Answer these Questions
1. Who was Eisenhower’s Vice President?
2. What approach did Eisenhower follow in
dealing with domestic policy?
3. Name the agency in charge of the space
program.
4. What is the domino theory?
5. Name three foreign policy challenges
that the Eisenhower administration
faced.
Eisenhower in the White
House
Eisenhower
• President Eisenhower
promoted policies to
compete with the
Soviet Union for
military and space
leadership.
Republican Revival
• Republicans selected
Dwight D. Eisenhower
for their Presidential
ticket.
• Richard M. Nixon was
selected for the VicePresidential ticket.
November 1952
• Americans elected
Eisenhower to the
presidency in a
landslide victory.
• People called him Ike
and they trusted him.
• His military status
made people feel
secure and safe, and
this attracted many
voters.
Domestic Policy
• Eisenhower followed a
moderate or middle-ofthe-road approach
• He described himself as
conservative when it
came to money but liberal
when it came to human
beings.
• He wanted to decrease
the size of the Federal
Government.
• He supported economic
policies aimed at limiting
the government spending
and encouraged private
enterprise.
• He removed the wage
and price controls.
• He transferred
financial matters to
the states and made
cuts in government
spending.
• There was a surplus
or excess of 300
million in the federal
budget when
Eisenhower left office.
The Nation Expands
• Congress passed the Federal
Highway Act funding the
construction of more than
40,000 miles of interstates in
1956.
• This is considered the greatest
domestic program of
Eisenhower’s presidency.
• The highway program spurred
the nation’s economy,
automobile production, oil
industries, and improved military
mobility in case of attack.
• Alaska and Hawaii became part
of the United States of America
in 1959.
Foreign Policy Challenges
• Crisis in the Middle East :
– Fighting breaks out in Egypt
when their president takes
control of the Suez Canal from
the British. Britain and France
feared that Egypt would close
the canal and cut off oil
shipments to Europe. Britain,
France, and Israel hoped to
overthrow the Egyptian
government and take control
of the canal. When the
Soviets threatened rocket
attacks on cities in Britain and
France, the three nations
pulled out of Egypt.
• Uprising in Hungary
• War in Southeast Asia
– Eisenhower believed if
just one nation in Asia
fell to the Communists,
others would also fall.
This would create a
danger called the
domino effect.
– U.S. helped create
Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization to help
stop the spread of
Communism.
U.S.-Soviet Relations
• Rivalry between the US
and the Soviets was at
the center of American
Foreign Policy during the
1950s.
• Eisenhower’s
administration proposed a
new policy – if the Soviet
Union attacked any
nation, the U.S. would
launch a massive
retaliation or instant
attacks using nuclear
weapons.
The Arms Race
• The policy of massive
retaliation, and the
Soviet’s efforts to counter
it, produced a nuclear
arms race.
• Both nations built more
and more weaponsdestructive hydrogen
bombs which were more
powerful than atomic
bombs.
• The guided missiles
developed were capable
of delivering nuclear
warheads.
• Intermediate range
missiles and ballistic
missiles (IRBMs) could
reach targets up to
1,500 miles.
• Intercontinental ballistic
missiles (ICBMs) had a
range of thousands of
miles.
The Cold War
• 1957 – Soviets sent first
artificial satellite into space. It
was called Sputnik.
• Soviets launched second
satellite a month later.
• Americans feared that we were
lagging behind the Soviets and
that the Soviets would be able
to launch atomic weapons from
space.
• U.S. tried to launch Vanguard,
its own space satellite, but
failed.
• The rocket rose a few feet
above the launching pad and
exploded.
The U-2 Incident
• American pilots flew high
altitude spy planes over
Soviet territory to
photograph nuclear sites
and military bases.
• Soviets shot down a U-2
plane and captured the
pilot.
• Khrushchev denounced
the U.S. for invading
Soviet airspace.
• The Cold War continues.
The Space Race
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• The U.S. developed its own
space program called NASA
(National Aeronautics and
Space Administration).
• U.S. launched its first satellite
in July, 1958.
• Project Mercury was the
nation’s first program to put
and astronaut in space.
• Today, rather than a race, the
U.S. and the Soviets work side
by side in the exploration of
space aboard the Mir Space
Station.
Answer these Questions
1. Who was Eisenhower’s Vice President?
2. What approach did Eisenhower follow in
dealing with domestic policy?
3. Name the agency in charge of the space
program.
4. What is the domino theory?
5. Name three foreign policy challenges
that the Eisenhower administration
faced.
Wheel Organizer
Trace this circle onto
your paper and label
the sections. Then
follow the directions to
complete the organizer.
•
Look in Chapter 28,
Section 1 in your book.
•
Find key terms and
ideas in each section.
•
Place terms or ideas
under the correct
heading on the wheel
organizer
Republican Revival