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The United States foreign policy of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, from 1953 to 1961, focused on the Cold War with the Soviet Union and its satellites. The United States built up a stockpile of nuclear weapons and nuclear delivery systems to deter military threats and save money while cutting back on expensive Army combat units.
Project Solarium was an American national-level exercise in strategy and foreign policy design convened by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the summer of 1953. It was intended to produce consensus among senior officials in the national security community on the most effective strategy for responding to Soviet expansionism in the wake of the early Cold War.
July 29 – The Senate votes 63 to 30 in favor of emergency administration admitting 209,000 aliens to the US. [10] August 12 – Soviet Union conducts first test of a thermonuclear weapon. [11] October 30 – Eisenhower approves NSC 162/2, which defines Cold War national security policy during the Eisenhower administration. [12]
While Eisenhower was the first president to travel by jet (and the first to travel via helicopter as well), the first airplane trips by a sitting president were those of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He made multiple long-distance trips abroad by plane, each one an offshoot of Allied diplomatic interactions during World War II .
The Geneva Summit of 1955 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.Held on July 18, 1955, it was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France. [1]
The Eisenhower administration, initially thinking the pilot had died in the crash, authorized the release of a cover story claiming that the plane was a "weather research aircraft" which had unintentionally strayed into Soviet airspace after the pilot had radioed "difficulties with his oxygen equipment" while flying over Turkey. [146]
Eisenhower was nominated by Maryland Governor Theodore McKeldin, who made obvious overtures to the conservative wing by mentioning Eisenhower's Midwestern Kansas roots and the fact that he had begun attendance at the United States Military Academy during the presidential administration of Robert Taft's father, William Howard Taft. [7]
Amendment of the Foreign Service Regulations Relating to United States Foreign Service Fees July 22, 1953 43 10474: The Honorable Robert A. Taft July 31, 1953 44 10475: Administration of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, as Amended July 31, 1953 45 10476: Administration of Foreign Aid and Foreign Information Functions August 1, 1953 46 10477