Cold War development to 1968

Question 1

Nature and features of Eisenhower Doctrine.

Answer 1

1. Economic assistance to american aligned nations, specifically within the middle east e.g. Israel.
2. US military assistance.

Question 2

What is massive retaliation, or brinkmanship?

Answer 2

U.S. secretary of the State, John Foster Dulles supported brinkmanship, a policy of edging risk of war to the very brink of such.

Question 3

Application of Containment policy

Answer 3

Essential to anti-communist foreign policy methodology; supporting anti-communist regimes, anti-communist alliances and interventionism.

Question 4

Understanding Peaceful coexistence

Answer 4

1. Kruschev’s acceptance of leadership led to development to “peaceful coexistence” doctrine, a policy of the USSR emerging through the 1950s and would later return during ‘detente era.’

Question 5

Domino theory, what is it?

Answer 5

1. Developed during 1950s USA, a doctrine deriving from Eisenhower which asserted the idea that if countries “fell” to communism the rest in proximity would follow and then would begin a global change.

Question 6

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