This war was also known as the cold war. Both wars were very similar to each other. The Vietnam war was an invasion of Japanese on Vietnam. After about 4 years Japan had admitted defeat and France was seeking to regain the colony. The war then further after Japan attacked to when France was trying to regain the colony, but soon debated whether it was worth all the lost lives. The United States stepped in to help France. The United States just didn't want communism to spread and neither did tFrance so they fought together against Vietnam who did want it.
Korea divided up after World War II. The North surrendered to the Soviets and the South surrendered to the United States. Most of the occupying troops were removed from the peninsula by 1949. North Korea received military aid from the Soviets. On June 25, 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea. The United States saw what was happening and thought it had many similarities to what Hitler had done during World War II, so they decided to step in and help South Korea. South Korea at this time was already asking the United Nations for help. 15 Nations said they would help South Korea and sent it troops for them. The North was being pushed back, but refused to surrender and Truman at this time was worried about the conflict and hoped it wouldn't turn into a bigger war than it already was. Eventually, South Korean troops began to push into the North.
In October of 1950 China decided to enter the war and were fighting with the North Koreans. Truman was very against the huge escalation to the war that China was bringing now stepping in. After more than 2 years of fighting a peace agreement was signed. There was almost no change to the boarder and over 5 million lives were lost during the cold war.
How would people have avoided this war:
There were lots of different options for avoiding this war. Some say we should have not done anything until it started spreading past their country. Others think we should have made them feel backed into a corner and make alliances with all their neighbor and surrounding countries. Another thought was that we should send it people to educated their country and leaders on why communism is a bad thing and how and why they should change. We could also get rid of their leader which I realize were already trying to do, but its unsuccessful. We shouldn't have even made it seem like we had a problem with them and sent special forces in to assassinate their leader and then elected a new one in their country and helped them set of a government system like our own so they wouldn't have communism again.
There were lots of different options for avoiding this war. Some say we should have not done anything until it started spreading past their country. Others think we should have made them feel backed into a corner and make alliances with all their neighbor and surrounding countries. Another thought was that we should send it people to educated their country and leaders on why communism is a bad thing and how and why they should change. We could also get rid of their leader which I realize were already trying to do, but its unsuccessful. We shouldn't have even made it seem like we had a problem with them and sent special forces in to assassinate their leader and then elected a new one in their country and helped them set of a government system like our own so they wouldn't have communism again.