DWIGHT EISENHOWER 1890 1969 THIRTY FOURTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES EISENHOWER DWIGHT 1890 1969 WORLD WAR II NATIONAL DEFENSE U.S GOV'T EXECUTIVE KOREAN WAR U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION GLOBAL RELATIONS DWIGHT EISENHOWER WAS BORN IN DENISON TEXAS AND GRADUATED FROM WEST POINT IN 1915 BY 1939 HE HAD BECOME CHIEF MILITARY ASSISTANT TO GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR IN THE PHILIPPINES DURING WORLD WAR II HE COMMANDED ALLIED FORCES IN NORTH AFRICA AND BECAME GENERAL OF THE U.S ARMY IN 1944 EISENHOWER DIRECTED THE INVASION OF NORMANDY ON D DAY JUNE 6 1944 AND SERVED AS ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF FROM 1945 TO 1948 IN 1948 HE WAS APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HE BECAME THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF ALL NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION NATO LAND FORCES IN 1951 ONE YEAR AFTER THE OUTBREAK OF THE KOREAN WAR IN 1952 HE RESIGNED FROM THE ARMY AND AS A REPUBLICAN HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES EISENHOWER'S PRESIDENCY WAS MARKED BY A PREOCCUPATION WITH FOREIGN POLICY AND THE GROWTH OF A CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN 1953 THE UNITED STATES ENDED THE KOREAN WAR EISENHOWER ORDERED TROOPS TO ENFORCE THE INTEGRATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL IN LITTLE ROCK ARKANSAS IN 1957 AFTER TWO TERMS AS PRESIDENT EISENHOWER RETIRED FROM POLITICS EISENHOWER PUBLISHED HIS MEMOIRS OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL YEARS IN TWO VOLUMES MANDATE FOR CHANGE 1963 AND WAGING PEACE 1965
