historia Flashcards
Gerald Ford
Ford seemed to many to be a likable and honest man.
On September 8, 1974, President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon in an attempt to move the country beyond Watergate. The move cost Ford a good deal of public support.
Jimmy Carter
Carter was all about honesty and promised to never lie to the american people
Went through naval academy, was born in georgia, created the Camp David Accords, the 39th president of the US, a democrat that was randomly chosen
National Energy Act
The act placed a tax on gas-guzzling cars, removed price controls on oil and natural gas produced in the United States, and extended tax credits for the development of alternative energy.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Muslim religious leader who led the rebels to overthrow the shah
Helsinki Accord
Following Kissinger’s advice, Ford pushed ahead with Nixon’s policy of negotiation with China and the Soviet Union. In November 1974, he met with Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev. Less than a year later, he traveled to Helsinki, Finland, where 35 nations, including the Soviet Union, signed the Helsinki Accords—a series of agreements that promised greater cooperation between the nations of Eastern and Western Europe. The Helsinki Accords would be Ford’s greatest presidential accomplishment.
WIN
Both inflation and unemployment continued to rise. After the massive OPEC oil-price increases in 1973, gasoline and heating oil costs had soared, pushing inflation. Ford responded with a program of massive citizen action, called “Whip Inflation Now” or WIN. The president called on Americans to cut back on their use of oil and gas and to take other energy-saving measures.
Tight Money Policy
Ford then tried to curb inflation through a “tight money” policy. He cut government spending and encouraged the Federal Reserve Board to restrict credit through higher interest rates. These actions triggered the worst economic recession in 40 years. As Ford implemented his economic programs, he continually battled a Democratic Congress intent on pushing its own economic agenda.
Realpolitik
realpolitik—the pragmatic policy of negotiating with powerful nations despite their behavior and strived for a foreign policy committed to human rights.
human rights
human rights—such as the freedoms and liberties listed in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights—throughout the world.
détente
détente—the relaxation of tensions between the world’s super- powers—had reached a high point.
Camp David Accords
Carter creating peace between Israel and Egypt. This was the first peace agreement signed with an Arab country. Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai peninsula which is seized from Egypt during the Six-day war in 1967. Egypt in return recognized Israels right to exist.
SALT II
The agreement that did not reduce armaments, it did provide for limits on the number of strategic weapons and nuclear-missile launchers that each side could produce. (US and Soviet Union)
Salt II might put US at a military disadvantage, after soviet union invaded a neighboring country of afghanistan carter was furious and the Salt II treaty died
Malaise Speech
Faced with increasing pressure to act, Carter fueled this feeling of uncertainty by delivering his now-famous “malaise” speech, in which he complained of a “crisis of spirit” that had struck “at the very heart and soul of our national will.” Carter’s address made many Americans feel that their president had given up.
Advancement of Human Rights
President Carter cut off military aid to Argentina and Brazil, countries that had good relations with the United States but had imprisoned or tortured thousands of their own citizens.
US Merchant Ship Mayaguez
In the same year, the Communist government of Cambodia seized the U.S. merchant ship Mayagüez in the Gulf of Siam. President Ford responded with a massive show of military force to rescue 39 crew members aboard the ship. The operation cost the lives of 41 U.S. troops. Critics argued that the mission had cost more lives than it had saved.
