Dwight D. Eisenhower had a long military career, serving as Supreme Allied Commander during World War 2 and later becoming the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. He was born in 1890 in Texas and graduated from West Point in 1915, going on to serve in various military roles until retiring in 1952 to run for president as a Republican. As president, Eisenhower ended the Korean War and worked to ease Cold War tensions through diplomacy and arms control agreements. He was reelected in 1956 and established several domestic programs before retiring in 1961.
By Mohamed Amine Ben Aicha
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Job Eloka Lenaie
Topics
- Timeline
- Global view
- Important peoples
- Nikita Kruschev
- John F. Kennedy
- Ronald Reagan
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Primary source
The Timeline:
August 6th 1945-United States dropped bomb on Hiroshima
August 14, 1945- End of the WW II
June 24, 1948- The Berlin blockade begins
April 4, 1949- NATO is formed
May 12,1949- Berlin blockade ends
June 1950-July 1953- Korean war begins and endsThe Cold War
May 1955- Warsaw Pact formed
May 1960- U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory
November 1960- John Kennedy became president
April 1961- Bay of Pigs
August 13,17- The border or Berlin is closed off;construction begins of the Berlin Wall
October 1962- Cuban Missile Crisis
November 1963- President Kennedy assassinated
July 20, 1969- Apollo 11 wins space race by landing on the moon
November 1989- Fall of the Berlin Wall
August 1991- End of the Cold War
Globale view:
The Cold War began to form after World War II. The disagreements started between 1947-1951. The world split into two large organizations NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and the Warsaw pact. Many people believed at that time that a nuclear war would start. The main tensions were between The Soviet Union (Russia) and The United States. Both sides and their allies were building up their weapons but did not use them. It was a fight between political systems for power.
Important people:
Nikita Kruschev (1894->1971)
John F. Kennedy (1917->1963)
Ronald Reagan(1911->2004)
Mikhail Gorbachev(1931-> )
Nikita Kruschev (1894-1971)
Nikita Kruschev was born on April 17, 1894 and died on September 11, 1971. After Joseph Stalin died Nikita Khrushchev became chief director of the Soviet Union. He was a strong believer in the communist party, and he became the First Secretary from September 7, 1953 to October 14, 1964. Khrushchev was Premier of the Soviet Union from March 27, 1958 to October 14, 1964. When he was 77 years old. He was notorious for his rudeness of interrupting speeches and removing his shoe to bang it on the podium during debates at the United Nations.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. He was in office from January 20, 1961 until November 22, 1963. Kennedy was the president during the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Vietnam war and the American Civil rights movement. On November 22end ,1963 Kennedy was in Dallas, Texas and was assassinated.
Ronald Reagan(1911-2004)
Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States on January 20, 1981 and left office on January 20, 1989. He was the governor of California from 1967 to 1975. Regan served two terms also partly during the cold war. He ordered a massive military buildup while racing against the Soviet Union. He later spoke with Mikhail Gorbachev and they shrunk the US and Russ
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2. Overview
• Born October 14, 1890, Denison, TX
• Died March 28, 1969 (aged 78), Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D.C.
• Member of the Republican Party
• 34th President of the United States (January 20, 1953-January 20, 1961)
• 1st Supreme Allied Commander Europe (April 2, 1951-May 30, 1952)
• 16th Chief of Staff of the Army (November 19, 1945-February 6, 1948)
• 1st Governor of the American Zone of Occupied Germany (May 8, 1945-November
10, 1945)
• 13th President of Columbia University (1948-1953)
Presidential portrait
3. Early life
• Dwight David Eisenhower, often known by his nickname Ike, was born on October 14, 1890 in
Denison, Texas, to David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower; he was the
third of seven sons.
• His parents moved from Abilene, Kansas to Denison, Texas, before his birth.
• In Denison, the family resided in a small house near the railroad tracks.
• David worked as a train-engine cleaner.
• The Eisenhower family moved back to Abilene when Dwight was a year and a half old so David
could find a better job at his brother-in-law’s creamery.
• When Dwight was four, his ten-month-old brother Paul died of diphtheria.
• Despite the premature tragedy, Dwight had a happy childhood in Abilene that he treasured all
through his life; among his happy memories were his days playing baseball and football at
Abilene High School.
Eisenhower’s birthplace, Denison,TX
5. Early life – cont.
• Eisenhower graduated from Abilene High School in 1909.
• He subsequently joined his father and uncle at the Belle Springs Creamery while also holding a
second job as a fireman; he used the money he made to help pay for his younger brother
Edgar’s tuition at the University of Michigan.
• The brothers had an agreement: they would alternate places so Edgar would work to pay for
Dwight’s college education, although Edgar never had to fulfill his part of the agreement.
• In 1911, Eisenhower landed a new job at the United States Military Academy in West Point,
New York, where attendance was free; he was once again a star player on the football field
until recurring knee injuries compelled him to stop playing.
• Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915, and was assigned as a second lieutenant.
Belle Springs Creamery postcard
7. Military Career
• After he graduated from West Point, Eisenhower was deployed in Texas; here, he met and
began dating eighteen-year-old Mamie Geneva Doud from Denver, Colorado.
• The couple married nine months later, on July 1, 1916; the same day, Eisenhower was
promoted to first lieutenant.
• During the first few years of Eisenhower’s military career, he and Mamie relocated from post
to post throughout Texas, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
• In 1917, they gave birth to their first son, Doud Dwight; the same year, the United States
entered World War I.
