HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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South East Asian Task Organisation
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South East Asian Treaty Organisation
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South East Asian Tally Organisation
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South East Asian Team Organisation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 1954.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (1953–1959) is considered to be the primary force behind the creation of SEATO, which expanded the concept of anti-communist collective defense to Southeast Asia.
Detailed explanation-3: -As a distant “cousin” of NATO, SEATO (Southeast Asian Treaty Organization) was intended to provide the same rationale in Asia as NATO did in western Europe, i.e. to provide a collective defense against the spread of global communism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Eisenhower to put together an alliance to contain any communist aggression in the free territories of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, or Southeast Asia in general, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles forges an agreement establishing a military alliance that becomes the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
Detailed explanation-5: -With administrative headquarters in Bangkok, SEATO had no standing forces. Some members were unwilling to support the USA in the Vietnam War and SEATO was abandoned in 1977. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) replaced the non-military aspects of the treaty.