Chapter
XXXVIII: The Eisenhower Era
REVISED
- What factors
account for Eisenhower's election to the presidency in 1952 and 1956?
- Why did Joseph McCarthy's demagoguery find such fertile ground in Cold War America?
- How is it that
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas failed to end segregation
in the
South? - For what reasons did the Montgomery Bus Boycott become such an important step in the Civil Rights struggles of the '50's and '60's?
- How did Ike view New Deal programs? What did he do about them?
- How did John Foster Dulles modify Dean Acheson's foreign policy? What kinds of problems did his new approach run into?
- How did Dien
Bien Phu become one of the most important battles in American History
even
though Americans didn't take part in it? - How did G.A. Nassar's seizure of the Suez Canal precipitate a crisis that endangered NATO?
- What was Sputnik? What kinds of changes did its appearance precipitate in the United States? What did it have to do with SMSG mathematics and Blue Biology?
- How did Gary Francis Powers embarrass Ike and the State Department in 1960?
- What accounts for the high voter interest in the 1960 presidential election?
- What accounts for J. F. Kennedy's victory in the 1960 presidential election?
- In the 1960's
through the 1980's historians tended to rate Ike as a mediocre president.
Over the
last decade or so his reputation has gradually improved. What explains the historical view of Ike, and to what extent is the improvement of his reputation justified? - Of all the changes in "culture of the Fifties," which had the most significant impact on the way Americans lived their lives? Why?
- Identify
- Adlai Stevenson
- the Checkers speech
- Robert Welch
- John Birch Society
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- SNCC
- SCLC
- Thurgood Marshall
- Emmet Till
- Rosa Parks
- Stokeley Carmichael
- Orville Faubus
- Ho Chi Minh
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Mao Zedong
- Jiang Jieshi
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- Elvis
- Marilyn
- Hugh Hefner
- Roy Kroc
