• Thumbnail for Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
    The Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, created in 1958 originally as Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, was an office of the Executive...
    4 KB (230 words) - 04:30, 20 May 2025
  • The Office of Defense Mobilization (ODM) was an independent agency of the United States government whose function was to plan, coordinate, direct and control...
    22 KB (2,905 words) - 02:18, 20 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Office of Civil Defense
    The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) was an agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1961–64. It replaced the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization...
    8 KB (426 words) - 01:32, 20 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Federal Civil Defense Administration
    the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 on 12 January 1951. In 1958 the FCDA was superseded by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization when President...
    7 KB (396 words) - 01:31, 20 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Civil defense in the United States
    President Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization in the Executive Office of the President Office of Emergency Planning in the Executive Office of the President...
    38 KB (4,627 words) - 21:19, 14 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Federal Civil Defense Authority
    of Defense and Civilian Mobilization (ODCM), EOP (1958) Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM), EOP (1958–1961) Office of Civil Defense (OCD)...
    2 KB (168 words) - 21:19, 14 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Office of Civilian Defense
    Office of Civilian Defense was a United States federal emergency war agency set up May 20, 1941, by Executive Order 8757 to co-ordinate state and federal...
    6 KB (337 words) - 02:31, 1 April 2024
  • When and How to Protect Yourself Against It (USA 1959, produced by Creative Arts Studio Inc. on behalf of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization)....
    130 KB (12,957 words) - 18:57, 23 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Civil Air Defense Bureau (China)
    The Civil Air Defense Bureau of the National Defense Mobilization Department of the Central Military Commission (CCAD for short) is located in Beijing...
    21 KB (2,298 words) - 22:16, 26 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Dwight D. Eisenhower
    established a permanent civil rights office inside the Justice Department and a Civil Rights Commission to hear testimony about abuses of voting rights. Although...
    224 KB (22,828 words) - 16:53, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for James Jeremiah Wadsworth
    James Jeremiah Wadsworth (category Members of Skull and Bones)
    deputy administrator of the civil defense office for the National Security Resources Board, which drafted many of the civil defense plans that were prepared...
    8 KB (592 words) - 11:51, 4 February 2025
  • the merger of the All-out Defense Mobilization Office and the Armed Forces Reserve Command. The Agency published an updated civil defense handbook in...
    4 KB (268 words) - 15:17, 5 March 2025
  • Mandatory Oil Import Quota Program (category History of the petroleum industry in the United States)
    established after an investigation by the director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization established that oil imports threatened to impair US...
    2 KB (201 words) - 04:52, 22 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Federal Emergency Management Agency
    Civilian Mobilization, managed by the EOP; after that, the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, which renamed the former agency; then, the Office of Civil...
    107 KB (10,848 words) - 07:18, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Frederick H. Mueller
    Frederick H. Mueller (category United States secretaries of commerce)
    Commerce. In 1956, Mueller was charged with the heading of the Division of Domestic Affairs, and in 1958, he was elevated to deputy secretary, the number...
    3 KB (192 words) - 21:43, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Foster Dulles
    John Foster Dulles (category Recipients of the Medal of Freedom)
    international conferences of churchmen during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1924, he was the defense counsel in the church trial of Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick...
    48 KB (5,323 words) - 02:47, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Nuclear fallout
    Nuclear fallout (category Aftermath of war)
    Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack. Its [Handbook] H-6. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense. 1961. Archived from the original...
    83 KB (9,851 words) - 17:29, 24 April 2025
  • Virgil L. Couch (category Civil defense in the United States)
    Civil Defense Administration (1951–1958) and its two successor agencies, the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (1958–1961) and the Office of Civil...
    2 KB (218 words) - 13:30, 24 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Richard Nixon
    and divisive. McGovern intended to sharply reduce defense spending and supported amnesty for draft evaders as well as abortion rights. With some of his...
    207 KB (21,453 words) - 14:50, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lewis Strauss
    secretary and on joint Army–Navy industrial mobilization boards. Finally in 1959 he received a Gold Star in lieu of a fourth award, this time for his work...
    123 KB (14,124 words) - 21:43, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Santa Rosa, California
    surrounding area. In 1958, the United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization designated Santa Rosa as one of its eight regional headquarters, with jurisdiction...
    79 KB (7,530 words) - 14:16, 12 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Leo Hoegh
    Leo Hoegh (category American recipients of the Legion of Honour)
    administrator of civil defense. In 1958, Eisenhower appointed Hoegh director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. He was a member of the National...
    16 KB (1,486 words) - 23:53, 12 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for John A. McCone
    John A. McCone (category Chairpersons of the United States Atomic Energy Commission)
    Secretary of Defense for Lyndon Johnson); and then to Fowler Hamilton, a Wall Street lawyer with experience in government service during the Roosevelt and Truman...
    19 KB (1,980 words) - 19:39, 23 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
    since the Civil War. He saw action in Italy and France. In the fall of 1944, Lodge single-handedly captured a four-man German patrol. At the end of the war...
    59 KB (6,495 words) - 19:15, 1 May 2025
  • Department of Defence. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, an abolished office of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. This...
    306 bytes (75 words) - 18:44, 11 March 2018
  • Thumbnail for Ezra Taft Benson
    Ezra Taft Benson (category Presidents of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church))
    time of assuming office, the Department of Agriculture had 78,000 employees and an annual budget of $2.1 billion. Benson opposed the system of government...
    50 KB (5,401 words) - 20:17, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Charles Erwin Wilson
    Charles Erwin Wilson (category United States secretaries of defense)
    President Truman as the director of the Office of Defense Mobilization. The two were respectively nicknamed "Engine Charlie" and "Electric Charlie" so that...
    23 KB (3,130 words) - 18:07, 15 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for National Defense Mobilization Commission
    National Defense Mobilization Commission (NDMC) is an organization simultaneously under the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the Central...
    10 KB (798 words) - 13:50, 10 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Neil H. McElroy
    Neil H. McElroy (category United States secretaries of defense)
    assumed office: "I conceive the role of the Secretary of Defense to be that of captain of President Eisenhower's defense team." The launching of Sputnik...
    13 KB (1,445 words) - 03:49, 9 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Gordon Gray (politician)
    Gordon Gray (politician) (category United States Assistant Secretaries of Defense)
    Eisenhower appointed Gray to head the Office of Defense Mobilization in 1957, where he served until the office's consolidation in 1958. Eisenhower then...
    16 KB (1,310 words) - 07:21, 7 May 2025