Download 15.4 and 17.2

Eisenhower’s
Foreign Policy
Truman vs. Eisenhower
“Brinksmanship”
Ch. 15.4
“Containment”
Chapter 15.1
A strong economy and
military will stop
Communism!
1.
Marshall Plan
2.
Truman Doctrine
1.
Massive retaliation.
3.
Berlin Airlift
2.
M. A. D.
4.
NATO
3.
“Domino Theory”
5.
Korean War
4.
CIA & covert operations
5.
Eisenhower Doctrine
Ike’s policies defined
1. Brinkmanship:
willingness to go to
the brink of war to
force other side to
back down
2. Massive Retaliation:
threaten to use
nuclear weapons to
avoid war
3. MAD – Mutually
Assured Destruction
Ike in action
4. Domino Theory – if
one country falls to
Communism, those
around it will.
5. Covert Ops – Using
CIA to conduct
secret operations
6. Eisenhower Doctrine –
aid (money or
military) to Middle
East to fight
Communism
Ending the Korean War
1. Eisenhower
campaigned on
ending the war
2. Secretly told Chinese
he might us nuclear
weapons
3. Threat worked
4. Armistice (peace)
negotiated
5. Korea remained
divided – is today
JFK’s Foreign Policy (1961-1963)
Flexible Response:
Move away from nuclear
weapons to more
conventional weapons
and more troops to fight
communism.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
• 1959: Fidel Castro, a Communist overthrows
American supported Cuban dictator Batista
• 1961: CIA arms 1400 Cuban exiles to start an armed
rebellion against Castro
• Castro kills or captures them all
• A disaster for JFK
Cuban Missile Crisis
• October 1962: U.S. spy plane sees
nuclear silos being built on Cuba
• JFK sets up a naval blockade of Cuba
• Closest U.S./U.S.S.R. ever came to
nuclear war
Secret Deal over
Cuban Missile Crisis
• Soviets agree to remove missiles
• U.S. must promise not to invade Cuba
• U.S. will remove missiles from Turkey
(NEVER DOES)
Other JFK Cold War Issues
• Alliance for Progress:
– Stop Communism in Latin
America by helping their
economies grow
• Peace Corp: Provide
humanitarian aid to
undeveloped countries
to stop Communism
• Berlin Wall: built by
Khrushchev when U.S.
refused to leave West
Berlin
The Space Race
• Competition to see who
could be most successful in
space
• US successes
– 1st men on the moon
• USSR successes:
– Launched 1st satellite –
Sputnik
– 1st person to orbit Earth – Yuri
Gagarin