Correct. The answer is c. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that the traditional conservative issue of anti-communism shaped Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy agenda, spurring him to lend economic and sometimes military support to anti-leftist movements around the world and, perhaps paradoxically, to take part in an effort to ease the United States’ relationship with the Soviet Union.
Incorrect. The answer is c. The author’s main point in this section is that the traditional conservative issue of anti-communism shaped Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy agenda, spurring him to lend economic and sometimes military support to anti-leftist movements around the world and, perhaps paradoxically, to take part in an effort to ease the United States’ relationship with the Soviet Union.