Eisenhower
Election of 1952
- November 4, 1952
- Republican
- Richard Nixon
- Adlai Stevenson
- Eisenhower: 55.2% Stevenson: 44.3%
Election of 1956
- November 6, 1956
- Republican
- Richard Nixon
- Adlai Stevenson
- Eisenhower: 57.4% Stevenson: 42.0%
Cold War
- political and military tension between powers in the NATO and the Warsaw Pact
- ended Korean War
- nuclear weapon tensions
- anti-communist plans by CIA
Joseph McCarthy
- accused Secretary of State Dean Acheson of knowingly employing 205 communist party members; this brought McCarthy into national eye
- started accusing Democrats
- damaged tradition of fair play and free speech
- went to fair when accused the US Army
Eisenhower and the desegregation of the South
- Central High School not allow 9 black students to be enrolled; Eisenhower sends troops to allow students into the school
- 1954; case brought to court about segregation in public schools is unequal
- due to Rosa Park being arrested for sitting in the white only section blacks no longer took the bus; Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the boycott
Eisenhower's Republicanism policies
- "dynamic conservatism"
- "creeping socialism"
- end the bracero program
- Operation Wetback
- wanted to terminate Indian New Deal
Beginning of Vietnam War
- northwest Vietnam, in Dienbienphu, French pushed for democracy; resulted in division of Vietnam at the 17th parallel
Space Race with the Soviets
- first satellite sent up to space by USSR to orbit Earth; the satellite, Sputnik, shocked the United States
- United States creates NASA