Early+Cold+War+Reading+Objectives

__**After reading this section, you should be able to:**__ 1.Describe the Republicans’ return to power under Eisenhower and the rise and decline of McCarthyism. 2.Describe the practice of Eisenhower Republicanism in the 1950s, including domestic consequences of the Cold War. 3.Outline the Eisenhower-Dulles approach to the Cold War and the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. 4. Indicate how Eisenhower’s foreign policy was implemented in Vietnam, the Middle East, and Cuba. 5.Describe the issues and outcome of the tight Kennedy-Nixon presidential campaign of 1960. 6.Analyze the theory of Kennedy’s doctrine of flexible response to communist challenges around the world and its application in Vietnam.

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