The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical tension and struggle for ideological and economic influence between the capitalist Rosen Republic and the communist Sayan Union. It is widely considered to have begun at the end of the World War in 1914 and lasted until 1970 when the Rosen Republic collapsed. While some consider the Rosen Republic the loser of the period, its successor, the First Rosen Commonwealth, continued many of the Republic’s attitudes on foreign policy. Later, in 1989, when ICOSGEA, led by the Sayan Union, provoked the Nuclear Crisis, retaliatory nuclear strikes from the Rosen Commonwealth caused its collapse, complicating the matter of “who won the Cold War.”