1. The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition CHAPTER 29 Vietnam and the Limits of Power 1961–1975 Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s Roark Johnson Cohen Stage Hartmann Lawson

2. New Frontiers in Foreign Policy Meeting the “Hour of Maximum Danger” New Approaches to the Third World The Arms Race and the Nuclear Brink A Growing War in Vietnam

3. Lyndon Johnson’s War against Communism An All-Out Commitment in Vietnam Preventing Another Castro in Latin America The Americanized War

4. A Nation Polarized The Widening War at Home 1968: Year of Upheaval

5. Nixon, Détente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam Moving toward Détente with the Soviet Union and China Shoring Up Anticommunism in the Third World Vietnam Becomes Nixon’s War The Peace Accords and the Legacy of Defeat

6. Chapter 29 Vietnam and the Limits of Power: 1961–1975 Map 29.1 U.S. Involvement in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1954– 1994 (p. 1066) Map 29.2 The Vietnam War, 1964–1975 (p. 1071) Map 29.3 The Election of 1968 (p. 1087) Figure 29.1 U.S. Troops in Vietnam, 1962–1972 (p. 1073) Figure 29.2 Public Opinion about the Vietnam War, 1965–1974 (p. 1092) Humans Reach the Moon (p. 1067) Chemical Weapons (p. 1078) Nixon in China (p. 1088) Pro-War Demonstrators (p. 1090) Students Killed at Kent State (p. 1091)