Eisenhower's Foreign Policy

Suez Crisis

when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt over control of the Suez Canal

Eisenhower Doctrine

the promise by the U.S. to provide financial and military aid to any country in the Middle East seeking help to avert a communist takeover

Hungarian Revolution

Hungarian citizens, led by Premier Imre Nagy, rebelled against the Soviet

Nikita Khrushchev

became Soviet premier when Stalin died

”Peaceful coexistence”

a Soviet theory that the U.S. and the USSR, and their political ideas, could exist without fighting each other.

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Gary Powers

the pilot of a U

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industrial complex”

network

an interconnected system of things of people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

created during the Cold War, the agency of the U.S. government that collects and acts on political and military information about other countries.

Mohammad Mossadegh

prime minister of Iran; nationalized the nation's oil industry and was overthrown by a CIA

Jacobo Árbenz

president of Guatemala who enacted agrarian reforms to redistribute land and challenge the power of the United Fruit company in Guatemala.