LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY! LONG LIVE COMMUNISM!
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President Eisenhower want to use covert operations to combat the spread of communism because he was convinced that if he pushed the Soviets to the point of war they would back down.
Created Green Berets & SEALS, and sent them to Vietnam .
The president adopted a policy of containment toward Soviet expansion and the spread of communism
President Dwight D. Eisenhower continued Harry Truman's support for the French in Vietnam because he believed in the domino theory. The domino theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would also follow. To prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, Eisenhower believed it was necessary to support the French in their fight against the communist-led Viet Minh.
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President Truman feared the spread of Communism to Southeast Asia.
Eisenhower gets the credit for it, along Truman no doubt had his input.
One of the sole purposes to the Truman, Kennedy, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower doctrines was to contain communist expansion in the world. Eisenhower's doctrine was in 1957 and wanted to block communism in the middle east.
The Reagan Doctrine aimed to prevent the spread of communism.
Eisenhower believed in the domino theory. That was the belief that communist governments were united in an effort to dominate the world and that communists were infiltrating democratic governments to turn them communist one at a time. He believed that stopping the spread of communism had to done in Vietnam and other places where it could still be stopped.
Eisenhower gets the credit for it, along Truman no doubt had his input.
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