EISENHOWER’S FOREIGN POLICY AND HIS LEGACY

How was the United States responding to an unstable postwar world when JFK became president in 1961?

KOREAN WAR

• 54,000 Americans dead• Billions of $$$ spent• Korea remained divided

at the 38th parallel with Communism in the North and Western ideologies in the South.

• The United States has to be satisfied that they “contained” communism

A NEW FOREIGN POLICY“POLICY OF BOLDNESS”

• Secretary of State: John Foster Dulles said the United States should “liberate captive peoples”

• Build up airfleet of superbombers called the Strategic Air Command (SAC) USAF Cold War command and control of land-based strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles

• How is Truman’s containment policy different than Eisenhower’s boldness policy? (How is containing communism different than liberating people from communism?)

• What are the implications (effects on) for foreign policy?

TURN & TALK

• Read the source aloud with your table partner.

– Lens: What is the U.S. foreign policy in the 1950’s and why?

• What are the threats to national security in 1958?

– Threats to national security in 1958 are…

• Why is science and technology important in the cold war age?

– Science and technology are important in the cold war age because…

SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS FROM EISENHOWER

• The government policies (laws, foreign policy)and monetary relationships which exist between legislators, national armed forces, and the military industrial base (companies that make/supply the military) that supports them.

• These relationships include political contributions, political approval for military spending, lobbying, government contracts, etc…

• Mutually beneficial to be in conflict…

MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

• What does Eisenhower warn against in his Farewell Address? BE SPECIFIC AND EXPLAIN IN YOUR OWN WORDS

http://youtu.be/CWiIYW_fBfY

EISENHOWER’S FAREWELL ADDRESS

How was the United States responding to an unstable postwar world when JFK became president in 1961?

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