Ike Personality, Dynamic Conservatism, End Of McCarthy Flashcards
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What was Ike’s full name?
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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What state was he born in?
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Texas
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What state did he grow up in?
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Kansas
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What was his wife’s name?
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Mamie
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What was his presidential number?
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34
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What party was he?
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Republican
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What year/years was he elected?
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1952 and 1956
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Who did he beat in each election?
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Adelai Stevenson both times.
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Who was his VP?
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Nixon
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What was his key approach to Republicanism?
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Dynamic conservatism, AKA modern Republicanism
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What style of leadership and government did he have?
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Laissez-faire and gradualistic.
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What was his slogan for election?
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I like Ike
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What formula did Ike use in his bid for election?
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K1 C2.
K=Korea (end the war), C2=communism, corruption
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What key anti-Communist did Eisenhower use to aid him in election?
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McCarthy.
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What year did Eisenhower lose Congress to the Democrats?
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1954
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Why did losing Congress not impact Ike much?
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He was a moderate.
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What was his title in the army during World War II?
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Commander in Chief of allied forces in Europe
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What did he then get promoted to before becoming president?
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Head of NATO
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Who had previously requested Ike run for POTUS (for his party) and been denied?
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Truman
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How did his military and NATO history aid him?
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It made him popular and seemed like he would be effective in the Cold War.
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What use did his age have in his campaign?
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Made him seem grandfatherly.
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What was Eisenhower preoccupied about?
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His image/ popularity
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What did Eisenhower make good use of in his campaign?
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His public popularity and the power of advertising
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Who did Eisenhower focus his attack on in his campaign?
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Truman.
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What strategy by Truman did Ike criticise?
Containment
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What was the name and date of Ike’s speech that emphasized that military spending should be lower and there should be a greater focus on domestic improvement?
A chance for peace 1953
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What year did Stalin die?
Stalin's death?
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What was the ‘A Chance for Peace’ speech a month after?
Stalin’s death
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Was this speech typically republican?
No
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Eisenhower said there could be no security without what?
‘ A sound economy’
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What quote did he use to describe his political values?
‘conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings’
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What year did Ike balance the budgets?
1956, 1967, 1960
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Who did he want to give government responsibility to?
State and local government
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Name the new department that Ike made?
the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
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Who headed this department?
A woman called a woman that was the second ever female holder of cabinet position
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Was Eisenhower dynamically conservative in his approach to government?
Half and half.
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What did Eisenhower do to Social Security?
Expanded it to cover 10 million Americans
## Footnote
yes
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What did Eisenhower do to minimum wage?
Increased it by 25% from 75 to 1 pound an hour to one dollar an hour.
## Footnote
Yes
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Name Ike’s road act that was one of the largest peacetime public works projects.
Federal aid, Highway Act of 1956.
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Why was this linked to his military background?
Saw the German autobahns & knew if the US needed better mobilisation in case of war
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How many miles of in-state highways were built by it over 20 years?
41,000 miles
## Footnote
Yes
42
Eisenhower established soil banks. What were these?
Paying farmers to not sell wares to maintain food prices and conserve agricultural resources
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What other POTUS made soil banks?
FDR
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What two states did Eisenhower admit into the union?
Alaska and Hawaii
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What years did Ike introduce his two civil rights acts?
1957 and 1960.
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What did Eisenhower add to the pledge of allegiance and bank notes?
Under God
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What TV evangelist was Eisenhower close to?
Billy Graham
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In what aspects was Ike not dynamically conservative?
Budget, ~ government, ~new states, ~civil rights, religion
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Name the areas of Ike’s politics that were dynamically conservative.
~government, social security, minimum wage, housing, roads, farming, ~new states, ~civil rights.
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How much money did Eisenhower spend on housing?
$500 million.
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Was this sufficient?
No
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How many recessions did the US have during Ike’s presidency?
Three.
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What protected Ike from the usual levels of criticism that politicians get?
His status
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How was America doing in the space race during the Eisenhower terms?
Very badly (Ike blamed)
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In 1953 what % was domestic spending in the budget?
31%
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What % of the budget was the most expending in 1961?
49%.
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What act did Ike pass, trying to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream society?
The Indian relocation act of 1956.
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What did this act do?
Encourage them to move from reservations to the cities
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What approval ratings did Ike tend to get?
Over 70%
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What % economic growth did Ike get during these years?
37%.
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What was McCarthy's first name?
Joseph.
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What family did he have growing up?
A poor Irish farming family.
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What state did he grow up in?
Central Wisconsin
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How did his childhood impact his worldview?
Gave him a strong hatred for privileged men
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Did McCarthy serve during World War II?
Yes, in the Marines
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What was the true cause of his limp that he claimed was the war wound?
Falling downstairs drunk at a party
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What award did McCarthy win by vote in 1949?
Worst US senator
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When and where was McCarthy’s big speech about communists in the US State Dept.?
1950 in Wheeling West Virginia.
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How many communist names did McCarthy initially claim to have?
205
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Did McCarthy claim about this Secretary of State?
He ignored McCarthy’s list of Communists
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What number did he revise the 205 number to in later speeches?
57.
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Was McCarthy’s list ever revealed?
No.
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McCarthyites attack US information agency libraries for containing the work of what ‘radical’ author?
Mark Twain
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What nickname did McCarthy create for the Democrats?
Commiecrats
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What nickname did McCarthy give Adlai?
Adlai the Appeaser
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What was the Truman administration's 'Cowardly College of Communist Containment'?
Where had Adelai Stevenson ‘graduated from’?
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In August 1954, what % Americans did a poll reveal approved/admired McCarthy?
50%
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‘I will not get into a _____contest with that _____’
Pissing, skunk
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What did Ike do about McCarthy at first?
Nothing
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Why did Ike do nothing about McCarthy at first?
Ike thought he would destroy himself, found McCarthy useful, thought it’d irritate McCarthy more to ignore him
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What is the Voice of America?
A national radio station like the BBC
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Why was the Voice of America hounded by McCarthyites?
They had subversive books in overseas libraries
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What was the result of this hounding?
Some books were burned and Dulles fired 830 VOA employees
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What did Ike do about this?
Nothing.
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What finally made Eisenhower do something about McCarthy?
McCarthy led congressional investigations into New Jersey army bases, and gave the Secretary of the Army a bad time.
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How did Ike react?
He denied McCarthy access to administration personnel and records, for national security.
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What impact did this have on the army hearings?
He didn't get concrete evidence, so his hearing seemed meaningless, and he appeared drunken bullying.
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What did the Democrats do to the hearings?
Ensured that they were televised.
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What year did McCarthy die and what of?
1957, of hepatitis worsened by alcoholism
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March- July 1950 the senate made what committee to investigate McCarthy's claims about the State Department?
The Tidings committee.
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What did the committee find?
McCarthy's claims had no substance
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How did McCarthy impact free speech?
People were too scared to confront him out of fear of being labelled communist.
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What year was he censured?
1955
