2. The difference between WWII and
the Vietnam war.
The Vietnam war was kind of tricky
because there was no clear enemy. people
couldn’t tell who the bad guy was because
they were all Vietnamese unlike in WWII.
Soldiers found themselves rounding up and
killing villagers, farmers, people who were
no threat to anyone. The elusive guerillas
faded into the jungle. US Soldiers were
captured and tortured.
3. WWII Vietnam war
Occurred in 1941. Occurred in 1961.
There was a clear enemy. there was no clear enemy.
Grasslands, woods.. The battle was mostly in the jungles,
rice paddies, and mountains of
Vietnam.
Superpowers. Vietnam was a battle between a third
world country and a super power.
Found support by many people in the Vietnam was opposed by many back
country. in the states.
Was about taking territories. Not about taking territories.
The war was easier. The war was harder.
4. Comparison of the cold war & the
Vietnam war.
• The United States and other democratic nations protected South
Korea from the communists, while it lost to them in South Vietnam.
• Much of this had to do with the way in which each of these wars
were fought.
• In Korea, the U.S. was pushed back mainly by Chinese forces when
the U.S. neared the Chinese border.
• General Douglas MacArthur wanted to expand the war into China.
Each side fought most of their battles on open ground.
• This gave America the strategic advantage because of its superior air
power and more technologically advanced weapons.
5. • Battles tended to be quick and fierce, resulting in pushing back to
the original line of division and thus the Koreas ended back at the
38th parallel.
• Vietnam on the other hand, resorted to guerrilla warfare given its
smaller fighting force and environment.
• The Vietnamese had previously built some underground tunnels in
their resistance movements against the Japanese and then the
French.
• Most of these tunnels were invincible from American air attacks
and were sometimes built right under US military stations.
• For months, Americans could not figure out how enemy fire came
right into their camp.
6. •the military realized the problem, they went into the
network of tunnels, The difference in the fighting methods
of each war gave rise to sharp differences in casualties.
•54,000 American soldiers died in Korea and the war
ended within three years.
In Vietnam, 58,000 soldiers perished over a course of ten
years.
• The Korean War was characterized by short bursts of
fighting whereas Vietnam tended to be long and drawn
out. Because of the psychological impact of this, their was
an enormous difference between how the veterans of
both wars were received back in the USA.
