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CHAPTER 31 – From “The Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan

1. POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY AFTER WATERGATE

a. The Ford Custodianship

b. The Trials of Jimmy Carter

c. Human Rights and National Interests

d. The Year of the Hostages

2. THE RISE OF THE NEW AMERICAN SPIRIT

a. The Sunbelt and Its Politics

b. The Politics of Religion

c. The New Right

d. The Tax Revolt

e. The Campaign of 1980

3. THE “REAGAN REVOLUTION”

a. The Reagan Coalition

b. Reagan in the White House

c. “Supply-Side” Economics

d. The Fiscal Crisis

e. Reagan and the World

f. The Election of 1984

4. AMERICA AND THE WANING OF THE COLD WAR

a. The Fall of the Soviet Union

b. Reagan and Gorbachev

c. The Fading of the Reagan Revolution

d. The Election of 1988

e. The First Bush Presidency

f. The First Gulf War

g. The Election of 1992

Essential Terms

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