Nation of Nations Concise 2/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, & Stoff
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When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Explain how consumerism, environmentalism, and feminism continued the reform tradition, but also demonstrated limits to reform in the 1970s.

2. Understand how the Watergate crisis taxed the Constitutional system and forced the resignation of Richard Nixon.

3. Describe Henry Kissinger's efforts to preserve American power in the face of a weak economy and presidency.

4. Explain how the backlash to Watergate, Vietnam and economic troubles undermined Gerald Ford and led to the election of Jimmy Carter.

5. Describe how inflation, an energy crisis, and the hostage crisis undermined Carter's desire to create a more efficient government and a new moral climate in politics.

6. Understand how differences between Zbigniew Brzezinski and Cyrus Vance created strains in Carter's foreign policy.

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