the eisenhower era
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| 715587837 | Massive Retaliation | ~Part of John Foster Dulles Rollback idea to rollback communism ~The threat that any nuclear action would result in massive response | |
| 715587838 | John Foster Dulles | ~Went beyond policy of containment and rolled back communism ~Proposed cutting back on military spending but focusing on building nuclear weapon carrying bombers ~Massive retaliation ~Deterrence- convincing an army to not attack ~Policy increased stakes of Cold War | |
| 715587839 | Nikita Khrushchev | ~Stalins successor ~Supported peaceful existence in the west | |
| 715587840 | Ho Chi Minh | ~Vietnamese leader ~Tried to appeal Woodrow Wilson for self determination in 1919 ~Thought FDR would be sympathetic towards Vietnam ~Started getting more and more communist | |
| 715587841 | Warsaw Pact | ~Formed by Russia to balance NATO ~Military alliance for the defense of the communistic states of Easter Europe | |
| 715587842 | Eisenhower Doctrine | ~Promised the U.S to help middle east if they were threatened by communism ~However, communism wasnt the real threat, nationalism and power of oil was | |
| 715587843 | John Kenneth Galbraith | ~Harvard economist ~Wrote the Affluent Society ~Saw a problem between the rich and affluent society despite public problems such as polluted air and garbage | |
| 715587844 | David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd | ~Showed conformity in the Eisenhower era | |
| 715587845 | OPEC | ~Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran linked with Venezuela to form Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ~Major headache for AmericaSNCC | |
| 715587846 | SNCC | ~Student Non voilent Coordinating Committee ~Organized efforts for black students ~Part of civil rights movement | |
| 715587847 | Sit in Movements | ~Black students protested segregated lunch counters by sitting at white only counters ~They wouldnt get served, but it shut down counters until the policy was changed ~Part of civil rights movement | |
| 715587848 | SCLC | ~Southern Christian Leadership Conference ~Organized black churches ~Formed by Martin Luther King Jr. ~Part of civil rights movement | |
| 715587849 | Geneva Conference | ~Split Vietnam in half at the 17th parallel ~North Vietnam went communist, South Vietnam was lead by Ngo Dinh Diem and was non communist ~Spirit of this conference encouraged an ease in tensions | |
| 716216958 | Modern Republicanism | ~Started by Eisenhower and administration ~Liberal in fiscal and domestic affairs, conservative in global affairs ~Lower taxes, smaller government and more state power ~Eisenhower, Ford, and Reagan were 3 modern republicans | |
| 716216959 | South East Asia Treaty | ~Created to block communist gains in Southeast Asia ~Created by the Manila Pact ~Considered a failure because internal conflict and dispute hindered the use of the SEATO military ~Funded cultural and educational programs that left had lasting effects | |
| 716216960 | Hungarian Revolt | ~October 1956- uprising overthrew a government backed by Moscow ~Government was then liberal and wanted to pull Hungary out of Warsaw Pact ~Khrushchev sent in tanks to crush freedom and take over Hungary ~U.S was scared to enter in fear it would start another world war | |
| 716216961 | Beatniks | ~A group of rebellious writers ~Led by Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg ~Advocated spontaneity, use of drugs, and rebellion against social standards | |
| 716216962 | Highway Act 1956 | ~authorized the construction of 42,000 miles of interstate highways linking all the nations major cities ~Became a model for the rest of the world | |
| 716216963 | Suez Canal Crisis | ~Egypt asked for funds to build the Aswan Dam on the Nile River ~U.S refused to agree, so they went to the Soviet Union for help ~Soviets provided a little money, but not enough so they seized and nationalized the British and French owned Suez Canal for more funds ~The loss of this canal threatened Western Europe's supply line to Middle Eastern Oil ~Britain, France, and Israel attacked Egypt and took canal again | |
| 716216964 | Domino Theory | ~If South Vietnam fell under communist control, one nation after another in Southeast Asia would fall, until Australia and New Zealand were in the danger | |
| 716216965 | Brinkmanship | ~Practice of pushing dangerous events the the verge of disaster to achieve the most advantageous outcome ~International policies, labor relations, nuclear weapons |
