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Carter signs the Panama canal treaty and neutrality
Carter with struggling relations in Panama would sign the Panama Canal Treaty which promised that the U.S. Government would hand over control of the canal by the year 2000. -
Camp David accords
Carter was a part of a treaty between Israel and Egypt which meant that Egypt would be the first Arab nation to recognize Israel as a real country. Carter pushed really hard to bring together the Geneva Conference to get the dispute resolved. -
National energy act
Carter after creating the Department of Energy as a part of his presidential cabinet August 4th, 1977. Would implement the National Energy Act which would reduce the use of oil and increase the use of renewable resources -
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Carters presidency
The 1976 election was primarily between democratic Carter and republican Ford would see Carter with a victory with 50.1% of the votes in his favor and having 297 electoral votes to Fords 240 votes. -
Carter pardons draft evaders
President Carter pardoned everyone who evaded the Vietnam war draft. Many evaded the draft because they did not believe in what they were fighting for. Carter did not resent them for not supporting their country. This gave Carter lots of public approval early in his tenure. -
Iran Hostage crisis
Towards the end of Carters tenure there was 52 American hostages taken from the U.S. Embassy in Iran. In addition 6 escaped through the help of great canadian relations. Although Carter was no longer president when the hostages were released there was no way Bush was able to set things into motion with such a short amount of time in office. You can attribute the success of the release to Carter. -
Second SALT treaties
Starting in november 1972, Jimmy Carter discussed with Leonid Brezhniv to establish the second SALT treaty.
Both sides agreed to a more specific limit on the country's arms. This would also restrain the development of new offensive arms. Although the Soviet union invaded Afghanistan, leading Carter to not want to consider SALT II, Both Soviet union and the US agreed to adhere to the treaty.