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[[File:Dwight_D._Eisenhower,_official_photo_portrait,_May_29,_1959.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|President Dwight Eisenhower, 1959]]
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439175667/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1439175667&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c9218c0733f0d1ab8b03370c2e0429a7 President Dwight D. Eisenhower ] announced the Eisenhower Doctrine in January 1957, and Congress approved it in March of the same year. Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.
Eisenhower singled out the Soviet threat in his doctrine by authorizing the commitment of U.S. forces “to secure and protect the territorial integrity and political independence of such nations, requesting such aid against overt armed aggression from any nation controlled by international communism.”
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Although Eisenhower never directly invoked the Eisenhower Doctrine, the American action in Lebanon was meant not only to help Chamoun’s Government against its political opponents but also to send a signal to the Soviet Union that it would act to protect its interests in the Middle East.
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