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In the election of 1952, Americans were looking for relief from the Korean War which Eisenhower pledged to deliver. Eisenhower's main focus was to balance the federal budget, and his extension of New Deal programs increased America's welfare state. Eisenhower's Secretary of State John Dulles advocated taking an assertive stance against communism. He believe that placing greater reliance on nuclear weapons and air power and spending less on the army and navy would help balance the federal budget.
ReplyDeleteIn the 1960s, Democratic John F. Kennedy was the youngest candidate to ever be elected president. His promise of leading the nation into a New Frontier consisted of attempts to better education, federal health care, and civil rights. JFK was economically successfully because the increased spending for defense and space exploration stimulated the economy. He also implement several foreign aid programs to create peace and develop third world countries. Due to the challenge of the Cold War, Kennedy was forced to adopt a policy of flexible response to militaristic attacks.
Savannah
ReplyDeleteIn contrast to several presidents, Kennedy came to office with a preference for foreign affairs. Issues of war and peace had interested him since his youth, and the awesome responsibility of being president in the nuclear age only reinforced that interest. For the most part, the 50’s had been calm with the exception of the Cold War and arms race. Kennedy came into office after Eisenhower with a “New Frontier” spirit and liked being involved in foreign affairs. The 60’s brought a number of new movements and revolutions, which of course called for a new way of presidency.
As the issue of Laos continued overseas, Kennedy thought about a different approach than Eisenhower did. Eisenhower and his administration had drenched the county in dollars but that didn’t do much to solve their problems. As these problems continued, Kennedy considered sending in American troops, but didn’t have the resources, and he also didn’t want to dishonor his commitments to Europe. This foreign flare-up led to a new policy of “flexible response” which is to develop an array of military responses to specific situations.
What about social changes?
DeletePresidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy were radically different in policies socially and abroad. While Eisenhower was conservative in his methods, Kennedy wanted social welfare programs and civil rights. Kennedy wanted aid for education and rights for immigrants and Blacks. Eisenhower's main focus was to balance the federal budget, and his economic policies proved to be prosperous in decreasing inflation.
ReplyDeleteIn foreign affairs, Eisenhower faced threats in the Middle East and Soviet Union. He dealt with the Red Scare and pronounced the Eisenhower Doctrine to aid democratic powers in maintaining freedom. Eisenhower helped avoid loss of American life during the Cold War. Kennedy's foreign policy was shaped after the Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban missile crisis. His administration helped implement the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and decided to have a loose response in upholding nuclear arms. Both presidents attempted to maintain isolationism.
I would like more evidence for the social part of your argument.
DeleteWhen Eisenhower took office in 1952, the U.S. was just released from the Korean war, and he was focused more on strengthening domestic policy than irritating foreign policy. Certain steps that Eisenhower took during his presidency, however, added to problems that Kennedy had in the sixties. The U-2 incident, for example, was a very poorly timed slip-up for the CIA. Just before the U.S. was going to resolve the most recent crisis with Russia, involving U.S. troops in West Berlin, one of our spy planes was spotted over soviet air space. Furious, the Soviets called off the Paris summit, therefore deepening the rut in Soviet/U.S. relations. This incident also instigated a spy game later, with KGB in Russia spying on the U.S. and the CIA in the U.S. continuing to spy on Russia. Another crisis in Cuba caused Eisenhower to cut off trade with Cuba for fear of Communist influence. Soviet influence in Cuba would lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, in which Kennedy had to blockade Cuba while he waited for Khrushchev to remove the missiles from the island. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed, halting all testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere but beginning a whole new air weaponry armament.
ReplyDeleteSocially, the most important decision during Eisenhower's presidency was probably the Brown vs Board of Education verdict. This decision invalidated Plessy vs Ferguson, which segregated schools and other public facilities. With the Brown decision came the right to involve federal troops in the enforcement of desegregation of schools. This sparked the Civil Rights Movement in the sixties, involving various nonviolent protests such as bus boycotts, sit ins, and marches. The murder of Dr. Martin Luther King was probably the most dangerous time in the 1960s, as many mobs and more violent Civil Rights organizations emerged later in the decade.
