What are 4 supporting details to explain why all of these happened: korean war&race to space&the vietnam war?
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The central theme among the three events is the Cold War, and the competition with the Soviet Union.\n\nThe Korean War occured when North Korean invaded South Korea in June, 1950. The United States was able to quickly push back the North Koreans, but this action forced the Chinese into the war, and it became a stalemate for almost three years.  This was one of the first early tests of the containment of Communism.\n\nThe space race was a competition with the Russians, which the USSR seemed to be winning when it put the first satellite in orbit in 1957, and also put the first man in orbit, Yuri Gagarin. It led to Kennedy calling for a mission to the moon.\n\nThe Vietnam War was something we inherited from the France in 1954. The driving theory behind Vietnam was the "Domino theory" that if Vietnam fell, the rest of SE Asia would soon turn Communist as well. Like Korea, China played a more important role in Vietnam than the USSR did, but both did supply the North Vietnamese.
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Vietnam war was a resource war. We wanted to control the tin, rubber, manganese , the still undeveloped off-shore oil and the largest rice growing region (Mekong Delta) in the world. We poisoned the Delta before we left with Agent Orange and today there are so many deformed births that they are just quietly put down. Vietnam war was a whore just like Iraq.
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Vietnam:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war\n\nDonut dollies:\nhttp://www.donutdolly.com/
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The Cold War was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, supported by their alliance partners. It lasted from about 1947 to the period leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991.\n\nThe global contest was popularly termed The Cold War because direct hostilities never occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union. Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear and conventional weapons, networks of military alliances, economic warfare and trade embargos, propaganda, espionage and proxy wars, especially those involving superpower support for opposing sides within civil wars. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the most important direct confrontation, together with a series of confrontations over the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Wall. The major civil wars polarized along cold war lines were the Greek Civil War, Korean War, Vietnam War and the Soviet-Afghan War, along with more peripheral conflicts in Angola, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.\n\nThe greatest fear during the Cold War was the risk it would escalate into a full nuclear exchange with hundreds of millions killed. Both sides developed a deterrence policy that prevented problems from escalating beyond limited localities. Nuclear weapons were never used in the Cold War.\n\nThe Cold War cycled through a series of high and low tension years (the latter called detente). It ended in the period between 1989 and 1991, with the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and later the Soviet Union. Historians continue to debate the causes in the 1940s, and the reasons for the Soviet collapse in the 1980s.
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Vietnam-a complicated war. As a matter of fact, it wasn't called a war for years-it was a "police action" or "conflict". Not a lot of clear answers there.\n\nU.S. military advisors first became involved in Vietnam as early as 1950, when they began to assist French colonial forces. In 1956, these advisors assumed full responsibility for training the Army of the Republic of Vietnam or ARVN. Large numbers of American combat troops began to arrive in 1965 and the last left the country in 1973.\n\nPresidents involved were:\nHarry Truman 1945-1953\nDwight Eisenhower 1953-1961\nJohn Kennedy 1961-1963\nLyndon Johnson 1963-1969\nRichard Nixon 1969-1974\n\n American forces rose from 16,000 during 1964 to more than 553,000 by 1969. (Johnson). The irony here is we couldn't win that guerrilla war with 553,000  troops but thought 100,000 in Iraq would be plenty. Robert McNamara(then Secretary of defense) has since said he believed JFK would have ended the war has he not been assassinated in 1963.  I believe Democrats were a bit fooled by Johnson in that he fought strongly for great civil rights laws(he did do a lot there) back then but on the other hand escalated the war. It was easy for Democrats to believe he was a good man fighting the good fight. \n\n \n\nNixon had continuously campaigned under the slogan that he "had a plan to end the Vietnam War." (Peace With Honor)Unfortunately, no such plan existed and the American commitment would continue for another five years. The goal of the American military effort was now to buy time, gradually build up the strength of the South Vietnamese armed forces, and to re-equip them with modern weapons so that they could defend their nation on their own. This policy became the cornerstone of the so-called "Nixon Doctrine"\n\nSo Nixon finally pulled troops out but dragged his feet for years.Since he was elected largely because he promised to get us out of Vietnam, people were unhappy it took so long. I believe he finally did withdraw to get re-elected. He was re-elected for a 2nd term but resigned because of Watergate. (Watergate was unraveling during the campaign but most people didn't believe he was involved-thought instead it was a left-wing conspiracy). His Vice-President became President and pardoned Nixon soon after. \n\nIt was a tumultous time indeed. Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 during his Primary run for President.\nThere was a lot of talk that he would certainly be President but \nRichard Nixon was instead. \n\nThere was a lot more to all of this and I'd encourage you to research more-a fascinating time, although very sad. History, politics and life seems interchangeable.
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The events leading up to the Korean War were complex and includes the anti-communistic attitudes and United Nations resolutions for that area of the world.  For a very detailed report and more information, check out the Harry S. Truman Museum and Library site listed below:
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-the stock market crash\n-The New Deal\n-FDR trying to stuff the Supreme Court\n-The debate on whether America should join the new European war\n\nLots more than that too :)
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Your question makes very little sense.\n\nKorea separated alontg the 38th parallel into the communist north and the democratic south.  The Korean War began when the north invaded the south, taking almost the entire peninsula.  The Americans joined in and helped the south Koreans push the north back almost to the Chinese border, when Chinese and Soviet forces aided the north Koreans and pushed the front back to the center of the peninsula, where the demilitarized zone lies today.\n\nSo, North Korea existed (briefly) before the Korean War began, if that's what you're asking.
