26.2 Notes

Film clips

1949- People's Republic of China declared

1950-1953 Korean War

Directions: Listen to the lecture and record the answers

1. Where did the US and USSR agree as a border after WWII?
2. What was declared the capital of North Korea?
3. What was declared the capital of South Korea?
4. Why did the USSR sponsor an attack on South Korea after agreeing earlier that it could be a U.S. Democracy project?
5. By September 1950, around what city was there a Soviet and North Korean “perimeter”? (maps 819)
6. Who led the US counterattack against USSR and North Korea?
7. Explain how much and how far the U.S. counterattack was successful? (maps 819)
8. What country intervened and drove the US forces right back to the 38^th parallel?  Why did they get involved?
9. In what year did the USSR offer a cease-fire?
10. In what year did the U.S. decide to a truce with the USSR?
11. Who wanted to wage war on China and who wanted to abstain (stay out of) from a war with China? (They were both U.S. politicians)
12. Whose plan did the U.S. decide to follow?
13. What did MacArthur call Truman for not wanting to fight China?
14. What happened to the MacArthur?
15. On to China…The Chinese Civil War lasted for roughly 25 years.  Who were the leaders of each side in the Chinese Civil War?
16. What side did the US support and how?
17. Why is that controversial?
18. Why did the Civil War pause from 1937 until 1945?
19. What side won in 1949?
20. Where did the Nationalists flee to?
21. What country was in the United Nations Security Council until 1971?
22. What country has been in the UN Security Council after 1971?
23. What is Taiwan’s situation today?
24. What is China’s situation today?