HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: First Red Scare, Limited War, Totalitarianism
6 Dec 2020
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War global: two events changed this, the soviet atomic bomb, chinese victory in the chinese revolution. Soviet atomic bomb 1949: american policymakers had power when they had a nuclear monopoly, from the soviet perspective, nato and the americans seemed offensive and aggressive (while americans claimed to be defensive) Communist victory in the chinese revolution 1949: shock to american policymakers as they perceived it to be part of the spread of. Communism: appeared like a huge part of the world was turning red, the fear is that communism is expanding across the world, not only europe faced a. American soldiers on the line to take the idea of nsc-68 to korea. If the us did not fight back, the korean war would be the first of many conflicts until the us and its allies were isolated in a world of. Communist totalitarianism: went to the united nations, framing it as a united nations initiative,
