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Sound Learning Feature for November 2003
On July 27, 1953, the United States signed a truce with North Korea and China, ending the bloody, three-year-long Korean War. Almost 37,000 Americans were dead, along with more than 2 million Koreans and Chinese. A peace treaty was never signed. The border between North and South Korea had moved only slightly from where it began three years earlier.
Korean War veterans returned home to a country that greeted them with silence, instead of parades. "Korea: The Unfinished War" explores how the Korean War:
- Launched an American military build-up that lasted through the Cold War to the present day.
- Led, after dramatic twists and turns and a wrenching debate, to a policy of containment and limited war rather than direct confrontation with the enemy.
- Hastened the racial integration of the nation's armed forces—today, arguably, the most integrated institution in American life.
The stories in this month's feature are of particular interest to teachers and students of English/language arts and history/social studies. There are also stories that may be useful in classes that deal with current events.
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