Chapter 31: Facing Limits, 1974 - 1992

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

1. Analyze the choices Ford and Carter made in an effort to improve the American economy and how the constraints they faced shaped the outcome.
   
   
2. Compare Carter’s expectations with the outcomes of his foreign policy and explain how his choices reflected the new view of America’s role in world affairs.
   
   
3. Describe what expectations influenced Americans who chose to vote for Reagan and how his social and domestic policies both reflected those expectations and altered expectations.
   
   
4. Understand the implications of the end of the Cold War for U.S. foreign policy.