Word: hungaryâ
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Dates: during 1969-1969
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...that Ike would run for reelection. But he did. "I want to finish what I have started," he said. On the eve of election, he was confronted with two simultaneous crises, the Hungarian Revolution and the Anglo-French invasion of Suez. Ike did nothing to stop the Russians in Hungary???there was almost nothing he could do?but he put a fast brake on the European allies. In both instances, his judgment was probably correct. Suez might have been avoided by more astute American diplomacy, however, and the Eisenhower Administration did little thereafter to ease the Arab-Israeli confrontation that...
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