Origins of USA's globalism 2
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- Created on: 24-05-16 12:22
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- Origins of USA's Globalism
- NATO 1949
- European States under threat from communist advance.
- USA saw WEU as 'too European'. Burden of protection stronger upon the US.
- Atlantic alliance = US influence.
- Political defense system. USSR said it contradicted United Nations principles.
- SU tested first atomic bomb. NATO's role turned military.
- 1955 West Germany joined NATO.
- USSR recognised the GDR and created Warsaw Pact.
- Pleven Plan & General Treaty
- Allowed West German troops as part of WE army in EDC.
- 1952: General Treaty signed.
- Full sovereignty of Federal Republic, future German reunification.
- Korean War
- Mao left USSR with loans, transfers of technology, and military assistance.
- Evidence of a vulnerability to communist expansionism.
- China entered War as a North Korean ally.
- US reached 38th parallel. This would have meant liberation as they would have invaded China.
- Sino-Soviet alliance was the clear manifestation of grown of international communism.
- NATO 1949
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