Widening of the Cold War 1949-1955

By gbzbriella

  • CCP announce allegiance to USSR

    [Chinese Communist Party]

  • White Paper on China

    USA [Dean Acheson issues government report on China and US strategy]

  • USSR test atomic bomb

    USA lose nuclear monopoly

  • US Defensive Perimeter Strategy

    Introduced by Dean Acheson, Secretary of State
    Military defense line to contain communism in Asia; runs from Japan through the Ryukyu Islands to the Philippines
    Excluded South Korea and Taiwan

  • North Korea invades South

  • UN demands end of North invasion of South

  • Period: to

    Korean War

    War between Soviet backed North and US backed South divisions of Korea [DPROK/ROK]
    'Indirect conflict' between USA and USSR

  • UN resolves: military support to Korea