April 23, 2012

Dwight Eisenhower- James

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-preisedent

Diagonosed with Chron's Disease and had a minor stroke whil president

Dominated by the cold war containment policy

Also used by the CIA to do covert ops to distrupt communist governments abroad (Iran/Guatamala)

Opened relations with Spain

Ended the Korean Conflict as promised in his 1952 election campaign

US spy plane (U-2) was shot down over the USSR

Believed in Laissez-faire

Believed in Balanced budget

made the interstate system

John F. Kennedy- Dirk and Ashley

Served in WWII

Was a US Represenitive and senitor from Massachusetts before becoming Preisedent

Married Jacqueline Lee Bouver

First and only Catholic Preisident

Youngest elected preisident and the second youngest preisident

There was alot more democratic votes that year he was democratic and nixion was Repulbican

Bay of pigs invasion-1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

 

went to the moon July of 1969

 

 

 

 

 

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