The former wartime allies found themselves locked in a struggle that came to be known as the Cold War. Eisenhower saw the Cold War in stark moral terms -- "This is a war of light against darkness ...

But more often than not, the restraint and moderation he exercised was a fitting antidote to the dangerous rhetoric of those early Cold War days. Eisenhower promoted a stable economy and fought to ...

Old and young, healthy and sick, men and women, and even infants and infirm, were killed in cold blood. They were not combatants in civil war or rebellions, they were not criminals. Indeed, nearly all ...

President Eisenhower and the Cold War and Civil Rights. Dwight D. Eisenhower is a fixture in the lists of America's favourite Presidents. How did Eisenhower change America? How did the Cold War and ...

The Cold War had begun. As the relationship between ... but still maintained his fiery demands for their expulsion. Dwight Eisenhower found Joseph McCarthy's demagoguery reprehensible.

Dwight D. Eisenhower ran on the campaign of active Cold War containment, pledging “I shall go to Korea” to secure “an early and honorable” peace. Challenges: In 1957, the Soviet Sputnik—the world’s ...

In the 1950s and 60s, during the peak of the Cold War and the intense space race ... Consequently, President Dwight D. Eisenhower did not approve the continuation of the project, and his successor ...

The Eisenhower administration decided that local ... was unlikely unless Soviet leaders had decided to start an all-out war.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president ... feared that runaway defense spending during World War II and the Korean conflict ...

Eisenhower understood the necessity of a strong national defense, especially in the context of the Cold War. However, he also ...

The former wartime allies found themselves locked in a struggle that came to be known as the Cold War. Eisenhower saw the Cold War in stark moral terms -- "This is a war of light against darkness ...