Between 1975 and 2001, the United States experienced a resurgent conservatism in national politics, economic globalization, the end of the Cold War, prolonged involvement in Middle-East and Persian-Gulf conflicts, and the growing impact of computer and internet technology. Explain the most important reasons and results of these changes. More specifically:
What were the biggest economic and foreign policy challenges facing the Ford and Carter administrations? Why was Ronald Reagan elected and reelected President, what were his criticisms of liberal economic and social programs, and how did he try to alter their course? To what degree did Reagan and conservative policies reshape American society and politics, and to what degree did the legacy of 1960s reform continue despite these efforts? What were the greatest foreign policy successes and failures of the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations? What, would you argue, were the most important ways that American economic, social, and personal lives changed between 1975 and 2001? How, would you argue, have those changes continued to shape the way we live in the United States twenty years later in our own times?