uestion 1
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The Marines in August of 1951 assaulted (Note the video incorrectly says 1952):
The Punchbowl
The Bloody Ridge
Heartbreak Ridge
All of the Above
Question 2
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The frustration over the peace talks was such that by the Summer of 1952 :
Pyongyang was burned to the ground by firebombs
China was bombed
Germ Warfare was unleashed
All of the Above
Question 3
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The election of what President brought the Korean War negotiations to a serious finish?
Truman
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Nixon
Question 4
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The October peace talks held at Panmunjom saw the communists drop their
requirements for:
POW releases
An end to the air war over China
The 38th Parallel as a dividing line
An end to “germ warfare”
Question 5
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The result of the hill fights was:
UN determination to continue pressing the Chinese/North Koreans
An Unlimited Air War against the North
POW propaganda battles
The decision to avoid bloody frontal assaults and attempts to move the lines forward.
Question 6
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The majority of hills fought over in the so-called “static phase” of the Korean War were
anonymous to the media and not therefore not visible to the majority of the American
people:
True
False
Question 7
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During the POW crisis, an event complicating matters occurred when:
Prisoners fired upon guards
An American General faced trial by communists as a hostage
Germ Warfare became public
Airfield rehabilitation occurred.
Question 8
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By 1953 frustration continued to lead air war planners to the desperate measures of
committing acts of war resulting in convictions at Nuremburg in World War II, these
were? :
Bombing Dams
Dropping Germ Warfare canisters
Firebombing Pyongyang
None of the Above
Question 9
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The issue President Truman injected into the peace process consisted of:
Dividing Lines
POW releases
An end to “germ warfare”
Airfield rehabilitations
Question 10
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More casualties occurred during the static phase of the war from the fall of 1951 to 1953
than occurred in all of the phases of the maneuver war from 1950-1951:
True
False
Question 11
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When Chinese and North Korean troops were defeated they retreated from Bloody
Ridge to:
The Punchbowl
Hamburger Hill
Heartbreak Ridge
None of the Above
Question 12
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By June 1951, it became increasingly obvious to American war planners and leadership
that the Korean War had become:
A Maneuver war of speed
A Naval and Air War
A Static line of trench-line fighting like World War I
All of the Above
Question 13
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Another possible reason for the end of the Korean War peace talks may have been the:
Death of Mao
Death of Kim Il-Sung
Death of Stalin
Death of Syngman Rhee
Question 14
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The item prominently featured in Washington D.C. during the 1953 inaugural parade
and sent to Korea probably hastening the conclusion of peace talks was the:
Atom Bomb
280 mm atomic cannon
Germ Warfare canisters
B-52 bomber
Question 15
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By March 1952 a major issue in the peace talks resulted from:
POW’s rioting
Dividing Lines
An end to “germ warfare”
Airfield rehabilitations
Question 16
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In frustration over the POW issue and by attempting to regain the propaganda
initiative, the Chinese utilized a Soviet tactic of blaming the US for:
Firebombing
Bombing Dams
Germ Warfare
Torturing prisoners
Question 17
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A Major POW issue during 1952-1953 was:
The treatment of prisoners in South Korea
The treatment of prisoners in North Korea
The reluctance of communist prisoners to go home
The refusal of prisoners to stay in South Korea
Question 18
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The Communist proposal for a cessation of hostilities centered on the:
Airfield rehabilitation issue
The POW issue
The maintenance of the positions held by the respective armies
38 th Parallel
Question 19
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Although Americans historically don’t cheer a tie, the Korean War as argued in this class
ensured:
The survival of a free and largely Christian South Korea
A nation with a higher gross domestic product (GDP) than the Soviet Union which
sought to destroy it and the successful continuation of containment
The restoration of the Japanese economy.
All of the Above
Question 20
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Perhaps the best fighter jet of the Korean War was the :
F-80 Shooting Star
P-51 Mustang
F-86 Sabre
B-29 Stratofortress
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