Enquiry 3: Impact and memory
A three-lesson enquiry for KS3 by Andrew Wrenn
How has the Korean War been remembered?
The Korean War (if it is studied at all) is usually presented as part of the Cold War or from the point of view of particular nationalities who fought in it. In contrast, this resource aims to explore the impact that the war had on a variety of participants at the time.
It also considers how memory of the war became ‘lost’, in Britain at least, and then how the memory was recovered by British military veterans.
The resource then broadens its focus to consider which participants in the war or victims of the war students might include in a memorial and for what reasons.
Key areas of focus
- The immediate impact of the Korean War on military veterans, civilians and participating countries.
- The extent to which British military veterans ‘forgot’ about the war between 1953 and the 1980s.
- The subsequent process of gradual memorialisation of a neglected war.
- Design of a new British Korean War memorial.
Attached files:
- Enquiry 3: Impact and memory: How has the Korean War been remembered?
6.93 MB PDF document - Lesson 3.1: Who was most deeply affected by the Korean War between 1950 and 1953?
4.78 MB Powerpoint presentation - Resource sheet 3.1A: Who would have been most deeply affected by the death of Corporal Belsay?
944.6 KB Powerpoint presentation - Resource sheet 3.1B: Impact scale
933.6 KB Powerpoint presentation - Resource sheet 3.1C: Battle of Jangjin (Chosin) Reservoir - impact cards
941 KB Powerpoint presentation - Resource sheet 3.1D: No Gun Ri Incident - impact cards
940.6 KB Powerpoint presentation - Resource sheet 3.1E: Casualty - impact cards
1009.1 KB Powerpoint presentation - Lesson 3.2: Why did some British military veterans forget the Korean War and deliberately remember it again years afterwards?
4.62 MB Powerpoint presentation - Resource sheet 3.2A: Living graph template
2.11 MB Powerpoint presentation - Resource sheet 3.2B: Why did some British military veterans forget the Korean war between 1953 and the 1970s? Evidence cards
1.29 MB Powerpoint presentation - Resource sheet 3.2C: Why did some British military veterans deliberately remember the Korean War from the 1970s onwards? Evidence cards
1.56 MB Powerpoint presentation - Lesson 3.3: Who should be remembered on our new memorial and how? - fast-track version
1.58 MB Powerpoint presentation - Lesson 3.3: Who should be remembered on our new memorial and how? - expanded version
2.39 MB Powerpoint presentation - Resource sheet 3.3A: Korean Veterans Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, UK
1.62 MB Powerpoint presentation - Resource sheet 3.3B: Questions to ask about any war memorial
939 KB Powerpoint presentation