Famous Figures
This 'Great Helmsman' lead the Peoples' Republic of China and supported Kim Il-Sung.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The intervention from this global organization involved 16 nations sending troops to the Korean War
What is the UN intervention?
These two countries agreed to divide Korea at the 38th Parallel and occupy each half.
What is the USA and USSR?
The official name for North Korea.
What is the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea?
This area is where American and South Korean forces were pushed to.
What is the Pusan Perimeter?
This General was fired by his President for demanding that China surrender.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This country's intervention would involve nearly three million soldiers, sent to aid the Democratic Peoples' Republic.
What is the Chinese intervention?
During this phase of colonization, Koreans were allowed to run schools, newspapers and businesses.
What is the cultural accommodation phase?
This paranoid Georgian communist tried to pressure Mao and Kim Il-Sung not to start the war.
Who is Josef Stalin?
For the majority of this war, this country had complete aerial dominance.
What is the United States?
This man of steel boycotted the United Nations, allowing the Security Council to pass Resolution 83.
Josef Stalin
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This country tried to destroy Korean culture by assimilating them.
What is Japan?
This communist army took Seoul two days after the war started.
What is the Korean Peoples' Army?
This military force was compared to sheep due to their ineffectiveness in the war.
What is the ROKA/South Korean Army?
This anti-communist leader wanted to unite Korea under his rule.
The reason for this country's intervention was due to their obligations to “the Korean people who have stood on our side during the past decades.”
What is the Peoples' Republic of China
Koreans formed these after their country was liberated from Japan
What are Democratic Peoples' Committees?
Soldiers from this communist army faced difficulties due to their lack of radios and trucks.
Bombings destroyed 90% of this country's buildings, as well as it's dams.
What is the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea/North Korea?
This Korean leader was nicknamed "the tiger" for his ferocious resistance against Japan.
Who is Kim Il-Sung
The CIA had mistakenly assumed that this country would not intervene in the Korean War
What is the People's Republic of China?
This Korean leader was supported by Koreans who had collaborated with Japan.
Who is Syngman Rhee?
This communist general grew up in poverty, and wanted to change his country so that people would no longer starve.
Who is Peng Dehuai?
This Chinese dictator considered this war a success because two thirds of Chinese soldiers had chosen to defect to his country.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?