HIST 2340W Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: American Exceptionalism, Nikita Khrushchev, Iron Curtain
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Eisenhower ends democrats 20 year hold on the white house. Doesn"t run out of discontent for fdr and truman"s foreign policy, he had actually helped to implement some of these as nato commander in chief. Thought having one party in power for so long as bad for democracy, worried that truman"s emphasize on domestic spending could lead to socialism. Motives: reduce domestic spending, save republican party, fear of military industrial complex. Very extremist views held by some in the republican party. Taft believed in a neo-isolationism (pull back from expensive commitments), Others like mcarthur calling for all out war against china. Eisenhower needed a foreign policy to differentiate him from the. Democrats and the radicals of his own party. Helped eisenhower create his foreign policy goals. Conservative, deeply religious man who viewed cold war as a classic battle between good and evil. His appointment helped eisenhower gain support in the republican party.
