The rationale for US military involvement in both Korea and Vietnam was practically the same: to stop communist expansion in Asia and avoid the fall of friendly countries into the hands of communist movements, an outcome that would have supposed an advantage for the Soviet Union in the geopolitical chess game of the Cold War bipolar order.
Roman Religion Challenged. Judaism and Christianity, while posing separate threats to the empire, had one thing in common - they both refused to participate in the worship of the Roman gods and make sacrifices at their temples.
