After the World War II, the US developed the containment policy to hold in check the expansionist tendencies of the Soviet Union. According to Shi and George (933), the policy was to exert economic, political and military pressure. The major trends included the following. The first trend was concluding an armistice. In 1953, a ceasefire agreement was made declaring an established border between the North and South Korea (Shi and George 991). Similarly, an armistice was triggered by the uncertainty felt by the Soviet Union and the rising military of China. The second trend was the dullest and massive retaliation. John Dulles argued that it was immoral to use containment policy and proposed liberation. The massive retaliation emphasized on the use of the nuclear warfare threat to prevent the aggression of the Communist (Shi and George 992).

The third trend was the CIA and foreign intervention. The Central Intelligence Agency was established in 1947 (Shi and George 991). Its function is to gather intelligence for the government. Eisenhower and Dulles used the CIA to influence politics of the world. For instance, when the prime minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh cut the relationship with Great Britain, the CIA was used to remove him from power. The fourth trend was the reelection and foreign crisis. Republicans renominated Eisenhower in 1956 and supported his Moderate Republicanism (Shi and George 996). The policy meant that there would be reduced intervention by the government and balanced budgets. Similarly, the Moderate Republicanism advocated for internationalist rather than having an isolationist foreign policy. Fifth, the Suez war entailed the control of the Suez Canal by Nasser. The NATO alliance was almost destroyed due to the attack on Egypt by Israel, Britain, and France (Shi and George 997). The cease-fire in Suez crisis meant that the British and French had to withdraw from the Suez Canal.

Work Cited

Shi, David E., and George Brown T. America: the essential learning edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2015. Print.

 
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