US early 1970’s: Foreign Affairs
Nixon: established relations with communist China, 1972
Nixon & Vietnam: war extended into Cambodia -finally a cease-fire in 1/73
Detente’ w/USSR: ABM & SALT treaties limit nuclear missile production
1973: Arab-Israeli war- OPEC oil embargo: shortages, inflation in US
US - 1970’s - society & politics
economic stagnation after ‘73 oil crises: "stagflation": high unemployment, high interest rates, high inflation
70’s: "me decade:" focus on individual self-fulfillment (legacy of 60’s activism or selfishness?)
Nixon - quite popular to ‘73 - landslide election victory over McGovern in ‘72
Watergate-constitutional crisis & Nixon's undoing-8/74 resignation - impeachment was inevitable
Ford: pardons Nixon: pres. shadowed after that/legacy of Vietnam, inflation too much