HIST 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 61: Southeast Asia, Imperial Presidency, Domino Theory
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The fall of cambodia fulfilled eisenhower"s domino theory. The rest of southeast asia didn"t fall to communism. Ford"s main concern was bringing inflation under control. Ford finally agreed to a democratic package to stimulate the economy after. Inflation continued and the economy became worse rejecting 39 others. America"s 200th birthday invoked enough national pride to take focus away from. Ronald reagan battled ford for the party"s nomination. Ford won the nomination but his race with reagan hurt him in the polls. Focused on being an outsider from the corruption in washington. He won some early open primaries reducing the influence of more prominent. His lead in the polls vanished during the closing days of the campaign, carter narrowly beat ford with 97% of the african american vote and most of the south. After watergate, the democrats won the majority in both houses of congress. Ended imperial presidency by walking to his inauguration rather than riding to it.
