Camp David

(noun)

The country retreat of the President of the United States and his guests. It is located in low wooded hills about 62 miles north-northwest of Washington, D.C.

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Examples of Camp David in the following topics:

  • The Camp David Accords

    • The Camp David Accords were part of the Middle East peace process through comprehensive, multi-lateral negotiations.
    • The Camp David Accords were the result of 18 months of intense diplomatic efforts by Egypt, Israel, and the United States that began after Jimmy Carter became President.
    • The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following thirteen days of secret negotiations at Camp David.
    • There were two 1978 Camp David agreements: A Framework for Peace in the Middle East and A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel, the second leading towards the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty signed in March 1979.
    • Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat with U.S. president Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978.

  • Foreign Policies

    • The Camp David Accords were the result of 18 months of intense diplomatic efforts by Egypt, Israel, and the United States that began after Jimmy Carter became President.
    • The Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following thirteen days of secret negotiations at Camp David in the United States.
    • There were two 1978 Camp David agreements: A Framework for Peace in the Middle East and A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel.
    • The Camp David Accords left Egypt, formerly a leading regional power, ostracized by other Arab countries, who criticized Egypt's concessions to Israel and Egypt's arrogance in speaking unilaterally for Jordan and Palestine.

  • The Carter Administration

    • In foreign affairs, Carter initiated the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II).

  • The Middle East

    • Arafat with Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton at Camp David Summit, 2000.

  • Nixon and the Economy

    • With inflation unresolved by August of 1971 and an election year looming, however, Nixon convened a summit of his economic advisers at Camp David.

  • Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East

    • Begin, Carter, and Sadat at Camp David (1978), photo by Bill Fitz-Patrick.
    • The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978.The two framework agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter.

  • Black and White Abolitionism

    • John Brown was the only abolitionist known to have actually planned a violent insurrection, though David Walker promoted the idea.
    • In the early 1850s, the American abolitionist movement split into two camps over the issue of the United States Constitution.
    • Another camp, led by Lysander Spooner, Gerrit Smith, and eventually Douglass, considered the Constitution to be an antislavery document.

  • Frontier Revivals

    • In the newly settled frontier regions, the revivals of the Second Great Awakening took the form of camp meetings.
    • The camp meeting was a religious service of several days' length involving multiple preachers.
    • Settlers in thinly populated areas would gather at the camp meeting for fellowship.
    • One of the early camp meetings took place in July 1800 at Gasper River Church in southwestern Kentucky.
    • Camp meetings were multi-day affairs with multiple preachers, often attracting thousands of worshippers.

  • The Holocaust

    • Holocaust scholars draw a distinction between extermination camps and concentration camps.
    • Instead, the ghettos' inhabitants were sent to extermination camps.
    • The use of extermination camps (also called "death camps") equipped with gas chambers for the systematic mass extermination of peoples was an unprecedented feature of the Holocaust.
    • At this time, as the Soviet armed forces approached, the camps in eastern Poland were closed down, any surviving inmates being shipped west to camps closer to Germany.
    • Local commanders continued to kill Jews, and to shuttle them from camp to camp by forced "death marches" until the last weeks of the war.

  • Internment of Japanese Americans

    • Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States Government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese living along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps."
    • The Department of Justice (DOJ) operated camps officially called Internment Camps, which were used to detain those suspected of actual crimes or "enemy sympathies."
    • The spartan facilities of the camps met international laws, but still left much to be desired.
    • Camp schoolhouses were crowded and had insufficient materials, books, notebooks, and desks for students.
    • At the height of it attendance, the Rohwer Camp of Arkansas reached 2,339, with only 45 certified teachers.