rollback

Examples of rollback in the following topics:

• The Cold War and Containment

  • It represented a middle-ground position between détente and rollback.
  • Although President Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) toyed with the rival doctrine of rollback, he refused to intervene in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
  • President Ronald Reagan (1981–89), denouncing the Soviet state as an "evil empire", escalated the Cold War and promoted rollback in Nicaragua and Afghanistan.