THE EISENHOWER PRESIDENCY CHA PTER 27: TH E EN D URING VISION
THE EISENHOWER PRESIDENCY CHAPTER 27: THE ENDURING VISION.
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GUIDING QUESTIONS1.) In what ways did Eisenhower continue
Truman’s foreign policy, and in what ways did he change it?
2.) How successfully did Eisenhower accomplish his foreign policy goals?
3.) What were the main sources, and consequences, of economic prosperity in the 1950s?
4.) How accurate is the image of the 1950s as a period of conservatism and conformity?
5.) What strategies did minorities adopt in order to gain greater equality in the 1950s, and how successful were they?
DYNAMIC CONSERVATISM
Eisenhower’s Approach
The “Big Picture”
Government Reduction
Federal Budget Cuts
“Modern Republicanism”
MODERN REPUBLICANISM
Minimum Wage
Public Housing Projects
The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
The Federal Highway Act
CIVIL RIGHTS
Brown V Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Thurgood Marshall
Linda Brown
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Results of the trial
Thurgood Marshall with James Nabrit Jr. and George E.C. Hayes after their victory in the Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court, May 17, 1954.
CIVIL RIGHTS
The reaction of the “border states”
The reaction of the Deep South
Public Opinion on the Brown ruling
Integration Efforts
CIVIL RIGHTS
Central High School (Little Rock, Arkansas)
Governor Orval Faubus
The Little Rock Nine
Eisenhower’s Reaction
The Role of Television
EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR
The Death of Stalin (1953)
The Arms Race (H-Bomb 1953)
Foster Dulles
Massive Retaliation
Brinkmanship
THE COLD WAR
Eisenhower’s “Atoms of Peace” plan
The Distant Early Warning Line
“over the pole” route
Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center
THE GENEVA SUMMIT
Geneva (1955)
“peaceful coexistence”
The “spirit of Geneva”
Eisenhower’s “New Look”
EISENHOWER’S USE OF THE CIA
The role of the CIA
“covert action”
“Operation Ajax”
Shah Reza Pahlavi
THE MIDDLE EAST
Gamal Nasser
US Financial Assistance to Egypt
Czechoslovakia
The Suez Canal
THE SUEZ CRISIS
The British Response
The Response of the United Nations
The Eisenhower Doctrine
PROBLEMS IN THE THIRD WORLD
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
The U-2 Spy Plane Incident
THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Affluent Society
America’s Standard of Living
A “people of plenty”
Average Incomes
THE NEW INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
Federal spending
Defense Industries
Research and Development
The Electronics Industry
Petroleum Prices
Aerospace Programs
COMPUTERS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
Computer Technology
Computer Use
War Games
AMERICA’S CHANGING LABOR FORCE
Blue Collar Jobs
White Collar Jobs
A “postindustrial” society
“organization man”
PROSPERITY
Credit Cards
Advertising Companies
Car Sales
Home sales
“Suburbia”
THE BABY BOOM
Economic Prosperity
New Medicines
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Baby and Child Care
WOMEN OF THE 1950S
Domesticity
The “natural” role of women
Television, newspapers, and magazines
RELIGION IN AMERICA
Billy Graham
Movies and Music
“Dial a Prayer”
Eisenhower’s Reflection on Religion in America
“The American Way of Life”
THE CULTURE OF THE FIFTIES
Movie Attendance
Television sales
ABC, CBS, and NBC
Advertisements
TV Dinners
TV and Politics
POVERTY IN AMERICA
The Poverty Line
Children of poverty
The shrinking tax base
A STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King JR
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
King’s nonviolent approach
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
THE SPACE RACESputnik I and II
The Missile Gap
The Vanguard
“Flopnik”
NASA
New Education Policies
The Military Industrial Complex
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