HIST 2057 Chapter : Chapter 33 Outline
Chapter 33 – A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990
1978 – President Carter brokers the Camp David Accords
1978 – Supreme Court issues the Bakke decision
Nov 1979 – Islam militants storm the US embassy in Tehran and take more than 50
Americans hostage
1981 – President Reagan fires members of PATCO for illegally striking
1982 – Israeli troops invade Lebanon
1987 – Tower Commission issues report on Iran-Contra affair
1987 – Reagan delivers his famous Berlin Wall Speech
Oct 1987 – Stock market experiences Black Monday
1989 – Tiananmen Square protests in China
Pat Robinson forms the Christian Coalition
November 1989 – Berlin Wall torn down
December 1989 – US troops invade Panama and capture Manuel Noriega
August 1990 – Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait
Jimmy Carter
o Camp David Accords
o Carter’s crowning foreign-policy achievement, which even his most
bitter critics applauded, was his brokering peace agreement between
Israel and Egypt. In 1977, Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat flew to
Tel Aviv at the invitation of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Sadat’s bold act, and his accompanying announcement that Egypt was
willing to recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli state, opened up
diplomatic opportunities that Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance quickly pursued.
o In 1978, Carter invited Sadat and Begin to the presidential retreat at
Camp David for two weeks of difficult negotiations.
o By 1979, when Begin and Sadat returned to Washington to sign the
formal treaty, Begin had already refused to block new Israeli
settlements on the West Bank of the Jordan River, which Sadat had
regarded as a prospective homeland for the Palestinians. In the wake
of the CDA, most of the Arab nations condemned Sadat as a traitor.
Islamic extremists assassinated him in 1981. Still, Carter and Vance’s
high-level diplomacy made an all-out war between Israel and the Arab
world less likely.
o Iranian Crisis
o Watch Argo ☺
Ronald Reagan
o “The Great Communicator”
o “Reaganomics”
o “Trickle-down,” “supply-side” economic proposals
o The Reverend Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority (later renamed the Liberty
Alliance), formed in 1979, expressed the major political and social goals of
the religious right wing: the economy should operate without interference
Document Summary
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