1. 1970s: Overview
A Decade of Malaise…

2. Nixon’s The One

3. The “New Nixon”

4. ( military & Great Society)
Stagflation
1. Prices increase due to
Consumer Spending +
Government Spending
( military & Great Society)
= increased demand
2. Foreign Competition

5. Vietnamization or Cambodianization?

6. My Lai 1968/1970

7. Protests by “Bums?”

8. Détente

9. Our Friends… the Russians

10. Domestic, Nixon the Liberal?
- Philadelphia Plan
(quotas under affirmative action)
EPA and OSHA established
(Clean Air Act, Endangered Species
Act)
Takes US off gold standard

12. Watergate

13. Resignation

14. “President” Ford Pardons Nixon

15. Ford’s Plan to Solve the Energy Crisis

16. Fall of Saigon, 1975

17. Jimmy and Roselyn’s Inaugural Walk

18. Camp David Accords

19. Panama Canal Treaties, 1978

20. The Energy Crisis and OPEC

21. “MALAISE SPEECH” “CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE”

23. Iranian Hostage Crisis 444 Days

24. Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

25. Election of 1980