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Eisenhower Presidency (Inauguration)
Served two terms from 1953 to 1961
- Eisenhower's government was severely concerned about the success of communism in South East Asia
-He also urged the provision of economic aid to those countries with anti-communist governments. This new foreign policy became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine. -
Kennedy Presidency Part 1
-The Cold War was a dominant issue during the campaign for the presidency. JFK accused the Republicans of having allowed a "missile gap" to grow between the United States and the U.S.S.R., warning that the Soviets had pulled ahead in the nuclear arms race.
-Soviets saw him as "weak"
-Cuban Missile Crisis was a major part of his first term: he world may never have been closer to nuclear war than in October 1963, and it is to JFK's diplomacy had managed to protect American interests and avoid war -
Bay of Pigs
-The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro
-about 1300 exiles, armed with U.S. weapons, landed at the Bahía de Cochinos on the S. coast of Cuba. Hoping to find support from the local population, they intended to cross the island to Havana. It was evident from the first hours of fighting that the exiles were likely to lose…the invasion was stopped by Castros army
-Fight ended April 19, -
Kennedy President Part 2
On August 5, 1963, in one of JFK's principal foreign policy successes, the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union joined in signing a limited nuclear test-ban treaty, forbidding atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons -
Johnson Presidency
-Johnson was a strong supporter of the Domino Theory-if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
-Johnson told his Joint Chiefs of Staff that he would do all that was necessary to prevent the NLF winning in South Vietnam but was unwilling to take unpopular measures like sendsending troops to tight in a foreign war, until after the 1964 Presidential Elections -
Watergate Break-In
- During the 1972 presidential campaign, Nixon created the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP). In June 1972, burglars—later found to be employed by CREEP—were caught breaking into Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., to "spy"
- Nixon vowed that no one in his administration was involved in the break-in but attempts to destroy paperwork and bribe key individuals were soon exposed -Nixon faced impeachment and would resign in 1974
