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During the middle of the 20th hundred years, america completed its transformation into one of the world's superpowers, and few were as instrumental in this development as Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), renowned for being the nation's main commanding general during World Warfare II and the leader who served during the early, tumultuous Cold War years.A career military services man, Ike was too young to serve in battle during World Warfare I, but he began an extended and productive job collaborating with future military services legends George Patton and Douglas MacArthur while offering some of the country's other famous generals, including George Marshall and John J. Pershing. Incredibly, he previously never dished up in not administrative positions before World Warfare II.Eisenhower remained mired in middle management positions until George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Military, required notice of his skills and began promoting him. By 1942, Eisenhower was presented with the role of appointed Supreme Commander Allied (Expeditionary) Push in North Africa, and after his success there, Eisenhower oversaw the invasion of Sicily in 1943, which at the time have been the major amphibious invasion ever sold.With those successes, Chief executive Roosevelt picked Eisenhower to be the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Push, leaving him in charge of Procedure Overlord and the defining instant of his military services job, D-Day. Like many before him, his successes in the battle made him a natural candidate for leader, and he was offered plum politics places by both functions before earning the presidency as a Republican in 1952.Despite being one of America's oldest presidents, Eisenhower redefined the public relations nature of the office, in addition to positioning America during the Cold Warfare standoff with the Soviet Union. But Eisenhower's most long-term contribution as leader was the development of the interstate highway system, and it is at the final season of his presidency that his supervision planned and implemented the Apollo space program that would land men on the Moon in 1969.Record in 30: The Life of Dwight D. Eisenhower provides a quick but thorough look at the life of the general and president.
