Historically, China and Japan always attacked Korea due to its location, however, because China was not always harsh to the Koreans, and China was its role model, the Koreans remained "loyal" to the Chinese. ... Finally, when they stopped laughing, one of the Korean historians replied by saying "Japanese Waenom's history started 200 years after the Korean's history. ... The Japanese Educational Board had accepted Japanese history books which the Asian Historian Committee denied. The History book, which was distributed all across Japanese High schools, had about 75 mistakes, which wer...

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According to Mandlebaum, the fate of the region has "for the last two centuries" depended "on the fate of three major powers--China, Japan and Russia, on the stability and tranquillity of their mutual relations." ... The most obvious and famous of the triangles linked the Soviet Union, China and the United States, but the Soviet-US- Japan triangle was also important. ... First, China's centrality: China figures in nearly all of the triangles, not even the US affected Soviet policy to this degree. ... Through the 1960s, there were 4 main triangles in the Asian political arena: Soviet Union...

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Orders to MacArthur by Truman told him to halt proceeding at the first sign of Chinese soldiers. ... Sightings of Chinese soldiers became more and more frequent, and Chinese POWs were taken. ... The Chinese soldiers were sent to guard against invasion, as they feared the US planned to extend their movement into China. ... On the field, US troops were involved in the longest retreat in US history, 120 miles from the Yale river to south of the 38th parallel in less than 1 and a half weeks. ... The tolls for the US were 50,000 soldiers, and the tolls for China was hundreds of thousands. ...

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History cannot be looked at trough White and Black glasses. ... Cuba and China aided Congolese rebels. ... North Vietnam has been backed by Soviet Union and China. ... "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. ... Introductory Essay to Vietnam: A Television History. ...

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Communist Russia and China were strong supporters of the North, and to keep Communism contained the United States sent troops to the South. ... They threatened to bomb China and to use atomic bombs on Korea. ... For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea. ... China lost 967,000, and North Korea lost 624,000. ... Every member supported American arms for the first time, and possibly only time in its short history. ...

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BACKGROUND History and Structure of the Alliance Though it has had its political ups and downs, South Korea has been an ally of the American government since the end of the Korean War. ... Korea also shares a history of tributary relations with China in the years before the Japanese occupation of Korea. This history might play a role in the future of the relationship if the US lessens it role in the alliance. ... The most salient option for a partner is China. ... Reunification of the peninsula would occur under Chinese logic. ...

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The USSR then claimed that helping South Korea was illegal because the USSR and the People's Republic of China were not present during the voting. ... These warnings by the Chinese were ignored and on November 28, 1950 so called Chinese "volunteers" (the Chinese called their soldiers volunteers in hopes that it would not seem as if they were "officially" declaring war) made mass attacks sending the UN army back to the 38th parallel. It was the worst retreat in U.S. history. General MacArthur, however, still wanted to be aggressive against the Chinese. ... The Eisenhower administration dec...

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Furthermore, shamanism emphasized Korea's unique role in history. ... Fourthly, Confucians looked forward to the final goal of history. ... Whereas Asians deny that history has meaning or purpose, the Biblical view is that history has a goal, we are told. Oriental philosophy of history is cyclical and therefore pessimistic while Western philosophy of history is linear and optimistic. However, Confucianism holds a very purposive interpretation of history. ...

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The actual history dates back somewhere from 7000 to 3000 B.C. ... Until this time, Koreans used the Chinese script. ... The UN forces, composed largely of American troops, pushed the North Koreans back near the Chinese border. China, fearing that the UN forces would not stop gaining ground at the Korean border decided to join in on the side of North Korea. ... It is one of the bloodiest wars in history. ...

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Hence, socioeconomic development which includes changes in mind-sets and lifestyle choices have contributed heavily to the success of China's birth rate decline. ... A detailed analysis of the causes that contributed to changes in fertility in Rwanda, could be the side effects of the 1990s in which on record as being the black page in Rwanda's recent history, marked by civil war, genocide, mass movements of refugees, and economic deterioration. ...

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Doner, Ritchie, and Slater are claiming that through these weaknesses, developing countries are pushing themselves to their limits to catch up to the superpowers or even surpass them (as in the case of China's very feasible status as a future superpower, even greater than the United States). ... South Korea has been a pro-Western nation, embracing many aspects about American political ideologies; also, South Korea followed many aspects of Chinese education system. ... First, globalization removes borders drawn by history, ethnicity, religion and language when different people with differe...

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Although China is emerging as a rival nation, the U.S. is still the Pax Americana with its strong military, economy, vast land, and centralized language. ... Many sports teams, for example, use the term Native American, without educating what true meaning or the history of Native Americans mean. ... We teach and commemorate the Civil rights movement and racial discrimination, and I believe the history of the Native Americans should be emphasized as just as important piece of history. ...

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Throughout its history, Korea has been repeatedly devastated by powers such as Japan, China, and Mongolia. ... North Koreans, according to "A Panorama of 5000 Years: Korean History", have very little knowledge of the outside world. ...

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Previous generations were required to learn the basics: reading, writing, math, science, and history. ... In the same test, students from Shanghai, China, received higher scores than any other school system in the world (Hechinger 1). ...

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Chapter 1: Introduction While PSY's viral sensation Gangnam Style may have opened the floodgates of K-pop to mainstream consciousness worldwide, it is not indicative of the phenomenon itself by any means. Yes, it possesses the synthesizer and bassline driven electro-pop sound that K-pop is known for. It also possesses a "point dance," an extremely recognisable piece of choreography that becomes attached to a K-pop song by the consuming public, in the form of the "horse riding dance." Despite these ingredients, this dissertation would argue that PSY does not represent ...

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Ongoing global economic growth, coupled with the fact that the best performers tend to be particularly open to globalized forms of production (such as India and China for example), suggests that the spread of wealth is inherently linked to globalization. ... However, the Chinese had developed better and more sophisticated technology much earlier but did not choose to use it to promote economic expansion. ...

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