NATO and the Warsaw Pact forces had been staring at each other across the Iron Curtain for 40 Years as the Cold War became more and more heated.
During the mid '80's, the Cold War reached a boiling point as the ideologies of communism and capitalism were in their most confrontational posture.
One spark on the world scene would be all that it would take to ignite these powerful military forces and send then crashing into each other across the only thing that stood between them in Germany, the Fulda Gap!