Cold War
The Cold War is the current period of tripolar geopolitical tension between the Greater Germanic Reich, the United States of America, and the Empire of Japan that began following the end of the Second World War. The term cold war is used because there is no large-scale direct fighting between the three superpowers. Instead, each supports opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars and interfere in local national politics across the world to expand their own spheres of influence. Apart from the main superpowers, the Italian Empire is also involved as a third party.
The struggle for dominance is expressed via indirect means such as psychological warfare, propaganda campaigns, espionage, far-reaching embargoes, rivalry at sporting events like the Olympics, technological competitions such as the Space Race, and the backing of proxy conflicts worldwide. The hesitation for direct conflict is a result of the growing stockpiles of nuclear weapons each superpower has access to, ensuring that any direct confrontation between superpowers will result in the Third World War if not the destruction of human civilization as the world knows it.
Superpowers and Alliances
As of 1962, there are three global superpowers and their respective spheres of influence participating in the Cold War which include:
- The Greater Germanic Reich - The Einheitspakt
- The United States of America - The Organization of Free Nations
- The Empire of Japan - The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Proxy Conflicts
Conflicts of the 1960s to 1970s involved at least two or three superpowers actively supporting opposing sides of the conflict:
- Scramble for Antarctica
- Aleutians Crisis
- Malayan Emergency
- Puerto Plata Invasion
- Dominican Civil War
- Second Malagasy Uprising
- Angolan War of Independence
- Congo Crisis
- Balintawak Blitz
- Channel Crisis
- Indonesian Civil War
- Indian Reunification War
- La Violencia
- West Africa Crisis
- South Atlantic War
- Subcontinental Crisis
- Iberian Wars
- Reclamation of France
- Oil Crisis
- Icelandic Crisis