Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower

1947–1991 tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies

The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until US forces were withdrawn in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian civil wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.

competition to explore space between USA and USSR

1954–1968 U.S. nonviolent social movement

McCarthyism is a political practice defined by the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s, heavily associated with the Second Red Scare, also known as the McCarthy era. After the mid-1950s, U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity and credibility after several of his accusations were found to be false. The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Just

network of freeways in the United States

country retreat of the President of the United States

aviation incident

1963 limited test ban treaty

policy of Eisenhower and the United States

1954 U.S. Supreme Court case which declared school segregation unconstitutional

43rd quadrennial U.S. presidential election

42nd quadrennial U.S. presidential election

1958 conflict between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) in which the PRC shelled Kinmen and Matsu

1954–1955 conflict between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China

Politic crisis about a group of nine African Americans who attended a previously all-white school in 1957

service award of the United States Armed Forces

Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, held on July 18, 1955

34th presidential administration and cabinet of the USA (1953-1961)

1950s U.S. immigration law enforcement initiative

42nd United States presidential inauguration

first phase of the Cold War

43rd United States presidential inauguration

phase of the Cold War

federal highway legislation

government agency

1955 battle