rollback
U.S. History
Political Science
Examples of rollback in the following topics:
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Containment to Rollback
- Rollback is the rival doctrine to containment, the policy of merely stemming the expansion of communism .
- However, this rollback strategy caused the Chinese to intervene and send in large armies.
- The failure of the rollback policy, despite its advocacy by Gen.
- Republican spokesman John Foster Dulles took the lead in promoting a rollback policy.
- US success at Incheon encouraged UN and US forces to pursue a policy of rollback in Korea.
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The Cold War and Containment
- It represented a middle-ground position between détente and rollback.
- Although President Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) toyed with the rival doctrine of rollback, he refused to intervene in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
- President Ronald Reagan (1981–89), denouncing the Soviet state as an "evil empire", escalated the Cold War and promoted rollback in Nicaragua and Afghanistan.
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The Military Implementation of Containment
- Containment represented a middle-ground position between detente (the easing of strained political relations) and rollback (forcing change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime).
- As a counter-offensive, MacArther launched the Inchon Landing, a decisive victory and strategic reversal in favor of the United Nations.he success of the Inchon landing inspired the U.S. and the United Nations to adopt a rollback strategy to overthrow the Communist North Korean regime, thus allowing nationwide elections under U.N. auspices.
- This interpretation allowed the episode to be used to confirm the wisdom of containment doctrine as opposed to rollback.
- US success at Incheon encouraged UN and US forces to pursue a policy of rollback in Korea.
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Containment
- It represented a middle-ground position between détente and rollback.
- Although President Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) toyed with the rival doctrine of rollback, he refused to intervene in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
- President Ronald Reagan (1981–89), denouncing the Soviet state as an "evil empire," escalated the Cold War and promoted rollback.
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Containment in Vietnam
- " President Johnson, the Democratic nominee, answered that rollback risked nuclear war, and won the general election by a wide margin and adhered closely to containment during the Vietnam War.
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Containment in Foreign Policy
- In 1952, Dulles called for rollback and the eventual "liberation" of eastern Europe.
- " President Johnson, the Democratic nominee, answered that rollback risked nuclear war.
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The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
- It was distinguished from rollback by implicitly tolerating the previous Soviet takeovers in Eastern Europe.
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Conclusion: Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War
- It was distinguished from rollback by implicitly tolerating the previous Soviet takeovers in Eastern Europe.