Week+15


 * Chapter 30 **


 * =** Gerald R Ford: Wearing Nixon’s Shoes **=

|| Putting Watergate behind

Ford's pardon of Nixon

Some not so lucky

President Ford

pardon and its fallout

the fall of Vietnam

"whip inflation now"

Ford's neglect on issues

Strike Three

400 percent ||

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 * [[image:learner-centeredhistory/Jimmy_Carter_Campaign_Poster.jpg caption="Jimmy_Carter_Campaign_Poster.jpg"]] || Good Intentions, Bad Results

James Earl Carter

Washington outsider

defeat an incumbent president

Ford, Carter Similarities

misery index

inflation

gas prices ||


 * [[image:learner-centeredhistory/gas-rationing-sign.jpg caption="gas-rationing-sign.jpg"]] || Oil Embargo

Interest Rates

“crisis of confidence” ||

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 * [[image:learner-centeredhistory/hostageTeharan.jpg caption="hostageTeharan.jpg"]] || Shah of Iran

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 * [[image:http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/1/18/1358515357000/Ayatollah-Khomeini-Return-008.jpg width="460" height="276" caption="Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini"]] || Ayatollah Khomeini

Hostage Crisis

Teheran on November 4, 1979 ||

rescue mission
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 * [[image:ronald_reagan.jpg width="390" height="500"]] || Presidential firsts

January 20, 1981 Hostages Freed

January 21, 1981 becomes POTUS ||

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 * [[image:http://prorev.com/REAGANSMOKING.jpg width="468" height="330"]] || Teflon president

Not wishy-washy

"You're Fired" ||




 * [[image:reaganomics.jpg caption="Reaganomics"]] || Reagan Revolution

fastest-growing portions of America’s population

Tax Cutting ||

Paying for “Reaganomics”
 * [[image:http://apushcanvas.pbworks.com/f/1338769630/Reagan%20Supply%20side.jpg width="584" height="470" caption="trickle down"]] || tax cuts on:

large companies

the very wealthy

reduce regulations

more investments

everyone would benefit

cutting government services

Unemployment dropped ||


 * [[image:StarWars.jpg width="662" height="463"]] || Economic policies

Congress continued spending

increased military program spending

$900 Billion 1980

$3 Trillion 1990

failed to trickle

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) ||

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=The Cold War Thaws Out=



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 * [[image:George_H_W_Bush.jpg width="415" height="479" caption="George HW Bush"]] || sleazy campaign

election turnout was the lowest since 1924

Congress

Reagan

leadership

domestic problems

the Gulf War 1990

Iraq and Saddam Husein

Defending the Defenseless

Kuwait’s oil production ||
 * [[image:http://www.eia.gov/EMEU/cabs/Kuwait/images/Kuwait%20Oil%20Fields%20Map.gif width="481" height="397"]] || August 2, 1990

assembling a massive armed force ||


 * [[image:learner-centeredhistory/goreandbillclinton.jpg caption="VP Gore and POTUS Bill Clinton.jpg"]] || S&L industry

Ross Perot

HW Bush finished second

Hope, Arkansas

domestic fringe groups

disliked him or didn’t trust him

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Somalia

Rwanda ||

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 * [[image:http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/06/11/stacks.embassy.bombing.gi.jpg width="583" height="397" caption="U.S. embassy Tanzania"]] || retaliatory

Saddam Hussein ||


 * [[image:http://www.amarillo.com/images/headlines/020398/gopLR.jpg width="510" height="409"]] || 1993 deficit $290 Billion

1997 Surplus $70 Billion

income tax cut

government shut down 95 & 96 ||


 * [[image:http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/08/an-unabridged-guide-to-all-of-newt-gingrichs-wives/_jcr_content/par/cn_contentwell/par-main/cn_blogpost/cn_float_container/cn_image_0.size.gingrichwives.jpg width="460" height="288"]] ||  ||
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=Oklahoma City, 1995=

=World Trade Center 1993= =Atlanta Olympic Games 1996= =Una-bomber=