From Hungary and Suez to Cuba
Hungary Eisenhower was the President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. His main focus for his 8 year presidency was to ultimately have peace with the USSR and end the cold war. This meant that he was very passive in his approach to situations in the cold war. For example, when Khrushchev's secret speech was leaked to the world, this lead to countries like Poland protesting and striking to achieve their own way of communism like Khrushchev said and they were ultimately successful as long as they stayed loyal to Moscow. Hungary, however, wanted to be more like Yugoslavia and be independent. Moscow couldn't allow this as it could be seen as a sign of weakness and others might follow and therefore crushed the movement, the Hungarian president Imre Nagy, pleaded for US intervention but it never came. This showed Eisenhower's reluctance to get involved in contested issues in fear of starting a war. Suez During this time the US were aware of the growing soviet influ