President Eisenhower and Nikita Krushchev. Courtesy: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library As the dust settled after the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as competing ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower ran on the campaign of active Cold War containment, pledging “I shall go to Korea” to secure “an early and honorable” peace. Challenges: In 1957, the Soviet Sputnik—the world’s ...

Twenty years after planning the Allied invasion of Normandy, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower received a letter that asked him how the June 6, 1944, amphibious assault came to be commonly called D-Day.

On June 5, 1944, while Allied troops headed across the English Channel toward the beaches of Normandy, General Dwight D. Eisenhower composed a hand-written press release. It read, in part ...

General Dwight D. Eisenhower was, after all, a bonafide hero to millions in the Greatest Generation. He made the fateful decision to go forward with the D-Day landings when success was by no means ...

West Point graduate Dwight D. Eisenhower quickly climbed the Army career ladder, serving under Generals John J. Pershing and Douglas MacArthur and ultimately achieving the rank of five-star general.

WASHINGTON -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, the victorious allied commander of World War II who went on to become America's President in peace-time, died at 12:25 p.m. EST. He was 78. The famed general of ...

On April 1, 1969, the train carrying Dwight D. Eisenhower stopped here about 10 a.m. on its way from Washington, D.C. to Abilene, Kansas. People lined the tracks in Newport to pay their respects ...

Here is an enduring image of the Second World War—Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, huddling with members of the 101st Airborne Division on the eve of D-Day.