"Surrogate wars" also known as "proxy wars" are wars fought in a third country. The US and the Soviet Union were fighting each other in, for example, Afghanistan and Vietnam.
They preferred proxy wars, because they came without civilian victims of own population and without a distraction of the infrastructure of their own countries. In short, the two powers could compete militarily with each other without suffering the worst effects of the wars - this situation allowed them to try to defeat the other one without much risk to their own population.
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How did the Pendleton Civil Service Act weaken the spoils system after President Garfield died?
The act forced federal employees to pass competitive exams.
The act said that federal employees could be fired for political reasons.
The act said that company contracts and kickbacks were illegal.
The act stopped the reform movement in its tracks.
