Eisenhower's Response To The American War

the reasoning behind massive retaliation and brinkmanship was to keep the soviet union from setting up communist governments within developing countries and it was also used to keep the soviet union from expanding their control into other countries. Eisenhower used these methods to threaten the soviet union whenever they were trying to get more land and setup more communist governments. Eisenhower used these methods in the Korean war to scare the north Koreans into stopping the fight and it worked because at that time the U.S was the only country that had the atomic bomb and the Koreans knew that the U.S used them before and they were scared so they stopped fighting and setup an agreement between the north and the south and created the demilitarized