PowerPoint presentation: 21 slides
Objective: To
examine the results of the Chinese civil war and the Korean War
Topics Covered:
- Chinese civil war
- Nationalists flee to Taiwan
- Mao Zedong’s “Little Red Book”
- Korean civil war
- U.N. intervention in Korea
- Americans pushed to Pusan perimeter
- Invasion of Inchon / Approaching the Yalu
- Chinese support of North Korea
- Truman fires MacArthur
- Demilitarized zone (DMZ)
Key Terms and People:
- Chiang
Kai-shek
- Mao
Zedong
- General Douglas MacArthur
- General Matthew Ridgway
- President Harry Truman
Multimedia:
- Video
clip: Douglas MacArthur (3:29)