U.S. AND MIDDLE EAST

U.S. and Middle East

U.S. and Middle East

America and American president's involvement in the Middle East since the 1940s

America's sustained military and political involvement in the Middle East, however, dates from the late 1940s, a time of growing Cold War rivalry with the Kremlin, deepening Western dependence on Persian Gulf oil, and mounting tensions between Arabs and Israelis. After an impromptu naval show of force helped reduce Soviet diplomatic pressure on Turkey in 1946, the Truman administration projected American power into the eastern Mediterranean on a permanent basis by establishing the U.S. In 1947 U.S. recognition of ...