Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Foreign Policy under
Eisenhower and Dulles
- Eisenhower
- President 1953-1961
- Army general - helped to plan
D-day landings = EXPERIENCE
- Massively critical of Truman
- Thought containment
had failed
- Ike fears the domino theory
- Election campaign
- Roll back
- Military spending
- Dulles
- Secretary of state 1953-1959
- In charge of foreign affairs
- Said he wanted to 'liberate the states of
Eastern Europe from the evils of
communism
- 'New Look'
- Designed by Dulles
- Underlying assumption that the USSR were expansionist
- Said about the use of containment or rollback with communism
- Truman attempted rollback with
Korea so rollback wasn't
completely new
- Massive retaliation
- Said that ANY threat to the US will
result in nuclear weapon usage
- THREAT= spread of communism
- Brinkmanship
- Pushing nuclear weapons until USSR back down
- MAJOR PROBLEM
- Neither may back down