Cold War Simulation De-brief

Please answer the following in two “good” paragraphs using complete sentences in your BLOG. Be sure to use specific evidence from the simulation and the above tables to justify your answer.
1. Which country were you? What strategy did you use to try to win?
2. Who won the game and why? Who won the “real” Cold War?

I was Latin America, Europe and Australia with Chris. Since the countries we had were pretty poor compared to the countries in Africa, Middle East and Asia we decided to sell our countries many at a time and cheap. The USA bought all our countries except for one, which the USSR bought. When we had sold all our countries, and were still losing, we decided to let the USSR buy all our land. They did, but we still lost by 22 points.

In the game USA won, because they nuked the USSR three times in a row in the first round, and the USSR could only defend themselves against one of the nukes. When the USA nuked the USSR it showed that the USA had planned ahead, and chose to buy many nukes from the start. The USSR on the other hand hadn’t planned it to well, or thought that an attack wouldn’t come so soon, since they could only defend themselves once. Then it took the USSR some time to build up their strength again. So that lost them a lot of points.

Even though the US and the USSR sat down and decided to end the war I think that the US won the real cold war. This is because today there are only a few communist countries left. Also the USSR broke up into smaller countries instead of still being one big country. And the US economy was doing a lot better than USSR’s, since USSR’s economic growth rate was almost 0% at the time Gorbachev took over. Soon after that the cold war ended.