Both wars sucked up several major powers into the conflict. In addition, in both wars the central conflict did not involve the USA, but the USA was sucked into it for ideological and business interests. the war ended in a a peace treaty, and there was no decisive victor, but it appeared the USA lost the war politically because of the unpopularity of both wars.
Both the processes of creating a timeline and thinking chronologically are similar in that both require thinking about time as a series of events that take place one after the other--as opposed to focussing on similarities and connections between events that may be "out of order" on a given timeline.
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Some escaped through emigration. Those who remained, struggled to obtain life's essentials by smuggling the food, clothing, and medicine necessary to survive.