Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A 1952, Eisenhower ya shiga tseren shugaban kasa a matsayin dan Republican don hana manufofin kasashen waje na Senator Robert A. Taft; Taft ya yi adawa da NATO kuma bai so ya shiga cikin kasashen waje ba. Eisenhower ya lashe wannan zaben da kuma zaben 1956 a cikin gagarumar nasara, duk lokacin da ya ci Adlai Stevenson II. Babban burin Eisenhower a ofishin shi ne ya hana yaduwar kwaminisanci da kuma rage kasafin kudin tarayya. A shekara ta 1953, ya yi la'akari da amfani da makaman nukiliya don kawo karshen yakin Koriya, kuma yana iya yi wa China barazanar kai harin nukiliya idan ba a cimma yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta da sauri ba. Kasar Sin ta amince kuma an cimma yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta wadda har yanzu tana aiki. Manufofinsa na New Look na hana nukiliya sun ba da fifiko ga makaman nukiliya masu arha yayin rage kudade ga rundunonin Sojoji masu tsada. Ya ci gaba da manufofin Harry S. Truman na amincewa da Taiwan a matsayin halattacciyar gwamnatin China, kuma ya sami amincewar majalisa na Formosa Resolution. Gwamnatinsa ta ba da babban taimako don taimakawa Faransawa su yaƙi 'yan Kwaminisanci na Vietnam a Yaƙin Indochina na Farko. Bayan da Faransawa suka tafi, ya ba da tallafin kuɗi mai ƙarfi ga sabuwar jihar Kudancin Vietnam. Ya goyi bayan juyin mulkin soja da ya sauya tsarin mulki a Iran
da kuma Guatemala shirya da kansa gwamnati. A lokacin rikicin Suez na 1956, ya yi Allah wadai da mamayar Isra'ila, Burtaniya, da Faransa a Masar, kuma ya tilasta musu janyewa. Ya kuma yi Allah wadai da mamayar Soviet a lokacin juyin juya halin Hungary na 1956 amma bai dauki mataki ba. Bayan da Tarayyar Soviet ta kaddamar da Sputnik a shekara ta 1957, Eisenhower ya ba da izinin kafa NASA, wanda ya kai ga Space Race. Ya tura sojoji 15,000 a lokacin rikicin Lebanon na 1958. Kusan ƙarshen wa'adinsa, ya kasa shirya taron kolin da Soviets lokacin da aka harbe jirgin leken asirin Amurka a kan Soviet Union. Ya amince da mamayar Bay of Pigs, wanda aka bar wa John F. Kennedy don aiwatar da shi.