...During his campaign for presidency Jimmy Carter ran on the promise of a foreign diplomacy stance that centered around human rights. This notion strongly impacted American votes and resulted in Carter’s narrowly achieved victory; only collecting 297 electoral votes while his competitor, Gerald R. Ford, had been able to obtain 240. To be true on his promise of working toward a diplomacy of human rights, President Carter worked toward opening relations with China and made bounds in negotiating a potential peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict only late in his term to be marred by the a crisis in Iran that seemed to have no possible solution. This paper will begin by focusing on the promises made for a diplomacy of human rights during the Carter...
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...tragic terrorist attack against the United States. However, many forget about a different terrorist attack, the aggression from the Iranians that humiliated American embassy members in 1979. Known as the Iranian hostage crisis, the siege at Tehran was a reaction by Iranian students towards American intervention in foreign affairs. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, also known as the Shah, had good relations with America but was hated by his people. After being thrown out of power, Ruhollah Mostafavi Moosavi Khomeini became the leader of Iran and opposed alliance with the United States. Medical treatment of the Shah and U.S. intervention lead to the Iranian...
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...Jimmy Carter James Earl “Jimmy” Carter served as the 39th president of the United States of America from January 20, 1977 through to January 20, 1981 as a democrat. Carter was born on October 1, 1924 at the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia. He was the first president to be born in a hospital, and is the eldest of four children. He has Scottish, Irish, and English roots and had ancestors who fought in the American Revolution and American Civil War. He enjoyed reading and he was also a star basketball player. He was part of the National FFA Organization (Future Farmers of America). After high school, he attended Georgia Southwestern College and was admitted into the United States Naval Academy in 1943 after taking math courses at Georgia Tech. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree. In 1946, he married Rosalynn Smith and they have four children. Carter served in the Atlantic and Pacific US Submarine Fleet. He applied for the US Navy's nuclear submarine program and was discharged on October 9, 1953. After, he successfully ran the family's peanut farm after the death of his father. He was a devoted Christian and served as a Sunday School teacher throughout his life. He says Jesus Christ is the driving force in his life and he prayed several times a day. Jimmy Carter's political career began by serving on local boards. In the 1960's, he was elected for two terms in Georgia's Senate from the 14th district. In 1966, he declined an offer to run for a re-election as a state...
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...President Carter:The Best James Earl Carter Jr, a small boy from the Georgia plains, grew up to become a great man and the 39th president of the United States. President Carter was the best leader because in his early life he graduated from his Naval Academy, in his Presidency he helped bring peace between foreign countries, and left a lasting legacy with his Carter Center foundation to address national and international issues. Carter was born on October 1, 1924,in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia. There along, with his brother and two sisters, he was raised by his parents, James Earl Carter, Sr., who ran a small peanut farm and his mother, Lillian Gordy Carter, who was a nurse. He was educated in a public school, then received a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 in Annapolis, Maryland. After graduating, Carter married Rosalynn Smith. They had three sons, John William, James Earl III, Donnel Jeffrey, and...
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...situation that required U.S diplomatic efforts during the president’s time in office. The patronizing presidency for Jimmy Carter obligated a one-term governor of a southern state with no coast-to-coast or global involvement. His individual foreign policy goals were understood in the statute of law as well as global matters and in the belief of independence for all people. Furthermore, he required the United States to yield the main indorsing surrounding widespread human rights. Mr. Carter said that the American power must be trained sparingly and that the United States would avoid military involvements as much as possible. Through my research Carter opinions were to help the American families, during the eras of the Soviet Union and to undergo recovery of two state financially control settlements that would relax Cold War strains. Carter's supporters requested his desired of the govern in a diverse way, he wanted not to appoint the Washington insiders to top overseas program locations. After the election Carter accepted the needs of professionals nearby him to deportment for his foreign policy. Carter was impressed with professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University, asked him to be his national security adviser and former Defense Department. During the Johnson government political troubleshooter Cyrus Vance the secretary of state play a unite part during this time. Excitedly, Brzezinski and Vance together were knowledgeable regarding foreign policy...
