Timeline (Of the People, By the People, For the People)

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1881: Alexander the Builder

In 1881 Alexander II of Russia was a popular and liberal ruler in Russia. He abolished serfdom and was a mans friend. In 1881 he was nearly killed. And so he continued to law the ground works for the Russian Empire. In 1898 Russia was declared a constitutional monarchy and the Prime Minister of Russia, a hard line progressive named Vladimir Lenin took office in the new Russian capital of Moscow in 1901 following the assassination of Prime Minister Viktor Malanov. The Russian Republic soon began to drive many imperialist values under Lenin. Russia policed its Kuril Islands the Island of Sakhalin. And confronted a rebellion against Russian rule in Mongolia. In Thailand Russian engineers made the Thai Canal which linked East Asia with Europe. Yet after the rule of Lenin and later Lev Kamenev did the Liberal Party of Russia take off with Vatutin Vistulov in the 1913 election.

America Rising: 1900-1914

The bombastic President Roosevelt, circa 1904

Theodore Roosevelt was put into office in 1898 and was president until 1917. Roosevelt was hard and he rapidly mobilized the United States. In 1900 and 1901 the US fought a series of rebellions and interests in Nicaragua and Honduras, American puppets. But in 1905 the Americans tried for fully seizing Panama sparking the Colombian-American war of 1905. The small American navy was destroyed by the Colombian fleet and American troops in Panama were routed and destroyed by the Colombian Army. Then it happened. In Washington and Chicago the 1905 Revolution kicked off with protests against the Roosevelt administration. These were keenly suppressed by new elite Indian battalions which were brutal on horseback doing what the Army couldn't in brutality. The US continued along its armed path for the rest of the decade with the Pinkerton's silencing any opposition to President Roosevelt.

famous pre-WWI US propaganda poster

Anti-Germanism became a huge part of American life after several various anti-German wars in Africa had been waged. British generals and the British ambassador had convinced President Roosevelt that the 1905 failure was because the Germans back Columbia. This anti-German rise showed to be a major contributed to the armed forces and in 1910 Roosevelt was reelected for the fourth time and brought the USA into the Entente Powers. The US joining an alliance of European nations horrified isolationists and socialists. To them this now meant American men would be massacred over some pointless cause to stop Germany. Pacifists protested but were denounced as traitors by the President and the Pinkertons rounded up suspected "traitors." Roosevelt was a monarch to the Americans and Progressives/Republicans who followed him. The Indian Cavalry also became the most feared part of the army providing order to the Great Plains. The navy was separated into three groups, Pacific, Gulf, and Atlantic each with its own battleships. The Air Force was almost non-existent but was being built up. And so things would come crashing down on June 28th, 1914.

Chaos: The First World War

American soldiers on the Western Front, 1915

On June 28th, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was shot and killed in Sarajevo, Bosnia by a Serb National named Gavrilo Princip. Austria demanded reparations but Serbia refused. And a month later on July 28th, 1914 WWI kicked off with the Austrian invasion of Serbia. In that month America mobilized against Germany, and Germany struck through France. German troops were stalled on the Marne and pushed back by the Anglo-Franco-American Army. For three years the Allied forces would be stalled on the Western Front. The Americans numbering millions in casualties with their European counterparts. President Roosevelt continued going to the front and commanding American troops at many major battles. Ypres, Verdun, Somme, millions of young Americans sacrificed against the German-Austrian horde. By 1917 the world was still at war and American casualties numbered three million wasted on the Western Front.

National Guard and militiamen about to storm the White House

In February of 1917 President Roosevelt returned home again from the front. In Washington he was met with angry crowds of progressives and unionists who protested his rule. Then a rogue detachment of the national guard launched a military coup and deposed Roosevelt who fled north to the wastes of Alaska. A moderate named Upton Sinclair took office in the USA. Meanwhile, in April, Russia declared war on Germany after U-Boat warfare against Russian ships in the Baltic and Mediterranean. Separated by the now free states of Poland, the Baltic states, and Ukraine, separated during the rule of Alexander II. However, Prime Minister Vistulov didn't want to send 200,000 Green Russian soldiers to Germany. So with British and French equipment Russian troops trained hard. General Brusilov was selected to lead the REF against Germany. General Brusilov was famous thanks to Russian intervention in the Ottoman Revolution (1911-1919). However, without an Eastern Front, the Allies still fought on. In October of 1917 the stress of the failing was and millions of dead was too much to handle, even after the first female regiments entered Europe.

Chaos in the streets of DC as the Red Guard and rogue army troops fight their way through downtown to the White House where Blue forces wait with President Sinclair

In October the Red Guard rose up across America demanding an end of the war and withdrawal of American forces from Europe. Socialists under Eugene Debs stormed DC and with rogue army and navy soldiers stormed the White House against the Secret Service with covering fire from the battleship USS Texas. Debs declared the United Socialist States of America in DC. This was followed by uprisings in Chicago, Detroit, and Memphis. The Second Civil War had begun. In Europe the Second American Revolution brought surprise and the British cabinet along with the Russian Duma and French president all decided to intervene in the Second American Civil War. Canadian and British troops came in from the North and French forces came in from the South and Russian troops came from the West. President Roosevelt would be shot by a socialist General MacArthur in an assassination attempt in the President's exile home in Alaska. In early 1918 the Americans made peace with Germany to fight the robber barons of the corporations in New England fled into Canada behind Allied lines. Mexico intervened to regain territory lost from 1848. However, Red Forces in Arizona defeated Pancho Villa's mad expedition. The Eagle Expedition would last until 1920. However, Japan continued to fight until 1922.

Russian troops with a German anti-tank rifle, Hundred Days Offensive, 1918

In Europe the Allies launched their summer offensive otherwise known as the 100 days offensive. The Allies launched a three-pronged attack on the Central Powers, from the west, the east, and the South. Italian and Greek forces came from up south and with tanks the Italians were 50 miles from Vienna and the Greeks were at the gates of Belgrade, 120 miles from Budapest. On the Western Front Allied troops stole back into Belgium and reached the Rhine by October. In the East the grand Russian offensive of Brusilov advanced with hundreds of tanks and thousands of heavy guns. First Tannenburg, then Koningsberg followed by Lembourg as Russian forces poured into Prussia and the Carpathian's. The German and Austrian forces were routed. Russian Lieutenant General Belovich Mikhail initiated Russian strategic bombings of German cities. On November 11th, 1918 the Grand Cease-Fire put an end to all fighting on the fronts. The Great War was over.

A Cossack takes two German soldiers prisoner, 1918

Post War: 1919-1924

Canadian and Newfoundlander soldiers somewhere in the American midwest

The end of the Great War saw great relief across Europe. The only major conflict was in America were the Civil War continued. Admiral Dewey which had replaced Sinclair and put General Pershing in charge kept on fighting into 1919. Peace Days Bloody Battle was waged in the wastes of the Great Plains against Red Forces in Missouri. The Great American cities were razed. In mid-1920 the Allies pulled out. This allowed the Reds to retake New England which had declared itself a republic and temporally entered the war against the USSA. In early-1922 Japan was finally driven from Alaska and Southern California. The USSA was victorious. In 1924 Debs died and a completion was held between moderate Socialist Franklin Roosevelt and Debs' right hand man Douglas MacArthur.

Roaring 20s: 1924-1929

portrait of President MacArthur of the USSA, 1924-1953

The Roaring 20s as it was called was a time of prosperity. It showed that Russia was the most powerful country on earth thanks to its industrial output and victory in the Great War. On April 30th, 1925 Alec Laganov flew from St. Petersburg, Russia to St. Johns, Newfoundland. The 20s would have a string of Russian prime minister who were puppets of industry. In Germany rampant inflation led to the rise of radical communists and fascists. In Italy King Emmanuel gave Benito Mussolini the title of Generalissimo after his great service in the Great War. In 1927 after riots and unrest Civil War broke out in Brazil with the USSA backed communists and Allied backed nationals. However, in 1928, Prime Minister Anastas Federgovich was elected into Office. And in October of 1929 the St. Petersburg stock market crashed sending the world into an economic depression.

The Depression: 1929-1933

Russian national guardsmen during the 1932 Bonus March

The failed policy's of Prime Minister Federgovich showed he was a weak man. Federgovich didn't interfere in the economy and let it do its own thing on Alexander Street. Govichgrads popped up across Russia's major cities. It was in 1932 in which his polices clashed. The Bonus army marched into Moscow and demanded their bonus. However, the National Guard and army under Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin, and Georgi Zhukov. And in 1933 two men would come to power who would change the world.

