section 2

Question 0

The United States backed a _______ government in South Korea

Answer 0

non communist

Question 1

Where did the United States and the Soviet Union agree to a temporary division of Korea?

Answer 1

38th parallel

Question 2

The Soviet Union supported a _____ government in North Korea

Answer 2

communist

Question 3

When North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea, where did they occupy?

Answer 3

Seoul

Question 4

What did Truman ask the United Nations to do?

Answer 4

Send a military force

Question 5

Who commanded the United Nations forces?

Answer 5

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Question 6

At first, where United Nations forces outnumbered?

Answer 6

yes

Question 7

At first, how much of Korea did the North Koreans occupy?

Answer 7

almost all of Korea

Question 8

Where did MacArthur launch a counterattack by sea?

Answer 8

Inchon

Question 9

where was Inchon located?

Answer 9

behind North Korean lines

Question 10

when MacArthur landed in Inchon, where did it force North Koreans?

Answer 10

back across the 38th parallel

Question 11

who’s approval did MacArthur have to get before crossing into North Korea?

Answer 11

the United Nations

Question 12

what did china warn the US?

Answer 12

not to invade North Korea or else they would retaliate

Question 13

what happened as US forces neared the northern border of Korea? what were South Koreans forced to do?

Answer 13

masses of Chinese troops crossed into North Korea. South Koreans were forced to push back.

Question 14

what did the Korean War turn into?

Answer 14

a bloody deadlock

Question 15

what happened during the deadlock?

Answer 15

a disagreement between General MacArthur and President Truman

Question 16

what did MacArthur feel?

Answer 16

United nation forces must attack china

Question 17

what did Truman think?

Answer 17

an attack in china could lead to a world war

Question 18

what happened when MacArthur complained publicly that politicians in Washington were holding him back?

Answer 18

Truman fired him

Question 19

after Truman fired MacArthur, what did Truman point out?

Answer 19

the president is the commander in chief

Question 20

did peace talks make progress?

Answer 20

they made little progress

Question 21

what popular WWII general became president in 1952?

Answer 21

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 22

in July 1953, what 2 things did the armistice do?

Answer 22

• it redrew the border between North Korea and South Korea near the 38th parallel
• it set up a DMZ

Question 23

what is a DMZ

demilitarized zone

Answer 23

an area with no military forces

Question 24

when the Korean War ended, what happened to the borders?

Answer 24

they changed a little

Question 25

how many Americans died?

Answer 25

about 54,000

Question 26

how many Koreans and Chinese were killed?

Answer 26

nearly 2 million

Question 27

what worries increased due to the Korean War?

Answer 27

worries about communist at home

Question 28

during the Great Depression, what did many people turn to as the only solution to the nations economic troubles?

Answer 28

communism

Question 29

who did many people recognize as a brutal dictator and leave the party while some stayed on?

Answer 29

Joseph Stalin

Question 30

several people in the US, Canada, and Britain were arrested as ______ _______.

Answer 30

soviet spies

Question 31

in the US, who were sentenced to death for passing atomic secrets to the soviets?

Answer 31

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Question 32

where did Americans worry communists might be?

Answer 32

in high government positions

Question 33

what state department official was imprisoned for perjury, or lying under oath?

Answer 33

Alger Hiss

Question 34

even though Hiss denied he was a part of a soviet spy ring, what did later evidence suggest?

Answer 34

he had been a spy

Question 35

who did Truman order investigations of?

Answer 35

government workers

Question 36

who announced that he had a list of 205 state department employees who were communist party members?

Answer 36

Joseph McCarthy

Question 37

did McCarthy ever prove his claims?

what did he spread?

Answer 37

no

suspicion

Question 38

why did the Senate hold televised hearings?

Answer 38

to investigate a new McCarthy charge - that there were no communists in the US army

Question 39

what did McCarthy look like instead of a hero?

Answer 39

a bully

Question 40

what did the senate pass a resolution to do?

Answer 40

censure, or officially condemn, McCarthy for “conduct unbecoming a member”