Which statement best describes what NSC-68 called for? a. A permanent military buildup and a global application of containment. b. A sole reliance on nuclear weapons in order to spare conventional forces. c. Limited strategic goals, confronting the Chinese only at key industrial areas. d. Patience on the part of the United States in dealing with the Soviet Union. e. Limited strategic goals, confronting the Soviets only at key industrial areas.

The correct answer is a. A permanent military buildup and a golabal application of containment.

Explanation:

The NSC-68 was a Top-secret document that was drafted as a American policy statement in the Cold War therefore it magnified the whole communist threat phenomenon and sought to stablish a militar more than diplomatic aproach to the whole conflict, so the military buildup was a superior motive of this document, also as it almost tripled defense spending going from $13 Billion to $40 and $50 billion. In the ideology underlying the document it look forward to contain the communism from spreading internationally after the end of World War II by applying coercive policies aiming the geopolitical containment of the Soviet Union.