the U.S. threat of "massive retaliation" against any attempt at Soviet expansion
Brinkmanship was a foreign policy practiced in the 1950s by President Eeisenhower's secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The term came from Dulles's policy of pressing Cold War issues with the Soviet Union to the brink of war. Hence "brinkmanship."
Policy of Boldness
President Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, advocated the international policy of "brinksmanship" in our foreign dealings with the Soviet Union during the 1950s. The policy was to threaten the enemy by going to the "brink of war." Your enemy would assume you would go all the way and would "back down" at the last minute, as you approaced the "brink" of war. Not all politicians at that time favored this policy. MrV
The invention of the jet engine is most closely associated with the beginning of the jet age. It revolutionized aviation with its increased speed and efficiency compared to propeller-driven aircraft. The first commercial jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, played a significant role in ushering in the jet age in the 1950s.
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Foreign policy problems in the early 1950s
Eisenhower Doctrine
Containment.
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Containment was the foreign policy meant to resist the expansion of the Soviet Union. This policy was implemented by the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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