Transcript Chapter 29

Chapter 29
Eisenhower: Moderate Republican
Section 1: The Republicans Return
Election of 1952
 Eisenhower’s Presidency
 New Foreign Policy
 The War in Indochina
 Meeting at the Summit
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Biography of Eisenhower
Election of 1952--Democrats
Democrats had been in office for the last
20 years
 Korean War
 Inflation
 China
 Adlai Stevenson
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Election of 1952--Republicans
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Republicans chose Eisenhower
 Nickname
 Promised to end the war in Korea
 Won the Presidency easily
President Eisenhower’s Win
Eisenhower’s Presidency
Characteristics
 John Foster Dulles
 Demobilization
 Massive Retaliation
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H- Bomb Explodes
Brinkmanship
Definition
 Benefits
 Dangers
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War in Indochina (1st)
Three Countries
 Other Names
 Ho Chi Minh
 French vs. Communist Vietnamese
 US’s actions
 Geneva Conference
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The Division of Vietnam
Divided into two in 1954
 Northern half would be Communist
 Southern half would be free under the
former emperor Bao Dai.
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First Indochina War Video Clip
Pactomania
Definition
 SEATO
 METO
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Meeting at the Summit
Stalin dies in 1953
 Nikita Khrushchev
 Peaceful coexistence
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Video Clip of Khrushchev
Spy Planes
US wanted to inspect other countries
from the air.
 Soviet Union rejected it
 US sent spy planes anyway
 U2
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Everybody’s
New Deal
Chapter 29
Section 2
Section 2
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Dynamic Conservatism
Reduce Government Activities
Public vs. Private Power
The Farm Problem
Fall of McCarthy
Election of 1956
Dynamic Conservatism
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Democratic Fears
Liberal towards people
Conservative about spending public money
Continue New Deal programs
Attempt to move the federal government out
of other areas
Reducing Government Activities
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Budget
Taxes
Government Control
Compromise of Oil Deposits
Public vs. Private Power
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Dams in Idaho
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President supported
private ownership
The TVA
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Kept it owned by the
federal government but
from getting any larger
The Farm Problem
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Overproduction
Farmers vs. Output
Benson Agricultural Act
“Soil Bank Plan”
Results of these efforts
The Moderate Republican
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Social Security
Minimum wage
Other Programs
HEW—Dept of Health, Education and
Welfare
Oveta Culp Hobby
The Fall of McCarthy
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Suspension of government employees
McCarthy’s accusations
Televised Hearings
Censure—a formal reprimand
The Election of 1956
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Eisenhower and Nixon (R) vs. Stevenson
and Kefauver (D)
Eisenhower won easily due to his popularity
and the nation’s prosperity
However, the Republicans lost to the
Democrats in both houses of Congress
because the people favored democratic
policies.
Chapter 29 Section 3
The Declaration of Independence
Enacted: July 4, 1776
“We hold these truths to
be self evident:
That all men are created
equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable
rights; that among these
are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness…”
Second-Class Citizens
Under the Jim Crow
Laws, many different
things were
segregated:
• water fountains
• restaurants
• bathrooms
• movie theaters
• even cemeteries!
Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Ruling: Separate but equal is constitutional
• Thurgood Marshall
So, What & Who Lit the Modern
Civil Rights Movement Match?
• 1954 ~ U.S. Supreme
Court ruling in Brown
vs. Board of
Education
• 1955 ~ Rosa Parks
The South Resists
• “Southern
Manifesto”—
document protesting
the Brown vs. Board
decision
• They would use
“massive resistance”
against it.
Southern states oppose the Brown vs.
Board of Education decision
Central High School
Orval Faubus
“Little Rock Nine”
“I Have a Dream…”
• Who: Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
• What: Non-violent,
motivational protest
speech
• When: August 28, 1963
• Where: Washington D.C.
• Attendance: 250,000
people
• Event called: March on
Washington D.C.
After the 1950s….
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Freedom Riders of 1961
James Meredith 1962
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Malcolm X is assassinated 1965
Black Panthers 1966
Voting Rights Act
Difficulties Abroad
Section 4
Mrs. Hauber
Coexistence
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“Peaceful Coexistence”
East Berlin and Hungary
Problems in the Middle East
1952 Egypt
became
independent
 1954--Gamal
Abdel Nassar
 Israel
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War Between Israel and Egypt
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War between Israel and Egypt over Suez
Canal
Soviet Involvement
Britain and France’s involvement
US does not help
UN Resolution
Developing Missiles
 Robert
Goddard
 V-2 Rocket
 Operation
Paperclip
E. Sputnik
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First satellite to orbit
the earth
Launched by Russia
on October 4, 1957
Sputnik
Sputnik II—sent a dog
“Laika” into space
Vanguard Rocket
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First US rocket
Was a failure
2 months later
Explorer I orbited the
earth
National Defense Education Act
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The government paid
people to go to college
for Math or Science
We needed people to
help the NASA
Program
NASA
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National Aeronautics and Space
Administration established in 1958
US Space Program
More Problems
in the Middle East
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Nassar had ties to Soviet Union
Importance of oil
Eisenhower Doctrine
Actions of US and British forces
Easing Tensions
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Goodwill Tour
Eisenhower and
Khrushchev exchange
visits
Settled their Berlin
issue through
negotiations
Eisenhower Steps Down
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Warned Americans that they had to be
prepared with vast military forces and
enormous factories
Retired to Gettysburg, PA
Next President : JFK