Question: Who questioned the claim that South Korean did not provoke the KPA?
Answer: scholars

Question: Who was the Korean People's Army trying to execute?
Answer: Syngman Rhee

Question: Who, along with members of the South Korean government, fled South Korea?
Answer: Rhee

Question: What bridge were refugees attempting to cross when it was blown up by the South Korean Army?
Answer: Han River

Question: How many South Korean National Assemblyman pledged their allegiance to Seoul?
Answer: forty-eight

Question: What did South Korea do to cause members of the South Korean military unit to become trapped near the Han River?
Answer: blew up the highway bridge

Question: What day was the city of Seoul captured?
Answer: 28 June

Question: What country was believed to provide a counterbalance to China's and the Soviet Union's involvement in Korea?
Answer: Japan

Question: Which President decided to intervene after realizing that Japan's security would be affected by the hostility in Korea?
Answer: President Truman

Question: Why was South Korea important to the US?
Answer: US policy toward Japan

Question: What affected America's response to the situation in South Korea?
Answer: US policy toward Japan

Question: What was the Truman administration concerned about that was preventing them from getting involved in the Korean conflict?
Answer: Soviet reaction

Question: What agency approved the use of force in South Korea?
Answer: The UN Security Council

Question: Why did the US not send in ground troops after the United Nations approved the use of force?
Answer: advisers believed the North Koreans could be stopped by air and naval power

Question: Who believed that if the issues in Korea were not dealt with the communist aggression would spread?
Answer: Truman

Question: What resources did the US devote to South Korea after the Security Council approved engaging in an armed conflict?
Answer: air and naval forces

Question: Who condemned the actions of North Korea?
Answer: United Nations Security Council

Question: Which permanent member of the UN Security Council boycotted council meetings in protest of Taiwan's seat in the United Nations?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: What resolution encouraged Security Council Members to send military assistance to the Republic of Korea?
Answer: Resolution 83

Question: Who accused the United States of beginning an armed intervention in South Korea?
Answer: the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister

Question: What did UN Security Council Resolution 82 accomplish?
Answer: condemned the North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea

Question: What country challenged the legitimacy of the Korean War?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: Where did the intelligence information that led to the passage of Resolution 83 come from?
Answer: U.S. Intelligence

Question: What type of vote is required for the Security Council to commit to military action in Korea.
Answer: unanimous vote

Question: How many permanent members did the UN Security Council have?
Answer: five

Question: What charter did the US believe was violated by intervening in the Korean conflict?
Answer: UN Charter Article 32

Question: How many infantry divisions did N. Korea have engaged in the war?
Answer: 10

Question: What was the maximum number of North Korean troops engaged in the war?
Answer: 200,000

Question: How many reserve soldiers did North Korea have?
Answer: 30,000

Question: What type of naval ships did the South and North Koreans have?
Answer: small warships

Question: What was the problem with the ROK Army?
Answer: Army defenders were relatively unprepared and ill-equipped

Question: Who declined the ROK's request for tanks?
Answer: U.S. military

Question: In what country did the US maintain air forces and garrisons?
Answer: Japan

Question: Who reported that South Korea's military was not ready for combat?
Answer: R.E. Appleman

Question: Which Secretary of State did President Truman hold discussions about how the US would respond to the invasion of South Korea?
Answer: Dean Acheson

Question: What did the US not want to see repeated?
Answer: the mistake of appeasement

Question: The US involvement in the Korean War was important to achieving what goal?
Answer: the global containment of communism

Question: What report discussed the United States's goals for containing communism?
Answer: National Security Council Report 68

Question: The North Korean invasion of South Korea was compared to what event?
Answer: Adolf Hitler's aggressions

Question: Why was the US naval blockade not feasible?
Answer: U.S. Navy no longer had the warships

Question: Why was the US not able to provide an adequate response to the Korean invasion?
Answer: defense budget cutbacks

Question: Who was tasked with reorganization and deploying of the US military?
Answer: General Omar Bradley

Question: Who was forced to retreat back to the Pusan Peninsula due to unpreparedness?
Answer: American troops

Question: Who stated that winning the war does not excuse putting US troops into a bad situation?
Answer: Major General Floyd L. Parks

Question: What general provided material to the Republic of Korea and evacuated US nationals?
Answer: General MacArthur

Question: Who disagreed with the idea of unilaterally bombing the North Korean military?
Answer: President Truman

Question: What fleet was sent to the Taiwan Strait?
Answer: US Seventh Fleet

Question: Fearing the provocation of Communist China, what country's request for combat troops did the US deny?
Answer: Republic of China

Question: Who is the Chinese premier that called the actions of the US and the United Nations an act of aggression?
Answer: Zhou Enlai

Question: What battle is considered the US's first significant fight in the Korean War?
Answer: Battle of Osan

Question: Which infantry division was involved in the Battle of Osan?
Answer: 24th Infantry Division

Question: Where was the 24th Division forced to retreat to what location?
Answer: Taejeon

Question: At what Battle did the 24th Infantry Division suffer major losses?
Answer: Battle of Taejon

Question: In what country is the US's Task Force Smith located?
Answer: Japan

Question: How did the KPA hurt the Republic of Korea's intellectual core?
Answer: by killing civil servants and intellectuals

Question: Who was held responsible for the actions of the KPA?
Answer: Kim Il-sung

Question: Where did the Eighth United States and ROK get pushed back to?
Answer: southeast Korea

Question: What body of water provided a natural border to the UN command-controlled Pusan perimeter?
Answer: Nakdong River

Question: How much of Korea was under the control of the United Nations?
Answer: 10%

Question: Why did Zhou Enlai want a commitment the Soviet Union to commit to supporting the Chinese troops?
Answer: To counter a possible U.S. deployment

Question: Where did North Korea predict that MacArthur would enter Korea?
Answer: Incheon

Question: Who helped North Korea prepare for war by surveying the country?
Answer: Chai Chengwen

Question: Where did the Chinese military deploy troops in preparation for the arrival of US troops?
Answer: the Korean border

Question: Even though it was predicted that the Korean War would end in August, who was less than optimistic about the prediction?
Answer: Chinese leaders

Question: Which army was trying to capture Teague and the Naktong Bulge?
Answer: KPA

Question: What did the US Air Force's daytime attacks cause the KPA to do?
Answer: to hide in tunnels by day and move only at night

Question: Why did the Soviet Union complain about the action of the US to the UN Security Council?
Answer: aircraft mistakenly attacked facilities in Chinese territory

Question: Along with India, what other nation was to determine the how much the US would have to compensate China?
Answer: Sweden

Question: Why did India and Sweden never determine how much the US would compensate China?
Answer: the Soviets vetoed the US proposal