Cold War

"...an "iron curtain" has descended across the continent."

- Winston Churchill (1946)

The Cold War was a conflict spanning from the end of the Second World War in 1945, to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The conflict was predominately between the USA and the USSR. It was a war with very little actually combat between the two opposing armies but was mainly a war of words and propaganda, however, there was serious tension between America and the USSR which on several occasions nearly lead to nuclear missile attacks. It is the main focus of the story in Call of Duty: Black Ops.