"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. "
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Eisenhower Doctrine
•1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower elected as US President replacing Harry Truman
•Richard Nixon his Vice-President
•Promised to end Korean War
•Began doctrine of containment around the World
•Included:
•OAS (Latin America)
•ANZUS (New Zealand and Australia)
•SEATO (Southeast Asia)
•CENTO (Middle East)
•Richard Nixon his Vice-President
•Promised to end Korean War
•Began doctrine of containment around the World
•Included:
•OAS (Latin America)
•ANZUS (New Zealand and Australia)
•SEATO (Southeast Asia)
•CENTO (Middle East)
*The European Economic Community
*Known as the (EEC) foundation for modern day European Economic Union (EEU)
*US wanted to:
-Limit effects of excessive nationalism
-Establish a free trade bloc
-Establish a common front against Communism
*Included:
-The Council of Europe, 1949
-The Schuman Plan, 1950 (French and German coal to be produced together)
-European Coal and Steel Community, 1952
-European Defence Community
-Euratom, 1957 (Reduced dependance on oil and coal
*US wanted to:
-Limit effects of excessive nationalism
-Establish a free trade bloc
-Establish a common front against Communism
*Included:
-The Council of Europe, 1949
-The Schuman Plan, 1950 (French and German coal to be produced together)
-European Coal and Steel Community, 1952
-European Defence Community
-Euratom, 1957 (Reduced dependance on oil and coal
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Summary
The Eisenhower doctrine came into play to help stop the speeding of communism world wide through all the different organizations he had set up.