Korean War, historical context/power and ideas
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- Intro: Korean war: power + ideas
- NSC 68
- A report that increased military spending and coined the term 'containment'
- American influence in south-east asia after WW2
- USA power declined after 1950
- China's turn to communism in 1949
- USSR first atomic bomb
- increased tensions between USA and USSR, more equal now (ish)
- USA power declined after 1950
- The Red Scare
- serious soviet penetration: spies in top levels of the government
- Alger Hiss was convicted of supplying the USSR with information
- serious soviet penetration: spies in top levels of the government
- McCarthyism
- Joseph McCarthy, senator who accused many members of the government of being communist
- Communism vs Capitalism
- comm- everything owned by the state, everyone is equal
- capi- privately owned businesses, democracy, 'free press'
- NSC 68
- capi- privately owned businesses, democracy, 'free press'
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