Question

How did Presidents Truman and Eisenhower expand the role of government?

Answer 1

General of the Army Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front.

Answer 2

Answer:

The article "The Man Who Loved Roads" discussed the relationship between President Harry S. Truman and General Dwight D. Eisenhower. In July 1945, on the autobahn in Germany, President Truman had told the victorious General Eisenhower, "General, there is nothing you may want that I won't try to help you get." That included, he said, the Presidency

in 1948.

Both President Truman and PresidentEisenhower practiced a policy of containing communism to prevent its spread to new countries. The use of economic aid was a major tool in this.Truman sent American soldiers into Korea in 1950 and Eisenhower did the same in Lebanon in 1958.

Eisenhower held office during the Cold War, a period of sustained geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Eisenhower administrationcontinued the Truman administration's policyof containment, which called for the United States to prevent the spread of Communism to new states.

Truman tapped into experiences from his ten years in the Senate to forge relationships with members of Congress at a difficult time. A Democratic President facing a RepublicanCongress and a divided Democratic Party,Truman stands as a model for other presidents during periods of divided government.

Partly in an effort to defuse calls for more far-reaching reforms, President Eisenhowerproposed a civil rights bill that would increase the protection of African American votingrights. By 1957, only about 20% of blacks were registered to vote