1. James L. Roark Michael P. Johnson Patricia Cline Cohen Sarah Stage Susan M. Hartmann CHAPTER 29 Vietnam and the End of the Cold War Consensus, 1961-1975 The American Promise A History of the United States Fifth Edition Copyright © 2012 by Bedford/St. Martin's

2. I. New Frontiers in Foreign Policy A. Meeting the “Hour of Maximum Danger” 1. Flexible response to communist expansion 2. “Wars of National Liberation” 3. The Bay of Pigs 4. The space program 5. Crisis in Germany B. New Approaches to the Third World 1. The Alliance for Progress 2. The Peace Corps 3. Military aid

4. I. New Frontiers in Foreign Policy C. The Arms Race and the Nuclear Brink 1. The Cuban Missile Crisis 2. Ending the crisis 3. Preventing future confrontations D. A Growing War in Vietnam 1. U.S. commitment to Vietnam 2. North Vietnamese intervention 3. Gradual escalation 4. A coup

7. II. Lyndon Johnson’s War against Communism A. An All-Out Commitment in Vietnam 1. Johnson’s dilemma 2. The Gulf of Tonkin 3. Widening the war B. Preventing Another Castro in Latin America 1. Panama 2. The Dominican Republic

9. II. Lyndon Johnson’s War against Communism C. The Americanized War 1. Further escalation 2. Vietnamese will 3. Body counts and kill ratios D. Those Who Served 1. Young soldiers from poor and working classes 2. Gender imbalance 3. African Americans 4. Obstacles to success in Vietnam

10. III. A Nation Polarized A. The Widening War at Home 1. Opposing the war 2. Mainstream sentiment 3. Opposition tactics 4. Diverse views in antiwar movement 5. Silencing critics

12. III. A Nation Polarized B. The Tet Offensive and Johnson’s Move toward Peace 1. Doubts within the administration 2. The Tet Offensive 3. Vietnamization C. The Tumultuous Election of 1968 1. Escalating violence at home 2. The Democratic National Convention 3. Three parties 4. Cracks in Democratic Coalition

14. IV. Nixon, Détente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam A. Moving toward Détente with the Soviet Union and China 1. Exploiting communist conflict 2. Visiting China 3. Negotiating with the Soviets 4. The Helsinki Accords B. Shoring Up U.S. Interests around the World 1. Chile 2. Israel and Arab nations

18. IV. Nixon, Détente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam C. Vietnam Becomes Nixon’s War 1. Maintaining credibility 2. A four-pronged strategy 3. Growth of the ARVN 4. Cambodia 5. Antiwar protests 6. Congressional reaction and failure in Cambodia 7. My Lai and the Pentagon Papers

21. IV. Nixon, Détente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam D. The Peace Accords 1. Jugular diplomacy 2. Peace with honor 3. The fall of Saigon 4. Distrust and disillusionment

22. IV. Nixon, Détente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam E. The Legacy of Defeat 1. Ending the Great Society 2. The domino theory proven false 3. Abandoned veterans 4. The war in American culture