• Republican Dwight D Eisenhower versus Democrat Adlai E Stevenson
• Richard M Nixon declared Eisenhower's Vice President for anti-communist party members
• "I Like Ike" buttons
• Supreme Allied Commander of WWII
• President of Columbia
• Nixon was the attack dog
• Eisenhower was dignified
• Nixon tarnished by "slush fund" scandal and saved by his Checkers Speech
• Eisenhower did brief pre-recorded television "Questions and Answers"
• Eisenhower pledged to end Korean War
• Eisenhower won by a large margin and made large party gains in the South

Election of 1956

• Republican Dwight D Eisenhower versus Democrat Adlai E Stevenson
• Seen favorably due to peace and prosperity
• Had undergone recent major surgery, but was still fit
• Won by an even larger margin, but lost House and Senate majorities

• Worsened tensions with USSR
• Ended Korean War with stalemate
• Built up nuclear arsenal
• Sponsored development of H-Bomb
• Called for open skies, but was rebuffed
• Let Hungarian Revolution fail
• NATO and the Warsaw Pact formed in opposition of each other

• Red Hunter (Strong Anti-Communist)
• Senator from Wisconsin
• "Tailgunner Joe"
• Senator Joseph McCarthy accused Secretary of State Dean Anderson of employing 205 in February 1950
• Later failed to give any solid evidence after falling back to there only being 57 communists
• Accused Democrats of sheltering communists
• Accused General George Marshall of committing to a communist conspiracy
• Purged State Department of Asian specialists
• Eventually discredited by his own attack against the army

• Two-Thirds of African Americans still lived in South
• Jim Crow Laws in the South enforced segregration
• Vigilante lynch mobs common
• Explored by An American Dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal
• NAACP devoted to improving lives of colored people
• 1944- white primaries ruled unconstitutional
• Thurgood Marshall made separated profession schools illegal in Sweatt v Painter
• Brown v Board of Education of Topeka forced degradation of public schools
• Southern representatives and locals would hold of desegregation for over 10 years
• Ike forced to send armed forced to protect black students in Arkansas during the Little Rock Crisis after the governor attempted to gather armed forces in opposition
• Civil Rights Act of 1957 passed, but was very watered down
• The Montgomery Bus system was also boycotted into desegregation after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man
• White flight began as whites fled the cities, which would become predominately black in many areas

• Dynamic conservatism
• Economic conservative, social liberal
• Balanced budget
• Slowed military growth
• Sponsored competitor to TVA
• Secretary condemned Salk's Polio vaccine
• Operation Wetback fought illegal immigration
• Attempted to terminate Indian tribes
• Interstate Highway Act
• Highest deficit in peacetime despite promises to balance the budget

• Response to French imperialism
• Communist Ho Chi Minh asked for independence
• America sponsored France due tof ear of communism
• French forced to surrender after Dienbienphu
• South Vietnam became US sponsored and North communist
• US would continue to sponsor South Vietnam despite totalitarian government

• Soviet rocketry alarmed America with first satellite in 1957 named Sputnik I
• Gave credence to ICBMs
• NASA founded in response
• Failed Vanguard missile
• NDEA created to sponsor science and industry in education