Major Events of Presidency:
- Economic recession begins
- The Adventures of Augie March published
- Earl Warren becomes Supreme Court Chief Justice
- Truce ends Korean War
- CIA helps engineer coup in Iran
- Joseph Stalin dies
- Supreme Court rules Brown v. Board of Education
- Democrats regain control of Congress
- Army-McCarthy Hearings; Senate censures McCarthy
- France surrenders at Dien Bien Phu; Geneva agreement partitions Vietnam
- U.S. helps topple Arbenz regime in Guatemala
- Labor organizations form AFL-CIO
- Supreme Court Announces "Brown II" decision
- Montgomery bus boycott begins
- Eisenhower and Bulganin meet in Geneva
- Federal Highway Act passed
- Suez crisis
- Hungarian revolution defeated by Soviets
- Postwar baby boom peaks
- Labor racketeering investigations focus on Teamsters
- Soviet Union launches Sputnik
- On the Road published
- Little Rock school desegregation crisis
- Civil rights act passed
- American manned space program founded
- National Defense Education Act passed
- Castro seizes power in Cuba
- Nikita Khrushchev visits U.S.
- National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) formed
- U-2 incident
- Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space
- Alan Shepard becomes first American in space
- United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba