Ford Presidency

Watergate Scandal

Nixon resigns

large portion of Nixon's casbinet is taken out

Nixon needed a non-contriversial president

Only appointed president

"Boy Scout in the White House

College D1 athlete

Nice "normal guy"

Picks up his dog's poop

Not afraid of his presidential image

Vietnam

Fall of Saigon

All America could do was watch

Operation Babylift

South Vietnam Loses

Humiliation for Carters office

Vietnamese refugees called "Boat People" to Hong Kong

Middle East

Israel vs Egypt/Syria

Afraid that he would give the USSR a foothold in oil-rich countries in the middle east, Ford decided to act in the issue without bias in the way of Israel.

OPEC Oil Embargo

Shuttle Diplomacy

Chile

Military Dictatorship Installed

China

Question of recognition

Peoples' Republic of China

Taiwan

People's Repuclic of China would not allow the Us to recognise both them and Taiwan as China, and to cut all ties with taiwas, so the Us has no ties with Taiwas even to today.

Normalized Relations

Detente

SALT Talks continuing

Cambodia

Khmer Rouge wins Cambodian civil war against Mayaguez

On April 17th, 1975, the Khmer Rouge marched into the capitol of Cambodia and told the city that it woud be bombed by the Americans, forcing them into the countryside in order to turn them all into peasants.

Communist government installed

Genocide of Capitalist-like people

Pardons Nixon

Hurts presidency

Further increases lack of trust

Economic Problems

Stagflation

High Inflation

High Unemployment

Whip Inflation Now

Ford's motto when it came to the economy

Women's movement

LGBT movement