The three methods that the United States of America used to counteract the influences of the Soviet Union were intelligence, media propaganda and nuclear arms race. These strategies would make the Soviets uneasy and they will feel that there is another powerful country that is there to counter their influences.
US objective in WW2 was the defeat of the third Reich and Japan while their objective in the Vietnam was to defend ally territory.
The nature of the incomplete war and irregular warfare made the disputation bad.
Explanation:
The second world war was in many ways a rather clear cut conflict for the US that was joined after the security of the US base was compromised and they had to make sure it would not happen to their soil again.
They were fighting against an oppressive regime under the support of their people to attack.
The war in Vietnam was defensive and was to defend the territory of the allies.
It was also largely not supported by the people and US did not have much of a freehand.
It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten Confederate states still in rebellion. It also decreed that freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union Army, thereby increasing the Union's available manpower. The Proclamation also prevented European forces from intervening in the war on behalf of the Confederacy.
There were a lot of factors in different countries but the most notable one is the conflict of interest. The king and his nobles didng get along anymore as the nobles found the ruling pointless.
