"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
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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) Organization of American States
- ANZUS (New Zealand and Australia)
- SEATO (Southeast Asia) Treaty Organization
- CENTO (Middle East)
- Richard Nixon his Vice-President
- Promised to end Korean War
- Began doctrine of containment around the World
- Included:
- OAS (Latin America) Organization of American States
- ANZUS (New Zealand and Australia)
- SEATO (Southeast Asia) Treaty Organization
- CENTO (Middle East)
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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 (Reduce dependence on Middle Eastern oil)
- All examples of what was to become the European Union
- 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 (Reduce dependence on Middle Eastern oil)
- All examples of what was to become the European Union
Summary
After becoming elected in 1952, President Eisenhower began a doctrine of containment around the world, pledged to stop the worldwide spread of Communism and end the Korean War. The EEC was established to hep limit the excessive nationalism, establish a free trade bloc, establish a common front against Communism and became what we now today to be the EU (European Union).