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One of Eisenhowerâs main goals of foreign policy was to contain communism. A great fear was that of the domino effect, the belief that if one country fell to communism, so would another and another and so on.In his first inaugural address, he declared,ne of Eisenhowerâs main goals of foreign policy was to contain communism. A great fear was that of the domino effect, the belief that if one country fell to communism, so would another and another and so on.
On December 23, 1823, in his annual message to Congress, President James Monroe made a statement on foreign policy that came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine. At that time the United States feared that Russia intended to establish colonies in Alaska and, more importantly, that the continental European states would intervene in Central and South America to help Spain recover its former colonies, which had won their independence in a series of wars in the early nineteenth century.