Congress calling for a new and more proactive American policy in the region. The Eisenhower Harry S. Truman , the 33rd U. In the White House from to , Truman made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan, helped rebuild postwar Europe, worked to Dwight D.
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July 26, Eisenhower announces Korean armistice. Eisenhower addresses the American public and announces an armistice in Korea. August 1, Eisenhower proposes Social Security coverage increase.
August 7, Refugee Relief Act of August 19, Iranians overthrow Mossadegh. September 10, Secretary of Labor resigns. September 30, Eisenhower appoints Earl Warren. October 8, Eisenhower announces that the Soviet Union has tested a hydrogen bomb. December 8, January 11, Eisenhower sends a special message. March 8, April 23, McCarthy hearings begin.
McCarthyism and the Red Scare. May 7, France surrenders at Dien Bien Phu. France surrenders its garrison at Dien Bien Phu to the Vietminh. America's Vietnam.
May 13, Eisenhower signs Wiley-Dander Seaway Act. May 17, Topeka Board of Education. Board of Education. June 18, Guatemalan Guzman coup. July 11, July 21, Geneva Agreements of September 8, November 2, The Democratic Party narrowly regains control of both houses of Congress. December 2, The United States signs a mutual defense pact with Taiwan. January 10, Chinese Communists v Nationalists. January 19, First filming of press conference.
The first filming of a presidential press conference. January 21, Eisenhower meets Dulles and Wilson. March 16, Atomic potential against China. April 11, May 31, July 12, Geneva will not be Yalta. July 18, Geneva Conference opens. July 29, August 28, Emmett Till lynched in Mississippi.
September 24, Eisenhower suffers heart attack. October 10, Autherine Lucy integrates University of Alabama. November 15, Adlai Stevenson announces run. Adlai Stevenson announces that he will run for President in November 25, ICC bans segregated transportation.
The Interstate Commerce Commission bans racial segregation on interstate trains and buses. December 1, Parks takes a seat to take a stand. The struggle for civil rights. December 5, December 26, Eisenhower pushes post on Nixon. January 30, Autherine Lucy officially admitted. February 22, Peaceful atomic purposes. February 29, Eisenhower announces run. Eisenhower announces that he will run for a second term as President.
March 12, He enforced the Supreme Court's decision of Brown v. Eisenhower also authorized the construction of an interstate highway system and an increase of the minimum wage. While Eisenhower strongly opposed communism, he refused to engage in the hunt for communists in America led by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and others. Eisenhower's foreign policy centered on the Cold War. The president tried to ease tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union and met with the premier of the Soviet Union on two separate occasions.
At the same time, Eisenhower attempted to stop the spread of communism. He promised aid to any nation facing the threat of communism. As an example of this policy, Eisenhower sent American soldiers to South Vietnam to serve as military advisers. In , Eisenhower could not seek a third term as president. An amendment to the United States Constitution limited a president to two terms in office.
Upon completing his term in , Eisenhower retired to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He died on March 28, Mamie gave birth to a second son, John Sheldon Doud, in Leavenworth, Kansas, and was accepted.
He graduated first in his class of in , with a firm reputation for his military prowess. After finishing his tour in , Eisenhower was appointed chief military aide under General Douglas MacArthur.
From to Eisenhower served under MacArthur as assistant military advisor to the Philippines. Eisenhower returned to the United States in early Over the next two years, he was stationed in California and Washington state. Eisenhower was soon promoted to brigadier general for his leadership of the Louisiana Maneuvers. Late that year he was transferred to the War Plans division in Washington, D. In , he was promoted to major general. In December of that year, he was promoted to five-star rank.
After Germany's surrender in , he was made military governor of the U. Occupied Zone. Eisenhower then returned home to Abilene and received a hero's welcome. A few months later, he was appointed U.
Army chief of staff. In , he was elected president of Columbia University, a position he held until December of when he decided to leave Columbia to accept an appointment as first Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In Eisenhower retired from active service and returned to Abilene to announce his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination. On November 4, , after winning the election by a landslide, Eisenhower was elected the United States' 34th president.
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