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Korean & Vietnam Wars

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

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Class
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1.

Although there are varying accounts from different worldviews, who effectively started the Korean War by marching across the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950?

a)

China

b)

North Korea

c)

South Korea

d)

The United States

2.

Who did the United States support during the Korean War?

a)

North Korea

b)

South Korea

3.

Who supported North Korea during the Korean War? [Select two.]

a)

China

b)

The Soviet Union

c)

The United Kingdom

d)

Germany

4.

How did the Korean War end?

a)

North Koreans captured Seoul and unified the peninsula as a communist nation

b)

South Koreans captured Pyongyang unified the peninsula as democratic nation

c)

A ceasefire was signed with neither side victorious, and Korea remained divided

d)

The United Nations brokered a peace treaty that officially ended the war and merged both governments

5.

Which of the following statements is false concerning the Korean peninsula?

a)

Kim Jong-un is the current Supreme Leader of North Korea

b)

South Korea has developed into a stable, multi-party democracy since the war

c)

South Koreans lack basic human rights

d)

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) divides North and South Korea

6.

Who served as president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in North Vietnam?

a)

Kim Il-sung

b)

Ho Chi Minh

c)

Ngo Dinh Diem

d)

Bao Dai

7.

Who were the Viet Cong and what was their primary fighting style?

a)

South Vietnamese communist rebels using guerrilla warfare

b)

North Vietnamese regular army using traditional tank battles

c)

French colonial troops using mountain trench warfare

d)

South Vietnamese government forces using high-tech air strikes

8.

What was one major reason the neutral country of Laos was heavily bombed during the Vietnam War?

a)

To stop a North Vietnamese naval invasion

b)

To prevent the Soviet Union from building a capital city there

c)

To destroy the Ho Chi Minh Trail supply line

d)

To protect the French rubber plantations located in the north

9.

Which statement is false regarding the attached map?

a)

"A" represents Cambodia

b)

"B" represents Vietnam

c)

"C" represents China

d)

"D" represents North Korea

10.

How did the Vietnam War end in 1975?

a)

A peace treaty was signed that kept the country permanently divided

b)

The U.S. successfully established a democratic government in the North

c)

South Vietnam captured Hanoi and unified the country as a republic

d)

North Vietnam captured Saigon and reunified the country under communist rule