P.O.T.U.S. P.O.T.U.S.
34.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961
Republican
VP - Nixon
Major Items:
- 22nd Amendment
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 1954
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Montgomery, Alabama
- US sends military advisors to South Vietnam, 1954; beginning of American involvement in VN
- The Beats
- Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
- Suez Canal Crisis, 1956
- Eisenhower Doctrine 1957
- the "race for space"
- Alaska and Hawaii become states, 1959
- Atomic Weapons Test Suspension
- U-2 Incident 1960