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A brief explanation about the major policies laid out in Wilson's 14 point speech described by historians

Old photos of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty Era and The Greater Korean Empire Era, before the Japanese Annexation in 1910.

Old photos of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty Era and The Greater Korean Empire Era, before the Japanese Annexation in 1910.

Japan quickly took over Korea in early 1904. Korea sued for Peace leading to the eventual establishment of Korea as a Japanese protectorate, with certain assurances of future independence and a fixed territory after the war was finished.

Japan attacks China in Korea and wins the Sino-Japanese war in 1895 leading to the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which specifically involved the Qing Empire announcing that Korean was independent of the Chinese Empire. Korea then proclaimed itself and…

The Map shows Korea under the Chinese Empire in early 1894, before the start of the Sino-Japanese war between China and Japan for control of Korea that same year.

Photograph of Prince Feisal

Lawrence in his Arab robes

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