Focus+Task+on+Ford

**Aim: to understand and evaluate Ford's foreign policies**


 * 1. Basic knowledge Task**: Read a general overview to gain a general idea about Ford's domestic challenges (economic, social and political aspects)

b) Use these articles (and possibly these links) to produce notes on each issue. Your notes should cover: //how Ford dealt with each issue and show why his policies were divisive// //://  **Foreign policy issue** -1975 Helsinki Conference -Visit to Peking -Vietnam and Cambodia (Mayaguez Crisis) -Influenced Spanish to renege on independence for W.Sahara -Support for Suharto/East Timor -Vetoed UNSC over calls for Israel to relinquish lands -Considered US relinquishing Panama Canal -Military and economic aid to 12 Latin American dictatorships. E.g Pinochet in Chile -Africa: violated UN embargo in Rhodesia and stifled attempts to end apartheid in S.Africa; Congress' preventing Ford's attempt to use CIA to intervene in Angola
 * 2. Detailed knowledge Task:**a) Read these two perspectives: [|Foreign policy][| Foreign policy]

3. **Evaluation/perspectives Task**: How far do these two article agree/disagree in their perspectives of Ford's foreign policy? Why do you think (fellow Republican) Reagan asserted that Ford was weak on Communism? Why do you think Carter advocated a foreign policy based on moral values in the 1977 election? 