Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. Prior to that 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 Senator 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. In the first year of his presidency Eisenhower deposed the leader of Iran in the 1953 Iranian coup d'etat, and used nuclear threats to conclude the Korean War with China.
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| Birthdate: | October 14, 1890 |
| Birthplace: | Denison, Texas |
| Date of death: | March 28, 1969 |
| Height: | 5' 10" |
| Education: | United States Military Academy, Command and General Staff College |
| Religion: | Presbyterianism, Presbyterian Church |
| Also known as: | Dwight Eisenhower, Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower |