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Recieved an appointment to West Point.
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Passed the entrance exam .
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Graduated ranked 61st in his class out of 164.
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Promoted to captain when America entered WWI.
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Went to the Philippines and served in many positions before the start of WWII.
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Promoted to Brigadier General
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Became major general.
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Marshall placed Eisenhower in command of the invasion of North Africa.
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Made Suppreme Allied Commander for the invasion of Normandy on D-Day.
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Made 5-star general
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First supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) appointed by Truman.
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Eisenhower entered presidental race as a republican, to counter the non-interventionism of senator Robert A. Taft, and to crusade against "communism, Korea and corruption." He won by a landslide, defeating democrat Adlai Stevenson and ending two decades of the New Deal Coalition.
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Eisenhower sent Lt. General John W. "Iron Mike" O' Daniel to Vietnam to study and "assess" the french forces in Vietnam.
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Deposed the leader of Iran, and used nuclear threats to conclude the Korean war with China.
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First articulated the Domino Theory in his description of the threat presented by the spread of communism.
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Sponsored and Signedthe Federal Aid Highway Act.
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Sponsored and Signed the Civil Rights Bill.
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Sent 15,000 US troops to Lebanon to prevent the pro-western government failing to a Nasser-inspired revolution.
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Retired after his 2nd term
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Died of congestive heart failure.
