How did the conflict in Korea and Vietnam have Cold War origins?

Answer 1

It was still the US against Russia/China, but played on a "smaller" stage

Answer 2

Totally! Korea and Nam were the hot spots in the "Cold War". Both those hot spots and the Cold War were all about stopping the spread of Communism.
Or so our fearless leaders told us at the time and have aloud to be printed in our history books.

Answer 3

Where fought to stop the spread of communism. China/russia trained,helped north korea and vietnam attempt to spread communism.

Answer 4

Casus belli Cold War escalation and nationalism.
Territorial
changes Reunification of Vietnam.

Combatants
Republic of Vietnam
United States of America
Republic of Korea
Thailand
Australia
New Zealand
The Philippines Democratic Republic of Vietnam
National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam
People’s Republic of China
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Strength
~1,200,000 (1968) ~520,000 (1968)
Casualties
RVN
dead: 230,000
wounded: 300,000
U.S.
dead: 58,209
wounded: 153,303
R.O.K.
dead: 5,000
wounded: 11,000
Australia
dead: 520
D.R.V./N.L.F.
dead: 600,000*
wounded: 600,000*
PRC
dead: 1100
wounded: 4200

Civilian dead (total Vietnamese): 1,000,000* (* = approximations, see Notes below)
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a military conflict in which communist forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV or North Vietnam) and the indigenous National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, (also known as the Việt Cộng, "Victor Charlie" or "Charlie" for short, "VC" or "Cong" or "Mr. Charlie" or "Mr. Charles") fought the anti-communist forces of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) and its allies — most notably the United States (U.S.) — in a successful effort to unify Vietnam into a single independent, communist state.

The chief cause of the war was the failure of Vietnamese nationalists, in the form of the Viet Minh, to gain control of southern Vietnam both during and after their struggle for independence from France in the First Indochina War of 1946-1954.

Allies of the Vietnamese communists included the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. South Vietnam's main anti-communist allies were the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, and New Zealand. The U.S. in particular, deployed large numbers of military personnel to South Vietnam. U.S. military advisors first became involved in Vietnam as early as 1950, when they began to assist French colonial forces. In 1956, these advisors assumed full responsibility for training the Army of the Republic of Vietnam or ARVN. Large numbers of American combat troops began to arrive in 1965 and the last left the country in 1973.[2]

At various stages the conflict involved clashes between small units patrolling the mountains and jungles, guerrilla attacks in the villages and cities, and finally, large-scale conventional battles. U.S. aircraft also conducted substantial aerial bombing campaigns, targeting both logistical networks and the cities and transportation arteries of North Vietnam. Large quantities of chemical defoliants were also sprayed from the air in an effort to reduce the cover available to enemy combatants.

To some degree the Vietnam War was a "proxy war," one of several that erupted during the Cold War period that followed the conclusion of the Second World War and decolonization.

Answer 5

Figure it out, professor retard.