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Essential Question. What were the important events of the Carter presidency?. Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter. Grew up in Plains, GA Studied nuclear physics in the Navy – trained to command nuclear subs

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  1. Essential Question • What were the important events of the Carter presidency?

  2. Jimmy Carter

  3. Jimmy Carter • Grew up in Plains, GA • Studied nuclear physics in the Navy – trained to command nuclear subs • Upon his father’s death, he resigned from the Navy and returned to Plains to run the family peanut business

  4. Jimmy Carter • Served two terms in the Georgia Senate • 1970 – elected as governor of GA • Ran as a Washington outsider for president

  5. 1976 Election • Republican - Gerald Ford/Robert Dole • Democrat – Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale • Victory for Carter

  6. 1976 Election

  7. 1970s Economy • Downturn in the U.S. economy • Dependent on imported oil from OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

  8. Yom Kippur War • Egypt and Syria invaded Israel • Israel won after receiving supplies from an emergency American airlift • Arab countries resented US actions

  9. Arab Oil Embargo • Long lines at US pumps • Oil became a political weapon • Prices per barrel of oil rose dramatically

  10. U.S. Response • National speed limit of 55 mph • Fuel efficient cars (many foreign made) • Economic inflation

  11. Nuclear Energy • Controversy over building nuclear reactors to generate power • Environmentalists cautioned against nuclear meltdowns

  12. Three Mile Island • March 1979 • Near meltdown before plant closed • Win for the environmentalists

  13. Carter’s Challenges • Turmoil in the Middle East raised gas prices • Inflation rate of 11 percent

  14. Carter’s Challenges • Favored human rights and peacemaking in foreign affairs

  15. Camp David Accords • 1978 • Israel’s Menachem Begin met with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat at Camp David • Signed a peace accord

  16. USSR • 1979 – Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan • Carter placed an embargo on wheat shipments to the USSR • Boycott of the Summer Olympics (1984) in Moscow

  17. Iran • 1979 – Shah of Iran forced into exile as an ally of the U.S. • Ayatollah Khomeini came to power • U.S. admitted the Shah into the country for cancer treatments

  18. Iran • In response, Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran • 66 Americans became hostages • U.S. refused to return the Shah to Iran for trial

  19. Iranian Hostage Crisis • Hostages remained for fourteen months • April 1980 rescue effort failed • After the Shah’s death, Iranians agreed to release the hostages – on the day Carter left office

  20. Election of 1980 • Republican – Ronald Reagan • Democrat – Jimmy Carter • Reagan victory

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