W3: Partisan Politics Debate History Coursework Paper

American Politics.
DATE \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" December 17, 2020
1.Revisit the transition from Truman to Eisenhower and the fact that despite Truman's low approval rating (23%) upon leaving the White House, most historians rank him as a "near-great president." Reflect on this assessment in regards to foreign and domestic events.
 Raised in Kansas, David Eisenhower was the thirty-fourth president of the united states and one of America's great republican leaders. He was the true embodiment of what the republican party stands for. During his tenure as president, one of his aims was to control communism and isolation foreign policies, and reduce federal deficits. In his tenure, there was the invasion of North Africa through the invasion of the Suez Canal by the British, Israel, and France, which he condemned and forced them to return. Eisenhower used the threat of nuclear war with China, which forced China to agree to an armistice that ended the Korean war. The armistice is still in place to date. The 34th president created a national security policy called the new look, a policy that sought to balance America's military commitments with the countries financial resources. He accomplished this by investing in cheap nuclear plans and reduced expenses for the army. Eisenhower recognized Taiwan as the true government of China. On the domestic front, he expanded social security and established the national defense education act. During his eight-year tenure, there was widespread economic growth in the country. NASA was one of the institutions he set up to chase up on the Soviets, who were already exploring space. To an extent, he was republican. He never publicly commented on racial segregation and did not endorse a supreme court decision that segregation was unconstitutional. 
2.Analyze the developments from 1945 to 1950 that increased suspicion and tension leading to the Red Scare rise of McCarthyism
The red scare is a period in American history that includes McCarthyism and was a series of investigations that tried to expose communist infiltration in the united states. Senator John McCarthy saw communism infiltrated in the government and sort to address and exposed them in a series of interviews, most without evidence. McCarthyism capitalized on the political recession and fear of communism in America. The red scare was triggered when the president signed an executive order to screen fe...