Eisenhower Doctrine

The Eisenhower Doctrine is a decision taken by the then U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 5, 1957 authorization. It said the U.S. will everywhere and with all available means (including the use of nuclear weapons ) protect pro-Western regime against communist infiltration or a threat from the Soviet Union.

The doctrine was formulated in response to the Suez crisis, which had led to an end of Western dominance in the Arab world. Arab nationalism was on independence and sovereignty of Arab States, which was equated by the U.S. with communist tendencies.

Twice the United States turned to the Eisenhower Doctrine: In April 1957 the U.S. fleet supported the Jordanian King Hussein I, as this coup against his own government in order to prevent an approximation of Jordan in the Soviet Union. In the Lebanon crisis in 1958 U.S. troops came to the Christian president Camille Chamoun to help that in an incorporation of the time the only pluralist democracy in the Arab world by the United Arab Republic, which had united already under the leadership of Nasser Syria and Egypt by Muslim insurgents Lebanon sought to avoid.

The popularity of Nasser in the Arab world and the merger of Syria and Egypt to form the United Arab Republic in 1958 marked a setback for Eisenhower's policy in the Middle East. The interventions of the U.S. in the region's politics solved in the Arab population also from a refusal of the United States.

During a visit by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the USA in 1959, he and Eisenhower waved over to a co-existence course of the two power blocs. In the same year, the formal object of the Eisenhower Doctrine was followed.

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