1. The Stagnant Seventies

2. Vietnam
“peace with honor”
Vietnamization…

4. Kent State

5. 3rd Phase – Civil War 1973 Ceasefire … Paris Peace Accords
Civil war rages in Vietnam
The U.S. abandons its embassy in Saigon
By 1975 North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam and Saigon is renamed Ho Chi Minh City

6. The Cost 58,000 Americans killed- 300,000 wounded
3,000,000 Vietnamese killed
U.S. morale, self-confidence, trust of government destroyed
War Powers Act

7. Detente
Nixon travels to China and meets with Mao Zedong…
SALT I

8. Election of 1972
“plumbers”
Enemies List

10. Watergate 1972 election DNC Headquarters Bungled “Burglary”
Washington Post – Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

11. Nixon Tapes….
Spiro Agnew…
United States vs. Nixon…
Nixon steps down 1974

12. Gerald Ford
First non-elected President…
Pardons Nixon of all crimes…

13. Energy Crisis

14. Jimmy Carter
Human Rights…

15. Chicano Movement

16. American Indian Movement

17. The Fight for Women’s Rights
Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Roe v. Wade…
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)…

18. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

19. EPA…
Earth Day…

20. Love Canal

21. Three Mile Island

22. Panama Canal Treaty

23. Camp David Accords

26. Iran Hostage Crisis Ayatollah Khomeini Teheran Embassy, 1979
Carter unable to secure their release