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After resigning from his post and resigning from the army, Eisenhower actively led his election campaign. His victory in the 1952 elections was impressive: almost 55% of voters cast their votes for him. Dwight Eisenhower was President of the United States for two terms - from 1953 to 1961. Formulating the concept of his presidency, he said that the country needed a period of calm and unification after the upheavals of World War II. In the field of domestic policy, he pursued a moderate course. On the one hand, he did not expand the social programs that existed in the previous decade, when the country was ruled by Democrats. But, on the other hand, he did not allow them to be reduced, as many Republicans wanted. Eisenhower curbed the rapid growth of military spending, realizing the danger of increasing the influence of the military-industrial complex. This was connected with his "new look" at the country's defense policy. Eisenhower said that every gun made, every ship launched, was a steal from those who were hungry and had no clothes.

Related to this approach to defense was Eisenhower's conception of US foreign policy. Since the president insisted on the need to reduce the size of the army, it was necessary to propose a military strategy that would correspond to the task of protecting against a possible attack by the USSR. Such a strategy was developed and received the ominous name of "massive retaliation." Its essence boiled down to the fact that the United States does not bind itself with an obligation to resist communism anywhere in the world. The United States can respond to the actions of the USSR in one place in another, where it considers it most appropriate, using nuclear weapons if necessary. “Only strength can help,” Eisenhower said, “weakness cannot help, it can only beg.” At the same time, he also understood the dangerous consequences of such a line.

In general, s areas of foreign policy, Eisenhower showed great flexibility, skillfully combining overt propaganda steps and covert operations. So, in December 1953, he came up with the Atoms for Peace program, which involved the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. On the other hand, Eisenhower actively used the CIA for covert subversive operations against countries where disloyal US governments were in power. The most striking example was the overthrow of the Mossadegh government in Iran in 1953 and the left-wing government of Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. However, Eisenhower did not allow the United States to be drawn into any new war. Eight years of his presidency, after he brought about an end to the war in Korea, passed without the use of American troops anywhere in the world.

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