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The Conservative Resurgence and the End of the Cold War
Analyze the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and explain how 1991 marked the end of the Cold War as a turning point.
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Cold War, Civil Rights, and Modern America
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Analyze the major political, social, and global transformations of the Cold War era through the present day.
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Learning standards covered
113.41(b)(2)(A)Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) · Social-studies · 9th Gradeidentify the major eras in U.S. history from 1877 to the present and describe their defining characteristics; and
113.41(b)(2)(B)Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) · Social-studies · 9th Gradeexplain the significance of the following years as turning points: 1898 (Spanish-American War), 1914-1918 (World War I), 1929 (the Great Depression begins), 1939-1945 (World War II), 1957 (Sputnik launch ignites U.S.-Soviet space race), 1968 (Martin Luther King Jr. assassination), 1969 (U.S. lands on the moon), 1991 (Cold War ends), 2001 (terrorist attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon), and 2008 (election of first black president, Barack Obama).