Evaluating the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy. Describe two or three events that tested this doctrine in Europe, South-East Asia, and the Middle East.

The Cold War continued to rage during the years of the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s. Eisenhower's secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, became the nation's dominant figure during this time. He held a stern moral revulsion to communism and once in power suggested the United States pursue an active program of "liberation" to "rollback" communist expansion. Dulles became known for his "massive retaliation" doctrine which he announced in 1954. The "massive retaliation" doctrine stated that …

…truce with Egypt. John Foster Dulles' foreign policy was tested by communist threats in Vietnam and Egypt. American did not respond with military force. And luckily, America did not use nuclear weapons to settle these disputes. As for Dulles, he suffered from cancer. Dulles was forced by his declining health to resign from office in April 1959, and died in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 1959, at the age of 71, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.