Question: What did the Eisenhower administration refer to the downed U-2 as?
Answer: weather research aircraft

Question: Where did the Eisenhower administration say that the downed U-2 was intended to be flying?
Answer: Turkey

Question: According to the cover story, what did the "weather research" pilot have trouble with?
Answer: oxygen equipment

Question: What happened to Powers in the Soviet Union?
Answer: trial

Question: What did Khrushchev refer to the U-2 as?
Answer: spy-plane

Question: Along with Eisenhower, Macmillan and de Gaulle, what leader attended the Four Powers Paris Summit?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev

Question: What did Khrushchev demand that Eisenhower do?
Answer: apologize

Question: Along with reducing nuclear weapons, what was to have been the topic of conversation at the Four Power Paris Summit?
Answer: Berlin

Question: What did Eisenhower blame for ruining the summit?
Answer: stupid U-2 business

Question: In what year was the Four Power Paris Summit intended to take place?
Answer: 1960

Question: Which president initially began to desegregate the US military?
Answer: Truman

Question: When did the desegregation of the United States Armed Forces begin?
Answer: 1948

Question: When did Eisenhower deliver his first State of the Union?
Answer: February 1953

Question: What control did Eisenhower use to push through desegregation?
Answer: military spending

Question: In what geographical area did Eisenhower promise to end desegregation in his State of the Union address?
Answer: District of Columbia

Question: Who did Eisenhower tell DC officials to integrate?
Answer: school children

Question: What was the first civil rights act proposed to Congress by Eisenhower?
Answer: Civil Rights Act of 1957

Question: In what year did Eisenhower propose his second civil rights act?
Answer: 1960

Question: What sort of commission did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 establish?
Answer: Civil Rights Commission

Question: Under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, what federal department contained a civil rights office?
Answer: Justice

Question: What state refused to integrate its schools in 1957?
Answer: Arkansas

Question: What military unit was sent from outside of Arkansas to oversee desegregation?
Answer: 101st Airborne Division

Question: What Arkansas militia unit did Eisenhower federalize in 1957?
Answer: Arkansas National Guard

Question: Who was the governor of Arkansas in 1957?
Answer: Orval Faubus

Question: How many black students were escorted by the 101st Airborne to Little Rock Central High School?
Answer: nine

Question: In what year did Joseph McCarthy declare that the federal government was employing communists?
Answer: 1953

Question: What did Eisenhower do when he was encouraged to respond to McCarthy's accusations?
Answer: he refused

Question: Why did Eisenhower ignore McCarthy?
Answer: facilitate relations with Congress

Question: What organization did Eisenhower want to keep from being one of McCarthy's targets?
Answer: Atomic Energy Commission

Question: What was the AEC working on at this time?
Answer: H-bombs

Question: What AEC scientists counseled delaying the development of the hydrogen bomb?
Answer: J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question: What did Eisenhower do to Oppenheimer after he said that the hydrogen bomb should be delayed?
Answer: removed him from the agency and revoked his security clearance

Question: What did McCarthy threaten to do in May of 1955?
Answer: issue subpoenas to White House personnel

Question: What tradition was fostered by Eisenhower's reaction to McCarthy's subpoena threats?
Answer: executive privilege

Question: Eisenhower denied McCarthy access to the personnel of what branch of the federal government?
Answer: Executive

Question: Who won a Senate majority in 1954?
Answer: Democrats

Question: After the 1954 election, who was the Speaker of the House?
Answer: Sam Rayburn

Question: Who was made Senate Majority Leader after the 1954 election?
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson

Question: What state were Johnson and Rayburn from?
Answer: Texas

Question: Who was Speaker of the House between 1953 and 1955?
Answer: Joe Martin

Question: What did Martin think Eisenhower did too much of in his relations with Congress?
Answer: worked too much through subordinates

Question: As a result of Eisenhower's actions toward Congress, what did Martin think Congress often gave him?
Answer: reverse of what he has desired

Question: Who did Martin think Eisenhower should have made better use of?
Answer: Republicans of consequence

Question: What were Harlan and Stewart's party affiliations?
Answer: Republicans

Question: What party did Brennan belong to?
Answer: Democrat

Question: Who did Eisenhower nominate for Chief Justice?
Answer: Warren

Question: What sort of decisions did Warren favor on the Supreme Court?
Answer: liberal

Question: Along with liberals, who was Eisenhower trying to appeal to with the Warren pick?
Answer: law-and-order conservatives

Question: Where did Eisenhower pick up the habit of smoking?
Answer: West Point

Question: How many cigarettes did Eisenhower smoke daily at West Point?
Answer: two or three packs

Question: When did Eisenhower stop smoking completely?
Answer: March 1949

Question: Who was Eisenhower's employer when he gave up smoking?
Answer: Columbia

Question: Who was the cardiologist who treated Eisenhower after his heart attack?
Answer: Paul Dudley White

Question: What caused Eisenhower's stroke of 1957?
Answer: left ventricular aneurysm

Question: Where was Eisenhower when he suffered a stroke in 1957?
Answer: cabinet meeting

Question: What couldn't Eisenhower move as a result of his stroke?
Answer: right hand

Question: What is Crohn's disease?
Answer: chronic inflammatory condition of the intestine

Question: Why did Eisenhower need surgery on June 9, 1956?
Answer: bowel obstruction

Question: What August 1965 event caused Eisenhower to drop out of public life?
Answer: heart attack

Question: For what ailment did Eisenhower receive surgery in 1966?
Answer: cholecystitis

Question: What did Eisenhower have removed via surgery on December 12, 1966?
Answer: gallbladder

Question: In what year did Eisenhower die?
Answer: 1969

Question: How many heart attacks did Eisenhower have between 1955 and 1969?
Answer: seven

Question: Who did Eisenhower endorse for president in 1960?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: Who was the Democratic candidate for president in 1960?
Answer: John F. Kennedy

Question: How old was Eisenhower in 1960?
Answer: 70

Question: Who was the youngest person elected to the United States presidency?
Answer: Kennedy

Question: Who won the US presidential election of 1960?
Answer: Kennedy

Question: On what date did Eisenhower deliver his farewell speech?
Answer: January 17, 1961

Question: In his farewell speech, what complex did Eisenhower warn the American people of?
Answer: military–industrial

Question: What war did Eisenhower talk about in his Address to the Nation?
Answer: Cold

Question: What term did Eisenhower use to describe the character of communism?
Answer: atheistic

Question: From where did Eisenhower deliver his farewell speech?
Answer: Oval Office

Question: What town did Eisenhower retire to after his presidency?
Answer: Gettysburg

Question: What Pennsylvania county did Eisenhower grow up in?
Answer: Dauphin

Question: Who did Eisenhower donate his farm to in 1967?
Answer: National Park Service

Question: What did Barry Goldwater call Eisenhower?
Answer: dime-store New Dealer

Question: Who was the Republican presidential candidate in 1964?
Answer: Barry Goldwater

Question: How old was Eisenhower when he died?
Answer: 78

Question: At what facility did Eisenhower die?
Answer: Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Question: What was Eisenhower's cause of death?
Answer: congestive heart failure

Question: What was Eisenhower's date of death?
Answer: March 28, 1969

Question: What Christian denomination did Eisenhower belong to?
Answer: Episcopal