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Hace 2 días · The 34th U.S. president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was supreme commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II. He is shown here in 1956, at the age of 66. Critics contended that there were frequent disparities between the administration’s words and its deeds in the field of foreign relations.
Hace 4 días · In his Farewell Address he warned against the rise and power of “the military-industrial complex,” but his successors ignored him amid the perceived demands of the Cold War. When he left office, Congress restored his rank as general of the army.
Hace 4 días · Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote in his memoir The White House Years: In 1945 Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan.
Hace 4 días · United States - Cold War, Economy, Politics: Despite suffering a heart attack in 1955 and a case of ileitis that required surgery the next year, Eisenhower stood for reelection in 1956. His opponent was once again Stevenson. Two world crises dominated the campaign.
Hace 1 día · While that war was, initially, a war of decolonization, it became a central battleground of the Cold War by 1950. ... American involvement in Vietnam was most often explained in terms of the Domino Theory, articulated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the eve of the Geneva Conference of 1954.
Hace 5 días · Sound recording of a telephone conversation held on October 28, 1962, between President John F. Kennedy and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. They discuss dealings with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev for ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Hace 3 días · Cold War: Truman led the nation into the Cold War in 1947, a period of heightened tensions and rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. Truman helped form the NATO military alliance.
