Knights of the Virtuti Militari - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Stanis Aw Maczek, Stanis Aw Sosabowski, Jan Henryk D Browski, Antoni Chru Ciel (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Stanis aw Maczek, Stanis aw Sosabowski, Jan Henryk D browski, Antoni Chru ciel, Jan Nowak-Jeziora ski, Marian Spychalski, Walerian Czuma, Berek Joselewicz, Boles aw Bronis aw Duch, Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki, Jan Krukowiecki, Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Aleksander Zawadzki, Stefan D b-Biernacki, Wojciech Chrzanowski. Excerpt: Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (pronounced, -z n-how- r; October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969) was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942-43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. A Republican, Eisenhower entered the 1952 presidential race to counter the non-interventionism of Sen. Robert A. Taft, and to crusade against "Communism, Korea and corruption." He won by a landslide, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson and ending two decades of the New Deal Coalition holding the White House. As President, Eisenhower concluded negotiations with China to end the Korean War. His New Look, a policy of nuclear deterrence, gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing the funding for the other military forces to keep pressure on the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits at the same time. He began NASA to compete against the Soviet Union in the space race. Unusually for an American President, Eisenhower strongly and very publicly opposed military moves by Israel, during the Suez Crisis. Near the end of his term, the Eisenhower Administration was embarrassed by the U-2 incident and was planning the Bay of Pigs Invasio...