Cold War

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The Cold War, also known as the First Cold War in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, was a covert indirect political-military conflict spanning from after the end of the Second World War in 1945, to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
==Call of Duty: Black Ops ==
=== Operation 40===
Call of Duty: Black Ops revolves around the Cold War, starting out in the level "Operation 40" during 1961, where the player and his squad (consisting of Joseph Bowman, Frank Woods, and Alex Mason) have orders to assassinate Fidel Castro, with help of Cuban rebels. After killing "Castro" (actually a double), the mission goes wrong and the squad, along with Carlos, have to escape Cuba via plane. Bowman tells the squad they will not have enough time for take-off due to enemy vehicles blocking the runway, but Mason jumps off the plane and destroys the vehicles with a ZPU-4, only to be captured by Nikita Dragovich and sent to Vorkuta.
===Baikonur===
In Baikonur, Mason and his team (along with Grigori Weaver) are tasked by President Kennedy to sabotage the Soviet space program by destroying the Soyuz 2 rocket before it launches, killing Dragovich, and killing Nazi scientists working for the Soviets. During the mission, Weaver gets compromised, and Lev Kravchenko stabs him in the eye with a Karambit Knife. Mason and the team eventually find Weaver and destroy the rocket and continue the mission. The scientists are killed, but Dragovich is not confirmed as dead.
===Khe Sanh===
Mason's SOG team (composed of Woods, Bowman, and Mason, accompanied by Jason Hudson) then go to Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, arriving just before North Vietnamese soldiers begin the siege of Khe Sanh and have to defend the city with Marine forces. The Marines start to push back the North Vietnamese and gain the upper hand against them and are successful in defending the military base.
===Hue City===
The team then heads out to Hue City, Vietnam, to locate a Soviet defector in the MAC-V compound in the city and retrieve his intel on Nova 6. Mason's team then goes through the compound and locates the intel, then fight to the landing zone with help from air support. The American forces eventually reach the landing zone and escape with the intel, after destroying an enemy ZSU gun emplacement and holding off a North Vietnamese counterattack on the landing zone.
===Kowloon City===
A CIA team consisting of Jason Hudson and Grigori Weaver are sent to Kowloon City, Hong Kong, to interrogate Dr. Daniel Clarke, who had helped Dr. Friedrich Steiner stabilize Nova 6. Soviet Spetsnaz forces sent by Dragovich attack Clarke, Hudson, and Weaver to prevent the CIA from retrieving intel from Clarke. The team moves throughout the buildings in Kowloon City and when they reach a steep and slippery rooftop, Clarke slips and is shot in the head while dangling from the roof. Hudson and Weaver escape Kowloon City, however, and use intel collected from Clarke to go to Mount Yamantau in the Ural Mountains.
===DMZ===
Mason's team and other SOG forces then head out to Vietnam's DMZ, where they were shot down. The team then has to clear a village and destroy enemy anti-aircraft guns to permit American helicopters to fly through. The Americans then clear out the north part of the village and go through rat tunnels, where Mason finds intel on Nova 6 as well as the Soviets’ involvement with the Vietnamese and escapes the tunnel, which was rigged to blow by Kravchenko.
===Laos===
American forces begin an attack around the Laotian-Vietnamese border, and Mason's team uses a boat to attack the Viet-Cong forces from the river. After the team destroys the enemy forces around the river, they move up and investigate a crashed plane that the CIA had discovered contained Nova 6. All of a sudden, Soviet Spetsnaz forces attack the crash site and the SOG team has to defend it. The team defends it until a Mi-24 Hind fires a rocket at the fuselage. This causes the plane to fall down a cliff and Kravchenko and Dragovich capture the team. After being captured by Dragovich and his men, Mason's team is sent to Viet-Cong guerillas play Russian Roulette. Bowman is killed after refusing to play. Mason did not play, but instead took the weapon and killed a Viet-Cong guerilla, then used the guerilla's gun to kill the other Viet-Cong in the tunnel. After Woods and Mason escape the tunnels, they take an enemy Hind, and they use the Hind to fly to a hidden Viet-Cong base. Woods and Mason move through until they find Kavchenko, who hits Mason with a chair and beats him until he is stabbed by Woods. Kravchenko then pulls the pins on grenades and jumps out a window with Woods, seemingly killing them both.
