1. Liberalism & Conservatism in an Era of Limits
APUSH, Unit 14

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

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

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

5. 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

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

7. 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)

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

9. 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)

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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.
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