American Decades
"The Row of Dominoes"
Speech
By: Dwight Eisenhower
Date: April 7, 1954
Source: Eisenhower, Dwight. "The Row of Dominoes." April 7, 1954. Available online at http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ec030162/Common/Handouts/POTUS/IKE.h... ; website home page: http://www.uiowa.edu (accessed June 18, 2003). About the Author: Dwight Eisenhower (1890–1969) graduated from West Point in 1915. By 1940, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. With the eruption of World War II (1939–1945), he swiftly advanced to four-star general in 1943. That same year, Eisenhower received the assignment to lead one of the largest military campaigns in world history: the D day invasion of June 6, 1944. After the war, he went into politics and served as the thirty-fourth U.S. president from 1953 to 1961.
Introduction
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1950's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia
- Presidential Reactions to Joseph McCarthy
- NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security
- The Korean War
- Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs
- "'Old Soldiers Never Die'
- Agreements Between the United States and Japan
- "The Checkers Speech"
- Television Campaign Commercials
- "The Row of Dominoes"
- Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem
- Speech by Dwight Eisenhower to the U.S. Congress, February 22, 1955
- African American and Women Voters in the 1950s
- The Little Rock Crisis
- Creation of NASA
- "The Kitchen Debate"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
The 1950's: Primary Sources
