Question: Where in the United States was the tank battalion located?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: What is Korea's largest port?
Answer: the port of Pusan

Question: Besides the United States, what other country sent military personnel to Korea?
Answer: Japan

Question: Who had the fewest number of troops in Korea?
Answer: KPA

Question: Who was able to counterattack and move the KPA away from the Pusan Perimeter?
Answer: UN forces

Question: Why did General MacArthur suggest an amphibious landing at Inchon?
Answer: To relieve the Pusan Perimeter

Question: Who did General MacArthur ask to plan the amphibious attack?
Answer: Major General Hobart R. Gay

Question: Where did the 1st Infantry deploy from?
Answer: Yokohama, Japan

Question: Why were KPA forces unable to adequately defend themselves against UN forces?
Answer: the KPA were undermanned and poorly supplied

Question: Who initially opposed General MacArthur's landing plan?
Answer: the Pentagon

Question: What Corps included 40,000 men from the 1st Marine Division?
Answer: The X Corps

Question: Who coordinated the efforts of the ROK Army, Marine Corps and the US Army to stage a successful battle?
Answer: General Edward Almond

Question: Whose nickname was 'Task Force Lynch'?
Answer: Lieutenant Colonel James H. Lynch

Question: What was the 106 mile push through enemy territory called?
Answer: the "Pusan Perimeter Breakout"

Question: Who was defeated near Seoul, Korea?
Answer: the KPA

Question: Who was sent to Korea to act as an advisor to Kim Il-Sung?
Answer: General H. M. Zakharov

Question: Why did Kim Il-Sung redeploy his military troops?
Answer: to defend Seoul

Question: Who was not being briefed on the operational plans or the number of troops in combat?
Answer: Chinese commanders

Question: When was it advised for North Koreans to attempt to defeat the opposing forces at Inchon?
Answer: if they had reserves of at least 100,000 men

Question: What emergency session was called by Stalin?
Answer: Politburo

Question: How many troops made it back to the KPA lines after retreating?
Answer: 25,000 to 30,000

Question: Who was held responsible for the defeat of North Korean troops?
Answer: Soviet military advisers

Question: Who reclaimed the Seoul?
Answer: South Korean forces.

Question: What city was left vulnerable by North Korea's quick retreat?
Answer: Pyongyang

Question: What memorandum stated the circumstances for engaging in conflict above the 38th parallel?
Answer: National Security Council Memorandum 81/1

Question: Who controlled the newly restored government of the Republic of Korea?
Answer: Syngman Rhee

Question: Who sent a message to MacArthur giving him the authority to proceed past the 38th parallel?
Answer: Defense Secretary George Marshall

Question: Who executed people who were believed to be loyal to North Korea?
Answer: ROK police

Question: What year did the executions stop?
Answer: 1951

Question: Who vowed to intervene if the US was to engage in conflict North of the 38th parallel?
Answer: China

Question: The tactics Zhou Enlai advised the North Koreans to use during their withdrawal was the same the Chinese used to escape event?
Answer: Chiang Kai-shek's Encirclement Campaigns

Question: Who believes that the North Koreans only appeared to fail to effective execute their withdrawal plan?
Answer: Bruce Cumings

Question: What may have been North Korea's goal in the way they rapidly withdrew from South Korea?
Answer: launch guerrilla raids

Question: Who's control did the Chinese Communists escape in the 1930's?
Answer: Chiang Kai-shek

Question: Who issued a statement calling for North Korea's unconditional surrender?
Answer: MacArthur

Question: Who authorized giving troops the ability to follow the North Korean forces north?
Answer: the UN

Question: How did the 187 Airborne Regimental Combat Team prevent North Korean leaders from fleeing?
Answer: cut the road north going to China

Question: How many North Korean prisoners of war were held by UN forces?
Answer: 135,000

Question: What did President Truman do to prevent hostilities between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan?
Answer: dispatched the United States Seventh Fleet to the Taiwan Strait

Question: What year did China decide to enter the war?
Answer: 1950

Question: What provoked China to join the war?
Answer: American aggression in the guise of the UN

Question: Where did Mao Zedong declare that he would intervene in the Korean conflict?
Answer: the Politburo

Question: What was discussed at the emergency talks held by Chinese leaders?
Answer: whether to send Chinese troops into Korea

Question: Who was a proponent for intervening in Korea?
Answer: Mao

Question: Who was Lin Biao replaced with when he declined to lead the Chinese troops in Korea?
Answer: Peng Dehuai

Question: Who convinced the Chinese leaders who were against entering the war that it was a good idea?
Answer: Peng

Question: What did Mao Zedong's reinvented PLA North East Frontier Force become?
Answer: People's Volunteer Army

Question: Where did Zhou travel with a Chinese delegation to convince Stalin to support China?
Answer: the Black Sea

Question: How long did the Soviet air force need to prepare to assist
Answer: two or three months

Question: Where did Stalin say he would allow the Soviet air force to operate for a limited amount of time?
Answer: Chinese airspace

Question: When did Stalin agree to send China any type of support?
Answer: March 1951

Question: Where did the fighting take place that rendered Soviet air support useless to the Chinese?
Answer: the south side of the Yalu

Question: What made seeing the PVA units difficult during the day?
Answer: their march and bivouac discipline

Question: What were PVA troops told to do when planes flew by?
Answer: remain motionless

Question: How many days did it take PVA forces to march 286 miles?
Answer: 19

Question: What were PVA officers supposed to do if troops disobeyed the security protocol?
Answer: shoot security violators

Question: When would PVA forces march to minimize the chances of being seen?
Answer: 19:00–03:00

Question: Who did not capture the city of Namchonjam?
Answer: KPA

Question: What was the capital city in the North?
Answer: Pyongyang

Question: Where did Kim Il-Sung temporarily move the capital?
Answer: Sinuiju

Question: What caused the North Koreans to move their capital for the second time?
Answer: UNC forces approached

Question: When was Pyongyang captured?
Answer: October 1950

Question: Where did President Truman and General MacArthur meet on October 15, 1950?
Answer: Wake Island

Question: Who refused to meet on continental United States?
Answer: General MacArthur

Question: What was President Truman told at this meeting?
Answer: little risk of Chinese intervention in Korea

Question: Who was not concerned about the idea of Chinese troops moving south into Korea?
Answer: General MacArthur

Question: What was believed would happen if the Chinese entered the conflict?
Answer: the greatest slaughter

Question: Who initiated the First Phase offensive?
Answer: PVA 13th Army Group

Question: Who did the First Phase offensive motivated to send more troops and resources to Korea?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: When did the Chinese and US military have their first confrontation in Korea?
Answer: 1 November 1950

Question: Where did UN forces retreat to when the PVA executed their sneak attack?
Answer: Ch'ongch'on River

Question: What is unusual about the PVA's successful, surprise attack?
Answer: Chinese unexpectedly disappeared into mountain hideouts

Question: Whose retreat during the Korean war was the longest in the history of the US Army?
Answer: U.S. Eighth Army's

Question: Whose actions helped the Eighth Army be able to retreat?
Answer: Turkish Brigade

Question: How many casualties did the 1st Marines face at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir?
Answer: 12,000–15,000