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The Korean War (1950-1953)
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Background on Korea
Origins of the Korean War
North Korea's Surprise Attack
Commitment of US Ground Troops
Inchon Invasion
Chinese Intervention
MacArthur's Dismissal
Ridgway and the end of the "Accordion-War"
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1. What party did President Truman belong to?
Independent
Republican
Democrat
Bull-Moose
2. What party did MacArthur belong to?
Republican
Democrat
Bull-Moose
Independent
3. What party did Eisenhower belong to?
Democrat
Bull-Moose
Republican
Independent
4. What is the capital of North Korea?
Seoul
Pusan
Inchon
Pyongyang
5. What is the capital of South Korea?
Pyongyang
Inchon
Seoul
Pusan
6. Where did MacArthur make his famous amphibious assault?
Pusan
Inchon
Kaesong
Panmunjom
7. Who was the leader of North Korea?
Syngman Rhee
Peh Teh-haui
Kim Il-sung
Ho Chi Minh
8. Who was the leader of South Korea?
Syngman Rhee
Peng Teh-haui
Mao Zedong
Kim Il-Sung
9. Which general replaced MacArthur after Truman dismissed him in 1951?
Maxwell Taylor
James Van Fleet
Matthew Ridgway
Walton Walker
10. This Commander of the Eighth Army died in a car accident in Korea.
Maxwell Taylor
Matthew Ridgway
James Van Fleet
Walton Walker
11. The Parallel dividing North from South Korea is:
36
37
38
39
12. Which group unanimously backed Truman's dismissal of MacArthur?
JCS
NSC
CIA
TCP/IP
13. This document contained the flawed reasoning that suggested that the US should cross the 38th Parallel into North Korea.
NSC-68
NSC-95/1
NSC-81/1
NSC-69
14. Where did Truman meet with his top advisors during 1950?
White House
State Department
House of Representatives
Blair House
15. Who was Truman's secretary of state?
John Foster Dulles
Cyrus Vance
Dean Acheson
Dean Rusk
16. What valuable territory lay to the north of Korea's Yalu river?
Shantung
Manchuria
Peking
Formosa
17. To which island did the Chinese Nationalists flee after being defeated by Mao and the Chinese Communists?
Japan
England
Formosa
Oahu
18. What kind of Soviet tanks did the North Koreans use?
T-34
T-35
T-36
T-37
19. MacArthur and Truman met on this island to discuss policy.
Oahu
Japan
Wake Island
The Isle of Man
20. What mistakes were US policymakers afraid of making again if they allowed the Korean invasion to go unchecked?
Lebensraum
Social Darwinism
Tautology
Appeasement
21. The ROK (South Korean) forces were pushed back to which major South Korean port at the beginning of the war?
Inchon
Seoul
Pusan
Kaesong
22. It was at this former capital of ancient Korea that negotiations to end the war began.
Kaesong
Inchon
Panmunjom
Pyongyang
23. The final treaty ending the Korean War was signed where?
Inchon
Paris
Panmunjom
Kaesong
24. Much of the slowdown in negotiations occurred as a result of what issue?
Border Problem
Chemical and Biological Weapons
Brainwashing
POW Repatriation
25. What did the UN class the North Korean invasion as?
aggression
civil war
breach of peace
violation of neutrality
26. Which one of the following figures was not obsessed with a unified Korea?
Douglas MacArthur
Matthew Ridgway
Syngman Rhee
Kim Il-sung
27. Who was the American ambassador to South Korea
Dean Acheson
Dean Rusk
John Muccio
Robert MacNamara
28. Which one of the following was not a potential problem at the Inchon landing?
snow
timing
tides
typhoons
29. Who led the Chinese nationalists on Formosa?
Mao Zedong
Peng Teh-huai
Chiang Kai-shek
Zhou Enlai
30. The Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905 ended which war?
Franco-Prussian
Sino-Japanese
Franco-Russo
Russo-Japanese
31. Who mediated the Treaty of Portsmouth?
Kim Il-sung
Harry Truman
Teddy Roosevelt
Dean Acheson
32. What was the name of the Japanese force that occupied Manchuria during the 1930s and World War II?
Kwantung Army
Shinto Army
The Kamikazes
Tampopo Legionnaires
33. Who did the Koreans hate most after World War II?
US
USSR
Japan
China
34. Which general improved conditions in MASH hospitals?
Douglas MacArthur
Maxwell Taylor
James Van Fleet
Matthew Ridgway
35. What was the name of MacArthur's marines used at Inchon?
Eighth Army
V Corps
X Corps
24th Brigade
36. What kind of power was North Korea famous for?
nuclear
hydroelectric
coal
solar
37. Who lead the PRC troops in Korea?
Mao Zedong
Zhou Enlai
Peng Teh-huai
Deng Xiaopeng
38. Which general was extremely egotistical and possibly manic-depressive?
MacArthur
Ridgway
Taylor
Van Fleet
39. Who did Eisenhower run against in the 1952 Presidential election?
Harry Truman
Robert MacNamara
Adlai Stevenson
John Foster Dulles
40. Who was Eisenhower's secretary of state?
Acheson
Rusk
Kissinger
Dulles
41. Who developed the hydrogen bomb first?
USSR
PRC
US
ROK
42. US policymakers feared Korea might be Stalin's "dress-rehearsal" for an invasion of?
West Germany
Formosa
Quemoy
The US
43. What kind of war did Truman hope to pursue in Korea?
Total War
War of Attrition
Limited War
War of Vengeance
44. What condition did the Panmunjom treaty return Korea to?
post hoc ergo propter hoc
argumentum ad hominem
ignoratio elenchii
status quo ante bellum
45. MacArthur disliked Truman because Truman gave priority to which Cold War theater?
Asia
South America
Europe
Australia
46. In 1988, the Olympics were held in which city?
Pyongyang
Seoul
Kaesong
Inchon
47. In Operation Piledriver, which crucial Communist staging area did Ridgway target?
The Golden Circle
The Steel Parallelogram
The Iron Triangle
The Brass Square
48. Who was the Soviet ambassador to North Korea?
Terenty Shtykov
Mikhail Gorbachev
Andrei Gromyko
Iakov Malik
49. Which word most accurately describes Rhee's regime in South Korea?
Democratic
Communist
Dictatorial
Liberal
50. The largest US/UN/ROK prison camp for captured Communist soldiers was where?
Inchon
Seoul
Quemoy
Koje Island
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