• Though Eisenhower expected that he would be assigned abroad, he was instead assigned to
supervise a tank-training center at Camp Colt in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• During the war and subsequently, Eisenhower continued to advance through the ranks; by
1920, he reached the rank of major after he volunteered for the Tank Corps in the War
Department’s first pancontinental motor procession the year before.
The Eisenhower's wedding portrait
8. Military Career – cont.
• Disaster hit the family in 1921 when Doud Dwight died of scarlet fever at only the age of three.
• The following year, the couple gave birth to a second son, John Sheldon David; the same year,
Eisenhower undertook the role of executive officer to General Fox Conner in the Panama
Canal Zone.
• In 1924, at Conner’s advice, Eisenhower petitioned for the Army’s prestigious graduate school,
the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; he was accepted.
• He went on to graduate at the top of his class of 245 in 1926, with a firm standing for his
military skill.
• Eisenhower explored and reported for the War Department, under General John Pershing,
from 1927 to 1929; after he finished his tour, Eisenhower was made chief military aide under
General Douglas MacArthur.
• From 1935 to 1939, Eisenhower served under MacArthur as associate military advisor to the
Philippines.
• He returned to the United States early in 1940.
Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, KS
9. Military Career – cont.
• Eisenhower was posted in California and Washington state during the next two years.
• Following a relocation to Fort Sam Houston in 1941, he became Chief of Staff for the Third
Army; he was soon made brigadier general for his leadership of the Louisiana Maneuvers.
• He was allocated to the War Plans division in Washington, D.C. late that year.
• In 1942, he was made major general; just months later, he reached the rank of Commander-in-
chief of the Allied Forces and directed Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa.
• On June 6, 1944, Eisenhower commanded the Allied forces in the invasion of Normandy,
codenamed Operation Overlord; six months later, he advanced to five-star rank.
• After Germany’s surrender and the subsequent collapse of the Nazi régime in 1945,
Eisenhower was made military governor of the U.S. Occupied Zone.
• He returned home to Abilene after the war ended and was greeted enthusiastically; he was
appointed U.S. Army Chief of Staff a few months later.
Normandy landings, June 6, 1944
10. Military Career – cont.
• He was elected President of Columbia University in 1948; he held that position until December
1950, when he decided to leave Columbia to accept a position as first Supreme Allied
Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
• During his time in Paris with NATO, Republican representatives persuaded him to run for
President of the United States.
Eisenhower at Paris NATO headquarters, 1951
11. President of the United States, 1953-1961
• Eisenhower stepped down from active service in 1952 and returned to Abilene to announce his
candidacy for the Republican Party nomination; his campaign slogan was “I Like Ike”.
• On November 4, 1952, Eisenhower, a fiscal conservative and social liberal, was elected the
thirty-fourth President of the United States in a landslide victory over Adlai Stevenson II.
• His domestic policy resumed the policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and Fair Deal
programs.
• In foreign policy, Eisenhower focused on easing Cold War tensions through military
cooperation.
Eisenhower, surrounded by supporters, campaigns
for president
13. President of the United States, 1953-1961 – cont.
• Just after he assumed office in January 1953, Eisenhower coordinated a cease fire that ended
the Korean War.
• Also in 1953, he delivered his prominent “Atoms for Peace” speech at the United Nations
General Assembly.
• The United States and the Soviet Union had both developed atomic bombs during World War
II; the speech encouraged employing atomic energy to diplomatic purposes, and discouraged
using it for artillery and combat.
• In 1955, Eisenhower met with Soviet, British, and French representatives in Geneva to further
prevent the danger of atomic war.
Eisenhower delivers his “Atoms for Peace” speech at the UN
General Assembly, NewYork City, December 8, 1953
15. President of the United States, 1953-1961 – cont.
• Eisenhower won election to a second term on November 6, 1956, and won by an even wider
margin in a rematch against Adlai Stevenson II, despite having only recently recovered from a
heart attack.
• He continued to push for his Atoms for Peace program during his second term.
• Just before he was reelected, his administration grappled with the anti-communist uprising in
Hungary and the Suez crisis; the U.S. military later intervened in the Lebanon crisis in July
1958.
• Important domestic accomplishments of his presidency include the establishment of the U.S.
Information Agency and the admission of Alaska and Hawaii into the union.
• The Interstate Highway System was created during his administration.
• He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and set up a permanent Civil Rights Commission;
moreover, he was responsible for signing the bill to found the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).
Interstate Highway plan, September 1955
17. President of the United States, 1953-1961 – cont.
• On January 17, 1961, Eisenhower delivered a televised farewell address that warned the nation
of the growing threat of the Cold War “military-industrial complex”.
• Three days later, he was succeeded by John F. Kennedy, and attended the latter’s
inauguration.
Eisenhower’s farewell address, January 17, 1961
18. Eisenhower shakes hands with Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration,
January 20, 1961
19. Later life
• Following a two-term presidency, Eisenhower spent his final years at a farmhouse in
Gettysburg with his wife.
• While he stepped down from his position as a general eight years earlier, his successor John F.
Kennedy revitalized Eisenhower’s commission.
• He additionally preserved an office at Gettysburg College for the rest of his life; he held
gatherings there and wrote his memoirs.
• Eisenhower died on March 28, 1969 at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C.,
following a long period of undergoing a heart-related sickness.
• Aside from a state funeral in the nation’s capital, a military funeral was held in Eisenhower’s
hometown of Abilene.
Eisenhower’s state funeral