The Eisenhower administration
a. was elected on a promise to return to the policy of containment and thus reduce adventuresome military spending.
b. clashed sharply with the larger Republican Party, who attacked its policy of containment as conceding defeat to Soviet expansion.
c. was elected on a promise to roll back communism but discovered that this brought too great a risk of nuclear war.
d. believed that the spread of communism itself was not the problem—it was the lack of American expansion.
e. did not respond to the new Khrushchev government's attempts to thaw relations after the death of Stalin.
Answer: c
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