Korea at 50

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/korea/

Rating: 2, High!

Description: CNN takes a look at North and South Korea from before the Korean War to the present. The site has articles, pictures, maps, video, and a timeline. Standard 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1895

Korean Special Report

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/korea/korea.htm

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This Washington Post page provides an overview of major issues in the Koreas up to current times. This site points out the relevance of teaching about the Korean War in that the impact of the war on current events is evident. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Comments: This site was recommended by the Organization of American Historians in its issue on Teaching About the Korean War.

Resource Type: Secondary Text.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1897

Korean War

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/05/

Rating: 2, High!

Description: Designed to augment a CNN series on the Cold War, this site has materials on the Korean War 1949-1953. It has topics for discussion and debate. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Resource Type: Primary Source Text.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1905

Korean War

http://www.korean-war.com/

Rating: 2, High!

Description: Developed by the Korean Studies Department at U.C. Berkeley, this site describes the origins, consequences, major events and historical figures of the Korean War 1951-1953. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Comments: This site offers a balanced history of the war which would be enhanced with more pictures, maps and primary source material.

Resource Type: Secondary Text.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1906

Korean War Maps

http://www.koreanwar.org/html/maps.html

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This series of historical maps was compiled by the Korean War Project. They give detailed information about geography, troop movements and battles of the Korean War. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Resource Type: Maps.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1900

Korean War Photos

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/photos/Korea/kor1950/kor1950.htm

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This site is a series of photos from 1952-53 in Korea. It gives a glimpse of what life was like for soldiers and civilians during the Korean War. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Resource Type: Photos or Pictures.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1902

Korean War: A Fresh Perspective

http://www.historynet.com/mh/blthekoreanwar/

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This article by Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., U.S. Army (ret.), written in 1996 provides fresh insight into the significance of the Korean War in U.S. Cold War Policy. It was the war that tested American assumptions that communism was monolithic and that Europe was the target of communist agression. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Comments: This article is all text but clear, well written and reflective.

Resource Type: Secondary Text.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 1904

Marshall Plan

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/03/

Rating: 2, High!

Description: Designed to augment a CNN series on the Cold War, this site has materials on the Marshall Plan and the founding of the Central Intelligence Agency under Truman. It has topics for discussion and debate. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.7.8

Resource Type: Primary Source Text.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 2103

Marshall Plan (1948)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=82

Rating: 2, High!

Description: When World War II ended in 1945, Europe lay in ruins: its cities were shattered; its economies were devastated; its people faced famine. In the two years after the war, the Soviet Union's control of Eastern Europe and the vulnerability of Western European countries to Soviet expansionism heightened the sense of crisis. To meet this emergency, Secretary of State George Marshall proposed that European nations create a plan for their economic reconstruction and that the United States provide economic assistance. On December 19, 1947, President Harry Truman sent Congress a message that followed Marshall's ideas to provide economic aid to Europe. Congress overwhelmingly passed the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, and on April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the act that became known as the Marshall Plan. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Comments: This Our Documents site has a facsimile of the original document, a transcription of it, and background information to help the reader put the document in context.

Resource Type: Primary Source Text.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 2101

Truman Doctrine (1947)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=81

Rating: 2, High!

Description: In a meeting between Congressmen and State Department officials, Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson articulated what would later become known as the domino theory. He stated that if Greece and Turkey should fall in the communist uprising then underway, communism would likely spread south to Iran and as far east as India. Addressing a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey and established a doctrine, aptly characterized as the Truman Doctrine, that would guide U.S. diplomacy for the next 40 years. President Truman declared, "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." The sanction of aid to Greece and Turkey by a Republican Congress indicated the beginning of a long and enduring bipartisan cold war foreign policy. Standards 10.9.2, 10.9.3, and 11.9.3

Comments: This Our Documents site has a facsimile of the original document, a transcription of it, and background information to help the reader put the document in context.

Resource Type: Primary Source Text.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 3225