Syngman Rhee

Nations. In a result, on May 10, 1948 the South elected Syngman Rhee as president establishing the Republic of Korea. North Korea on the other hand elected Kim II-Sung as prime minister, thus declared the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. As a result this created North Korea permanently communist and South Korea pro-western state which made two separate states to establish (Richards,…

into two totally different countries, it made a significant role for people start to recognize the country not as a whole. As a country of democracy, USA tried to increase the democratic ideas in the South Korea by accepting the leader such as Syngman Rhee; however, Russia differentiated its strategy to develop North Korea in order to promote the communism. “The North followed a plan that differed dramatically from what was happening in the South”; especially, “in the North, a thorough land…

EASIA 270: The May 18th 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising The Gwangju Uprising, also referred to as the Gwangju democratization movement,the Gwangju democratic uprising, the Gwangju people’s uprising, 5.18, and 5.18 Democratic uprising is a very detrimental and destructive, yet widely unknown event due to the extensive measures taken by South Korean government and military to ensure it stayed unknown. The uprising occurred in the city of Gwangju which resides in the South part of the…

The war that raged in Korea between 1950 and 1953 did not begin as a huge international conflict during the Cold War, but would eventually become that once the United States and other countries decided to get involved in the Korean Civil War (Office of the Historian). Korea, throughout its history, was owned by other countries. From 1910 until the end of World War II, Japan had control and influence of Korea as a whole. Because Japan was on the losing side of World War II, the future of Korea…

authoritarian Communist regime. Meanwhile, in the South, Korean exile Syngman Rhee—who had spent much of his life living in the United States—established his own administration, no less authoritarian than Kim 's but ferociously anticommunist and backed by the Americans. The newly formed United Nations tried to resolve the issue by creating , it was rejected by the Soviets and they refused to entertain the idea of it. As a result, Syngman Rhee a man who was widely unpopular won the election in…

could use it to bring in supplies and keep the North Korean forces from using it. They battled the North Koreans and then the U. N. forces entered and secured Seoul. By the end of September 1950, MacArthur was able to return Seoul to President Syngman Rhee of South Korea. Unfortunately, the battle persisted and it took several years for the two sides to come to an agreement while the Korean War continued (Rice 71, About.com). MacArthur’s plan for the invasion at Inchon was one of the greatest…

At the end of world war two for the first time in 35 years Korea was free of Japanese occupation. Due to the agreements that the Soviet Union signed with America to join the pacific war against Japan the Soviet army stopped at the 38th parallel and the country was split into two, the Soviet Union controlled the North and the Americans controlled the south. With the fall of Fascism and the rise of communism across Europe, the United States and the USSR both strived to prove the superiority of…

The USSR and US did not fight directly during the Cold War. With both sides trying to be ahead of one another they furiously worked away at gaining their intellect on nuclear power. No one was too sure if civilization would survive a nuclear war and World War 3 was feared. They called this stalemate the balance of terror. However, no one ended up fighting because they knew mankind would most likely be lost if done. Both the US and Soviets armed different sides to block each other’s strategy’s.…

“…adopted a presidential system that failed to provide sufficient checks and balances in relation to the presidency” (Yeh 912). These initial failures to create a balanced and limited presidency, which eventually led to the removal of term limits by Syngman Rhee. These actions provided the means for future Korean dictators,…

Korea along the 38th parallel. In 1949, Russia left North Korea with a communist government and not very long after, Americans left too leaving Syngman Rhee in charge. North Korea, seeing the opportunity, invaded anticommunist South Korea and the Soviet Union and China supported the offensive later. The United States managed to get U.N. assistance to Rhee against the invasion; it was easier without Soviets veto power in the Security Council. General MacArthur was appointed to command U.N. forces…