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The Jimmy Carter National Historic Park was established in 1987 under the control of the National Park Service to commemorate the life of the 39th President of the United States. The interpretation here attempts to portray Carter as an apolitical figure. While this is not necess…

Jimmy Carter's political rise during 1976 was unprecedented. One of the greatest explanations for his emergence can be found in Florida's 1976 Democratic primary. Florida's contest was, perhaps, the most significant Democratic primary of America's bicentennial year. The primary …

Time magazine called 1976 "the year of the evangelical" partly in response to the rapid political ascent of the previously little-known Georgia governor Jimmy Carter. A Sunday school teacher and deacon in his local church, Carter emphasized the important role of faith in his lif…

A detailed history of Pakistan's attempt to build the atomic bomb in the 1970s and Jimmy Carter's reaction to the tense diplomatic situation.

On September 4, 1978, President Jimmy Carter of the United States, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel gathered in a remote mountain hideaway in Maryland in an attempt to resolve one of the most intractable of human conflicts. During the pr…

This study examines the contributions made by the Carter administration to the end of the Cold War. Beginning with the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, the Carter administration took a much harder line in its relations with the Soviet Union. Washington set about to puni…

This work investigates thoroughly American foreign policy in regard to the Palestinian issue and the Middle East problem between 1945 and 1988. Specifically, it focuses on the impact of the Carter moralist policy and the Reagan strategy on the Palestinian issue. It also examines…

The history of U.S. foreign-policy has been a long and winding road since America's birth in the late eighteenth century. Part of its more recent past entails the nation's intervention in the decade-long Soviet-Afghanistan War that took place between 1979 and 1989. Much of the a…

In the developing world, where political institutions are weak, leaders play a particularly important role in bringing about or preventing change. In political science literature, however, there is little acknowledgement of the ways in which they can shape major socio-political …

President Jimmy Carter once said, "I had a different way of governing." In attempting to explain what he meant by this, Carter has been variously described as a political amateur, a trustee, a non-political politician, an "active-positive" president, and a forerunner of the 1990…

This dissertation examines Cyrus Vance's approach to Soviet-American relations during the Carter administration by focusing on five specific situations: the SALT II negotiations completed in June 1979, the American reaction to the crisis in the Horn of Africa in late 1977 and ea…

Evaluating the foreign policies of presidents while they are in office or shortly after their tenure ends can sometimes lead to conclusions that prove to be unsound in the future. The case of Harry Truman exemplifies this. When he left office in 1952 his approval rating was in t…