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The presidential election of 1952, unlike most others before and since, was dominated by foreign policy, from the bloody stalemate of Korea to the deepening menace of international communism. During the campaign, Dwight Eisenhower and his spokesmen fed the public’s imagination with their promises to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe and created the impression that in office they would undertake an aggressive program to roll back Soviet influence across the globe. But time and again during the 1950s, Eisenhower and his advisers found themselves powerless to shape the course of events in Eastern Europe: they mourned their impotence but did little. In Dueling Visions , Ronald R. Krebs argues that two different images of Eastern Europe’s ultimate status competed to guide American policy during this period: Finlandization and rollback. Rollback, championed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Central Intelligence Agency, was synonymous with liberation as the public understood itdetaching Eastern Europe form all aspects of Soviet control. Surprisingly, the figure most often linked to liberationSecretary of State John Foster Dulles came to advocated a more subtle and measure

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Author

Ronald R. Krebs

Publisher

Texas A & M University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780890969687

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Language Learning