Social changes from the 1950’s to the 1960’s were centered on African American people achieving their civil rights. In the 50’s, the civil rights movement was dormant and didn’t affect American society. However, when Kennedy took office, the Civil Rights Movement expanded with nonviolent protests such as sit ins, marches, and boycotts. This eventually led to African Americans obtaining the rights they were guaranteed in the 15th amendment.
ReplyDeleteDiffering from Eisenhower, Kennedy was an intervenist and believed the way to keep the Truman Doctrine was to send in troops to countries who cried out for liberation from oppression. Example of this is shown throughout the cold war in Vietnam, Korea, and Cuba with the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy was an advocate for Democracy and was willing to help any country that asked for assistance.
New Frontier?
DeleteSocial changes from the 1950’s to the 1960’s were centered on African American people achieving their civil rights. In the 50’s, the civil rights movement was dormant and didn’t affect American society. However, when Kennedy took office, the Civil Rights Movement expanded with nonviolent protests such as sit ins, marches, and boycotts. This eventually led to African Americans obtaining the rights they were guaranteed in the 15th amendment.
ReplyDeleteDiffering from Eisenhower, Kennedy was an intervenist and believed the way to keep the Truman Doctrine was to send in troops to countries who cried out for liberation from oppression. Example of this is shown throughout the cold war in Vietnam, Korea, and Cuba with the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy was an advocate for Democracy and was willing to help any country that asked for assistance.
I'm not sure why it didn't let some of you post. I will post the ones emailed to me. The rest of you will need to get it posted asap.
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ReplyDeleteIn the 1952 election, Truman didn't seek reelection due to the degree of the Korean War; therefore, Dwight D. Eisenhower, a World War II hero, was able to easily win the election. During his term, Eisenhower implemented various conservative programs such as the Interstate Highway system and various other systems that sought to oversee the New Deal programs of FDR.Also, Eisenhower oversaw many of the early civil rights movements and paved the way towards an end to segregation. On the foreign front, Eisenhower sought entrance into the Vietnamese war on the grounds that the fall of any Asian nation to communism would mean that all of the nations in Asia would fall.These domestic and foreign policies would soon change following the end of Eisenhower's term as president.
In the election of 1960, John F. Kennedy was able to utilize his charm and charisma in order to secure the presidency. However, his success on the domestic front was quite different. As a northern democrat, Kennedy faced much adversity in Congress from Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats, which resulted in the blocking of many of his plans. JFK was also slow to react to the Civil rights movement so that he would not lose support to this seemingly symbolic movement. On the foreign front, Kennedy developed a flexible response to the cold war that drastically differed from Eisenhower's nuclear buildup method. These changes in social and foreign policy can mainly be attributed to the adversity created by Kennedy's affiliation and the adaptation necessary to successfully face a new Russian Premier.
New Frontier?
DeleteZach McCain
ReplyDeleteIn his inaugural address, Kennedy spoke of the torch being passed to a new generation, one far different from the preceding White House administration. This is made evident in the social and foreign policy changes form Eisenhower’s administration to Kennedy’s administration. The domestic policy changes mostly because his programs languished in Congress and most were passed under the Johnson administration following his death. As a result of his domestic policy being blocked, Kennedy increasingly turned his attention to foreign policy issues.
Many of Kennedy’s decisions in foreign policy were in retaliation of the actions and spread of communism. Kennedy set up the Peace Corps, providing support to developing countries and preventing communism from spreading to these countries. The Alliance for Progress was established to promote land reform and economic development in Latin America, which as a result would in turn prevent communism from spreading to these countries because a stable economy leads to a stable government.
