changes in foreign policy: Truman vs Eisenhower

Question 1

what was Truman’s Foreign Policy?

Answer 1

containing the spread of communism through the Truman Doctrine.

Question 2

what was Eisenhower’s Foreign Policy?

Answer 2

the new look- threaten the use of Nuclear weapons to achieve America’s Foreign policy aims and to increase spending on Nuclear weapons

Question 3

what actions did Truman make to stop the spread of communism?

Answer 3

• the marshall plan being approved in 1948
• organised most Northern and Westerrn European countries into NATO by 1949.
• by 1949 work for the political and economic rehabilitation of japan was well under way and post war Japan was emerging as an American satelitte

Question 4

what actions did Eisenhower make to containing communism?

Answer 4

• huge sums of aid sent to contries resisting communism insurgancy, such as Nigo Dien Diem’s government in south vietnam after 1954.
• in event of a war with the USSR nuclear weapons would be used as a first resort and not a last one.

Question 5

what years was Truman president?

Answer 5

1945 -1953

Question 6

what years was Eisenhower president?

Answer 6

1953-1961

Question 7

name 3 similarities both Truman and Eisenhower had in US Foreign Policy?

Answer 7

• The fundemental purpose of containment was still present.
• Huge sums of money contiued to be sent to states resisting communism insugancy
• Designed to encircle the soviet union and keep the spread of communism in check

Question 8

Name 3 differnces in foreign policy between Truman and Eisenhower?

Answer 8

• Differnces in the strategy of containment
• increase in the relianceof nuclear weapons.
• In the event of a war with the USSR nuclear weapons would be the forst resort.