The answer is D. Contrasts with the Soviet Union developed and in 1959 they moved toward becoming rivals in the global framework offering two unique models of socialism. China was seen by progressive US presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Lyndon Johnson as a feature of the more extensive 'communist threat'; a view fortified by China's procurement of atomic weapons in 1964. China's contribution in the Korean War (1950– 1953) set Chinese troops specifically against US powers and their partners, bringing about a stalemate that kept on isolating North and South Korea well into the twenty-first century.