Policies

NEW LOOK;

• was a hardline approach to foreign policy 
• its key features was that the Soviet Union were pursuing expansionist policies
• use military means to contain communism 
• by 1954, 12% of US GNP was spend on armaments
• New Look would hope to reduce this percentage through a focus on nuclear arms

MASSIVE RETALIATION;

• had been advocated by Dulles in 1952
• implied a much greater reliance on nuclear weapons

BRINKMANSHIP;

• the ability to get the verge without getting into war
• not shying away…