The former wartime allies found themselves locked in a struggle that came to be known as the Cold War. Eisenhower saw the Cold War in stark moral terms -- "This is a war of light against darkness ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower ran on the campaign of active Cold War containment, pledging “I shall go to Korea” to secure “an early and honorable” peace. Challenges: In 1957, the Soviet Sputnik—the world’s ...

But more often than not, the restraint and moderation he exercised was a fitting antidote to the dangerous rhetoric of those early Cold War days. Eisenhower promoted a stable economy and fought to ...

Ira Chernus has created one of the first detailed studies of the ideology and rhetoric of a U.S. leader in the formative years of the Cold War, showing how words and ideas fostered a conservative ...

"You look back in the 1950s, you look back at the Eisenhower administration ... Following World War II, immigration into the ...

In the 1950s and 60s, during the height of the Cold War and the intense space race ... Consequently, President Dwight D. Eisenhower did not agree to continue the project, and his successor ...