The Eisenhower Era

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The Eisenhower Era

• Chapter 26
• Section 1
• Postwar America
• Riddlebarger

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The Election of 1952

• 22nd Amendment passed in 1951
• Truman decision
• Stevenson (D) vs. Eisenhower (R)
• Ike critical of war effort
• American perception of Ike

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Eisenhower/Nixon Elected
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Eisenhowers Cold War policies

• Ike Korea.
• John Foster Dulles
• Change in foreign policy

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Brinksmanship

• Build more nuclear weapons
• rationale
• Brinksmanship policy
• Massive Retaliation
• MAD

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Arms Race

• stockpile experiment with new weapons
• Hydrogen Bomb
• Impact of Soviets getting H-bomb
• ICBMs (missiles)

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Space Race Begins

• Soviets launch first artificial satellite-
  Sputnik
• Concern in America that Soviets are passing us
  by.
• Education impact
• We establish NASA

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The Warsaw Pact forms

• 1955 Soviets establish Warsaw Pact
• Soviet dominated E. Europe.
• Collective security
• Soviet actions

NATO vs. Warsaw Pact
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Central Intelligence Agency

• Formed in 1947
• Purpose?
• Increasingly active in 1950s.
• Covert
• Guatemala and Iran.

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Television Age

• Television popularity grows after WW2
• 5 million sets in homes in USA between 1945-50.
• By 1959, 40 million homes have at least one.
• Impact upon politics, advertising, children,
  culture.

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New Communities

• Post-war growth of suburbs in America
• Why? (P. 866-67)
• Who?
• U.S. population shifts
• Interstate Highway System
• Eisenhower administration starts it in 1956.