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 Korean war commenced on 25 June, 1950 with the invasion of South Korea by North. ... 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. ...

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The Vietnam war was fought in 1955 to 1975, and the Australian military fought in it from 1962 to 1973, and at the time, it was the longest that Australia had participated in all-out war. ... There are many contributing factors for the beginning of the Vietnam War which was all linked to the Cold War. ... Communist forces in The Vietnam War were: North Vietnam, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Soviet Union, China and North Korea. Anti-Communist forces were: South Vietnam, United States, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Khmer Republic and the Kingdom of Laos. ... In 1975 the wa...

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The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every night. ... From there, the war protest began. ... The Legislative composed of anti-war elective officials handcuffed the Executive by laws which progressively made President Nixon lose power in the war. ... The war also left behind a painful America. ... This war also ended the agreement with the foreign policy of the Cold War and made many Americans more concerned about other actions of their government oversea...

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Why did this war ever start? ... An example of this is the "Korean War-. Families that lived all over Korea were separated from each other when the war first started. Korea was separated into North and South Korea. ... What does war solve? ...

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How did this war start? What was the United States involvement in the war? ... The Vietnamese War, as defined to me in the New Standard Encyclopedia, was " an undeclared war for the control of South Vietnam, starting in 1957 and ending in 1975." ... By the end of 1965, there were 181,000 American troops along with troops sent by South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. ... By the end of 1972, both the United States and South Korea had ended their ground combat role in South Vietnam and a peace agreement was signed. ...

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The Vietnam War was between the of 1957-1975. ... The Vietnam War was the longest war the United States had ever participated in. ... The Vietnamese Communists called the war "a war of national liberation." ... The war had many stages. ... Countries such as Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand helped South Vietnam. ...

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It was not the first war to happen while television existed; both World War II and the Korean War were fought in the infant stages of television. ... By the time the Vietnam War escalated in the mid-1960s, television was ready to capture the war's images and most Americans were able to watch in their homes. ... As a result of this commentary, news coverage of the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1970 influenced the American public's opinion of the war effort. ... CBS was the news leader during the Vietnam War years. ... Before Tet, television journalists tended to describe the war as "our s...

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If Nixon wouldn't have went behind INSERT back then the war would have been over and maybe the mission to not let communism would have worked it could have ended like Korea in a split between the country. 2. ... Three are the same that the war is bad. The first showing that no one knew why the war was going on not even the soldiers. ... The mane importance of the Vietnam war was this is the only war we lost completely. In Korea we compromised but in Vietnam we fought and lost and there was a great US casualty. ...

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., Vietnam all had different motives for their involvement in the Vietnam War in the years between 1945 and 1975. ... Even as the war increasingly destroyed the country, he remained committed to Vietnam's independence. ... Although his main focus was in Korea at the time, he believed the French were fighting for the free world in Indochina just as the United Nations was fighting for it in Korea. ... Eisenhower took over and was absolutely convinced that China would intervene in the war on the side of Ho Chi Minh against France, just as they did in North Korea against the U.S, to prevent...

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This war would be the Vietnam Revolution. ... After World War II and The Korean Conflict, the last thing U.S. citizens wanted was for the government to send troops into Vietnam. ... South Vietnam was aided by a coalition of forces including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea. ... However, as they began to realize, this war was going be a long drawn out war. ... The growing anti-war movement alarmed the U.S. government, and eventually dictated the way the government ran the war. ...

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Background information: Before The War The Vietnam War, well known and brought up a lot in today's world as a comparison to the current Iraq war. ... Russia at that point had already expanded its empire into Eastern Europe, Korea and Cuba. ... Being that it was the Vietcong's homeland, they were in the better position to win this war. ... That was a bad time for Richard Nixon, having to control the Vietnam War that Johnson had started. ... The Government of America, noticed how people felt about this war, and started to make instant plans for the withdraw. ...

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Remember the episodes depicting Bugs and the gang in Word War I or World War II garb and situations? ... But then came Korea and Vietnam. ... (Dudley & Bender, 1990, p. 76) The media, ever since being the puppet of the World War I and World War II government has since strived not only to cut the strings, but also to become the puppet master. ... What the press brought to the dinner table brought out the opposition to the war. ... In both cases support for the wars remained high despite mounting casualties.""...

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This war was a war that they fought in their minds and in their hearts. ... In Korea this knowledge resulted in use, to some extent, of a "point system." ... One important fact about the Vietnam War was that it was America's first true integrated war. Women have fought in all of America's wars, even though it might have been unofficial in some of the earliest wars. ... In World War II and almost every other war in United States military history, our military was ...

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Rather an incorrect study of the Vietnam situation: wrongly identifying it with the previous Korean dilemma and the overall attitudes of indiscriminate fear of any communist movement, regardless of circumstances, prevailed over American foreign policy and helped begin an ill-advised escalation of American involvement into the Vietnamese civil war. ... The United States soldiers realized that the war would last for many more years and wondered if the U.S. war effort could succeed. ... ilitary throughout the war. ... Vietnam War, military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. ... On both...

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The Vietnam War was also a part of the Cold War, and the ongoing 'war' between the US and the Soviet Union. Photographers have been a part of wars for decades however the Vietnam War was the first war that was shot and actually shown to the people at home on a daily basis. ... The Vietnam War was a result of the Cold War between the two countries and is defined as 'a conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by the US, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam' (Dictionary...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. ... The French forced the Viet Minh into the country areas and first Indo-Chinese war had begun. ... In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. French troops were concentrated in fortresses in North Vietnam fighting a static war. ... French public opinion had long turned against the war and "sale guerre" ("dirty war") was on everyone's lips. ...

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The outbreak of war in Korea in 1950 served primarily to confirm Washington's belief that communist aggression posed a great danger to Asia . Subsequent charges that Truman had "lost" China and had settled for a stalemate in Korea caused succeeding presidents to fear the domestic political consequences if they "lost" Vietnam. ... By July 1965, Johnson faced the choice of being the first president to lose a great war or of converting the Vietnamese War into a massive, U.S. directed military effort. ... The American troops and POWs came home, but the war continued. ... Why did the United St...

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Vietnam: An Overview Of Strategies There have been many battles, movements and wars in United States history. However one of the most awkward conflicts was the Vietnamese war. ... As the Vietnam war intensified through 1965-1966 so did the Chinese commitment to North Vietnam (Raskin& Fall 207). ... In fear that Chinese might inflict damage like earlier in the Korean war President Johnson decided on bombing raids in "an escalating fashion"(Thompson Http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/68apr/vietnam.htm ). ... What were the United State's war aims? ...

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During the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, tension was created because the USSR supported Arab countries while the US supported Israel. Fortunately, in what potentially could have resulted in a war, President Johnson made an effort to create peace with Soviet Premier Aleksey Kosygin. ... That was the only event that occurred before Johnson was fully in support of the Vietnam War and increased military involvement. ... For example, in October 1966, representatives from the United States, Thailand, Korea, the Philippines, and other south Asian countries agreed to withdraw their troops and work for peac...

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