"Eisenhower Diplomacy: Guns, Butter, Nukes, and Space"
In the Introduction lesson, the thesis seems to be that Eisenhower was so effective in the use of his power and influence that he managed things such as: a balanced budget, keeping the economy stable, the containment of communism, and ending the war in Korea. In 1952, Eisenhower only spent about 1/10 of our annual budget and the Soviets had spent so much money they had to choose between guns or butter. The Russians had launched the first satellite into orbit around the world and the U.S. clapped back by creating NASA.NASA put the United States back on top from there on out. From this lesson, I learned that Eisenhower sent a plane over to Siberia to spy on them and lied about it when Khrushchev …show more content…
During the 1950s, the invention rate was higher than ever and everything was in the Americans favor far as money, jobs, educational opportunities and more leisure time. Air conditioning, electric heating, television, interstate highways systems, pornography, and automobile transportation was just the start of the many inventions during the 1950s.Do to blacks moving into white neighborhoods, whites upped and moved because of the racial aspect of it. I never knew that Rock and Roll was just an imitation of black musicians for whites. An interesting thing I learned was that T.V. to a certain extent taught kids more than they learned from school. I can kind of second that because just from watching tv you can learn a lot. During 1950s, pornography was started by a man named Hugh Hefner using Playboy magazine. In the case Roth vs. United States, pornography was labeled illegal and told not to be sent through U.S. mail but later in 1973 that rule was