Key Terms:

North Korea:Kim Il Sung:Pyongyang:

China:Mao (Tse-Tung):Chou En-lai:Peng De-huai:Peking:Tibet:Tiananmen Square:

USA:Dwight D Eisenhower:Dean Acheson:Dean Rusk:

USSR:Stalin:Malenkov:Beria:Molotov:MiGs:The Bomb:Comintern:Kremlin:“Doctors’ Plot”:

Misc:UN:Manchuria:Hiroshima, Japan:POWs:“non-voluntary repatriation”:“a paper tiger”:Armistice:“Peace Congress” of the Asia-Pacific Region:

Name: ___________________________________Chang, Jung, and Jon Halliday. Mao: the unknown story. New York: Anchor Books, 2006, pp. 359-372PART I: Read & Define Key Terms

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PART II: Questions

Non-Content Vocabulary:Siesta (7)MiGs (9)Ante (10)Propitiate (13)Expedient (13)Interim (13)Repatriation (14)Mantra (14)

Ominous (19)Subjugate (20)Prevaricated (24)Platitudes (24)Turf (25)Insurgent (25)Conglomerate (27)Imminent (28)

Evade (29)Tete a tete (31)Salvo (33)Paper Tiger (38)Fabricating (47)Repudiate (1)

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Answer on a separate sheet of paper:

1. What was the role of atomic weapons in the Korean conflict?

2. Was Mao a potential Tito? Explain why or why not?

3. Why did Stalin’s successors choose to end the war in Korea? What was Mao’s response?

4. What happened to the majority of POWs?

5. Why are the total number of dead and wounded disputed? Which number do you think is the most accurate and why?

PART III: Mapping See attached