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38 Th Parallel Republic Of Korea
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1,266 wordsGeneral Douglas MacArthur was born on Jan. 26, 1880 at Little Rock Barracks, Arkansas. He died April 5, 1964 in Washington, D. C. He was the general who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed, and led United Nations forces during the first nine months of the Korean War. MacArthur was the third son of Arthur MacArthur, Jr. , later the army's senior ranking officer, and Mary Hardy MacArthur, an ambitious woman ...
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Douglas Macarthur South Korea
532 wordsOn June 25, 1950, North Korean soldiers stormed across the thirty-eighth parallel which separated Communist North Korea and non-Communist South Korea. This was the beginning of what would soon become known as the Korean Conflict, or as some say The Forgotten War. The two main persons from the United States were President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur. Truman was the head, and the military followed his orders, as opposed to the Security Council. General MacArthur had a hard time acce...
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38 Th Parallel End The War
1,459 words... ous Manchurian region. The Chinese troops lay coiled like a viper, and as the UN. pushed forward, they encountered Human Waves of Chinese troops. Combined with poor equipment and the brutal North Korean winter, the UN. forces had no choice but to retreat. The allies retreated back 130 miles to the North Korean border. Along with the UN. retreat, followed millions of North Korean refugees trying to escape Chinas assault. The situation was described by one G. I. , There were literally millions...
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Kim Il Sung Second And Third
1,288 wordsDiscuss critically the double identities of the 2 nd and 3 rd generations of the North Many of the North Koreans in Japan associate themselves with Chongryun. Chongryun is a North Korean organization-the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan. Chongryun was founded in 1955 and identifies its members and potential members as overseas nationals of North Korea, with a strict non-involvement policy with Japans internal affairs. For Chongryun Koreans, their Korean identity means a primarily...
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445 wordsThe first battle of the Korean War was on Sunday June 25, 1950. The North Korean forces decided it was time to attack the South Koreans and take over their democratic government. When the South Korean armies found out that North Korea was attacking them; soldiers would try to resist the invasion by fastening bombs to their bodies and throwing themselves into enemy tanks, but the large number of North Korean tanks and soldiers just overwhelmed the South Koreans. In Seoul an American ambassador in...
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38 Th Parallel Britain And France
1,120 wordsThe Cold War is the closest the world has ever come to complete destruction. In this period of time, two world super powers were in a stalemate economically and militarily and were constantly competing to be the superior. The Cold War started as result of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union had some differences on their perspectives of the world. United States being the richest country in the world promoted democracy and capitalism in the world. The newly formed Soviet Union tho...
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1,019 wordsDeath, destruction, loved ones lost, and separation are all phrases commonly heard in North and South Korea for over the last fifty years. The division of this Asian peninsula into the independent nations of North Korea and South Korea brought terror and torment to the people living there. But now in a new era, words like hope, peace, and reunification can be heard from these same people. Reunification seems to be the most logical course of action to heal the rift at the 38 th parallel. The heal...
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Kim Il Sung Kim Jong Il
1,448 wordsIndex Introduction The New Dynasty Dynasties in Review The Three Kings 20 Conclusion 23 Bibliography 24 Introduction As we move into the new millennium, more so than decades, quarter or half centuries, we reflect back on the past. A vast number of books and other publications have come out which review certain areas of the past, a Y 2 K in review. Of course, the term "Y 2 K" immediately evokes the image of a world of computer technology going haywire. The world has had its share of tragedies and...
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Kim Il Sung Kim Jong Il
1,498 words... tradition with the founding of the Yuan and Ch " ing Dynasties. In understanding this legacy and showing how it may be seen in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, it may become easier to understand why the country continues to survive, despite evidence supporting its collapse. To do this, it is necessary to view history and present not in the negative, but in a manner becoming the great tradition of dynasties. As China once saw itself as the center of the world, North Korea now sees i...
