1. the Eisenhower Doctrine
The Eisenhower doctrine was proposed by Dwight Eisenhower in January 1957 and was passed by congress the same year in March, just 2 months later. In the Eisenhower doctrine, a country could request American military assistance if being threatened by armed aggressors from other states. This doctrine was proposed because of Arab hostility and growing Soviet influence in Syria and Egypt following the Suez crisis of 1956. What happened in the Suez crisis was the Egyptian government seized the Suez canal from the British and French owned company that was running it. The Crisis challenged the stability of Allies of the United States, France and Great Britain. President Eisenhower had feared that the crisis opened the door for more soviet influence in the Middle East.
2. Brown v. Board of Education
African- American children in Topeka, Kansas were denied enrollment from the all white schools due to rules allowing for separate, but equal facilities. The separate but equal facilities law was but in after the 1896 Supreme Court ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson. This ruling made it that all separate facilities had to be of equal quality. The Brown decision made the separate but equal law obsolete and the 13th amendment no longer true. As the 13th amendment states that equality could be met through segregation.
Portrait of President Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower.
President Eisenhower at his desk.
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