Eisenhower New Look Policy
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- Created on: 04-05-16 12:42
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- Eisenhower's New Look Plan
- Hard line approach to Communism
- Massive Retaliation
- The USA would make greater use of nuclear threats
- Place less reliance on conventional weapons
- Situations in which MR would be used were kept vague
- Brinkmanship
- To go to the verge of war but not getting into war
- 1953 USA warned China that if they didn't end the Korean War soon they'd use nuclear weapons.
- 1954 Chinese Communists bombing Quemoy
- The US told them to stop or military action would be used once again
- Increased Covert Operations
- 1953 CIA operation to ensure that pro-Western Reza would be instated in Iran
- 1954 CIA backed coup against left wing Guatemalan President Guzman
- Development of U-2 spy planes to aid intelligence gathering
- Eisenhower Doctrine 1957
- Designed to halt communist penetration of the Middle East
- Stop Middle East oil supplies falling into hostile hands
- Domino Theory 1954
- If one country falls to communism they all will
- Vietnam
- Loas
- Cambodia
- Thailand
- Malaya
- SEATO 1954
- Military alliance between USA and South East Asia
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