When the Japanese empire was dismantled at the end of World War Two, Korea fell victim to the Cold War. It was divided into two spheres of influence along the 38th parallel. The Americans controlled south of the line - the Russians installed a communist regime in the north, later ceding influence to China.
The Protestant Reformation in Northern Europe drew large numbers of people away from the Roman Catholic Church.<u> The Catholic Reformation known as well as the Catholic Revival or The Counter-Reformation,</u> begin in the second half of the 16th century and continuing into the 17th, aimed at preserving what strength the Church still in the southern countries.
