The Cold War continued to rage during the years of the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s. Eisenhower's secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, became the nation's dominant figure during this time. He held a stern moral revulsion to communism and once in power suggested the United States pursue an active program of "liberation" to "rollback" communist expansion. Dulles became known for his "massive retaliation" doctrine which he announced in 1954. The "massive retaliation" doctrine stated that …showed first 75 words of 435 total…

…showed last 75 words of 435 total…truce with Egypt. John Foster Dulles' foreign policy was tested by communist threats in Vietnam and Egypt. American did not respond with military force. And luckily, America did not use nuclear weapons to settle these disputes. As for Dulles, he suffered from cancer. Dulles was forced by his declining health to resign from office in April 1959, and died in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 1959, at the age of 71, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.