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Domestic Policies

 

  • Pardoned Vietnam-era draft resisters

  • Stopped funding B-1 bomber airplane

  • Reduce US depence on OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

    • Congress pass Emergency Natural Gas Act, authorizing national government to allocate interstate natural gas

    • Created Department of Engergy to regulate existing energy

    • Energy Security Act

 

Foreign Policies

  • Ended over 30 years of political and military support to Presient Somoza of Nicaragua.

  • Defined foundation of foreign policy as being based on America's role historically, moral values, and global change. 

  • Camp David Peace Accords 17 September 1978; paved way forforforforfor     better relations in the Middle East..

    • Egypt and Israel would agree to establish diplomatic relations between each other.

    • Israel withdraws from Sinai Peninsula

    • End Israeli settlements in West Bank

  • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II

    • President Carter and Soviet leader Brezhnev sign follow-up on nuclear arms control.

CARTER ADMINISTRATION: FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICY

(January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981)

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