Teaching East Asia: Korea Teaching East Asia: Korea | Page 27

1500
1600
1700
1800
1900
Korea
Hideyoshi Invasions
Manchu Invasion
Sirhak scholars
China
Qing Dynasty
Japan
Momoyama
Tokugawa Pd.
Other Civilizations
Martin Luther
Thirty Years’ War
American Revolution
-Western Learning
-Opium War
-Perry opens Japan
Kanghwa Treaty (1876) -Taiping Rebellion
-Meiji Restoration American Civil War
-Shufeldt Treaty (1882)
-Japan defeats China
-Tonghak Rebellion (1894)
-Kabo Reforms (1894-1896)
-Independence Club (1896)
-Taft-Katsura Treaty
(1905)
Boxer Rebellion
-Russo-Japanese War
Annexation by Japan (1910)
Qing ends 1912
March First
Movement (1919)
Rule of Korea
World War I
(1910-1945)
Twenty-One
Demands
Fourteen Points
Great Depression
Japan seizes Manchuria
Civil War China
World War II
-Division of Korea (1945)
Cold War begins (1945)
-U.S./U.S.S.R. occupation
(1945-1948)
U.S. occupation of Japan
-Republic of Korea (1948)
-Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea (1948)
People’s Republic
of China (1949)
Indo-China War
Korean War (1950-1953)
War in Vietnam
Miracle on the Han (1960s)
Seoul Olympics (1988)
End Cold War (1989)
Death of Kim Il Sung (1994)
Asian Economic Crisis (1997)
2000
June Summit between North and South Korea (2000)
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