===Mount Yamantau===
The CIA team at Mount Yamantau has orders to destroy a communication station. After the team destroys the station, they move out and discover a Nova 6 facility, where they receive a recorded message from Friedrich Steiner. CIA becomes informed of an imminent Nova 6 attack across United States orchestrated by Dragovich and his sleeper agents controlled by his numbers station, and Steiner wishes to exchange information on how to stop the attack for his own safety. While in the facility, it gets attacked by Spetsnaz forces and the team escapes while an avalanche buries the entire facility.
===Rebirth Island===
With Bowman dead and Woods allegedly dead, Mason heads out to Rebirth Island to kill Steiner. Mason sneaks through shadows and kills everybody between him and Steiner. Meanwhile, a joint United States Marine Corps/CIA team, led by Hudson and Weaver, fights through the streets to Steiner's lab. The Spetsnaz spray Nova 6 on the streets and the Americans use their HazMat suits to survive. Once the team finally reaches Steiner's lab, they are shocked to see Mason about to kill Steiner. Weaver and Hudson attempt to stop Mason, but Mason shoots Weaver's arm and kills Steiner.
===Revelations===
With Dragovich's attack on the line, United States prepares for a nuclear first strike against Soviet Union. After being brought to interrogation by the CIA, Hudson lets Mason free when Mason resists the interrogation, but Mason punches Hudson and walks through the Pentagon until finally realizing what happened to him at Vorkuta. Hudson catches up with Mason and tells him what really happened—that Reznov was dead, he had been brainwashed, and was the only one who could translate the message encoded in the numbers—and so Mason agrees to try to translate the numbers one more time. He says that the numbers are being broadcasted from a Soviet ship in Cuba called the Rusalka.
===Redemption===
The team then assault the Rusalka via helicopters, and then lands. They move through the ship looking for where the broadcast station is, and they find out that the ship was converted to a submarine pen, with the broadcast station in the pen. Mason and Hudson, along with Sergeants Maestas, Aziz, and Drew, dive down to stop the broadcast and kill Dragovich. While down there, Mason finds the station, shuts down the broadcast, and kills Dragovich. After swimming to the surface as American jets bomb the Rusalka, Weaver says to Mason that they have won, but Mason replies that they have only won for now.
== Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War ==
In the early 1980s, as the Cold War raged on, Russell Adler, a Green Berett officer who was promoted to CIA SAD/DOG agent, was sent on an assassination mission in Turkey to kill terrorist leader Arash Kadivar and his Second-in-Command Qasim Javadi for their roles in the Iran Hostage Crisis. During the mission, Adler discovered from Kadivar that a rogue Soviet Spymaster and Intelligence Officer, known only by his codename Perseus, was responsible for organizing the crisis. When this was reported to US President Ronald Reagan he brands Perseus as an international threat and immediately authorizes a black operation team to arrest him. 
=== East Berlin ===
During the mission, in East Berlin, Adler and his team, along with an agent, who is codenamed Bell, can either kill or arrest Russian Mafia boss Anton Volkov, who is a close associate of Perseus and the Soviet Union. Later, the team discovered that Perseus had infiltrated top-secret CIA mission Operation Greenlight, in which he acquired a nuke that would be used in the mission.
=== Western Russia ===
On March 3, in Mount Yamantau in the Ural Mountains, as Mason and Woods were sent to infiltrate a base formerly owned by the late Nikita Dragovich, in hopes of retrieving Perseus' list of sleeper agents, who were used by Dragovich back in 1968. After the mission, it was discovered that Perseus had removed the data from the base's mainframe.
=== Moscow ===
With this discovery, Adler's team was forced to infiltrate the Lubyanka building, the headquarters of the KGB, in hopes of retrieving the list. After Adler contacted Dimitri Belikov, a double agent for the CIA, they were able to physically reach him uncaught. With his help they successfully infiltrate the building while undercover. When they reached the HQ's bunker, Adler and Bell proceeded to take down all the guards inside, which also triggered the alarm, Upon reaching and entering the bunker's vault, they managed to retrieve the list of sleeper agents. With the intelligence in tow and after rescuing Belikov, when he was captured for being a mole in the KGB, they immediately escaped from the headquarters while it was being put on lockdown. After they escaped, they discovered that Theodore Hastings, one of the scientists involved in Operation Greenlight, is one of the sleeper agents and had escaped to Cuba, Havana.
