Later+Cold+War+Reading+Objectives

__**After reading this section, you should be able to:**__ 1.Outline the steps by which Johnson led the us deeper into the Vietnam quagmire. 2. Explain how the Vietnam War brought turmoil to American society and eventually drove Johnson and the divided Democrats from power in 1968. 3.Describe Nixon’s foreign policy in relation to Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and Communist China. 4.Examine the political and economic tensions created by the secret bombing of Cambodia, the American withdrawal from Vietnam, and the first Arab oil embargo. 5. 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. 6. Indicate how Jimmy Carter’s outsider presidency fell into political disarray, culminating in the Iranian hostage crisis humiliation. 7.Describe the revival of the Cold War in Reagan’s first term and the consequences of Reagan’s tough stands toward the Soviet Union. 8.Discuss the growing American entanglement in Central American and Middle Eastern troubles in the 1980s, including the Iran-Contra Affair. 9.Describe the change in Soviet policies initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev and Reagan’s second term turn to negotiation with the Soviets. 10.Describe the end of the Cold War and its complex consequences for America’s foreign relation.

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