Pact of Rio

1947

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U.S. Cold War policy

  • Alfred Thayer Mahan
    In 20th-century international relations: Asian wars and the deterrence strategy

    …and New Zealand (1951), the Pact of Rio with Latin-American nations (1947), and the defense treaty with Japan (1951). Now Dulles completed an alliance system linking the 1954 Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), stretching from Australia to Pakistan, to the 1955 Baghdad Pact Organization (later the Central Treaty Organization [CENTO]),…

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