AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Joyce

Read in the textbook chapter 22, section 4 only ("Eisenhower's Cold War Policies") on pages 782-788 and and answer the questions below (be sure you are able to identify the bold, italicized terms):

1. What was the policy known as "massive retaliation"?

2. How did President Eisenhower's nuclear strategy lead to the development of new technologies (see "Technologies and History" on page 783)?

3. Explain "brinksmanship".

4. How did President Eisenhower use the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in his fight against communism?

5. What was the "Eisenhower Doctrine"?

6. Why did Eisenhower warn the American people about the military-industrial complex?

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Read in the textbook chapter 24, section #2 only ("JFK and the Cold War") on pages 830-835 and answer the following questions (be sure to be able to identify the bold, italicized terms):

7. President John Kennedy felt that President Eisenower had relied too much upon nuclear weapons in the Cold War and preferred a "flexible response" approach. Explain this approach.

8. What was the "Alliance for Progress" program?

9. What was the purpose of the "Peace Corps"?

10. How did outer space become part of the Cold War?

11. What was the effect of the Bay of Pigs disaster on the Kennedy administration?

12. How did the Berlin Wall come to symbolize the Cold War?

13. What were the consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

14. What were the conclusions of the Warren Commission about President Kennedy's assassination in 1963?