1. Cold War Under Eisenhower

2. Today’s Objective After today’s lesson, students will be able to…
Explain the United States policy and influence during the Cold War under President Eisenhower
Essential Skill:
To gather and organize information

3. 1952 Election
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson

4. 1952 Election Results

5. Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
Was Ike “mad” when he advocated a policy of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
What do you think this term means?
A military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender

6. Eisenhower’s “New Look” Foreign Policy
Massive Retaliation
Nuclear arsenal would be more efficient/effective alternative to large-scale conventional forces
Brinkmanship
Taking the country to the brink of war to avoid war (J. Foster Dulles – Secretary of State)
Third World
Bi-polar world, all disputes viewed through lens of Cold War…”you are either with us or against us.”
Covert Operations
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) engineered pro-American political coups

7. Continuation of Containment
Korea ( )
Iran (1953)
Guatemala (1954)
Vietnam (1954)
Suez Canal (1956)
Hungary (1956)
U2 Spy Plane (1960)

8. Ike’s Foreign Policy Legacy
Containment policy continues…
Heightened arms race; “nuclear supremacy”
Third World resentment builds
Rise of Military-Industrial Complex
Close cooperation between military and defense industries
Space Race was on after Sputnik launch
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)