American Humiliation Student protests escalate dramatically when the media gets wind of Nixon's secret bombing campaign in Cambodia. Classes are suspended at many schools, as students gather informally to decide what to make of all this. In the end, communist gains on the battlefield force Nixon to finally pull all US forces out of Vietnam in 1973.

	Cancer on the Presidency By 1973, the press is all over Nixon, who has been implicated in the long-running Watergate Scandal. This involves illegal White House efforts to spy on political opponents.  At the same time, Nixon is busy trying to prop up the corrupt South Vietnamese government, with US troops now gone, and dealing with the Arab Oil Embargo. Despite success in other areas, Nixon is finally forced to resign after the release of a set of secret recordings of Oval Office conversations, revealing his personal involvement.
	Duck and Cover Arsenals of nuclear-tipped ICBMs continue to grow, with no thaw in US-Soviet relations. If anything, the Soviets now seem even more resolutely focused on surpassing their hated overseas rival. Schoolchildren are taught how to 'duck and cover,' in the event of a nuclear attack, by crawling under their desks. This would be laughable, if it didn't underscore how unprepared America is, in the 1970s, for a real atomic war. Even more chilling is the reality that the arsenals still exist today.