How does this tie in with the Cold War?
In 1952, Eisenhower have helped with the ceasefire in Korea, that helped keep the 38th parallel in equal parts and neither had more than the other. To push back the Soviets, Eisenhower and Dulles made the massive retaliation to pledge that the U.S. would respond with serious conflict with overwhelming force. Which then, brinkmanship was created to always keep us on the edge of war. Eisenhower had a theory that he called Domino Theory, if one southeast country falls into communist that the rest of Southeast Asia will fall into communist. He had also made the Eisenhower Doctrine that gave American aid on the request from any nation in the Middle East, that was trying to resist the rise of communist.
How does the World/ U.S. react?
United States: He helped push back the Soviets, which was great to the U.S. because it was time rebuild and build up our troops. The downside, was when he told the Americans all his theories about communist, which this terrified them. No one, in the U.S. wanted to fall under communist.