Monday
- Origins
- Korea was invaded and ruled by Japan from 1910 until 1945
- After WWII, Korea was split into two-north(USSR) and south(US at the 38th parallel
- An election was going to be held an election in 1948
- The United Nations held an election in 1948
- The Soviet Union refused to allow participation in the election in their occupied zone
- Instead, they handed over power to the North Korean Communist Party under Kim IL-Sung
- The South elected the nationalist exile Syngman Rhee
- War
- United States pulls out in January of 1950
- This encouraged North Korea to be aggressive
- Mao and Stalin didn't think it was a good idea
- Kim manipulated the other communist leaders and invaded anyway
- North invades the South in June 1950
- Pusan perimeter
- MacArthur invades north from Pusan and d-day style by Inchon
- Back and Forth over the 38th parallel
- United Nations Police Action
- United Nations Security Council voted to send troops to help South Korea
- US, Great Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union were permanent members that could veto the "police action"
- Why didn't the USSR and/or China veto this proposal?
- They weren't at the meeting
- MacArthur told him not to get China involved but he did the opposite
- Cease-fire was established on July 27, 1953 near the 38th parallel
- A demilitarized zone(DMZ) was established around it, which is still defended today by North Korean troops on one side and South Korean and American troops on the other
- No peace treaty has ever been signed
- All together about 2,000,000 people died
- It created the idea of a limited war
- Pyongyang(Capital of North Korea) was bombarded with more than one thousand bombs per square kilometer
- Kim Jong-Un
- Took office in 2011 after dad died
- Nuclear aggressiveness
- Killed his uncle in 2013
- "Deadly nuclear catastrophe" with US-January 2014
Tuesday- Work day
Wednesday- 50s presentation
Thursday- Work day
Friday- Gone
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