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* 30 yrs. In military
* Bonus Army
* led American, British & Canadian troops in Africa
•D-Day Invasion in France
(Truman doesn’t run for another term)
Federal Highway Act 40,000 miles of highway 1956
Eisenhower wanted to make the government “smaller rather than bigger.”
When President Eisenhower left office (1961) the federal budget had a surplus of excess of $300 million dollars….Today we are in debt 14 trillion dollars
Arms Race???
*missiles
*hydrogen bombsBoth nations built more weapons
People prepared by building air-raid shelters in basements & backyards…schools had air raid drills
NASA: National Aeronautics & Space Administration….
Successfully launched Explorer…1958
Project Mercury was the 1st US program to put an astronaut in space
Apollo 11 landed the first man on the moon…1969
Domino Theory“You have a row of dominoes set up. You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.” Eisenhower
Brief Thaw
Nikita Khrushhev
Summit:A meeting of heads of government..After the Geneva summit a policy of “peaceful coexistence” immerged.
1. Both want ease of tensions2. Summit between heads of government
(1955)3. Disarmament discussed/German
unification4. Krushchev comes to U.S. (1959)5. Paris, 19606. Frances Powers/May 1960/brief thaw over
1960
An American Culture
*Billy Graham*Norman V. Peale*Fulton J. Sheen*Joshua Loth Liebman
“Bring the whole family to church”“A family that prays together stays together”