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| CHAPTER 33 | CONFLICT AND DEADLOCK: THE EISENHOWER YEARS | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1952 |
Eisenhower elected |
| May 1954 |
Fall of Dien Bien Phu |
| May 1954 |
Brown v. Board of Education |
| July 1954 |
Geneva Accords signed |
| September 1954 |
SEATO created |
| December 1954 |
McCarthy condemned by the Senate |
| December 1955–December 1956 |
Montgomery bus boycott |
| October 1956 |
Suez crisis (and Hungarian revolt) |
| September 1957 |
Little Rock High School crisis |
| October 1957 |
Sputnik launched |
| May 1960 |
U-2 incident |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Describe Eisenhower’s style and his approach to the nation’s problems.
- Assess the nature of modern Republicanism in relation to New Deal
liberalism, focusing especially on Eisenhower’s stance on key domestic
legislation.
- Evaluate the early performance of Dulles’s diplomacy, especially as
compared to the policy of containment.
- Explain the origins of the Indochina War and assess Eisenhower’s response
to it.
- Account for the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian revolt, their interrelations
and their consequences.
- Evaluate the impact of Sputnik.
- Discuss the developments in civil rights in the Eisenhower era and assess
his responses to them.
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