Morgan
ReplyDeletePresident Eiseinhower revolutionized foreign and social policy. He wanted to maintain the importance of the US economy, he relied on nuclear weapons to stop Communist aggression, he used the CIA to carry out secret actions against Russian governements/leaders, and he strengthened allies. As for social changes, Eiseinhower remained skeptical toward the Soviet Union. Tensions in the Middle East outraged Eisenhower.
On the other hand, President Kennedy's foreign and social policies strongly differed from President Eisenhower's policies. Kennedy believed that Eisenhower's foreign policy was sluggish and complacent. Kennedy's foreign policy relied heavily on getting rid of communism altogether. He also focused on teaming up with Latin America to reduce communism.
Evidence?
DeleteParker Taylor
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Much of Eisenhower’s administration was focused on foreign policy. The Secretary of State John Dulles largely shaped President Eisenhower’s foreign policy. Dulles saw Truman’s theory of containment of communism as too passive; he argued for a more urgent US challenge. In 1957, Eisenhower issued the Eisenhower Doctrine which said the United States who aid any country who wanted to resist communism. after the growing Soviet influence in Egypt and Syria. Eisenhower did accomplish getting NASA started as a result of the Soviets sending up Sputnik to space. Eisenhower accomplished keeping the communists in check and creating a peace without the loss of lives in combat. In 1958, he initiated the first arms limitations.
John F. Kennedy came into the White House in 1961 with his New Frontier policy that called for aid to education, federal support of health care, and civil rights. In 1961, Kennedy set up the Peace Corps. The Bay of Pigs invasion started a shift from the relaxed tensions created by Eisenhower with communism to a intense time of hatred and almost a nuclear war. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 further caused tension between the communists and America because there were said to be nuclear weapons on the island of Cuba. Shortly after the crisis, JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Lyndon Johnson, JFK’s VP, was sworn into office shortly after, and carried out much of JFK’s plans.
Austin Brooks
ReplyDeleteThe changes in the social and foreign policies from Eisenhower to Kennedy are largely attributed to a conflict against Eisenhower’s modern Republicanism alongside the ever-growing presence of communism throughout the world.
The shift in social policy paralleled the shift from the mostly conservative domestic policy of the fifties to the liberal “new frontier” of the sixties. Eisenhower didn’t pursue great social reform, for he wanted to balance the federal budget by cutting deficit spending. Nevertheless, the passage of the Highway Act and the extension of Social Security to millions more Americans showed Eisenhower’s moderate acceptance of social policies. Eisenhower also supported the Civil Rights Movement with the ordering of federal troops to stand guard at Little Rock High School (after the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education) and the passage of the moderate civil rights laws of 1957 and 1960. Progress in social reform, however, was slow under Eisenhower and Kennedy sought to provide the frustrated nation with a wealth of welfare programs and greater support of the civil rights movement. Though many of his proposals failed to pass through Congress during his administration, Johnson’s “Great Society” program greatly expanded the New Deal programs of the past after Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. Johnson carried Kennedy’s torch of “a new generation” and convinced Congress to fight the wars on poverty and injustice. The Great Society legislation included health care reform, aid to education, looser immigration standards, funding for public housing, new civil rights acts, and more. Since the New Deal, the government hadn’t pursued as many social policies, but growing poverty and civil unrest drove the federal government of the sixties to provide assistance to the nation’s people.
