John Foster Dulles (Ikes’ Secretary of State)– churchgoer – push back (roll back) Communist advances, “liberate captive people” Also try to balance budget by reducing military spending.
COLD WAR LANGUAGE
Brinkmanship - The practice of threatening an enemy with massive retaliation for any aggression.
Containment - The blocking of another nation’s attempts to spread its influence especially the efforts of the U.S. to block the spread of Soviet influence starting in the late 1940s,
Massive Retaliation - Policies of both the U.S. & the Soviet Union to build up enough nuclear weapons in order to show that it could still destroy the other side, even if attacked first