Chapter 33
Ford-Carter-Reagan
Major Concepts
1. The Presidencies of Ford, Carter, and Reagan
2. Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues
3. The End of the Cold War and the New World Order
4. Changes in the American Social Fabric
Key Terms and People
Gerald Ford Nicaragua SDI
The Nixon Pardon The Sandinistas Mikhail Gorbachev
Campaign Reform Act Camp David Accords INF Treaty
WIN Ayatollah Khomeini START
Mayaguez Affair Iranian Hostage Crisis Caribbean Basin Initiative
Helsinki Accords 1980 Election The Falklands War
1976 Election The New Right Grenada
Carter’s Energy Policy The Moral Majority Lebanon
Three Mile Island & Chernobyl The Reagan Revolution Libya
Deregulation Reaganomics 1984 Election
Human Rights Gramm-Rudman Bill Geraldine Ferraro
Afghanistan & Poland “Yuppies” Sandra Day O’Connor
The Carter Doctrine The “Me Decade” Title IX
1980 Olympic Boycott The Challenger Disaster Savings and Loan Crisis
Panama Canal Treaties The Reagan Doctrine Tower Commission
El Salvador “Peace Through Strength” Oliver North