People and Places
First Nationalist Leader of China
Sun Yet Sen
This program encouraged farmers to call out their landowners and talk about all the ways they were wronged
Speak Bitterness Campaign
This was the chasing of the communist forces by the nationalist forces across the country and into the mountains by Chiang Kai-Shek
The Long March
The area in the south where Americans were able to barely maintain a toehold on the country following the North Korean invasion
Pusan Perimeter
First Communist Leader of China
Mao Zedong
To help develop the country, Mao put China under these planning phases to focus on development (from video)
5 Year Plans
Upon the invasion of China by Japan, Kai-shek made this mistake that helped give the Communists influence as they (the communists) tried to resist the Japanese.
Fled to mountains with military
MacArthur planned a risky invasion that went off without a hitch at what city?
Inchon
Leader of American Forces in Korea
Douglas MacArthur
The program that asked civilians to melt down their metal in their backyards to make steel
Great Leap Forward
North and South Korea were created by which two countries?
Russia and the United States
The border line between North and South Korea today is called what?
DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)
China warned America to stop approaching this border river or they would join the Korean War
Yalu
1949 represented a particularly scary year for Americans as what two communist events happened?
(Daily Double)
1. China became Communist
2. Russia got Nukes
The brutal slaughter of 200,000+ civilian men, women, and children by Japanese forces in the capital of China was what event?
Rape of Nanking
The Chinese entered the war after what action taken by the US military ordered by General MacArthur
Bombing of a Russian air base in China.
US President in power during the Korean War
Harry Truman
This program encouraged young Chinese folks to embrace Communism and oust "Old Ideas and Old People" from controlling the future of Communism
Cultural Revolution
During the Chinese Civil War, the Nationalist troops and government were driven out of the country to this place.
Taiwan (Formosa)
What do the Koreans call the Korean War?
Victorious Fatherland Liberation War