Eisenhower
The 34th President of the United States
Election
1952
- Republican
- Nixon was running mate
- Eisenhower considered dropping him, but his emotional Checker Speech saved him
- Part of NATO in 1950 and 1952
- Adlai E . Stevenson (Democrat) was adversary in campaign
- Landslide victory
- People voted for him because he supported going to war in Korea and appealed to the 15 million black; also war hero
- Got over 442 electoral votes
1956
- Faced Stevenson again
- Landslide victory again, even larger than last for electoral
The Cold War
The Cold War
- Non violent war between the US and USSR to be the world power
- Occurred in the 1950s and 1960s
- Also was battle between Communism and Democracy
Events
- Vietnam War
- Korean War
- French was in Indochina: costed the U.S $1 Billion/ year. U.S. covered 80% of those costs
- 1956 Hungarian independence; massive bloodshed so 30K refugees to U.S.
- Suez Conflict
- Eisenhower Doctrine 1957
- Space Race
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
- McCarthyism
- anti-communist
- One of leaders during Red Scare trying to weed out communism
Desegregation
- Brown versus Board of Education (1954) in Topeka, Kansas: overturned Plessy versus Ferguson
- It dealt with separate but equal facilities
- September 1957 had to send troops to Little Rock Arkansas (Central HS) (Little Rock Crisis) because governor Orval Faubus was trying to stop 9 blacks from entering a non segregated school
- Sit in (February 1, 1960)
- Other news:Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955
- Civil Rights Act of
- Black organization for civil rights were Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Jackie Robinson (1st black male) to be signed in MLB
- Martin Luther King Jr. was key leader in movement
Republicanism policies
- Anti-socialist
- "Dealing with people, be liberal and human; Economy or people's money, be conservative
- 10% on defense
- Gave offshore oil drills to state power, not federal government
- Deported 1 Million Mexicans in 1954
- Wanted to revert back to Dawes Act and take away native american tribe's legal standing as a group; dropped idea by 1961
- Interstate Highway Act of 1956
Vietnam
- France and Indochina
- Ho Chi Minh
- Unpopular War
- 17th parallel divider
- 1954 U.S. paid for 80% of the war ($1 Billion/year)
- Bloody and violent
Space Race
- US versus USSR to have top space programs
- October 4, 1957 USSR satellite Sputnik was launched
- Blow to US confidence
- Eisenhower made NASA in response
- Able to launch own satellite (size of Grapefruit)
- NDEA (National Defense Education Act) gave $887 million for college students