History 12
  • Paris Peace Treaty
    • Untitled
  • Russia 1917-1945
  • USA 20's and 30's
    • Fireside Chats
    • John Maynard Keynes
    • Alphabet Agencies
    • The New Deal
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 100 Days
    • Herbert Hoover and Hooverville
    • Black Tuesday, October 22, 1929: Stock Market Crash
    • Buying on the Margin
    • The Dawes Plan 1924, The Young Plan 1929
    • The Washington Naval Conference, 1921
    • Prohibition
    • Isolationism
    • Henry Ford, Assembly Lines and the Model T
    • A Consumer Society
  • Europe in the 20's and 30's
    • The Weimar Republic
    • The Maginot Line
    • The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch) and Mein Kampf
    • Mussolini and the Risa of Fascism
    • Locarno and Kellogg-Briand Pacts
    • Gustaf Stresemann and The Dawes Plan
    • Early Acts of Appeasement
    • Final Acts of Appeasement
    • Spanish Civil War
    • Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
    • Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
  • World War 2
  • Early Cold War
  • Late Cold War
    • The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnam War
    • Ho Chi Minh and Vietcong
    • Vietnamization
    • The Leonid Brezhnev Era
    • Lyndon B. Johnson
    • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
    • Czechoslovakia, 1968
    • Richard Nixon and Detente
    • Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
    • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) Land II 1972, 1974
    • The Helsinki Accords, 1975
    • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979
    • Ronald Reagan
    • Star Wars and Strategic Defence Initiative
    • Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Perestoika and Glasnost
    • The Falling of the Berlin Wall, 1989
    • Coup in Russia, 1991
  • China 1919-1991
  • The Middle East 1919-1991
    • Blog 1
    • Blog 2
    • Blog 3
    • Blog 4
  • Blog (Human Civil and Women Rights)
  • James' Weebly
  • Themes and Thesis'

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"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
- Gerald R. Ford 


Gerald Ford

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•38th U.S. President
•Neither elected as President nor Vice-President
•Pardoned Nixon and all Vietnam draft dodgers
•Straight forward President “Restored the nation’s faith in gov’t”
•Continued detente

Summary: Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and prior to this, was the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. He was involved in Detente. 


Jimmy Carter

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•39th President from 1976-1980
•Most famous for his dealings with the Arab Israeli conflict
•Hosted the Camp David Accords in 1979
•Was a strong supporter of détente and oversaw the SALT II talks

Summary: James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981) and was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter, a Democrat, served as a U.S. Naval officer, was a peanut farmer, served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia (1971–1975). He was most famous for his role in the middle east. He instigated the SALT 2 talks and was also a large part of Detente. 


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