ABSTRACT
In 1955-1956 Eisenhower faced dangerous crises in foreign policy in the Taiwan straits, Hungary and Suez. Aside from these tests of his skills in crisis management, Eisenhower continued to try to build up a solid, sustainable American foreign policy for the longer term. The Soviet invasion of Hungary on November 4, followed by the Anglo-French landing in Egypt on November 5, meant that the election on November 6 took place in an atmosphere of widespread international violence rather than peace. One of Eisenhower's main planks in his re-election platform was that he was a man of peace, who had ended the Korean War and kept America at peace in tense and dangerous times. He was well aware, however, of the limitations of American power in the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, which was tragically and dramatically illustrated in the Hungarian Revolution of October-November, 1956.
