May 18 Democratic Uprising

Target entity: May 18 Democratic Uprising
Context triple: [Gwangju, significantEvent, May 18 Democratic Uprising]

• A. August General Uprising
  August General Uprising is the alternative name for Vietnam’s August Revolution of 1945, a nationwide insurrection that led to the collapse of French and Japanese control and the establishment of an independent Vietnamese government under the Viet Minh.
• B. March 1st Movement
  The March 1st Movement was a major 1919 Korean independence uprising against Japanese colonial rule, marked by nationwide peaceful demonstrations that became a symbol of Korean nationalism and resistance.
• C. October Days
  October Days refers to the 1789 Women’s March on Versailles during the French Revolution, when thousands of Parisians, many of them women, marched to demand bread and confront King Louis XVI, forcing the royal family to move to Paris.
• D. May Coup of 1926
  The May Coup of 1926 was a military takeover led by Józef Piłsudski that overthrew Poland’s democratic government and ushered in the authoritarian Sanation regime in the Second Polish Republic.
• E. 31 March Incident
  The 31 March Incident was a 1909 counterrevolutionary uprising in the Ottoman Empire, led by conservative and religious factions in Istanbul against the Young Turk constitutional regime.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: May 18 Democratic Uprising
Target entity description: The May 18 Democratic Uprising was a 1980 pro-democracy movement in South Korea, centered in Gwangju, in which citizens rose up against military dictatorship and were met with brutal state repression.

• A. August General Uprising
  August General Uprising is the alternative name for Vietnam’s August Revolution of 1945, a nationwide insurrection that led to the collapse of French and Japanese control and the establishment of an independent Vietnamese government under the Viet Minh.
• B. March 1st Movement
  The March 1st Movement was a major 1919 Korean independence uprising against Japanese colonial rule, marked by nationwide peaceful demonstrations that became a symbol of Korean nationalism and resistance.
• C. October Days
  October Days refers to the 1789 Women’s March on Versailles during the French Revolution, when thousands of Parisians, many of them women, marched to demand bread and confront King Louis XVI, forcing the royal family to move to Paris.
• D. May Coup of 1926
  The May Coup of 1926 was a military takeover led by Józef Piłsudski that overthrew Poland’s democratic government and ushered in the authoritarian Sanation regime in the Second Polish Republic.
• E. 31 March Incident
  The 31 March Incident was a 1909 counterrevolutionary uprising in the Ottoman Empire, led by conservative and religious factions in Istanbul against the Young Turk constitutional regime.
• F. None of above. chosen