Korean War Key ideas/dates/people etc

Question 1

What is the cold war?

Answer 1

War between America and Russia but with no direct conflict at 1945 (end of WW2)

Question 2

What is communism?

Answer 2

Where all profits go to the government

Question 3

What is capitalism?

Answer 3

Democracy, mulitiple political parties, different wages for different jobs

Question 4

Domino theory

Answer 4

The Idea of communism spreading from country to country

Question 5

containment

Answer 5

Trumans way of trying to stop communism from spreading

Question 6

Where was Korea divided at?

Answer 6

The 38th parallel

Question 7

United Nations (UN)

Answer 7

Peace organisation to maintain peace and regulate human rights

Question 8

Who was the leader of North Korea at the time?

Answer 8

Kim Ill Sung

Question 9

Who was the leader of South Korea at the time?

Answer 9

Syngman Rhee

Question 10

Who was the communist leader of the USSR (Russia)

Answer 10

Joseph Stalin

Question 11

Who was the president of America at the time?

Answer 11

Harry Truman

Question 12

Leader of communist china?

Answer 12

Mao

Question 13

When did North Korea cross the border and invade south korea?

Answer 13

4am 25th June 1950

Question 14

When did North Korea take control of Seoul (capital of south korea)

Answer 14

June 28th 1950

Question 15

What did the west do?

Answer 15

Go to the UN to arrange for them to help South Korea (containment)

Question 16

Why wasnt Russia there?

Answer 16

Because of previous feud as communist china had been kicked from the UN - allies

Question 17

How many nations helped?

Answer 17

21

Question 18

Who was in charge of the UN operation?

Answer 18

America

Question 19

Where did the ally troops begin to come into?

Answer 19

Pussan

Question 20

When did the US force arrive in Korea?

Answer 20

3rd July 1950

Question 21

Why was America not in a good situation when arriving in pussan?

Answer 21

Not ready for another war as WW2 had just ended and north korea had control over most of south korea

Question 22

Who was the leader of America in 1950?

Answer 22

Douglas Mcarthur

Question 23

Where had Mcathur had sucess?

Answer 23

Amphibian attacks

Question 24

What were amphibian attacks

Answer 24

Going behind enemy lines at sea

Question 25

Where did they target to attacl (America)

Answer 25

Inchon beach

Question 26

What impact did the attack on inchon have on North korea

Answer 26

had to fight two fronts

Question 27

Why was inchon hard to attack?

Answer 27

Low tides and high sea walls heavily defended and tides were unpredictable

Question 28

What was Mcarthurs operation called?

Answer 28

Chromite

Question 29

When did the UN land on Inchon

Answer 29

15th september 1950 6am

Question 30

How much resistance was there at Inchon?

Answer 30

Little

Question 31

Which beaches were easy and succesfully taken

Answer 31

Green and red beach

Question 32

Which beach was harder to take for strong currents and lots of smoke from previous attacks?

Answer 32

blue

Question 33

how many days did it take UN forces to take back seoul

Answer 33

11 days

Question 34

How long did it take UN forces to push Korea over the 38th paralell

Answer 34

2 weeks

Question 35

What did mcarthur want to do?

Answer 35

Kick communism out of Korea entirely, continue fighting over the border

Question 36

When did UN forces and south korea invade north korea?

Answer 36

October 7th 1950

Question 37

Which river were they approaching?

Answer 37

Yalu river deviding north korea and communist china

Question 38

When did the chinese get invoved?

Answer 38

September 1950 when UN focres were appraoching the yalu river

Question 39

Chinese armys biggest strength

Answer 39

Numbers

Question 40

UN strength

Answer 40

heavy guns artillery

Question 41

What made fighting harder?

Answer 41

winter

Question 42

What did UN generals order

Answer 42

full withdrawel

Question 43

when did communists recapture seoul

Answer 43

January 1951

Question 44

What happened after 7 months of fighting from january 1951

Answer 44

2 sides devided at the 38th parallel again

Question 45

Who replaced Mcarthur?

Answer 45

Matthew Ridgeway

Question 46

what was the name of the chinese attack?

Answer 46

The spring offensive

Question 47

When did the chinese and North Korea plan to attack South Korea after pushing them back over the 38th parallel?

Answer 47

22nd april 1951

Question 48

What hill did the UN retreat to?

Answer 48

Glouster Hill

Question 49

When did North Korea and south korea leaders meet at a meeting to discuss a truce?

Answer 49

10th july 1951

Question 50

How long did it take for the two countries to come to an agreement?

Answer 50

2 years