1. Eisenhower’s
Foreign Policy

2. Truman vs. Eisenhower “Containment” [George Kennan]
“Brinksmanship” [John Foster Dulles]
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Airlift
NATO
NSC #68
Korean War
Mutual security agreements.
Massive retaliation.
M. A. D.
“Domino Theory”
CIA & covert operations
Eisenhower Doctrine
“$ Diplomacy” – Part II

3. Foreign Policy “Hot Spots”
EUROPE:
1955  Warsaw Pact created.
1956  Hungarian Revolution.
1958  Berlin Crisis.
1959  Nixon-Khrushchev “Kitchen Debate.”
1960  U-2 Spy Incident

4. Foreign Policy “Hot Spots”
Middle East:
1953  CIA sponsored coup in Iran
P. M. Mohammed Mossadegh  nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.
1956  Suez Crisis.
1958  Civil War in Lebanon

5. Foreign Policy “Hot Spots”
Latin America:
1948  O. A. S. [Organization of American States] was created during Truman’s administration.
1954  CIA covert ops. in Guatemala.
1950s  Puerto Rican independence movement.
1959  Castro’s Communist Revolution in Cuba.

6. Foreign Policy “Hot Spots”
Far East:
1953  end of the Korean War.
1954  French depart Indo-China.
Geneva Accords
1964  China explodes its first atomic bomb [during LBJ’s administration].