Korean war

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Korean war

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Index

• Research questions
• Under Japanese control
• Divided Korea
• Important people
• Quiz

Research questions

• What is the importance of the Korean war for the balance of power between the Soviet Union and the United States?
• How does our subject influence today’s day-to-day life?
• To what extent did the Japanese occupation influence Korea?

Under Japanese control

• Sino-Japanses war
• Individual Koren empire 1910
• Yi Pom-Sok

Divided Korea

• Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
•  Dean Rusk and Charles H Bonesteel III
• 38th parallel line as border
• First democratic election in 1948
• Kim-II Sung set up communist Korea
• 2 Koreas 1949
• Mao Zedong led the communist movement

Divided Korea

• June 25th, 1949 North Korea invades South Korea
• Clear differences between North and South Korea
• General Douglas MacArthur made a new plan
• President Truman tried to prevent the war
• General was fired on the 11th of April
• Peace talking Panmunjom July 1951

Important people

• Kim Hak-sun
• Mao Zedong
• General MacArthur
• President Truman
• Kim-il Sun
• Dean Rusk
• Syngnam Rhee

Until when was Korea under influence of China?

1. 1892
2. 1893
3. 1894
4. 1895

Which parallel line is the border between north and south?

1. 37th parallel line
2. 38th parallel line
3. 39th parallel line
4. 40th parallel line

Who was the first human rights activist who campaigned against sexual slavery?

1. Kim-il Sung
2. Mao Zedong
3. Dean Rusk
4. Kim Hak-sun

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