This different stance argues that the Korean War was more of a Korean civil war, which has its roots in circumstances on the Korean Peninsula that began at least five years before the official dates that the conflict began. ... These Koreans began to strike out against the Japanese through guerilla warfare and peasant uprisings, the beginnings of strong feelings of anti-colonialism and fierce nationalism amongst the majority of the Korean people. ... Kim Il Sung came into power during this period, utilizing the influence that he obtained while he was a general during the anti-colonial gueril...

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The Korean Religious Heritage Korea's religious heritage has contributed to the teaching of the Unification Church. Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. ... Furthermore, shamanism emphasized Korea's unique role in history. ... One should therefore not overlook the religious dimension of Korean nationalism. ... Monks and nuns became a normal feature of Korean society. ...

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United States plays a crucial role for war-devastated Korea in the 1950s. ... Even nationalism played a crucial role in Korea's economic development. It functioned as popular ideology of popular mobilization and legitimacy during the hardships and social disruption of rapid economic growth (Eckert et al., 1990, p. 406). ... The Vietnam War provided economic opportunity at the right time. ... Another was the construction boom in the Middle East, which came just as the Vietnam War winding down (Eckert et al., 1990, p. 411). ...

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During the twentieth century, conclusions of wars created the conditions for subsequent wars. ... Even though Germany lost the war, the German people's sense of nationalism was still alive and sections of the Treaty, such as Article 231 (the War Guilt Clause), fueled German anger. ... During WWII, the US and USSR were forced to band together to defeat their common enemy, Hitler. ... Issues such as the Polish Question, spheres of influence, the Berlin Blockade/Airlift, NATO and the Marshall Plan, which were ultimately about communism vs. democracy, lead to military conflicts such as the Ko...

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Others say that the Cold War did not arise until the end of World War Two. ... LaFeber, however, states that, that conflict did not begin in 1945 or even with the communist victory in Russia during 1917. ... Her argument for this is that the tensions between the alliance of Britain, America and the USSR during World War Two were evident before the end of the war. ... There was also political conflict between North and South Korea when North Korea attacked South Korea in 1950. ... Since gaining their independence from Britain, America has relied heavily on nationalism and idealism in l...

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The U.S. entered into the war on South Korea's side and this action brought China into the war. ... During the war, the north pushed deep into South Korea but the south managed to push them out and up into North Korea. ... North Korea Korea was told during WWII that when Japan was defeated, they would be independent. ... During the Korean War, North Korea may have used nuclear weapons on the south, if they had them. ... During the Korean War, the U.S. fought on the side of South Korea and China was on North Korea's side. ...

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In answering the question "In what ways was the concept of American Exceptionalism evident in the Cold War during the years 1947-1961?" I intend to start by looking at the root of the idea and how its history manages to evoke passionate responses of American Nationalism in the transition period between the end of World War One and the Cold War. ... I shall then move onto the Cold War itself, identifying the use of exceptionalism in three key areas; warfare (with specific focus on the Korean War), an ideological persuasion of weak nations (particularly the vulnerable west Germany) and...

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Rather an incorrect study of the Vietnam situation: wrongly identifying it with the previous Korean dilemma and the overall attitudes of indiscriminate fear of any communist movement, regardless of circumstances, prevailed over American foreign policy and helped begin an ill-advised escalation of American involvement into the Vietnamese civil war. ... Because American policy prioritized anti-communism over sympathy for nationalism, this created a dangerously erroneous view that the conflict was simply another incident of communist aggression that had to be contained at all costs, like Korea. ...

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Rather an incorrect analysis of the Vietnam situation: inaccurately identifying it with the previous Korean quagmire and the overall attitudes of indiscriminate fear of any communist movement, regardless of circumstances, prevailed over American foreign policy and helped begin an ill-advised escalation of American involvement into the Vietnamese civil war. ... William Fulbright discusses the reasons for American involvement in Vietnam as stemming significantly from previous American experiences, namely Korea and McCarthyism. ... Because American policy prioritized anti-communism over sympathy ...

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During this period, the Social Democrats split into two factions, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin, and the Mensheviks. ... This touched off the "Great Terror," a period during which Stalin had all of his enemies, real and imagined, put to death or shipped off to Siberian prisons. ... Even during the war, he made inflexible demands of his new allies, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States. ... The Cold War had begun. ... He gave Kim Il Sung of North Korea the go-ahead to start the Korean War in 1950, and launched a new ...

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Is War Necessary? ... It was the British who instigated and prolonged the war. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ... During this time a surge of democratic reform swept the North and West. ... On the other hand the film All is Quiet on the Western Front stars Lew Ayres as the young Paul Bauman, who, along with a group of his teenaged classmates, are conscripted into the German army during WWI. ...

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Is War Necessary? ... It was the British who instigated and prolonged the war. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ... During this time a surge of democratic reform swept the North and West. ... On the other hand the film All is Quiet on the Western Front stars Lew Ayres as the young Paul Bauman, who, along with a group of his teenaged classmates, are conscripted into the German army during WWI. ...

