Challenges: In 1957, the Soviet Sputnik—the world’s first man-made satellite—launched the space race in which the U.S. attempted to catch up with the U.S.S.R. Major Acts: Dwight D. Eisenhower created ...

One of John F. Kennedy's first official acts as president was to restore Eisenhower to the rank of general of the army, which Ike had given up when he retired to run for president. In 1949 ...

Eisenhower was never comfortable with the provocative nature of the U2 missions. In fact he admitted that he would consider a similar violation of U.S. airspace by the Soviets an act of war.

The federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (P.L. 85-765) is signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 27. The Act requires all meat companies selling to the US government to provide ...

Eisenhower by the Anti-Defamation League of ... Elect of his “statements of vigorous opposition to the McCarran Act” during the Presidential election campaign, A.D. L. national chairman ...

The Eisenhower administration claimed that authorities ... the idea of bypassing normal rules and invoking the Alien Enemies ...

As its name implies, the Eisenhower National Historic Site once belonged to America's 34th president. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower purchased the farm in 1950, using it for weekend ...

A man, who has worked at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport for more than two decades, shares his reactions to the news, that an American Airlines flight, with 60 passengers on board, four ...