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Foreign Policy Troubles

CHAPTER 18 SECTION 3

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Jimmy Carter

  • Jimmy Carter was born in 1924
  • His presidency began with high hopes and calls for a new emphasis on human rights
  • Carter set up an organization called the Carter Center that promotes peace and human rights.
  • Has helped several countries affords to hold free and fair elections.
  • At first Carter continue Nixon's and Ford's policies toward the Soviet Union
  • Then the SALT ll treaty was debated in the United States Senate.
  • Opponents arguments were that nation security of the United States was in jeopardy.
  • In December 1979, the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan to prop up a tottering communist government.
  • Carter responded by withdrawing the SALT ll treaty from the Senate consideration and imposing sanctions( penalties) to the Soviets.
  • Sanctions included U.S boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games held in Moscow and suspension of grain sales to the Soviet Union.

Trouble in Southeast Asia

  • Gerald Ford made clear that his foreign policy would differ from Nixon's
  • Ford retained Henry Kissinger as his Secretary of State.
  • When the 2 leader the Helsinki Accord which put the nations of Europe in favor of human rights
  • United States continued to disarmament talks with the Soviets.
  • Led to an agreement known as SALT II - 2 nations pledged to limit nuclear arm production.
  • During Ford's presidency, South Vietnam fell to North Vietnam.
  • Communist took over hundred of thousands of Vietnamese who might had work for the United States tried to escape.
  • Many refuges took to the seas in rickety boats.
  • These boat people was the largest mass migration of humanity by sea in modern history.
  • More than 1 million men, woman and children braved storms, pirates, and starvation in search of refuge.
  • Their destination was other nations of Southeast Asia, but many found their refuge in Unites States and Cananda.
  • David Beraslugy
  • Ben Ngaleo
  • Enevi Saucedo
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