Changes in the government’s foreign policy were the direct result of rising Cold War tensions; this led to a more transparent and iron fisted diplomacy with other nations. Growing fears of nuclear war drove the U.S. to focus less on intimidating the world with nuclear power and instead in the fifties, one of Eisenhower’s diplomatic strategies was called “covert action” where the CIA would infiltrate and undermine foreign communist governments. Such secretive policy tainted relations with both third world Latin America and the Soviet Union, specifically with the U-2 incident involving the Soviet discovery of a US spy plane in 1955. Regardless, this strategy was implemented with success of the CIA in Iran and Guatemala, and additional action carried over into Kennedy’s administration regarding Cuba. After the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Kennedy moved to utilize transparent military aid such as U.S. support in South Vietnam. Another of the Eisenhower administration’s strategies was the “brinkmanship” of Secretary of State John Dulles where the flaunting of the U.S.’s air power and nuclear weapons was the main deterrent for foreign conflict. Kennedy followed this up with a focus on pushing more conventional instruments of war rather than America’s nuclear capability which arguably heightened tensions. The mobilization of American forces during the Soviet building of the Berlin Wall and an adoption of “flexible response” to the third world’s various “brushfire wars” specifically showed the Kennedy administration’s focus on conventional military might. Kennedy also improved Soviet-US relations, for the White House gained a direct communications line to Moscow in 1963 after the Cuban Missile Crisis of a year prior. Kennedy ultimately set the country on a path to more stable relations with the Soviet Union, but his emphasis on military intervention would continue on with the the troubling and controversial Vietnam War in 1964.
Lauren
ReplyDeleteMuch like previous presidents, Eisenhower wanted to stay out of foreign affairs. An armistice was signed to end the Korean War and no other armed forces were sent into action aside from Lebanon in 1958. He accepted and even extended some of the New Deal programs. Programs such as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare were created. Also, the CIA was authorized to undertake suspicions towards communism.
Kennedy focused much of his presidency on foreign affairs, as well as aid to education, federal support of health care, and civil rights. However, many of his programs were denied or blocked by congress so he turned mainly to foreign affairs. A flexible response was issued to increase spending on non nuclear arms and military forces. He did achieve some economic success by increasing spending for defense and space exploration.
Allie
ReplyDeleteThe 1950s became known as an era of conformity as the television became a basic feature of many middle class homes, advertising expanded, people flocked to the suburbs, and the baby boom drove many women to become full-time homemakers. In contrast, the 1960s was an era of counterculture, people going against social norms, with the Civil Rights Movement, the New Frontier, and people opposing the Vietnam War. Eisenhower and Kennedy came to office with similar goals, but society often had other things in mind, which accounts for the difference between Eisenhower's fifties and Kennedy's sixties.
As Eisenhower came into office, his main goal was to stop the spread of communism, and the American people were altogether supportive of his efforts. In 1957, he pledged in his Eisenhower Doctrine that the U.S. would thereby provide aid to any nation threatened by communist takeover. At the end of his presidency, Eisenhower was praised by the American people for containing communism without sacrificing U.S. troops in combat, and he warned America in his farewell address to beware of the Cold War, for it could be detrimental to society. As the presidential torch was passed to Kennedy, the American people were growing tired of war. The counterculture blossomed, and thousands of college students across the nation joined a movement to protest against the war in Vietnam. Domestic issues also rocked America, as the Civil Rights Movement and the fight for freedom came to a head. Kennedy's New Frontier plan consisted of civil rights for African Americans, but his ideals were often shot down in Congress, and the blacks were growing impatient. It was time for major changes in both domestic and foreign policy, but sadly this young president's life came to an end by the bullet of an assassin in Dallas. Even after Kennedy's death, the sixties and the succeeding decades would prove to be monumental as society continually changed.
New Frontier?
DeletePresident Eisenhower focused primarily on limiting federal aid to education and insurance during his presidency, although he did unwillingly reconcile that many of the New Deal programs had simply become a standard for life. In this modern age, however, workers had become accustomed to the New Deal caretaking and wanted it extended, not limited. Because of this, Kennedy introduced his New Frontier policy, which gave the federal aid to education, insurance, health care, and civil rights. Concerning the Civil Rights Movement, although Eisenhower did sign the first two Civil Rights act and desegregated schools under his presidency, the need for enforcement of these Civil Rights policies accounted for Kennedy using the military to make sure that schools were desegregated and Civil Rights kept.
