ny years experience playing in the international arena. Ike personally knew important world leaders, as Army Chief of Staff (1945-1948), he had charted America's military strategy around the world. As Supreme Commander of NATO (1950-1952), he was involved in forging the European-American alliance of the early Cold War years (Diplomacy in The 1950's, 2013). America was in the midst of a dead end disappointing war in, Korea when Ike took office. The U.S. faced with a powerful, implacable, and unpredictable Soviet enemy that openly sought world domination. Population intensified under dictatorships or colonial oppression across the globe.(Diplomacy in The 1950's, 2013).
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