Carter Doctrine

Examples of Carter Doctrine in the following topics:

• Energy and Environmental Reform

  • In April of the same year, President Carter began a phased deregulation of oil prices.
  • Carter's speech argued the oil crisis was "the moral equivalent of war".
  • Several months later, in January 1980, Carter issued the Carter Doctrine, which declared that any interference with U.S. oil interests in the Persian Gulf would be considered an attack on the vital interests of the United States.
  • Carter also said he would impose a windfall profit tax on oil companies.
  • Jimmy Carter has been dubbed as the 'environmentally conscious' president.

• Foreign Policies

  • Carter nominated civil rights activist Patricia M.
  • Though met with mixed results during his presidency, in 1982, Carter established the Carter Center in Atlanta to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering.
  • During his first month in office, President Carter cut the defense budget by $6 billion.
  • Carter planned to remove all U.S. troops, with the exception of 14,000 U.S.
  • After the invasion, Carter announced what became known as the Carter Doctrine: that the U.S. would not allow any other outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf.

• Nixon and Foreign Policy

  • Under the Nixon Doctrine, the U.S. continued to assist its allies through economic aid and military supplies while encouraging allies' self defense.
  • The Nixon Doctrine (also known as the Guam Doctrine) was first issued by Nixon in a press conference in Guam on July 25, 1969.
  • The Nixon administration also applied the Nixon Doctrine to conflicts in the Persian Gulf region, giving military aid to Iran and Saudi Arabia.
  • According to author Michael Klare, application of the Nixon Doctrine "opened the floodgates" of U.S. military aid to allies in the Persian Gulf, setting the stage for the Carter Doctrine in 1980.
  • In 1977, United States President Jimmy Carter granted a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all Vietnam-era draft dodgers.

• The Cold War and Containment

  • The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by United States diplomat, George F.
  • Although President Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) toyed with the rival doctrine of rollback, he refused to intervene in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
  • President Jimmy Carter (1976–81) emphasized human rights rather than anti-communism, but dropped détente and returned to containment when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
  • Kennan was the diplomat behind the doctrine of containment.
  • Discuss the doctrine of Containment and its role during the Cold War

• The Carter Administration

  • Jimmy Carter’s administration began with great promise, but his domestic and foreign policies were met with criticism.
  • Democrat Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
  • Jimmy Carter’s administration began with great promise, but his efforts to improve the economy through deregulation largely failed.
  • Carter was the first elected president since Hoover in 1932 to lose a reelection bid.
  • Jimmy Carter served as the thirty-ninth President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

• The Defense Buildup and the "Evil Empire"

  • As part of the policies that became known as the Reagan Doctrine, the United States also offered financial and logistics support to the anti-communist opposition in central Europe and took an increasingly hard line against socialist and communist governments in Afghanistan, Angola, and Nicaragua.
  • He revived the B-1 Lancer program that had been canceled by the Carter administration and began producing the MX missile.
  • Under a policy that came to be known as the Reagan Doctrine, Reagan and his administration provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist resistance movements in an effort to manipulate governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America away from communism and toward capitalism.
  • However, in a break from the Carter policy of arming Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act, Reagan agreed with the communist government in China to reduce the sale of arms to Taiwan.

• The Monroe Doctrine

• Containment

  • The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by U.S. diplomat George F.
  • Although President Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) toyed with the rival doctrine of rollback, he refused to intervene in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
  • President Jimmy Carter (1976–81) emphasized human rights rather than anti-communism, but dropped détente and returned to containment when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
  • This pledge became known as the Truman Doctrine.
  • The Soviet Union's first nuclear test in 1949 prompted the National Security Council to formulate a revised security doctrine.

• Domestic Policies

  • As president, Carter continued this theme.
  • Carter's plan was overturned and a rift grew between the White House and Congress.
  • Carter wrote in 1982 that Senator Ted Kennedy's disagreements with his proposed health-care reform plan thwarted Carter's efforts to provide comprehensive health-care for citizens outside the Medicare system.
  • Jimmy Carter has been dubbed by many as the "environmentally conscious" president.
  • Carter leaving Three Mile Island for Middletown, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1979

• The Election of 1976

  • Most importantly, Jimmy Carter promised that he would “never lie.”
  • Because many voters found Carter's framing attractive in the wake of the Watergate scandal, it ultimately led to Carter's advantage.
  • Carter was the first Democrat since John F.
  • President Gerald Ford and Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter meet at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia to debate domestic policy during the first of the three Ford-Carter Debates.
  • Compare the advantages and disadvantages of Ford and Carter in the 1976 election.