Preparations: 1933-1936

Russia Prime Minister Leon Trotsky, elected in 1932

In Russia the failure of Federgovich to do anything to solve the depression led to Hike becoming the most unpopular Prime Minister in Russian history. In 1932 the Liberal parties new candidates against the Republican's candidate Federgovich. Trotsky easily won a landslide victory against the incompetent Federgovich. Trotsky promised a "New Deal" to jump start the economy. Immediately huge work programs were set up like the Republic Building St. Petersburg or the car manufacturers in Volgograd. Russia defended out of the dark days of depression. However, natural disasters did affect the Russian people like the great sand storm of Central Asia. And then the flooding near the Caspian Sea in 1936.

German Führer Adolf Hitler, circa 1934

Germany was in ruin after the Great War. Even by the Great Depression it was in economic ruin. Germans had to pay for bread with wheelbarrow's full of Reichmarks. Hitler had risen through the Nazi party's ranks throughout the 1920s and was jailed for attempting a coup in Munich. By 1931 Germany was in turmoil. The Nazis rise to power was one of walking out. Every time the Reichstag wanted to approve a new law the Nazis were against, they would walk out. The German people were still angry at their loss in WWI and hated their old leaders. Hindenburg was unpopular. In 1933 people saw Hitler as a new hope. Many had read his book, Mein Kämpf, My Struggle. He preached that Germany's victory was in its grasp but then taken - not by the Slavs but by the Jews. The Jews were the most successful and seemingly ran corporations in Germany. However, that was a false narrative. Hitler in 1932 ran for German Chancellor. He was swiftly elected promising to make Germany bigger and better and succeed.

Heil Hitler: Europe 1933-1939

Hitler parading through Vienna during the German annexation of Austria, 1938

Hitler was celebrated. Immediately Germany began building up for supremacy over Europe. Hitler constructed the Autobahn, a vast highway system across Germany. Hitler in 1935 also began rearming the German military. The panzers were new additions to the German army. This new type of warfare invented by Heinz Guderian was called Blitzkrieg. In 1936 the first steps to remilitarization took place. Hitler had ordered German troops into the Rhineland. Minimal resistance was given by the Anglo-French forces occupying it. German forces were met with cheering crowds who waved German soldiers as they retook what they thought was theirs. In Germany itself massive discrimination against Jews occurred. By 1939 Jews would have 2 options, leave the country or stay in the ghetto. In 1938 Hitler made another jab at territorial expansion. Germany annexed Austria a day before a referendum (that was possibly going to fail). Then in September he wanted to annex the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. Hitler gained international fire. Italian King Emmanuel and British Prime Minister Chamberlain along with Hitler met in Munich. Yugoslavian leader Vladko Maček as a moderator Hitler got what he wanted and the Sudeten Crisis was over. In March of 1939 German forces invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia and annexed the Czech regions and created a puppet state out of Slovakia. Elsewhere in Europe, other things were kicking off.

Spanish Republicans riding into battle on an American T-26 tank

Spain had been divided ever since the monarchy was overthrown. The generally more conservative and religious armed forces led by General Sanjurjo and his right hand man Francisco Franco. By 1936 all hell had broken loose by the Fascists supported by the Nazis and Yugoslavian "volunteer" divisions. The Republicans only received support from the USSA in tanks and guns, but it wasn't as much compared to the Axis' equipment. The Spanish civil war was mainly one sided but the American equipment to the Republicans made it clear that the war wasn't going to be over in a year. In the April 1939 Franco declared victory as Nationalist forces marched through Madrid.

The Bamboo Curtain: Asia 1931-1939

Japanese troops during the invasion of China, 1937

The path to chaos in Asia was met with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. The invasion was not one the Prime Minister wanted, but rogue army officers and Generals secured the massive territory in the name of resources, empire, and emperor. The Japanese occupation was somewhat not bad with the last prince of China installed on the throne as the Emperor of Manchukuo. This is were the army and the left began to split. 1932-1936 was a time of political chaos with assassinations and an attempted coup even. In August the Marco-Polo Bridge Incident occurred. Three days later China declared war on Japan and Japan from Manchuria invaded. China had been in a state of civil war since 1927 along with Brazil. Japan's invasion turned up the stakes of victory. In mid 1937 Nanjing was captured. However, a mass rape occurred and demonic killing of children and burying alive took place, contests to see who could behead the most Chinese. 1938 would be a brutal year in the war. As the Japanese advanced on Shanghai the Western nations evacuated all white people from the city. In this crucial evacuation of the city did the Japanese bomb and even target western ships. The most controversial incident was when Japanese planes strafed and bombed the Russian gun boat RRS Petrov. Japan would become ever more aggressive in its pursuit to secure all of Asia. By late 1938 most of Northern China was under Japanese control and the Island of Hainan was about to fall. However, in early 1939, the Japanese tried to go west and take more of the Pacific. Japan tried invading the American protectorate of the Philippines. Yet the Japanese landing force was stopped by a brutal armored counterattack led by George Patton at the Battle of Lal-lo. This would lead to the Japanese plan which would flip the scales, in 1941.

Revelations: 1939-1941

German and American forces somewhere in Central France

Shortly before September in August Nazi officials and American commissars met in secret in Boston. They were signing the Long-Ribbentrop Pact of non-aggression. This treaty clearly states that Germany and the American Union shall not go to war in exchange of dividing up France and recognizing the hemispheres. This pact was approved by MacArthur who saw German as a potential ally. So on September 1st, 1939, Germany kicked off WWII by invading the demilitarized and overly confident French. The French defenders utterly overwhelmed by the advancing Germans. The Nazi tactic was Blitzkrieg, lightning warfare. The Germans relied on their Panzers for fast striking mobile warfare. The French had a strong army they could muster of about one million men. The French did have tanks but they were horrible. The Germans reached Paris by the 11th and besieged the city. The government refused to surrender. However, other French forces were making it away to Britain with the Free French commander Charles de Gaulle. September 17th, 1939 was end game, in Brittany and near Bordeaux American forces landed. A week later on September 28th, 1939 American and German forces met in Vichy. They divided up France between themselves. All French colonies would come under German control. However, the British and Italians had failed to react, Italy only launching a small invasion of Austria and Britain dropping leaflets, as not to be bombed. From Fall 1939 until Spring 1940 was known as the "Quiet War" as one Russian news reporter called it. In spring of 1940 German forces moved down from the Alps into the Italian Peninsula. German troops wrecked several Italian counterattacks. Meanwhile, other German troops overran Holland and Belgium. This led to Japan invading Indochina and the East Indies colonies of France and Holland. The Germans continued to push in Italy. After a month of fighting Rome was captured. Italy also had some territory captured by Yugoslavia which took Trieste and Albania. Italy capitulated after the fall of Rome and the destruction of 2nd army near the Adriatic did Italy surrender. A puppet government was set up in Naples under the name of Naples Italy. Under Ugo Caverallo the Naples Italian army took control of Italy's colonies. Yugoslavia was granted the Cyrenaica region of Libya. Britain stood alone.

Famous image of American troops during the Desert War of 1939 and 1940

Inspired by the Blitzkrieg tactics success by Nazi Germany, President MacArthur decided to embark on his own expedition close to home. The Republic of Mexico had been stable since the end of the Second American Civil War and had absorbed its new states of Sur Tejas, Nuevo Mexico, and Sur Alta California. So on November 30th, 1939 American troops crossed into these Mexican states. American soldiers imagined a quick victory after the liberation of Corpus Christi. Mexican resistance was harder than imagined. Mexican forces under General Villa fought with guerrilla and hit and run tactics draining the moral of the American. In an attempt for a Mexican revolution Secretary Long claimed American aircraft were dropping breadbaskets on Mexican villages, when in fact they were dropping cluster bombs. So in turn the Mexicans dubbed them Long's Breadbaskets. When American troops enter the now Hispanic majority city of El Paso they were met with petrol bombs in beer and tequila bottles, so in turn the Americans named them Longs Cocktails, a drink to go with the food. By January of 1940 American morale was at its lowest. Troops were still held up on the Villa Line which prevented US forces in the South Texas are from crossing the Rio Grande. For 3 more months US troops slogged through Northern Mexico. Mexican forces even counter attacked in the hills of Baja with captured American tanks. On March 13th, 1940 peace was made between Mexico and the USSA with some 391,000 casualties for both sides.

South African artillery rains down on Naples Italian positions in southern Italian Somaliland

After gaining Cyrenaica Yugoslavian forces immediately tried to rout any British forces from taking it over. Yugoslavian troops launched a full invasion of Egypt with 500,000 men. Other Yugoslav forces invaded Greece and occupied it. Throughout 1940 the Yugoslav army in Egypt was routed back into Cyrenaica with all hope lost. Then German troops under Erwin Rommel came in. Soon the British were on the run into 1941. An army of 800,000 Axis soldiers from Germany, Yugoslavia, and Naples Italy all fought over a small stretch of land with 400,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers. In East Africa the British and their South African allies launched attacks into Naples Italian Somaliland which had just invaded British Somaliland. The Naples Italian commander ordered his troops to lay down their guns and join Free Italian forces under Benito Mussolini. In West Africa Belgian and British forces attacked German held Central Africa and Niger. This would force Rommel to divert divisions south to defend his flank. By June of 1941 the African front was in stalemate. And things were kicking up to the west.

