Conservative Resurgence and the End of the Cold War: Social Studies Unit 5, Grade 11 (Letters & Devotion)

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Conservative Resurgence and the End of the Cold War is Unit 5 of United States History: 1877 to the Present (Grade 11), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 89 pages.

• Stagflation as a crisis of the Keynesian policy consensus
• Supply-side and monetarist economic policy versus Keynesian demand management
• The continuity and change in the regulation-vs-market argument across 100+ years of U.S. history
• The composition of the New Right political coalition
• Social movement mechanics (organizing, media strategy, backlash) applied to the New Right
• Continuity and change in containment doctrine from Truman/Kennan through Vietnam to the Reagan Doctrine
• Competing historical explanations for the Soviet collapse (internal weakness vs. external/U.S. pressure)
• A defensible causal argument about the primary cause of Soviet collapse, structured to rebut the counter-argument
• Transfer of the regulation-vs-market and engagement-vs-restraint frameworks to an unstudied case
• Single-cause claims about Soviet collapse versus multi-causal historical explanation

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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