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Carter US History/Napp Do Now: The Carter Presidency, 1977 – 1981 Domestic Policy: - President Ford lost the 1976 Presidential election to the Democratic candidate, Jimmy Carter, in part because many Americans identified Republicans with the Watergate scandal - Yet Carter was unable to solve some of the nation’s problems a) To deal with the energy crisis, Carter created the Department of Energy, increased the nation’s fuel reserves, and sought a special tax on large automobiles, and the power to ration gas, but Congress denied him those powers b) Stagflation continued with inflation and interest rates soaring in 1979, partly due to the oil crisis; Carter cut federal spending, but inflation did not come down c) Carter provided funds to clean up toxic dumpsites; following an accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in 1979, Carter created the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to develop stricter standards for nuclear energy d) Carter appointed women and minority members to government posts; he also sponsored a bill requiring public schools to provide instruction to students in their native language while trying to learn English ~ Adapted from The Key to Understanding U.S. History and Government Name: _________________ Foreign Policy: - Carter made human rights a very high priority; he condemned apartheid in South Africa, pressured the Soviet Union to allow Soviet Jews to emigrate, and cut aid to dictatorships that violated human rights - Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty in 1977, returning control of the Canal Zone to Panama, except for the canal itself; the United States agreed to turn over the canal to Panama in 1999 - Egypt and Israel had fought one another since 1948; In 1978, Carter invited Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin to Camp David, where an agreement was reached a) Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in exchange for a peace treaty and the establishment of normal diplomatic relations - Carter restored full diplomatic relations with Communist China in 1979 - Détente with the Soviet Union ended when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan a) Carter halted grain sales to the Soviets, boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and advised the Senate to postpone ratification of a new arms control agreement, SALT II - In 1979, a theocratic revolution occurred in Iran, bringing Ayatollah Khomeini to power; some Iranians resented the United States for helping the Shah of Iran and backing Israel a) Iranian students seized the staff of the U.S. embassy in Iran; the staff was held hostage for 444 days; release occurred on the day that Ronal Reagan became President 1- Why did Ford lose the 1976 election? ________________________________________________________________________ 2- How did Carter deal with the energy crisis? ________________________________________________________________________ 3- What did Congress not allow Carter do to regarding the energy crisis? ________________________________________________________________________ 4- What soared during the stagflation crisis? ________________________________________________________________________ 5- What did Carter provide funds to clean up? ________________________________________________________________________ 6- What happened at Three Mile Island? ________________________________________________________________________ 7- What did Carter do in response to events at Three Mile Island? ________________________________________________________________________ 8- Who did Carter appoint to government posts? ________________________________________________________________________ 9- What did Carter require public schools to provide? ________________________________________________________________________ 10- What did Carter make a high priority? ________________________________________________________________________ 11- Provide examples of Carter’s high priority: ________________________________________________________________________ 12- What did Carter sign in 1977? ________________________________________________________________________ 13- What happened to the Panama Canal in 1999? ________________________________________________________________________ 14- What had Egypt and Israel done since 1948? ________________________________________________________________________ 15- Who did Carter invite to Camp David in 1978? ________________________________________________________________________ 16- Explain the Camp David Accords. ________________________________________________________________________ 17- What did China do regarding Communist China in 1979? ________________________________________________________________________ 18- Why did détente end in 1979? ________________________________________________________________________ 19- What actions did the United States take against the Soviet Union in 1979? ________________________________________________________________________ 20- What happened in Iran in 1979? ________________________________________________________________________ 21- What kind of government was brought to power in Iran in 1979? ________________________________________________________________________ 22- Who was the Ayatollah Khomeini? ________________________________________________________________________ 23- What happened to the staff of the U.S. embassy in Iran? ________________________________________________________________________ 24- For how many days was the staff held hostage? ________________________________________________________________________ 25- What was Carter unable to do and who finally gained the staff’s release? ________________________________________________________________________ Primary Source: Excerpt from Iran Students Seize U.S. Embassy, Want the Shah Returned for Trial, by Reuters, 1979 Teheran, Iran, Nov. 4 – Moslem students stormed the United States Embassy in Teheran today, seized about 90 Americans and vowed to stay there until the deposed Shah was sent back from New York to face trial in Iran. There were no reports of casualties in the takeover of the embassy building, although witnesses said some of the several hundred attackers were armed. A student spokesman told reporters at the embassy that 100 hostages had been taken and that 90 percent of them were Americans. He said the embassy staff was being treated well. In the holy city of Qum, a spokesman for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said the occupation of the embassy had the revolutionary leader’s personal support. [In New York City, a small group of Iranian students chained themselves to railings inside the Statue of Liberty for three hours and unfurled a banner from the monument’s top demanding that the deposed Shah be returned to Iran. Page A11.] Iranian Revolutionary Guards at the embassy gates did not intervene during the attack, which came as tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of the Iranian capital on the first anniversary of the shooting of students at Teheran University by the Shah’s security forces. …“Today’s move by a group of our compatriots is a natural reaction to the U.S. Government’s indifference to the hurt feelings of the Iranian people about the presence of the deposed Shah, who is in the United States under the pretext of illness. “If the U.S. authorities respected the feelings of the Iranian people and understood the depth of the Iranian revolution, they should have at least not allowed the deposed Shah into the country and should have returned his property.” The students showed reporters embassy files captured in the raid. They said staff in the building had been trying to burn documents when the embassy was taken over. …The embassy takeover followed a series of strongly anti-American speeches by Ayatollah Khomeini, who said recently he hoped reports that the former Shah, Mohammed Riza Pahlevi, was dying of cancer were true. The Shah, who was deposed in the revolution led by the Ayatollah last January, is being treated for cancer at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center… 1- What did Iranian students do on November 4, 1979? ________________________________________________________________________ 2- Why did Iranian students do this? ________________________________________________________________________ 3- Why were many Iranians upset with the former Shah of Iran? ________________________________________________________________________ Analyze the following images: Explain the meaning of the political cartoon. ______________________________________________________________________________ Explain the meaning of the political cartoon. ______________________________________________________________________________ Explain the meaning of the political cartoon. ______________________________________________________________________________ Explain the meaning of the cartoon. __________________