Not One Step Back: America, Eurasia, and Africa 1941-1943

Hitler knew the Long-Ribbentrop pact would only be temporary. Earlier that year German marines had secured Bermuda and had allowed for Spain's entry into the war by invading Portugal. German and Spanish forces quickly began building up for an invasion. Using American bases in Brittany German forces mounted a landing in St. Johns, Newfoundland. German troops were at Americas doorstep. On June 22nd, 1941 German forces crossed into western France and other German troops landed in Nova Scotia and Cape Cod. The war against America had begun with Operation: Barbarossa. German bombers wrecked the small amount of US troops in France and the unprepared defenses around Boston were overwhelmed by German forces. 1.7 million Axis soldiers would make landfall in America. New English separatists quickly declared independence from the USSA and German troops were hailed as liberators. Other German troops came down from Newfoundland and took the Maritime provinces of Eastern Canada. The Luftwaffe flew long missions from occupied Lisbon to Bermuda then to New England. The first major American counter attack was at New York. Everyone was pulled into this battle. However, the Germans with artillery and tank supremacy blew through this area.

German troops attacking in Central Pennsylvania

The Germans continued to drive deep into America. Keeping rear guard troops to prevent a Canadian invasion from the North. German troops continued to drive for their goal of Chicago, the American capital. Meanwhile, other German troops under von Leeb pushed for Debsville in Maryland. American forces were driven from Philadelphia. Throughout summer German troops drove to Chicago. German troops slogged through the bogs of Indiana which slowed the German advance. This would hold up German troops from Chicago until fall. Along the huge front German troops crossed the Ohio. The battle of Chicago was brutal. The drift down of the Canadian winter froze the Great Lakes and froze German soldiers. Meanwhile, on Revolution Day in October, American troops marched from the Parade grounds to the front line under the salute of MacArthur. This was the failure of Operation: Barbarossa.

Wreck of the RRS Chechnya in Vladivostok Harbor, December 7th, 1941

Russia had been neutral but kept its eye on Japan for the time being. The war in Europe didn't concern many Russians as they though Britain and Italy would use Russian men as cannon fodder. Russia had signed a lend lease pact with Britain and America thanks to German aggression. Russian Alexander tanks were fighting in Africa with Britain along with M3 Peter tanks. It wasn't until Lal-Lo did Japan want to head for the resource rich region of Siberia. On December 7th, 1941 Japanese planes bombed the Russian naval, air and army bases around Vladivostok. Japan then immediately launched an invasion of Russia and set off to take its protectorate, the Republic of Mongolia. Japanese forces quickly overran Russo-Mongolian troops. General Stalin said over the radio to Mongols, "people of the Republic of Mongolia, I Joseph Stalin, shall return, and liberate you from the Japanese menace."

Russian forces defend against Japanese troops near Dalnegorsk

] Russian forces quickly retreated to defensive positions near the Trans-Siberian railway. The army under Stalin fought brutally for town after town. Everything came ahead in mid-summer of 1942 when the Japanese tried to take Irkutsk. The Japanese bombed the city and its airbases to hell but somehow the Russian armored core came in a wiped out the 4th Japanese army coming up from Mongolia. Down south the British were caught up in their own fiasco with Japan. Japan was pushing with its Siamese allied into Imperial Burma which Japan planned an invasion of India. This caused the British to send more materials to India and the Russians to send several brigades of soldiers to protect India. In Indonesia Australian and New Zealander forces struggled against the Japanese invasion of Papua New Guinea. The battle of Papua would drag on for the rest of the war. The battle in Africa continued with the Yugoslav-German army at the gates of Cairo and Alexandria.

A soldier of the Uganda Brigade with an artillery shell, southern Cyrenaica, 1942

Russian and Ottoman forces arrived in early 1942 in Africa. Along with that the Jews that had fled Europe who had settled in Uganda formed a several divisions worth of soldier to fight against Hitler. More and more Allied forces pushed the Axis out of Egypt and by 1943 Allied armies had conquered Africa and landed in both Crete and Greece in the Yugoslavian Campaign. With the failure of Operation: Barbarossa, Hitler had another planned operation, Operation: Jupiter, the drive to take the Texan oil fields. More men and equipment was carried over to North America with the German U-boat fleet keeping the Royal Navy away. German troops pushed in Spring south along the Mississippi. General Omar Bradley was ordered to hold off the Germans for as long as possible in Central Kentucky and Tennessee. General Friedrich Paulus was given command of Army Group Memphis and drove Bradley away from the Cumberland River to Memphis. In late August of 1942 the Battle of Memphis began. It was a grueling battle with bloody room-by-room fighting everywhere. General Bradley was confident for now Memphis could hold out. However, as the battle dragged on and more American casualties mounted, the morale of the American troops began to disappear.

A German soldier with a SMG-1941 somewhere in Memphis

By November Bradley and Marshall were convinced by next month Memphis was lost. The powerful German tank corps was useless in the mountains of rubble that the Luftwaffe created. However, the American winter set in again. Paulus' soldiers were freezing in Memphis. The American winter offensive if 1942-43 also hammered the pressure on Hitler. Bradley and Marshall encircled the Germans in Memphis. The Germans allied of a fascist Portugal, Spain, and fascist French were overwhelmed. The winter already freezing them, the Germans had no choice but to continue fighting. On February 3rd, 1943, General Paulus drove to the HQ of General Patton. Hitler was furious after Paulus' "betrayal". The German army was routed from Tennessee and Kentucky. And then the Americans secured a city called Lexington in Kentucky.

Forwards Comrades: 1943-1945

An American tank during the battle of Cleveland

The surrender at Memphis demoralized German troops in America. The USSA continued to drive East routing German forces. Hitler, angered ordered not a step back. The Germans decided to counterattack in Eastern Kentucky. The Americans had just liberated Lexington. The Germans were preparing Operation: Gratitude, the encirclement of Patton's Third Shock Army. The people of Kentucky worked as hard as they could diving three rows of trenches which would in a straight line run from Chicago to Miami. The battle was delayed for more German panther tanks and elephant tank destroyers to reach America. The battle of Lexington fought from July to August 1943 was the largest tank battle in history. Gratitude was an absolute failure for Germany. The Germans once again were routed and by winter they were driven to Central Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 1944 was the liberation of New England. Operation: Brown Bear secured New York and American forces crossed the Hudson River. German and New English Fascists fought until the last man when the battle of Boston ended. Up north Canadian troops retook Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. After the liberation of New England the Americans secured Bermuda and other Atlantic Islands. American forces landed in Portugal on April 28th, 1944.

Russian soldiers in landing craft about to storm Rostov Beach, June 6th, 1944

Allied forces had been itching to retake Italy since its fall in 1940. After the African campaign and failure of the Yugoslav Theater was the plan made to invade Italy. Operation: Ares as it was called, saw Russian and British forces landing at five different beaches in Southwest Italy. On June 6th, 1944 Russian troops landed at Omsk and Rostov beach while the British took Sword and Kings, while the South African troops took Juno. The landings were a major success. However, the rugged terrain of Italy led to the war on the hilltops. Tanks seemed to be useless. Artillery an only job was blasting holes in the side of mountains, and aircraft had to fly higher. However, Free Italian and Russian forces drove towards Rome. The Italian Resistance began to openly fight the Germans as allied forces moved in. Hitler ordered Rome to burn. However, the commanding General refused the order. The German soldiers there surrendered. Mussolini marched into Rome and gave his famous speech in which he said "lungo l'Italia in diretta", "long live Italy". Elsewhere from Sardinia Free Italian troops landed in the south and took Naples Italian forces off guard. Free Italian forces then captured Naples along with General Caverallo. By winter of 1944 Italy was secured and the Russian army prepared to invade Germany.

American troops storm into Massachusetts, 1944

The Iberian and later French campaigns would be bloody. Operation: Sickle & Hammer shot straight from Lisbon to Paris. The American force across the Atlantic was now by late spring-1944 numbering up to 750,000. American troops advanced through the rugged terrain of Spain and crossed the Pyrenees. The battles of Southern France were brutal as the Germans attempted to hold the line. But by summer American troops were 20 miles from Paris. The French resistance seeing the advancing American armies rose up in the Paris Uprising. The battle was ferocious. Most resistance members and Jews were killed. Most of Paris was destroyed in the Rising. The destruction was ordered by Hitler himself. After the Rising the Americans came in and liberated Paris. In the winter of 1944 American troops were surrounding the Low Countries and German armies trapped within. In Austria the battle of the bulge took place. And in early 1945 the Allies were poised to invade Germany.

