The Policy Of The United States Towards Myanmar During The Eisenhower Period

Myanmar is located in the Indochina Peninsula, facing due west and theAndaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal close to the international waterways in theIndian Ocean and the Pacific Northwest with India and Bangladesh borderingnortheastern neighbor by China, Thailand and Laos, Southeast next has importantgeopolitical and international strategies value. Its uniqueness lies not only in itsgeopolitical importance, but also because as our neighbors, it is an important barrierto the southern border of the relationship between safety, security has importantstrategic significance to our country.Since World War II, the Cold War in Asia gradually rise, as a typical microcosmof this period, the United States policy on the evolution of Burma has its ownparticularity, but also reflects some of the American policy of many Third Worldcountries shift neutralism common characteristics, from the side of the Soviet Unionafter World War II witnessed by the mutual cooperation to confrontationcomprehensive process, explains the origins of the Cold War to the United States asignificant impact on third world countries to adjust policies to bring.I believe that with the outbreak of the Korean War, Eisenhower came to powerafter the United States across the Truman era policy inheritance and do someadjustments. Established a way of economic and military aid for the development ofUS-Burma relations, to prevent Soviet expansion in Myanmar forces with a view toBurma from a neutral policy shift Western world. Before the US-Myanmar relationsassistance in solving a major obstacle that the KMT forces in Burma’s problems,solve the problem started after the economic aid and military assistance, and finally tothe relationship between the United States and Burma to some extent, have beendeveloped, but with Chennai Wen generals came to power, the government assistanceto Myanmar before Eisenhower became the fuse between the two countries againsteach other, the relationship between the two countries into worse.