HIS344Y1 Lecture Notes - Curtis Lemay, List Of States With Nuclear Weapons, Military Technology
Document Summary
Eventually by 1940 they had to back down. The consequences however, esp in terms of international relations were terrible. The west was convinced, especially since moscow did get the atomic bomb in august 1949, that moscow was ready for anything. Thus decided to create the military organization- nato. It became one of the major step to militarize the cold war. Up until now there had been diplomatic conflicts, now there was a potential for a military show down. Add to this simultaneously the developments in asia. The fact that china had turned communist. Communist china on the side of the soviet union signed an agreement with stalin, putting together the two states and assuring soviet guarantee or support. In addition to that there was a major agreement on two sides: nationalist china, above all a division of labor was agreed upon. Soviets would make major decisions regarding european development: china was given the leading role in asia.
