Dwight D. Eisenhower: Timeline

1943   World War II: United States United States

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 General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy Italy

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 to the Allies Allies

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 and the USAAF bombed the German General Headquarter for the Mediterranean zone Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943.

1943   World War II: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

1952   U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson Adlai Stevenson

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 (correctly predicted by the UNIVAC UNIVAC I

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 computer).

1952   Korean War Korean War

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: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a political campaign promise by traveling to Korea Korea

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 to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

1953   Change of US presidency President of the United States

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 from Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman

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 (1945-1953) to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961).

1953   President Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower

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 refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

1953   Cold War Cold War

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: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret Top Secret

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 document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States United States

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' arsenal of nuclear weapon Nuclear weapon

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s must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist Communism

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 threat.

1953   US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly in New York City New York City

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1954   President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Colorado

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1954   Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conferen

1954   US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery

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1955   US President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam South Vietnam

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1955   U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers coronary thrombosis while on vacation in Denver.

1956   A Joint Resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto.

1956   U.S. presidential election, 1956: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower is reelected by defeating Democrat challenger Adlai E. Stevenson Adlai Stevenson

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 in a rematch of their contest four years earlier.

1957   Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated for second term as President of the United States President of the United States

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1957   US President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana Ghana

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, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.

1958   President President of the United States

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 Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Alaska

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 Statehood Act into United States law

1959   American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs bill allowing for Hawaii Hawaii

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an statehood.

1960   May 16 — Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev

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 demands an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union Soviet Union

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, thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris Paris

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1960   September 8 — In Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA NASA

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 had already activated the facility on July 1).

1960   December 2 — U.S. United States

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 President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $1M for the relief and resettlement of Cuban Cuba

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 refugees in Florida Florida

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. Cuban refugees have been arriving in Florida at the rate of 1,000 a week.

1969   General and 34th U.S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, dies after a long illness in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.

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1969   Died