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Objectives: Students will be able to..(1) explain Eisenhower's politics (2) define

Brinksmanship

Homework: Study for Quiz on 26.3 & 26.4

Eisenhower’s “New Look”

• Eisenhower – Elected in 1952• Believed Truman’s policy

wasn’t working• Soviets had A-bomb• Consolidated Eastern

European hold• China Communist• American troops in Korean

War

• Republican – Defeated Adlai Stevenson (Democrat from Illinois)

• Organized D-Day invasion

“More bang for the Buck”

• Key to Winning – Not simply military, but strong economy• Show the world Free Enterprise

made a better society• Prevent subversion

• Scaled back army – Ramped up atomic weapons in all forms• A LOT OF YOU SAID THIS

ABOUT DROPPING THE BOMB ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI! MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE PRESIDENTS?

Massive Retaliation• Korean War – Showed

couldn’t contain Comm. With small wars• Unpopular & Expensive

• Prevent from happening in first place• Threaten use of Nukes if

Commie nations tried to seize territory by force (Massive Retaliation)• Cut $50 bill. to $34 bill.• 1,00 bombs (1953) –

18,000 bombs (1961)

The Sputnik Crisis• New technology needed to

deliver• B-52 – Travel across continents• ICBM’s (Intercontinental Ballistic

Missiles) • Submarines• http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=GwHZsiDZzDU

• Soviets launch Sputnik (Artificial Satellite)• 1958 – NASA created (Nat.

Aeronautics & Space Admin.)• National Defense Education

Act (NDEA) – funds for education in math, science, and foreign language.

Brinksmanship – Going to the edge

• Willing to threaten nukes for peace worried some people

• “ You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the edge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art…If you try and run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We’ve had to look it square in the face…we walked to the bring and we looked it in the face. We took strong action”

- John Foster Dulles

Brinksmanship in Korea• Promised to end Korea in

campaign• Talked with commanders – Too

many lives and too few victories• US Hinted nuclear attack on

China• It worked…

• July 1953 – Armistice signed• Demilitarized zone (DMZ)

between North and South created • No victory, but containment

Covert Action• Brinksmanship wouldn’t always

work• Couldn’t prevent revolutions

• Covert, or hidden, operations used• Conduced by Central Intelligence

Agency (CIA)

• Conducted in developing nations (nations with primarily agricultural economies)

• US feared rebellion and siding with Soviets

• Covert operations to overthrow governments

Your task• Working with a partner, outline how

Eisenhower used Brinksmanship and Covert missions for the events on the chart.

• Be prepared to discuss…

REMINDER….

QUIZ TOMORROW ON 26.3 & 26.4