Eisenhowers Foreign Policy

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Eisenhowers Foreign Policy

• Cold War Continues
• Asia
• Middle East
• Latin America
• Soviet Union

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Eisenhower 1952-1960
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Nikita Khrushchev 1955-1964
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Cold War Continues

• Korea Settled July 1953
• McCarthys Fall goes after Army
• Nikita Khrushchev Stalin dies 1953
• Coal Miner, gruff personality
• Soviet leader 1955, hard liner
• Gives Speech against Stalin
• Attacks Hungary (Nov 1956)

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Cold War Asia

• Vietnam French colony
• Ho Chi Minh communist, controls north
• French defeated at Dien Bien Phu
• Vietnam divided at 17 parallel
• US increases support for South
• China Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan
• China bombs two islands if Formosa Straights
• US Congress votes to protect Taiwan
• China backs down after US threatens Nukes

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Cold War Middle East

• Egypt Nassar unites Arabs against Israel
• Nasser takes Suez Canal
• French, English, Israel attack Egypt
• Ike mad, UN resolution for withdraw
• Iran Russia wanted control of Iran
• Ike sends CIA to install Shah
• US gains long term oil contracts

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Cold War Latin America

• Guatemala new leftist leader plans
• Plans to take over land
• US Fruit number one land owner
• Ike send in CIA to overthrow government
• Nixons Trip Latin American resentment
• Cuba US supports Batista, then backs off
• Castro starts revolution
• Ike non recognition of Castro, CIA plans

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Kitchen Debate 1959
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Cold War Soviets

• Disarmament Geneva, Open skies
• Sputnik (Oct 1957) Scares US,
• education reform, NASA
• Second Berlin Crisis
• Khrushchev visits US We will bury you
• U-2 and Gary Powers summit called off
• Ike warns of Military Industrial Complex

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Sputnik Oct 1957
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John Glenn orbits Earth 1959
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U-2
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Gary Powers