Essay/Term paper: Dwight d eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on October 14

1890 in Denison Texas. His parents were David

Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Stover Eisenhower. He

had two older brothers Arthur and Edgar and three

youger ones Roy,Earl and Milton. Predictions made

in his highschool year book saw Dwight as becoming

a history professor and strangly enough his older

brother Edgar becoming President of the United

States.



Many happenings in Dwight"s life show

leadership ability. In 1941 Eisenhower was appointed

by the army to plan the stradegy for the Third Army in

war games in Louisianna. He brilliantly defeated the

"enemy force". This performance earned him a

promotion to brigadier general in September 1941.

The U.S. enterred World War 2 in December of 1941.

After Japans attack on Pearl Habor General George

C Marshall ,Army Chief of Staff, brought Eisenhower

to Washington D.C. to serve in the Army"s war plans

division. He was then named commanding general of

the U.S. forces in the European Theatre of

Operations. In July of 1942 Eisenhower became

lieutenant general. Also named commander of allied

forces to invade North Africa. The invasion resulted

in the recapturing of the reigon from german and

italian forces. Eisenhower became a four star general

in February 1943. In all these campaigns he worked

to create unnity between all the foreign commanders.

Many americans viewd this to be a very difficult job.

Eisenhower said " Good leadership was not a

matter of issuing orders but it was a matter of

enforcing obedience instead". With Eisenhower

having all the experience in leadership, many

americans thought Eisenhower would make a great

president. During the presidency of Dwight D.

Eisenhower he was faced with many difficult tasks or

decisions. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was running

for office he had promised that he would travel

personally to Korea to astablish a truce. In the middle

of the year 1953 he full filled this promise. In 1954

Eisenhower sent protection to South Vietnam in 1954

in an effort to prevent its take over by Communist-run

North Vietnam. He also launched a major federal

public works program that established the national

interstate highway system and the Saint Lawrence

Sea Way.

In the year 1956 he was forced to deal with his first

domestic crisis, the violent reaction to the court

ordered racial segregation in Little Rock,Arkansas.

Nationalizing the Arkansas National Guard and

sending in additional troops quickly restored peace.

In 1961 Eisenhower cut off diplomatic relations with

Cuba in response to the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

These are just a few difficult decisions that

Eisenhower had to make during his presidency. The

american public had faith in their president to make

the right decison. Eisenhower had full suport from the

american public.







Bibliography



The American Presidency

http://www.grolier.com/presidents/Eisenhower



"Dwight D Eisenhower" Encarta Encyclopedia,1998