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Election of 1952
Eisenhower won in a landslide with 442 electoral votes. -
Eisenhowers State Act
President Eisenhower delivers “The Chance for Peace” speech. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
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. -
Highway Act
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. -
Election of 1956
In the election of 1956, Dwight Eisenhower ran for re-election under the Republican party. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
The United States in 1957 pledged economic and military aid to any Middle Eastern country threatened by Communism. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
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. -
Space Race
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. -
National Defense Education Act
President Eisenhower signs the National Defense Education Act, which provides loans for college students. -
First Soviet Visit
President Eisenhower hosts Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to his farm in Pennsylvania. He was the first Soviet leader to visit the U.S.