CHAPTER OUTLINE

Rise of Eisenhower Election of 1952 Appeal of Ike Adlai Stevenson Ike’s background and personality Army career Warmth and unpretentiousness The early Eisenhower administration Appointments Dynamic conservatism Some New Deal programs cut Reconstruction Finance Corporation Wage and price controls Some New Deal programs extended Social Security Minimum wage Health care Housing Public works St. Lawrence Seaway Interstate highways Armistice in Korea Ike’s bold stand Reasons for settlement End to McCarthyism McCarthy’s tactics McCarthy and the army Senate condemnation Internal security worries Foreign policy in the first term Dulles and foreign policy Dulles’s background Idea of liberation Massive retaliation Brinksmanship Problems in Indochina Background to war Nationalism in Asia French control Ho Chi Minh and independence First Indochina war Outbreak of fighting American aid Ike’s domino theory Geneva Accords French defeat Provisions of the agreement Creation of SEATO Government of Diem Need for reform Opposition suppressed Foreign crises in the second administration Election of 1956 Eisenhower’s health Stevenson defeated again The Suez crisis Eisenhower’s Middle East policy Rise of Nasser in Egypt Offer and withdrawal of loan Nasser’s seizure of Suez Israeli invasion Resolution of crisis The Hungarian revolt De-Stalinization Hungarian revolt Soviet repression Sputnik The Soviet feat American reactions U.S. space effort Deployment of missiles Creation of NASA National Defense Education Act Persisting problems Middle East Eisenhower Doctrine Troops to Lebanon Soviet pressure on Berlin U-2 Summit Cuba Castro’s takeover American responses The early civil rights movement Eisenhower’s views of civil rights Court decisions Decisions preliminary to Brown The Brown decision Reactions to Brown Ike’s reluctance Token compliance Massive resistance Citizens’ Councils Southern Manifesto Montgomery bus boycott Causes for action Role of Martin Luther King, Jr. Results Civil rights legislation Little Rock Court order Governor Faubus Federal intervention Assessing the Eisenhower years Accomplishments Farewell address