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Foreign Policy under Eisenhower and Dulles
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A-Level History Mind Map on Foreign Policy under Eisenhower and Dulles, created by catherinegray18 on 04/01/2016.
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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
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