what are the causes of these wars and other stuff?

Question

korean war
vietnam war

Answer 1

~Given the drivel you've already gotten, I won't compound your angst. Instead, I suggest you read about the division of Korea by the US and USSR in 1945 and ask yourself why did South Korea and the US oppose/prevent the mandated elections of 1950. As to US involvement, you might be interested in United Nations UNSC Resolution 82 and US Congressional response thereto. Checking into the "Fatherland Liberation War" and the "War to Resist America and Aid Korea" might help you with another perspective, assuming you can find good translations.

With regard to Vietnam, you may want to ask yourself why the US helped install Ngo Dinh Diem, whom the French said was not only incompetent to lead but also a madman, as President of South Vietnam and to protect him by military and CIA intervention until JFK approved (ordered?) his assassination in November, 1963 (As we sow ...? interesting and ironic timing, isn't it?). You probably should also ask yourself why the US refused to allow the internationally supervised elections to reunite the country which were required by the 1954 Geneva Accords to occur in 1956 (or thereafter, as far as that goes). You may want to check out the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of August 7, 1964, to see how LBJ and Richard Nixon got the license to kill so many people. And do check into the operational orders of the Maddox when you look into the Tonkin Resolution.

In both instances, an interesting inquiry might be "If the US goal was to perpetuate democracy in the world, why did the US prevent the democratic process from occurring?"

Answer 2

Both wars were part of the US policy of "containment." In effect, they aimed to set up buffer states around communist countries such as the USSR and China and prevent any other states from adopting communism. They thus attempted to prop up pro-US governments and aided these governments to counter rebels.

In Korea, after the 2nd world war, the USSR had occupied the North, the US the South, creating North and South Korea. The two newly independent states soon began fighting and North Korea soon invaded to attempt to reunite the peninsula. The US wouldn't allow that, because of Chinese support for the North, so ultimately not only provided financial and logistical support but also military support.

Vietnam had once been the French colony of Indochina. After a brutal war of independence against the French, which ended in a stalemate, Vietnam -- like Korea -- was divided into a Northern communist state and a Southern pro-western state. The leader of the independence movement, Ho Chi Minh, ran the North; Ngo Dinh Diem ruled the South as a brutal anti-communist dictator with US support. Rebellion soon arose in the South among native Southerners. The North attempted to invade the South in the Tet Offensive of 1968 and what had been a guerilla war escalated. As in Korea, the US ramped up their support for the anti-communist Diem government.

Answer 3

Both wars were caused by the aggressive communist northern part of the country invading the Democratic southern part. America intervened to defend the the democratic countries from communism because of the Domino Effect ( a belief that if one country fell to communist invaders, others will follow). Although South Korea was successfully defended, the north vietnamese conquered the south and unified the country under the Communist regime.

Answer 4

These wars both had to do with the containment policy put forth by President Truman in 1947-48. The U.S. didn't want South Korea to be communist, nor South Vietnam.

Answer 5

Both Korea and Vietnam were started because the U.S. didn't want communism to spread. The. U.S. had to leave both conflicts, and communism won over the whole country. Technically they were not wars because they never got approval from congress.

Answer 6

the korean war was cuz of different governments, north korea was communist and south korea was democratic.
Vietnam was cuz before they were independent from France, they got help from the ussr to become independent, afther they became independent, they became communists like the ussr, but they split into 2 nations, the north was communist and the south wasnt, and cuz the americans are rednecks and they want the whole world to be just like them, they got involved in the whole situation cuz they wanted the non-communists to win, so they invaded vietnam, but they lost, and comunism rules till now.

Answer 7

The USA's fear of communism, folowing Russia's land gains in WW2.

Answer 8

some nations like ti install fear and some like to give their troops some experience in actual combat i wont mention any names(US) so they mask their intention with some dictatorship stuff

Answer 9

its a history

Answer 10

either it is excessive methane of just plain old bad breath. i am making more cow pies monday. all day long.