Today we were assigned our second to last blog. Then we went over the powerpoint thing.
Eisenhower's Presidential Accomplishments:
-used CIA to do alot of covert operations
-ended Korean Conflict
-SEATO was formed
-South East Asian Treaty Organization
-NASA created due to Soviet Sputnik launch
-Eisenhower Doctrine
-beilieved in laissez-faire
-deported around 1 million illegal immigrants (mostly mexicans)
-set up the U.S. interstates
President John F. Kennedy:
-served in WW2
-married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
-first and only Catholic president
-youngest elected president and second youngest president
-assassinated in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald
-US reprisentative and Senator from Massachusetts before becoming President
-encouraged to get a man on the moon---Moonshot Speech
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