Eisenhower Elected President By Jorge Moreno

Eisenhower was a five star general before he became president who planned and supervised the invasion of North Africa and also was successful in the invasion of France and Germany from the western front. He also became the first supreme commander of NATO. After World War II, Eisenhower served as army chief of staff under President Harry S. Truman. Eisenhower entered the 1952 presidential race as a Republican against Adlai Stevenson. He beat Stevenson in a landslide ending two decades of Democratic presidents. During his first year at presidency he used nuclear threats to end the Korean war with China. He authorized the Interstate Highway System to make traveling easier and in case of attack it couldl be an evacuation route and created NASA which created a race between Russia and America in who wa capable to land a man on the moon first. President Eisenhower signed the first Civil Rights legislation in 1960 which allowed African Americans to vote. Dwight Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C. on March 28, 1969 at the age of 78 having endured multiple heart attacks.