Eisenhower's Foriegn Affairs
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- John Dulles
- Sec. of State
- brinkmanship
- going to brink of war
- massive retaliation
- using the H-bomb
- Dulles's view on communism
- not just contain it, but also turn back the tide
- Vietnam (1)
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-1945 liberated from Japan
-Ho Chi Minh (l9berator)
-French wanted to help
-French started to treat Vietnam like former colonies
- US saw as a bulwark against communism
- many US wanted to help assist the french
- in 1954 at Geneva, agreement made north communist and south free - SEATO
- helped against agression against any other member
- pactomania
- Dulles's attempt to encircle the Communists with treaties
- METO
- group in Middle east; part of pactomania
- Paris Pact
- US and GB keeps troops on Euro Continent as long as wanted by people
- CIA operation 1952-1953
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-bring down Farouk and put in Nasser
-topple Iran's premier
-help opposition group in Guatamala - 1953 Russia
- Kruschev comes to power
- Peaceful coexistence
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-come to peaceful terms after Stalin's death
- USSR removed troops from Austria
-still no "open skies" - Hungary 1956
- peple's revolt put down by Soviet tanks;Americans only offer refuge
- Israel 1950's
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-Jews emigrate there
-GB tries to establish Jew-Arab state
-UN splits land up amongst the two faiths
-Israel declares itself in 1948 and the next day is attacked by other ME forces - Nasser and egypt
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-wants Aswan dam for irrigation
-makes pact with Soviet Union
-US refuses to help Egypt with dam b'c of comm. frat.
-Egypt takes over dam
-GB& F & Israel attack Egypt
-Soviet Union and US agree that they could not do that, demanded a cease-fire and UN resolution - Robert Goddard
- wanted to use rockets to push through space and carry its own oxygen/fuel
- V-2 rockets
- used by Germany in WWII
- Operation Paperclip
- US attempt to collect German scientists after the WWII
- Sputnik
- first sattelite ever (by USSR)
- Explorer I
- first US satellite
- Sputnik II
- second sattelite into space; had Laika, the space dog on it
- National Defense Education Act
- tries to produce more scientist since there is a "crisis in education"
- Eisenhower doctrine
- aid ME country that tries to resist military agression from communist controlled countries (later it included that it must be pro-western)I
- Iraq
- king killed by pro-Nasser occicers
- Who asked for help under the Eisenhower doctrine
- Jordan and Lebanon
- 1958 from USSR
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threats to withdraw from East Berlin and sign treaty if US does not back out within 6 mo.
-nothing happened - Spirit of camp david
- ease in tensions
- May 5 1960
- US spy caught in USSR