1. President Eisenhower and the Cold War
The year of his election, Eisenhower increased military spending "17 percent as a portion of the government budget from 2 years earlier and nearly doubled the total number of dollars spent on defense" (Document D). ... The 400,000 mile network connected a total of 237 cities with a population above 50,000 and principally served the country's most prominent industrial and defense areas. ... In a special message to congress in January 1958, Eisenhower outlines an emergency roll that the "federal government must play in the education of the nation's youth" (Document ...
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