Eisenhower Era Conservatism

Eisenhower had many accomplishments during his terms. They include generating the U.S. Information Agency, and making Alaska and Hawaii as official states. Eisenhower also urged the invention of the Interstate Highway System while he was president. He also signed the 1957 Civil Rights Act and created an indefinite Civil Rights Commission and signed the bill to create the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Prior to World War I, the United States generally chose to follow Washington’s farewell address and stay out of “foreign entanglements”. The United States foreign policy from 1918 to 1953 shifted from isolationism or independent internationalism to a more involved internationalism and containment of communism due to various international events, economic conditions, and US public opinion.

During presidencies, Eisenhower and Truman both struggles on how they would end the cold war around the globe. They had high expectations on how they would prevent the war in crippled Europe using America‘s foreign policy.

Although Eisenhower was not a take charge kind of president, the country achieved a heightened level of prosperity. Economically, the 1950s were a pretty successful era. People had been saving their money through WW2 and they were ready to start buying houses, cars, etc. There was much inflation in the during the war, but it had quickly diminished as the years progressed. One of the issues that Eisenhower tried to address was to balance the federal budget of the nation. This was very difficult, especially since the families of the 50s were buying more and spending less with the use of credit cards.

During the post WWII period in America, the face of the nation changed greatly under the presidency of Truman and Eisenhower. America underwent another era of good feelings as they thought themselves undefeatable and superior over the rest of the world. Communism was the American enemy and American sought to rid the world of it. Because of the extreme paranoia caused by Communism, conformity became an ideal way to distinguish American Culture from the rest. Conformity became a part of every American Life to a large extent. It became evident through the medium of culture, society and politics throughout the era of the 50s.

This Era was called the Progressive movement, “The Progressive Era is unique in that this impulse spread to foster an all-encompassing mood and effort for reform”. Theodore Roosevelt was the president for half of the progressive era. Theodore Roosevelt came up many laws to help monitor business work environment and food safety, “the Meat Inspection Act was the beginning of federal regulation of the country’s meat, poultry, and egg products supply” (noto.com). This was big game changer it allows the government to regulate the meat companys, so people won’t get sick. Roosevelt wanted to get rid of the monopolies in America. Roosevelt broke more trusting busting than any other president. As you can see in the progressive era the government was regulating

During the years between 1920 and 1960, America saw change in many aspects of life. The United States was a part of two major wars and a crash of the banking system that crippled the economy greater than ever seen in this country’s history. Also the country had new insecurities to tackle such as immigration and poor treatment of workers. These events led to the change of America lives socially, economically, and politically. The people of America changed their ideas of what the country’s place in the world should be. The issues challenging America led the country to change from isolation to war, depression to prosperity, and social change. The threats to American way of life, foreign and domestic, were the changing forces to the

Immediately after World War II, the world was thrown into a massive ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, which culminated into the Cold War. The Cold War ignited overwhelming, panic-inducing fears across the United States, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, elected in 1952 and remained president until 1960, was faced with the challenge of quelling the fears of the American people. Americans during the Cold War, particularly during the presidency of Eisenhower, had constant fears of Soviet expansion, the pertinent anticommunist crusade at home, the spread of communism, and the neverending uneasiness of total nuclear annihilation, all fears which the Eisenhower administration would inadequately allay.

Eisenhower had many accomplishments, but I’ll only tell you about five major ones and Eisenhower’s main one out of five will be the last one. One of his main accomplishments is that he sponsored and signed the Civil Rights Bill of 1957. This was the first bill since reconstruction. Second he sponsored and signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Third, he balanced the budget, not just once, but up to three times. Fourth, he ended the Korean War, which he got all Americans and the Chinese to at least be persuaded on what would happen if they didn’t. Finally, this is one of the most greatest accomplishments is that he kept the American Peace- Eisenhower was confronted with major Cold War crises every year he was in office: Korea, Vietnam, Formosa, Suez, Hungary, Berlin, and the U-2. While more than once America seemed on the brink of war and those around him clamored to drop the Bomb, Eisenhower always kept a level head. He dealt calmly and rationally with each situation, always finding a solution that avoided war without diminishing America's prestige. He is important because he gave America days of peace in a level headed and peaceful type of meaningful ways. He gave people the ability to know he is there to talk about it not just get and jump the gun to pull the trigger. Eisenhower helped the American dream in many ways and saved the American people without them knowing it. He also used his ways and his power to create a competition not a fund raising warfare

Eisenhower implemented many domestic policies in this great nation that had a good effect among the people and their future. He continued and picked up Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. He also continued Harry Truman’s Fair Deal programs in the United States. Eisenhower also created the Interstate Highway System that is considered to be the single largest public works in the U.S. During Eisenhower's first term, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade the violated the civil liberties of many citizens, Eisenhower refrained from publicly criticizing McCarthy, He ended McCarthyism by refusing to release notes of a meeting between him and McCarthy. Eisenhower would not allow administration personnel to testify at the McCarthy

Liberals had dominated American society for most of the 1900s. The 1960s was widely known for being the age of counterculture, social reforms, and liberals. The era witnessed many advancements like racial equality such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a strong advancement in political liberalism, and a significant increase in the power and influence of government-funded social programs as a result of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society reforms. Beginning with the election of Nixon, however, followed a gradual return to conservatism whether religiously, politically, or economically. The resurgence of conservatism in American politics and government in the years 1964-2005, was caused in

With the overwhelming amount of Levittown houses, the obsession to obtain the perfect American “ideal family” as seen on TV and the unspoken agreement to fear any and all foreign ideas and values, the 1950s were revealed to be a decade of prosperity, conformity and consensus. Just ten years later the atmosphere in America was shockingly different; the 1960s were a decade of turbulence, protest and disillusionment due to the ongoing struggle for civil rights, arising feminism, and the Vietnam War.

Both President Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon were presidents during the cold war. Their uses of presidential power within foreign policy greatly shaped the United State’s strategies in cold war politics. Comparing their actions as Chief Diplomat, Chief Legislator, Chief Executive and Commander in Chief shows how they have used both their formal and informal powers to lead the nation. President Eisenhower was much more successful in gaining congress approval through working with them yet had much more trouble dealing with peace abroad. Nixon was able to use powers to make successful gains within the cold war abroad, yet had trouble

Some historians and political scientists have maintained that the post-war conservatism merged three significant yet contradictory elements, which at first existed independently. These elements include anticommunism, traditionalism, and libertarianism. President Eisenhower who succeeded Truman won the election by promising to rectify Truman’s failures, which included communism, Korea and corruption. And when Eisenhower came to power, he promptly ended the war in Korea. The war in Korea was largely opposed by conservatives. Eisenhower’s administration advocated for modern republicanism that favored minimal government expenditure, a small government, and balanced budget. President Eisenhower continued to adhere to the welfare policies as stipulated in the Roosevelt’s new deal. Eisenhower also made endeavors to eliminate conflict among racial and economic groups, and promoted prosperity, peace, and social harmony (Story and Laurie 4).

The 1950s in America are often described as a time of complacency. By contrast, the 1960s and 1970s were a time of great change. But the economy of the 70s was not stable because of the Oil crisis and presidents did not seem to find a solution to get the economy work again. For the right, the federal government had been spending too much money on the social programs. Conservatism believes that the best way to run a society is to maintain social and political framework and that the government should be as limited as possible,