Eisenhower Administrations - Career
Career
Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915 when World War I (1914–18) was raging in Europe. The United States entered the conflict in 1917 when Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare against U.S. ships. Eisenhower, an ambitious junior officer, was eager to get to the western front as soon as possible but never managed it. Instead he was assigned to training other soldiers in the use of tanks, then a brand-new weapon. Late in 1918 he was ordered to Europe, but the armistice of November 11 brought the war to an end before he could set sail.
The army, much reduced in size after the war, offered few prospects of advancement to ambitious junior officers in the 1920s, but Eisenhower impressed every senior officer for whom he worked. He served a term in Panama, where he was coached by General Fox Connor in military history, army politics, and ways of advancing his career.
In the mid 1920s he worked for the...
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