The Vietnam War: Multinational Alliances

The US was involved in both the wars in Korea and Vietnam because of the Second World War. The Second World War included the collapse of the Japanese empire, and Korea was part of the Japanese empire. Therefore after the collapse of the Japanese empire Korea was free and most Koreans wanted a unified state. However the Soviet Union and the US thought differently. The Soviet Union wanted to expand their land making Korea a communist land and the US countered that by trying to make Korea be a democracy. They were using cold war logic on both Korea and Vietnam. The type of Cold war logic is called Multinational Alliances. The US were stressing the policy of “Containment” which is to make communism not spread. This caused Korea to be split in half, the north side would be communist and a part of the Soviet Union and the south would be democratic. Harry Truman was president at …show more content…
This allowed the Soviet Union to convince Vietnam to be communist. In 1961 an aid treaty for both military and economic aid was signed for South Vietnam. Which let to U.S. troops arriving in South Vietnam to create the Military Assistance Command in 1961. Nobody was able to take control of all South Vietnam until when Nguyen Cao Ky was made premier in 1965. U.S. military aid grew immensely after the Senate of U.S. made the Tonkin Gulf resolution in 1964 was made by President Johnson. In the yeah 1965 US started raiding Communist North Vietnam. These soldiers grew until they reached 190,000 U.S. soldiers by 1966 in South Vietnam. While the soldiers grew in the south The Soviet Union was giving assistance. Even with all the soldiers, bombs and some political stability South Vietnam had it was not enough to beat Noth Vietnamese troops and the US lost. A major reason was also in the Korean War, was the climate. It is very hot and humid in Vietnam which made it very difficult for US soldiers who were not used to this