The quality and power of the KPA’s initial invasion resulted in its opponents being forced back to the southern tip of the Korean peninsula." 4.2. Tactics were based on Soviet doctrine which emphasized rapid advances spearheaded by armored and infantry assaults. KPA soldiers were well trained and equipped. Many North Korean soldiers were hardened veterans of the war against Japan and the Chinese Civil War. The North Korean People’s Army (KPA) was a conventional army equipped with Russian tanks, artillery and tactical aircraft. "In June 1950 North Korea launched 223,000 soldiers supported by 150 tanks across the border into South Korea. The Aggression escalated when the North Korean regime invaded the South Korean Republic in 1950Ĥ.1.1. 1950 North Korean Army pushes the South Korean government back to Pusan. Japan had to give up all it's imperial gains including a few islands, Taiwan, and Korea. Imperial Japan entered World War 2 on the Axis side, eventually all their allies got defeated, after the United States use the atomic bombs, Japan surrender in fear of Soviet invasion. This section of the essay summarizes briefly the imperialistic expansion of Japan during the period and the actions of the world's imperialist powers that influenced the course of Japan's actions." 3.3. "Japan forcefully acquired three major foreign territories between 18: Taiwan in 1895 after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5 Korea as a protectorate in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, then as a colony when unilaterally annexed by Japan in 1910 and the Kwantung Leased Territories in 1905 in southern Manchuria when Japan succeeded to Russia's leases after the Russo-Japanese War. These colonies were for economic gains as the new Industrial Japan needed raw materials. Social - All Koreans were discriminated in rights such as equality among citizens because the Japanese viewed them as inferior Economical/Political- Imperialism was starting to play in Japan, It formed a colony in Korea and other areas. 1910 Japan Annexes Korea as a consequence of the first Sino-Japanese War. Social - In South Korea, people had a democratic type of approach, they had the freedom of speech and could influence one another 3. Working on extremely short notice and completely unprepared, they used a National Geographic map to decide on the 38th parallel." 2.2. "On Augtwo young officers – Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel – were assigned to define an American occupation zone. 38th Parallel was agreed upon between the Soviets and the Americans 2.1.
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From 1948 until the start of the civil war on June 25, 1950, the armed forces of each side engaged in a series of bloody conflicts along the border." 2. "This division of Korea, after more than a millennium of being unified, was seen as controversial and temporary by both regimes. They didn't always agree upon on another on many things 1.1. Cold War Tensions 1945-1994 Korea was heavily influenced during this time by new forces, (USSR & USA).
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