Transcript The American Promise - Bedford

Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson
The American Promise:
A History of the United States
Fourth Edition
CHAPTER 29
Vietnam and the Limits of Power
1961–1975
Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
New Frontiers in Foreign Policy
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Meeting the “Hour of Maximum Danger”
New Approaches to the Third World
The Arms Race and the Nuclear Brink
A Growing War in Vietnam
Lyndon Johnson’s
War against Communism
• An All-Out Commitment in Vietnam
• Preventing Another Castro in Latin America
• The Americanized War
A Nation Polarized
• The Widening War at Home
• 1968: Year of Upheaval
Nixon, Détente, and the
Search for Peace in Vietnam
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Moving toward Détente with the Soviet Union and China
Shoring Up Anticommunism in the Third World
Vietnam Becomes Nixon’s War
The Peace Accords and the Legacy of Defeat
Chapter 29
Vietnam and the Limits of Power: 1961–1975
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Map 29.1 U.S. Involvement in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1954–
1994 (p. 1066)
Map 29.2 The Vietnam War, 1964–1975 (p. 1071)
Map 29.3 The Election of 1968 (p. 1087)
Figure 29.1 U.S. Troops in Vietnam, 1962–1972 (p. 1073)
Figure 29.2 Public Opinion about the Vietnam War, 1965–1974 (p. 1092)
Humans Reach the Moon (p. 1067)
Chemical Weapons (p. 1078)
Nixon in China (p. 1088)
Pro-War Demonstrators (p. 1090)
Students Killed at Kent State (p. 1091)