The Policy Of Containment Analysis

In president Eisenhower’s speech he stated that “The free nations of the mid east need, and for the most part want, added strength to assure their continued independence." on January 5, 1957. While all presidents wanted to stop communism, they all had different ideas on how to accomplish that. President Truman used economic aid while president Eisenhower focused on military aid. President Kennedy focused on military use and Flexible Response. During the cold war, which was a period in time when the U.S. and soviet union didn’t get along so, the two presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower were in control in that period of time(Ayers 817). The Policy of Containment was when the U.S. used many strategies to try and prevent the spread of communism. As
As of Eisenhower, in his speech, he was mainly focusing on military aid and he wanted to authorize and cooperate with others. President Truman was a president after the cold war and he wanted to stop the spread of communism as well as all the other presidents. He focused mainly on economic aid, but also used all the other policies in some way. President Truman wanted to send money to Greece because if he didn’t they would fall and become communist, as said before he was against communism and would try anything to stop that from happening which was his idea of economic aid. He said in his speech that we must assist free peoples to work out their destinies in their own way which means that people have to work hard for what they wanna get which leads back to The Policy of Containment. He was also applying assistance for becoming self supporting so all could
So President Eisenhower was really into Military Aid he especially wanted to be respectful to others, he wanted to authorize and cooperate with other countries so they can all work together and stop communism. How this relates to containment is he wanted to stop the enemy from growing and he wanted to work with others to complete that. He made up a lot of theories and started new ideas one was the Domino Theory, it was that if Vietnam became a communist country, South Asia would become communist to and stick together.(Ayers 950) Eisenhower again is using military use and a quote is “a soft answer turns away wrath”. He really wanted to stick together to most countries because he was all against communism. As a president, he wanted to stop all war and that’s what containment was. He thought of the foreign policy Brinkmanship, he described it as countries going to war without really going to war. So it’s like a threat that they will go to war but won’t. It was his way of fighting and would only go war if he really needed to(Ayers 849). Economic Aid is again helping to not become communist, so he wanted to strengthen all countries, so we all can get along and not go to war unless needed. He was trying to ignore the thought of war at all times. By strengthening countries, it gives all a reason to not start a war because no one will be stronger