Nixon, Ford, Carter
1969-1980
Nixon’s Foreign Policy
• Vietnam
– Vietnamization
• Détente
– Visit to China
– Arms Control
Nixon’s Domestic Policy
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New Federalism
Southern Strategy
Burger Court
Election of 1972
– Watergate
• War Powers Act
Gerald Ford
• Pardoning of Nixon
• Failure of US Policy
in SE Asia
• Economic and
Domestic Policy
Jimmy Carter
• Foreign Policy
– Human Rights
– Panama Canal
– Camp David Accords
– Iran Hostage Crisis
– Cold War
• Domestic Policy
Decade of Transition
• Immigration
• Minority Rights
– Cesar Chavez & UFW
– AIM
• Environmentalism