HIST 106 1st Edition Lecture 30 Outline of Last Lecture I Opposition to the war II 1968 Presidential Election III Nixon Escalates the war IV End of Vietnam War V Nixon at home VI Nixon goes down Outline of Current Lecture I The stagnate of 1970s II The stagnation continues III The Iranian Hostage Crisis IV The crisis continues V The Reagan Era VI The Reagan years VII Reagan Rights and Drugs Current Lecture The stagnate 1970s o Our first unelected president he was not elected vice president or president as he was appointed vice president Ford pardons Nixon There hadn t been any charges drawn up against Nixon but Ford grants a huge pardon to Ford and this move became very controversial The reason why this was a good move was because the country was at stagnate and if we see a former president get prosecuted in court and possibly go to jail it would destroy the country Draft evaders and military deserters Grants the people who avoided getting drafted and deserted in Vietnam amnesty to help rebuild the nation His presidency was mainly repairing a broken nation o Inflation 12 and unemployment 9 The stagnation continues o Election of 1976 Ford vs Carter Jimmy Carter Democrat Had a been a naval officer for along time and served as an officer of war ships and submarines Resigns from the navy to go to take over the family business since his father dies Is seen as an outsider good at the time because he is seen as very honest seen as outside of the Washington circle and basically someone who is not Nixon Not really the right person for the job as he is very naive and many people see Carter as weakening the US even more than it has been weakened o Return of the panama canal Basically Carter says that by US owning this property the Panama Canal we are occupying Panama Occupation Will draft up a treaty to return the Panama canal and will get a lot of criticism for doing this o Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979 the Soviet forces will invade Afghanistan to rebuild the communist government that was once there the communist government was overthrown This will be a war that lasts for the soviets for a long time and this was a huge embarrassment for the US since the Soviet Union invaded another country and the US does nothing Jimmy Carter approved operation cyclone something the people did not see Operation cyclone This CIA operation provided weapons to the mujahidin freedom fighters the Afghani guerilla fighters to help them shoot down soviet helicopters This will be seen as a sign of weakness on Jimmy Carter s part The Iranian Hostage Crisis o Nov 4 1979 The Islamic revolution occurs in Iran and this was an uprising against the shah for many of reasons Nov 1979 student protestors outside the embassy started crawling over the wall and the embassy is overrun The embassy staff was taken hostage and this began a very long activity o Operation Ajax 1953 o The shah The shah wanted to westernize Iran and his closest companion of his were the US military and government personnel We had a really good deal with the shah of Iran and we were really good allies with the shah The shah will be overthrown and will be replaced by the ayatollah of Iran The people of Iran were convinced that the US was responsible for the shah s oppressive rule The crisis continues o Operation Eagle claw This was a super complex plan that involved ships in the Mediterranean launching aircrafts to fly in the desert refuel and save the hostages This plan did not quite workout because some of the aircrafts had to turn back A number of Iranian people had come up onto the landing site in the desert One of the aircrafts crashed into the Carter airplane that would take the captives back to the US This was a huge embarrassment for the Carter administration and this was another bad sign for Carter o Iran Iraq war The US will stop all monetary funds to the Iranians and once the Iran Iraq war starts the Iranians need the money The Iranians will negotiate if the US flies their gold back then they will release the hostages o 444 days The hostages were held captive for this many days and they were released after Carter lost the election to Reagan The Reagan Ear o Election of 1980 Christian coalition going to be the support behind Ronald Reagan and will run for the republic party and win easily o Reaganomics or supply side of economics Reduce growth of government spending Reduce taxes Reduce regulation Control money supply The Reagan yeas o Strategic defensive initiative Star Wars Have satellites lasers installed in space so that if the soviet ICBMs go into space the satellite lasers will shoot down the ICBM This was a really cool idea but this took billions of dollars and really is a waste of government spending o Huge military spending increases Will make huge expenditures on military hardware and will go against his first point reduce government spending in Reagan economics o He enacted the largest tax cut in US history He also raised taxes while Reagan was in favor of reducing taxes if the economy calls for it he will raise taxes o What was the result Reduction of taxes makes the revenue to the government and an increase in military spending means huge budget cuts Reagan Rights and Drugs o War no drugs Just say no Nancy Reagan will be behind this campaign and this will increase our presence in a lot of places that sold drugs Will pour a ton of special forces soldiers to advise the Columbian army to fight the drug cartels Drug Enforcement Administration Nixon was the creator but Reagan was the one who used this administration to enforce the war on drugs o Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Reagan definitely did not support many of the Civil rights act and the voting rights act The reason he was opposed because he said that he was opposed because there was too much government involvement o Civil rights o Restoration act of 1987 Basically covered everything that the previous civil rights ac t did not cover The first time a Civil rights bill had been vetoed since 1866
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