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...THE LIFE OF JIMMY CARTER 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 the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter 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) James Earl Carter, Jr., was born at the Wise Sanitarium[6] on October 1, 1924, in the tiny southwest Georgia city of Plains, near Americus. The first president born in a hospital,[7] he is the eldest of four children of James Earl Carter and Bessie Lillian Gordy. Carter's father was a prominent business owner in the community and his mother was a registered nurse. Carter is descended from immigrants from southern England (one of his paternal ancestors arrived in the American Colonies in 1635),[8] and his family has lived in the state of Georgia for several generations. Carter has documented ancestors who fought in the American Revolution, and he is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution Carter was a gifted student from an early age who always had a fondness for reading. By the time he attended Plains High School, he was also a star in basketball. He was greatly influenced by one of his high school teachers, Julia Coleman (1889–1973). While he was in high school he was in the Future Farmers of America...
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...Running Head: The Carter Doctrine and the Cold War The Carter Doctrine and the Cold War United States Diplomatic Efforts During James L. Carter’s Presidential Time in Office In 1976 Americans chose James L. Carter versus Gerald Ford as their new president. The former governor of Georgia was appointed in hopes of defending American interests in the midst of the Cold War. Of President Carters’ administration, one of its most resilient adversities was faced Iran. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower overthrew the leader of Iran in the 1953 Iranian coup d'etat, and used nuclear threats to conclude the Korean War with China. The New Look policy, the national security policy of the United States during his administration, called the New Look policy gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing the funding for the other military forces; the goal was to keep pressure on the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits. Carter collaborated in this conquest. In response, Iran installed oppression of fanatical Moslem ayatollahs. This new government seized the American embassy in violation of the diplomatic law, withholding 66 hostages for the rest of the Carter administration. On November 14, 1979 President Carter immobilized the sale of weapons to Iran, banned all oil imports from them, and froze Iranian assets in the United States. The following year conditions for the release of the hostages were announced by the Shah but only in January 20th, 1981 when Ronald Reagan...
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...Provide the reason for selecting this leader. Emperor Hirohito was a great leader who adjusted well to change while he was in power. • Select one leader’s name from List 4. I selected Jimmy Carter • Provide the reason for selecting this leader. Jimmy Carter may not have been the best leader when it came to his presidency, but he was a great leader when it involved his humanitarian work. • Select the remaining three leaders from Lists 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6. Ensure you select only one name from a list. Ross Perot, Winston Churchill, Hillary Clinton • Provide the reason for selecting...
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...New Left • The Movement • Hippies • Beliefs: anti-war, rights for everyone, university reforms • Often young radicals • Was not the majority of Americans • Loosely organized Student for a Democratic Society • was one of the most active anti-war groups. • They were also against racial discrimination and strict college rules. • Rich mans war but a poor mans fight Free Speech Movement • Berkeley students disputed over rights of students • students challenged campus police and striked in large mass • nearly decade of campus turmoil • moved along to Columbia and other colleges Weathermen • 1969 • small groups of militants that cultivated popular imgae of student radicalism= cahos + disorder • responsible for arson, bombing= destroy campus buildings + lives • tried to drive out training programs + bar military recruiters from college campuses Antiwar rallies • in protest of Vietnam war, many individuals gathered to advocate against the political minds and US presence in Vietnam • 1960s (late '60s) • organized some of the largest political demonstrations in American history Anti-draft movement • Protests against the military draft. • 1960s and 70s • only voluntary participation. Many left the country Counterculture • culture with values and beliefs different then the mainstream • 1970s Woodstock • A music festival held in New York in 1969 • the beatles, jimmy hendrix Termination • Reducing size of bureaucracy by cutting programs/agencies - reduce budget ...
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...citizens. The various actions led by the Carter administration ultimately led to the Iranian hostage situation. The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was overthrown by his people; he faced a dilemma due to his lack of support from other nations. Ayatollah Khamenei persuaded many people and took advantage of the chaotic nation; he allowed himself to become the Supreme Leader of Iran. President Carter commented on human rights, yet he failed to notice the Shah’s police agency, SAVAK, brutalizing citizens by using inhumane methods. When Jimmy Carter allowed the Shah into the US for medical treatment, it was the tipping point for the hostage crisis. The students of Iran flooded the US Embassy in Tehran; they believed the United States should not meddle in the country’s inner matters....
