After the Second World War, Greece became one of the first battlefields between the two super powers – the United States and the Soviet Union – who were wrestling for ideological domination. In 1947, the Truman Doctrine provided American aid to Greece to help contain communism. Greece was in the midst of a civil war between communist fighters and the Government army supported by a coalition of right-wing and centrist forces. Greek Tragedy recreates this conflict in a team card driven format.