Received our assigned blog topics for this week, mine is 9-11 and new US foreign policy for George W. Bush
Eisenhower (cont.):
Background-name was supposed to be Eisenhaur, but it was misspelled so it was permanently changed. He had to rettake his freshman year because of a knee injury that became infected. The doctor was going to have it amputated, but Eisenhower said no. By some miracle, his leg got better.
Presidential Accomplishments: The cold war policy dominated most of is presidency. The main goal of his presidency was containing and isolating communists. He helped to end the Korean war. He developed the idea of deterrence. His idea was, if another war breaks out, it has to be a full out nuclear war, using all of the bombs and nuclear weapons that each country has. If that were to happen, then the world would be destroyed. All of the countries knew that destroying the world could be very possible if all the bombs were to be used. Therefore, countries did have nuclear weapons, but they were never used.
The US spy plane (U-2) was a great spy plane that was able to fly so high so that no other planes would be able to be shot down and it wouldn't be able to be shot down by AA guns either. It eventually flew off course at one point over the USSR, and Eisenhower said that it was shot down when it really wasn't.
Eisenhower Doctrine: Said that the US would give financial and/or military aid to any of the Middle Eastern countries so that Communism wouldn't spread there.
Eisenhower wanted to make sure that the government would make more money than it spent. He was a fiscally responsible president, and our government today could learn a lot from Eisenhower, since the economy in Eisenhower's time was in a plus and not a deficit.
Eisenhower believed in laissez-faire, and he really wanted to desegregate schools. There was one school in Little Rock that refused to desegregate, so he sent in federal agents. Black kids would have to be escorted everywhere so they wouldn't be harassed and made fun of.
President John F. Kennedy (D)-35th President 1961-1963:Served in WWII, was a US Representative, and he is and was the first Catholic president so far. Kennedy was under 50% vs. Richard Nixon (vice president) in the 1960 election. The first presidential debate was televised at the first time. He was the youngest elected president up to that point, and from then on.
JFK Accomplishments~ Famous quote from JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." The Berlin Wall was built during his presidency (he didn't aid in building it), and he said that he and the rest of the US would back the people that received the not-so-great end of the deal when the wall was built. Kennedy also increased the number of helicopters and military advisors.
The CIA helped the new Ba'ath Party government overthrow the Communists in Iraq. The New Frontier (created by JFK) promised federal funding for education, medical care for the elderly, economic aid to rural regions, government intervention to halt the recession, and to end racial discrimination. The Peace Corps was established in 1961 where americans volunteer to help underdeveloped nations in areas such as education, farming, health care, and construction. He signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, a federal law aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on gender. His famous quote said that before the decade was out, that we would land a man on the moon (the nation was beginning to feel like we were falling behind the Soviets in the Race for Space.
JFK Assassination: Happened in Dallas, Texas in 1963. He was riding in a car during a parade with his wife and two other guys. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy and wounded others. Kennedy was killed and then Oswald was shot before he could arrive at a trial. There was a whole conspiracy theory about mafias around the world, and even that the Kennedy brothers were involved (possibly).
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