Welcome to the Portal Page for the Finland Superpower ATL. (Alternate Time Line)
Map of the country of Finland (2005]
Flag of Finland
On March 10th 1963, Finland became the first and only country to land on the moon. They went back three times, and have a space colony set to launch in 2011.
On August 4th 1943, The Finnish won their battle against Japan for a Pacific territory.
The flag of Finland, next to the Finnish-Swiss border, the Alps are in the distance.
A Finnish youth skateboarding with a Finland flag on his back as a cape (a popular meme for youth in Finland). In Finland, the nations flag in expressed everywhere, in many different ways. (Jeans, Book covers, T-Shirts, Body paint, etc.)
Finland has the largest airplane service in the entire world, FinnAir. The company takes over 60% of the airplane market, in the world, alone.
Finland has the most electric cars in the world. Taking over 99% of all the automobiles on the road, electric cars have been around 1950, and came into wide use in the late 1960s.
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Since the Hindenburg and the Taivaan Lintu, airships have been a very popular means of travel and advertisement. There are over 2500 airships in service in Finland alone.
This timeline explores the world with the country of Finland as a sole and dominant superpower. Through numerous alternate sequences in history, Finland managed to gain large amounts of territory and power, which by 1989 (when Soviet Union was downgraded to only a 'great power'), Finland now holds sway over much that happens in this world.
This is a "live" timeline - its story continues to unfold NOW, in real time.
This is also a collaborative timeline. If you want to join us in developing this world, we welcome your additions. Before making major edits to the articles within this ATL, please, first make suggestions to the discussion for pre-approval.
Introduction
In this alternate history, the small northern nation of Finland, through a series of fortunate events, acquires the status of superpower by the end of the 20th century. Finland becomes the dominant influential country of the world, a title that the United States is supposed to hold in the OTL.
This timeline began to majorly differ from ours during the late 17th century, when the royalty of Finland was greatly increasing taxes, and Finland suffered a severe famine in 1695-1699 and almost one third of the population died. As a result, the Finnish people revolted against their Swedish royal rulers, and established a Republic. It mimicked the Roman empire. A certain person influenced this revolution, someone who never existed in our original timeline. This person was Pitkä Kalalinja, was scholar and teacher from The Royal Academy of Turku, who personally engineered the storming of the castle which held the royal Swedish family.
Within two years, the republic of Finland was established, and the remaining royals were exiled.
Finland frequently battled with the Russian Empire to remain independent. Through his life, Pitka Kalalinja promoted higher education and free will. He was said to have been working on making Finland into a revolutionary new democracy, just before he died in 1731.
Timeline
- 1763 THE US BEGIN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AGAINST BRITAIN IN 1765 THEY GET HELP FROM FRANCE
- 1770 AMERICA GAINS INDEPENDENCE
- 1774 THE RUSSIAN ROYAL ARMY INVADE TERRITORY IN THE CAUCASUS AND THE BALTICS CHINA AND IN 1775 FINLAND
- 1779 THE INVASION OF FINLAND FAILS EVEN THOUGH DENMARK NORWAY HAD SPLIT AND NORWAY BECAME INDEPENDENT
- 1783 ROMANIA IS ANNEXED BY RUSSIA.POLISH LITHUANIAN EMPIRE GOES TO WAR WITH RUSSIA THE FOLLOWING 5 YEARS OF WAR LEAD TO A RUSSIAN VICTORY
- 1800 NORWAY ANNEXES SWEDEN AND CREATES SCANDINAVIA LIKE BRITAIN HOWEVER IT IS A COUNTRY OF COUNTRIES
- 1805 ITALY IS UNIFIED AND ANNEXES SLOVENIA CROATIA BOSNIA TYROL AUSTRIA AND OTTOMAN ALBANIA
- 1813 MEXICO GAINS INDEPENDENCE
- 1820 NAPOLEON IS ASSINATED BY A BRITISH NATIONALISTS
- 1824 RUSSIA INVADES FINLAND BUT AGAIN IS UNSUCCSESFUL
- 1830 FINLAND GAINS INDEPENDENCE FROM NORWAY AND ANNEXES SWEDEN THE BALTICS AND NORWAY
- 1834 GERMAN UNIFACATION WITH BAVARIA PRUSSIA AND BELGIUM
- 1844 HASBURG AUSTRIA ATTACKS RUSSIA IN ROMANIA 3 YEARS OF FIGHTING LEADS TO RUSSIA WINNING THE WAR
- 1848 ROMANIA GEORGIA AND SERBIA GAIN INDEPENDENCE
- 1857 BELGIUM GAIN INDEPENDENCE
- 1875 DENMARK FINLAND CREATE A UNION BUT DENMARK KEEP THEIR FLAG. SWEDEN MAKES 3 ATTEMPTES TO SUCEED
- 1886 BELARUS IS ASSERTED INTO THE UNION ALONG SIDE SOME BARTS OF NORTH HOLLAND
- 1890 FINLAND INVADES BELARUS AND WINS A WAR AGAINST THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE 5 YEARS LATER
- 1895 FINLAND THEN ANNEXES KARELIA AND NORTH RUSSIA THEN INVADES BELARUS THE CORRUPTION OF NEWLY INDEPENDENT ALASKA GIVES FINLAND A CHANCE TO ANNEX IT AND IN NOVEMBER 1900 ALASKA BECOMS A COLONY OF FINLAND
- 1901 GERMANY AND FINLAND GO TO WAR OVER WHO GETS PRUSSIA BRITAIN JOINS THE SIDE OF FINLAND AND GERMANY GIVES POLAND AND PRUSSIA TO FINLAND
- 1914 NO WW1 NO ASSANIATION OF FRANZ FERDINAND
- 1917 FINLAND THEN DECIDES TO INVADE AUSTRIA HUNGARY ROMANIA THEN INVADES AUSTRIA-HUNGARY TOO SERBIA MONTENEGRO AND VODJIDINA THEN CREAT YUGOSLAVIA
- 1923 DENMARK BECOMES A SATELITE STATE OF FINLAND ROMANIA BULGARIA YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE ALLY UNTIL IN 1925 BULGARIA WAS ATTACKED
--Iamtheggman03:57, 30 August 2009 (UTC) ---