Korea Post Ww2 Essay

During the mid-1940s, the final years of World War II, multiple decisions were made that would reshape the history of Korea. In December of 1943, during the Cairo Conference, the Allies came to a resolution that Japan be stripped of all the territories that the nation occupied since 1894 when Japan began its expansion abroad. The United States, China, and Britain made a blurred agreement that Korea would become free and independent following the war. As the war progressed, United States officials began to pressure the Soviet Union to enter the war against Japan leading to another conference just a couple of years after the meeting in Cairo. The Yalta Conference of February 1945 was the second wartime meeting which consisted of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States. The purpose of the conference was to conclude with the agreements needed to ensure a future of progression during the war and during the post-war world. The Allied leaders arrived at Yalta with the awareness that an Allied victory in Europe was almost inevitable but were they were uncertain that the war with Japan would soon come to an end. Recognized that a victory over Japan might require an elongated fight, the United States and Great Britain
During this time, a tentative Korean government would be established in preparation for prepare for an independent Korea. The two nations, both the United States and the Soviet Union, agreed to form a joint United States-Soviet commission to assist in organizing one provisional Korean democratic government. The trusteeship proposal was immediately opposed by the majority of Korean people. Specifically the followers of Syngman Rhee who was using the issue to consolidate his domestic political base, was not in favor of the trusteeship