John Foster Dulles

Examples of John Foster Dulles in the following topics:

• Containment to Rollback

  • Republican spokesman John Foster Dulles took the lead in promoting a rollback policy.
  • Eisenhower was elected, he appointed Dulles as secretary of state.
  • Devised primarily by Dulles, this so-called "New Look" at foreign policy proposed the use of nuclear weapons and new technology—rather than ground troops and conventional bombs—to threaten "massive retaliation" against the USSR for Communist advances abroad.

• The Nuclear Arms Race

  • Both Soviet and American experts hoped to use nuclear weapons for extracting concessions from the other, or from other powers such as China, but the risk connected with using these weapons was so grave that they refrained from what John Foster Dulles referred to as brinkmanship.

• Containment in Foreign Policy

  • Many Republicans, including John Foster Dulles, concluded that Truman had been too timid.
  • In 1952, Dulles called for rollback and the eventual "liberation" of eastern Europe.
  • Dulles was named Secretary of State by incoming President Dwight Eisenhower, but Eisenhower's decision not to intervene during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 made containment a bipartisan doctrine.

• The Eisenhower Administration

  • Eisenhower, working with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles, intensified CIA activities under the pretense of resisting the spread of communism in poorer countries.
  • In 1954, he sent Allen Welsh Dulles as a delegate to the Geneva Conference, which ended the First Indochina War and temporarily partitioned Vietnam into a Communist northern half (under Ho Chi Minh) and a non-Communist southern half (under Ngo Dinh Diem).
  • Designed by Secretary of State Dulles, it held the U.S. would be "prepared to use armed force ...

• War Debts and Reparations

  • American diplomat John Foster Dulles—one of the two authors of the Article—later regretted the wording used, believing it further aggravated the German people.
  • The British economist John Maynard Keynes, in his best-selling 1919 book, argued that reparations threatened to destabilize the German economy and hence German politics.

• Tension with the USSR

  • Although John Foster Dulles, the United States Secretary of State recommended on October 24 for the United Nations Security Council to convene to discuss the situation in Hungary, little immediate action was taken to introduce a resolution, in part because other world events unfolded the day after the peaceful interlude started, when allied collusion started the Suez Crisis.
  • When Nagy did come to power, CIA director Allen Dulles advised the White House that Cardinal Mindszenty would be a better leader (due to Nagy's communist past); he had CIA radio broadcasts run propaganda against Nagy, calling him a traitor who'd invited Soviet troops in.

• Alliteration

  • "I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts."
  • "To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required--not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. " --John F.

• Steps to Smooth Organizational Change: Kotter

  • Kotter's model details a process where managers may initiate, direct, implement, and foster organizational change via employee engagement.
  • John Paul Kotter (born 1947) is a former professor at the Harvard Business School, an acclaimed author, and Chief Innovation Officer at Kotter International.
  • Don't let up: Managers must foster and encourage determination, persistence, and ongoing progress reporting.
  • Employ John Paul Kotter's eight step model to outline steps toward smooth and efficient change in an organization

• References

  • John-Steiner, S.
  • Fostering cooperative learning in middle and secondary level classrooms.

• The Eight Intelligences

  • Some real life examples people who are gifted with this intelligence are Albert Einstein, Niehls Bohr, and John Dewey.
  • Teachers can foster this intelligence by utilizing charts, graphs, diagrams, graphic organizers, videotapes, color, art activities, doodling, microscopes and computer graphics software.
  • Teachers can best foster this intelligence by using relationships among systems of species, and classification activities.
  • Charles Darwin and John Muir are examples of people gifted in this way.