Eisenhower Foreign Policy Vocab

The practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.

• Hungarian Crisis

• Brinkmanship

• Covert operations

• Kitchen Debate

Aimed to ensure that the US maintained a strong second-strike capability and could respond to all external threats

• Covert Operations

• Nuclear Diplomacy

• U.S.-Soviet Relations

• Massive Retaliation

A civilian agency that worked to influence foreign policy through covert operations and support for anti-communist movements

• CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

• FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

• DOGE

• Brinkmanship

Secret activities by the U.S. government to influence political, economic, or military conditions abroad. The goal was to not publicly acknowledge the U.S. role

• Foreign Affairs

• Suez Crisis

• Covert Operations

• Massive Retaliation

An attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the policies caused by the government's subordination to the Soviet Union (USSR)

• Hungarian Crisis

• Suez Crisis

• Iran 1953

• French-Vietnam Crisis

A Cold War conflict in which Egypt took control of the Suez Canal, leading Britain, France, and Israel to invade. However, pressure from the U.S. and the Soviet Union forced them to withdraw, marking a shift in global power away from old colonial empires

• Death of Stalin

• Kitchen Debate

• Massive Retaliation

• Suez Crisis

A U.S. and British-backed overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh after he nationalized Iran’s oil.

• Brinkmanship

• Iran 1953

• Hungarian Crisis

• Intervention in Indochina

A meeting between Vice President Nixon and Premier Khrushchev in a model American kitchen where the debated Capitalism and Communism creating rising tensions.

• Capitalism VS. Communism

• Nixon VS. Khrushchev

• Kitchen Debate

• Covert Operations

After Stalin’s death in 1953, a power struggle ended with Nikita Khrushchev becoming Soviet leader. He pushed de-Stalinization and Cold War policies, shifting the USSR’s direction.

• French- Vietnam Crisis

• The Shift of Communism

• Death of Stalin-Rise of Nikita Khrushchev

The final struggle of French colonial rule in Vietnam, ending with their defeat at Dien Bien Phu. This split Vietnam into two and set the stage for U.S. Involvement.

• Massive Retaliation

• French-Vietnam Crisis (1953-54)

• The Vietnam War

• Vietnam-French entanglement (1957-59