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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.89126 cm} x{3.08574 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{The Eisenhower Doctrine: Overview}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Date \& Context:}} & Announced in January 1957 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Purpose:}} & Extend containment to the Middle East amid fears of Soviet influence. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Doctrine Principles:}} & US would provide economic and military aid to any Middle Eastern country resisting communism. \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Authorised direct US intervention, including troops if necessary. \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Part of a broader Cold War strategy of global containment beyond Europe and Asia. \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 4) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Significance:}} & Explicitly tied containment to resource-rich regions (oil) and strategic geopolitics. \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 4) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Reinforced the US commitment to preemptive defense against Soviet expansion. \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Expansion of Containment Under Eisenhower}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} While Truman Doctrine focused on Europe and initial global hotspots, Eisenhower Doctrine: & Globalised containment further → Middle East and non-aligned nations. \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & Recognised that communism could spread politically, economically, and ideologically. \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 5) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Encouraged covert operations (CIA-led coups, propaganda campaigns). \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Psychological Component of Containment}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Eisenhower, a military strategist, understood that modern warfare was not just conventional: & Ideology and influence mattered. \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & Psychological operations (psy-ops) became part of national security. \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Fears of Soviet "brainwashing" and subversion became central to US intelligence priorities.} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{MKULTRA as a Tool Within Eisenhower Doctrine Logic}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{MKULTRA (1953–1973) emerged just before the Doctrine but was intensified under Eisenhower.} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Doctrine logic → US must maintain superiority in: & Conventional military power. \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Technological and scientific research. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Psychological operations and mind control. \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Connections:}} & Both sought prevention of communist influence, though Eisenhower's doctrine was public and military, while MKULTRA was covert and psychological. \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 8) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & Both reflected paranoia about Soviet innovation — if the USSR could control minds, the US needed its own methods. \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 6) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & MKULTRA research on LSD, hypnosis, and interrogation aligned with fears of subverting US allies or destabilising hostile states. \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 7) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{CIA Covert Operations \& the Doctrine}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Eisenhower Doctrine encouraged CIA interventions in the Middle East (e.g., 1953 Iran coup as precedent).} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} MKULTRA techniques were considered potential tools to: & Extract intelligence from suspected communist agents. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Influence political actors covertly. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Maintain US strategic advantage in ideological warfare. \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.18988 cm} x{2.78712 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Case Studies / Examples}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Iran (1953):}} & CIA coup to depose Mossadegh → demonstrated link between doctrine, containment, and covert psychological operations. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 6) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{Fear of Soviet Mind Control:}} & POWs in Korea (1950–1953) created urgency to develop interrogation and mind control methods → MKULTRA. \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 5) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{MKULTRA experiments could have been used in theory to manipulate foreign leaders or operatives under Eisenhower Doctrine logic.} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Ethical and Strategic Implications}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Eisenhower Doctrine and MKULTRA share a common moral dilemma: & Security vs. ethics. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & Military/political containment justified extreme measures. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & MKULTRA's secret human experimentation mirrored covert risks in foreign policy. \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 5) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Both illustrate the secrecy, paranoia, and totalizing logic of Cold War containment.} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Key Takeaways}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Eisenhower Doctrine = global containment, Middle East focus, public and military-oriented.} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{MKULTRA = covert psychological containment, global reach, secret and experimental.} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Both were driven by fear of Soviet influence and need to preempt communist expansion.} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{MKULTRA can be seen as the psychological and covert complement to the Doctrine's public, military, and economic strategies.} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.09848 cm} x{1.73926 cm} x{1.73926 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Eisenhower Doctrine ↔ MKULTRA}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Eisenhower Doctrine}} & {\bf{MKULTRA}} & {\bf{Link}} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Military and economic aid & Mind control and interrogation experiments & Both tools of containment \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Publicly \seqsplit{justified} & Covert, secretive & Covert operations reflect hidden aspects of Doctrine logic \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Middle East focus & Global human \seqsplit{experimentation} & Shared goal: prevent communist influence \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Conventional} warfare & Psychological warfare & Total Cold War strategy: body, mind, ideology \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}