President+Eisenhower

**​​President Eisenhower**
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in 1890 and died March 28 1969. He was a soldier for most of his life, and was in the first and second world war a US soldier. He has won several [|medals] for his loyality to the US army. Because of his former carrer as a soldier, he was perfect to lead the country through a time where the cold war was going on. He was the 34th president of the United States, and he was in the posistion of republican president from 1953 to 1961.

SPACE RACE: During the cold war, the space race became a symbol of the fight between the political fight. Eisenhower dismissed the sputnik rockets, though many people thought it as a symbol of american nuclear powers. in the 1950's the russians were to win the space race, and in addition to that fact, Eiseinhower created NASA in 1959. First signals from space || [|USSR] || [|Sputnik 1] || First reaching Earth [|escape velocity] First detection of [|solar wind] || [|USSR] || [|Luna 1] ||
 * ~ Date ||~ Significance ||~ Country-Agency ||~ Mission Name ||
 * [|August 21], [|1957] || First [|intercontinental ballistic missile] (ICBM) || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] [|USSR] || [|R-7 Semyorka/SS-6 Sapwood] ||
 * [|October 4], [|1957] || First artificial satellite
 * [|November 3], [|1957] || First animal in [|orbit], the dog [|Laika] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] [|USSR] || [|Sputnik 2] ||
 * [|January 31], [|1958] || First detection of [|Van Allen belts] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png width="22" height="12"]] [|US]-[|ABMA] || [|Explorer 1] ||
 * [|March 17], [|1958] || First solar powered satellite || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png width="22" height="12"]] [|US]-[|NRL] || [|Vanguard 1] ||
 * [|December 18], [|1958] || First [|communications satellite] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png width="22" height="12"]] [|US]-[|ABMA] || [|Project SCORE] ||
 * [|January 2], [|1959] || First firing of a rocket in Earth orbit
 * [|January 4], [|1959] || First man-made object in [|heliocentric orbit] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] [|USSR] || [|Luna 1] ||
 * [|February 17], [|1959] || First [|weather satellite] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png width="22" height="12"]] [|US]-[|NASA] ([|NRL])1 || [|Vanguard 2] ||
 * [|February 28], [|1959] || First satellite in a [|Polar orbit] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png width="22" height="12"]] [|US]-[|DARPA] || [|Discoverer 1] ||
 * [|August 7], [|1959] || First photograph of Earth from orbit || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png width="22" height="12"]] [|US]-[|NASA] || [|Explorer 6] ||
 * [|September 13], [|1959] || First impact into another world (the [|Moon]) || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] [|USSR] || [|Luna 2] ||
 * [|October 4], [|1959] || First photos of [|far side of the Moon] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] [|USSR] || [|Luna 3] ||

Nuclear power While Eisenhower was president, the cold war was going on. USA wanted to be the first to get in orbit around earth, but it was more important to have the military supremacy. Therefore Eisenhower engaged a larger production of nuclear missiles than what had been earlier. He also started the Atoms for Peace program. The program was about sharing information with civilians, so they would know what to do if the bombs would fall. Altso to spread the information to underdeveloped countries, to make them able to use nuclear power. This was one of Eisenhower's main causes.

The highway system 1956 Eisenhower created a highway system in the USA that should help the population evacuate from the big cities, if somebody should attack the country. The system also made transport of military, weapons and ambulances easier.