Carter Foreign Policy – Flashcards

Carter will favor countries that respected human rights and will try to make countries treat their citizens more fairly.

A committee created by NSC - 68 to promote military superiority for the U.S and have a tough stance against the Soviets

Informal network of world liberal leaders who advocate a new era of interdependency and the U.S. was no longer superior. Check nuclear proliferation

1978 - Passed by President Carter, these called for the gradual return of the Panama Canal to the people and government of Panama. They provided for the transfer of canal ownership to Panama in 1999 and guaranteed its neutrality.

A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt where Egypt agreed to recognize the nation state of Israel

white minority ruling black majority, totalitarianism, strict segregation in South Africa

In 1979, Iranian fundamentalists seized the American embassy in Tehran and held fifty-three American diplomats hostage for over a year. The Iranian hostage crisis weaked the Carter presidency; the hostages were finally released on January 20, 1981, the day Ronald Reagan became president.

Soviet Union invades Afghanistan in 1979. U.S. aides Afghan rebels

Warning that any attempt by outside forces to gain control of the Persian Gulf would be met with military force from the US; created because Soviets were in Afghanistan and too close to Persian Gulf oil