Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961 2 term President
Eisenhower Political Party: Republican Vice President: Richard Nixon
Eisenhower Domino Theory Brinkmanship 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
Eisenhower Launching of Sputnik USSR launched the first satellite into space. US felt inferior and decides to send a man to the moon! NASA
Eisenhower SEATO Suburbanization: South East Asian Treaty Organization = the NATO of the Pacific Suburbanization: Kenmore Needed cars Free time Suburban dreams of owning a home
Interstate Highway Act 1956 Building of a nationwide highway network 41,000 miles of expressway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYoRfyUu x0 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.
Warren Court Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren served during the Presidency’s of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
Warren Court Cases 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 Engel v. Vitale Banned Public Prayer in school Tinker v. Des Moines Extends freedom of speech to symbolic speech
Warren Court Promotes the rights of the accused – free legal counsel, illegally seized evidence can not be used in a state trial