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Title: The Eisenhower Era


1
The Eisenhower Era
  • Chapter 26
  • Section 1
  • Postwar America
  • Riddlebarger

2
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
5
Eisenhowers Cold War policies
  • Ike Korea.
  • John Foster Dulles
  • Change in foreign policy

6
Brinksmanship
  • Build more nuclear weapons
  • rationale
  • Brinksmanship policy
  • Massive Retaliation
  • MAD

7
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

10
The Warsaw Pact forms
  • 1955 Soviets establish Warsaw Pact
  • Soviet dominated E. Europe.
  • Collective security
  • Soviet actions

NATO vs. Warsaw Pact
11
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.
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