Vietnam War Vs Cold War Essay

vHave you ever wondered about communism during the Cold War? The Vietnam War and Korean War were a product of it and both were civil wars in Asia that the U.S. participated in to prevent communism in both countries, but failed. The “American” war, according to the Vietnamese, was a war to unite Vietnam and to determine if Vietnam was communist or capitalist. Meanwhile, the “Forgotten” (Korean) War happened before the Vietnam War and was fought to get rid of communism in North Korea (U.S., U.N. and South Korea) and to invade South Korea (North Korea). So, which one was worse to the U.S. and themselves? The Vietnamese War had a huge cost to both sides of the conflict, being the second longest lasting war the U.S. participated in. The war ended with the death of 2 million Vietnamese civilians, 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters, between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers and approximately 60,000 U.S. soldiers, an influx of Vietnamese refugees to

The war started with North Korea trying to overwhelm the South with the help of the U.S.S.R. and China, but the U.S. and U.N. intervened to prevent communism within Korea. The U.S. and U.N. had to fight defensively at the beginning with soldiers being in record heat, and eating rice balls fermented in human waste, thus causing digestion problems, so they gathered supplies and planned a counterattack. The counterattack pushed the communists north until China threatened nuclear war and a new border was made near the 38th parallel to separate the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North) from the Republic of Korea (South). This results in the current state of the Korean border and of the North Korean tensions, with the Korea still technically at war, because a peace treaty was never written after the