Tensions between the super powers caused tensions in other countries who relied on the super powers, for trade, and support, also for countries politically dies to these countries.
America wanted to contain the spread of communism to these areas, because they were protective of the Latin American lands, and that they still needed oil exported to them from the Middle East so it necessary for it to not be under the Soviet influence. The Soviet Union and the U.S. competed to either spread or stop communism. The Cold War affected Asia in that it led to the Korean War, and further conflicts with China and Japan.
