First we talked about the extra credit opprotunity with the Decades Project Blog. Then we talked about message board post for the end of the year. After that we got assigned our 11th blog. We are supposed to define all the topics on the list. Then we started into the powerpoint.
Eisenhower's Accomplishments
-dominated by the cold war-containment plan
-also used CIA to do covert-ops to disrupt communist governments abroad(iran/Guatimala)
-open relations with spain
-ended the korean war
-defensive alliens were signed with south korea and Taiwan
-SEATO south east asian treaty organisation
-increased involvement in vietnam
-came up with the idea of deterrence (using atomic bombs as retaliation or a defensive weapon)
-NASA created due to Soviet Sputnik launch
-US spy plane was shot down over USSR
-Mcarthy was the guy that went at communist
-Eisenhower's doctrine it said that we would help middle eastern countrys if a larger agresser country attaked for communism
-believed in laissez-faire
-believed in a balanced budget
-deported illegal immigrants (mostly mexicans)
-sent federal troops to Little Rock to escort the 9 black students to classes
-is the one who set up our highway and road system
John F. Kennedy
-served in WWII
-was a US Rep and Senator for Massachusets
-First and only roman catholic president
-youngest elected president and second youngest president
-assasinated in Dallas, Texas in 1936 by Lee Harvey Oswald
-stopped us from getting into nucleir warfare with Russia
-he ran agianst richard nixon
-first televised debates (people said they helped kennedy win)
-bay of pigs invasion 1961
-cuban missle crisis
-the CIA helped the new Ba'ath party government overthrow communist in Iraq.
-Killiings in which Saddam Hussein himself is siad to have participated
-Nuclear test were then band "above ground"
The New Frontier
-1. education
2. medical care for the elderly
3. economic aid to rural regions
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