Evaluating the Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy. Describe Two or Three Events That Tested This Doctrine in Europe, South-East Asia, and the Middle East

The Cold War continued to rage during the years of the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s. Eisenhower's secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, became the nation's dominant figure during this time. He held a stern moral revulsion to communism and once in power suggested the United States pursue an active program of "liberation" to "rollback" communist expansion. Dulles became known for his "massive retaliation" doctrine which he announced in 1954. The "massive retaliation" doctrine stated that the United States will respond to communist threats to its allies not by using conventional f…