APUSH Talking Points
Eisenhower

  1. Review: Truman
  2. Truman Doctrine “help free peoples”, containment, Korean War…stalemat, China falls to communism, Red Scare, HUAC, integration of military
  3. Eisenhower: Election of 1952
  4. Both Dems and Repubs recruit him..hero of European WWII, “I Like Ike”
  5. Wins Repub nom with Nixon as VP, in part by hinting the Dem party was full of Communisits
  6. Elected with wide majorities in “solid south”…marks turning point of Repubs in the South
  7. (show Presidents)
  8. Called his domestic program “dynamic conservatism”, liberal when it comes to human beings, conservative when it comes to money
  9. His Actions
  10. Got ride of Recon Finance Corp (subsidies to farmers), warned against “creeping socialism”, said if the “stupid’ right wing of the Repub party wanted him to get rid of SS, you would never hear of this party in history again
  11. Increased minimum wage and public housing projects
  12. Federal Highways Act 1956…47K miles, 55,512 bridges, 14, 800 interchanges…jobs program! Stimulate motels, trucking, etc
  13. McCarthyism 67 to 22 to condemn him
  14. Blacklisting, librarby book censorships continues
  15. Rosenbergs
  16. Race under E: opposed Truman’s desegrating military, did integrate DC public facilities, “don’t believe you can change hearts of men with laws”
  17. Appoints Earl Warren in 523 “biggest damn fool mistake I ever made”
  18. Sweatt v Painter in 1950 rules black law schools not equal, leads to Brown Decision
  19. Middle class KKK Citizen’s Council formed, lots of politictions joining, etc..”Southern Mqnifesto” “Massive Resistance”…helped to keep schools intergrated
  20. Bus Boycott, Civil Rights Act 57 and 60…tried to register black voters, neither had must effect
  21. Little Rock “only with maintaining the law”
  22. Foreign Policy
  23. Privately knew communism wasn’t the same all over globe, but in public talked tough
  24. Armistic in Korea (34K dead)
  25. Sec of State: John Foster Dulles “saw only good and evil”, sermonizer and pompous,“containment” was too passive
  26. Knowing can’t win a ground war with USSR or China, (hydrogen boms 700 times more powerful) craft a strategy called “massive retaliation” aka “brinkmanship”
  27. USSR fights back “more rubble for the ruble”…arms race!
  28. CIA: “we cannot ignore the importance of 675,000 barrels of oil a day”, uses CIA to overthrow Iranian leader Mossadegh (paid Iranians to riot, propagances, mercenaries)
  29. Then uses CIA in Guatemala to force leader to Mexico
  30. “There are no rules in the Cold War”…destabilizes these countries and sets precedent
  31. Indochina: IN VIETNAM UNIT
  32. Suez Canal
  33. Sputnik: Oct 4, 1957
  34. First orbiting satellite communications
  35. If they are that advanced, they can reach their rockets here “missle gap”
  36. 1958 NASA created, National Defense Education Act
  37. Eisenhower Doctrine:
  38. Give military and economic aid to Arab nations and to help them fight Communism…uses 5000 marines in Lebanon at one point
  39. Berlin
  40. 300K E Germans defected to the West through Berlin
  41. Kruschev threatens another blockade…meeting planned to resolve this, when Khrushchev claims in 1960 that they shot down a US U-2 spy plan over USSR. Eisenhower denies this saying it’s weather balloon, but surprise, they have Gary Powers, embarrassment on US part..sets back progress b/w us..in 1962, Powers traded for a USSR spy
  42. Fidel Castro in Cuba: power in Januar 59, didn’t know he was a communist til he took power…don’t want to overtly mess with him (ie Russia), so secret mission begain…will fall to Kennedy
  43. Military Industrial Complex (see primary source from farewell address)