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Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea and the U.N sent in troops -
Election of 1952
Republican Dwight Eisenhower elected as 34th President of the United States, defeating Adlai Stevenson -
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Dwight Eisenhower is President of the United States of America
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Geneva Accords
The foreign ministers of nineteen nations, including the United States, decided to divide Vietnam at seventeen north lattitude. -
Creation of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
Created to oppose the spread of communism in Southeast Asia after France's withdrawal from Indochina. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Supreme Court cas that challenged "separate but equal" ruling established in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Chief Justice Earl Warren held that separate was inherently unequal and instructed states to integrate. -
Rosa Parks
African American woman who refused to giver her bus seat to a white in Alabama. -
Suez Canal Crisis
Britain, France, and Israel invaded to gain control of the Canal. Fearing escalation, Eisenhower forced France, Britain, and Isreal to withdraw. -
Interstate Highway Act (Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956)
The interstate highway system was expanded to 41,000 miles. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
First civil rights act since Reconstruction. Stimulated by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and civil rights activism. Created a panel to ensure that voting rights of African Americans were not violated. -
Little Rock Crisis
The NAACP registered nine African American students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to try and block the students from entering the school. President Eisenhower intervened with federal troops. -
Eisnehower Doctrine
Created as a partial reaction to the Suez Canal crisis. The doctrine committed forces and economic aid to the Middle East to stop Communist threats. -
Sputnik
Soviet satellite launched into space, first unmanned spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity.