In early 1989, tensions in Europe heightened to massive proportions. President George Bush immediately called for heightened US and NATO forces on the third of February, 1989. Soviet forces mimicked the move and placed more than two hundred thousands troops along the border, still grossly under the four hundred thousand US and NATO troops. Talks were proposed by both sides but neither agreed to any until April 16, when President Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Berlin on April 16, 1989 to discuss peace talks but in the wake of failed programs in the Soviet Union, named Perestroika and Glasnost, Gorbachev was most harsh with his demands, including the removal of all nuclear weapons from West Germany. However, he refused to meet anything of equal and the talks disintegrated. By May 2, 1989, NATO and US troops had six hundred thousands troops on the border and the Soviet Union had one million. They had the quantity advantage in nearly everything. Quality, however, they were lacking. US technology was highly overwhelming as did their superior navy, which made detecting Soviet submarines an art-form, much to the dislike of the Soviets.
But on June 6, 1989, things took a turn for the worse. Soviet commanders along the border ordered an attack on US and NATO forces in Berlin and along the border. The war that the world feared for forty years had begun. Soviet officials claimed that their commanders were operating on their own and that it was not authorized by the state but it was an obvious lie when English spies intercepted communications from Gorbachev to front-line generals ordering the use of chemical weapons.
On June 8, 1989, the war went nuclear when Soviet generals used chemical and biological weapons against US forces during a major battle near Frankfurt. The response was a nuclear launch by US forces. Soviet forces responded with a nuclear exchange of their own and a half an hour later one hundred and sixty million people were dead. On June 10, 1989, the next major turn in the war was the defeat of US and NATO forces in West Germany and the turn of France to the Soviet side. Now it was the US and Britain against an entirely occupied Europe. Things definitely weren't going well for allied forces especially when China attacked Taiwan. The US was stretched on another two-front war and it was not a simple war, it was World War III. 1989 would never be the same…