The USSR and US did not fight directly during the Cold War. With both sides trying to be ahead of one another they furiously worked away at gaining their intellect on nuclear power. No one was too sure if civilization would survive a nuclear war and World War 3 was feared. They called this stalemate the balance of terror. However, no one ended up fighting because they knew mankind would most likely be lost if done. Both the US and Soviets armed different sides to block each other’s strategy’s. Some examples of those proxy wars include The Korean War, and The Vietnam war. The first proxy war was the Korean War. This consisted of splitting Korea along the 38th parallel, into two administrations, dividing the country by north and south.
