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| Chiang Kai-shek | American ally in China. Was overthrown by Communist leader |
| Mao Tse-tung | Communist Chinese leader - overthrew Chiang Kai-shek |
| Seoul | Capital of South Korea |
| stalemate | a dead lock no side can gain an advantage |
| Syngman Rhee | elected ruler of South Korea |
| Kim II sung | ruler of North Korea |
| Yalu River | boundary between China and North Korea |
| Matthew Ridgway | replaced MacArthur as commander of UN forces in Korea |
| containment | a policy of keeping Communism from spreading - keep it where it exists |
| Truman | President of the United States when troops were sent into South Korea |
| Eisenhower | President of the United States when the Korean war armistice was signed |
| NATO | North Atlantic countries agreed to help each other |
| satellite | country dominated politically by another country |
| cold war | a period of rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union |
| Security Council | most powerful part of the United Nations. Make up of five permanent members and ten other countries elected for two year terms |
| United Nations | a peace keeping organization formed after WWII |
| Truman Doctrine | a policy that said the U.S. would support free people who were being attacked by small rebel bands or other countries who asked for our help |
| Marshall Plan | developed to give billions of dollars to European countries |
| Warsaw Pact | Communist countries formed this in response to NATO |
| Two shocks to American confidence in 1949. | 1. America’s ally Chiang Kai-shek was overthrown by a Communist rebel leader, Mao Tse-tung. Now China was a Communist country. 2. We learned that Russia had exploded an atomic bomb. Now we were not the only nation with atomic capabilities. |
| How did Korea become divided? | During WWII, Korea was part of the Japanese empire. When the Japanese lost the war, they had to give up Korea. The Japanese in Korea would have to surrender to the Allies. The Russians were to accept the Japanese surrender north of the 38 degree parallel. The U.S. was to accept the Japanese surrender south of the 38 degree parallel. What the U.S. thought was to be a temporary arrangement the Russians took to be a permanent division of Korea into two countries - a Communist North Korea and a non-Communist South Korea. |
| 5 permanent members of the Security Council | U.S., Gr. Britain, Soviet Union, France, and China. |
| Two Reasons a landing at Inchon was dangerous | 1. Extremely high tide - The sea rose 30 feet and went down quickly at low tide. The troops would have to come in on high tide and unload and get out before the tide went out. Otherwise they would be stranded on mud flats and “sitting ducks” for the enemy. 2. Seawalls lined the harbor. The troops would have to scale the high stone walls with ladders. |
| Why was Mac Arthur fired? | 1. Mac Arthur disagreed too strongly with the way Truman wanted the war fought. |
| 4 Phases of the Korean War | 1.Invasion - North Koreans crossed the border and pushed UN troops south to Pusan on the southern tip of S. Korea. 2.Counter Attack - McArthur's counterattack at Inchon. He joined with Walker and took 100,000 North Korean prisoners. They pushed up to the 38th degree parallel. 3. Chinese advance - when the N. Korean and American forces got close to the Yalu River, well armed Chinese crossed the border and sent the troops back in disorder. 4. armistice - after regrouping the Chinese and N. Koreans were pushed across the 38th parallel and the war becomes a stalemate at the parallel until the armistice was signed |
| 38th parallel | boundary between North and South Korea |
| Khrushchev | became the ruler of the Soviet Union After the death of Joseph Stalin |
| June 25, 1950 | North Korean troops invaded South Korea. The Korean War had begun. |
| July 27, 1953 | an armistice was signed which ended the fighting. |
| List four ways East Berlin citizens tried to escape to the West. | tunnels, climbing over the wall, flying over the wall with a hot air balloon, down a zip line |
| Discuss the Pueblo Incident | Include its mission, how it was captured, treatment of the soldiers, where they were held, and their release. Include any information you can to add richness to your work. |
| Berlin Air Lift | When France, Britain, and the U.S. joined their German zones to form one country, the Soviet Union reacted with a blockade on the Allied controlled parts of Berlin. All roads, railroads, and river traffic was stopped. The allies responded by sending supplies in by planes. Planes were landing every 3 minutes. More supplies came in during the blockade than before it. After a year Stalin called it off. By that time, the three western zones had joined to form West Germany which was a democratic country, and the Soviet Union formed the Communist East Germany. |
