President+Eisenhower

=President Eisenhower=

b. October 14 1890, d. March 28, 1969.
//President Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States of America, and was in office between 1953 until 1961.//

President Eisenhower was a general in the United States Army during World War II, and was the 34th president of the United States of America. During WWII, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, and conducted the plan of invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. As a republican in 1952, he entered in the presidential race, and won by a landslide. As president, he threatened to use nuclear weapons on China, resulting in the end of the Korean War. His term was peaceful, except for a sharp decline in the economy 1958-59.

The Eisenhower administration determined racial segregation to be a national security issue, which meant that communists around the world were using this as a point of weakness in the United States, and using it as a point for propaganda attack. (Unknown, 2010)

After the decision was passed on the Brown vs. Board of Education case, Eisenhower asked for Washington be an example state and model for the rest of the country by initiating desegregation of schools. in Washington. (Trueman, 2010) Eisenhower with Martin Luther King Jr

In 1957, Eisenhower signed the civil rights act that aimed to allow blacks the right to vote. It was in response to Little Rock that Eisinhower signed the act but it was thought that he may have done this just to win the 'black vote' for the upcoming elections. People suspected Eisnhower to sign the act in the attempt for a popularity boost as his republican background aswell as previous beliefs towards racism and the rights of African Americans civil rights. (Trueman, 2010) He sent American troops to the state of Arkansas to enforce the integration of schools within the state. He also enforced the integration in the Armed Forces of the United States Army. (Buchanan, Unknown Date)

President Eisenhower played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement through the political and legal pressure that eventually led to implication of desegregation in schools nation-wide. The Civil Rights act was introducted whilst he was in government.He did not publicly ever show his beliefs about the CRM as he flet it necessary for people to make their own right choices.

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Eisenhower signing the Civil Rights Act of 1957

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[] Author: Chris Trueman Updated: 2010

[] Author: Unknown. Updated: 6 June, 2010.

http://www.tqnyc.org/2007/NYC074774//dwight.html Author: James Buchanan. Updated: Unknown.

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