| A | B |
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| Dwight Eisenhower | war hero; commanding general of all allied forces; president from 1952-1960 |
| What was the most important issue Eisenhower faced? | Desegregation in the south |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | "undid" Plessy vs. Ferguson; supreme court ruled that segregation int he public schools was unequal |
| Test Case | Little Rock High School, Arkansas; the president had to order federal troops into the high school to implement the supreme court order |
| What were some of the issue for Eisenhower dealing with foreign policy? | Vietnam, American Involvement, Warsaw Pact, The Eisenhower Doctrine, U-2 incident, and Cuba (Communist Revolution) |
| F.P. - Vietnam | It was separated into two parts - north:Ho Chi Minh - south:President Ngo Dinh Diem, pro-democratic leader |
| F.P. - American Involvement | When we first began to give military and economic aid to the south |
| F.P. - Warsaw Pact | Agreement between Eastern European nations and the Soviet Union; a communist counterweight to the newly created forces int he west |
| F.P. - The Eisenhower Doctrine | pledged United States military and economic aid to middle eastern nations treatened by communist agression |
| F.P. - The U-2 Incident | Worst diplomatic event in E's term; and American spy plane was shot down over the U.S.S.R; this was when E was about to ahve a meeting with Nikita Krushov; Becuase of this Nikita canceled the meeting |
| F.P. - Cuba (Communist Revolution) | led by Fidel Castro; led revolution against director; 90 miles off of the florida coast |
| Massive Retaliation | Combat the soviet threat "plane for plane, missile for missile"; began to see buildup of our military forces |
| Military-Industrial Complex | the military needed the military equipment and the leaders of industry were willing to do that; the more the military demanded the more we would supply |
| Sputnik | First Russian Soviet satellite |
