President Carter's chief foreeign-policy success was the?

Question

A.Helsinki Accord on Human right
B.Panama Canal Treaty
C.Camp David Accords
D.Strategic Arms Limitation treaty

Answer 1

c
The peace agreement between Israel and Egypt forced the surrounding countries (Jordon, Syria and Lebanon) to abandon hope of allying to win a war with Israel. Israels problems since then have been in the occupied territories and Hezbollah, not with military invasion by its neighbors.

Answer 2

A I'd pick this and Carter's tying US aid to human rights records, but I'm a sucker for Presidents that act their convictions, rather than those that are willing to commit any atrocity. I might pick this, but I wouldn't expect it to be accepted by a lot of people.
B Most likely not this, hard to even guage the PR victory of this occurrence. It helped that we kept our word, but how do you gauge what that buys you? We still invaded Panama within a number of years, but then again we didn't have to occupy it, did we?
C Might have been the choice at the time for success, but thirty years later still a problem. Can't be this.
D Partisans may have tried to give the credit to Reagan, but arms limitations and Carter's sales of animal feed did more to end the USSR than a bunch of empty rhetoric.
This is the most likely answer, although I'm sure most Republicans would claim it was threats of war, not promises of peace that convinced the Russians to let their Empire go.

Answer 3

C.Camp David Accords

Answer 4

Had they ever come to fruition, it would have been the Camp David accords.

Since they didn't, he accomplished nothing in foreign policy. SALT is not bright. Essentially, it's "Let's eliminate 50 percent of our weapons. You first." So the honorable thing is done by one party, which is then left with a diminished capacity for self-defense against the other party, which did not abide by the agreement.

(Did you know that was what made Pearl Harbor so devastating? We had cut our military by 50 percent, and the bulk of our Navy was at Pearl Harbor.)

He most likely has accomplished considerably more now that he has returned to civilian life, with his humanitarian projects, such as Habitat for Humanity.