Last Days: January-September 1945

American Dauntless attack aircraft flying over Nuremburg

Russo-Polish troops cross the Oder River, eastern Germany

The race for Berlin was a controversial topic. However, Berlin would fall in the Russian occupied area agreed in the Miami conference. The West of Germany would fall under American rule while the Austria was administered by Italy. Brandenburg would fall under Russian administration and Prussia for Britain. Berlin would fall into Russian hand no matter if MacArthur wanted it or not. In spring of 1945 the Allies moved in. Russian troops had entered Germany from Poland and were closing in on Koningsberg. The Americans were already across the Rhine and diving towards Nuremberg. By April Hitler came out one last time for his birthday, rewarding child soldiers who blew up Russian tanks in East Prussia. Russia and their Polish allies were advancing at a rapid rate. The American forces under Patton drove hard to try to dislodge German resistance from Northern Germany. In Austria Russian and Czech troops stormed Vienna. The battle of Berlin was a nasty affair. In total the Russians would lose over 100,000 men taking Berlin and Germany. The fall of Berlin was the final straw for German forces. Even though the Berlin government surrendered, SS and Werewolf battalions still fought on in unoccupied Central Germany. The German remnants, however, were destroyed. A puppet government of Italy was set up in Austria (which was given Bavaria).

A Russian M-16 Siberian Tiger tank destroyer during the battle of Ulan Bataar

The Russian offensive south from Siberia was costly. However, in the summer of 1944, General Stalin had convinced the Duma and Prime Minister Trotsky to liberate Mongolia. So in the Summer of 1944 the David and Goliath battle of The Mongolian Plains began. Japanese forces which were tank heavy and included an I-O tank clashed against Russian troops in Eastern Mongolia. The Japanese would lose this battle horribly. However, the Russians continued to press the advance. The Battle of Ulan Bataar in Mongolia would drag on for a month. The Russian forces fighting against Radical elements of the Japanese army. The Mongolian campaign would continue until the end of the war thanks to the open terrain providing a perfect guerrilla operation. Stalin planned to hit the Japanese where it hurt. So in Spring 1945 Stalin landed paratroopers in the mountains of Manchuria, behind enemy lines. Then, Russian tanks hit the outer defenses. Russian forces also moved in from Mongolia and China. The Kwantung Army was in full retreat. In his headquarters in Harbin, General Yamashita raged at his failures. Soon Russian troops moved past the mountains and poured into the Manchu Valleys.

American and Filipino soldiers in Jakarta, Indonesia

America and Japan had had a non-aggression pact since 1939. But after the Miami conference America promised to enter the war against Japan before 90 days after Germany's defeat. In late 1944 American ships were transporting hundreds of thousands of troops to the Philippines and Alaska. In Spring on 1945 American troops struck in Southern China, Formosa, and Indonesia. American troops by August had landed in Indonesia, China and Vietnam. American forces would only secure North Vietnam while British, Indian and the Kings African Rifles secured Southern Indochina. The Indochina colony would be transferred to Italian control since France was under the jackboot of American occupation. The Battles of Harbin and Pyongyang showed the ferocity of the Japanese to keep their Empire. However, after Russian troops took Pusan in Korea, Japan had nothing left. So on August 2nd and 3rd Russia did the unthinkable. Wrong research had been in production for a bomb since 1943 for Russia. On June 4th, 1945 Russia in the deserts of Turkmenistan detonated Trinity. Then the Russian bomber Katushka ReN dropped Stalin's Cigar on Hiroshima while Siberian Express dropped Polar Bear on Nagasaki. Emperor Hirohito would announce Japan's surrender over the airwaves on August 29th, 1945.

Peace and Occupation: 1945-1950

Italian paratroopers somewhere in the foothills of southern Vietnam, First Indochina War 1946-1954

The occupations of Germany and Japan were not as bloody as expected. As Russian troops entered Japan for its occupation Japanese troops were ordered to stand down. In Germany the Allies contempt for the Germans were different. Russia, Britain, and Italy rebuilt their occupied areas of Germany. America left theirs in ruin for years. In Italy the victory was a time for peace. Yet in Indochina in 1946 rebellion sparked. The Italian government under Mussolini decided to send troops to enforce its new colony. Ethiopia also fell under Italian influence due its surrounding colonies. The Indochina War would be a controversial topic in Italian history as for 8 years the Italians would be caught off guard by a brutal communist Guerrilla campaign against it.

Jews raise the Israeli flag over Kampala airport

Uganda had been a popular home for Jews since the Holocaust in Europe and America. But since the British controlled the territory they wanted to keep the locals happy with British rule. But by 1947 the resistance against British rule in Uganda by the Jews was too great, Britain announced withdrawal from Uganda in 1948. The United Nations intended to divide Uganda into a Jewish and African state. Jewish WWII veterans led by a lawyer, David Ben-Gurion declared independence as the state of Israel. On May 15th, 1948 Israel declared its independence from Britain. Immediately, all the surrounding nations of Egypt, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanganyika, and Kenya all attacked. It seems within a week the little Jewish state would die under black hands. However, with the help of Portugal, the Jews would survive. The Israelis pushed the Egyptians away from Tel-Aviv and drove the Tanganyikans back across the border into the Kagera Heights and stopped any Rwandan invasion. Meanwhile, Kenya took the West Bank of the Great Rift Valley. Ethiopia disgraced slimmed back across the border. Israel had won.

The Damn Southies are at it again: Argentine War 1950-1953

An airstrike by DPRAF airstrike on a South Argentine train depot

Argentina was divided after a Civil War which toppled the Fascist regime in 1941. In 1945 the nation was divided up between a Socialist North and Capitalist Democratic South. In the North the USSA supplied the tanks, artillery, and weapons. North Argentine President Che Guevara was determined to take South Argentina. The NAPLA pushed the RSAAF down to the port city of Rio Gallegos. This is when a UN force under General Joseph Stalin came in helped the South Argentinians. General Stalin then landed several hundred miles north and totally encircled the NAPLA. UN troops then pushed all the way up Argentina to the Paraguay River. Then all of the sudden in December hundreds of thousands of Brazilians in the BPLA poured across the border. Stalin wanted to drop nuclear bombs on the North Argentinians and Brazilians. However, Russian Prime Minister Kavan Turov who was president since 1945 after the death of Trotsky, fired Stalin. He replaced him with Viktor Rockasovsky who was in charge until the end of the war. In July of 1953 MacArthur died and soon a peace was declared.

You ain't nothing but a hound dog: 1954-1960

British soldiers in central Berlin, 1959

The end of the Argentine War and firing of Stalin made the Russian people's not satisfied with the democrats and their President who had thrown out Stalin in replace for Rockasovsky. In place of Turov would be the Republican candidate Nikita Khrushchev. He was a commander in the Russian army during WWII and was also present at the 1932 Bonus March. Khrushchev was a hardliner against communism and under the Khrushchev administration did the "red scare" begin. People turned in neighbors and friends believing they were communists. Vyacheslav Molotov proposed the ideal of Molotovism, the purpose that in a limited amount of time anyone could turn to a certain ideology and Communism would be even quicker. Molotov also proposed the "Matryoshka Theory", that within every nation is a communist organization, and within that organization is a whole bunch of splinter groups. The turbulence in Russia was met with propaganda in America. Calling the Russians "imperialist aggressors" while President Johnson was ordering execution of anti-Americans. In Europe the Americans policed an area from Lisbon to Copenhagen. In Belgian revolution of 1956 was a crucial revolt which stunned the East. American and French troops quickly crushed the revolt under tank tracks and fighter jets. In the American ally of Brazil the Brazilians left Argentina in 1957 and soon the USSA poured in money and equipment to updating the horribly under equipped Brazilian army.

Israeli soldiers during the Cape-Cairo Railway Crisis, 1956

Ethiopia had been a mess of ideologies. Ethiopia was currently under the control of an anti-Jewish President. A crisis occurred when Ethiopia nationalized its section of the Cape-Cairo railway. Britain was furious. The Italians also thought Ethiopia was funding pan-African movements with its ongoing war in Libya. It was decided that in 1956 the nations of Israel, Italy, and Britain would invade Ethiopia to prevent it from gaining more power. From Italian and British Somaliland, Egypt, and Israeli, they invaded. The Ethiopians were militarily crushed but internationally won. The Israelis used new paratrooper tactics to take vast swaths of the Southwest. Anglo-Italian tank formations and a naval landing in Eritrea crushed Ethiopian resistance to the north and west. The Invasion was only halted due to international pressure from Russia and the USSA. Russia refused to support their invasions after it was to stop African nationalism, and the USSA didn't support was due to the fact that Ethiopia was a major arms importer. The USSA in response to this war, did something the capitalists scolded. A revolution in Belgium which had overthrown the communist government was crushed by French, Spanish, American, and Dutch troops after many deaths and destruction of the revolution. Britain was also waging two other wars, one in Kenya against Mau-Mau, and the other in Malaya.

