Presidency of Jimmy Carter

1947–1991 tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies

1978 political agreement between Egypt and Israel

The Iran hostage crisis began on November 4, 1979, when 66 Americans, including diplomats and other civilian personnel, were taken hostage at the Embassy of the United States in Tehran, with 52 of them being held until January 20, 1981. The incident occurred after the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line stormed and occupied the building in the months following the Iranian Revolution. With support from Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led the Iranian Revolution and would eventually establish the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, the hostage-takers demanded that the United States extradite Iranian king Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had been granted asylum by the Carter administration for cancer treatment. Notable among the assailants were Hossein Dehghan, Mohammad Ali Jafari, and Mohammad Bagheri. The hostage crisis contributed to a dramatic decline in Iran–United States relations. After 444 days, it came to an end with the signing of the Algiers Accords between the Iranian and American governments; Iran's king had died in Cairo, Egypt, on July 27, 1980.

nuclear accident

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name Jonestown, was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.

two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union

48th quadrennial U.S. presidential election

49th quadrennial U.S. presidential election

1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel

USA-led campaign against illegal drug use and trade

1980 Delta Force failed operation for rescuing American hostages

United States presidential doctrine on the use of military force in the Persian Gulf

1979 petroleum shortage

NATO's soft opposition to the Soviet Union intervention in Afghanistan

treaties signed by the United States and Panama in 1977

subclass of energy crisis

Rescue of US diplomats from Iran, 1980

39th presidential administration and cabinet of the USA (1977–1981)

aspect of history

48th United States presidential inauguration

United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level

1980 G7 summit in Venezia, Italia

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1978 G7 summit in Bonn, West Germany

1977 G7 summit in London, United Kingdom

1979 G7 summit in Tokyo, Japan

conference about Iranian political crisis

sanctions during the Cold War

phase of the Cold War between 1962–1979

phase of the Cold War between 1979–1985

1979 agreement between the United States and China

affair between Western European powers, the USSR, and the United States regarding the deployment of intermediate range nuclear weapons in Europe.