The Cold War, 1945-1968

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)

 * Republican
 * VP: Richard Nixon
 * Major items:
 * 22nd Amendment
 * Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
 * Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
 * Suez Crisis, 1956
 * Eisenhower Doctrine
 * Space Race begins
 * Alaska and Hawaii become states

John F. Kennedy (1963-1969)

 * Democrat
 * VP: Lyndon B. Johnson
 * Major items:
 * Alliance for Progress
 * Baker v. Carr, 1962
 * Peace Corps
 * Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
 * "New Frontier"
 * Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
 * Assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on 22 November 2963, by Lee Harvey Oswald

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)

 * Democrat
 * VP: Hubert Humphrey
 * Major items:
 * The "Cold War"
 * Cuban policy
 * Income taxes cut
 * Wesberry v. Sanders, 1964
 * Civil Rights Act of 1964
 * Voting Rights Act, 1965
 * Anti-Poverty Act, 1964
 * Elementary and secondary schools education reform
 * Medicare
 * "Great Society"