Question: What tactics of the PVA were US and ROK troops not prepared to handle?
Answer: PVA 9th Army Group's three-pronged encirclement tactics

Question: Who did the PVA 13th Army Group force out of northwest Korea?
Answer: the U.S. Eighth Army

Question: Whose death was not a direct casualty of the war?
Answer: General Walton Walker

Question: Why did the X Corps leave Hungnam?
Answer: to reinforce the badly depleted U.S. Eighth Army

Question: What effect did the death of General Walton Walker have on the troops?
Answer: UN morale hit rock bottom

Question: What was the name of the ship responsible for undertaking the largest rescue operation by a single ship?
Answer: SS Meredith Victory

Question: What did the Presidential Proclamation No. 2914, 3 1950 do?
Answer: declared a national emergency

Question: What year was the Presidential Proclamation lifted?
Answer: 1978

Question: Who was stripped of their commanding rights by China?
Answer: Kim Il-sung

Question: What country was condemned for their participation in the conflict in Korea?
Answer: China

Question: What is the Third Phase Offensive also known as?
Answer: Chinese New Year's Offensive

Question: Why goals were accomplished the the KPA and PVA's use gongs during these attacks?
Answer: facilitating tactical communication and mentally disorienting the enemy

Question: How did some UN troops react to the use of noise?
Answer: some soldiers panicked, abandoning their weapons and retreating to the south

Question: What did the PVA and KPA gain by using the tactics during the Third Phase Offensive
Answer: Seoul

Question: Who was commanding the U.S. Eight Army at the time of the Third Phase Offensive?
Answer: Lieutenant-General Matthew Ridgway

Question: Why was the PVA unable to advance beyond Seoul?
Answer: The PVA had outrun its logistics capability

Question: What caused General Ridgway to initiate Operation Roundup?
Answer: PVA had abandoned their battle lines

Question: What facilitated the success of Operation Roundup?
Answer: UN Command's air superiority

Question: What city was recaptured as a result of the Ridgway's operation?
Answer: Wonju

Question: How was the PVA transporting supplies at one point?
Answer: on foot and bicycle

Question: What to be achieved by the Sancheong-Hamyang and Geochang massacres in South Korea?
Answer: destroy the guerrillas and their sympathizer citizens in Southern Korea

Question: Who's attack resulted in victory at Hoengseong?
Answer: the PVA

Question: What is considered to be the the Korean War's equivalent to Gettysburg?
Answer: the Fourth Phase Offensive

Question: What did the French Battalion's efforts do to the PVA forces?
Answer: broke the attack's momentum

Question: How many PVA soldiers fought in this battle and lost?
Answer: more than 25,000

Question: What Operation was initiated after the successful Operation Roundup?
Answer: Operation Killer

Question: What the the goal of the operation that followed Operation Roundup?
Answer: to kill as many KPA and PVA troops as possible

Question: What signified the end of Operation Killer?
Answer: capturing Hoengseong

Question: How many times was Seoul captured in a year?
Answer: This was the city's fourth conquest

Question: Other than the drastic decrease in population, what other issue did the people in Seoul face?
Answer: severe food shortages

Question: Why did Stalin send two air forces divisions and other assistance to the Chinese?
Answer: the Chinese war effort

Question: What issues plagued the PVA throughout the war?
Answer: logistical problems

Question: What was a great concern of many Chinese troops?
Answer: they had nothing to eat

Question: What was Zhou's ineffective response to the issue plaguing the PVA?
Answer: increasing Chinese production and improving methods of supply

Question: What did China introduce to the war in 1951?
Answer: the Chinese Air Force

Question: Who was relieved from his duties as Commander in Korea?
Answer: General MacArthur

Question: Who did not have faith in MacArthur's claim that victory was the only respectable outcome?
Answer: Truman

Question: What mistake did MacArthur make regarding the 38th parallel?
Answer: the Chinese would not enter the war

Question: What did Truman want to see happen in Korea?
Answer: a truce and orderly withdrawal

Question: Whose involvement in the war was found to be in violation of the Constitution?
Answer: . MacArthur

Question: Who was appointed Supreme Commander in Korea after the removal of General MacArthur?
Answer: General Ridgway

Question: What was the goal of Operation Tomahawk?
Answer: get behind Chinese forces and block their movement north

Question: Who was responsible for supply humanitarian aid to civilians?
Answer: The 60th Indian Parachute Field Ambulance

Question: Under the guidance of Generals Van Fleet and Ridgway, joint forces were able to achieve what goal?
Answer: depleted the PVA and KPA forces

Question: What was the Fifth Phase of the Chinese counter initiative called?
Answer: Chinese Spring Offensive

Question: What may have began as an effective series of attacks by the Chinese regained what area?
Answer: Line Kansas

Question: What ended with the armistice of 1953?
Answer: the stalemate

Question: How many armies did the Chinese use in the Fifth Phase Offensive?
Answer: three field armies

Question: Where was Line Kansas located?
Answer: just north of the 38th parallel

Question: Where did armistice negotiations occur?
Answer: Kaesong

Question: What did the UN Command want to achieve with the armistice talks?
Answer: recapture all of South Korea and to avoid losing territory

Question: What tactics were used by the PVA to coax the UN Command to continuing the war?
Answer: military and psychological operations

Question: Was there a cease fire during the talks?
Answer: Large-scale bombing of North Korea continued

Question: Who directed the armistice negotiation for the Chinese?
Answer: Zhou Enlai

Question: When was the Battle of White Horse?
Answer: 6–15 October 1952

Question: What year was the Battle of Bloody Ridge?
Answer: 1951

Question: What was the shortest of the major battles fought during the stalemate?
Answer: the Battle of the Hook

Question: Did the UN troops or Chinese troops experience more war casualties?
Answer: Chinese troops

Question: What did Zhou Enlai do as a result of the significant amount of Chinese casualties?
Answer: called a conference in Shenyang

Question: What was the purpose of the Shengyang meeting?
Answer: discuss the PVA's logistical problems

Question: Did the actions of the Chinese fix their problems?
Answer: These commitments did little to directly address the problems

Question: Who believed that neither side would see a victory at the end of the Korean War?
Answer: Peng Dehuai

Question: What meeting was conducted to discuss the PVA's problems?
Answer: the Military Commission,

Question: What actions were taken to help the PVA?
Answer: PVA would be divided into three groups

Question: Who ended up in charge of logistics as a result of the restructuring of the PVA?
Answer: the central government

Question: How long did the armistice talks last?
Answer: two years

Question: What issues stalled the armistice talks?
Answer: prisoner of war (POW) repatriation

Question: What was deemed unacceptable to North Koreans and the Chinese during POW negotiations?
Answer: many PVA and KPA soldiers refused to be repatriated back to the north

Question: When was the armistice agreement finally signed?
Answer: 27 July 1953

Question: What was established to deal with the issues surrounding prisoners of war?
Answer: Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission,

Question: Who did the US elect as president during the Korean War?
Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question: Who approved the Korean War armistice that officially declared a ceasefire?
Answer: the United Nations