1. Chapter 26 Section 1 Postwar America Riddlebarger
The Eisenhower Era
Chapter 26
Section 1
Postwar America
Riddlebarger

2. The Election of 1952 Stevenson (D) vs. Eisenhower (R)
22nd Amendment passed in 1951
Truman decision
Stevenson (D) vs. Eisenhower (R)
“Ike” critical of war effort
American perception of Ike

4. Eisenhower/Nixon Elected

5. Eisenhower’s Cold War policies
Ike & Korea.
John Foster Dulles
Change in foreign policy

6. Brinksmanship Build more nuclear weapons Brinksmanship policy
rationale
Brinksmanship policy
Massive Retaliation
MAD

7. Arms Race stockpile & experiment with new weapons Hydrogen Bomb–
Impact of Soviets getting H-bomb
ICBM’s (missiles)

9. Space Race Begins Soviets launch first artificial satellite- Sputnik
Concern in America that Soviets are passing us by.
Education impact
We establish NASA

10. The Warsaw Pact forms 1955: Soviets establish Warsaw Pact
Soviet dominated E. Europe.
Collective security
Soviet actions
NATO vs. Warsaw Pact

11. Central Intelligence Agency
Formed in 1947
Purpose?
Increasingly active in 1950’s.
Covert
Guatemala and Iran.

13. Television Age Television popularity grows after WW2
5 million sets in homes in USA between
By 1959, 40 million homes have at least one.
Impact upon politics, advertising, children, culture.

14. Post-war growth of suburbs in America Interstate Highway System
New Communities
Post-war growth of suburbs in America
Why? (P )
Who?
U.S. population shifts
Interstate Highway System
Eisenhower administration starts it in 1956.