User:Iazyges/Pactomania

Pactomania was a term used to describe period of treaty making by the United States during the early Cold War.

History
In 1953, during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, and led by his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the United States extended the Truman Doctrine of containment to include rollback, focusing on actively driving back Soviet influence from Europe. In order to do this, the US joined several mutual defense alliances such as the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in 1954, and the Baghdad Pact in 1955, which combined with the earlier ANZUS Treaty of 1951 and North Atlantic Treaty Organization brought the US into alliance with a total of 42 different nations. Aditionally, the US established treaty relationships with nearly 100 nations. Observers dubbed this practice of rapid alliances forming and relationship treaty signing as "pactomania".