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1 Eisenhower Loose Ends A.P. U.S. History

2 “Moderate Republicanism”
-social security extended -minimum wage raised -additional public housing built -consolidated welfare programs -first woman in a Republican cabinet -Interstate Highway System

3 -1945-1960 - per capita disposable income of Americans tripled
-mid-1950s - average American family had twice the real income of a comparable family during boom of the 20s -federal deficit fell in relation to national wealth

4 Eisenhower’s Foreign Policy
Sec of State - John Foster Dulles -experienced diplomat -criticized Truman’s containment -”Brinkmanship” -moderated by Ike

5 Third World Unrest What is “Third World”? -India, Pakistan, Ghana
Why all the unrest? -India, Pakistan, Ghana

6 Covert Action Iran - restored shah Guatemala

7 Asia -Korean Armistice -Fall of Indochina
-Division of Vietnam - 17th parallel -SEATO

8 The Middle East -Suez Crisis -Eisenhower Doctrine -OPEC
-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela

9 “Spirit of Geneva” -1955 summit between Ike and Bulganin
-open skies proposal -Khrushchev - peaceful coexistence

10 Other Cold War Flare-Ups
-Hungary leave Warsaw Pact? -Sputnik -2nd Berlin Crisis -”We will bury capitalism” -Camp David invitation -scheduled another summit -U-2 Incident Who buried who?

11 Legacy of Eisenhower grandfatherly overseer of a “passive generation”?
hidden hand approach to leadership? oversaw social postwar reconstruction?

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