Dwight Eisenhower

DwightEisenhower

Chapter 28 1952

* 30 yrs. In military

* Bonus Army

* led American, British & Canadian troops in Africa

•D-Day Invasion in France

(Truman doesn’t run for another term)

Federal Highway Act 40,000 miles of highway 1956

Eisenhower wanted to make the government “smaller rather than bigger.”

When President Eisenhower left office (1961) the federal budget had a surplus of excess of $300 million dollars….Today we are in debt 14 trillion dollars

Hawaii (Aug) and Alaska(Jan.)became a state in 1959.

Arms Race???*missiles

*hydrogen bombsBoth nations built more weapons

People prepared by building air-raid shelters in basements & backyards…schools had air raid drills

The Space RaceInternational Space Station

Sputnik – World’s first artificial satellite - 1957

Vanguard 1 –Belonged to the U.S. and exploded a few feet off the launch pad

NASA: National Aeronautics & Space Administration….

Successfully launched Explorer…1958

Project Mercury was the 1st US program to put an astronaut in space

Apollo 11 landed the first man on the moon…1969

Cuba – Fidel Castro 1959

*seizes property

*close ties with Soviets

Domino Theory“You have a row of dominoes set up. You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.” Eisenhower

Stalin dies…In 1953

Brief Thaw

Nikita Khrushhev

Summit:A meeting of heads of government..After the Geneva summit a policy of “peaceful coexistence” immerged.

1. Both want ease of tensions2. Summit between heads of government

(1955)3. Disarmament discussed/German

unification4. Krushchev comes to U.S. (1959)5. Paris, 19606. Frances Powers/May 1960/brief thaw over

1960

President Eisenhower gave his Farewell Address in 1961

1950’s Prosperity

Section 2

A growing economy….. 1945-1960 Why????

Korean War Technology Higher

Incomes

The Baby Boom*Great Depression*War times

*Higher incomes gave it a boost

Moving to the suburbs!!!

17,000 identical house built for mass production Levittown-Long Island

T r a v e l

Home Inventions*dishwashers*washing machines*televisions*stereos*synthetic clothing

An American Culture

*Billy Graham*Norman V. Peale*Fulton J. Sheen*Joshua Loth Liebman

“Bring the whole family to church”“A family that prays together stays together”

Mickey Mouse Club

I Love Lucy

Leave it to Beaver

ElvisKing of Rock & Roll

Problems in a time of plenty

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