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Sec 4 EHY Korean War

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which country was Korea a colony of before WW2?

a)

USA

b)

Britain

c)

Japan

d)

China

2.

What was the name of the conference that decided Korea was to be split into 2 occupation zones?

a)

Panmunjom Conference

b)

Yalta Conference

c)

Potsdam Conference

3.

Who was elected to become the president of the newly founded Republic of Korea? (ROK)

a)

Syngman Rhee

b)

Kim Il Sung

c)

Park Ji Sung

d)

Kim Jong Il

4.

In which year did the USSR and the USA withdraw its troops from the North and South respectively?

a)

USSR: 1948

USA: 1949

b)

USSR: 1949

USA: 1948

c)

USSR: 1950

USA: 1951

5.

Who gave the 'permission' for Kim Il Sung to invade South Korea in 1950?

a)

Mao Zedong

b)

Stalin

c)

Peng Dehuai

6.

Who was the US commander that led the UN forces and those of South Korea to respond to the North's invasion?

a)

General Douglas MacDonald

b)

General Douglas MacArthur

c)

General Doolittle MacArthur

d)

General Doolittle MacDonald

7.

Which of these are some of the motivations that led USA to get involved in the Korean Civil War in late 1940s?

a)

Limited success in Truman's containment policy

b)

Communist victory in China (Domino Theory)

c)

Condemnation and purge of communist sympathisers in USA (McCarthyism)

d)

End of US atomic monopoly after USSR dropped its bomb

8.

What was the name of the report produced by the UN Security Council in 1950 that warned of communist activities around the world and its roots in the USSR?

a)

NSC-68

b)

Long Telegram

c)

Truman Doctrine

9.

Which part of Korea did General MacArthur first launch his counter-invasion?

a)

Seoul

b)

Pusan

c)

Incheon

d)

Pyeongyang

10.

Which country began to be involved in the war in October 1950?

a)

Taiwan

b)

Vietnam

c)

China

11.

When was General MacArthur fired for insubordination? (Truman wanted to prevent war with Chinese but MacArthur did all he could to provoke it)

a)

April 1951

b)

April 1952

c)

April 1953

12.

When did Stalin die?

a)

March 1952

b)

March 1953

c)

March 1954

13.

According to the ceasefire agreement (armistice), where would both Koreas be divided along?

a)

30th parallel

b)

17th parallel

c)

38th parallel