The Cold War - Foreign Policy - Eisenhower And Kennedy

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The policy of containment was the policy of the time, it said
that our main goal was to keep communism from spreading. It would be later
seen that the focus of our efforts would be on the third world nations
which were weak and thus possible to have their governments overthrown.
Although both presidents agreed on the topic of containment, Kennedy was a
little more forceful in his approach. This was seen through his
inauguration speech in which he made clear his central opposition to
communism. He felt that the nation was not doing enough to combat it.
Nevertheless, both he and Eisenhower followed a distinct policy of
containment which would lead to further similarities in their foreign
policy.
The means in which containment was achieved, much like the policy
itself, varied little between the two presidents. Each used third world
nations to combat communism. More specifically, the United States during
this time, used its relatively new CIA to topple the governments of
communist ...

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