President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles proposed massive retaliation as a way to

A) increase government spending on military programs.
B) contain the spread of communism in China.
C) make American responses to Soviet expansion more cost effective.
D) increase American troop levels in Europe.


Answer: C

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