Ike |
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believed in affirmative govt and strong actions
restore balance between the branches |
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Chief of Staff Sherman Adams |
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controlled domestic information to Ike |
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businessmen in Ike's cabinet |
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Sec of Tres Humphrey, Sec of defense Chase E. Wilson, Sec of Interior Douglass McKay |
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Interstate Highway Act |
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1956 fed govt paid 90% of costs of interstate highways
encouraged urban sprawl and us eof cars |
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who aided McCarthy? |
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Roy Cohn and David Schine |
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Chief Justice Vinson |
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supported Plessy v. Ferguson |
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Chief Justice Earl Warren |
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desegregation
establishe din 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Educ Topeka, Kansas |
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Gov Faubus |
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calle dout National Gaurd to stop enrollment on the gorunds that violence might take place |
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1957 Civil Rights Act |
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authorized the Department of Justice to seek injunctions on behalf of black voting rights |
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1960 Civil Rights Act |
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provided for appointment of federal referees to safeguard voting rights |
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Lawyer Thurgood Marshall |
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of the NAACP brougth suit in federal cases regarding segregation |
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Jencks case |
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required that FBI reports must be made available to the defense if used in a case |
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reinhold Niebuhr |
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represented a change in religious outlook
restated traditional christian insights
insisted on the independenc eof the Christian faith from the official culture |
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other religious authors of the 1950s |
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Norman Vincent Peale, Bishop Fulton J Sheen, Galbraith, beatnik |
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armistic at Panmunjom |
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provided for voluntary repatriation
and demilitarized zone and a peace conference |
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Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activites |
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warned Ike against CIA meddlin in internal affairs of othe rnations
Ike ignored these warnigns
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Ho Chi Minh |
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communits leader of China
French were fighting him while trying to hold onto Indo-China |
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Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy |
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warned Ike against commitemnt of American troops |
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peace treaty at geneva |
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provided for a partition of Vietnam at 17th parallel until free elections could be held in 1956
Ike disapprove dof these negotioations |
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SEATO |
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called ofr consultations in case of communist subversion or attack
US also provided assistance to the new leader of South Viet Diem |
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CENTO |
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under the British
regional defense organ for the Middle East
Amer aid programs along wiht an integrated allianc esystem |
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Natioonal Liberation front(Vietcong) |
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began a guerilla war against the Diem govt in SVN
US begins annual aid of $200 mil under Ike
China began heavy selling of the islands of Quemoy and Matsu which were held by the nationalists in taiwan. |
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Massadegh |
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new leader of iran after Shah is forced to flee. CIA then intervened to overthrow him and restore Shah in 1954 |
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Nasser |
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new nationalist leadre of Egypt in 1954
caused problems on Israeli border
took Russian mil aid
so US withdraws aid for Aswan Dam
then he takes over Suez Canal from Fr and Br
+Israel attacks Egypt but US and USSR in UN condemn Israel |
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Castro |
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1958 1959 overthrows cuban dictator batista
by 1960 Ike approves CIA plot to overthrow Castro |
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1955 geneva Summit meeting |
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reestablished perosnal contact betweeb leaders
collapses when USSr shot down Amer spy plane over USSR |
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election of 1960 |
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Repub: Nixon and henry cabot lodge
demos: Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
Kennedy wins on New Frontier slogan |
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Ike's farewell address |
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warned against beocming captive of the "mil-ind" complex |
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