Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

• 1953-1961
• 2 term President

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Eisenhower

• Political Party
• Republican
• Vice President
• Richard Nixon

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Eisenhower

• Domino Theory
• Belief that if one country falls to communism
  others in the same region will fall too!

• Brinkmanship
• Willingness to go to the brink of war

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Eisenhower

• Launching of Sputnik
• USSR launched the first satellite into space.
• US felt inferior and wanted to catch up

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Eisenhower

• SEATO
• South East Asian Treaty Organization the NATO
  of the Pacific

• Suburbanization
• Homes around cities cookie cutter
• Needed cars
• Leisure class
• Suburban dreams

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Interstate Highway Act 1956

• Building of a nationwide highway network
• 41,000 miles of expressway
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vlrYoRfyUux0

More than any single action by the government
since the end of the war, this one would change
the face of America. ... Its impact on the
American economy - the jobs it would produce in
manufacturing and construction, the rural areas
it would open up - was beyond calculation.
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Warren Court

• Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren served
  during the Presidencys of Eisenhower, Kennedy
  and Lyndon Baines Johnson
• Many landmark cases were heard by this court

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Warren Court

• Brown V. Board of Education
• Separate IS NOT EQUAL! Must integrate facilities
• Miranda v. Arizona Rights must be read to you
  when you are arrested
• Banned Public Prayer in school
• Extends freedom of speech to symbolic speech
• State loyalty oaths unconstitutional

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Warren Court

• Congressional reapportionment how to readjust
  boundaries for elections
• Promotes the rights of the accused free legal
  counsel, illegally seized evidence can not be
  used in a state trial