American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Objectives

1. The reasons for the rise of the New Left and the counterculture.

2. The problems of American Indians and Hispanics, and the nature of their protest movements.

3. The meaning of the New Feminism.

4. The Nixon-Kissinger policy for terminating the Vietnam War, and the subsequent Paris peace settlement.

5. The changes in American foreign policy necessitated by the new perception of the world as multipolar.

6. The ways in which the Supreme Court issued several liberal rulings and then in the Nixon years began a change to a more conservative posture.

7. The reasons for the decline in the American economy in the early 1970s and President Nixon's reaction to the decline.

8. The significance of Watergate as an indication of the abuse of executive power.

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