Cold War
In cold war in Southeast Asia when in July 1953, Eisenhower fulfilled a campaign promise to bring the Korean War to an end. The sudden death of Stalin in March and the rapid rise of more moderate Soviet leaders contributed to the resolution of this conflict. The US had also began providing military aid to support France, which was trying to retain control of its colony, Vietnam. When an international conference divided Vietnam into a Communist north and an anti-Communists south, the US provided aid to South Vietnam, but right now the US resisted greater involvement. In the Middle East, the Cold War was also played out. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Holocaust had forced many Jews to seek safety in Palestine, the Biblical home of the Jewish people, now controlled by th
As Arab hostility to the idea of a Jewish state continued, the United States supported Israel, while the Soviet backed the Arab. Nasser responded by seizing the British-owned Suez Canal. In 1952, a nationalist leader gained control in Iran. The next year, the United States led the way in forming the Organization of American States to increase cooperation among the nations of the hemisphere. In 1947, the United States signed the Rio Pact which was a regional defense alliance with 18 other nations in the Western Hemisphere. In Central America, United States troops invaded Nicaragua and Honduras to prop up leader who supported American interests. The CIA takeover restored the property of an American corporation, the United Fruit Company. Calls for a Jewish state intensified. In 1947, the British turned the question over to the UN, which created two states in the area, one Jewish and one Arab. The United States also acted to support pro-American governments and to suppress Communist influences in Latin America. The United States also worked to prevent oil-rich Arab nations from falling under the influence of the Soviet Union. Since the mid-1920s, the United States had exercised control over the economies of some ten Latin American nations. In May 1948, the Jews in Palestine proclaimed the new nation of Israel.
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