THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR
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extending the policy of containment to new regions
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providing financial aid to help industrialize their economies.
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encouraging leaders to nationalize foreign companies.
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organizing riots and providing weapons to opposition groups
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-4: -Because the Soviet Union was boycotting the Security Council over its China policy, Truman succeeded. With the pledge of UN troops, he ordered General MacArthur to send American troops from Japan to Korea.