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The United States foreign policy of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, from 1953 to 1961, focused on the Cold War with the Soviet Union and its satellites. The United States built up a stockpile of nuclear weapons and nuclear delivery systems to deter military threats and save money while cutting back on expensive Army combat units.
The Draft Eisenhower movement has been referenced in later draft movements including the 1992 Draft Perot movement [100] and the 2008 Draft Condi movement. [101] [102] In his 2000 book, Pickett wrote: In truth, Eisenhower's decision to become a candidate was less complicated, not to mention less devious, and more honorable.
Eisenhower's overall Cold War policy was codified in NSC 174, which held that the rollback of Soviet influence was a long-term goal, but that NATO would not provoke war with the Soviet Union. Peace would be maintained by being so much stronger in terms of atomic weapons than the USSR that it would never risk using its much larger land-based ...
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Geneva Summit of 1955 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.Held on July 18, 1955, it was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France. [1]
[18] However, the domino theory was popularized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower when he applied it to Southeast Asia, especially South Vietnam during the First Indochina War. Moreover, the domino theory was utilized as one of the key arguments in the "Kennedy and Johnson administrations during the 1960s to justify increasing American military ...
"Atoms for Peace" was a propaganda component of the Cold War strategy of containment. [6] Eisenhower's speech opened a media campaign that would last for years and that aimed at "emotion management", [7] balancing fears of continuing nuclear armament with promises of peaceful use of uranium in future nuclear reactors. [8]
The Berlin Crisis of 1958–1959 was a crisis over the status of West Berlin during the Cold War.It resulted from efforts by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to react strongly against American nuclear warheads located in West Germany, and build up the prestige of the Soviet satellite state of East Germany.