We will examine the foreign policy legacy of Nixon and Kissinger from the Paris Peace treaty ending the Vietnam War to establishing Detente with the Soviet Union and opening up relations with China.

In the first three Arab-Israeli wars, Israel had humiliated the Arab combatants, but the Yom Kippur War revealed Israel’s particular vulnerabilities and would ultimately lead to the beginnings of an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process and the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978.

The Arab members of OPEC, in retaliation for US military support of Israel in the Yom Kippur War, imposed an oil embargo on the United States which would have Serious repercussions for the American economy and our domestic politics.

After the fight to gain for women the right to vote, the Equal Rights Amendment Represented the most significant movement for gender equality in American History. It ultimately failed to achieve ratification.

Attica prisoners took 39 hostages and staged a demand for prison reform. It ended in a bloody assault by law enforcement that led to the largest number Of fatalities in the history of prison uprisings.

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Party led a government Reign of Terror that Resulted in the death of over one million Cambodians. It was one of the worst Atrocities of the 20th Century.

The Moral Majority was a Christian Conservative political organization, led by Rev. Jerry Falwell, that decried the decay in America’s values and advocated support for traditional Christian values in American politics.

The Iran Hostage Crisis represented a devastating close to a difficult decade And would, in many ways, redefine our relations in the Middle East and pave the Way for the Reagan Revolution.