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Eisenhower won in a landslide with 442 electoral votes.
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President Eisenhower delivers “The Chance for Peace” speech.
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Linda Brown, a fifth grader from Topeka, Kansas, was denied adission to a white elementary school. the NAACP was determined to integrate schools, and on May 17, 1954, segregation in the school system was illegal.
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The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 began the interstate highway system. If the nation were invaded by another country, the army would use the highways to move troops across the country.
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In the election of 1956, Dwight Eisenhower ran for re-election under the Republican party.
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The United States in 1957 pledged economic and military aid to any Middle Eastern country threatened by Communism.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress since Reconstruction, and it guaranteed African Americans their right to vote.
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After the Soviet Union launched two satellites, Sputnik 1 and 2, the U.S. decided to join the Space Race, which was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States.
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President Eisenhower signs the National Defense Education Act, which provides loans for college students.
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President Eisenhower hosts Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to his farm in Pennsylvania. He was the first Soviet leader to visit the U.S.