Both of these wars were expensive, the Korean War cost the US $67 billion and Vietnam cost $140 billion . ... The Korean War became the first American war ever waged solely as an ideological war. ... The Korean War was extremely popular domestically because it was part of the Cold War. The Cold War was a result of World War Two, it caused the two ideologies, capitalism and communism to each struggle for control over the Post war world. ... "In August 1964, on the pretext of a North Vietnamese attack on U.S naval craft off the North Vietnamese coast, Johnson ordered air attacks on commun...

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At the peak of the Cold War, the war in Vietnam was a catalyst to the strong emergence of counterculture. ... Many thought it was a "morally ambiguous conflict from the start, ostensibly a war against communism yet also a war to suppress nationalist self-determination." This war was also the first to be televised. Even though Americans at home could see the war from a new perspective, they were poorly informed due to the biased media that reported not only events, but their opposition towards the war. ... Since the start of the Vietnam War, a new form of counterculture had been bre...

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