Australian troops during the Malayan Emergency, 1958

Throughout the 1950s Britain and its Dominions were in older in two other conflicts in its colonies. Britain was fancied with using the term war, or conflict, so to turn public opinion to them the British used terms like Crisis, or Emergency. It was too this that in 1948 the Malayan People's Army who had fought with Britain against Japan. By 1948 it had begun guerrilla operations against Britain in the name of independence. Britain immediately send some 10,000 soldiers to Malaya to enforce its colony and to stop communism. Supported by Russia British forces continued to duke it out in Malaya until the Dominions came in 1955. The arrival of Australian, New Zealander, Rhodesian, and Fijian soldiers put Commonwealth forces up to 40,000 troops. The conflict would drag on for 12 years with the grand British strategy known as the Briggs Plan. The MNLA was quickly routed out by the allied force of 400,000 soldiers (350,000 of which were Malayan troops). By 1960 the last MNLA pockets had surrendered. Another conflict to end in 1960 was the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya. The Kenyan government was still adamant about the loss of the West Bank. On the Kikuyu Plateau the Mau-Mau were an overpopulated tribe staving, and in the face of a civil war. In 1953 the Mau-Mau broke into open rebellion. In Nairobi the Mau-Mau bombed and shot white settlers wherever they could find them. The British responded by sending 10,000 soldiers and a Rhodesian air squadron. The aircraft wiped out rebel groups by shredding them with machine guns. Along with 21,000 police, and 25,000 Kikuyu guards the Mau-Mau were massacred. By the Mau-Mau surrender of 1960, it was estimated 200,000 rebels had been killed with around 200 Royalists.

Hava Nagila : 1960-1963

Russia in the early 60s was a chipper place to be, even with the election of Liberal Anastas Mikoyan in 1960 against Republican candidate Leonid Brezhnev, otherwise known as Tricky Lee. In Europe things were heating up, in the sectors of East Berlin were saw a new symbol of socialism. The West German government was determined to stop thousands of its citizens in East Berlin to escape to the West. The Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961 to keep East Berliners inside. However, other places around the world were heating up.

Czech nationals in battle with against the CSPA

In 1959 the Czech communist party took power against the Russian-backed, capitalist dictatorship. The Czech socialists wanted to originally create a democracy. However, corruption took over and soon the leaders began executing non-socialists. This created a refugee crisis in Czechoslovakia with thousands fleeing the deadly regime to escape to East Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Russia. In Summer of 1961 President Mikoyan thought it was a good idea to start arming the Czech exiles. So the Československý Vlastenecká fronta (Czechoslovak Liberation Front) was form. The CVF then was ordered to launch an attack into Czechoslovakia which would then secure Prague and oust the Socialists from power. The Sudeten Invasion took place and was a complete failure as Czech forces routed the CVF when it was 30 miles inland with heavy artillery and tanks. It was said Mikoyan was nearly impeached for this action, even when the Czechs called for Russian air support Kennedy did nothing.

National Guardsmen in Tula after a race riot in the city, 1963

Mikoyan was nearly impeached for his actions sending the CVF into Czechoslovakia. Mikoyan then responded to this criticism by visiting West Berlin giving his famous, "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" speech (even though some people thought he said "I am a jelly doughnut). Another thing also began in Russia. From the 1870s onward the Arab minorities in Southern Russia were oppressed by the whites. The legal system of segregation and "Nicholas Laws" which heavily discriminated. The famous Arab leader for civil rights in Russia, Abu al-Muhammed gave his famous "I have a dream" speech in a civil rights protests in Moscow. "I have a dream, where little Arab boys and girls can go to the same school and little white boys and girls." However, not everyone was liking these steps to freedom. The Republican candidate Boborov Tulev was widely criticized for him not voting for the Civil Rights Act. In the white settled Stans the Arabs were treated like dirt and the white governments refused to even obey the new laws alloying Arabs to attend the same schools. Yet the fall for civil rights wasn't just with the Arab Muslim population, it was with homosexuals and feminists. The gays, however, were supporting the Nicholas Laws because homosexuality was discriminated against by Islam. Yet feminism and gayness were passed with equal rights after a 1961 bill was signed into effect in 1965.

Cartoon image of the Czechoslovak Missile Crisis

The Czech communist state near Russia was getting to close for comfort. It was clear with Russian nukes in Canada that the Americans would pull a trick with Russia. Secretly by air and land the Americans transported nuclear weapons to Czechoslovakia. The Russians after learning of this blockaded Czechoslovakia under the orders of Mikoyan. This would start the Czechoslovak Missile Crisis. The rogue communist regime was in possession of nuclear weapons from the USSA. Solving the one week crisis in late October of 1962 would be the biggest accomplishment of Prime Minister Mikoyan's term. Then came 1963. Russian advisors were dying in Vietnam and Mikoyan was probing the possibility of escalation of the ongoing Second Indochina War. Then on November 22, 1963 while driving through Volgograd, Prime Minister Mikoyan was shot and killed by a Socialist Sympathizer, Lenev Oscovich. While on a plane to Moscow Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Vatutin was sworn in. Then in 1964, a Russian ship in the Gulf of Tonkin was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats, Russia was at war.

Psychotic Reaction: 1964-1969

Russian marines in the Mekong Delta

After Mikoyan's assassination two things new came. One was the new Prime Minister Nikolai Vatutin and later the start of the Vietnam War. The other was the British Invasion. It was decided by a British pop group known as the Beetles to travel to the Viktor Sulov Show in St. Petersburg. Other British bands to show up were the Rolling Stones, the Dave Clark Five, and Herman's Hermits. In Africa the conflict between Communism and Capitalism continued. Rhodesia had declared itself independent from Britain and began fighting black guerrilla movements. Portugal was continuously fighting independence groups in Angola and Mozambique. South Africa under its apartheid regime was in conflict with the ANC and the SWAPO in Namibia. In East Africa the tensions were mounting with Israel again. The African nations of Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanganyika were preparing for war again. The President of Kenya (for life it seems) Kenyatta began arming the West Bank it had occupied from Israel in 1948. Buying arms from America the African nations geared up for war and by 1967 were almost ready.

A Israeli soldier somewhere during an offensive into the Kagera Heights, 6 Day War of 1967

Vatutin was hesitant on having Israel attack. But after Tanganyikan and Ethiopian troops massed, Israel launched a surprise attack. Israeli plans blew the Ethiopian and Tanganyikan air forces to hell. Israeli tanks and infantry then stormed into the Kagera Heights and Southeast Deserts of Ethiopia. On the second day of the war Israeli begged President Kenyatta not to enter but Kenya attempted to take more land west of the West Bank. This led Israeli Paratroopers to take the West Bank and raise the Star of David above the towns and cities there. In Ethiopia, their tank divisions and counter attacks were destroyed by Russian supplied M-48 and M-60 Zhukov tanks. This stunning victory in the 6 Day War saw more humiliation by the African nations against Israel.

Australian tanks and helicopters in Vietnam, 1965

As Russia entered the conflict so did its allies in the region. Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand all entered the conflict. 3500 Russian marines landed in Vietnam near Da Nang air base. Other SEATO nations entered into the conflict. Soon by 1966 there were 140,000 SEATO troops in Vietnam. Russian forces made up the majority. Australian and New Zealander forces would also contribute as ANZACVN (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps of Vietnam). There was a common enemy in Vietnam, the Vietcong, a communist guerrilla group which operates in all of Indochina. The Russian troops would be fighting in an environment where they were least experienced. ANZAC veterans of WWII and Malaya proved to be the best soldiers. Russian troops armed with M-14s and M-16s failed to fight against the VC. This began the anti-war movement in Russia. The music explosion was also said to have been helped by Vietnam. Russian Pot-Pok was influenced by the Garage bands of the early '60s. Pot-Pok artists include the Julad el-Hundra Experience and Vatutin Airplane all expanded and experimented with music. Even as the war dragged on into 1967 more protests were sparked. In 1968 things came crashing down. A massive coordinated attack by the VC and NVA hit hard on SEATO positions. It was also the year a white supremacists shot Abu al-Muhammed sparking huge race riots across Russian cities especially the Odessa and Novgorod riots where the army was called in. Back in Vietnam the Russian commander Chernenko was send in under Prime Minister Vatutin to lead the troops. In late 1965 it was decided to launch a massive bombing campaign in Vietnam. Operation: Northern Wind was a massive bombing campaign by Russian forces from the carriers RRS Trotsky, RRS Cossack.

