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17. Map Interpretation Yalu River Based on this map, why do you think President Truman warned MacArthur to keep the UN forces at least 40 miles from the Yalu River?
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26. "We've been using more of a roundish one" President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern command for publicly undercutting the president's Korean War policies, and the general returned to Washington, where he and Defense Secretary George Marshall provided conflicting testimonies to congressional committees. MacArthur continued to propose more aggressive tactics against communist China. Marshall argued that MacArthur's tactics would draw the United States into a third world war.
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32. The TV series M*A*S*H was set in the Korean War. Because it was written at the time of the Vietnam War, the program had a strong anti-war message.