Assigned blog #8: due Sunday
Eisenhower:
-Famous WWII general
-decided to join the republican party after WWIi
-This all but guaranteed him a win in the 1952 election
-Richard Nixon was his Vice-President
-Diagnosed with Crhons disease and had a minor stroke while president
-began interstate highway system
-launched space race
-Ended Korean conflict
-Developed idea that nuclear weapons would be defensive weapons
-believed in laissez-faire
-Believed in a balanced budget
-Deported around 1 million illegal immigrants
-Send Federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to help in the desgregation of all public schools-1954- Brown Case
-Helped pass the federalpAid Highway Act of 1956 which created US interstate Highways
Kennedy:
-born in Massachusetts
-Served in WWII
-Was a US Representative and Senator from Massachusetts before becoming President
-Married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
-First and only Catholic President
-Youngest elected president and second youngest president
-Assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas by Lee harvey Oswald
-Cold war issues dominated Kennedys presidency
-Berlin wall was built
-Bay of Pigs invasion
-Cuban MIssile Crisis
-Alliance for progress with Latin America
-Kennedy increased the number of helicopters,military advisors and undeclared U,S Special Forces in the Vietnam
-Nuclear test ban treaty was signed
The New Frontier:
-promised federal funding for:
-education
-medical care for elderly
-economic aid to rural regions and
-government invervention to halt the recession
-end of racial discrimination
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