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5. Armed helicopters.
7. Effective were the Red tactics, which included the use of all but one of these:
l. Masses of man power.
2. Heavy and skillful mortar barrages.
3. Night attacks.
4. Horse cavalry.
5. Napalm bombing.
8. Meanwhile, U.N. casualties were heavy not only from enemy action but also from:
1. Bitterly cold weather.
2. Mass surrenders of poorly trained U.N. troops.
3. A serious influenza epidemic.
4. Confusion which resulted in thousands of U.N. troops being bombed by their own allies.
5. Yellow fever.
9. The reverses were particularly shocking to the world because of General MacArthur's widely publicized statement that:
1. "No army capable of stopping us exists in the Orient."
2. The U.S. 24th Division could be back home for Christmas, if they reached the Yalu River.
3. He would eat Christmas dinner in Peking.
4. He would ride a white horse across the Yalu.
5. Two divisions of U.S. troops had already been sent back to Tokyo.
10. The world's jitters increased when in a press conference President Truman said that:
1. Use of the atom bomb in the war had been under consideration .
2. The atom bomb would be used if the Chinese Reds did not withdraw soon.
3. A decision on the use of the atom bomb rested with MacArthur.
4. The U.N., and only the U.N., would decide whether to use the atom bomb.
5. He had penned one of his letters to Joe Stalin.
11. After being trapped by hordes of Chinese troops, U.S. 7th Division and the 1st Marine units fought their way out of an entrapment around:
1. Pyongyang.
2. Taejon.
3. Wonsan.
4. Changjin Reservoir
5. Inchon.
12. On other fronts on the peninsula the fighting by February 1951 had been marked by all but one of the following:
1. U.N. withdrawal from Pyongyang.
2. A valiant Turkish brigade fought Reds with knives and fists.
3. Hurried retreat from Seoul.
4. A strong U.N. counterdrive on Seoul.
5. Japanese divisions joined U.N. forces in Korea.
13. When the Eighth Army's Walton Walker was killed in a jeep accident he was succeeded by this Lieut. General:
1. Oliver Prince Smith.
2. Clifton Gates.
3. Edward Almond.
4. William H. Tunner.
5. Matthew B. Ridgway.
14. The Reds felt the sting of this jet plane, the fastest U.S. fighter to reach combat:
1. The Bat.
2. F80 Shooting Star.
3. B-36.
F90 Truman.
F-86 Sabre.
War in Korea
Directions: Located on this map, and identified in the statements below, are scenes of recent developments in the news. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described.
15. The Pusan beachhead from which the U.N. forces fought their way to the Manchurian border, and toward which they again withdrew.
16. Where U.N. forces staged an orderly evacuation of 100,000 civilian Koreans and 115,000 troops.
17. Wonju, which changed hands several times.
18. Once a U.N. beachhead, again raided by South Koreans.
19. U.N. flyers were forbidden to cross the river which flows here.