Cold War

The Cold War was a period of heightened tension between the two world superpowers at the time, the United States of America and the Workers Soviet Socialist Eurasian Union, between 1947 starting with the well-known Truman Doctrine and 1993 with the fall of the WSSEU. This also includes the numerous allies of both countries including the numerous factions that sprung up, the two major being the Moscow Pact and the Collaboration of Free Territories.

The term "cold war" was used to describe the fact no actual major conflict directly involving both nations happened, however it was more of large amounts of proxy wars intended to influence the politics of smaller nations. Many involvements of secret agencies in various countries were most active during the Cold War, and often were reconnaissance operations. As a side effect of the recent invention of nuclear weapons, tensions were almost fragile and could lead to a third world war at any given moment.

Prelude
The world had just come out of the Second World War in a victory for the Allied powers, plus America apparently. The four victorious powers; Scotland, France, the WSSEU and the USA divided Germany into occupied sectors, and also different regions of the city of Berlin, then the capitol of the former Reich. Already, tensions had grown as no one was able to make a proper decision into what Germany should become; a democratic regime ran by the victorious equally democratic powers, or a communist state ran entirely by the Eurasian powerhouse. Coupled with the recent occupation of Korea and Japan, similar issues rose up across the world about what should overshadow the other.

Seeing as the WSSEU made decisions on their own and started to force communism in their half of Europe, in 1947 the United States declared the controversial Truman Doctrine, which vowed to enforce a containment policy across the world to prevent the spread of communism. Their logic was that if one nation became communist, the neighbors would become communist too, and vice versa. This is often considered to be the start of the Cold War by many, and as the official "declaration" of war started, both sides prepared for "war".

1947-1960: First Days
The Cold War had just begun and already both sides were majorly tense. The nation was on high alert including heightened military presence on the coastlines of America's comrades, including many in Argonaut and in the Canadian territories ran by the United States, up to the Diomedes. Also common was public fear that the WSSEU had already infiltrated the United States and was ready to head it down the route of the hammer and sickle at any moment, causing massive hatred towards both Russians immigrating to America and generally anything communist. "Communist" became a derogatory slur.

Meanwhile in the other half, rogue American scientists helped the WSSEU develop their own atomic bombs, which furthered heavy military tension. Now at any given moment, any second, minute, or even hour or day, one wrong timed nuke could bring the world to it's knees. It was up to both sides to avoid causing anything that could lead to total devastation, as soon the concept of mutually assured destruction (MAD), in which both sides would be annihilated either path, was created. The economies of both nations became heavily diverted towards military spending and you get the point. Both sides were prepared and not prepared simultaneously.

Nothing much really happened in the 1950s, as the threat seemed to be out of the limelight. For now.