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Kim Il Sung North Korea
1,480 words... e censors (EA, p 184). Under the emperor were eunuchs, who handled such areas as policing of other agencies and taxes, and a Grand Secretary, who advised the emperor and personally handled scripts and memos to and from the emperor. The emperor alone was in control of filling high positions, as well and approving or declining retirement. Even in testing for official court posts were given by the emperor for "official ranking and appointment to a post (EA, p 188). " In a country as large as Ch...
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Kim Jong Il Kim Il Sung
1,550 words... comm established in the society. " (p 179) There was nothing outside the sphere of China, and one accepted their place. People accepted their place, perhaps because they could see nothing outside that. In North Korea, as far as the common citizens know, there is nothing outside the DPR. They accept their place because they believe they suffer for the good of their nation. The privileged live a life of ease, such as Jong Il's reported three official residences and four private villas. The com...
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World War Ii Ballistic Missiles
1,170 wordsWAR FROM THE COLD WAR TO PRESENT The end of World War II was the spawn of a new war that would continue for over fifty years: The Cold War. Technically this war was not a fifty-year physical confrontation between two countries but more of a political confrontation between the world's two remaining super-powers. The dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the beginning of a new arsenal that would lead to the development of nuclear weapons. After Japan and Germany were de...
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1,871 wordsNorth Korean Cuisine Korea is considered to be one of the oldest civilizations. It dates back to 3000 years. It goes without saying that for such a long period different historical changes influenced greatly the changes in Korean cuisine. They should be mentioned. The state is situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. At present, it is divided into North Korea and South Korea. The state borders China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast, with Japan situated to the southeast across t...
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1,388 wordsCauses of the Korean War Andrew Glass Global Studies Period Seven The Korean War, 1950 - 1953 After the USSR installed a Communist government in North Korea in September 1948, that government promoted and supported an insurgency in South Korea in an attempt to bring down the recognized government and gain jurisdiction over the entire Korean peninsula. Not quite two years later, after the insurgency showed signs of failing, the northern government undertook a direct attack, sending the North Kore...
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Ho Chi Minh 38 Th Parallel
1,168 wordsThe Cold War was characterized by mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings by the United States and the Soviet Union. At times, these conditions increased the likelihood of a third world war. Elementary and Middle School books tell about the cold war being the struggle of the evil east against the democratic west. This leads students to believe that the cold war was one major battle, but really the cold war was made up of many smaller events. The United States accused the Soviet Union o...
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38 Th Parallel Korean Peninsula
1,776 wordsMany events make up the entirety of a conflict between opposing forces. More specifically, there can be many different parts to a war. There is not necessarily only one struggle in a war. In the Korean Conflict, the war can be separated into three distinct and equally important stages, each with their own purpose: the North s offensive, the South s offensive, and the stalemate. Examining these three stages will clearly define the objectives of the war. The offensive attack that the North Koreans...
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Kim Il Sung North Korea
6,127 wordsThe United States has been presented a dilemma towards its foreign policy with the Democratic People? s Republic of Korea (North Korea). North Korea? s alleged launch of a new Taepo-Dong I missile on August 31, 1998 has heightened American worries and escalated an already tense situation with North Korea. The United States response towards this new missile, which could possibly be able to reach the edges of both Alaska and Hawaii, will be a factor in its decision on whether or not to continue to...
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Kim Il Sung 38 Th Parallel
1,263 wordsOrigins of Korean War Korean War started on the 25 th June 1950, but do you know how and why it happened? When someone mentions the Korean War, everyone knows that it was a civil war between the North and the South Korea. But, do you know the origin of how it actually got started? There are lot of things that happened, before the North Koreans decided to cross over the 38 th parallel. Korean civil war was just a small part of the whole war. The war also included more then just Koreans. What peop...
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560 wordsPost WWII the cold war began and many problems came about. U. S. officials, concerned over Soviet pressures against Iran and Turkey, interpreted a 1946 speech by Stalin as declaring ideological war against the West. In 1947 the president proposed the Truman Doctrine, which had two objectives: to send U. S. aid to anticommunist forces in Greece and Turkey, and to create a public consensus so Americ 8 ans would be willing to fight the cold war. He achieved both goals. That same year, journalist Wa...
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