HIS344H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nuclear Weapons And The United States, Baghdad Pact, Nuclear Weapon
Document Summary
Fear of ussr as being too strong and imperial. Kennan: ussr did not have the actual means to do what usa feared. Couldn"t pay for military operation for world domination. Korean war - convinced everyone to adopt nsc-68. The rush for alliances - seato & cento. Army reduced after ww2 - nsc-68 calls for build-up. The implementation of nsc-68 and the expansion of the strategic arms. Truman to submit a billion defense budget to congress. British and french were against the idea of using germany. Diplomatic effort to find "third way" to have power in their own hands. French public still unhappy with idea of germans in military. Dwight eisenhower and the republicans - january 1953. Stroke - no one would go into his room to save him out of fear. "sloika" or "joe-4" soviet hydrogen bomb - 12 august 1953.
