1. Dwight D. Eisenhower
2 term President

2. Eisenhower
Political Party:
Republican
Vice President:
Richard Nixon

3. 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

4. Eisenhower Launching of Sputnik
USSR launched the first satellite into space.
US felt inferior and decides to send a man to the moon! NASA

5. 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

6. Interstate Highway Act 1956
Building of a nationwide highway network
41,000 miles of expressway 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.

7. Warren Court
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren served during the Presidency’s of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

8. 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

9. Warren Court
Promotes the rights of the accused – free legal counsel, illegally seized evidence can not be used in a state trial