Foreign Policies
The End of the Vietnam War
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*The Paris Peace agreement of January 1978, established a truce between North Vietnam, South Vietnam, & communist insurgents in the South.
*The war between North Vietnam & South Vietnam resumed in 1973.
*Americans understood that the military, political, & economic positions of South Vietnam were worsening quickly.
*High-level Nixon officials understood this, but wanted to continue economic, political, & military aid to South Vietnam.
Camp David accords (September 17, 1978)
Camp David accords is a popular name for the historic peace accords forged in 1978 between Israel and Egypt at the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David. Less than five years after ending a bloody war, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat met at the U.S. presidential retreat Camp David in 1978.
Since the 1967 6 day war, Israel had occupied the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula which were both former Egyptian territories. In 1971, President Sadat of Egypt had been working to reclaim the Sinai and expel Israel. When all else failed, Egypt and Syria launched an attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. When the bloody war was over, Egyptian forces had been driven back over the Suez Canal.
Sadat and the conservative government of Menachem began opened peace negotiations. Sadat visited Israel and addressed the Knesset in 1977. 6 weeks later, he traveled to the Egyptian city of Ismailia. This led to a two-week conference at Camp David, overseen by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
What emerged was the first peace accord signed by Israel and one of its Arab neighbors. Egypt regained control of the Sinai, although Israel maintained the Gaza Strip. In return, Egypt recognized Israel's right to exist and guaranteed most of its forces would stay more than 50 kilometers from the Israeli border.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYASjRMEWeA
*The war between North Vietnam & South Vietnam resumed in 1973.
*Americans understood that the military, political, & economic positions of South Vietnam were worsening quickly.
*High-level Nixon officials understood this, but wanted to continue economic, political, & military aid to South Vietnam.
Camp David accords (September 17, 1978)
Camp David accords is a popular name for the historic peace accords forged in 1978 between Israel and Egypt at the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David. Less than five years after ending a bloody war, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat met at the U.S. presidential retreat Camp David in 1978.
Since the 1967 6 day war, Israel had occupied the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula which were both former Egyptian territories. In 1971, President Sadat of Egypt had been working to reclaim the Sinai and expel Israel. When all else failed, Egypt and Syria launched an attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. When the bloody war was over, Egyptian forces had been driven back over the Suez Canal.
Sadat and the conservative government of Menachem began opened peace negotiations. Sadat visited Israel and addressed the Knesset in 1977. 6 weeks later, he traveled to the Egyptian city of Ismailia. This led to a two-week conference at Camp David, overseen by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
What emerged was the first peace accord signed by Israel and one of its Arab neighbors. Egypt regained control of the Sinai, although Israel maintained the Gaza Strip. In return, Egypt recognized Israel's right to exist and guaranteed most of its forces would stay more than 50 kilometers from the Israeli border.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYASjRMEWeA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCLRlVxOH-Q&feature=player_embedded
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) implements what it calls "oil diplomacy" on this day in 1973. The OPEC prohibits any nation that had supported Israel in its "Yom Kippur War" with Egypt, Syria and Jordan from buying any of the oil it sells. This crisis started one of the worst recessions the United States had ever seen.
Domestic oil prices increased, but shortages persisted. People waited for hours in long lines at gas stations and at some pump, lines were four miles long!. By the time the embargo ended in March 1974, the average retail price of gas had climbed to 84 cents per gallon from 38 cents per gallon. Sales of smaller, more fuel-efficient cars skyrocketed. At the same time, declining demand for the big, heavy gas-guzzlers that most American car companies were producing were bad for the auto industry.
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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) implements what it calls "oil diplomacy" on this day in 1973. The OPEC prohibits any nation that had supported Israel in its "Yom Kippur War" with Egypt, Syria and Jordan from buying any of the oil it sells. This crisis started one of the worst recessions the United States had ever seen.
Domestic oil prices increased, but shortages persisted. People waited for hours in long lines at gas stations and at some pump, lines were four miles long!. By the time the embargo ended in March 1974, the average retail price of gas had climbed to 84 cents per gallon from 38 cents per gallon. Sales of smaller, more fuel-efficient cars skyrocketed. At the same time, declining demand for the big, heavy gas-guzzlers that most American car companies were producing were bad for the auto industry.
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