Vietnam+War

=Vietnam and Korea Assignment= Read the link and answer the questions that follow.

[|Vietnam]

1. Who was fighting against the Vietnamese from 1945-1954? 2. Which three nations were created after this war? 3. What was the name of the communist guerrillas that started to take over Vietnam? 4. When did the U.S. involve themselves in Vietnamese affairs? 5. What event in 1968 drastically changed US public opinion of the war? 6. What did Vietnamization mean? 7. When did the United States pull out of Vietnam? What happened to Vietnam in 1975? 8. How many Americans died? How many Vietnamese died? 9. Read the background and give me a little summary.

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10. Why did the United States fight in Vietnam? 11. What other war did they fight in that was very similar? 12. Why was it controversial? 13. Which side did the United States fight on? 14. Who helped the other side?

Korea
[|Korean War]

15. Who are the four great characters that were involved in the Korean war? 16. What was the name of the line that divided North and South Korea? 17. When was the war fought? 18. How many Americans died? 19. What is the status of the two Koreas today?