Ch. 33 Test (Rhodes) Flashcards
Nickname of the Korean War?
The Forgotten War
What country signed a 30 year treaty of friendship with China?
USSR
Where did the first Korean war battle between Chinese and American forces take place?
The Chosin Resevoir
What was the tiny area that North Korea failed to take in South Korea?
Pusan
How many statues are in the Korean War memorial?
19
The Red Guards led this what major uprising in China?
The Cultural Revolution
Mao wanted to reshape China’s economy based on this what economic system?
Marxism
What people were sent to labor camps, executed or imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution?
Intellectuals
What did Mao want to achieve with “The Great Leap Forward”?
Larger collective farms or communes
What country was not made a permanent member of the UN Security Council?
Japan
What nations were satellite nations of Russia?
Romania Hungary Poland
What was the alliance that East Germany belonged to, but not West Germany?
The Warsaw Pact
About how many Americans were killed in Vietnam?
58,000
What kind of military strategy did the Vietcong use?
Guerilla Warfare
What policy of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson led to one crisis after another.
Brinkmanship