SPECIFICATION INFORMATION:

•   AQA

  These webpages address the first section: 'Conflict in Korea' of the Paper 1 Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975 specification and Scheme of Work.

  

Contents:

1.  Introduction

2.  Causes of the Korean War – The Cold War

3.  Causes of the Korean War Historiography

4.  Life in Korea

5.  Causes of the Korean War – Timeline

6.  War Breaks Out

7.  The USA Enters the War

8.  China Enters the War

9.  The End of the War

10.  Ceasefire and aftermath

11.  Korean War Cascade

12.  Self-test

  

Click the yellow arrow for advice on:

• How to STUDY this topic:
  • 1.   Start by reading some easy sources – perhaps the Conflict in Korea 'starter' narrative in the ‘Going Deeper’ panel on this page, or maybe the summary page in the unit on the Cold War.  Get a grasp of the basic story.

    Make a list of key dates – leave space to add other dates you may discover during your studies. 

    It might be an idea to do this before you study this unit in class.

  • 2.   Work through the study sections above.  You can do this over time as you study the topics in lessons.  Make notes, perhaps using the Cloze exercises and/or their pdf printouts to build  a set of notes.  
  • 3.   Study the historiography page to learn how historians have interpreted the causes of the War, and to consider what YOU think about the debates.
  • 4.   Plunder the Cascade webpage to help you write any essays you are given.

•  How to REVISE this topic:
  • 1.   Pre-revision:
    Skim-read the study pages in this unit to refresh your memory of what you have learned in the lessons.
  • 2.   Four weeks to go:
    Go through the topics on the Cascade webpage; for each, use the yellow arrows to think FIRST how you would answer, before checking against my suggestions.
  • 3.   Three weeks to go:
    Choose the revision factsheet which suits you best from the ‘Going Deeper’ panel, and learn it off by heart; get someone to test you on it.  Then, using the yellow arrows to check your answers, do and re-do the Self-test until you can get every question ‘right enough’.
  • 4.   Two weeks to go:
    Invite a friend and revise together.  Share problems, test each other on content, and do the Revision Activies, using them as an opportunity to share all you know (and rehearse your factual and 'explaining' skills).
  • 5.   Last week:
    Go through the blue Exam-style Questions to rehearse how you will tackle the kind of questions you will meet in the exam.  Spend the last evening re-revising your chosen revision aid.