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Date Posted: Thursday, February 14, 04:47:08pm
Author: Margaret Huey
Subject: Re: Mr. Davis
In reply to: Revised Eisenhower Topic 's message, "Mr. Davis" on Friday, February 08, 10:09:55am

Dwight D. Eisenhower had to handle many different foreign policy events during his presidency. One of the most important situations that he handled was the U-2 plan incident in which the United States had a plane spying on the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union discovered this and shot the plane down and confronted the United States about this. When the US was confronted by the Soviet Union about the fact that they had a spy plane, the US denied it until the Soviet Union revealed that they had found the plane and shot it down. This situation was handled extremely poorly. During the Cold War, tensions were already extremely high between the US and the Soviet Union and Eisenhower should have been more careful with what he chose to do regarding the Soviet Union. The United States is lucky that all the Soviet Union did was confront us; they could have used it as an excuse to attack. The world was on the brink of war, Eisenhower nearly tipped it over the edge with this desicion. Although he did make some very good and beneficial desicions, this was one area in which he could have made some improvement.

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