Unit 68 Nsc-68

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Koy Saelee
5/23/2018
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NSC-68, National Security Council Paper Number 68, was a Top-Secret report completed by the U.S. Department of State official Paul Nitze in April 1950 that stressed the importance of building the political economic and military power of the US and was presented to President Harry Truman. This manifesto described the Cold War as an epic struggle between “the idea of freedom” and the “idea of slavery under the grim oligarchy of the Kremlin.” It helps to spur a dramatic increase in American military spending, the massive military buildup, and the development of the hydrogen bomb. It also encourages its allies around the world to also take part of that massive military buildup. Between 1945 and 1949, the …show more content…

George C. Marshall of appointed by Truman as the Secretary of State who did a commencement speech at Harvard University for restoring Europe. After the end of war, much of the European’s continent still lay in ruins. European received shipments of food, staples, fuel and machinery. There were about sixteen countries that helped aid Western Europe and they were Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and western Germany. The Soviet Union did not trust the United States because they feared it was an attempt to weaken Soviet interest and also blocked benefits to Eastern Bloc countries creating their own Molotov plan. The goal was to help them get back on their feet after the devastation of the war. This was a good deed foreign policy. The plan helped so much that the national gross product grew as much as 25 percent. It put Western Europe back onto its feet. The plan funding ended in

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