NSC-68

• September 1949 the USSR successfuly tested its own atomic bomb
• What was NSC-68


  A review of the US’s objectives and priorities
• What did NSC-68 do?

  Stressed the urgency of building the US’s political, economic and military power

  -focused on the globalisation of the cold war and emphasised the application of containment
• June 1950-TURNING POINT-the communist North Korea invaded the non-communist south korea