1969-1980

  • Nixon Proposes New Federalism

  • Period: to

    Nixon Administration

  • Vietnamization

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Cambodian Invasion Creates Anti-War Turbulence

  • Massacre at Kent State

  • SALT Talks Begin

  • EPA Established

  • My Lai Massacre Revealed

  • Pentagon Papers Published

  • Nixon opens talks with China

  • Wage Price Controls

  • GNP Over One Trillion

  • Watergate

  • Nixon's Re-election

  • Intensive Bombing of North Vietnam (Operation Linebacker II)

  • Ceasfire in Vietnam (Paris Peace Accords)

  • US forces withdraw from Vietnam

  • Spiro Agnew resigns

  • Serious Inflation and reccession

  • Period: to

    Ford Administration

  • Watergate Tapes

  • Nixon Resigns, Pardoned by Ford

  • Vietnam Falls

  • Bicentennial

  • Jimmy Carter elected

  • Human Rights

  • Period: to

    Carter Administration

  • Ratification of Panama Canal Treaty

  • Camp David Accords

  • US Recognizes China

  • USSR Invades Afghanistan

  • SALT 2 Completed

  • American Embassy Occupied in Iran

  • US Boycotts Olympics

  • US Withdraws from SALT 2

  • Reagan Elected