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13 maj 2020 · In Korea and Indochina, the Cold War saw states made (see Cumings 2005; Vatthana 2012). And, in South Korea and Vietnam, wars had significant health, environmental and socio-economic impacts (Westing 1971; Le Thi Nham Tuyet and Johansson 2001; Lee 2014).
16 cze 2020 · The Korean War is an example of successful warfare because the means and ways applied were balanced with the political end state within the context of the strategic situation. The Vietnam War is an example where those three factors were not balanced and the political objectives were not met.
The Cold War in Asia was a major dimension of the worldwide Cold War that shaped diplomacy and warfare from the mid-1940s to 1991. The main countries involved were the United States, the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, and ...
6 cze 2023 · Shortly after the signing of the Korean armistice, war broke out in Vietnam between two factions, the North Vietnamese (supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist governments) and the South Vietnamese (supported by the United States and other anti-communist governments).
At the very time Vietnamese nationalists were engaged in a bloody anticolonial war with France, the cold war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was evolving into an ideological and power struggle with global dimensions. The conjunction of these historical trends ex plains the internationalization of the war in Vietnam.
American troops moving through flooded jungle in Vietnam. As a 1953 armistice ended fighting in the Korean War, a similar Cold War crisis was unfolding further south in Vietnam. A narrow, mountainous coastal nation sandwiched between China, Laos and Cambodia, Vietnam had long been dominated by foreign imperialists.
Drawing on a wide range of recently declassified documents, Lee outlines the regional and international context of American diplomatic history towards Korea and...
