CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

Account for the rise and decline of New Left protests. Describe the counterculture and its impact. Trace the reform movements for women, Hispanics, Indians, and the environment. Explain Nixon’s aims in Vietnam. Assess the impact of the Vietnam War on U.S. society, military morale, and later foreign policy. Explain Nixon’s goals in domestic policy and account for his limited accomplishment. Understand the problems plaguing the United States economy in the decade of the 1970s, and describe the various cures Nixon tried. Describe Nixon’s foreign policy triumphs in China and the Soviet Union, and explain their significance. Discuss the Watergate cover-up and account for the difficulty in unraveling it. Assess the brief presidency of Gerald Ford. Assess the Carter administration’s foreign and domestic policies.