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CHAPTER 40.3 – The Stalemated Seventies
The First Unelected President
 Presidential pardon
President without
precedent
 Helsinki Accords (mixed reactions?)
Defeat in Vietnam
 Vietnam withdrawal & rescue
 What the war cost (economically & symbolically)
Feminist Victories and Defeats
 Equal Rights Amendment & feminist controversy
Title IX
The Seventies in Black and White
 Milliken v. Bradley (1974) & effects
Reverse discrimination
 Bakke case (1978) & opinions
Phyllis Schlafly
AIM
 Native Americans protest
The Bicentennial Campaign and the Carter Victory
 Candidates & results
Bicentennial
 Carter’s early successes
Carter’s Humanitarian Diplomacy
 Camp David Accords
 New relationship with China
Economic and Energy Woes
 Inflation & international debt teach a lesson
“oil shocks”
 Carter’s energy crusade (reason? Actions?)
 Iran
 Carter’s reaction to the crises
Foreign Affairs and the Iranian Imbroglio
 SALT II controversy
 Teheran, Iran
 Soviets in Afghanistan & Carter’s reaction
 Iranian rescue attempt
Brezhnev
Ayatollah Khomeini