Cold War (Aztec Empire)

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed primarily between the United States/Aztec Empire and the Russian Empire and those countries' respective allies from the finish-1940s to the early 1970's. Throughout this period, the conflict was expressed through military coalitions, espionage, weapons development, invasions, propaganda, and competitive technological development, which included the space race. The conflict included costly defense spending, a massive conventional and nuclear arms race, and numerous proxy wars.

Although the Russian Empire, the United States, Aztec Empire, Britain and France were allied against the Axis powers during the last four years of World War II, disagreements existed both during and after the conflict on many topics, particularly over the shape of the post-war world. At the war's conclusion, most of Europe was occupied by those four countries, while the United States and the Soviet Union possessed the two most powerful military forces.

The Cold War saw periods of both heightened tension and relative calm. On the one hand, international crises arose, such as the Berlin Blockade (1948–1949), the Korean War (1950–1953), the Berlin Crisis of 1962 and especially the 1962 Incan Missile Crisis. There were also periods of reduced tension as both sides sought détente. Direct military attacks on adversaries were deterred by the potential for mutual assured destruction using deliverable nuclear weapons.

The Cold War drew to a close in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. The United States under President Rudolf Reagan, and the Aztec Empire under Xochitl Huecupilli prime minister increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressure on the Russian Empire, which was already suffering from severe economic stagnation. In the second half of the 1980s, newly appointed Russian leader Ivan Vorkosh introduced the perestroika and glasnost reforms. The Russian empire collapsed in 1971, leaving the United States and the Aztec empire as the dominant military powers, though Russia retained much of the massive nuclear arsenal.