Read and outline pages 432 – 434, 415 – 421 in the copied pages from the blue textbook.
Learn the following key terms and be sure to include them in your outline:
Dixiecrats Strom Thurmond Thomas Dewey 22nd Amendment Fair Deal Dwight D. Eisenhower dynamic conservatism Federal Highway Act massive retaliation B-52
ICBM brinkmanship John Foster Dulles CIA Nikita Khruschev Sputnik NASA Eisenhower Doctrine military-industrial complex
3. Answer the following reading questions:
Compare and contrast Truman and Eisenhower’s domestic policies (Fair Deal vs “dynamic conservatism”).
Compare and contrast Truman and Eisenhower’s foreign policy.
Choose two of the following: Taiwan, Suez, Iran, Guatemala, Hungary. How did Eisenhower respond to the crisis in this area and was his response effective?