30.3 Multiple Choice

1. At the end of the Korean War, troops remained dug in on either side of the _______.

• a. Pusan Perimeter
• b. 70th Parallel
• c. Yalu River
• d. demilitarized zone

2. What word best describes the relationship that existed between the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s?

• a. amazing
• b. loyal
• c. distrustful

3. How did China's youth help conduct the Cultural Revolution?

• a. Chinese teenagers started a war with Korea and Japan
• b. Chines teenagers formed bands of Red Guards
• c. Scholars began living and working with young peasants to help educate them
• d. Chinese teenagers began moving the peasants to the cities to begin to urbanize China

4. _______ was the dictator who ruled North Korea during the Cold War.

• a. Syngman Rhee
• b. Mao Zedong
• c. Kim Il Sung
• d. Jiang Jieshi

5. How did Kim Il Sung respond to the armistice ending the war in Korea?

• a. Kim began to move his country towards a successful transition to democracy
• b. Kim gladly embraced reforms in his country and a return to diplomatic ties with other nations
• c. Kim remained a steadfast communist, leaving his country isolated and poor
• d. Kim abdicated his position as "Great Leader" in 1962

6. What movement urged young Chinese to gain similar experiences to Mao Zedong's own generation, and was launched in 1966?

• a. Cultural Revolution
• b. Great Leap Forward
• c. Pusan Perimeter
• d. Playing the China Card

7. In the decades following the Korean War, South Korea experienced what transition?

• a. South Korea changed from a democratic nation to a communist state
• b. South Korea transitioned from a communist nation to a welfare state
• c. South Korea reunified with North Korea
• d. South Korea transitioned from military rule to a democratic system

8. _______ was the dictator who ruled South Korea during the Cold War.

• a. Syngman Rhee
• b. Mao Zedong
• c. Kim Il Sung
• d. Jiang Jieshi

9. Which term best describes commonly owned and operated farms or communities?

• a. bourgeoisie
• b. communes
• c. counterrevolutionaries
• d. demilitarized zone

10. How did Chinese Nationalists lose popularity at the end of World War II?

• a. Nationalist policies led to economic hardship, while the Communists redistributed land to poor peasants
• b. The Communists were mysterious to the people, while the Nationalist party had been followed for years
• c. Nationalists brutalized people, while the Communists offered aid and money to fleeing refugees
• d. The Communists' ideology was more in line with the Buddhist and Confucian traditions of the people