POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Mao Tse-Tung
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Back to the 38th parallel. As UNC troops crossed the 38th parallel, Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong received a plea for direct military aid from Kim Il-sung. The chairman was willing to intervene, but he needed assurances of Soviet air power.
Detailed explanation-2: -During Mao’s lifetime, the English-language media universally rendered his name as Mao Tse-tung, using the Wade-Giles system of transliteration for Standard Chinese though with the circumflex accent in the syllable Tsê dropped.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mao Zedong, communist leader of China, got involved in the Korean War because he felt China was threatened by Western nations and that if the communist North Koreans lost, and the Korean peninsula became westernized, China would no longer have an ally on its borders.
Detailed explanation-4: -Paramount leader Following Mao’s death on 9 September 1976 and the purge of the Gang of Four in October 1976, Premier Hua Guofeng succeeded as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and gradually emerged as the de facto leader of China.