NSC-68

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    • what happened in September 1949?
      the USA's nuclear monopoly ended as the USSR tested its own atomic bomb
    • what other event triggered a fundamental review of the USA's strategic objectives and priorities?
      Truman's 'loss of China'
    • what did the review emerge as?
      the National Security Council Resolution 68
    • what did the NSC-68 stress?
      the urgency of building the USA's political, economic and military power
    • what did the NSC-68 focus on?
      the globalisation of the Cold War with a powerful military emphasis on the application of containment
    • what did the events in the Far East serve to reinforce?
      that the year 1950 served as a turning point in the Cold War
    • what happened in June 1950?
      the communist North Korea invaded the non-communist South Korea