dwight eisenhower- Ike is a nickname kinda for dwight eisenhower. he gradtuated highschool in 1909. he attended west point for college and graduated there in 1915. his first son died and they had another son. he was a football coach for what is now saint marys college. he was appointed chief of war plans and then cheif of staff in ww2 and eventually he became president in 1943. the policy containment became a big problem in his presidency just like truman. he promised to end the korean war in 1952 and he did it. he developed the idea of using nuclear weapons on defense only instead of attacking the other people and destroying the world. he started NASA. we felt because of sputnik that we were falling behind the soviet union in the 50s. at first we made some spy planes that the missels and stuff from soviets couldnt reach until they upgraded and then captured a man from us and eisenhower got caught in a lie but it was alright a while after.
the eisenhower doctrine- said that we would give money and millitary aid to any middle eastern country that needed it from us and requested it from us.
he believed in a balanced budget, he was one of the last presidents who had one. one bad thing he did was deported thousands of immagrants. he set up the interstate system that we have today.
JFK- he was the first catholic president. people thought that the pope might be the leader if a catholic was elected. he was the second youngest of all time to be president. he was 35th president, he went to harvard and got a 4 year degree, he beat richard nixon by only 100 votes out of 68 million people. nixon was dwight eisenhowers vice president for 8 years. many people say that the first televised debates with a president JFK helped him win the election. kennedy and johnson didnt like each other very well, and some people even say that johnson had something to do with kennedy"s assasination. cold war dominated kennedy's presidency. the berlin wall was built in 1961. bay of pigs invation happened, so did cuban missile crisis. kennedy started sending green barraite's over to viet nam. in iraq the CIA got rid of the communist gov. that sadam husain was a part of.
JFK's new frontier was funding and creating education, medical care for the elderly, economic aid to rural regions, and gov. intervention to halt the recession, and racial descrimination.
The peace core was created by kennedy meant for young people to go around and help people that are less fortunate. the wage stuff was found in the 60s. we felt behind in the space race. nixon was president when we went to the moon for the first time. lee harvey oswald was an ex marine and he shot JFK and then got shot and killed by jack rube before he had a chance to get to trial.
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