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Activity
1: Investigation
The
sources in this section provides a brief impression
of several aspects of the war in Korea. When we
assess the impact of a war we can do this in a
number of ways:
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By
numbers killed; injured and missing
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By
the nature of weapons used
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By
disruption to the economy
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By
the impact on neighbouring states
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Historians
might also be interested in looking at how past events
have been interpreted and reinterpreted. We call major
questioning of the accepted view of history 'revisionism'.
Revisionist historians might overturn a long established
interpretation of the past by establishing theories
which have a new emphasis. These theories might be based
on newly uncovered evidence or they might be radical
re-evaluations of what is known about the past and the
way it has been recorded.
 Task
Your
task is to use the evidence in this section to begin
to assess what fighting in the Korean War was like.
To
do this:
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Look
at the visual and written sources in the image
gallery. Then return to this page to continue
with the task. |
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Study
the statistics
Word document and the reference material in the
reference section of
this project. |
Then
write a paragraph to summarise your conclusions.
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