Page "Dwight D. Eisenhower" Paragraph 81

After the Suez Crisis the United States became the protector of unstable friendly governments in the Middle East via the " Eisenhower Doctrine ".

Designed by Secretary of State Dulles, it held the U. S. would be " prepared to use armed force ... counter aggression from any country controlled by international communism ".

Further, the United States would provide economic and military aid and, if necessary, use military force to stop the spread of communism in the Middle East.