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LaFeber America Russia and the Cold War Cover
America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945 - 2002: Updated, 9/e
Walter LaFeber, Cornell University

A Different Cold War (1953-1955)

Primary Source Documents

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles - International Communism in Guatemala

Philip B Taylor Jr - The Guatemalan Affair - A Critique of United States Foreign Policy

President Dwight D Eisenhower - Press Conference on Indochina - Statement of the Domino Thesis

Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference on the Problem of Restoring Peace in Indochina

Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty -Manila Pact- Statement of Hon John Foster Dulles

Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty -Manila Pact- Statement of Hon John Foster Dulles



1

How did U.S. policy toward communism shift under the Eisenhower administration? What was more influential in causing that shift, the events of the early 1950s or the views of people like Dulles and Eisenhower himself?
2

Why were U.S. policies and attitudes toward Latin America during the Eisenhower presidency considered short-sighted and self-serving by some critics?
3

How did the United States negotiate the ability to act unilaterally to combat communism in the Geneva Accords and the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty? Which countries objected to granting the United States this freedom? Why?
4

How did the formation of SEATO signal a change in U.S. policy in Asia? What were the roots of that shift?