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Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
The First Sino-Japanese War was fought between Qing China and Meiji Japan over the control of Korea,which was a Chinese tribute state . Many foreign observers expected China to win. While China had modernized somewhat under the Self Strengthening Movement, it could not match the rapid progress made in Japan under the Meiji Restoration.
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Japan makes Korea a Protectorate
The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, also known as the Eulsa Treaty or Japan–Korea Protectorate Treaty, was made between the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire in 1905. The treaty deprived Korea of its diplomatic sovereignty and made Korea a protectorate of Japan.
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Treaty of portsmouth
This treaty was one of the most famous peace treaty's in history.It ended the Russo-japenese war and started a emergence of a whole dipilatic negaotions.
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Japan Makes Korea a formal colony
Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945) was a deeply ambivalent experience for Koreans. On the one hand, Japanese colonialism was often quite harsh. For the first ten years Japan ruled directly through the military, and any Korean dissent was ruthless
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Japanese take some of Russia's territory
A dispute between Japan and Russia and also some individuals of the Ainu people over sovereignty of the South Kuril Islands. The disputed islands, which were annexed by Soviet forces during the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation at the end of World War II
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Japanese army occupies Chinese Manchuria
Japan was becoming increasingly crowded due to its limited size as a nation and its rapidly increasing population. Manchuria offered nearly 200,000 square kilometres which, as part of a Japanese empire, would easily accommodate any over-spilling
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Japan declares war on China
The Japan-China War started in July 1937 when the Japanese claimed that they were fired on by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing. Using this as an excuse, the Japanese launched a full-scale invasion of China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops.
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Roosevelt Dies
While on a vacation in Warm Springs, Georgia, President Roosevelt suffers a stroke and dies. His death marked a critical turning point in U.S. relations with the Soviet Union, as his successor, Harry S. Truman, decided to take a tougher stance with the Russians
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Japan surrenders when atomic bombs are dropped
By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. At the end of June, the Americans captured Okinawa, a Japanese island from which the Allies could launch an invasion of the main Japanese home islands.
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Korean Election Day
The U.N. General Assembly resolved that the Korean people would elect one national assembly for the whole country. South Koreans participated in a U.N.-supervised election in May 1948 that selected members of the National Assembly. The northern half of Korea held separate elections in the fall of 1948, making KIng II Sung president
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Korean Aid Bill fails to pass
In January 1950, when aid to South Korea was up for renewal the US House defeated the bill, thereby cutting off all aid to South Korea. The fate of Korean aid had become intertwined with the desire by many Americans to get on with the business of their own lives.
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NATO Pact signed
Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union began to deteriorate rapidly in 1948. There were heated disagreements over the postwar status of Germany. In June 1948, the Soviets blocked all ground travel to the American occupation zone in West Berlin, and only a massive U.S. airlift of food and other necessities sustained the population of the zone.
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Soviets test their first atomic bomb
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb. They also placed animals in cages nearby so that they could test the effects of nuclear radiation on human-like mammals.
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Stalin gave Kim permission to invade the South under the condition that Mao would agree to send reinforcements
Stalin made it clear that Soviet forces would not openly engage in combat, to avoid a direct war with the Americans.[92] Kim met with Mao in May 1950. Mao was concerned that the Americans would intervene but agreed to support the North Korean invasion. China desperately needed the economic and military aid
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North Korean Tanks reach the outskirts of seoul
Early in the morning of June 25, 1950, the armed forces of Communist North Korea smashed across the 38th parallel of latitude in an invasion of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) that achieved complete surprise. Although attacks came all along the border, the major North Korean thrust was in the west of the
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US announces in UN its goal of a unified anti-Communist Korea
The us is planning to control Korea making it not comunist.
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US planes accidentally attack Manchurian airfield
Koreas military and civil defenses were unable to stop the Allied attacks. The number of fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft guns assigned to defensive duties in the home islands was inadequate, and most of these aircraft and guns had difficulty reaching the high altitudes where B-29s often operated.
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US forces occupy Pyongyang
U.S. troops land in Korea to begin their postwar occupation of the southern part of that nation, almost exactly one month after Soviet troops had entered northern Korea to begin their own occupation. Although the U.S. and Soviet occupations were supposed to be temporary, the division of Korea quickly became permanent.
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MacArthur orders his troops into korea's northernmost province
MacArthur made his droops go into the northernmost province because he wanted to control them. This played a big role in the Korean War because it gave advantage to the US in that part of korea.
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authorization to go ahead with planned bombing in Korea
The United States bombs the Yula Power plant and destroys any bridges or dams in sight
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Truman admits US may be considering using an Atomic Bomb
President Harry S. Truman announces during a press conference that he is prepared to authorize the use of atomic weapons in order to achieve peace in Korea. At the time of Truman’s announcement, communist China had joined North Korean forces in their attacks on United Nations troops, including U.S. soldiers, who were trying to prevent communist expansion into South Korea.
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Truman declares a state of national emergency
President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency. Proclaiming that “Communist imperialism” threatened the world’s people, Truman called upon the American people to help construct an “arsenal of freedom.”
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Operation Killer begun.
General Ridgway, our best fighting general in the Korean War, concluded from Recon that the enemy assault forces were withdrawing to refit before continuing their assault. This was consistent with previous enemy needs to re-stage after about a week of combat. Ridgway Eighth Army should immediately counter-attack to deny the enemy any rest and drive them from their forward positions in Operation Killer.
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MacArthur unilaterally issues an ultimatum to the People's Republic of China.
Macarthur moved his troops into china and threatened to destroy it unless it surrendered.
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Operation Rugged.
In contrast to the evidence of the enemy's logistical readiness and the opening dates reported by captives, air observers and agents had reported enemy forces to be developing and in some areas occupying fortified positions along and immediately above the 38th parallel.observed at the start of the RUGGED operation.
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Congress endorses NATO, sends Eisenhower to head unified NATO command
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization had to make this change because the origional person was not getting the job done
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Eisenhower secretly goes to Korea on fact-finding mission
Eisenhower wanted to find additional information about korea. He went in as a spy and got a lot of good information.
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Eisenhower replaces the frustrated Van Fleet with Lt. Gen. Maxwell Taylor.
Van Fleet was sent to Korea in April 1951, to command the American Eighth Army as the replacement for General Matthew B. Ridgway, who had succeeded General Douglas MacArthur as Far East commander. The Eighth Army was more or less straddling the 38th Parallel.
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Communists attack "Pork Chop Hill"
The Battle of Pork Chop Hill comprises a pair of related Korean War infantry battles during the spring and summer of 1953. These were fought while the U.S. and the Communist Chinese and Koreans negotiated an armistice. In the U.S., they were controversial because of the many soldiers killed for terrain of no strategic or tactical value.
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Peace treaty signed at Panmunjom
Delegates reach agreement at Panmunjom about seizing gunfire reset the boundary between communist North and anti-communist South. Cold War tensions continue unabated. Gen. Mark W. Clark says he has "the unenviable distinction of being the first US Army commander to sign an armistice without victory."
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