Jimmy Carter Foreign Policy Flashcards
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| 13456151784 | iran hostage crisis | a group of Iranians overran the American embassy in Iran's capital of Tehran and took 52 hostages | 0 | |
| 13456151785 | camp david accords | A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt where Egypt agreed to recognize the nation state of Israel | 1 | |
| 13456151787 | Ayatollah Khomeini | Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989) | 2 | |
| 13456151788 | Moscow Olympics | Reagan chose not to let American troops go to Moscow for the Olympics in response to the Soviets invading Afghanistan in the late 70's | 3 | |
| 13456151790 | Panama Canal Treaty | treaties guaranteeing that Panama would gain control of the Panama Canal after 1999, ending the control of the canal that the U.S. had exercised since 1903 | 4 |