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The two major players in the Cold War were the US and the Soviet Union. These two nations did not have battles or real wars during the Cold War years. Other conflicts among smaller communist nations, and a large one, China, were related to the Cold War. Wars in Korea and Vietnam can be considered wars with roots in the Cold War.
In the post-World War II era, the United Nations was formed intentionally to prevent any further global wars (and even smaller conflicts). To achieve this end, the designers of the "U.N." sought to engage the world's nations in a formal, public, ongoing discussion of world problems and regional tensions, to develop a process by which grievances would be brought into a global-public forum for the sake of peaceful resolution, and to introduce democratic principles into the world-community that would enable all nations to work as a unified whole rather than as isolated competitors.
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Though they were never formally termed "wars" (which requires a declaration by Congress) the Korean War and Vietnam War were the 2 major conflicts during the Cold War in which Western nations fought in regional battles against Communist forces, to prevent expansion.