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HST303 L11 Korea
China, Japan & East Asia in World History - Lecture 11: Korea
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During WWII, a _____ _____ trusteeship of Korea was discussed. Roosevelt even discussed it with Stalin at the ?Yalta? conference. | Four Power |
| When Japan surrendered _____ than many had anticipated, the U.S. was unprepared--the U.S. troops were spread too thin--for _____ action in Korea. | sooner; immediate |
| _____ troops entered the Korean peninsula on August 9, 1945, even before the Japanese surrender on the 15th. | Soviet |
| The U.S. occupation forces did not arrive in Korea until over a _____ after Soviet troops. | month |
| Worried that the Soviets would use their timing advantage to overrun the entire peninsula, Washington arranged a _____ _____. | joint partition |
| The Pentagon decided on the ____ _____ for the joint partition. | 38th parallel |
| The 38th parallel was not a pre-existing _____ or _____ line of division. | cultural; geographical |
| Most of the Korean _____ had been Japanese collaborators. | elite |
| In Southern Korea, American forces tried to find leaders who would be _____-_____. | anti-communist |
| Most of the leaders Americans found were Korean _____ who had escaped into exile when the Japanese took over. | nationalists |
| The negotiation of a _____ with the Soviet Union soon failed. | trusteeship |
| The U.S. appealed to the U.N., and in May 1948, the U.N. supervised the first general, democratic _____ in Korea, but it was only held in the southern part. | election |
| The Korean National Assembly elected _____ _____, who had lived in exile in the U.S. for 35 years, as president. | Syngman Rhee |
| On August 15, 1948, the _____ _____ _____ (South Korea) was established. | Republic of Korea |
| On September 9th, the _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ (North Korea) was established. | Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
| North Korea was ruled by _____ _____ _____, who had been in exile in the Soviet Union for many years. | Kim Il-Sung |
| By ____, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union had actually withdrawn their troops from Korea and left their established presidents of the north and south in place to fend for themselves. | 1949 |
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