Dwight D. Eisenhower became president in 1953 after leading a life in the military. He was prestigiously known for his victories as a commanding officer in WWII, and later assumed supreme command over the new NATO forces being assembled in 1951. When Eisenhower did assume the presidency, the US was in the middle of the Korean War, and also the Cold War. However, Eisenhower was able to quickly achieve a truce that created the armed peace that still exists today on the North Korean and South Korean border. The death of Stalin in the same year (1953) also caused a shift in US-Soviet relationships, and the new Russian leaders consented to a peace treaty neutralizing Austria. However, at the same time, both Russia and the United States had developed hydrogen bombs and with the threat of such destructive force hanging over the world, Eisenhower, with the leaders of the British, French, and Russian governments, met at Geneva in July 1955. In September of 1955, Eisenhower suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized, but recovered after a few months, and was reelected again in November of 1956. Eisenhower continued support of the New Deal and Fair Deal programs, and also desegregated both schools, and the Army around the nation. Eisenhower also adopted the “atoms for peace program”, the loan of American uranium to "have not" nations for peaceful purposes. Before retiring after his second term, Eisenhower emphasized the necessity of maintaining an adequate military strength, but cautioned that vast, long-continued military expenditures could breed potential dangers to our way of life.