The Land of the Morning Calm A Short History of the Korean War James Stokesbury 1. Describe the location‚ dimensions and shape of the Korean peninsula. • The Korean peninsula stretches for almost 600 miles long. While the width varies‚ it ranges from about 90-200 miles. The total area is about 85‚000 square miles. The shape of the peninsula resembles an elongated New Jersey. 2. What two rivers form the northern‚ land boundary of Korea? • Yalu River (between North Korea and
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Samsung Background Samsung is a Korean company that has risen to prominence in many fields over the years. The size and the scope of the company is almost unimaginable‚ as they are one of the largest and most diverse companies in the world. While the company is mostly known for their technology division (cell phones‚ radios‚ MP3 players‚ computer screens‚ and the like) they have many other divisions as well. The company has expanded from a humble storefront launched in the late 1930s to the largest
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how different schools‚ states‚ and countries school system worked and what we could do to change the ones that were failing. The claims that were made were that school systems were failing and it was time to change the system. In the film Michelle Rhee‚ who was the superintendent of the Washington D.C. public schools and she wanted to change how public schools worth ethic was and the way they ran the schools. In the film it shows validation when they show statistics on different states‚ countries
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Michelle Rhee‚ I started to think about how different aspects of the public education system could impact the effectiveness of that system. My first thoughts on Michelle’s plans to reform education in the Washington D.C. school district were optimistic. I thought that she had some breakthrough ideas that would really turn the schools around in time. Firing incompetent teachers and principals seemed like an extremely effective plan. But‚ with teachers becoming scared of being terminated and Rhee offering
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the outbreak of a major conflict was the instability and hostility within Korea. Despite how it is viewed today in comparison to North Korea‚ South Korea (or the Republic of Korea) was not as ‘democratic’ as it truly claimed when created in 1948. Syngman Rhee’s regime was extremely repressive‚ and frequently imposed policies that were neither fair nor impartial on citizens; crack downs on communist-inspired rebellions were very fierce. In October 1948‚ 2000 police mutinied at Yeosu because they sympathized
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start to ’roll back’ Communism. Cold War - Truman and Stalin were in a battle for world domination – Korea was a ‘war at arm’s length’. - Kim Il Sung - got Stalin’s and Mao tse Tung’s agreement to attack South Korea. Syngman Rhee - (1950) – boasted he would attack North Korea – gave an excuse. Events (5 phases) By June 1950 - the NKPA captured most of South Korea from the ROKs. July 1950 - UN troops‚ mainly Americans led by General MacArthur
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The Korean War is seen as the “flashpoint” in the Cold War‚ which made the Cold war a global conflict. North Korea was led by Kim Il-Sung and was communist. South Korea was led by Syngman Rhee and was capitalist. Though it is said that Kim Il-Sung‚ who headed The Democratic People’s Republic‚ which was created by the Soviet Union‚ had adopted a policy of opposition to Rhee’s government and for the unification of the Korean peninsula by armed force‚ there are still many other theories as to why the
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Truman realised the USA was in a competition for world domination with the USSR. Russia went to war because Stalin wanted Communism to grow. In 1949‚ Kim Il Sung persuaded Stalin and Mao Tse Tung to support an invasion of South Korea. In 1950‚ Syngman Rhee threatened to attack North Korea. It was an excuse – the trigger for war: the NKPA invaded South Korea The underlying reason that the Korean War broke out was because it was just another episode in the ongoing Cold War between the USA
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Sung had quickly repressed the opposition in North Korea and solidified his control with Russian support. (1) South Korea was under the control of the Syngman Rhee‚ this president enjoyed minimal support from the South Korean population‚ as having aligned himself with the occupying Japanese forces prior to and during World War II. In 1947‚ Rhee led a bloody campaign that resulted in the killing of
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The Cold War is often thought of a war only between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States of America‚ however that is not the case. There were proxy wars in countries like Vietnam‚ Korea and Pakistan. The Cold War itself is a complicated subject that was seen as “good (capitalism)” vs. bad (communism)”‚ which in itself was a bad idea that wouldn’t allow for a case by case analysis of the conflicts around the world. But in a time of “Domino Theory”‚ President Eisenhower’s
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