Eisenhower Adm.

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  Eisenhower is the first republican in office ever since Hoover. Prioritizes big business. His brand of republicanism was called modern republicanism.
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  We’re in a period of transition during Eisenhower’s administration. U.S. used to be the “making country” but now new businesses are opened that are more service based rather than production based. Our main job provider now is in the service industry.
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  Almost everyone has a car at this point because it facilitates transportation in the suburbs. Drive-in movies, drive-thru, shopping malls, and other far away attractions are more popular now that cars are more common.
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  The Interstate Highway Act was passed in 1956 and allowed the government to map out a highway of 42,000 miles that would connect various major cities and towns. Eisenhower put money into this act to make it possible for faster transportation.
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  Highways allowed for tanks to move across the city quickly in the case of an attack from other countries. Job bloomed from the need to build these highways. However, building this highway will endanger the environment and the economy.
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  The use of cars and planes harms the environment and our finances. Using trains and subways is much better for the environment however today we don’t have as much access to those forms of transit as people did in the 1950s.
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  His presidency is seen as a great administration, mainly because of the economic boom that occurred. Unfortunately, he produces the largest mass deportation in history, known as Operation Wetback, in which the government targets 1.3 million Mexican-American people, both documented and not documented.
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  Eisenhower was mainly focused on the Cold War, hence his passing of the Highway Act to make transportation of tanks and military vehicles faster.
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  John Foster Dulles- His foreign policy consisted of these extreme methods:

  Brinkmanship: to make people afraid that we’re about to go to war and keep them on edge.

  Massive Retaliation: want people to think that if at any minute they bother us, we’ll blow them up.
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  The Suez Crisis- The Suez Canal eases shipping but it is small and not as efficient as the Panama Canal. Egypt wanted to improve the canal but didn’t have the tools for it so President Nasser uses the US and Russian rivalry to his advantage. He also wants to build a dam in the Nile to provide power and electricity to people in need.
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  President Nasser- went to the US and was given a quote of how much it would cost Egypt to get help for the Suez Canal, then took that quote to the Soviet Union to get a better deal. The US finds out and backs out of the deal, Nasser gets mad and nationalizes the entire Suez Canal to prevent the US from using it.
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  US gas prices skyrocket because of President Nasser blocking them off the Suez Canal, but we have oil and other resources. However, other countries need to use the Canal, such as France. France and one other country go to Israel to convince them to invade the Sinai Peninsula.
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  Great Britain and France want the Suez Canal back, Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula which provoke Egypt to declare war. The US starts receiving calls asking to join the British and French side, but the US doesn’t want to support them. Great Britain and France tell Israel to pull out of the Sinai.
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  Egypt feels unprotected so they head to the Soviet Union to create an alliance between them.

  OPEC is created (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) which includes Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, and Venezuela. Could operate as a cartel, which is bad for the US.
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  US sees something in the air, thought it was a bomb but it was a space thing from the Soviet Union. Russia sent Sputnik 1 and 2 up in space. The US now wants to put things in space too.
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  Nikita Khrushchev puts these things in space, seen as something like a threat in the eyes of the US. The US creates NASA (Nat’l Aeronautics & Space Administration) and the Nat’l Defense Education Act to explore space and teach people to go to space.
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  Russia sent the first living creature (poor doggy Laika) in space and the first man in space, however US sent the first man to the MOON.
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  The world watches a meeting between Eisenhower and Khrushchev, two rivals in a major meeting. Poland protests for better work money and access, Khrushchev accepts. Students in Hungary protest for education stuff and free speech, Khrushchev kills them.
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  Russia sees a spy plane in the sky with an American inside and shoots it.

  U-2: Russia and US meets, Khrushchev asks Eisenhower if he was spying on the Soviet Union and Eisenhower just says “yep.”