1. The Presidency: Nixon, the War and Watergate

2. The 1968 and 1972 Elections
1968
1972

3. The Vietnam War,
Vietnamization
Kent State Riot
the My Lai incident
Pentagon Papers

4. Nixon’s Foreign Policy
the Vietnam War
and China
Détente
SALT
Yom Kippur War
OPEC & oil
embargo

5. The Environmental Movement
Clean Air Act, 1970
Water Pollution Control Act, 1972
Endangered Species Act, 1973
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
Occupational Safety and
Health Administration
(OSHA)

6. The Imperial Presidency
The limited vs. the imperial executive
Decline of party functions
Modern communications
The welfare state & the growth of
bureaucracy
America’s world role

7. Watergate

9. Summary 1. 2. 3. 4.