The Eisenhower Presidency

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The Eisenhower Presidency

Election of 1952 Republicans Democrats Outcome Eisenhower's Career “Time for a Change” Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard Nixon Democrats Adlai Stevenson Outcome Eisenhower's Career Eisenhower as Pres. Stevenson Eisenhower

Eisenhower’s Presidency “dynamic conservatism” Federal Highway Act 1956

Election of 1956 Republicans Democrats Victory for Ike Eisenhower/Nixon Democrats Stevenson Victory for Ike

Domestic Affairs Sputnik “Missile Gap” More defense spending Creation of NASA National Defense Education Act

John Foster Dulles Secretary of State Foreign Policy Covert Action Anti containment Pro liberation Covert Action CIA (Guatemala & Iran) Brinkmanship

Foreign Crises The Middle East Hungary Suez Canal Nasser Soviet troops in Budapest Nasser

Problems Abroad Stalin’s death Lebanon Eisenhower Doctrine Summit Khrushchev Lebanon Eisenhower Doctrine Summit U-2 plane Eisenhower’s response Khrushchev’s response Khrushchev Francis Gary Powers

Indochina Colonial Issues Ho Chi Minh First Indochina War “Domino Theory” Dien Bien Phu Geneva Accords SEATO Ngo Dinh Diem Vietcong Diem Ho Chi Minh

Cuba Fidel Castro Castro supported by the United States 1959 Castro supported by the United States Castro becomes dictator Eisenhower’s reaction Assessment of Eisenhower

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