1. #64 Chapter 24 Section 3 The Ford and Carter Years OBJECTIVE: Understand major events during the presidencies of Ford and Carter.

2. I. Ford Travels a Rough Road
New President Ford pardons Nixon.
Tries to move country past Watergate; loses much public support.
Ford battles inflation and unemployment.
Fails

3. II. Ford’s Foreign Policy
Continues negations with China and USSR.
Vietnam Cease-Fire breaks down; Ford asks Congress for aid to South Vietnam.
Congress refuses = South Vietnam surrenders.

4. III. Carter Enters the White House
Jimmy Carter promises to restore integrity to Presidency.
Defeats Ford by narrow margin in 1976.
Down-to-earth style.
Congress sink Carter’s budgets and reforms.

5. IV. Carter’s Domestic Agenda
Violence in Middle East creates fuel shortage.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) raises prices.
Carter unable to end crisis.

6. V. Carter and Civil Rights
Carter hires more African Americans and women than previous presidents.
affirmative action: a policy or program designed to counter discrimination against minority groups and women in areas such as employment and education
1978 Bakke case, Supreme Court strikes affirmative action quotas.
Allows race as one factor in university admissions.

7. VI. Triumph and Crisis in the Middle East
Camp David Accords forge peace between Israel and Egypt.
Israel withdraws from Sinai Peninsula.
Egypt recognizes Israel’s right to exist.

8. Iran Hostage Crisis:
Ayatollah Khomeini and Muslim fundamentalists overthrew the Shah of Iran.
The U.S. allowed the Shah to enter the U.S. for medical treatment.
52 American are taken hostage at the American Embassy in Iran. Held for 444 days.
President Carter unable to get hostages freed. Burden on his presidency.