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The space race was all about the cold war.  Russia launched sputnik, the first successful vehicle in space with a live crew (they sent a dog, just to show space was survivable.)  The US couldn't deal with the Russians being ahead of them.  \nIn truth, however, the Russians didn't have jack to fight with.  The Russian soldiers were walking away (literally) from the military to return to their farms because the government literally couldn't give them a dime for pay.  The whole thing was a big scare tactic, similar the the terrorism scare used more recently.\nIf you go through your history, you'll see that there is always a "boogey-man."
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The chief cause of the war was the failure of Vietnamese nationalists, in the form of the Viet Minh, to gain control of southern Vietnam both during and after their struggle for independence from France in the First Indochina War of 1946-1954.\n\nAllies of the Vietnamese communists included the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. South Vietnam's main anti-communist allies were the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, and New Zealand. The U.S. in particular, deployed large numbers of military personnel to South Vietnam. U.S. military advisors first became involved in Vietnam as early as 1950, when they began to assist French colonial forces. In 1956, these advisors assumed full responsibility for training the Army of the Republic of Vietnam or ARVN. Large numbers of American combat troops began to arrive in 1965 and the last left the country in 1973.
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What an excellent and well timed question, thank you.\n\nMost people believe that the start of the war was a response to North Vietnamese patrol boats firing on the US destroyer USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964.  This "attack" was the all the reason needed for the US to "respond" with bombing raids on North Vietnam.\n\nBut, and this is important, there was a report that came out a few days ago that basically states the North Vietnamese did NOT shoot at our destroyer and further the N. Vietnamese had no idea where our destroyer was!
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A conflict that lasted from 1950 to 1953 between North Korea, aided by China, and South Korea, aided by United Nations forces consisting primarily of U.S. troops.\n\nThe Korean War was a conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula from June 1950 to July 1953. Initially the war was between South Korea (Republic of Korea) and North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) but soon developed into an international war involving the United States and nineteen other nations. The United States sent troops to South Korea as part of a United Nations "police action," which sought to repel the Communist aggression of North Korea. Before the war ended in a stalemate, the People's Republic of China had intervened militarily on the side of North Korea, and the Soviet Union had supplied military equipment to the North.\n\nAt the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviet Union occupied the Korean Peninsula north of the thirty-eighth degree of latitude, while the U.S. occupied the territory south of it. In 1947, after the United States and the Soviet Union failed to negotiate a reunification of the two separate Korean states, the United States asked the U.N. to solve the problem. The Soviet Union, however, refused a U.N. proposal for a general election in the two Koreas to resolve the issue and encouraged the establishment of a Communist regime under the leadership of Kim Il-sung. South Korea then established a democratic government under the leadership of Syngman Rhee. By 1949 most Soviet and U.S. troops had been withdrawn from the Korean Peninsula.\n\nOn June 25, 1950, North Korea, with the tacit approval of the Soviet Union, launched an attack across the thirty-eighth parallel. The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling for the assistance of all U.N. members to stop the invasion. Normally, the Soviet Union would have vetoed this resolution, but it was boycotting the Security Council in protest of the U.N.'s decision not to admit the People's Republic of China.\n\nKorean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. In 1948 rival governments were established: The Republic of Korea was proclaimed in the South and the People's Democratic Republic of Korea in the North.\n\nKorean War \n\nA war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations declared North Korea the aggressor and sent military aid to the South Korean army. President Harry S. Truman declared the war a “police action” because he never asked Congress to pass an official declaration of war. He thereby established a precedent for President Lyndon Johnson, who committed troops to the Vietnam War without ever seeking a congressional mandate for his action.\n\na war between North and South Korea; South Korea was aided by the United States and other members of the United Nations; 1950-1953\n\nThe Korean War from June 25 1950 to cease-fire on July 27 1953 (the war has not ended officially), was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea. Some consider this Cold War-era conflict to have been a proxy war between the United States and its allies, and the Communist powers of the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. The principal combatants were North Korea, supported by People's Volunteer Army (PVA) of Communist China, and later Soviet combat advisors, aircraft pilots, and weapons; and South Korea, supported principally by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines, although many other nations sent troops under the aegis of the United Nations.
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1) 9-11 Twin Towers attack in NYC\n2) Watergate, the impeachment of Nixon\n3) Vietnam War\n4) Assassination of President Kennedy\n5) The invention of television\n6) World War II\n7) The Stock Market Crash\n8) World War I\n9) The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln\n10) The Civil War\n11) The American Revolution\n12) The landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock.
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try this\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_war
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T\nF Cautious?! Kennedy almost got us into a nuclear exchange!\nT\nF tho it greatly accelerated the space race
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Here are a ton of links at the bottom of the page:\n\nhttp://www.riverinesailor.com/\n\nhttp://vikingphoenix.com/military/war/vnwar/vietnamwar-usn.htm
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1. The USA was getting an absolute humping.\n2. errrr that's it really.\n\nThe Vietcong were hamering the USA and so the USA pulled out and left South Vietnam to face the onslaught alone.\n\nAll the US citizens were seeing on a daily basis were rows of body-bags being loaded onto planes.\n\nEventually the USA admitted that enough was enough and pulled out.