Write a couple of paragraphs describing the focus and content of this site. Also, explain how this is applicable to what we are studying.

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These pages are all different glimpses of the Korean and Vietnam wars. They all show different sides and different view points on the war. It is interesting to see different views on these wars because you can then gather the information and make you own opinion about the war. Although these wars were both very different they also have many similarities. Both wars were fought over land, power, and resources. Also, in both wars there were power hungry leaders striving to get even more power.

The division of Korea into two parts dates from the end of World War II. Prior to that time, since around 1910, it had been a colony of Japan, though the Korean people continually worked to regain their freedom. Their dream finally came within reach when the Allied powers of World War II pledged independence, though they failed to specify the details effecting the establishment of a government. The war was between the U.S. army and the North Korean army over who would have control of Korea. The U.S. was helping out South Korea because of their belief in a containment policy. North Korea was communist and so the U.S. was trying to prevent communism from being spread.

 After WWII the French chose to fight the independence of the colonies which they had captured. This was the most famous battle for control of a colony and it was the Vietnam War. Vietnam had iron and coal mines in the north, rubber plantations and rice fields in the south. The French desired to keep these valuable natural resources, and, consequently, they would not let Vietnam become independent. The Vietminh, a communist group led by Ho Chi Minh, led the nationalist movement in Vietnam. The Vietminh had control of the Vietnamese countryside and he used hit and run tactics to bottle the French up in cities and a few strongholds. Unlike the Korean War this war was more for natural resources then power.