THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR
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massive retaliation
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developing nations
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military-industrial complex
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covert
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Detailed explanation-1: -Two examples of covert operations that achieved American objectives took place in Iran and Guatemala. By 1953 Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. He seemed ready to make an oil deal with the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-2: -U.S. covert operations included extralegal coups against revolutionary regimes in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. In 1953, for example, a CIA operation, approved directly by Eisenhower, led to the overthrow of the elected leader of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddeq.
Detailed explanation-3: -How are developing nations primarily different from industrial nations? Develuping nations primarily depend on agriculture, and industrial nations rely on machinery and factories to be strong.
Detailed explanation-4: -It included the USSR, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany and Albania. Western countries were not part of it. This only made the feeling of east versus west even stronger. The world was now very much divided between two opposing sides who had different ideas.