Dwight D. Eisenhower

==== Legitimation of Francoist Spain ====
{{Main|Pact of Madrid}}
[[File:Franco eisenhower 1959 madrid.jpg|thumb|Spanish dictator [[Francisco Franco]] and Eisenhower in [[Madrid]] in 1959]]
The Pact of Madrid, signed on September 23, 1953, by [[Francoist Spain]] and the United States, was a significant effort to break [[international isolation]] of Spain, together with the [[Concordat of 1953]]. This development came at a time when other victorious Allies and much of the rest of the world remained hostile{{efn|For the 1946 United Nations condemnation<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.derechoshumanos.net/memoriahistorica/1946-Resolucion-ONU.htm|title=Resolution 39 (I) of the UN General Assembly on the Spanish question.}}</ref> of the Francoist regime, see "[[Spanish Question (United Nations)|Spanish Question]]"}} to a [[Fascism|fascist]] regime sympathetic to the cause of the former [[Axis powers]] and [[German involvement in the Spanish Civil War|established with Nazi assistance]]. This accord took the form of three separate executive agreements that pledged the United States to furnish [[foreign aid|economic]] and [[military aid]] to Spain.