There are a number of differences between the Korean and Vietnam wars. ... Both of these wars were expensive, the Korean War cost the US $67 billion and Vietnam cost $140 billion . ... The Vietnam War commenced very differently from Korea, the Korean War originated internally when North attacked South, but Vietnam was started externally by the United States. ... On 30th April 1975, South Vietnam fell to the communists, and America lost the war against communism. ... Historian, Neil Sheenan believes that Vietnam will have been a war in vain only if we fail to draw wisdom from it. . ...

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Most general books and texts on the Vietnam War (including Moss' Vietnam, An American Ordeal, Fourth Edition) gloss over, if not skip entirely, the role of women in Vietnam. ... Unlike the men who served in the U.S. military during the war, all women in Vietnam were volunteers since they were not subject to the draft. In a war that became less and less popular as the years went by, American women still were motivated to join the effort in Vietnam. ... Some of these women traveled in and out of Vietnam at various intervals during the war, while others had a more permanent presence in th...

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At the peak of the Cold War, the war in Vietnam was a catalyst to the strong emergence of counterculture. ... The war in Vietnam began because America was taking a stand in the fight against communism. ... The Vietnam War was extensively bloody, controversial, and monumental in the introduction of new technology and warfare. ... Since the start of the Vietnam War, a new form of counterculture had been brewing. ... The war in Vietnam had upset and opened the eyes of many Americans, encouraging them to take a stand, developing non-conformist subculture. ...

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Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the only legal political party in the country. ... Vietnam supports the theory of democratic peace. Vietnam is not a democratic nation and because of it is often involved in some form of conflict. During the Vietnam War one of the factors of the theory of democratic peace became prevalent. ... While the Vietnam War was taking place, there were several protests going on in the United States. ...

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The Korean War 1950-1953 was the first proxy conflict of the Cold War costing 5 million lives, 54,000 of which were American soldiers, yet it has often been described as America's, "forgotten war." Thus, eluding to the idea that it was not as significant to world affairs or security as other conflicts during the Cold War such as in Vietnam. ... " This essay shall evaluate how significant the American government perceived the Korean War to be to global security by analysing key documents from the early war period such as daily summaries in addition to key speeches and NSC 68 and 48/2...

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However, the Vietnam War generated more debate and controversy than that of any other war in history between the great rival ideologies of communism and capitalism. ... Map showing who were supporting North Vietnam and South Vietnam in the Vietnam War, 1954). Therefore, the war that was fought in Vietnam prolonged more tension between USA and China, capitalism vs. communism. ... In the late 1960's the US got out of the Vietnam War, because of the loss of many American lives in the senseless conflict. ... Through both the Korean War and the Vietnam War, one can see that even though both US...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... Differences between the former Allies after it was generally uniting them during the war aim, moved to another plane. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be financially dependent on the United States. ... The establishment of the ruined economy of the country also participated huge army of prisoners of war. However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ...

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The five conflicts that show the most common action of the real reason why we invaded are: World War Two, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam, and Operation Iraq. ... The outcome of the Cold War was that Korea and Vietnam both gave into Communism, and wars were started because of this converting. ... The ideals of Communism spread to two third-world countries we both recognized as a threat, Korea and Vietnam. ... When the Cold War with Russia was going on we decided to not invade them because of the loss of lives due to ever growing capacity of both powers nuclear arsenal, but our President deci...

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Historically, this places the United States right in the midst of the Vietnam War Conflict.The time period in which the article was written could give us an idea of what it was like inside Scofield's mind when he wrote the article. ... The entire country was struck with division of opinion regarding the war in Vietnam. ... Along with the committed involvement in the Vietnam War, the United States was gripped with fear from the Cold War, leaving citizens wondering what might come of nuclear warfare. ... The United States and much of the rest of the world was rapidly engaged in the foreign ...

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This was shown to be happening when at first China and the North Korea and then Vietnam became communist. ... While these are good examples the most obvious use of the policy was the Vietnam War in the late 1960's to 1970's in which forces from USA and Australia moved into South Vietnam to stop the spread of communism from the north. Since these wars communism has died out as a threat to the region. ... Another thing was that during the Vietnam War, a lot of it was televised back to Australian homes and the public saw the suffering of the Vietnamese and realised that they were not al...

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