Cold War, communists verses free world.
It was a struggle against communism.
The Korean War (1950-1953) and the Vietnam War (1961-1975) were part of the COLD WAR, against the spread of communism.
To prevent the communist take over of the NON-communist Republic of South Vietnam, by Communist NORTH Vietnam.
The struggle between Democracy and Communism.
Generally, the struggle in South East Asia (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia) goes by the name of The Second Indochina War. Inside the US, it is usually known as the Vietnam War, though this is inaccurate, as the war encompassed more than just Vietnam (or, for that matter, was fought not just in Vietnam itself).
The Vietnam conflict was a type of proxy war, in that our Cold War foe, Russia, heavily subsidized Communist North Vietnam in their fight with U.S. forces.
Ho Chi Minh was at power in North Vietnam during Vietnam War and he was a Communist.
Two different topics/questions here; "Local Struggle..." and "Major event of the cold war..." 1. The VN War wasn't a local struggle. It involved the world powers and potential atomic war. 2. Any SHOOTING war during the cold war was a major event.
the Cases of Chinese Civil war started because Struggle for power between Nationalists and Communists broke out into war.
The outcome of the war was the that invasion of South Vietnam by North Vietnam succeeded, and the US failed to prevent the unification of Vietnam into a single, communist country, which it has remained to this day.
the Vietnam war
See: Statistics About the Vietnam War. Recommended by the History Channel. And see: Civil Rights Movement