Truman And Eisenhower During The Cold War
Chapter 29
Compare the presidencies of Truman and Eisenhower.
Truman’s was engaged to fight poverty, through the Fair Deal programmed. But the Congress, because of Republican majority, only passes Full Employment Act and Atomic Energy Act. Eisenhower had no specific programmed against poverty. Nevertheless, he didn’t really overturn the previous programmed he continued all the major New Deal programmers still in operation . This doctrine was considered as a “Dynamic Conservatism”. Truman and Eisenhower also both supported the civil rights movement. Indeed, Truman managed to desegregate fully the army by 1946, and also recommended the Congress to pass laws stopping the racial discrimination: causes irritation from the Southern Democrats. But the real start of the …show more content…
Indeed, Truman was the initiator of the “containment” policy, applied during the entire Cold War. His main actions were the German airlift, Korean War, the creation of the NATO and the creation of NSC-68 (which recommended increasing the military budget three-fold). Then, Eisenhower greatly expanded this policy. More than containment, Eisenhower’s Secretary of State John Foster Dulles wanted to “rollback” the communist extension. He also increased the tensions of the arm race with his “massive retaliation” policy, leading to “brinkmanship”. Its consequence is the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 . To contain communism more effectively, he signed defensive treaties with Australia and New Zealand in 1951 and created the South East-Asia Treaty Organization in 1954. Nevertheless, calmer relations seemed to begin between Eisenhower and Khrushchev: the Russian leader visited the American president in 1959. Eisenhower’s visit to Russia was cancelled after the U-2 crisis. They had similar policies in Vietnam: supported the French with financial aid, but it wasn’t
Compare the presidencies of Truman and Eisenhower.
Truman’s was engaged to fight poverty, through the Fair Deal programmed. But the Congress, because of Republican majority, only passes Full Employment Act and Atomic Energy Act. Eisenhower had no specific programmed against poverty. Nevertheless, he didn’t really overturn the previous programmed he continued all the major New Deal programmers still in operation . This doctrine was considered as a “Dynamic Conservatism”. Truman and Eisenhower also both supported the civil rights movement. Indeed, Truman managed to desegregate fully the army by 1946, and also recommended the Congress to pass laws stopping the racial discrimination: causes irritation from the Southern Democrats. But the real start of the …show more content…
Indeed, Truman was the initiator of the “containment” policy, applied during the entire Cold War. His main actions were the German airlift, Korean War, the creation of the NATO and the creation of NSC-68 (which recommended increasing the military budget three-fold). Then, Eisenhower greatly expanded this policy. More than containment, Eisenhower’s Secretary of State John Foster Dulles wanted to “rollback” the communist extension. He also increased the tensions of the arm race with his “massive retaliation” policy, leading to “brinkmanship”. Its consequence is the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 . To contain communism more effectively, he signed defensive treaties with Australia and New Zealand in 1951 and created the South East-Asia Treaty Organization in 1954. Nevertheless, calmer relations seemed to begin between Eisenhower and Khrushchev: the Russian leader visited the American president in 1959. Eisenhower’s visit to Russia was cancelled after the U-2 crisis. They had similar policies in Vietnam: supported the French with financial aid, but it wasn’t