final exam

• Closed Door Policy/Sakoku


  Policy of isolationism
• Heungseon Daewongun

  Pursued a policy of isolationism and traditionalism in Korea
• Served as the regent of Korea (1828-1898)


  Heungseon Daewongun
• Shinmiyangyo


  France's attempt to establish diplomatic relations and support Catholic missionary activities in East Asia
• Ganghwa Treaty of 1876

  Forced negotiation that marked the beginning of Japan's control of Korea
• late 19th century Korea

  increasing foreign pressure, diplomatic struggles, opening of its ports to trade
• Imo mutiny


  Launched by Korean soldiers and civillians attacking Min clan's govt and staff of Japanese legation
• Japan


  exerted pressure on Korea to open its doors to trade and diplomatic relations
• Joseon Dynasty Year

  1393-1910
• Yi Seong-gye


  established Joseon Dynasty, took power in a coup in 1388
• French Catholic Priests


  first western missionaries who entered Korea
• 19th century Christianity


  challenged the Confucian hierarchy
• Martyrs of Korea (March 8, 1866)


  Execution of 7 French Catholic missionaries in Korea including Bishop Siméon-François Berneux
• Government measures to suppress Christianity

  persecution of Christians and missionaries
• Shinmiyangyo (1866)


  Led by Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze in island of Ganghwa for 6 weeks to assert French presence
• French Asiatic Fleet


  Dispatched as a result of persecution of Christian missionaries with the aim of pressuring the  Korean government to provide greater protection to French missionaries and to negotiate a treaty
• General Sherman Incident (1866)


  marked the beginning of American relations with Korea
• William H. Seward


  proposed the sending of a joint France-American punitive expedition, although it was turned down by France because of its preoccupation with more pressing international problems
• Ganghwa Treaty (1876)


  led by Inoue Kaoru
• Ganghwa Treaty signing

  at Ganghwa Island on February 26, 1876
• Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation


  Admitted to trade in the three ports which already opened to the Japanese: Chemulpo, Wonsan and Gunsan.
• Eulsa Treaty/ The Protectorate Treaty(November 17, 1905)


  made Korea a protectorate of Japan, giving Japan control over Korea's foreign affairs, also allowing stationing of Japanese troops in Korea
• Treaty of Chemulpo (August 30, 1882)


  let Japanese troops stationed in Hanseong for protection
• Treaty of Annexation between Korea and Japan (August 22, 1910)


  formally annexed Korea into the Japanese Empire.
• Surrender of Japan

  September 2, 1945
• Comfort women is known in Japanese as

  Ianfu
• Comfort Women is known in Korea as

  Wianbu
• Comfort Women


  women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories
• Military Conscription (May 9, 1942)


  Japanese colonial government of Korea announced that beginning in December 1944 Korean men would be drafted into the Japanese military.
• March 1st Independence Movement/Samil Movement (March 1, 1919)

  Massive, nonviolent protest against Japanese colonial rule since the Korean peninsula's fate was to be determined at the Paris Peace Conference without Korean representation
• First Governor-General of Chōsen

  Terauchi Masatake
• The 38th Parallel


  line separating the two occupation zones of Korea
• Decided the 38th Parallel

  Colonel Dean Rusk and Colonel Charles Bonesteel
• Where the 38th Parallel was formalized

  General Order No. 1
• General Order No. 1


   outlined America’s directives for governing Japan following the war
• Purpose of Korea's divide

   US hoped to keep the entire peninsula from falling to the Soviets
• Proposed Korea be placed under UN trusteeship for 40 years until Koreans were ready for independence

  Franklin Roosevelt in Cairo Conference
• People's Committee in Seoul


  Ad hoc groups of prominent local citizens of all political views who were interested in creating an independent Korea
• Korean People’s Republic


  short-lived provisional government that was organized at the time of the surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of World War II
• Cho Man-Sik


  Opposed the UN trusteeship