Jimmy Carter
39th President
1) First man from the deep south to be elected president since our 12th President
Zackary Taylor in 1848
Administration: 1977-1981
1) Pardoned all Draft Evaders from the Vietnam War
2) De-Regulated all Airlines, Trucks and Gas industries…..Up-Rooted Union
influence
3) Three Mile Island: The Nuclear Power Plant at 3 Mile Island experienced a
Meltdown of the #2 Reactor and all future building of Nuclear Power Plants were
stopped
4) Strip Mining Control and Reclamation Act: No more raw sewage should be
dumped into the waters
5) Alaska Land Act: Set aside 104 Million acres of land in Alaska to be used for
National Parks, Wildlife Refuges and Wildlife Reserves
6) Stopping of Apartheid: Carter demanded that South Africa stop all Apartheid
practices
7) Panama Canal Treaty: After 13 Years of Negotiations, The Carter
Administration and Panama signed a treaty to give the Canal back to Panama in
1999.
Conservatives such as Ronald R. Reagan condemned the treaty as a
giveaway that would
Undermine the security of the United States with that of the
Communists and Cuba
8) Middle East Peace: Carter demanded Peace between Israel and Egypt
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat visited Israel (Jerusalem)
Israeli Prime Menachem Begin went to Cairo
Both came to the US (Maryland) to Camp David to sign a Peace
Agreement
Carter, Sadat and Begin signed a Formal declaration of peace which ended
the 31 year state of war between Egypt and Israel
9) SALT 2 was defeated by the Conservative party for “Dangerously destroying our
military for the sank of peace”
10) Soviet Russia invades Afghanistan
11) Iran Hostage Crisis: Iranian Militants took over the US Embassy in Teheran
* Took 60 Hostages for 444 days
* Carter used military get hostages out, but failed
* Led to Carter NOT getting re-Elected
Ronald Reagan Becomes our 40th President