a. The United States involvement in the Korean War and the Vietnam War were similar in that both were a war in a third world country that the United States entered because they wanted to contain the spread of communism. The Korean War served as a proxy war between the United States and the communist Soviet Union during the Cold War. The United States entered the Vietnam war because they wanted to stop the spread of communism into South Vietnam and the rest of Asia.b. One specific historical difference between the United States experience in the Korean War and in the Vietnam War was the length of the wars and their endings. The Korean War lasted only 3 years, and ended with an armistice between the governments of China, North Korea, South Korea, and the United States and an agreement that Korea would stay divided following the war. The Vietnam War lasted for 10 years and ended when communist North Vietnam took over South Vietnam and unified the country as one socialist republic.c. One specific historical effect of the Vietnam War on United States society was that the United States people lost trust in government leaders. The violent involvement of the United States' in the Vietnam War was broadcasted quite publicly in the states, and its harsh reality caused an uprising of anti-war movements that opposed the war and the government that agreed to participate in it.

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