It's a Holiday in Cambodia: 1969-1975

Russian paratroopers somewhere in Indochinese jungle, 1970

The Vietnam War by 1970 had become a giant absolute quagmire. The war had already cost some 16,000 Russian soldiers' lives. In other SEATO nations the war was becoming unpopular, only Korea and Australia would keep fighting. In the 1968 elections Vatutin said he wouldn't run again. Enter the Republican candidate, Leonid Brezhnev. Prime Minister Brezhnev did promise won thing for his presidency, to pull Russia out of Vietnam. However, in 1971, General Cherenkov was replaced by Cherdenko Alyusta who was in temporary command while Russia began Veitnamization of the conflict. Cherenkov's replacement was due to his failure in the Cambodian campaign which lasted from April 29th-July 22nd 1970. Operation: Cerberus as it was called saw a 19 mile incursion into Cambodia by Russian and ARVN troops. Prime Minister Brezhnev didn't want to damage public opinion to the war any more than it had been. Yet this backfired even with the destruction of massive amounts of VC and NVA supplies in Cambodia along the Ho Chi Minh trail.

Images of Russian Cosmonauts with Neptune 11 on the moon, 1969

Since 1957 the world was locked in the Space Haste. It had started when the USSA launched Telestar. The launch of Telestar added more to the Russia red scare of the 1950s the Russian Defense Department concluded Russia should have control of Space before the American could put weapons up there. In 1961 Prime Minister Mikoyan formed the Russian Republican Space Management Administration or RRSMA. The RRSMA immediately began working with captured Nazi rocket scientists they took with them during Operation: Roundup. Russia began the Neptune program. Neptune 1 launched in 1962 under the eyes of Mikoyan. After the success of the operation. Mikoyan in Sevastopol that it was Russians mission to go to the moon. The later Neptune missions were mainly the launching to satellites into orbit and putting Russian men in space. Then came Neptune 11 in 1969, it was going to tip the scale of the Cold War. Consonants Bul Alyut and Nikolai Aietsi landed on the moon. Russia declared triumph in the Space Haste.

Russian soldiers crossing a creek somewhere in Vietnam

The Vietnam War continued into 1972 with more withdrawal and Vietnamization. Prime Minister Brezhnev continuing on his promise to pull Russia out. 1972 was also a turning point in the war as the VC and NVA clearly new the Russians were tactically winning the war. The process of Vietnamization, however, was also seeming to backfire on both the Russian troops and Brezhnev. The American Union and its communist puppet of the Philippines and Indonesia continued to supply arms to the NVA and the VC. In one incident a Russian helicopter squadron was to support an ARVN armed column heading into Laos when it was attacked. Along with the Rome Peace Accords still locked with no sight of peace by late 1972. The Russians continued to bomb northern cities without mercy dropping more bombs than it had on both Japan and Germany. Finally in March of 1973 with mounting pressure from home, the NVA and VC delegates signed the Rome Peace Accords and later that year the Russians pulled out with Brezhnev's approval rating up for bringing the boys back home.

A American T-55 tank with a Viet Cong crew plows through the Presidential Palace gates, Fall of Saigon, 1975

In 1975 after the famous Nicholas Hotel Scandal which forced Brezhnev out of office and his DPM Mikhail Suslov was quickly sworn into office. The now largely Liberal Duma in 1974 rejected Suslov's offer, to continue to fund and support the South Vietnamese into the latter part of the decade. The funds that were cut off effectively forced the South Vietnamese into a corner. The Ho Chi Minh Offensive drove all the way down to Saigon. Russian helicopters were seen evacuating refugees and "persons in danger" onto Russian carriers and ships. Dramatic footage of helicopters being thrown into the sea to make room for people. The last helicopter of Air Russia left the rooftop of 22 Gia Long Street in Saigon, 29th April, 1975. Hours late NVA troops busted down the fence of the Presidential Palace, and waved Communist Flags over the building. It was an utter humiliation to Suslov and the Republicans. Meanwhile, the Americans welcomed another communist state in the world. However, Vietnam flew in Brazil's direction even as Brazil launched a naval invasion on Northern Vietnam after the Vietnamese intervened in the Cambodian Civil War in 1979.

Burned out Ethiopian T-62 during the Yom Kippur War of 1973

In Africa the conflict between Israel and its African neighbors were heating up again. In Ethiopia the long time President since 1948, Aman Andom had died in 1970 due to heart failure and was replaced by Tafari Benti. Benti appointed Mengistu Mariam as head of the armed forced and was determined for revenge against Israel. The horrible failure which was the East African Republic, an attempted for a unified African state against Israel failed in 1967, he found and ally in Julius Nyerere in the government of Tanzania. Tanzania was also angry at Israel for losing the Kagera Heights in the 6 Day War. In 1973 the Africans seemed ready again. The Ethiopians objective was to storm across the Cape-Cairo Railway and with American bought SAM missile launchers, hold on the other side. Meanwhile, with a vast column of tanks and infantry the Tanzanians would retake the heights and cross near Lake Victoria. On October 6th, Ethiopian and Tanzanians troops crossed the border. The Ethiopians quickly seized forts on the Bar Lev Line. Most Israelis were either at home or at their local Synagogue praying. Meir quickly ordered mobilization and put David Eleazar in command of the IDF. However, there were problems with the Africans' coordination. The Ethiopians didn't want to move beyond their SAM missile range. This gave the Israelis the chance to focus on one nation at a time. Israeli forces suffered heavy losses with fighting near Kyaka. Nyerere pressured Benti to do something. So Ethiopian tanks advanced from out under their safe area and fell pray to Israel Mirage strikes. Soon the Israelis advanced on the Demoralized Tanzanians and Ethiopians, reaching the outskirts of Addis Ababa and about 300 miles from Dar es Salaam. Soon Ethiopia and Israel accepted each other, but this cozying up of relationships was almost brought down with the assassination of Benti in 1981.

Rebel Rebel 1976-1982

In Russia the election of '76 quickly overshadowed the Fall of Saigon and failure of the Republicans in the latter stages of the Vietnam War. It was the Republican Suslov going up against the "Potato Farmer" Alexei Kosygin. Kosygin easily won the election thanks to the Liberal controlled Duma. Kosygin had many agendas on his mind.

Picture of Kosygin during his election celebrations, 1977

He first wanted to gain peace in Africa. He set up the Camp Nikolai Accords in 1978 and was the first solid Russian attempt for peace between Israel and Uganda. Menachem Begin of Israel and President Benti of Ethiopia. However, in the mid-70s, Russia was still under embargo from the North African Arab world. The Accords helped level out the tensions between Russia and the North African world led by Egypt. However, almost by Mistake he continued to arm and prop up the regime of General Juan Velasco. Then it happened.

Peruvian police arrest members of the government during the Peruvian Revolution of 1979

For years the people of Peru and its natural resources had been exploited by both the West and the East. In WWII American and British forces had occupied it for resources and that it wouldn't become a Nazi puppet. Led by Pastor Alejandro Fernandez,  a revolutionary guard of radical Christians and anti-government police and army units overran Lima and forced General Velasco to flee to the neighboring dictatorship of Bolivia which had just recently come under the rule of Hugo Banzer. The Peru Hostage crisis lasted over a year from November of '79 to January of '81 when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Russia. The Revolutionary guard held the Russian ambassador and his staff hostage which made Kosygin's approval rating drop, and led to his utter failure in the 1980 election. Elsewhere in the world in 1979, after years of Christian resistance, the Communist Regime in Mexico, set in place in 1978 following a military coup. After the various resistance and protests full on rebellion took place. The government of Mexico requested American support. On Christmas Day, 1979, American troops crossed the border and took on the Santos Luchadores after the guerrillas declared Guerra Santa on the atheist American invaders. For the Third Mexican-American War had begun.

