Sublime

On September 27, 1955, three days after Eisenhower suffered his heart attack in Denver, Nasser formally announced the acquisition of Soviet arms from Czechoslovakia.

The United States entered the war on the British side in 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson declared that the principle of self-determination should govern any postwar reorganization of territories that were formerly controlled by the Ottoman Empire.

September 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to create a Palestinian state in Gaza, almost all of the West Bank, and half of Jerusalem.

Othman was the director of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission.

Iran and Guatemala were not isolated phenomena. The role of the United States in world affairs was changing. As America’s international reach and sense of obligation increased, the instinct to adhere to traditional democratic procedures diminished. Eisenhower was a leading player in that process.78

Henry Kissinger established his reputation as a foreign policy expert with the publication of Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy in 1957—an unrelenting critique of Eisenhower’s New Look strategy.34