The Cold War: 1973-1990

The Cold War: 1973-1991

Nixon May 1972

Leonid Brezhnev

SALT 1

Results

The US EconomyEffects of Vietnam and the Great Society

OPEC

October 1973

The Yom Kippur War

Response of OPEC

Gas Prices

Egyptian forces crossing the Suez Canal on October 7, 1973.Gerald FordThe Oil Crisis

Fords Response

The Recession

Stagflation

Reactions

Gerald FordFord pardons Nixon

WIN

Results of WIN

Fords Foreign PolicyApril 1975

Fall of Saigon

May 1975

Problems with Cambodia

Mayaguez

Fords Foreign PolicyHenry Kissinger

August 1975

Dtente

The Helsinki Accords

Results

The 1976 ElectionJimmy Carter

Background

The Outsider

Economic problems

Energy Crisis

Department of Energy

Carters Domestic Policies1979

Crisis of Confidence

Windfall profit tax

Value of the Dollar

Problems with Congress

Results

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOd-qWZB_g&feature=related Carters Foreign PolicyRight and honest

Panama

Relations with the Soviets

Camp David Accords

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Celebrating the signing of the Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, Anwar El SadatCarters Foreign PolicyIran

Background

SAVAK

US Support

Social Problems in Iran

The Iranian Hostage CrisisProtests against the Shah

Tehran

American Intelligence

American Beliefs

January 1979

The Iranian Hostage CrisisAyatollah Khomeini

Carters Response

Recognition of Iran

April 1979 (official establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.)

February 1979The Iranian Hostage CrisisThe Shah comes to America

November 1979

American Hostages

Carters Reaction

Nightline

14The Iranian Hostage CrisisFebruary 1980

Demands

April 1980

Operation Eagle Claw

Cyrus Vance (Sec. of State)

Feelings in the Carter Administration about the mission

The Iranian Hostage CrisisThe 1980 Election

The final deal

The release of the hostages

The 1980sReagans Background

Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Government is the problem

The 1980sThe Economy

Monetarists

Supply Side Economics

Reaganomics

The Trickle Down Theory

The 1980sCutting Programs

Tax Cuts

Budget Deficit

Deregulation

Oil Prices

Other Cuts

President Ronald Reagan signs the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981The 1980sMarch 30, 1981

John Hinckley

Reagans attitude

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoZeZprXnDg The 1980sEconomic Booms

Average Income

New Businesses

New Jobs

Unemployment Rate

The 1980sThe Supreme Court

Strict Constructionalists

Sandra Day OConner

More Appointments

The 1980s1984 Election

Reagan Wins Re-election

The Economy

Walter Mondale

Geraldine Ferraro

The 1980sForeign Policy

Focus of evil

Evil Empire

Peace through strength

Budget deficithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do0x-Egc6oA 1980sThe Reagan Doctrine

Aid to the mujahedeen

Nicaragua

Sandinistas

Contras

Grenada

The 1980sThe Iran Contra Scandal

Oliver North

CIA participation

Reagans role

Results of the Scandal

The 1980sArms Control

START

SDI

Star Wars

The 1980sMikhail Gorbachev

Summit Results

tear down this wall

Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)

The beginning of the end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8 The 1980sGeorge Bush

Background

Focus of Americans

Michael Dukakis

Results of the 1988 election

The 1980sPerestroika

Glasnost

Revolutions in Eastern Europe

November 9, 1989

Uniting Germany

The End of the Cold WarCriticism of Gorbachev

Coup attempts

Boris Yeltsin

The collapse the USSR

December 1991