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...process in which the criminal is executed for committing serious crimes such as murder, rape or human trafficking. Death penalty is the most debatable issue in the world. There are also some people who think that death penalty should be legalized in order to provide justice to the people. However I personally disagree that death penalty can put to end to a crime, nor can it help promote social security; but instead it is just a form of inhumane act which is immortal and it promotes violence and risks the innocent lives. The proponents of this argument believe that death penalty is morally right and fair because when one life is taken, one life must be paid in return. This is a complete mistake in mortality. The fact is that every form of killing, even through death penalty, is obviously wrong because it does not make us moral by killing a killer. The question most people ask is that if the first killing is wrong then why do we allow the second killing? The former U.S president Jimmy Carter also stated that the process of death penalty is broken and cannot be repaired and now it should be the time to seek a better way and more moral substitution (Carter,2012a). In addition death penalty is not only immoral but it promotes violence. Death penalty encourages people to response to violence with violence. Bernice King who is the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King a famous civil rights activists assassinated in 1968 stated in an article that. “Having lost my father and grandmother...
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...The Cold War and US Diplomacy II Carter and the Doctrine Dr. Igor Barsegian Pol 300 Contemporary International Problems March 7, 2015 Abstract January, 2010marked the 30th anniversary of the Carter Doctrine as recited by former President Jimmy Carter. The State of the Union, along with his Presidency moved forward without notice. The Carter Doctrine has had a transformative impact on U.S. national security policy. Both massive and lasting, its impact has also been almost entirely pernicious. Put simply, the sequence of events that has landed the United States in the middle of an open-ended war to determine the fate of the Greater Middle East begins here (Bacevich, April 2010) The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by the president of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union address on January 23, 1980, which stated that United States would use military force if necessary to defend its national interest in the Persian Gulf region. The doctrine was a response to the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet Union, and was intended to deter the Soviet Union-the Cold war adversary of the United States-from seeking hegemony in the Gulf. After stating that Soviet troops in Afghanistan posed “a grave threat to the free movement of middle east oil,” Carter proclaimed (Bracevich, 2010). Carter’s new policy came about because he wanted to develop a containment strategy for the Persian Gulf area. When Carter came to office, unlike John F. Kennedy, his aim was...
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...The time period between 1968 and 1980 is infamously known as the decade of national decline for the United States. A constant flow of various types of struggles throughout this time gave the US population the harsh realization that America was not as prosperous as it once had been. “No Direction Home” written by author Natasha Zaretsky sheds light on the fact that the United States’ moral, economic, military, and political fields weakened drastically throughout the 1970’s. The numerous factors that contributed to America’s slow deterioration as a country created desperate citizens, looking for any way to salvage the United States. Then Ronald Reagan ran for Presidency in 1980. His never-ending positivity and fresh new policies made Americans...
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...But is death penalty justice? Ed Pilkington, chief reporter of “The Guardian”, answered our question in our email correspondence. He said: “It always strikes me as strange that the victim's family is invoked in death penalty cases to justify going ahead with execution even where major doubts exist as to the condemned man's guilt. I wonder how it helps relatives of a murder victim for the state to put to death a prisoner who may not have been the killer. That would leave the real killer still at large and unpunished.” In Belgium, capital punishment was formally abolished in 1996. Before then, few cases of death penalty occurred. In contrary, the death penalty is a legal penalty used currently used by thirty-one States throughout the United...
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...Why Guantanamo Bay hurts National Security National security in the United States is constantly talked about due to the fear instilled in American citizens. The United States government has been expanding its budget in order to protect citizens’ safety and liberties, especially in security. But what happens if national security does not get upheld, but rather used as an excuse to torture prisoners? On February 23, 2016, President Barack Obama announced plans to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. He states, “The plan we're putting forward today isn't just about closing the facility at Guantanamo. It's not just about dealing with the current group of detainees, which is a complex piece of business because of the manner in which they...
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