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Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel President Carters greatest foreign triumph.
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Pres. Carter’s greatest foreign policy crisis occurred in Iran when the U.S. backed Shah was overthrown in an Islamic revolution headed by the religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Revolutionaries took 52 American hostages from the U.S. Embassy and held them for 444 days.
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Carter placed an embargo of grain exports on the U.S.S.R. andhad the U.S. boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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An iniative in which the government tryed to create a system which would intercept and destroy oncoming missles.
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Members of Reagan’s administration such as Colonel Oliver North secretly sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages in the Middle East. Money from the sales wasgiven to the Contras after Congress had forbiden it.
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It eliminated USSR's short and intermediate range missles near the US.
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Forbid discrimination and mandated access to public places inregards to persons with physical or mental disabilities.
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The U.S. organized a U.N. coalition of forces to expel Iraq from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1991 is a United States statute that was passed in response to a series of United States Supreme Court decisions which limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination.
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giving workers unpaid leave to care for sick family members.
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Formed the North American Free trade Agreement. In 1994, the U.S. joined Mexico and Canada informing this to promote free trade and increase U.S. exports so as to compete with the European Union
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Formed to settle trade disputes between nations. Critics of theseprograms fear the loss of U.S. unskilled jobs to cheaper overseas labor.
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Limited welfare benefits and required work to receive benefits.
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Passed by Congress to make it easier to conduct surveillance in the U.S. to fight terrorism. Controversial and opposed by civil rights groups.
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Created to coordinate government agencies in the war onterrorism.
