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After reading these pages in the textbook, you should be able to:

1. Explain the closely intertwined economic, energy, and Middle East crises of the 1970s and why both Republican and Democratic administrations were unable to address them successfully. 2. Describe the racial tensions of the 1970s, especially over school busing and affirmative action. 3. Discuss the rise of second-wave feminism in the US and elsewhere, and the conservative resistance to it that blocked the Equal Rights Amendment. 4. Indicate how Jimmy Carter's outsider presidency fell into political disarray, culminating in the Iranian hostage crisis humiliation.