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The Cold War Heats Up - Eisenhower and the Global Cold War

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The Cold War Heats Up - Eisenhower and the Global Cold War

“New Look" defense policy and a reliance on inexpensive nuclear weapons over expensive

conventional forces would take the two nations to the brink of nuclear war

 

 

 

 

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower  [1953  to 1961]

 

Modern RepublicanismAcceptance of the New Deal and the Fair Deal, but moderation in the expansion of government social programs, support for the United Nations and military and economic aid abroad. This includes less taxes, less regulation of business. Expansion of Social Security, increased minimum wage ($1.00)

 

 

 

 

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[May 11, 1955] Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states 

 

 

 

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Monsters Inc. The Dulles Brothers

The Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and third world countries 

 

 

 

The Cold War heats up with rhetoric from the U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles such as Brinkmanship,  massive retaliation and mutually assured destruction (M.A.D.)

 

Massive Retaliation: Massive Retaliation, also known as a massive response or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.

 

 

Brinkmanship: is the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict

 

 


 

 

Eisenhower coins the term "domino theory" to explain why the U.S. should intervene to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia.

 

 


 

The United States began sending military advisors to South Vietnam. South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem (with US support) refused to allow the elections to take place because he realized that Ho Chi Minh would win.

 

 

 

 

[January 5, 1957] The Eisenhower Doctrine – stated that the US would provide economic aid and arms to help Middle Eastern countries fight communism; First applied in Lebanon in 1958. 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Space Race Sputnik (1957) USSR satellite – communism actually key to future – USSR ahead of US Fear – USSR education stronger, could now attack US from space w/ missile

 

United States reactions to developments in Russia
Education – too easygoing – substitute square roots for square dancing and promoted Advanced Placement program; authorized loans for college. 

 

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The National Defense Education Act (NDEA), signed into law on September 2, 1958, motivated by a growing national sense that U.S. scientists were falling behind scientists in the Soviet Union, it was arguably catalyzed by early Soviet success in the Space Race, notably the launch of the first-ever satellite, Sputnik, the year before.

 

“When education becomes completely enmeshed in the petty, surface details of a student’s everyday life, it loses the opportunity of equipping him with the intellectual powers that lie beneath the surface. By frittering time away upon the ‘felt needs’ of adolescents, the school runs the risk of leaving its students helpless in the presence of the real ‘real life’ needs that will come later and that will put to test all the resources of a mature and disciplined intelligence.” -

 

Arthur Bestor. Educational Wastelands

 

And it served to give education technology in particular not only funding and legitimacy but its ideological mission: a corrective to progressive education in the name of national security and science.

 

 

The College Board, a non-profit organization based in New York City, has run the AP program since 1955. From 1965 to 1989, Harlan Hanson was the director of the Advanced Placement Program. It develops and maintains guidelines for the teaching of higher level courses in various subject areas. In addition, it supports teachers of AP courses and supports universities. These activities are funded through fees required to take the AP exams

 

What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn’t (1961) 

 

 

 

 

 


Cuban leader Fidel Castro established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

The U-2 incident (1960) occurred during the Cold War on May 1, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace.  Ike looks bad when U-2 plane crashes after the US says we don’t fly spy mission.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Ike’s Farewell Address (1961) warned Americans against the “military industrial complex” or arms build up despite the recent unfolding of events in Cuba and a perceived “missile gap”

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

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