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CHAPTER 32 – The Age of Globalization

1. A RESURGENCE OF PARTISANSHIP

a. Launching the Clinton Presidency

b. The Republican Resurgence

c. The Election of 1996

d. Clinton Triumphant and Embattled

e. The Election of 2000

f. The Second Bush Presidency

g. The Election of 2004

2. THE ECONOMIC BOOM

a. From “Stagflation” to Growth

b. Downturns

c. The Two-Tiered Economy

d. Globalization

3. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE NEW ECONOMY

a. The Digital Revolution

b. The Internet

c. Breakthroughs in Genetics

4. A CHANGING SOCIETY

a. A Shifting Population

b. African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era

c. Modern Plagues: Drugs and AIDS

5. A CONTESTED CULTURE

a. Battles over Feminism and Abortion

b. The Growth of Environmentalism

6. THE PERILS OF GLOBALIZATION

a. Opposing the “New World Order”

b. Defending Orthodoxy

c. The Rise of Terrorism

d. The War on Terrorism

e. The Iraq War

7. TURBULENT POLITICS

a. The Unraveling of the Bush Presidency

b. The Election of 2008

c. The Obama Presidency

Essential Terms

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