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The Era of Transition: From Eisenhower to Reagan

Explore the transformative period from Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency in 1952 through Ronald Reagan's leadership in the 1980s. Witness key events like Brown v. Board of Education, Civil Rights movements, Vietnam War, Watergate scandal, and Reaganomics shaping American history.

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The Era of Transition: From Eisenhower to Reagan

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  1. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1952-1960 Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 Earl Warren Orval Faubus Martin Luther King The Fifties

  2. “Organization Man” “Beatniks” Adlai Stevenson “Third World” John Foster Dulles Indo-China (Viet Nam) Viet Minh (Viet Cong) Ho Chi Minh Sherman Adams Sputnik Fidel Castro Richard Nixon John F. Kennedy

  3. John F. Kennedy 1960-1963 “Freedom Riders” Robert Kennedy James Meredith Medgar Evers Martin Luther King Charles De Gaulle Peace Corps “Third World” Alliance for Progress Berlin Wall Nikita Khrushchev 1960s & 1970s

  4. Ngo Dinh Diem Lyndon Johnson 1963-1968 Barry Goldwater Medicare 1965 Golf of Tonkin Resolution 1964 Eugene McCarthy

  5. Gerald Ford 1974-1976 “Win Buttons” Henry Kissinger Jimmy Carter 1976-1980 Andrew Young “Superfund” Camp David Accords 1978 Ayatollah Khomeini Age of Reagan

  6. Ronald Reagan 1980-1988 Jerry Falwell “Moral Majority” Religious Right James Watt Sandinistas

  7. Contras Walter Mondale Geraldine Ferraro Iran-Contra Affair Oliver North Michael Milkin Ivan Boesky

  8. Richard M. Nixon 1968-1974 Hubert Humphrey George Wallace Curtis Le May Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg George McGovern Watergate C.R.E.E.P. “Saturday Night Massacre: Gerald Ford 1974-1976

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