Compare And Contrast The American War Vs Vietnam War

The Cold War was a conflict of opposition between the political ideologies of the USSR and a large number of western powers, mainly the United States of America. Though the two never directly fought, a number of Proxy Wars (Conflicts between countries in which the two countries never directly engage in battle) took place with various amounts of involvement from the two. The USSR saw the spread of Communism to Korea and Vietnam as something profitable during their periods of unrest, and the United States, realizing that it was essential to stop the spread of Communism to maintain some balance with the USSR, set out to stop it. Two out of the numerous conflicts which arose from this were the Korean War (1950-1953) and the Vietnam War, or the Second Indochina War (1955-1975).Though the involvement of both superpowers was the main …show more content…
Even with this said, it could be easily stated that the United States are at fault for both of these wars, because the Soviet occupation of the north of Korea up to the 38th parallel had been previously agreed upon by both the United States and the USSR. The United States, seeing the surprisingly high and alarming speed at which the Soviet troops advanced, put into place a puppet government of sorts, which then proclaims itself as anti-communist, creating immediate tensions with Communist North Korea. The United States were again at fault when, realizing that the Communist government of North Vietnam were likely to unite the entire country under a Communist rule, they sent first advisors and later large quantities of soldiers to South Vietnam, generating a conflict on a much larger