Korean War + Study Guide
for Monday's Half-Test
First, be sure to finish your homework that is due tomorrow at 3:10 p. Find the instructions here.
STUDY GUIDE FOR Monday's HALF-TEST
- Make sure you know your answers to questions 2, 2a. - 2f. under "U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s" on your NOTES.
- Know the difference between "rollback" and "containment."
- Be able to list the "Six Major Events" that caused the U.S. to feel it was losing political and technical race with the Communists in the 1950s. (Question 4 on U.S. Foreign Policy.)
- What is an ICBM?
- Know the formal names of North and South Korean and who led each at the beginning of the Korean War.
- Know - in general terms - how the Korean War unfolded.
- Know why MacArthur was fired by Truman.
- Make sure you understand the 1950-era context of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's quote: "Asia is where the communist conspirators have decided to make their play for global conquest. If we lose this war, the fall of Europe is inevitable. There is no choice but victory."
- How did Stalin's death impact the end of the Korean conflict?
- In a paragraph or two be prepared to address the Cummings' quote: “The civil conflict had not been worked through but frozen by outside intervention.” (Study questions No. 8 and 9 under the Korean War Notes.)
- Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower? How did he approach Communism?
- Who was John Foster Dulles? How did he view the United States’ role against the Communists?
