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    • Sept 1949atomic 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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