Multiple choice

Which president is most closely associated with the policy of massive retaliation?

  1. Dwight D. Eisenhower

  2. John F. Kennedy

  3. Lyndon Johnson

  4. Richard Nixon
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Explanation

Massive retaliation was a military doctrine and nuclear strategy associated with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, threatening heavy retaliation in response to Soviet aggression.

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