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Standards Index: KC-9.3

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The end of the Cold War and new challenges to U.S. leadership forced the nation to redefine its foreign policy and role in the world.

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Reagan: Foreign Policy and a Story from Central America (El Salvador)

Students will learn how President Reagan’s administration, trying to stop Soviet communist influence around the world, supported authoritarian regimes, and the impact that had in El Salvador and in the U.S. then and now.