Question

Explain the importance of the camp david accords and the ayatollah ruhollah khomeini to the carter administration

Answer 1

It was negotiated at the presidential retreat of Camp David by Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel Menachem Begin; they were brokered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. They led to a peace treaty the next year that returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, guaranteed Israeli access to the Red Sea and Suez Canal, and more-or-less normalized diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries. This isolated Egypt from the other Arab countries and led to Sadat's assassination in 1981.

Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic republic. Following the revolution and a national referendum, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader—a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation—until his death.

Answer 2

President Carter helped forged peace through negotiation and arm twisting between Israel and Egypt, known to be long term enemies. The Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem. met in Jerusalem to discuss the two nations’ overall peace.