May 5th, 2011

[7Lizz]

• Started off talking about our schedules for the coming weeks. Today and tomorrow shall be work days for our projects. Going over Korea blogs...
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• Also talking about the latest events. How we got info on Bin Laden, some pictures of Obama and his Defence council watching the Bin Laden incident go down.
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• North and South Korea Notes:
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• It's over by China, in that general area. Historically, it's been controlled by other countries... our stories begin with post ww2. After ww2, they split into North and South Korea. Split by the 38th parallel line. Why did they split? It was because the North had a more communistic gov't, and the South didn't like that much. Japan had control of Korea for a while. August 8th Soviet Union declared war on Japan.
• There was going to be an election to unite North and South Korea back into one, but it didn't happen. Neither side thought they could win, so it just didn't happen. In 1950, the communist North invaded the South. The started the Korean war - we supported the South and China supported the North. It was a minor war for Korea, but a lot of deaths. North did very well at first, getting way to the south of South Korea. We weren't there when the South gets invaded, then the UN came and waged war. (League of Nations) 90% of all UN forces were US. 
•  So we (UN), start invading North Korea and pushing up into China, so China gets upset and starts pushing us back down. And it kept going back and forth, eventually stopping at the 38th Parallel Line.
• Offically, there is still a war going on... as there was NO peace treaty signed. However, they weren't fighting.