1. After Watergate and the 1980s

2. Carter Presidency
Elected President in 1976, campaigned on the promise “I will never lie to you”
Born Again Christian & Southerner
Liberal values vs. Personal integrity
Spoke out against human rights violations

3. Camp David Accords, 1977 Egypt & Israel
Recognition of Israel’s right to exist
Egypt regained control of Sinai Peninsula
1967 borders & the Palestinian state
Collapse of peace:
Radical Palestinian violence
Israeli settlements

4. Foreign Affairs Panama Canal treaty, 1977
Improved relations with China, 1979
Stabilized regimes considered important to U.S. interests

5. Jimmy Carter & International Affairs
Iranian Revolution , January 1979
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
U.S. admittance of Reza Shah Pahlavi
Hostage crisis at U.S. Embassy in Tehran, November 1979

6. Carter’s Cold War December 1979, Soviet Red Army invades Afghanistan
Carter administration halted most trade with Soviets & withdrew SALT II
U.S. led ban of 1980 Olympics in Moscow
CIA begins funding Afghan guerrillas

7. 1980 Election Reagan appealed to nostalgia for a rosier past
Selected his former opposition in the Republican primary as his VP candidate, George H.W. Bush
Proposed a set of Republican values that were fiscally and socially conservative

8. Religious Right Pat Robertson Jerry Falwell & the Moral Majority
feminism “encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children [and] practice witchcraft.”
Jerry Falwell & the Moral Majority
“Moral Americans must be willing to put their reputations, their foturnes, and their very lives on the line…”

9. “Reaganomics” Supply-side economics Military Keynesianism and SDI
Tax cuts
Cuts in federal spending
Military Keynesianism and SDI
Deregulation

10. Inequality in the 1980s Increase in rural poverty
Reduced access to middle class opportunity
Increased poverty of women and children

11. Social Issues War on drugs, 1982
Law enforcement vs. Health
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
Homelessness

12. The “New” Cold War
Leftist insurgencies in the Third World threatened U.S. power
The Evil Empire
Team B
Slaughters in Central America

13. Nicaragua Sandinista rebellion, 1979 CIA support and train the Contras
Congress passes amendments restricting aid to the Contras
Iran-Contra affair, 1986

14. End of the Cold War Mikhail Gorbachev
March 1989, open elections in Soviet Union
December 25, 1991, dissolution of the Soviet Union
Fall of Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989

15. After Watergate and the 1980s
Key Terms: Camp David Accords, Iranian Hostage Crisis,
Afghan War, Jerry Falwell, Supply Side Economics, Team B, SDI,
Iran-Contra Affair