HIS344Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nsc-68, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Socalled
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Lecture #6 the first phase of the strategic arms race. The united states had nuclear monopoly in 1948. Nsc 68 (april 1950) did not say they will go to war with soviet union but did say containment was no longer useful united states must take more active measures against. Soviet union: proposed increase in defense budget no less than 400, 12 billion dollars was not enough an investment in military, must be increased 3 or. Severe critics of nsc-68 most prominent points: nsc-68 clearly exaggerates threat of soviet union. How could soviet economy that of the united states out of question: nsc-68 states soviet union had an equal army to the united states. False soviet union had bigger conventional army, but equipment and air force far inferior. Soviet union does not have base over america while america has bases all over soviet union soviet union simply could not present a global threat to.
