Ch 15 Card Sort

CH 17-3

Card Sort

1 America’s

foreign policy needed to balance containing communism against avoiding another world war.

2 After

World War II the Soviets occupied North Korea and the US occupied South Korea which created problems. North is communist South capitalist

3 North

Korea invaded South Korea to unite the country under one government; communist government

4 The

US believed the Soviet Union was behind the invasion of South Korea by the North.

5 

The United States’ and United Nations’ response to the invasion of South Korea was to assist in restoring the peace.

 They

restored the peace by going to

war  Why didn’t the Soviets veto it in the UN  Does this action work well with the UN’s mission?

6 The

Chinese became involved in the Korean war when the United States came to close to their border.

 China

was afraid the US we keep going and take them over.  General McArthur made many threats to China

7 President

Truman fired General McArthur for insubordination. McArthur had spoken publicly about his wishes to overtake China and the President had asked him not to.

8 Truman

did not use nuclear weapons in Korea because he wanted to keep the war limited to Korea and avoided Soviet involvement.