1. President Dwight D. Eisenhower

2. Domestic Issues Balancing the budget was top domestic priority
Economy prospers due to:
Expand Social Security
Raise minimum wage
Huge amounts of capital
Eager to spend on consumer goods
Americans had the highest standard of living
Interstate Highway System
42,000 miles of highway
Suburbanization
T.V. became the leader of entertainment
Civil Rights era

3. Eisenhower Foreign Policy
Most of Eisenhower’s foreign policy decisions were made by secretary of state John Foster Dulles
Massive Retaliation (M.A.D.) was Eisenhower’s Foreign Policy Plan
Containment was too passive
The U.S. would use everything in its nuclear arsenal to halt any aggressive acts that they felt threatened the security of the U.S.
Dulles said the U.S. would push the Soviets to the brink of war—”Brinkmanship”
His theory was that it would save money

4. Foreign Policy in Asia Domino Theory
If one Southeast Asian country falls to communism then they all will
SEATO
Southeast Asian Treaty Organization
Pakistan, Thailand, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand would be aided by the U.S. and Great Britain in stopping the spread of communism

5. OPEC
1960-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran and Venezuela create the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

6. USSR-US cont.
1957—SPUTNIK, creates the national defense and education act which gave millions to schools for science programs
1958-NASA launched by Congress
1960-U2 spy plane shot down by the Soviets

7. Cuba Fidel Castro overthrows Fulgencio Batista (’59)
Castro nationalized American owned businesses
Plan for the Bay of Pigs starts under Eisenhower

9. “Military Industrial Complex”

10. Blacks during Ike’s Presidency
Blacks segregated in schools and Prohibited from voting
Brown vs. Board (’54) ruled that separate facilities are inherently unequal and that schools should integrate with deliberate speed
’56 Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National guard to prohibit blacks from entering
Ike sends in National Guard to integrate (Little Rock 9)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in 1955
Her arrest sparks a year long bus boycott which in turn results in the S.C. ruling that segregation laws are unconstitutional.
Civil Rights Laws ’57 and ’60 provided for a permanent Civil Rights Commission and the Justice power rights to protect blacks

11. Governor Orval Faubus announcing he will not let him the “Little Rock 9” enter Central High

12. Nonviolence
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)—MLK Jr. organizes ministers and churches to help with civil rights legislation
a. Sit ins—Woolworths lunch counters
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee continues the sit-ins