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    Korean War was the first hot war of the Cold War: 1950-1953. Textbooks have a bias and often offer only one perspective on the past. Students will read two textbook accounts of the Korean War, one from North and one from south.

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    Korean War was the first hot war of the Cold War: 1950-1953. Textbooks have a bias and often offer only one perspective on the past. Students will read two textbook accounts of the Korean War, one from North and one from south.

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    Korean War Lesson Plan

    Central Historical Question:


    Who started the Korean War?
    Materials:
    Copies of Textbook Excerpts A and B
    Copies of Korean War Guiding Questions
    Korean War Powerpoint Slides
    Optional: Classroom Textbook Excerpt on the Korean War
    Plan of Instruction:
    1. Do Now: Why might textbooks from different countries offer different versions
    of the same historical events? When textbooks offer conflicting accounts, how
    do you decide which textbook to believe?

    Establish that textbooks, like other historical documents we have looked


    at, have a bias and often offer only one perspective on the past.

    History textbooks are often influenced by a countrys national perspective


    and geographic and geo-political relationship to other countries.

    2. Transition: Today we are going to look at two different textbook accounts of


    the start of the Korean War and try to figure out where they come from, and
    which one offers the most trustworthy account. Before we do this, we need
    some background information.
    3. Mini-lecture to establish context for the Korean War. Project map of Korean
    War while lecturing (PPT slide):

    Korean War was the first hot war of the Cold War: 1950-1953.
    During Second World War, the Allies decided to divide Korea at the 38th
    parallel. The North was under the trusteeship of the Soviet Union, the
    South under the trusteeship of the Americans. Two different countries
    developed: the North became a communist country, the South a noncommunist, democratic country.

    Both sides wanted to re-unify the country under their own rule.
    In 1950, after a number of small skirmishes at the border, war broke out
    between North and South Korea. The US backed and fought with the
    South, and China fought with a backed the North.

    Korean War

    Initially, American and United Nations forces pushed deep into North
    Korea; however, China entered the war and pushed the Americans
    backed into the South.

    After three years, the two sides fought to a stalemate and kept the
    country divided at the 38th parrarell

    Our job today is think about the question: Who started the Korean War?
    4. Explain to students that they are going to read two textbook accounts of the
    Korean War, one from North Korea and the other from South Korea. Pass out
    Textbook Excerpts A and B and Guiding Questions.
    5. In pairs, students read textbook excerpts and answer questions.
    6. Discussion: Students share out answers to questions:

    According to each textbook, how did the Korean War start?


    Which of these textbooks do you find more trustworthy? Why?
    Where else would you look in order to figure out how the Korean War
    started?
    Which textbook comes from North Korea? Which comes from South
    Korea?

    7. If time remains, have students compare these accounts to the account of the
    start of the Korean War in their classroom textbooks.

    Citations:
    History of the Revolution of our Great Leader Kim Il-sun: High School. (Pongyang, North
    Korea: Textbook Publishing Co., 1999), 125-127.
    Doojin Kim, Korean History: Senior High. (Seoul, South Korea: Dae Han Textbook Co.,
    2001), 199.

    Copyright 2009, Avishag Reisman and Bradley Fogo.

    Korean War

    Textbook A
    Upset by the fast and astonishing growth of the power of the Republic, the
    American invaders hastened the preparation of an aggressive war in order to
    destroy it in its infancy....The American imperialists furiously carried out the war
    project in 1950....The American invaders who had been preparing the war for a
    long time, alongside their puppets, finally initiated the war on June 25th of the
    39th year of the Juche calendar. That dawn, the enemies unexpectedly attacked
    the North half of the Republic, and the war clouds hung over the once peaceful
    country, accompanied by the echoing roar of cannons.
    Having passed the 38th parallel, the enemies crawled deeper and deeper into the
    North half of the Republic...the invading forces of the enemies had to be
    eliminated and the threatened fate of our country and our people had to be
    saved.

    Textbook B
    When the overthrow of the South Korean government through social confusion
    became too difficult, the North Korean communists switched to a stick-and-carrot
    strategy: seeming to offer peaceful negotiations, they were instead analyzing the
    right moment of attack and preparing themselves for it.
    The North Korean communists prepared themselves for war. Kim Il-sung
    secretly visited the Soviet Union and was promised the alliance of the Soviets
    and China in case of war. Finally, at dawn on June 25th, 1950 the North began
    their southward aggression along the 38th parallel. Taken by surprise at these
    unexpected attacks, the army of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) fought
    courageously to defend the liberty of the country....The armed provocation of the
    North Korean communists brought the UN Security Council around the table. A
    decree denounced the North Korean military action as illegal and as a threat to
    peace, and a decision was made to help the South. The UN army constituted the
    armies of 16 countriesamong them, the United States, Great Britain and
    Francejoined the South Korean forces in the battle against the North.

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    Guiding Questions

    Name___________

    1) According to each textbook, how did the Korean War start?


    Textbook A

    Textbook B

    2) Which of these textbooks do you find more trustworthy? Why? (Use specific
    examples from each text to support your answer).

    3) Where else would you look in order to figure out how the Korean War started?

    Korean War

    Which of these sources is for Textbook A and which is for Textbook B?


    Kim, Doojin. Korean History: Senior High. (Seoul, South Korea: Dae
    HanTextbook Co.), 2001.
    Textbook _______
    Provide language from the textbook excerpt to support your answer:

    History of the Revolution of our Great Leader Kim Il-sun: High School.
    (Pongyang, North Korea: Textbook Publishing Co., 1999).
    Textbook _______
    Provide language from the textbook excerpt to support your answer:

    Korean War

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