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Essay Instructions: Eisenhower's New Look foreign policy relied heavily on the threat of using nuclear weapons. describe the doctrine of " massive retaliation" how it cam about and its primary goals and purposes. How did this policy affect U.S relations with its allies?

Essay Instructions: Of the 6 required sources; 2 Primary sources required; 4 secondary sources required, of which 2 must be books.
APA abstract required.
Page numbers at bottom center.
Bibliography has NO page number.

My thesis statement is as follows:

In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared the construction of an elaborate expressway system was "essential to national interest."

Essay Instructions: please use footnotes
please use some if the following resources:
Cooper, John Milton. Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920. New York: Norton, 1990.
Hamby, Alonzo L. Liberalism and Its Challengers: From F.D.R. to Bush. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Patterson, James T. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush V. Gore. The Oxford history of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.


What impact did Eisenhower’s status as a military hero have on his presidency? What was the crisis of Republican conservatism and how was it regenerated?

Essay Instructions: Here are the issues I would like to address:

1. Eisenhower campaigned in 1952 for a "roll back" of the red menance which he termed his foreign policy as the "New Look," but what were the foreign policy realities during his eight (8) years in office?

2. What were Eisenhower's "highpoints" with dealing with overseas issues and the challenges that were posed by Communism?

3. What were Eisenhower's "lowpoints" with with dealing with overseas issues and the challenges that were posed by Communism?

4. Could there have been some other alternatives available between the "high and low points?"