EE Sample 4: US intervention in Lebanon 1958 (New criteria A grade)
To what extent did President Eisenhower launch Operation Blue Bat, on 15th July 1958, to contain the threat posed by communism in the region? Introduction When Dwight Eisenhower became US President in January 1953, the Cold War Superpower confrontation had already divided Europe and had led to war in the Korean peninsula. The US and the USSR were engaged in a global ideological, economic and strategic confrontation....