Dive into AP US History Unit 9 (Period 9: 1980–Present) with a comprehensive contextual overview of America's post-Cold War era. This episode sets the stage by exploring the conservative shift under Reagan, globalization's economic impacts, the tech revolution, a unipolar world order, and rising social tensions. Master the key themes and connections to prior periods to ace your AP exam.

• Contextualizing Period 9: America after the Cold War
• The conservative turn: Reagan's coalition, backlash to 1960s-70s upheavals
• Globalization: Economic integration, job shifts, trade debates
• Technology and the Information Age: Internet's transformation of society and politics
• New world order: Soviet collapse, unipolar moment, post-9/11 challenges
• Social/cultural shifts: Immigrat ...