(Clockwise) A Bolivian soldier during a gas attack, Peruvian troops celebrate after a victory, Banzer (right) meeting with a Russian official in 1984, Burning off shore oil rig in the Pacific

The Rebels were seriously outgunned The primary anti-vehicle weapon was the R-2 RPG launcher the USSA had produced on mass. It was in 1982 that the Russians finally realized the plight of the religious fanatics fighting their holy war on the godless Communist American invaders and their puppets in Mexico City. The Russians gave the Santos Luchadores the Zhalo missile launcher which took a heavy toll on US Mi-24 Hornet attack helicopter/gunships. However, the son of a Chilean real state owner, Jesus de Gonzales traveled to Mexico joining the fighters along with the Kenyan Christian Joseph Mikbutu. Brazil even somewhat supported the rebels after the Brazilio-American Split of 1961. In South America the new Peruvian regime was challenged by the Banzer government in Bolivia. Banzer wanted to make a name for himself in South America and the world. So in mid-1980, hoping to regain Bolivian access to the sea and gain rich resource rich regions in Southern Peru, he invaded sparking the near decade-long Peru-Bolivian War. The war was a shock to both worlds. Both the Americans and Russians propped up the Banzer regime due to the fact that they were terrified of radicalism Peru was hoping to spread. The Americans were especially upset about how Peru had fallen. It didn't like Capitalist nations in its hemisphere especially the Canadians who were growing ever more to the far right Christianity. They sure as hell didn't want a radical Christian country to inspire revolt from mainly the American South. Peru would also be a pain in the ass for the USSA later in the decade when Fernandez would begin to arm the Santos Luchadores against the Americans. The Peru-Bolivian War was probably the most brutal conflict in South American history. Despite having modern weapons, both sides remained in Great War-style trench warfare, with Peru using human wave tactics while Bolivia used chemical weapons on Peruvian troops.

At home in the USSA the time of stagnation increased dramatically with nothing but military arms being produced to sell to the world. In the restaurants people sat for hours without receiving food as there was no manager to tell the employees what to do. Then it happened. In 1982, Nixon died of a sudden heart attack with millions mourning him. Soon a little-known man named Ronald Reagan would come to office as the president of the USSA.

London Calling 1982-1991

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev's portrait

Much of the 1980s was dominated by nuclear nostalgia, and the constant Latin American proxy conflicts. The reemergence of Fascism occurred in China and Burma where the local governments were overthrown in military coups and then invaded their neighbors. To Hugo Banzer the war with Peru was a seemingly good idea but as the war dragged on, Banzer seemingly lost the respect of his neighbors. It was Banzers whole idea to invade Peru to show how tough Bolivia was. Soon the juggernaut of free South America, Chile cut off funding and support for his war effort, this eventually led to a ceasefire in 1988. Meanwhile, Israel with the help of Christian exiles and Tutsi rebels, invaded Rwanda. It would be called "Israel's Vietnam". The war would leave the country a war torn hellscape forever. What had come of the SALT Agreements were radically changed with Gorbachev. He actively pursued a type of weapon in space which could shoot down American missiles in the Atmosphere. His "Star War" project would be like many of Hitler's Wunderwaffe's, a figment of his imagination. In Africa, the massive conglomerate known as the West African Federation had been under the Socialist Party's rule since 1962. In 1980 Hamani Diori had died leading to the insufficient leadership of two white minority leaders which tore the Federation apart even more. Soon nationalistic resentment would tear the country apart. South Africa, meanwhile, was still under Apartheid with no sign of ending, the white government kept the state in a near military dictatorship. Resistance from the non-Afrikaner community was growing and soon the government faced riots from its non-native white minority. South Africa could effectively be called, a capitalist neo-fascist, one party state. in 1964 the military of China launched a coup against the authoritarian and fascist leadership of Chiang Kai-shek and handed the presidency to Yen Chia-kan. Kan was an unsavory character for Russia. The Chinese military junta ruled China with an iron fist just like how Chiang did. China only came out of its junta in 1986 when new elections were passed. Even then China didn't help in the Vietnam war. In Europe Gorbachev in 1985 visited West Berlin and demanded that Reagan tear down the wall in East Berlin set up by the Western Government. The Iron Curtain was beginning to weaken. In Britain, a new Iron Prime Minister had come to power, Margret Thatcher. Thatcher had show her strength when she went to war with the Indian Confederacy over disputes in the Indian Ocean in 1982. Brazil, meanwhile, had liberalized after the "Cultural Revolution" of the 1960s. However, the communist party was still in charge and wouldn't let go, In 1989, students in Rio de Janeiro began to protest for increased liberalization and democracy within Brazil and gathered in Cinelandia Square.

Photo of the famous "Tank Dude" who confronted Brazilian M1982 tanks during the Cinelandia Square protests

The protests were truly massive by the sheer scale of the people. However, the radical communist government would have none of it. In the days of late May, 1989, over 30 divisions of the PLA rolled into the streets with tanks and armored vehicles, totting military grade assault rifles and even the use of Artillery was considered. Its said over 14,000 people were killed, wounded and arrested in one of the bloodiest massacres in the Western Hemisphere. Russian documenters and Capitalist media was quickly silenced. Today the average Brazilian doesn't even know the protests happened. The Free Brazilian government in exile in Uruguay condemned the use of violence. However, the PRB regarded the declaration and the international condemnation with a grain of salt. Many of the protest organizers escaped over fences and guard posts on the Quarai and Uruguay Rivers. The Russian Media was quickly bought off by private investors and corporate powerhouses in order to shut them up and keep sales with cheap Brazilian labor open. Some say this silence led to the signing and implementation of the South Atlantic Free Trade Agreement or SAFTA. Meanwhile, in the cold war scene, Reagan and Gorbachev met several more times in the late 80s with Gorbachev letting go of his "Star War" fantasy and the US and Russia reducing their nuclear arsenals. Though Reagan sought for a nuclear free world Gorbachev and his Republican backers refused to destroy most of the Russian nuclear arsenal in the new agreements. In the 1988 election the National Republicans won another major landslide victory inaugurating Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Sakharov as the new Prime Minister. In the USSA Reagan barely held the communist regime up and Congress was heavily against Reagan by 1990. In the spring of that year Washington, Oregon and Idaho all voted to leave the Union and the Russians with their EATO allies recognized the Cascade State. the next to follow were Colorado and Oklahoma. Oklahoma was deeply divided and wouldn't last long into the 1990s as the two Seqoyahan Wars would ravage the region. One man however, Bill Clinton from Arkansas was supported by the more radical sections of Congress along with those who sought power. The so called "Black Friday" came in Utah where local Coloradans clashed with local Mormons. The religious tensions would later leave the two in War for what seemed to be a decade. In Mid-Late 1990 two more powerful nations broke away from the USSA. One was New England which had been voted independence and had become independent a Third Time in a single century. The problem was that New English leaders would later come to be haunted by was the Pro-Chicago minorities scattered in Western Connecticut and Massachusetts, along with a substantial population in Long Island which came under New English rule. Texas had become independent but would later fall under a Neo-Socialist regime under Ted Cruz. In early 1991 the Western States finally fell sprouting the 4 Southwest Republics of Jefferson, California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

picture of Bill Clinton, first President of the American Federation

Things continued to get worse. The rump USSA now calling itself the American Federative Socialist Republic of AFSR was struggling to survive. Faced with the separatism the American Union fell into a less centralized state. On August 20th, 1991 the AFSR was scheduled to sign the Reformation of the Union Treaty that would've converted the USSA into a confederation of nations led by a common President and policy.

Famous photo of Clinton giving a speech on a tank outside of the New White House in downtown Chicago, August Coup of 1991

It happened. Tanks from the Red Guard rolled into downtown Chicago on that day with red army units. Fighting broke out between the army and the radical leftist groups of the party and the pro-democratic civilians and police forces who were backing Clinton. Ultimately the coup backfired as the large amounts of protesters and the burning tanks forced the radicals to retreat. Some people thought there would be a Third American Civil War. This was not the case. As the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the reunification under the eastern government in 1990 the AFSR fell becoming the American Federation. Clinton was promptly sworn into office as the first President of the AF in late 1991. As the somewhat violent breakup of the USSA was more violence broke out in South America. Banzer wanted revenge and money. Chile and Paraguay and Chile had cut off funding for the war and turned Banzers mind against them. In the Spring of 1990 Bolivian forces invaded and overran Paraguay and parts of Northern Chile. The guerrilla fighter Jesus Gonzalez offered the Chilean government a force of 75,000 Mexican War veterans to combat the Bolivians. The Chilean government refused. Instead almost 500,000 EATO soldiers were brought in with General Valentin Varennikov. On the mainstream news networks Prime Minister Sakharov promised it wouldn't be another Vietnam. The Atacama War was over within a year with over 25,000 Bolivian casualties compared to about 300 Coalition dead.

Smells Like Genocidal Spirit: 1991-2001

Government artillery opens up on Ghana Rebels during the break up of West Africa

1992 had started off with the Velvet Divorce. Raul Marco had been the leader of Iberia ever since he was installed after the 1968 revolution where American tanks and troops invaded Madrid to crush the uprising. Iberia, initially controlled by the PCP or Portuguese Communist Party until '68 when the Spaniards took over peaceful protests from the Portuguese Minority had not been silenced and Marco was still barely clinging to power. Marco finally stepped down in September and soon state wide referendums were held to grant independence. Catalonia, Basque, and Portugal all broke off from the Spanish hierarchy. Spain and Portugal immediately sought help of infrastructure and military projects from the Eastern countries. Meanwhile, the Canary Islands were transferred to Morocco. In the lush jungles and savannahs of Western Africa sat the West African Confederation. The country had been set up by White Minority rebels and had collapsed the Free French government and in 1946 was united with the American puppet of Liberia. In Monrovia the WAC had, however, broken away from the Americans after they refused to stop supporting the Greek communists. The WAC had at least some 700,000 white settlers. Soon by 1989 the country had begun to fracture. Niger was the first to go followed by Togoland and Mauritania. All that was left of the WAC by 1991 was a stretch of land from Sierra Leone to Ghana.

