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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1953-1961 2 term President. Eisenhower. Political Party: Republican Vice President: Richard Nixon. Eisenhower. Domino Theory Belief that if one country falls to communism others in the same region will fall too!. Brinkmanship

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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  1. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961 2 term President

  2. Eisenhower Political Party: Republican Vice President: Richard Nixon

  3. Eisenhower • Domino Theory • Belief that if one country falls to communism others in the same region will fall too! • Brinkmanship • Willingness to go to the brink of war

  4. Eisenhower • Launching of Sputnik • USSR launched the first satellite into space. • US felt inferior and decides to send a man to the moon! NASA

  5. Eisenhower • SEATO • South East Asian Treaty Organization = the NATO of the Pacific • Suburbanization: • Kenmore • Needed cars • Free time • Suburban dreams of owning a home

  6. Interstate Highway Act 1956 • Building of a nationwide highway network • 41,000 miles of expressway • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYoRfyUux0 More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America. ... Its impact on the American economy - the jobs it would produce in manufacturing and construction, the rural areas it would open up - was beyond calculation.

  7. Warren Court • Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren served during the Presidency’s of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

  8. Warren Court Cases • Brown V. Board of Education • Separate IS NOT EQUAL! Must integrate facilities • Miranda v. Arizona • Rights must be read to you when you are arrested • Engel v. Vitale • Banned Public Prayer in school • Tinker v. Des Moines • Extends freedom of speech to symbolic speech

  9. Warren Court • Promotes the rights of the accused – free legal counsel, illegally seized evidence can not be used in a state trial

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