America Reaches Her Limits

Vietnam

Aftermaths of the 1960s

Watergate

Foreign Policy in the 1970s and 1980s

Domestic Problems

Vietnam: QuagmireContexts:

French/Indo-China

WW II

Cold War

Ngo Dinh Diem

Viet Minh

Hi Chi Minh

Escalation

Vietnamization

Henry Kissinger

Election of 1968

Kent State

Aftermaths of the 1960s

Counterculture/Hippies

Riots

Black Panthers

MLK/RFK

Watergate

Richard Nixon in the White House

Foreign Policy: Détente

SALT I

China

Watergate

CREEP

Plumbers Unit

War Powers

Freedom of Information Act

Foreign Policy in the 1970s and 1980s

Jimmy Carter

Panama Canal (1977)

Camp David Accords (1978)

Carter Doctrine (1980)

Iranian Revolution/Hostages

(1979-80)

Afghanistan

Domestic Crises

Energy

OPEC

Stagflation

Rust Belt Cities

Not to mention:

End of the Cold War—

Rise of New Republican Party

Culture Wars--

Modern Terrorism—

How did the events of the last fifty years lead us to the present?