post-apartheid
Mandela voted president (1994)
1998: India v. Pakistan nuclear threats
1992: NAFTA
Reduce barriers for trade between Canada, US, & Mexico
Like the EU in Europe

18. Election of 2000 Al Gore (D) vs. George W. Bush (R)
So close… recounted votes in Florida
Supreme Court stopped the recount
* 1st time the Supreme Court intervened in a presidential election
George W. Bush (Bush Junior) wins!

19. G. W. Bush’s Domestic Policies
Tax cuts
Many got rebates (about $300)
2002: No Child Left Behind
To increase teacher & student responsibility
FAIL
test scores have become the only measure of success

20. G.W. Bush’s Foreign Policies
9/11 (2001) attacks:
Continued Israel/Palestine border issues
2003: war in Iraq
1st time: reporters overseas with troops
Failed to find weapons of mass destruction
Bush declared war over in May 2003