ReplyDeleteEisenhower’s administration, encouraged by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, took a militaristic turn to encourage upheaval of communism. Dulles encouraged a “More bang for buck” approach, supplying heavy nuclear weapons and planes over army and navy forces. People were afraid of a nuclear war arising from this. In response, Kennedy did anything to avoid any conflict with communistic countries, especially Cuba, in such incidents as the Bay of Pigs, in which he gave up spies in favor of not seeming militaristic, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which Kennedy announced a blockade to stop nuclear weapons from reaching Cuba, rather than an invasion, a decision that saved the world.
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Pamela
ReplyDeleteEisenhower's administration during the 1950s was the era of conformity that was just beginning to make the push towards civil rights where as Kennedy walked into office ready to start a "New Frontier". For example, Eisenhower was in office during the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka which represented the beginning of desegregation in the United States; because court decisions and similar civil rights demonstrations like this were made, Kennedy was encouraged during his administration to extend these movements which he did through his numerous New Frontier programs that provided aid for education, federal support for health care, urban renewal, and civil rights. Kennedy's New Frontier program helped to inspire future reforms that would not only define the 1960s, but also show the progress from Eisenhower's 1950s that had started the push for civil reform.
Besides the social changes, the evolution in foreign policy between Eisenhower's Doctrine and Kennedy's flexible response plan represented the change that occurred in the world between the administrations. Eisenhower's idea of containment by providing economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism demonstrated that the tensions during the Cold War had not yet manifested to the point of physical conflicts. However, when Kennedy entered office and started the Peace Corps which mimicked the ideas of the Eisenhower Doctrine in the way that it was designed to provide aid to struggling countries, he began a policy of flexible response. This flexible response plan brought about by "brushfire wars" in Africa and Southeast Asia moved the country away from the strict build up of nuclear weapons to a build up of more conventional arms and mobile military forces that could provide military aid to threatened countries. The change in foreign policy from monetary aid to military aid represented the manifest of tension from the Cold War that required an adjustment in foreign policy.
Micaya
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Although both Eisenhower and Kennedy governed during the Cold War, their foreign and social policies differed from each other. Eisenhower, though a conservative Republican, accepted many New Deal programs as what the US needed to keep its citizens in good condition. He even went as far as to extend Social Security to include an extra 10 million citizens, increase the minimum wage, build additional public housing, and create the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to consolidate administration of welfare programs. Kennedy came in after the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, giving him a whole new group of potential voters. If he effectively responded to black calls for freedom and equality, he would have their votes. Kennedy, though often turned down by conservative Republicans in Congress, focused on education aid, healthcare support, urban renewal, and civil rights. Kennedy still focused on bettering the American people, but due to the newly recognized demands of the black community, he broadened his focus to include civil rights.
Foreign policy, specifically in relation to the Cold War, was a big part of both Eisenhower’s and Kennedy’s presidencies that each president handled to fit the time. Eisenhower’s Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, advocated the massive retaliation policy in which the US would simply have to flaunt how superior it was in the area of nuclear weapons to keep Communist nations from spreading their ideology. This tactic proved ineffective because the Soviets merely created their own hydrogen bombs. With empires breaking down in Asia and Africa, third world countries were increasingly in need of assistance, an issue President Kennedy responded to with the formation of the Peace Corps. On top of inherited conflict with the Soviet Union, Kennedy was faced with the problem of Castro’s Cuba, also communist. He approved the Bay of Pigs invasion in which Cuban exiles would try to overthrow Castro. The invasion failed, giving Castro the opportunity to seek the Soviet Union’s aid. Khrushchev, the new Russian dictator, sent nuclear missiles to Cuba which led to the US placing a blockade on Cuba until the missiles were removed. After Kennedy and Khrushchev finally reached an agreement over Cuba, the US foreign policy had officially shifted from Dulles’ massive retaliation policy to McNamara’s flexible response, a policy that entailed increasing spending on non-nuclear arms & military forces. Eisenhower was able to participate in an arms race with Russia because the threat of total destruction from either side seemed less likely due to the distance and seemingly empty threats, but Kennedy was forced to think more seriously about the safety of the US when it was less than 100 miles away from Russia’s missiles.
