Question: When did Eisenhower sign the law to create the Interstate Highway System?
Answer: June 1956

Question: Along with military benefits, what did Eisenhower see as the benefit of the highway project?
Answer: economic growth

Question: Why did Congress hold up the highway bill?
Answer: issuance of bonds to finance the project

Question: What agreements did the GOP Old Guard want Eisenhower to abandon?
Answer: Yalta

Question: Why did the Old Guard say Eisenhower should void the Yalta Agreements?
Answer: beyond the constitutional authority of the Executive Branch

Question: What world leader died in March of 1953?
Answer: Joseph Stalin

Question: What speech did Eisenhower give after Stalin died?
Answer: Chance for Peace

Question: Who called the Chance for Peace speech the best one Eisenhower gave as president?
Answer: Stephen Ambrose

Question: What did Eisenhower reduce as he increased nuclear weapons stockpiles?
Answer: conventional forces

Question: What was the policy of increasing nuclear weapons while decreasing conventional forces called?
Answer: New Look

Question: When did Eisenhower begin to cut the defense budget?
Answer: 1953

Question: Along with NSC 162/2, what influenced the development of the New Look policy?
Answer: Project Solarium

Question: Why did nuclear arms negotiations with Russia fail prior to 1955?
Answer: refusal of the Russians to permit any sort of inspections

Question: In what city did the US and Russia conduct nuclear talks in 1955?
Answer: London

Question: Who refused to permit nuclear weapons inspections in the wake of the 1955 talks?
Answer: Eisenhower

Question: In May of 1955, a treaty was signed giving independence to what country?
Answer: Austria

Question: What was the plan Eisenhower presented at the Geneva Conference called?
Answer: Open Skies

Question: What country did Eisenhower believe communists would conquer if they took over Guatemala?
Answer: Mexico

Question: The domino theory was applied to Central America and what other region?
Answer: Southeast Asia

Question: In what year was Eisenhower's EDC rejected?
Answer: 1954

Question: What country was made a full partner in NATO as the result of the failure of EDC?
Answer: West Germany

Question: According to Eisenhower, all of Southeast Asia would become communist if the communist insurgency won in what country?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: Who was the director of the CIA?
Answer: Dulles

Question: What was the code name of the overthrow of the Iranian government?
Answer: Operation Ajax

Question: What CIA operation toppled the Guatemalan government?
Answer: Pbsuccess

Question: What company made the U-2?
Answer: Lockheed

Question: Under what president did the Bay of Pigs Invasion take place?
Answer: John F. Kennedy

Question: What make and model aircraft was Air Force Flight 8610?
Answer: Lockheed C-121 Constellation

Question: What aircraft had an incident with Air Force Flight 8610?
Answer: Eastern Airlines Flight 8610

Question: What call sign does an Air Force aircraft have when a president is traveling on it?
Answer: Air Force One

Question: What was the name of the Lockheed C-121 Constellation that carried Eisenhower?
Answer: Columbine II

Question: In what year was Eisenhower involved in an incident while flying?
Answer: 1953

Question: What caused Eisenhower to kickstart the US space program?
Answer: Soviet launch of Sputnik

Question: What was the legal status of the U-2 flyovers?
Answer: illegal

Question: Along with the U-2 flyovers, what did Eisenhower try to legitimize with the Open Skies Policy?
Answer: Project Genetrix

Question: What was the name of the civilian space agency created by Eisenhower?
Answer: NASA

Question: With whom did Eisenhower try to improve relations?
Answer: American scientists

Question: Where did the Chinese begin to increase forces after Eisenhower entered the White House?
Answer: Kaesong sanctuary

Question: What did Eisenhower threaten to do if there was no armistice in Korea?
Answer: use nuclear force

Question: Along with the Joint Chiefs and SAC, what body was involved with formulating plans for nuclear war with China?
Answer: National Security Council

Question: What event led to decreased Russian support for China?
Answer: death of Stalin

Question: What was SAC an abbreviation of?
Answer: Strategic Air Command

Question: The boundary line of what year formed the 1953 armistice line?
Answer: 1950

Question: In what month in 1953 did the armistice come into being?
Answer: July

Question: Who was the President of South Korea at the time of the armistice?
Answer: Syngman Rhee

Question: What American official notably opposed the armistice?
Answer: Secretary Dulles

Question: Who described the armistice as Eisenhower's greatest presidential accomplishment?
Answer: Ambrose

Question: Along with the British and Israelis, what forces invaded Egypt in 1956?
Answer: French

Question: What was the combined Israeli-British-French invasion in response to?
Answer: Suez Crisis

Question: Who was the leader of Egypt at the time of the Suez Crisis?
Answer: Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question: Who invaded Hungary in 1956?
Answer: Soviet

Question: What year saw the publication of Eisenhower's memoirs?
Answer: 1965

Question: What war was being fought by France in 1953?
Answer: First Indochina War

Question: What was John W. O'Daniel's nickname?
Answer: Iron Mike

Question: Who convinced Eisenhower not to intervene in Vietnam?
Answer: Matthew Ridgway

Question: Who was providing supplies to the Vietnamese communists fighting against France?
Answer: China

Question: How large of a military deployment did Ridgway say would be necessary in Vietnam?
Answer: massive

Question: Aside from bombers, what aid did Eisenhower provide to the French?
Answer: non-combat personnel

Question: What did American bombers drop on Vietnam?
Answer: napalm

Question: When did Dien Bien Phu fall to the communists?
Answer: May 1954

Question: Along with the Vice President and NCS head, who urged Eisenhower to intervene after the fall of Dien Bien Phu?
Answer: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

Question: What arguably impossible conditions did Eisenhower set for further intervention on behalf of the French?
Answer: allied participation and congressional approval

Question: What is SEATO?
Answer: Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

Question: Along with the United States, the United Kingdom and France, who formed SEATO?
Answer: New Zealand and Australia

Question: What was the purpose of SEATO?
Answer: defense of Vietnam against communism

Question: What group did France split Vietnam with?
Answer: Communists

Question: Who met in peace talks with France at Geneva?
Answer: Chinese

Question: What was South Vietnam called in 1955?
Answer: Free Vietnam

Question: Who was the first ambassador to South Vietnam?
Answer: J. Lawton Collins

Question: When did Eisenhower first send military advisers to South Vietnam?
Answer: February 1955

Question: Who was the leader of South Vietnam in 1954?
Answer: Ngo Dinh Diem

Question: Along with Free Vietnam, what was another term for South Vietnam?
Answer: Republic of Vietnam

Question: How many days did the President of South Vietnam visit the US for in 1957?
Answer: ten

Question: Where was a parade held for the President of South Vietnam?
Answer: New York City

Question: How many soldiers did Eisenhower ultimately send to Vietnam?
Answer: 900

Question: Who was Secretary of State in 1957?
Answer: John Foster Dulles

Question: According to Dulles, why was Diem made president of Vietnam?
Answer: there were no better alternatives

Question: When was a U-2 downed over the Soviet Union?
Answer: May 1, 1960

Question: What was the downed U-2 gathering intelligence in advance of?
Answer: East–West summit conference

Question: What was the rank of the pilot of the downed U-2?
Answer: Captain

Question: Where was the East-West summit to have taken place?
Answer: Paris