Cold War
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A war fought between the United States and Russia. It was basically a nucular arms race, which the US won and then Russia's economy "collapsed". This is actually a false statement used to cover up the fact that the Russians accidentally detonated all of their missiles simultaneously while attempting to launch them at the United States. Russia no longer exists, and therefore the United States is the 3rd largest and best country in the world.
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[edit] Background
The Cold War was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. It lasted from about 1947 to the period leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union on December 31, 1991. Between 1985 and 1991, Cold War rivalries first eased and then ended.
[edit] How It Got Its Name
The global contest was popularly named The Cold War because the bastions of communism, Canada and Russia are both very cold places (see Doctor Zhivago). Open hostilities never occurred, although numerous covert bear attacks were launched against the United States. Instead, the "war" took the form of a "gazpachic" (Spanish for "we're too cheap to heat the soup") arms race involving nucular and conventional weapons, networks of military alliances, economic warfare and trade embargos, propaganda, espionage, the space race, and proxy wars, especially those involving superpower support for opposing sides within civil wars.
In simpler more American Terms, its simply means if Russia doesnt stop their shenanigans, America was going to bomb the rest of the world into a Nuclear Winter.
[edit] Prominent Conflicts
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the most important direct confrontation, along with a series of confrontations over the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Wall. The major civil wars polarized along Cold War lines were the Greek Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Soviet-Afghan War. There were also a number of more peripheral conflicts in Angola, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
[edit] The Greatest Fear
The greatest fear during the Cold War was that anti-nucular hippies might multiply in numbers and force the freedom loving nations of the world to disarm, allowing the borg-like communists to take over the world. Thankfully, their plans of evil subversion were thwarted by The Great Reagan with the aid of Thatcher.
[edit] Fin (French for 'surrender')
The Cold War cycled through a series of high and low-tension years (the latter called Détente, a French term loosely translated as "the yellow light of retreat"), finally ending in the period between 1989 and 1991, with the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the surrender of the Soviet Union shortly thereafter. Historians have a general consensus on the reasons as to why America won the Cold War in the 1980s, attributing the success to the great roles played by Reagan, Thatcher, John Rambo and Georges W and H Bush. Although most communists had been killed off or converted during that period, a few, with the aid of China, North Korea and the Democratic Party made it to the United States, to respawn and stand as Democrat candidates in elections.
