�Vietnam and Korean Wars� website isn�t a very big website in terms of pages, but it is very informational and it does not beat around the bush in terms of getting information out. The action in Vietnam and the action in Desert Storm overshadowed the Korean War which is why the Korean War is often referred to as the Forgotten War. Even the though the war is called the Forgotten War the deaths of the war cannot be forgotten and same goes with the Vietnam war.
The Korean War started shortly after WWII when the communist Soviet�s occupied the North and the democratic United States the South. With World War II over, the US pulled out many of its troops. With the United States� troops out fo the picture the North saw this action as an opportunity to attack the South in which they followed through with an invasion of the deep south. After the invasion Truman sent American soldiers, and those of 16 other nations into South Korea as a result of the UN�s actions. By 1950 all of Korea was occupied by the North. General MacAurthur then sent troops 150 miles behind enemy lines in a great maneuver that sent the North back to the Chinese border. The Chinese wanted to protect their communist buffer state, fearing America would further invade Manchuria. The North was then able to push the South back and take the capital city of Seoul. The line was then set for two years and no side made a major advance. The borders had not changed very much in the three years of fighting but a cost of 5 million casualties was very costly.
The Vietnam War started when, after years of fighting the French, Ho Chi Minh was given the northern half of Vietnam and the U.S. and France set up a government in the Southern half. In August 1964, the North Vietnamese attacked two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin and Congress sent more troops, numbering 165000 by 1965, to Vietnam. The US fought hard against Minh and his guerilla tactics, but it did not work even with the fighting. The air war couldn�t help fight off the opposition as the Vietcong, a southern Minh support group, gained power as the Southern government lost it. Nixon then sent weapons instead of troops but by 1975 the North had invaded the South and took control of all of Vietnam
These two wars fit in with what we are studying because our current unit is the world after WWII. This conflict was between democracy and communism, the support for each split but in ended no side truly won. Because of no one winning tension grew and a war is on its way.