Dwight+D.+Eisenhower

**Dwight David Eisenhower**



Born: October 14, 1890 Died: March 28, 1969. General Eisenhower was by far the most demanded General during World War II. General Eisenhower was brilliantly clever as well as strategic. During his time serving in the war he served as a Brigadier General commanding troops on the field. During Eisenhower's life he loved education and was an outstandign student in his high school classes as well as in Army School.

=__**RISING TO VICTORY**__ = After Eisenhower's return from the Philippines late 1939, he began to work on his career working with troops. Two years later in June of 1941 Eisenhower transferred to Ft.Sam in Houston, Texas. While working up his latter of success Eisenhower worked under the wing of Generals John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and Walter Krueger. Hearing of his intriguing work with these Generals, George C. Marshall called him to Washington at once. Eisenhower's dreams would soon plumit to reality.



=  __AMIDST THE WAR __=

During the war, Eisenhower was intructed to conduct the first line of action by George C. Marshall. November 1942 Eisenhower commanded the Allied Forces to land in North Africa. Finally on D-Day, 1944, he was full commander, and entered France. media type="custom" key="5148645"



=__**AFTER THE WAR**__ =

After the war Eisenhower became President of Columbia University. Soon after he would find out that the University was not where he desired to be. So, he left the University to get supreme command over the new NATO forces being assembled in 1951. Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris persuaded him to run for President in 1952. Therefore, he ran for president and became our 34th President of the United States. President Eisenhower began to work on ways to solve our problems with Korea. In 1953 he signed a truce with North Korea.



While in Denver Colorado, Eisenhower suffered a sever heart attack on September 1955. He recovered seven weeks later. In November he was elected for his second term.During his second term he sent out troops to Little Rock Arkansas. He stated "There must be no second class citizens in this country." Eisenhower wanted complete world peace as well as peace with our own country. Eisenhower's "atoms for peace" was an attempt to control and maintain peace with the United Nations and the nuclear energy.

After battling multiple heart attacks during his lifetime on March 28, 1969 he lost his first and final battle of his life.