"No sooner did the \u201CBig One\u201D get over than a \u201Ccold\u201D war erupted, marked by economic, political, ideological, social and cultural conflict \u2026 energized by the threat of the apocryphal apocalypse \u2026 between civilization\u2019s two superpowers. The alliance between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies had been one of convenience to defeat Hitler \u2026 as Winston Churchill famously stated: \u201CIf Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.\u201D But once that was accomplished and the Soviet Union grabbed as much of Eastern Europe as it could a showdown between communism and democracy (neither in its pure form) was inevitable."@en . "Containment, Cryptography, International Waters"@en . "The Cold War is not thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat."@en . . . "Richard Nixon"@en . "Rapid Deployment, Space Race"@en . "Maritime Industries, Press Gangs"@en . "Research the technology."@en . "2185"^^ . "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent."@en . "Cold War"@en . "Ideology"@en . "No sooner did the \u201CBig One\u201D get over than a \u201Ccold\u201D war erupted, marked by economic, political, ideological, social and cultural conflict \u2026 energized by the threat of the apocryphal apocalypse \u2026 between civilization\u2019s two superpowers. The alliance between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies had been one of convenience to defeat Hitler \u2026 as Winston Churchill famously stated: \u201CIf Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.\u201D But once that was accomplished and the Soviet Union grabbed as much of Eastern Europe as it could a showdown between communism and democracy (neither in its pure form) was inevitable. Despite calls for a shooting war to end the threat \u2013 such as \u201COperation Unthinkable,\u201D code name for a plan to attack the Soviet Union developed by the British Joint Planning Staff under Churchill\u2019s orders at the end of World War II \u2013 the new American president Truman, encouraged by advisors such as Averill Harriman and James Forrestal, decided on instead taking a hard line with Moscow \u2026 or at least, harder than Roosevelt had. In February 1946 Ambassador George Kennan\u2019s \u201CLong Telegram\u201D from Moscow articulated the American policy of \u201Ccontainment\u201D with which the superpower would defend itself against \u201CRussian expansive tendencies.\u201D Despite the never-ending crises \u2013 the Berlin Blockade, Hungarian Uprising, Chinese civil war, Cuban Missile Crisis, bloody little wars in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan \u2013 neither power was quite willing to take the last step \u2026 primarily because both had the atomic bomb in their arsenal. Russia had tested an atomic bomb of its own in 1949; Truman announced that the United States would build a \u201Csuperbomb\u201D (hydrogen bomb); and Stalin promptly followed suit. The world stumbled along on the brink of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) until the American Richard Nixon established diplomatic relations with China in 1972, which in turn led to a policy of d\u00E9tente with Russia. Although thawed, the Cold War \u201Craged\u201D on until the Soviet Union itself broke apart and collapsed in 1991."@en . "Cold War (Civ6)"@en . "Grants the ability to construct an additional ."@en . "Winston Churchill"@en .