1,025,035,515 visitors served.
1,025,035,515 visitors served. |
|
 Dictionary/ thesaurus |  Medical dictionary |  Legal dictionary |  Financial dictionary |  Acronyms |  Idioms |  Encyclopedia |  Wikipedia encyclopedia | ? |
Eisenhower Doctrine |
Also found in: Wikipedia | 0.04 sec. |
Eisenhower DoctrineU.S. foreign policy pronouncement by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1957). The Eisenhower Doctrine promised military and economic aid to anticommunist governments, at a time when communist countries were providing arms to Egypt and offering strong support to Arab states. Part of the Cold War policy developed by John Foster Dulles to contain expansion of the Soviet sphere of influence, the doctrine continued pledges made under the Truman Doctrine. |
|
? Mentioned in | ? References in periodicals archive | |
|---|---|---|
President Eisenhower and they produced-a declaration-known as the Eisenhower Doctrine (to protect Saudi Arabia as if it were part of the USA). doctrines and strategies which expressed a resolve to contain that challenge included the Truman Doctrine (1948), the Eisenhower Doctrine (1957), Kennedy's flexible response, the corollaries of limited nuclear war, counterinsurgency, the Johnson Doctrine (1865), the Nixon-Kissinger Doctrine (1969), and finally the Carter Doctrine (1980) and Reagan's codicil (1981). America pressured Israel to withdraw from the Sinai, after the Suez war, in exchange for free passage in the Gulf of Aqaba, while seeing in Israel a counterweight to Egypt, and included the former in the Eisenhower Doctrine. |
 |
| Free Tools: |
For surfers:
Browser extension |
Word of the Day |
Help
For webmasters: Free content | Linking | Lookup box | Double-click lookup | Partner with us |
|
|---|
Disclaimer |
Privacy policy |
Feedback | Copyright © 2008 Farlex, Inc.
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Email
Feedback
Eisenhower Doctrine
