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Title: The Eisenhower Years,


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CHAPTER 28
  • The Eisenhower Years,
  • 1953 - 1960

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A New Direction
  • Dwight Eisenhowers New Republicanism
  • Appointed business professionals to his cabinet
  • Left much of Democratic programs intact
  • Ike ends Korean conflict
  • Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
  • 38th parallel
  • Stalin dies March 5, 1953
  • Korean Truce July 1953
  • 50,000 American dead
  • 850,000 South Korean troops dead

3
The Cold War at Home and Abroad
  • McCarthys hunt for communists continues
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Fort Monmouth
  • Senate censured McCarthy in 1954
  • Died of alcoholism in 1957
  • New Look changes American military
  • Ike cut defense spending 20 between 1953-55
  • CIA increases covert operations
  • Mohammad Mossadeph and the Shan of Iran
  • Vietnam threatens to become major problem
  • Ho Chi Minh

4
The Civil Rights Movement
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1953)
  • Struck down Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Brown II guidelines for desegregation
  • South reacted unfavorably
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Rose parks
  • Boycott brings Martin Luther King, Jr. to
    national attention
  • November 1956, federal court stuck down Alabama
    segregation on public transportation law

5
The Age of Television
  • Golden age of television
  • Brings entertainment to American homes
  • Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle
  • Allowed politicians to speak directly to public
  • Sitcoms reinforced stereotypes
  • Quiz show scandals rock country and bring reforms
    to television industry
  • 64,000 Question and Twenty-One rigged

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Youth Culture
  • Teens defined by their music, especially rock n
    roll
  • Alan Freed
  • Elvis Presley enthralls youth as he, and others,
    change face of music
  • Little Richard and Chuck Berry
  • Beat Generation charts different course, clearly
    showing their discontent

7
Crises and Celebration
  • Ike recovers form heart attack in September 1955
  • Polio is defeated with Salk vaccine (1955)
  • March of Dimes
  • Federal Highway Act establishes plans for
    interstate system
  • Nikita Khrushchev becomes Russian Premier
  • Hungarian revolt crushed by Soviets in 1956
  • Suez crisis
  • Gamel Abdel Nasser
  • Nasser blockaded Gulf of Arabia
  • Israel, France and Britain retook Suez
  • November 6, 1956 negotiation settled crisis

8
National Highway System
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Chevrolet Ad
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Israel, the Middle East, and the Suez Crisis, 1956
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A Second Term
  • South opposed to Brown decision
  • Southern Manifesto
  • Central High School refused to desegregate
  • Ike sent in national guard, Central High
    desegregated
  • Soviets shock Americans with launch of Sputnik
  • Summit meeting derailed by Soviets shooting down
    American U-2 spy plane
  • Francis Gary powers
  • Nixon runs for president in 1960, but Democrat
    John F. Kennedy (JFK) wins very close election
  • First televised presidential debates

12
Election of 1960
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Discussion Questions
  • What were the strengths and weaknesses of the
    Eisenhower administration? Was Ike a good match
    for the America of his day?
  • Describe the rise and fall of Senator Joseph
    McCarthy. Did he harm or help America?
  • How did Rose Parks impact the civil rights
    movement of the 1950s? What were some of the
    effects of the Montgomery Boycott?
  • What was the U-2 Crisis, and how did it affect
    U.S. and USSR relations?
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