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Helsinki accords
the document signed at the closing meeting of the third phase of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) held in Helsinki. All then-existing European countries (except Andorra and pro-Chinese Albania) as well as the United States and Canada signed the Final Act in an attempt to improve the détente between the East and the West.
The humanity approach in the accords contributed to Carter's success in the 1976 election -
The 1976 Presidential election
Jimmy Carter took office after defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford. He executes the American foreign policy in a new fashion: instead of military involvement, he tried increase U.S. international reputation by spreading American values such as emphasis on human rights and enviormental issues -
The Iran hostage crisis
Was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took them as hostages. Was a more humiliating setback of Carter's administration -
soviet invasion to Afghanistan
On December 28, Carter signed a presidential finding explicitly allowing the CIA to transfer "lethal military equipment either directly or through third countries to the Afghan opponents of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan" and to arrange "selective training, conducted outside of Afghanistan, in the use of such equipment either directly or via third country intermediation." -
1980 United States presidential election
Republican candidate Ronald Reagan defeated Carter and took office. He is a deep and unyielding anti-communism that had dictated his political worldview for decades and served as the bedrock of his campaign. He escalated an arms race and transitioned Cold War policy away from détente with the Soviet Union. -
1982 NCS Policy
The State Department and the NSC produced a new national security policy that maintained that the United States military must be able to prevail in a war with the Soviet Union, not merely retaliate against a Soviet attack, and to “contain and reverse the expansion of Soviet control and military presence around -
Strategic Defense Initiative
the president had announced that the United States would commence a major effort to deploy a space-based missile defense system. The new initiative, set to cost hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decades, would be designed to shoot intercontinental ballistic missiles out of the sky, thereby protecting the United States from any kind of Soviet nuclear attack. -
Invasion of Grenada
Reagan authorized one conventional military operation during his two terms, an invasion to overthrow the leftist government of tiny Grenada.