DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
By: Will Brown
Early Life He was born in
Texas in 1890 He was very good at
sports He went to West
Point Met his future wife in
Texas
Education Eisenhower
attended West Point and graduated in the top half of his class
Army Career Started as a 2nd Lt. in Texas after graduating from
West Point Was made the overall leader in the assault on
Normandy Later became the Supreme Allied Commander in
the European Theater
Before the presidency After the war he took
a job as the president of Columbia University
He was later granted command of the NATO forces
Some Republicans in Paris convinced him to run for president in the early 50’s on their ticket
Job Training His job training mainly came from his being a
general in the military. He took this and applied it to his presidency by
using the threat of force to make enemies back down
Suez Canal Crisis When the Suez Canal crisis
occurred Eisenhower threatened to use nuclear weapons on all involved if hostilities did not cease.
The U-2 Incident
In 1960 a US pilot in a U-2 plane was shot down while taking pictures of the Soviet Union
This led to the Soviet leader Khrushchev to not attend a scheduled peace summit out of anger
I Like Ike The motto for his campaign was “I Like Ike”
The Interstates
Eisenhower saw the autobahn system in Germany and realized the US needed one too for military transportation
Quotes A people that values its
privileges above its principles soon loses both
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy
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