Eisenhower - Domestic Policy

How many calories would an average American consume per day

3000

What was HEW

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

When was HEW started

1953

What did HEW oversee in 1955

Distribution of the new polio vaccine

How many Americans contracted polio in the 1952 epidemic

Over 57,000

What did Eisenhower mean when he described himself as “dynamic conservative”

Conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to human beings

What evidence do we have the Eisenhower was dynamic conservatist

Creation of HEW, established national parks, continued free school lunches, construction of interstate highways

What evidence do we have that Eisenhower was not dynamic conservatist

Expanded social security, expanded unemployment benefits, raised minimum wage, 1958 National Defense Education Act, no effort to integrate schools, Jim Crow laws in existence, limited voting rights

Why was inflation kept low

Eisenhower was obsessed with balancing the budget

When did Eisenhower vote for the first time

1948

In what years did Eisenhower balance the budget

1956, 1957, and 1960

How did Eisenhower expand social security

Covered 10 million more people

By how much was minimum wage raised

25%

What republican ideas did raising the minimum wage challenge

The free market

What did Ike do in terms of public housing

500 million dollars for low-income public housing

When was Eisenhowers National Defence Education Act

1958

What was the National Defence Education Act

Low-cost loans to college students and federal funds to improve science, maths and MFL courses

How many new cars were manufactured in 1955

7.9 million

When was McDonalds started

1954

What happened in the recession of 1958

5 million unemployed

How did McCarthyism end

1954 - televised hearings on communists in the army and the senate voted to censure him, died in 1957

What did the Soil Bank Act do

Removed farmland form production to reduce large crop surpluses after WW2

When was the Soil Bank Act

1956

What did the 23rd amendment do

Allowed citizens in DC to vote in presidential elections without being registered to vote in a different state

By how much did factory wages rise between 1953 and 1957

8.6%

Around what were Hempstead houses priced

$8000 (two and a half times the average family income)

By 1960 what percentage of US homes owned a TV

90%

How was Eisenhower able to win the Republican nomination

Selected Nixon as his running mate appealing to the old guard

Who were the old guard

Conservative republicans

What did Eisenhower say to appeal during the 1952 election

Criticised democratic failures at Yalta

Said that Truman was soft on Communism

Promised to end the Korean War

What did the 1958 National Defence Education Act do

Gave low cost loans to college students, funds to states to improve courses in science, maths and mfl

After a 1959 budget deficit, Eisenhower agreed to huge spending cuts which lead to….

Recession