Revision Notes: Korean War KOREAN WAR North Korea [Communist] invaded South Korea [Capitalist]. Causes [memory word: DUCKS] Domino theory - Truman thought that Far Eastern countries would fall like dominoes. China became Communist in 1949. Truman feared Japan would follow. He felt he had to stop this. Undermine Communism - - NSC 68 (April 1950) recommended that the US abandon ’containment’ and start to ’roll back’ Communism. Cold War - Truman and
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Why did different governments get involved? What were they fighting for? The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea‚ which involved a lot of International support on both sides. Where the United Nations force led by the United Sates of America fought for the South‚ and China and the Soviet Union fought for the North. What started out as a civil war between the North and South soon became a global contest between the superpowers of America and the Soviet Union being the first battle
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In the early 19th century‚ Koreans came to the United States seeking freedom from Japanese rule and to maintain their Korean cultural identity. Like many other minorities‚ Korean immigrants experienced racial discrimination in the past and they also experience discrimination today. The Alien Land Act of 1913 was passed to prevent non-naturalized Koreans from owning property and limited leases in California. They were often turned away by Caucasian landlords when they were attempting to find housing
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The Korean War took place between the years of 1950 and 1953. The cause of the war was that Korea was under Japanese rule ever since the end of the Chinese-Japanese war in 1895. After World War II‚ in 1945‚ Korea was freed from Japan. The United States troops occupied the southern part of the country and Russian forces took the north. The very first and main reason we entered the war in Korea was because John Foster Dulles‚ the future Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower‚ said that
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the first Korean music video that got 100 million views on YouTube. The Korean singer/rapper Psy then became an international star that reached the number two spot on the American Billboard Charts and number one on the Chinese music charts. He was even invited on the Ellen Show to perform his dance next to Britney Spears and Ellen Degeneres herself. These are prove that the Korean Wave (or Hallyu in Korea) is gaining more recognition not only in Asia‚ but also the world. With Korean culture in
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Medium: Korean Writing and Script‚ a comparison. Korean writing and scripts was said to be one of the remarkably unique writing system and language in the world apart from the Chinese and Japanese scripts. The sources of the origin of the script were lost at an early date in Korea and thus resulting to the variety of conflicting theories which had risen among the Korean and Western scholars. It was established during Joseon Dynasty by The Great King Sejong and was completed in December 1443
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the path of learning. Korean language and culture is indeed a treasury of wisdom‚ which combines the principles of Asian ancient philosophy with modern perspective on daily life. I would like to draw my attention on the studies of Korean language and culture in order to convey this knowledge to the speakers of other languages‚ facilitate the globalization of Korean education‚ aim multi-cultural Korean society‚ and to be able to design creative and flexible understanding of Korean culture. Since I started
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listening to Korean musics watching Korean dramas. In statistic‚ since 2009‚ there is a dramatically increased in the d more people are listening to Korean music. College students are not studying foreign languages as much as they were. Starting in 2009‚ there was a decreasing of seven percent of the college students stop taking foreign language classes. However‚ there are more college students are taking Korean. There was an increasing of forty-five percent of college students are taking Korean language
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"To what extent can the Korean War be regarded as a Cold War proxy war?" The Cold War was the continuing state of political conflict‚ military tension‚ proxy wars‚ and economic competition existing after World War II between the Communist World – primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies – and the powers of the Western world‚ primarily the United States and its allies. The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea‚ supported by the United Nations‚ and
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Korean civilization and Mayans civilizations were very different. First of all‚ they are located in the opposite side of the world. Secondly Koreans belongs to Asian society and Mayans to Central and South Americans. They eat different kind of food‚ and live in different environment/government system. Koreans are the people who have long history. People say that ancient Korean originated from Mongolia‚ as the time went on‚ people from a little villages started to movie down. As they grew bigger
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