1. Jimmy Carter #39

2. Election 1976 Election low turnout, only 54% - lowest since 1948
Carter’s Message:
Personally moral
Proud and upright
Southern Baptist
Annapolis Trained Navy Engineer
Peanut Farmer
God fearing
Hardworking
Governor of Georgia
Pledged never to lie to the voters
Reflected high moral character of the American people

3. Playboy Interview Running against Ford 1976
"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."
Seen as “wierdo, sinner, and creepy”
Received harsh criticism
Evangelical lose faith in Carter
Morality in question
Evangelicals still prefer Carter to Ford
Ford’s wife made pro-abortion comments earlier

5. Election 1976
The country was reacting against Gerald Ford and the Watergate Scandal.
Economy was in decline: Stagflation
South Vietnam being overrun by the North
Ford Pardon’s Nixon
Ford is the only president who was never elected

7. Ford Admin Problems Problems with the Fall of Vietnam (April 30, 1975)
US evacuates, no support for the South Vietnamese Video

9. Ford Pardon’s Nixon

10. Election 1976

11. The Country Rejects Ford and GOP

12. Economy Inherits weak economy from Ford
High interest rates, slow growing economy, and inflation lead to “Stagflation”
10% inflation and 20% interest rates on loans at peak
High Unemployment
Cannot balance budget
Has little pull in congress
Underestimated power of congress
Disliked by GoP and fought with Democrats in congress (Robert Kennedy)
Failed Health Care reform

13. Energy Crisis
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries raise price on oil
Raise price because US supports Israel in Yom Kippur War (1973)
Price of gas skyrockets
Carter looks for alternative energy
creates Department of Energy
Nuclear energy seems to be answer
Three Mile Island plant has partial nuclear meltdown
Public turns away from Nuclear power as alternative

14. OPEC Nations

15. Three Mile Island

17. Panama Canal Treaty Torrijos–Carter Treaty
Gives Panama Control of Panama Canal in 1999
Nullifies previous treaty made during Teddy Roosevelt's presidency
Strengthened relations with Latin America

19. Camp David Accords High point of Carter Administration
During War (1967)
Israel takes Egyptian land
Poor relations onward
Secret meeting of Israeli Prime Minister Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
Reduced tension in Middle East
Carter negotiates peace between two nations
Help bring stability to region
US involved in treaties in Middle East ever since

21. Sadat will later be assassinated for this peace agreement.

22. Middle East-Cold War Iran-CIA-Shah-
1953- US CIA sponsors the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government Eisenhower…
Places new Shah (King) in charge of Iran<dictator>
Reflected the Cold War
US will support all non-communist
Leaders video

23. Iran Hostage Crisis Biggest failure of Carter foreign policy
1979- Iranian Revolution
Ayatollah Khomeini becomes new leader of Iran after Shah is removed from power
American Embassy is taken over
Because The US let the Shah enter the country, dying from cancer.
American Hostages are taken
Relations with Iran deteriorate
News covers situation daily
Hostages freed after 444 days
Not released until Reagan is sworn in

24. Videos
Hostage crisis
Hostage rescue attempt
Hostages Released

25. Salt II Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Reduce armaments between USSR and US
Carter signs treaty in 1979
Congress does not pass treaty because of USSR invasion of afghanistan in 1980
Lead to START treaty under Reagan to continue disarmament of Nuclear weapons

26. Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
1979 to 1989
Afhgan fighters called the Mujahedeen American CIA
Muslim Fundamentalists…
Osama Bin Laden was one of these “Freedom Fighters”
Reagan will continue and expand this aid.

28. Boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympics held in Moscow 1980
US and other countries boycott to protest USSR invasion in Afghanistan
USSR and other communist states boycott 1984 olympics held in Los Angeles

30. Nicaragua Nicaragua Somoza Family dictatorship since 1937
Kissinger and others supported Somoza
Earthquake really bad
Human Rights abuses
Somoza did not allow supervised elections (Organization of American States)
Carter put economic sanctions
Somoza had to flea
Sandinistas, leftist opposition movement
Sandinistas were supported by Cuba
American Left and Right criticized Carter