Liberalism & Conservatism in an Era of Limits APUSH, Unit 14 1961-1980

Truman & Eisenhower’s Vietnam Fall in Indochina Ho Chi Minh Fall of Dien Bien Phu (1954) Geneva Conference— 17th parallel (1954)

Truman & Eisenhower’s Vietnam Division in Vietnam domino theory SEATO (1954) North – Ho Chi Minh (communist) South – Ngo Dinh Diem Vietcong & National Liberation Front

Kennedy’s Vietnam Flexible Response Civil War Fall of Ngo Dinh Diem Assassinations

LBJ’s Vietnam Buildup After Kennedy Tonkin Gulf Resolution Escalating the War Operation Rolling Thunder Fighting the War Ho Chi Minh Trail Air War Ground War “Search and Destroy” Missions Photograph taken from the USS Maddox August 2, 1964 and showing North Vietnamese patrol boats

Vietnam Controversy MAP Antiwar Protests Television Hawks versus Doves Religious & Civil Rights groups Inflation Draft controversy Television Hawks versus Doves Tet Offensive MAP

The Election of 1968 LBJ withdraws Presidential Candidates Eugene McCarthy (D) Robert Kennedy (D) Democratic Convention at Chicago Hubert Humphrey (D) American Independent Party George Wallace Return of Richard Nixon (R)

Nixon and Vietnam Nixon Doctrine Negotiations in Paris “Vietnamization” Negotiations in Paris Henry Kissinger Continuing Protests Vietnam Moratorium (1969) My Lai Massacre (1968 ; 1970)

Nixon and Vietnam Cambodia Invasion (April 1970) Kent State & Jackson State (May 1970) Repeal of Tonkin Gulf Resolution (Jan. 1971) “Pentagon Papers” (1971) Daniel Ellsberg New York Times v. United States (1971)

Ending the War in Vietnam Election of 1972 Kissinger: “peace is at hand” Christmas Bombings Paris Peace Accords (Jan. 1973) The “Secret War” in Cambodia War Powers Act (Nov. 1973) Passed over Nixon’s veto

Ending the War in Vietnam War Powers Act (Nov. 1973) Passed over Nixon’s veto Ford and Vietnam Conclusion Fall of Saigon (April 1975) Khmer Rouge & Pol Pot in Cambodia Costs of the Vietnam War

1970s Cold War & US Foreign Policy Nixon & Détente China Visit (Feb. 1972) Recognition of China (1979) Moscow Visit (May 1972) SALT I Treaty, 1972 Middle East & the “Energy Crisis” Yom Kippur War (Oct. 1973) Arab Oil Embargo (Oct. ’73 – March ’74) Oil crises  national energy policy

Economic & Environmental Change Conservation / Environmental Movement Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) Environmental Protection Agency (1970) Endangered Species Act (1973) Why did the 1970s economy stagnate? "Great Society" and Vietnam War International competition Rising energy costs Deindustrialization Shift from manufacturing to services – “Rust Belt” Organized Labor in Decline women in the work force Stagflation

1970s Liberal & Conservative Clash Watergate & Presidential Power Break in, June 1972 Cover-up & Watergate Tapes U.S. v. Nixon (1974) Civil Rights Movement & Affirmative Action Regents of Univ. of CA v. Bakke (1978) Women’s Rights Movement Betty Friedan & NOW, 1966 Phyllis Schlafly and STOP ERA Title IX Roe v. Wade, 1973

1970s Liberal & Conservative Clash Changes in Family Structures Still a dominant image of nuclear families Working Women increasing Changing Social Attitudes Conservative Fears juvenile delinquency urban unrest challenges to traditional families

Map: The Tet Offensive, January-February 1968 Although the Tet offensive proved a major tactical defeat for the communists, it effectively undermined American public support for the war. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.