Question: Who was Chief of Staff of the Army before Eisenhower?
Answer: Marshall

Question: About how many soldiers demobilized after the war ended?
Answer: millions

Question: What president ignored Eisenhower's recommendations in regard to atomic weapons?
Answer: Truman

Question: What was Eisenhower's position on the use of nuclear weapons against Japan?
Answer: opposed

Question: What city did Eisenhower notably visit in 1945?
Answer: Warsaw

Question: When was it suggested to Eisenhower that he might one day become president?
Answer: June 1943

Question: Along with dogcatcher, what political job did Eisenhower specifically not want to be considered for?
Answer: Grand High Supreme King of the Universe

Question: What role did Eisenhower believe he could not fulfill if he was believed to want to become involved in politics?
Answer: Army Chief of Staff

Question: What general was considered a potential Republican presidential candidate in 1948?
Answer: MacArthur

Question: At what meeting did Truman tell Eisenhower that he would assist him in running for president?
Answer: Potsdam Conference

Question: What state's delegates were considering supporting Eisenhower in 1948?
Answer: New Hampshire

Question: How old would Eisenhower be in 1956?
Answer: 66

Question: Why was it unlikely that Eisenhower would run for president in 1956?
Answer: too old

Question: Who was it assumed would win the election of 1948?
Answer: Thomas E. Dewey

Question: What position did Eisenhower occupy in 1948?
Answer: President of Columbia University

Question: Where is Columbia University located?
Answer: New York City

Question: What was the title of Eisenhower's memoir?
Answer: Crusade in Europe

Question: What group of schools did Columbia University belong to?
Answer: Ivy League

Question: What body ruled the Eisenhower was not a professional writer?
Answer: Department of the Treasury

Question: While Eisenhower was president of Columbia, what group did he also work with?
Answer: Council on Foreign Relations

Question: What was Blanche Wiesen Cook in relation to Eisenhower?
Answer: biographer

Question: Along with business and government, what leaders did Eisenhower see meeting at the Council on Foreign Relations?
Answer: professional

Question: What sort of analysis did Eisenhower first experience with the Council on Foreign Relations?
Answer: economic

Question: What position was held by James Forrestal?
Answer: Secretary of Defense

Question: What position did Eisenhower informally hold?
Answer: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Question: After becoming sick, where did Eisenhower recover?
Answer: Augusta National Golf Club

Question: What was the name of Columbia University's alumni association?
Answer: Columbia Associates

Question: When did Eisenhower vacation for two months outside New York?
Answer: July 1949

Question: Aside from his university work, where did Eisenhower gain useful contacts?
Answer: American Assembly

Question: What Continental Oil leader was Eisenhower tied to?
Answer: Leonard McCollum

Question: What was the political orientation of Columbia's teachers?
Answer: liberal

Question: What state was Frank Abrams' oil company located in?
Answer: New Jersey

Question: From where did H.J. Porter hale?
Answer: Texas

Question: When was Eisenhower's resignation of Columbia turned down?
Answer: December 1950

Question: What role did Eisenhower fill after leaving Columbia?
Answer: Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question: On what date did Eisenhower leave active duty in the military?
Answer: May 31, 1952

Question: What job did Eisenhower hold after his second tenure as president of Columbia?
Answer: President of the United States

Question: When did Eisenhower become President of the United States?
Answer: January 20, 1953

Question: Who was President of the United States prior to Eisenhower?
Answer: Truman

Question: Truman wanted Eisenhower to run for the presidency as a member of what party?
Answer: Democratic

Question: Who did the Republicans want to block with an Eisenhower candidacy in 1952?
Answer: Robert A. Taft

Question: What was Taft's political office?
Answer: Senator

Question: Who was Eisenhower's campaign manager in 1952?
Answer: Henry Cabot Lodge

Question: In what part of the country, previously neglected by Republican presidential candidates, did Eisenhower campaign?
Answer: South

Question: Along with Korea and Communism, what issue did Eisenhower attack Truman on?
Answer: corruption

Question: What was the strategy called that was used by Eisenhower's campaign?
Answer: K1C2

Question: How did Eisenhower claim Eastern Europe should be liberated?
Answer: peaceful means

Question: What was the home state of Joseph McCarthy?
Answer: Wisconsin

Question: Where did Eisenhower claim he would end the war?
Answer: Korea

Question: During the campaign, from where was it claimed Nixon had received money improperly?
Answer: a secret trust

Question: What topic did Eisenhower not discuss during the campaign?
Answer: NATO

Question: In what century was Eisenhower born?
Answer: 19th

Question: Who was the oldest man to become President prior to Eisenhower?
Answer: James Buchanan

Question: What did Eisenhower have in common with presidents Taylor, Grant, Taft and Hoover?
Answer: did not have prior elected office

Question: How many times had Eisenhower been elected to office prior to becoming president?
Answer: never

Question: How old was Truman in 1948?
Answer: 64

Question: Who was Eisenhower's budget director?
Answer: Joseph M. Dodge

Question: Along with Lucius Clay, who advised Eisenhower on cabinet appointments?
Answer: Herbert Brownell

Question: What woman was a member of Eisenhower's cabinet?
Answer: Oveta Culp Hobby

Question: Along with George Humphrey, what cabinet official did Eisenhower have a close relationship with?
Answer: John Foster Dulles

Question: What quip was used to describe Eisenhower's cabinet?
Answer: Eight millionaires and a plumber

Question: What war did Eisenhower want to end as president?
Answer: Korean

Question: What type of cabinet meeting did Eisenhower hold for the first time ever?
Answer: pre-inaugural

Question: Policy in regard to what country was discussed at Eisenhower's first cabinet meeting?
Answer: Russia

Question: What type of policy was the focus of Eisenhower's inaugural address?
Answer: foreign

Question: How did Eisenhower describe his political views?
Answer: progressive conservative

Question: How many people were added to the Social Security rolls by Eisenhower?
Answer: ten million

Question: What New deal program did Eisenhower particularly support?
Answer: Social Security

Question: What cabinet agency did Eisenhower make Social Security a part of?
Answer: Department of Health, Education and Welfare

Question: What policy in regard to the military did Eisenhower see to completion?
Answer: integration

Question: What wing of the GOP was Eisenhower opposed to?
Answer: right

Question: In what year were the first federal elections after Eisenhower became president?
Answer: 1954

Question: What type of Republican did Eisenhower characterize himself as?
Answer: moderate, progressive

Question: Prior to the 1954 elections, who had majorities in Congress?
Answer: Republicans

Question: Upon election, how many terms did Eisenhower believe he would serve?
Answer: one

Question: In what year did Eisenhower have a heart attack?
Answer: 1955

Question: When did Eisenhower make an announcement stating that he would run for a second term?
Answer: February 1956

Question: Who did Eisenhower want as his 1956 running mate?
Answer: Robert B. Anderson

Question: Who did Eisenhower defeat in the 1956 presidential election?
Answer: Adlai Stevenson

Question: What event led Eisenhower to want to improve highways in the US?
Answer: the U.S. Army's 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy

Question: What German transportation project influenced Eisenhower on highways?
Answer: autobahn