AMH2020 July 23rd Chapter 37 Early Cold War Foreign Policy Eisenhower Administration Foreign Policy Korea process Foreign Policy 1952 Eisenhower s visit to Korea failed to speed up peace 1953 Peace signed after nuclear threat hinted New Look Philosophy o Not just contain communism o Secretary of State John Foster Dulles o Strategic Air Command SAC Foreign Policy Iran 1953 Iranian oil company seizure prompted CIA intervention Orchestrated coup removing Mohammad Mossadeq o Replaced him with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi o Gave 45 million in aid Foreign Policy Mexico Foreign Policy Hungary Hungarian Uprising o Eisenhower established Operation Wetback in 1954 o U S hesitated to use their credible only weapons nuclear in such a small conflict o Soviets crushed the Hungarians as many fled their homes for other countries During Eisenhower administration 1956 Foreign Policy Egypt befriended Soviets Dulles withdrew foreign aid offer when Egyptian president Nasser o Nasser nationalized Suez Canal in 1956 o French and British allies and Israel invaded Egypt Cut off Europe s oil supplies Eisenhower declined to release U S oil reserves to aid French and British French and British withdrew from Egypt Foreign Policy Eisenhower Doctrine Foreign Policy Vietnam o 1957 o Pledged U S military and economic aid to Middle Eastern nations threatened by communist aggression 1919 Wilson declined Ho Chi Minh s request for U S aid toward independence from France 1930s FDR refused to aid Nationalist Vietnamese 1941 Viet Minh resisted Japanese invaders 1950s U S extended aid to French struggle to hold Vietnam as Nationalist became Communists 1954 U S financing 80 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu o Eisenhower declined to use massive force to save French troops trapped at NW Vietnamese fortress Geneva Conference halved at 17 th Parallel o Ho Chi Minh in North o Ngo Dinh Diem in South with Saigon as capital Foreign Policy Cuba Batista in control 1930s Isolationist U S withdrew from Cuba leaving strongman 1959 Revolutionary Fidel Castro overthrew Batista s regime 1961 U S broke diplomatic relations with Cuba Foreign Policy Soviets 1953 Dictator Joseph Stalin died 1955 Soviets ended Austrian occupation 1956 Soviet actions in Hungary and Iran rekindled suspicions 1958 Temporary halt of nuclear testing 1958 U S troops halted Communist supported Egyptian invasion of Lebanon Moscow 1959 V P Nixon s July kitchen debate with Khrushchev in 1959 Eisenhower invited Khrushchev to America in August 1960 Summit Conference Scheduled for Paris o U 2 Spy plane incident cut meeting short Eisenhower s Farewell Address Warned of threat to U S greater than communism January 17 1961
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