Koreans

Contemporary South Korean history has been marked by political turbulence. Current textbooks emphasize liberal events such as the April Revolution and Gwangju Democratization Movement . In comparison, they downplay the economic growth fostered by Park Chung-Hee and the legacy…

and noncommunist countries mainly the US and the Soviet controlled countries. The Korean War was to try to keep communism from spreading throughout all of Asia by first spreading through Korea and then after Korea through the other countries in Asia. In 1951 Chinese and Korean forces were pushed back to the 38th parallel and the war became a series of small battles. (textbook 772). Because of the Chinese and Korean forces were pushed back soldiers opportunity improved because they would be able…

Joseph McCarthy was born in 1908 in Appleton, Wisconsin. He attended school until he was fourteen but dropped out in eighth grade to help on the family farm as well as raise chickens. At the age of twenty, he decided to go back to school and in one year went through ninth to twelfth grades to graduate. He graduated with honors yet he told people he had higher grades than he actually earned. (Morgan 2003) Ted Morgan in Legal Affairs noted that McCarthy’s high school grades were below 90 due to…

As World War II comes to an end, so did one of the alliances held during it between the world’s new super powers, The United States and the Soviet Union. This marks the renewal of the great Red Scare as well as the start of the fight against the spread of communism, and at this time the United States was led by President Harry S. Truman. He would adopt his policy of Containment against the Soviet Union to try and just contain the communist threat to the USSR instead of making a war trying to…

was able to confirm that North Korea has the ability to launch Nukes at U.S. Additionally, during the annual military joint drill between South Korea and U.S. North Korea threatened to “Turn the stronghold of provocation into a heap of ashes through Korean-style preemptive strike if the US and south Korea show the slightest sign of aggression.” (Browne R., & Starr B. 2016) So as it seems now North Korea is sitting with their finger on the trigger ready to launch nukes at either the United States…

These two nuclear devices are the only two ever used in the context of war to date. Since the 1945 bombs, many nations have developed weaponized nuclear technologies and many nations have called for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Only the North Koreans have detonated a nuclear weapon in the 21st century. All nuclear weapons cause an initial blast, thermal radiation, electromagnetic pulse, residual radiation, and fallout. These effects lead to fire, radiation burns, over pressure, internal…

two Koreas. While North Korea has continued to persist its authoritarian rule and closed economy, South Korea was able to transform itself from a developmental state and eventually a democratic one with significant economic growth. Even though the Korean peninsula initially shared the same history and geography, it can be said that the difference between the two Koreas due to the different institutional trajectories (Acemoglu & Robinson, 2012). During the developmental state under the Park…

urban spatial structure in the 1930s when the city was under Japan’s rule. The city at the time resembled a capitalist city model which promoted commercial and industrial development. However, the city’s model completely transformed in 1953, after the Korean war. The Soviet Union introduced socialist ideals to North Korea and they were applied in the planning of Pyongyang. Many political and symbolic functions were incorporated into the reconstruction of the city. In addition, the first premier…

“the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all [...] nations under threat from external or internal authoring forces.” The Truman Doctrine is where we begin to see why the United States began to get involved in Korean affairs. According to the National Security Council, “the broad objectives of U.S. policy with respect to Korea are: to establish a united, self-governing [...] sovereign Korea.” This is what the United States states is their objectives in…

korea and vietnam greatly endangered many lives. Almost 100,000 people lost their lives in these conflicts. The Korean and Vietnam wars fall under a category called “Proxy Wars”. This means that these wars were a way for the United States and the Soviet Union to go to war with each other without really doing so. Because of these wars, many Americans lost their lives. Many innocent Korean and Vietnamese people lost their lives as well. Another way that people’s lives were degraded during the cold…