Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between Poland and Blostia and their respective allies, the GUIS and the Western Bloc, after the Great War. Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but the period is generally considered to span the 1949 Kirkbride Doctrine to the admission of the third-party power of Canadia to the GUIS in 1991.
The term "cold" is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two superpowers, but they each supported major regional conflicts known as proxy wars. The conflict was based around the ideological and geopolitical struggle for global influence by the two powers, following the Great War between 1936 and 1947. The doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD) caused by the mass production of nuclear weapons by multiple nations discouraged a pre-emptive attack by either side.
Aside from the nuclear arsenal development and conventional military deployment, the struggle for dominance was expressed via indirect means such as psychological warfare, propaganda campaigns, espionage, far-reaching embargoes, rivalry at sports events and technological competitions such as the Space Race, which ended with the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, which saw the first landing of the human race on Luna. Outside of this, Jonathia and Canadia entered into a political struggle, which finally ceased with the Salisbury Agreement in 1991.
The Cold War is believed to have ended with the collapse of the Western Bloc as the remaining member states moved on to different projects. The Tarestian People's Union dissolved in a series of revolutions that saw the independence of its six constituent members. Brightland began to soften their world view after their government began a series of reforms that eventually led it to becoming semi-democratic. In modern times, some Cold War conflicts are, though now unrelated to the political world, still going, such as the conflicts between West Kalupa and East Kalupa.
Poland faded from the international stage in the early 1990s with the rise of nationalist politics in the nation, leaving Jonathia, though disputedly, as the sole remaining superpower on the planet. World peace has consistently progressed over the recent years, with countries formerly seeing each other as enemies now seeing each other as allies. The growth of alliances like the Tapanthian Republic and the Central Continents Union significantly improved global relations, and has prevented major outbursts of international conflict. However, tensions have begun increasing once again as the world steps into the 2020s, with many fearing that the spark of a hypothetical Second Great War may be nearing.
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