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Cold War
After World War II, or what Russians call the Great Patriotic War, two great allies turned to a seemingly perpetual state of distrust, intrigue, fear and hostile rivalry. They were the sole survivors. As the only two superpowers that commanded powerful military forces, they fueled support for global ideologies with their will to impose them. Both started equally by polarizing the rest of the world and starting an intense race called the Cold War. Both countries, the United States and Russia, competed to reach space first, build up nuclear warheads, make the best fighter jets, and influence the rest of world governments to convert to capitalism or socialism (respectively). The Soviet Union, despite suffering the highest loss of life during World War II with a devastated economy, engulfed Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Albania, and East Germany as satellite states. The strategic island Sakhalin was also annexed. The United States executed the Marshall Plan as a response: $13 billion in aid to rebuild Western Europe. Both countries developed a nuclear triad: strategic bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). The triad increased each nation’s nuclear deterrence by significantly reducing the possibility that all forces could be destroyed with a first attack and ensuring a second attack threat. Treaties were signed as each country continued a sphere of influence throughout the world. John Van Neumann, a Cold War strategist, inventor of Game Theory, and Chairman of the ICBM Committee, created a doctrine of military strategy where a full-scale use of weapons of mass destruction by opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both. Neumann created the acronym MAD for Mutually Assured Destruction: either side, once armed, has no incentive to initiate a conflict or disarm.
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