Kinsey
ReplyDeleteMuch like the push of a button that changes a channel, the election of a new President can shift the policies of a nation. During Dwight Eisenhower's presidency, the social aspect of the United States included more socialist regimes that helped the people. Social Security was extended to millions and houses were built for those that needed them. The foreign policy was one of more secretive assistance to governments opposing Communist action. The CIA was sent in to help overthrow such institutions.
The shift into Kennedy's years brought about little change in social affairs. Congress was fairly unwilling to accept the New Frontier programs that Kennedy tried to implement, although Lyndon B Johnson later was able to set them in place. Foreign policies, however, were not quite as secretive. President Kennedy established the Peace Corps, which was a group made out of American volunteers that aided countries in need of technical aid. Kennedy's short term in office was quite more active, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion where Kennedy refused help to stranded Americans trying to start an uprising in Cuba.
New Look?
DeleteAlthough President Eisenhower's social and foreign policies of the 1950s restrained America from entering outside conflicts and kept America at "peace," when John F. Kennedy became president, serious changes took place including America's foreign policy.
ReplyDeleteDuring his presidency, Eisenhower was considered a popular President. He tried to maintain an isolationist society in America, and when he had to participate in foreign affairs, he approached it with great skill-Eisenhower negotiated an armistice in the Korean War only six months after he had taken office. However, Dwight Eisenhower did little for the civil rights of African Americans in a time where big social reforms for minorities was greatly needed. Eisenhower almost succeeded in keeping America at peace, but he not only forgot about blacks in America but also left office with a cold war against the Soviet Union behind for the next president.
When John F. Kennedy won the presidential election in 1960, he was the youngest president at the time to ever hold office. Kennedy appealed to voters by winning the support of the South with his running mate Lyndon B. Johnson, a Senate Majority Leader from Texas, and won the majority vote of blacks by creating a special committee to collect African American support and increase the number of registered black voters. John F. Kennedy also became popular among blacks because of him getting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. released early from prison(imprisoned for traffic violations-made due to nonviolent protests for civil rights). Although Kennedy's presidency began a little rocky with the Bay of Pigs invasion left behind by Eisenhower, Kennedy refused to bow down to Krushchev and the issue of the Berlin Wall and protected the United States during the Cuban missile crisis. Kennedy also took to a foreign policy of support for anticommunist forces in Southeast Asia-he and Eisenhower believed that this was a way to go against the Domino Effect(if one country succumbed to communism, other countries would fall like dominos to communism too). Not only did John F. Kennedy succeed in handling foreign affairs, but he also was dedicated to his domestic social policies. Kennedy supported many social programs and tax cuts. His tax and tariff cuts helped increase American economy and in 1961 he established the Area Redevelopment Act to provide about $400 million in benefits to "distressed areas" to decrease chronic unemployment in impoverished cities and rural areas; he also achieved increases in Social Security and minimum wage.
During Eisenhower’s presidency in the 1950s, he adopted the foreign policy of Dulles’ Diplomacy of “brinksmanship” and came up with the domino theory. In Dulles’ diplomacy of brinksmanship, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles believed that if the U.S. pushed the Soviet Union to the brink of war, they would back down. Eisenhower didn’t use this policy to the full extent, but instead came up with the domino theory that was made by Eisenhower that said if one nation fell under communist control, one after another nation would also fall. This led to the Eisenhower Doctrine in which the United States pledged economic and military aid to any Middle Eastern country threatened by communism. These foreign policies change with the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Kennedy and his administration adopted the policy of flexible response that lessened the dependence on nuclear weapons and increased spending on conventional arms and mobile military forces. The reason for the change in foreign policy is because of the Soviet aid to insurgent forces in Southeast Asia and Africa in the “brushfire wars”.
