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On which two issues did Eisenhower and the Congress reach agreement during the president's second term?

Civil rights legislation and an expanded federal role in public education

Why did President Eisenhower not want to intervene militarily at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954?

He did not want a repetition of the scenario in which American forces had found themselves in Korea just years earlier.

How did the concept of mutually assured destruction (MAD) affect the standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union?

It deterred the possibility of a nuclear first strike, but did not slow the nuclear arms race in either nation.

What prevented the Eisenhower administration from intervening in the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolt of 1956?

Knowledge that intervention would risk American lives and nuclear war

Why did the U.S. government initiate Operation Wetback?

To identify illegal Mexican immigrants and deport them from the United States