=== Cuba ===
Adler's team launches a raid on Cuba in hopes of catching Perseus there. During that time, while they fought their way through Cuban forces, Perseus breaks into the lab that houses the stolen nuke and kills all the scientists inside save for Hastings, though his wounded state left him on the verge of dying. Instead of taking the nuke with him, Perseus steals the detonation codes for all the nukes that will be used in Operation Greenlight, giving him full access to the operation, allowing him to not only destroy half of Europe but to also pin the blame on the United States. While the team traversed a Cuban palace, where the lab is located, Woods notices Perseus boarding a chopper and tries to kill him but failed, and the Soviet agent escapes. While holding off a swarm of Cuban soldiers, two members of the team, Eleazar "Lazar" Azoulay and Helen Park, were badly injured from a bazooka missile attack. Bell was then given the choice to save one of them (which depends on the player's decision). If that chosen comrade is secured (could be either Lazar or Park) then the team would be forced to leave the other one behind.
=== West Berlin ===
Returning to CIA warehouse E9, Bell was put under heavy dozing by Adler, who hoped to provoke their of the time during the Vietnam War and on how they are found Perseus. It proved to be difficult and Adler was forced to have Bell injected several times as well as starting the memory all over again, despite the risks. During the process, Bell manages to recover from amnesia where it was discovered that they are a close agent of Perseus and was shot and left to die in Turkey by an envious Arash Kadivar. It was further revealed to Bell that after they have been found, they were reinvented and recruited by the CIA and their skills in language and cryptography were utilized.
=== Solovetsky ===
After regaining their memories, Bell decided to betray Perseus and reveal the exact location of their superior; the fortified Solovetsky Monastery. Armed with this information, Russell Adler, his team, along with the CIA, launched an invasion on the Solovetsky Islands where they assaulted Perseus' headquarters. Storming into the base and battling their way through, it became a race against time in which the team had to prevent the base's transmitters from signaling the detonation of the Operation Greenlight nukes. Adler's team were successful as when the last of the base's defenses were eliminated, the transmitters were destroyed in a series of explosions. With Operation Greenlight foiled and his plot thwarted, Perseus was forced to go into hiding, though Adler swears to continue pursuing him so as to dismantle his spy network.
== Call of Duty: Black Ops II ==
===Angolan Civil War===
In 1986, Mason comes out of retirement after being summoned by Hudson to rescue Woods and his team after they got captured by the Nicaraguan drug lord, Raul Menendez. Mason and Hudson assist the UNITA army, led by Jonas Savimbi, against the MPLA in an Angolan savannah, in exchange for Savimbi giving them the information they need to rescue Woods. After finding Woods, traumatized and wounded in a container on an MPLA boat, Mason and Hudson rescue him before the boat gets sunk by an attack helicopter. As the three try to escape, they find the Cuban army present with child soldiers, followed by their first meeting with Raul Menendez. The Cuban army chases Mason, Woods, and Hudson to the river, before Savimbi rescues them with a captured Russian helicopter.
===Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan===
After hearing of Raul Menendez's involvement in selling firearms in Afghanistan, Mason and his team are sent there to rendezvous with a contact from China, Tian Zhao, to go to the Mujahideen base and get wind of Menendez's involvement through their contact in the Mujahideen, Mullah Rahmaan, who in an quid pro quo exchange demands weapons in exchange for his knowledge on Menendez. Mason and Woods hold off the Russian army by destroying their tanks and helicopters, including the Soviet Prototype Tank commanded by Kravchenko. After Kravchenko gets captured, Woods interrogates him, finding out that he's been selling weapons for Menendez to countries like Angola and Cuba. With the Soviet Union dying, money was all that mattered to Kravchenko. He also mentions a potential mole in the CIA, leading to Hudson denying the claim, and Woods shooting Kravchenko in the head. Shortly after, the Mujahideen betray Mason, Woods, Hudson, and Zhao, and leave them stranded in the desert, before they end up getting rescued by someone who Mason claims to be Reznov.
===Operation Just Cause===
Three years following the attack on Mendendez's compound, leading to the death of his sister, Josefina Menendez, President George H.W. Bush sends the United States military to invade Panama, to capture the corrupted leader general, Manuel Noriega. After Woods and Mason capture Noriega at a hotel, they escort him through the war-torn streets to the rally point, where he can be prisoner exchanged for Raul Menendez. Woods gets tricked into shooting Mason, who he thought was Menendez, and before he was able to kill Noriega as payback, Menendez shoots Woods in both of his legs, and takes him to where Hudson, and Mason's son David are held captive. Menendez kills Hudson, but spares Woods and David, so that they can suffer with him.
In Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Adler mentions that Raul Menendez transferred money to his bank account while he was at Morocco, which made Adler decide to not return home, and he ended up getting framed for compromising the operation.
== Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 ==
During the first cinematic, the Berlin wall falls, and President Bush calls for the disassembly of nuclear arms for both the U.S., and Soviet Union. As said by Daniel Livingstone, the Cold War was over, but by the end of the game, he said that the world is still more dangerous than ever, and that the enemy is unknown.
The Cold War is mentioned several times in the story, mostly by party patrons during the level, Most Wanted.
==Notable military operations==
*Coup d'état and assassination attempt on Fidel Castro AKA Bay of Pigs Invasion
** Fidel Castro's CIA assassination team/Cuban Rebels/US Air Force vs Cuban Army/Police Forces
***Cuban Army Forces victory
****Bay of Pigs Invasion failed.
**** Assassination attempt on Fidel Castro failed.
****One of the assassination team members, Alex Mason, captured and send to Vorkuta.
*Vorkuta Uprising
**Vorkuta Prisoners vs Vorkuta Guards
***Indecisive
****Both forces sustained heavy casualties.
****Alex Mason escaped from the prison.
****The uprising leader Viktor Reznov is killed.
*Infiltration of Baikonur Cosmodrome
**CIA Infiltration team/Grigori Weaver vs Baikonur defense forces
***Infiltration team/Grigori Weaver victory
****Soyuz 2 destroyed.
****Most of the scientists killed.
****Assassination attempt on Nikita Dragovich failed.
*Attack on US Marine base in Khe Sahn
**US Marine/SOG/Jason Hudson vs North Vietnam Army
***US Marine/SOG/Jason Hudson victory
****Khe Sahn is successfully defended with heavy casualties.
*Rescue attempt on Soviet Defector at MAC-V Compound
** US Marine/SOG forces vs North Vietnam Army
*** US Marine/SOG pyrrhic victory
****The Defector's dossier is secured despite the defector's death.
****The US Marines and NVA lost most of their military equipment.
****The MAC-V compound destroyed.
*Capture attempt on Dr. Daniel Clark at Kowloon city, Hong Kong
**CIA unit/Daniel Clarke vs Spetsnaz forces
***CIA/Daniel Clarke pyrrhic victory
****HVI is killed but some information is leaked.
****Most of the Spetsnaz soldiers are killed.
*Infiltration on Kravchenko's base in DMZ, Vietnam
**SOG/1st Cavalry Division forces vs Viet Cong Army
***SOG/1st Cavalry Division forces victory
****The village is taken but the jungle is still in control of Viet Cong.
****Kravchenko's test of Nova 6 in Vietnam is confirmed.
*Attempt to retrieve Nova 6 in downed Soviet Cargo Plane
**US Marine/SOG forces vs North Vietnam Army/Spetsnaz/Viet Cong forces
***North Vietnam Army/Spetsnaz/Viet Cong forces victory
****Nova 6 in the crash site is retrieved before the SOG team arrive.
****Capture of the SOG team.
****Most of the assault team is annihilated.
*Infiltration to Project Nova Development Center in Mount Yamantau, Ural Mountains, Russian SFSR
** CIA/US Air Force units vs Soviet Armed Forces
***CIA/US Air Force units' victory
****The plan to attack USA and the whereabouts of Frederich Steiner is leaked.
*Assassination attempt on Lev Kravchenko
**SOG/US Marine POW forces vs North Vietnam Army/Viet Cong/Soviet Armed forces
***North Vietnam Army/Viet Cong/Soviet Armed forces pyrrhic victory
****Some NVA, Viet Cong and Soviet army compounds are destroyed.
****Lev Kravchenko is Wounded in Action, originally believed dead.
****Woods is wounded but survived despite labelled dead.
*Assassination of Friedrich Steiner and Attack on Soviet base at Rebirth Island
**US Marine/CIA forces vs Alex Mason vs Soviet Armed Forces
***Alex Mason victory 
****Death of Friedrich Steiner.
****Death of Half of the assault team after the Nova 6 strike.
*Attack on the Broadcast station at Rusalka
**US Marine/CIA forces vs Soviet Armed Forces
***US Marine/CIA forces victory 
****Death of Nikita Dragovich
****The attack on USA is cancelled.
****The pre-emptive strike on USSR is cancelled.
*Covert operation to aid Mujahideen against Soviet attacks for information
**CIA/Mujahideen forces vs Soviet Armed Forces
***CIA/Mujahideen victory
****Kravchenko is killed.
**** Possible CIA mole uncovered.
****Woods, Mason, Hudson and Tian Zhao betrayed by Mujahideen and left for dead.
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