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Question 1

Evaluate the following statement: The Eisenhower Administration's foreign policy used the rhetoric of confrontation with the Soviet Union but practiced peaceful coexistence.
 
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Which statement best describes the Eisenhower Administration's role in the civil rights movement?
 
  a. Eisenhower himself pressured courts to apply Brown v. Board of Education as broadly as possible.
  b. Vice President Richard Nixon called for a law that would make the federal government responsible for registering black voters.
  c. Attorney General Herbert Brownell drafted the 1957 Civil Rights Act that created a Civil Rights Commission.
  d. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles claimed that segregation laws in the United States encouraged newly emerging African states to go Communist.



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Answer 1

Eisenhower and many other Republicans were elected while condemning containment as appeasement and promising to roll back communism. But once in office, Ike found that massive expenditures on defense challenged his domestic plans. Ike's solution was to talk about going to the brink but to look for ways of avoiding war through alliances. The American response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 is a case in point of how the administration stood by while Soviet tanks crushed an anti-Communist revolt.

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