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COLD WAR WIDENINGS 1949-1955
5. US containment in action in Asia
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Sept 1949
–
atomic monopoly
ended –
USSR
successfully tested its own
atomic bomb
Truman’s
‘loss
of
China’
, triggered a
fundamental
review of the
USA’s strategic objectives
and
priorities
Review emerged as the
National Security Council Resolution 68
Stressed the urgency of building the
USA political
,
economic
and
military
power
Focused on the globalisation of the
Cold War
and there was a
powerful military emphasis
on the
application
of
containment
Events in the
Far East
served to reinforce
1950
as a
turning point
in the
Cold War
June 1950
– the
communist North Korea
and invaded the
non-communist South Korea
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