Paper 2: Sourcework - The Korean War

You will be presented with a range of sources, and then a series of questions to answer. The key questions:

How and why was Korea divided after World War Two?

Why did the Korean War break out?

Why were UN troops sent to push the communists out of South Korea?

Why did UN troops push on into North Korea?

Why did China enter the conflict?

Why did Truman sack MacArthur and refuse to escalate the conflict?

Why did the conflict come to an end?

What the positive and negative outcomes of the conflict?