title: The Thirty-seventh Parallel: Planning the Second Korean War
author: A L Provost
description: The author, an attorney and optometrist, resides outside Atlanta with his wife Evelyn, an attorney, their four talented children having gone on to careers in Optometry, real estate and teaching. In May 1961 the author received an undergraduate degree in Physics-Mathematics from Berry College, and in July of that year enlisted in the U. S. Army. He served two tours of duty in South Korea, the last with U. S. Army Intelligence as a Korean linguist and prisoner interrogator. In 1972 Dr. Provost was awarded the degree of Doctor of Optometry from the University of Houston, and in 1980 earned a Juris Doctor degree from Nova Southeastern University College of Law. Dr. Provost is the author of the best-selling memoir, Reflections in an Orphan's Eye, The Puppeteer, a mystery novel of the wartime South, Deception at Los Alamos, a World War II tale of Nazi Germany's desperate plot to steal America's atomic bomb secrets, The Thirty-seventh Parallel, an account of communist North Korea's second planned invasion of South Korea, The Tangled Web, a tale of the retaking of the Nazi diamonds, Grand Deceptions, Adolf Hitler's 1935 plot to assassinate President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and The Bookmark Murders, a Baltimore police detective's relentless search for a young serial killer, set in the 1920s.
zlib_text: THE OUTBREAK OF THE KOREAN WAR: A HISTORICAL SIMULATION 
   
  Grades: 9-12  
   
                           
   
   
  Author: Paul Thompson 
  Subject: History 
  Time Required: Two class periods 
  Objectives: 
  1. Students will identify the causal factors of the Korean War 
  2. Students will analyze and evaluate primary sources of the early stages of the war. 
  3. Students will use the provided information to make key decisions regarding US action 
  during the early stages of the war. 
  4. Students will work together and effectively communicate their ideas. 
   
  Standards: 
  Common Core: 
  SL1 Initiate and participate in effectively in a range of collaborative discussion 
  SL 2 Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media 
  SL 4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence 
  RH 1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources 
  RH 2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source 
  RH 3 Evaluate various ex