Dwight Eisenhower Is Famous for Many Things. Name One: Civics Question 107

Name one: Eisenhower was a general during World War II, the 34th president, president at the end of the Korean War, and the president who signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.

Question 107 asks you to name one thing Dwight Eisenhower is famous for. Four answers count: general during World War II, president at the end of the Korean War, 34th president of the United States, and signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which created the Interstate System. Give one of them. You do not need dates, ranks, or the name of a battle.

Who Eisenhower Was

Eisenhower was a career Army officer who commanded Allied forces in Europe during World War II. The landings in France in June 1944, known as D-Day, were carried out under his command.

He left the Army, ran for president, and won the election of 1952. Fighting in Korea stopped in 1953, early in his first term. He served two terms in the White House and was the 34th person to hold the office.

In 1956 he signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, the law that built the Interstate System. That is on the official list of answers too.

Why the Officer Asks This

The list has eight questions that name a person and ask what that person is famous for: questions 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 94, 107 and 113. This is one of them, and every one of them accepts a single answer out of several.

Eisenhower also ties two other questions together. He fought in the war named in question 100 and he was president when the war in question 110 ended.

How to Remember It

Hold the order of his two jobs: general, then president. War first, White House second.

Both halves of that phrase are accepted answers, so one memory gives you two ways to answer. If you want the number as well, 34 goes with the presidency, since he was the 34th to hold it.

Common Ways People Get This Wrong

Some applicants name the wrong war for the general answer. He commanded in World War II, and he was president, not a commander, during the Korean War.

Others give the wrong number. Only 34 is on the list of accepted answers, so if the number feels shaky, use the general answer or the highway law instead.

What to Say on Test Day

Say “he was a general in World War II.” Then stop.

One fact from his life is the whole answer, and adding a second gives you another chance to get a number or a war wrong.