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The crisis also highlighted the Cold War climate engulfing the globe. ... Nasser was aware that he was a pawn in a war of far greater proportions and therefore emphasized the Cold War aspect in this imperial, regional crisis. ... Furthermore it is a prime example of Cold war behaviors and politics in order to gain geographic and cultural alliance, just as it was seen in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. ... The speed and organisation against Egyptian forces during the Suez War saw Israel crowned militarily dominant within the region. ... Arab nationalism grew and with it the anti-western att...

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In light of these historical developments, I will examine the social biography of the Korean-Protestant people. ... " The rally that took place in Pagoda Park lighted the fuse of nationalism of the people who subsequently staged numerous demonstrations elsewhere. ... Regarding figures in incarceration, out of 19,525 prisoners, the Korean-Protestant people numbered 3,373 and the Chondogoyans 2,297. ... Out of 16,000,000 Koreans, only 20,000 (1.3-1.5%) were the Korean-Protestant people. ... The Korean term minjung refers to people who are poor, oppressed, and deprived (Kim, p. 251; Kwon, 2010, p...

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His attempt to fit in has become a defining trait of his character, forcing him to reconcile his ideals of nationalism and selfless heroism with the apathetic and individualistic attitudes of contemporary American culture. ... During the Captain's time as a stage performer in the film, a comic book series was printed to promote him and the war effort to younger audiences, the same comic issue as the physical 1941 #1 publication. ... In the time of publication, the comic took place in contemporary times during America's entry in the European theater of war. ... The war effort was see...

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But after World War II, many Communist-led political parties in the Soviet sphere of influence still used the designation socialist in their names. ... (Colton 2002) The worsening condition of the proletariat and the class war predicted by Marx had not come about. ...

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In Japan, industrial policy is a reflection of economic nationalism. ... Nationalism may mean these things, but it is equally possible that free trade will be in the national interest during particular periods as it was for Japan from the 1970's onwards. ... It was during this time that the themes of modern Japanese industrial policy emerge. ... With the start of the Korean War in 1950, the US began to place orders for Japanese firms for necessary equipment and materials, thereby alleviating the 'stabilisation' crisis. ... Monetary expansion during the Korean War also led to gre...

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During the war, the British used new and improved machinery to thrash the ports of China. ... During this time, Japan was progressing promptly. ... This ended horribly causing Japan to accumulate the Liaotuny Peninsula, Taiwan, and Korea. ... Antiforeign feelings erupted during the Boxer Uprising in 1899. ... In the 1900's, nationalism began to spread and reformers wanted to strengthen the Chinese government. ...

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This task would be especially difficult with the interruption presented by World War II. ... Standard of living was nowhere near the quality of the in Western nations, but it had risen appreciably since World War II. ... Upsurges of nationalism among the Soviet Republics challenged the legitimacy of the Soviet ideologies. ...

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Within the past decade we have sent American military personnel to Somalia to protect United Nations" troops conducting a humanitarian operation to relieve the famine resulting from the civil war in that Country. ... Within the past few weeks the United States has diplomatically confronted North Korea after North Korea admitted that it has nuclear capabilities and has no intentions of disbanding the same. ... Resulting would be dividing American foreign relations into cycles of "relatively pacific feeling," followed by "rising bellicosity and war," followed by "postwar nationalism," and then...

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People should consider each other's emotions during interactions as we are a "continent" that is a combination of many small "islands." ... Asia countries such as China, Japan and Korea have a rich collective history over about four thousands years, and the feeling of nationalism is shared among the Asians. On the other side, Individualism is one of the most significant parts of American culture due to the War for Independence, which advocated the idea of independent thinking. ...

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The origins of the Cold War can be traced to conclusion of World War II and the disagreements between the USSR and the Western Powers. ... The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World War II. ... Events before, and after the war, as well as conflicting ideologies and the U.S. military involvement in Japan as well as the prevailing military reality resulted in the inability of the Great Powers to solve those conflicts and led to the Cold War. ... Western allies during the First World War sent in arms and troops to support the White army to de...

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In 1917, after a series of halfhearted reform measures and disastrous mismanagement of the war effort, the antiquated mechanism of czarist rule simply disintegrated and was swept away. ... The task was ambitious, the obstacles were formidable, and there was no time to waste-particularly after the disastrous interruption of World War II. ... The living standard, although still low in comparison with that of Western countries, had risen appreciably since World War II. ... An upsurge of nationalism within the Soviet republics, coupled with resentment of decades of economic scarcity and arbitrary ...

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During the years 1958 to 1961, Mao's leadership drastically faltered. ... As a commander of the Chinese forces, Peng rallied his forces during the Korean War in 1950. ... While he was a key figure in the Korean War, Peng Dehui was also a notable commander of the Long March. ... During this meeting, Peng criticized the Great Leap's major problems. ... During the preceding Ming dynasty, specific social, economic and political problems plagued Chinese society. ...

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The islands were eventually abandoned due to the onset of the second Sino-Japanese war in 1937, and have remained uninhabited since (McDevitt, 2014). ... Furthermore, China declares that Japan's 1985 terra nullius claim to the Senkaku islands was conveniently during China's "century of humiliation," a time when China did not possess the power to object (McDevitt, 2014). After World War II, all territory under the Treaty of Shimonoseki was transferred to the Treaty of San Francisco, giving control to American forces. ... The war torn history of Japan and China is a ...

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