After the World War II, United States perceived difficulties of dealing with the Soviet Union in world politics. As the Soviets decided to propagate communism to the world including Eastern Europe and Asia, Americans decisively responded to the Soviets with Containment Policy. In the view of American world strategy, Korea, after the World War II, appeared as a valuable region in the Pacific region as a buffer zone against communism. When Koreans were liberated from Japanese Imperialism in 1945, the United States decided to involve Korean problems to defend its national interests. By sending the occupation forces to South Korea, US government set up the stage of materializing its policy Korea.Washington defined its Korea policy as follows: to establish a democratic representative government and a constructive economic system in the American capitalistic system. The American occupation forces, represented by General John Hodge and formed a military occupation government, implemented Washington's policy in South Korea by their own methods: to suppress leftists and support rightists politically; to contain Soviet expansion to the region militarily; to transplant American capitalism in South Korea economically. In administration occupation government employed pro-Japanese Koreans who served for Japanese imperialism and were considered to be liquidation in eyes of Koreans.This paper concluded that Americans made mistakes in performing their policies due to lacks of preparation of occupation policy which meant ignorance of Korean requests of building a unified nation. The result of the failure gave Koreans distorted history in course of their national life after the liberation.
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Ⅰ. 서 론 Ⅱ. 미․소간 갈등 구조의 형성 Ⅲ. 미국의 대한 정책과 특징 Ⅳ. 결 론 <참고 문헌> Abstract