Eisenhower and the
Cold War
Presidential Election of 1952
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Civil Rights in late
1950s
1948 Truman desegregates the military
1950 Thurgood Marshall attorney for NAACP
(Sweatt v. Painter)
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren “judicial
activism” why?
1954 Brown v Board of Education (1896 Plessy v
Ferguson) all deliberate speed
1955 Emmett Till
1955 Rosa Parks
Civil Rights in late
1950s
•1956 Montogmery Bus
Boycott
•1956 “Massive Resistance” South’s “Declaration of Constitutional
Principles”
•1957 Little Rock Arkansas
•1957 Civil Rights Act - estb. Civil Rights Commission
•1957 Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC)
•1960 Greensboro Sit-In at Woolworth’s counter
•1960 Student Non-Violent Coordinating
•Committee (SNCC)
•Wanted to balance federal
budget
•Guard against “creeping
socialism”
• Slow military build up
• Curb TVA
• No free Salk vaccine
• Operation Wetback
• Cancel Indian New Deal
• Legitimatized Social Security,
unemployment insurance
• Interstate Highway Act
• Business recessions
• Union of CIO and AFL unions
• Geneva Convention w/ Krushev
and “open skies” except for U2
Cold War Foreign Policy Terms
President
Sec. of State
Term
Truman
Acheson
Containment
Eisenhower
Dulles
Massive Retaliation
MAD
Strategic Air Command
Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Flexible Response
Early Vietnam
• Indochina
• Ho Chi Minh
•1954 Dienbienphu French
lines crumble
• Geneva conference set
17th parallel until free
elections held
• Eisenhower sends
economic and military aid
17th parallel
More Crises in the Cold
War
Hungary 1956
Suez Canal
Crisis (Nasser of
Egypt) 1956
UN police
Oil policy shift
Eisenhower
Doctrine 1957
Iran overthrow - install the Shah 1953
Presidential Election of 1956
Sputnik 1957
NDEA - National Defense
and Education Act
Cuba’s Castroism = Communism
It is all about the sugar
Educated Cuban refugees to
Florida
Election of 1960