President Stanley Martin speaking against Ghanan independence, Monrovia 1992

The Ghanans had already proclaimed independence along with fellow black nationals in the Ivory Coast. The WAC reacted with force. The fighting was fierce as the Whites attempted to take back Stevensville, now Accra. The goal was never met. White troops got caught up in the Siege of Charlesville. Martin did the unthinkable halfway in the siege. With mounting casualties and reports of ethnic cleansing Martin dropped gas bombs onto African positions. The mustard gas was poisonous to all. The WAC was met international condemnation. The war in West Africa died down after the Whites withdrew to face a growing Senegalese backed revolt in Sierra Leone. Here to with the Free Sierra Leonean Army was hit with gas and ethnic slaughter by white soldiers. Finally in 1994, a Russian backed Cease-fire brought peace to West Africa despite everyone wanting to kill each other. The WAC changed its name to the State of Liberia. Today the FSLA hold territory and only a few countries have recognized Sierra Leone. In Russia the 1992 election brought Boris Yeltsin to power with the Liberals. Yeltsin seemingly revoked Gorbachev's promise to Reagan and America that Russia wouldn't expand EATO. Yeltsin did just the opposite. Within his presidency, France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Portugal, and Cuba joined. It wouldn't be long into the 2000s when the Cascade States would join. Yeltsin nearly resigned was was almost impeached thanks to a sex scandal with one of his secretaries and him say to the media "That I did not have sexual relations with that woman." In Rwanda, the Israeli invasion had scared the country. By 1990 a radical Hutu supremacist regime had come into power. The regime began discriminating against its Tutsi minority. After the president of Rwanda was killed in a plane crash that was shot down by rebels of the Tutsi ethnicity. A genocide ensued, unable to be stopped by Israel or Russia. Barely any refuges were let into Israel who many joined the Israeli army to become citizens while many went to the West Bank and Bwindi Strip. At least one-sevethn of the population was killed, many by machete.

Ruined apartments in the Bwindi Strip, destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, 1996

The Tutsi retook control of Rwanda and became neutral in the Afro-Israeli conflict. Meanwhile, Hutu fanatics took power in the Bwindi strip forming the terror group known as the Parti national Hutu or the Hutu National Party. While the PNH took control of the Bwindi Strip the Mau-Mau had remained dormant in Kenya post-1960. In the early '90s Mau-Mau took up the seat of government in the West Bank. Both sides the Ugandans and Israelis would batter each other with rockets and bomb strikes. This would lead to the Bwindi-Israeli War of 2000 and another conflict in 2008 and 2012. In America, the AF was once again racked with rioting and a near coup with the 1993 Constitutional Crisis. The 1993 Crisis was also met with a financial collapse in America and part of its old puppets. This crash was mainly manipulated by George Soros, a friend of first lady Naina Yeltsin, and himself worth billions or rubles with the Soros Foundation along with the Yeltsin Foundation.

Billionaire far leftist George Soros in 1999 during the Millennium Bilderberg meeting

Prime Minister Yeltsin, however, was not always the keen leader he seemed. In a seemingly minor issue, it spread across the country. This was the Alina Zonerwich Affair. Yeltsin claimed in from of the press "I did not have sex with that woman." Yeltsin broke Gorbachev's promise to Reagan and America by expanding EATO to France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, and the Cascade States. This placed America on edge with the AF controlled salient in Brittany. In the 3rd world nations of Latin America things were going down. Hugo Banzer was still in power after the Andes War and as all powerful as he was. Against Yeltsin's (and later Dimitri Medvedev's) suspicions Banzer only had a remnant stockpile of his chemical weapons and had no intentions to build nuclear weapons. In Mexico, the collapse of the USSA and the withdrawal of US troops left a power vacuum. The Santos Luchadores had fractured and in its place rose La Base from the Chilean Jesus Gonzalez. In 1996 the Estudiantes Party rose to power with their radical christian ideology. Mexico continued into further chaos with little noticing.

In 1994, Oklahoma had broken away from the Americans but it faced almost immediate troubles. Indian rebels demanded their own state in Eastern Oklahoma but the American Majority Oklahoman government wasn't ready to break apart yet. The Oklahomans attacked into the "State of Sequoyah" in 1994. America, meanwhile, invaded from the East and crushed the rebels. The Rebels, however, would constantly attack in terrorist sabotage against the American government and Oklahoman government forces. Finally in the election of 2000, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Rutskoy and the Republican Party candidate and strong friend of former PM Sakharov Dimitrti Medvedev. All was on the eve of the greatest surprise attack in human history, and would be known as Russia's second Vladivostok Harbor.

Bring Your Own Bombs: 2001-2003

The twin towers of the World Trade Center in Petrograd being hit by hijacked planes done by the La Base

Ever since the 1996 Estudiantes took power in Mexico they had been a brutal regime suppressing all non-Christians. Mexico for its regime on one hand received funds from both Deseret and Peru. However, Jesus Gonzalez now hated the East and its meddling in Latin American politics. He believed the East was the direct cause of Israel, Banzer, and the USSA. So him and his La Base tried to lure the Russians into a Vietnam-esc War in Mexico. He had conducted bomb attacks across Russia's eembassies and even blew a hole in the RRS Joseph Petrovich. It was the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in the metropolis of Petrograd and the Ministry of Defense in Moscow. The PM was informed and all flights in Russia were cancelled. On September 12th Prime Minister Medvedev consulted the Duma, he said, "you are either with us, or you are with the terrorists". The Russians, however, had to figure out how to mobilize a large number of men to take of the terrorists. On October 1st with some 200,000 men the Russian 1st Army along with elements of British, Italian, and German forces invaded Mexico to overthrow the Estudiantes regime and their La Base affiliates. Jesus González was no where to be found. The early months of the War on Terror where quiet with the Russians battling insurgents in mainly Southern Mexico where an offshoot of the Estudiantes did open battle with the Russians draining morale. The Mayan Supremacist group would be defeated by late 2002. The War in Mexico overshadowed many of other conflicts across the world. In Africa the Ugandan resistance forces launched the Second Intifada. Most Ugandans wanted Israel gone but it was the new Islamic leaders of both Hutu and Mau-Mau. Israel was was seen as a "white nation under siege" by South Africa. The SADF frantically armed the Israelis while Russia quietly liked this. In the AF the constant Sequoyan attacks had led to the combined American-Oklahoman occupation of Sequoyah. For Jesus Gonzalez, he didn't stay in Mexico long. In early 2003 he fled to Deseret. Peru, meanwhile, supplied anti-Russian forces with armor piercing rounds and some armored vehicles. However, the Peruvian smuggling operations were sometimes caught. But things were heating up that could throw Russia back to war with Bolivia, and continue the Peru-Chilean proxy conflict.

Mission Not Acomplished: 2003-2008

It had begun with bombings on La Paz in the early morning of March 20th, 2003. The Bolivian War had begun.

A British soldier with a LMG during the initial invasion of Bolivia

The invasion was swift and within a day Russian tanks were in La Paz. The famous "La Paz Pat" was credited for saying Russian troops were marching through La Paz when in fact the massive statue of Hugo Banzer was being torn down. The Russians had thrown the Liberty Bars over the statue then torn it down with a tank and let reluctant Bolivian citizens punch and kick it. The Russians and British went from trying to overthrow Banzer and look for WMDs to nation building and building a new Bolivia. Supported by German, Italian and Yugoslav unites and air craft the cailition troops managed to storm the rest of Bolivia destroying what was left of Banzers Republican Guard and Russian special forces were already looking for the man. Banzer would be captured in 2005 and later executed the following year. Meanwhile, a Pro-Banzer insurgency sprang up shortly after his death. The Russians would be in Bolivia longer than they hoped. Prime Minister Medvedev easily won his reelection. Medvedev, however, managed to rush the Patriot Act and its neo-1984 narrative. The Patriot Act would be scolded by many reporters including Alexei Nikolaivich. In South Africa, the Afrikaner regime continued to remain in power. Supplied by Chinese weapons and vehicles the South Africans maintained their apartheid ways and also continued to supply and arm the Rhodesians in their fight against the remnants and ZANU.