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Eisenhower ID

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Dwight Eisenhower
President after Truman
Supreme Commander of NATO
President of Columbia University
Smoked 4 packs a day
Crohn's Disease
Stroke
"The General"
Supported Executive order #9981 (wanted a stronger military)
Campaign: "Korea, Communism, & Corruption)
Korea- go to Korea & End War
Communism- stop spread
Corruption- End corruption at home
Richard Nixon
The vice president for Eisenhower (Eisenhower had no political experience, so he took over)
From California
Ho Chi Minh
Leader of Communist North Vietnam
Rosa Parks
Sat down on a bus (near the front) and refused to move to the back
Results in arrest and a $10 fine
J. Foster Dulles
Eisenhower's secretary of state
Organized UN
Fidel Castro
Leader of revolution in Cuba (overthrew Batista government)
Becomes communist dictator of Cuba
Elvis Presley
Integrated African American tunes into his music
Earl Warren
Chief Justice of Supreme Court
Looked into Brown vs Board of Education
Through Judicial Activism (supreme court will solve issues if no one else will) schools should be desegregated
Because there is no time frame, many schools did not desegregate (making it a fail for now)
Shah Reza Pahlavi
Through Operation Ajax, Mohammed Mossadeq was removed and he was installed.
Removed by the people when forcing Western values into their culture.
Emmitt Till
Lynched while on vacation in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman
Men who committed this were arrested but then found innocent by an all white jury
Nikita Khruschev
Leader of USSR
Visits US in 1960
Went to Disneyland, Washington D.C., and Pittsburgh
Orval Faubus
Governor who orders national guard to prevent 9 "Negro" students from entering Little Rock High School
Eisenhower send National guard to protect the students and allow them in
School is cancelled for one year and then integrated the next
Linda Brown
8 year old girl
Had to walk 2 miles to go to a "Black School" (a white school is closer-½ mile away)
Led to Brown vs Board of Education
Through Judicial Activism (supreme court will solve issues if no one else will) schools should be desegregated
Because there is no time frame, many schools did not desegregate (making it a fail for now)
Francis Gary Powers
Crashed spy plane into USSR
Placed in Soviet prison
Jonas Salk
From Pittsburgh (and opened NAI)
Created Polio vaccine
Headquarters at University of Pittsburgh
First dose given to 2 million children ages 6-9
Adlai Stevenson
Democrat from Illinois in election of 1952/1956
"The Egghead"
Did not support Executive order #9981 (gained favor in South)
Joseph McCarthy
Senator from Wisconsin
Led the Red Scare
Needed to get reelected in 1948, so he made a speech claiming that there are 205 (numbers vary) communist State Department members.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Due to the incident with Rosa Parks, he organizes a boycott by speaking at churches
He was arrested and held for 2 weeks, but boycott continued for 381 days
Boycott resulted in allowing riders to sit where they want and city slowly integrated
Thurgood Marshall
First African American Justice on the Supreme Court
Rejected from a good law school due to race
Ngo Dinh Diem
Leader of Nationalist South Vietnam
Catholic from New Jersey
Wants a catholic country, so he prohibits Buddhism
Gamal Abdul Nasser
Egyptian President
Needed $1 million to build a Aswan High Dam
US did not give money, so USSR did
Israel, UK, and France invaded Egypt (and take Gaza Strip and West Bank)
USSR threatens to help Egypt, so US makes them leave by denying the sale of oil to allies (last time US can use oil as leverage in the world)
John Steinbeck
Wrote the Grapes of Wrath
J. D Salinger
Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Arthur Miller
Wrote the Crucible about communism
Was suspected of being communist, so he had to go to hearings
Mohammed Mossadeq
Leader of Iran before Shah Reza Pahlavi
Korean War was still ongoing during the Eisenhower Presidency (Started during Truman)
Eisenhower threatened to use nuclear weapons to end the war
Resulted in a ceasefire, but the war is technically not over
Proudest Achievement of Eisenhower (evaded a war)
Korea (tie)
Fall of Dien Bien Phu
French occupied the valley, but then during the battle of Dien Bien Phu, France chose the wrong tactics and was outnumbered to Vietnam
US paid 80% of French costs during war ($8 billion)
Allies set up Geneva Conference to split Vietnam at 17th parallel
North: Communist with leader Ho Chi Minh
South : Nationalist with Diem
Domino theory application- if Laos falls, Communism spreads
Vietnam (loss)
Becomes communist in 1959
Revolution led by Fidel Castro to overthrow Batista government
Makes close relations with USSR
Tourism to Cuba stopped, so people went to Las Vegas instead
Cuba (loss)
Treaty between US and USSR to fly over each country
Problem- USSR does not have air force that can reach US
Open Skies Initiative (win)
USSR launches first satellite to orbit Earth (they won the space race)
US responds by forming NASA (unify space program for US) and NDEA (National Defense Education Act- US pays billions for education in math, science, and foreign languages)
Sputnik (loss)
US spy plane crashes into USSR
US denies knowledge
Khrushchev provides evidence during Paris Conference
Ices relations between US and USSR
U-2 Incident (loss)
Wanted to nationalize oil fields
After Mossadeq was kicked out (Operation Ajax), Shah Reza Pahlavi arrived and tried to teach Pro-Western values
Shah will be removed in a revolution later due to the cultural rejection of the West
Iran (win- for now)
Second instance of CIA involvement
Overthrew Arbenz government
Chiquita Bananas- land taken away from CIA business (win- we got bananas)
Guatemala (win)
President: Nasser
Needed $1 million to build a Aswan High Dam
US did not give money, so USSR did
Israel, UK, and France invaded Egypt (and take Gaza Strip and West Bank)
USSR threatens to help Egypt, so US makes them leave by denying the sale of oil to allies (last time US can use oil as leverage in the world)
Egypt (Suez Crisis- tie)
US 7th Fleet blockade is lifted
In order to let Chiang invade China
China attacks Quemoy and Matsu with artillery
Mutual Defense Pact- 7th Fleet patrols East Asia
Formosa Resolution- US defends Taiwan from Chinese invasion (China backs down)
China (win)
US failure of Massive Retaliation
Hungary revolts USSR and withdraws from Warsaw Pact
Hungary then asks for US help (Eisenhower does not help)
"Nuclear sledgehammer is too big"
USSR Conquest of Hungary (loss)
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