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AP U.S. History The Conservative Resurgence and The 1980s
In this lesson, our instructor Elizabeth Turro gives an introduction on the conservative resurgence and the 1980s. She talks about free-market economics, religious conservatism, supply-side economics, trickledown economics, Reaganomics, the annual federal budget deficit or surplus, presidential landscaping and strategic defense initiative. She also explains how the relations with the USSR improve, why the wall comes down in 1989, how Reagan aids anticommunists and Israelis, involvement in Latin America and Caribbean and Iran-Contra affair and scandal. The other key points are Iran-Contra, foreign policy after the Cold War, social issues, economic changes, the income of two-wage families’ graph, other themes in the 1980s and the 1987 March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian rights.
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