Eisenhower Years

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  • Inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States

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    Eisenhower Years

  • Department of Health, Education, and Welfare created

  • Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed

  • Announces an armistice in Korea

  • Broadening the provisions of the Social Security Act - 10 million additional Americans

  • Refugee Relief Act - Admitting 214,000 more immigrants to existing immigration quotas

  • Announces that the USSR has tested a hydrogen bomb

  • "Atoms for Peace" speech to the U.N

  • Signed a mutual defense agreement providing gradual & partial rearmament of Japan

  • Brown V. Topeka Board of Education - Racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional

  • Geneva Accords signed - Cease-fire in Vietnam. US refuses to sign

  • US signs a mutual defense pact with Taiwan (R.O.C)

  • Geneva Conference - Britian, France, USSR, and the US

  • Eisenhower suffers a "moderate" heart attack at Denver, Colorado

  • Interstate Commerce Commission bans racial segregation on interstate trains and buses

  • Boycott of the city's buses led by MLK for more than a year - Rosa Parks arrest in Montgomery, AL

  • American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations RATIFIED

  • Releases $1 billion worth of Uranium-235 for peaceful atomic purposes

  • U-2 Spy Flights over the Soviet Union

  • Bowder V. Gayle - Rules bus segregation in Montgomery unconstitutional

  • Federal Aid Highway Act

  • Social Security Act - Women retire at age 62 adn disabled workers at 50

  • End of Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Eisenhower Doctrine presented

  • Elvis Presley appearance on Ed Sullivan Show - Waist up issue

  • Inaugurated for second term as President of United States

  • Congress sanctions the "Eisenhower Doctrine"

  • Civil Rights Act passed

  • Federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • National Defensse Education Act

  • Hawaii as the fiftieth state

  • Nixon and Khrushchev's "kitchen debate" in Moscow

  • CIA training exiles to invade Cuba

  • USSR shot down American U-2 Spy Plane

  • Civil Rights Act of 1960 - passed

  • Paris Summit issue - Eisenhower refues to apologize to USSR, Khrushchev refuses to meet

  • Eisenhower Farewell Address - "Millitary Industrial Complex"