Eisenhower FP Flashcards
New Look Policy
reducing conventional weapons, increasing nuclear capacity
more bang for your buck
hydrogen bomb
Nov 1952
Brinkmanship
pushing your enemies as far as possible with the threat of military action in order to achieve what you want
Massive Retaliation
involved brinkmanship, making your enemies believe you have the capacity to use extreme force when needed/ provoked
Geneva Conference
1954- divided Vietnam into communist North led by Ho Chi Minh and capitalist South led by Diem
Call and election in 1956
Ike refused to sign so created and sustained South Vietnam
French and Vietnam
1954 Ike tells French to go to battle to defeat the Vietnimh
Battle of Dienbienphu French lose and surrender
Funding to Vietnam
Ike steps up money and weapons
by 1961 given Diem $7bil
Reason for helping Taiwan
China heavily bomb Quemoy and Matsu Sep 1954
Islands in between China and Taiwan
Ike actions in Taiwan
1955 puts aircraft carrier at the North and South of the island and a seventh fleet around it
small boats go up and down every so often
China back down
Second Chinese activity in Taiwan
and response
Against Quemoy and Matsu again 1958
Ike threatened to respond if the islands were invaded
Berlin
Khrushchev says he wants all Western powers out of Berlin within 6 months in 1958, or else.
(6 months being April 1959)
Ike never acknowledges it and nothing happens
Death of Stalin
5th March 1953
Response to Stalins death
‘Atoms for peace’ at UN Dec 1955 proposed pooling of nuclear resources to co operate on the development of the peaceful use of atomic power
‘Chance for Peace’
Eisenhower doctrine
anyone that asks for military defense will receive it
East German uprising
16th June 1953 starts as a protest
‘down with communism’ ‘long live Eisenhower’ 40,000 protesters, Soviets send 16 armed divisions (20,000 soldiers)
513 East Germans killed
Poznan riots
100,000 people
400 tanks, 10,000 soldiers
57-100+ deaths
one 13 year old boy
Hungarian revolution
Leader replaced with Imre Nagy who promised free and fair elections, restoration of farmland to private property, neutrality in cold war. Would leave the Warsaw Pact.
Soviets sent tanks and 250,000 soldiers in Budapest Nov 1956
3,000 Hungarians killed, 200,000 fled to Austria
Ike response to Hungary
rebels expected US aid but Ike said Hungary was ‘as inaccessible to us as Tibet’
Made a speech saying protestors are right and the world is with them but does nothing
Lebanon
Lebanese govt feared new Iraqi leader so asked for US help.
Sent marines who sat on the beach, left within a month, no shots fired.
Lebanese regime was secured
Sputnik
October 1957
many americans worried Soviets could send over nuclear warheads
Vanguard TV-3
December 1957
lost thrust after 2 seconds. As it settled fuel tanks ruptured and exploded, destroying the rocket and launchpad
Humiliating- Soviet delegate for UN inquired whether the US needed aid for ‘underdeveloped countries’
NASA
Created 1957 in response to Sputnik
U2 crisis
spy planes fly over Russia undetected to take pictures. After 4 years of flights, Gary Powers crashed 1960 but didn’t self destruct or commit suicide
Ike denied existence as he assumed no evidence, then claimed it was a meteorological mission but Soviets said there was a pilot. Finally admitted responsibility, humiliated
Korea
Went when first elected
Suggested he’d unless Nationalist Chinese Forces on Taiwan against China
Sent slightly veiled messages that he would use any force necessary
armistice signed July 27th 1953
