Important Figures
FDR
Frankline Delano Roosevelt
US (Personification of the US)
Uncle Sam
Empire
“supreme command; complete or paramount influence, absolute sway; dominance, control”
Korean Democratic Party (1945-1949)
Shodan
Korean entertaining show groups for American military personnel
Winston Churchill
A British Statesman
USO
United Service Organization
Colony
“A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country”
Pachappa Camp
the first Korean American town in 1905
The myth of Tangun
The Birth of Korean ethnicity
D.M.G
Douglas Macarther General
GI
Government Issue
The state
The body politic as organized for supreme civil rule and government
USAMFIK
United States Army Forces in Korea
The General Sherman Incident (1886)
The first Americans in the Korean soil
Chiang Kai-Shek
the leader of Chinese Nationalist Party
the 8th US Army
US Military Base in Tennessee
The Nation
“the whole population of a country, frequently in contrast to a smaller or narrower body within it.”
KPR
Korean People's Republic (1945-1946)
KATUSA
Korean Augmentation to the United States of America
the first South Korean president
Syungman Rhee
USAMGIK (1945-194*)
United States Army Military Government in Korea (1945-1948)
Nation
“a group of people having a single ethnic, tribal, or religious affiliation, but w/o a separate or politically independent territory.”
SWNCC
State-War-Navy-Coordinating-Committee
national ethnic