| | The U.S. practiced rollback against the [[Confederate States of America]] (1865) and [[Third Reich|Germany]] and [[Japan]] in [[World War II]]. | | The U.S. practiced rollback against the [[Confederate States of America]] (1865) and [[Third Reich|Germany]] and [[Japan]] in [[World War II]]. |
| − | Rollback became an important policy advocated by [[John Foster Dullas]] and [[Allen Dullas]] in the immediate post-[[World War II]] era - to rollback the "captive nations" absorbed into the [[Warsaw Pact|Soviet bloc]] as a result of [[Red Army]] gains in the destruction of the [[Third Reich]]. Those nations were [[East Germany]], [[Poland]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Yugoslavia]], and the [[Baltic States]]. | + | Rollback became an important policy advocated by [[John Foster Dulles]] and [[Allen Dulles]] in the immediate post-[[World War II]] era - to rollback the "captive nations" absorbed into the [[Warsaw Pact|Soviet bloc]] as a result of [[Red Army]] gains in the destruction of the [[Third Reich]]. Those nations were [[East Germany]], [[Poland]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Yugoslavia]], and the [[Baltic States]]. |
| | The U.S. tried and failed rollback against [[North Korea]] in 1950 during the [[Korean War]], and against [[Cuba]] in the [[Bay of Pigs]] in 1961. | | The U.S. tried and failed rollback against [[North Korea]] in 1950 during the [[Korean War]], and against [[Cuba]] in the [[Bay of Pigs]] in 1961. |