Question: At the beginning of the conflict, where were South Korean forces pushed back to?
Answer: Pusan Perimeter

Question: In 1950, what country got involved in the war?
Answer: China

Question: How many times did the control of Seoul change?
Answer: four

Question: On land, where was the last two years of the war fought?
Answer: close to the 38th parallel

Question: What type of combat was seen for the first time in the history of war?
Answer: air-to-air combat

Question: In, China what is the war officially called?
Answer: War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea

Question: What did Macau and Hong Kong call the Korean War?
Answer: Korean Conflict

Question: When is the term 'Chaoxian War' used as a name for the Korean War?
Answer: unofficial contexts

Question: Along with Taiwan, what empire was Korea considered to be apart of?
Answer: Empire of Japan

Question: Who was the colonial Governor-General that mandated cultural assimilation of Korea's people?
Answer: General Jirō Minami

Question: What language were the Korean people forced to learn?
Answer: Japanese

Question: What policy forced Koreans to change their names to Japanese names?
Answer: Sōshi-kaimei policy

Question: In 1939, what caused nearly 2 million Koreans to be forced into the labor force or the army?
Answer: Conscription

Question: How many Japanese forces were in Korea in 1945?
Answer: 300,000

Question: Where were 723,000 Koreans sent to work?
Answer: overseas empire and in metropolitan Japan

Question: Who did Japan collaborate with to help control the citizens of Korea?
Answer: Korean police force

Question: By 1945, what percentage of Koreans made up the Japanese labor force?
Answer: 32%

Question: What army were Korean men conscripted into?
Answer: Imperial Japanese Army

Question: What job were Colonels Dean Rusk and Charles H. Bonesteel III given?
Answer: dividing the Korean Peninsula

Question: What order was the division of Korea included in?
Answer: General Order No. 1

Question: What two areas was Korea divided into?
Answer: Soviet and U.S. occupation zones

Question: What was a factor in deciding where to divide the occupation zones?
Answer: the capital of Korea

Question: Who had to agree to the US's decision to divide Korea at the 38th parallel?
Answer: Stalin

Question: Who accepted Japan's surrender?
Answer: Gen. John R. Hodge

Question: What was General Hodge appointed the head of?
Answer: United States Army Military Government in Korea

Question: What government was not recognized by the U.S. Army Military Government in Korea?
Answer: People's Republic of Korea

Question: Why was the People's Republic of Korea not recognized?
Answer: it was communist

Question: Who did General Hodge restore power to, resulting in protests?
Answer: Japanese colonial administrators

Question: What is the civil disobedience caused by the railroad worker's strike called?
Answer: the Autumn uprising

Question: When was the Daegu Uprising?
Answer: 1946

Question: How many people attacked the Yeongcheon police station?
Answer: 10,000

Question: When did the Pusasn railroad strike begin?
Answer: 23 September 1946

Question: How did the USAMGIK respond to the uprisings?
Answer: declared martial law

Question: What did the Joint Commission's lack of progress cause the US government to do?
Answer: hold an election

Question: Why did the Korean Communists and the Soviets refuse to cooperate in the elections and creation of independent Korea?
Answer: it would not be fair

Question: When was the South Korean general election held?
Answer: 10 May 1948

Question: What problems did the elections face?
Answer: terrorism and sabotage

Question: Who held parliamentary elections on August 25, 1948?
Answer: North Korea

Question: When was South Korea's constitution created?
Answer: 1948

Question: Who was elected president of South Korea on July 20, 1948?
Answer: Syngman Rhee

Question: What year was the Republic of Korea established?
Answer: 1948

Question: Who led the Russian Koran Zone of Occupation?
Answer: Kim Il-sung

Question: What two groups were excluded from the South Korean political process?
Answer: communists and leftists

Question: Who supported the Chinese Communists during the civil war in Manchuria?
Answer: North Korean government

Question: What two groups were fighting in the Chinese Civil War?
Answer: Chinese Communists and the Chinese Nationalists

Question: What did the Chinese Communists want?
Answer: supremacy in Manchuria

Question: What army did North Koreans serve in during the civil war?
Answer: Chinese People's Liberation Army

Question: How much material did the North Koreans give to the Chinese communists?
Answer: 2,000 railway cars worth

Question: What country helped North Korea invade South Korea?
Answer: China

Question: When was the People's Republic of China created?
Answer: 1949

Question: What caused a problem within the Korean Communist Party?
Answer: Chinese support

Question: Who led the faction that challenged Kim-Il-sung?
Answer: Pak Il-yu

Question: Who did China pledge to support if a conflict should occur between North and South Korea?
Answer: the North Koreans

Question: What country did China see as a threat to the People's Republic of China?
Answer: Western nations

Question: Where was it believed that that fight against Communism would take place?
Answer: China

Question: To show their strength in the international Communist movement, what did China do?
Answer: promoted Communist revolutions

Question: Who did America support during the Chinese Civil War?
Answer: the Nationalists

Question: When did the Soviets first detonate a nuclear bomb?
Answer: 1949

Question: What treaty did Stalin and China enter into?
Answer: Sino–Soviet Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance Treaty

Question: What country did not prevent a Communist victory in China?
Answer: US

Question: Who was convinced that the US did was no longer interested in Korea?
Answer: Stalin

Question: Where did Stalin engage in an aggressive political strategy?
Answer: Asia

Question: Who had to agree to send reinforcements for Stalin to give permission for the invasion of Korea?
Answer: Mao

Question: Who did the Soviets not want to engage in conflict?
Answer: the Americans

Question: What concern did Mao have about the South Korean invasion?
Answer: the Americans would intervene

Question: Who needed Soviet financial and military aid?
Answer: China

Question: What did Mao's assistance allow North Korea to accelerate?
Answer: preparations for war

Question: Who did the Soviets send to North Korea?
Answer: Soviet generals

Question: Where did the conflict in South Korea begin?
Answer: Ongjin Peninsula

Question: What were the generals sent to North Korea collectively called?
Answer: the Soviet Advisory Group

Question: When did the generals finalize their attack strategy?
Answer: May

Question: Who called for Korean elections in 1950?
Answer: Kim Il-sung

Question: Who rejected the peace gesture?
Answer: Rhee

Question: What did Kim Il-Sung do after the peace overture was rejected?
Answer: revised his war plan

Question: Why did Kim's war plan need revising?
Answer: South Korean agents had learned about the plans

Question: When did Kim Il-Sung call for the Haeju conference?
Answer: 1950

Question: Who primarily initiated the clashes along the 38th parallel?
Answer: the South

Question: What group trained the Republic of Korea army?
Answer: U.S. Korean Military Advisory Group

Question: What general had a lot of confidence in the Republic of Korea's army?
Answer: General William Lynn Roberts

Question: Who wanted to take over North Korea?
Answer: Syngman Rhee

Question: Who was the diplomat that visited Korea?
Answer: John Foster Dulles

Question: Who provoked a conflict by crossing the 38th parallel?
Answer: Korean People's Army

Question: Where did the fighting begin?
Answer: Ongjin peninsula

Question: Who claimed to have taken control of Haeju?
Answer: the South Koreans