(Bingshen the twelfth lunar month, the fifth day), January 5, 1957, Eisenhower proposed aggressive expansion plans in an attempt to control the Middle East. published in the "Voice of America" ​​the broadcast speech



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Eisenhower, the Middle East has become an important object of contention in the United States and the Soviet Union. The power of the old colonialists of the Middle East, Britain, France and other countries has been greatly weakened, not Fu Zhongdong rising, the national liberation movement. After the events of the Suez Canal in 1956, Britain, France, was forced to withdraw from some areas, the so-called "political vacuum". In order to control the Middle East, the United States decided to take advantage of.
1957, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Congress a special message on the Middle East, and submitted to the Middle East resolution. The basic principles of this resolution, to be known as the Eisenhower Doctrine. The main content: Congress authorized the president to spend 200 million U.S. dollars in economic and military aid to the Middle East countries; President shall have the power, upon the request of these countries by force assistance, as long as these countries are facing "armed aggression against any country controlled by international communism & rdquo ;. Eisenhower Doctrine, the United States following the Truman Doctrine is an aggressive Programme of the Middle East.
Khrushchev (right) and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower (second from left) in the United States at Camp David talks