How Did John Foster Dulles React to the Neutralist Movement

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Multiple Choice

How did John Foster Dulles react to the neutralist movement among some Third World nations?

• A) Believing that the leaders of Third World nations had to pacify their people by professing to be anti-American, Dulles worked tirelessly to provide more aid to most of the neutralist nations.
• B) Believing in the concept of self-determination, Dulles praised Third World nations for their independent and pragmatic approach to the Cold War.
• C) Believing that such nations actually favored the United States over the Soviet Union, Dulles saw the neutralist movement as unimportant and non-threatening.
• D) Believing that neutralism was the first step to communism, Dulles was alarmed by the neutralist movement.

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