ReplyDeleteSocial policies also changed between the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. Kennedy advocated known as a New Frontier. These New Frontier programs called for aid to education, federal support of health care, urban renewal and civil rights. Eisenhower’s social policies, on the other hand, only advocated for an extension in Social Security and the creation of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He also made balancing the budget top priority. The difference between the two social policies is that Eisenhower opposed of federal healthcare insurance and federal aid to education which accounts for the changes in the social policies.
Presidents Eisenhower and JFK were completely differing with their social policies. While Eisenhower's methods were seen as reserved or conserving, Kennedy wanted social rights for the African Americans or civil rights. Kennedy also strived for help in education and rights for African Americans. Eisenhower's focused primarily on decreasing inflation.
ReplyDeleteIn foreign affairs, Eisenhower dealt with the Red Scare and during the Cold War h helped keep casualties low. Kennedy's foreign policy was based on the Cuban missile crisis as well as the Bay of pigs invasion. His presidency helped with the implementation of the nuclear arms.
Need more evidence.
DeleteDuring the 1950s the social norms were television and suburbs. Almost everyone in the 1950s had either a television or a radio, and that’s how they were kept up to date on the changing times. The expansion of the suburbs practically had Caucasians’ names written all over them. The mass movement to the suburbs was later known as the “white flight” and everyone had the same wants and needs. Except the African Americans who were still getting the bad end of the stick from white southerners. They were still not able to vote or have any of the liberties they finally gained without the help of the federal government, such as the Little Rock nine. The foreign policy was very anti-communist, due to fear of nuclear fallout with Russia, and many people feared using their first amendment rights due to the fact that they could get sent to jail because of McCarthyism.
ReplyDeleteThe 1960s was a very violent time compared to the blandness of the 50s. There were various disputes on feminism, Vietnam, and the conditions of the cities that made the times turbulent. Leaders like Malcom X brought in ideals of civil disobedience in order for African Americans to finally get realized. Women were mad because they were “second class citizens,” which started the sexual revolution which allowed women to receive birth control, and also eventually the gays and lesbians joined in. Also the foreign ideology of the time was for the better of the world, not for America which enraged millions of Americans.
After War World 1 the United States were looking for deliverance and President Eisenhower expressed the middle class Americans. Eisenhower first priority was balancing the budget. Social Security was extended to 10 million more citizens; the minimum wage was raised, and additional public housing was built. During the cold war with the help of Eisenhower Secretary of State John Foster Dulles advocated a “new look” challenging the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China.
ReplyDeleteJohn F Kennedy called for aid to education, federal support of healthcare, urban renewal, and civil rights. With his Peace Crops and the Alliance for Progress was organized to promote land reform and economic development. The Cold War made JFK adopt the policy of flexible response to militaristic attacks.
Social changes occurred during the transition from Eisenhower's 1950s and Kennedy's 1960s. Eisenhower's 1950s consisted of the trend of conformity. The perfect wife and children awaited the perfect husband's return from work and did their best to make his day relaxing. Those who opposed conformity wore black and gotees and barettes. In the 1960s, psychadelic clothing and long hair was the trend.
ReplyDeleteForeign policy also changed between Eisenhower and Kennedy's administration. While Eisenhower had fought the end of the Korean War and threatened many nations with the atomic bomb, Kennedy focused mainly to the South with the Cuban Missle Crisis and the Bay of Pigs.
evidence?
DeleteTakhaira
ReplyDeleteAfter War World 1 the United States were looking for deliverance and President Eisenhower expressed the middle class Americans. Eisenhower first priority was balancing the budget. Social Security was extended to 10 million more citizens; the minimum wage was raised, and additional public housing was built. During the cold war with the help of Eisenhower Secretary of State John Foster Dulles advocated a “new look” challenging the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China.
John F Kennedy called for aid to education, federal support of healthcare, urban renewal, and civil rights. With his Peace Crops and the Alliance for Progress was organized to promote land reform and economic development. The Cold War made JFK adopt the policy of flexible response to militaristic attacks.