This timeline begins with the Point of divergence up through the beginning of the Unification War.
Feb 1944 President Roosevelt finally accepts a report by 'Vinegar Joe' Stillwell and writes an order for the OSS to give a little known Vietnamese partisan named Ho Chi Minh all the support he has requested in their fight against the Japanese. he assigns 'Vinegar Joe' as the American contact with the Viet Minh.
July 12th 1945- A firebombing raid on Tokyo misses it's aim point and drops the load of incendiaries on the Imperial Palace, and the Emperor along with his entire family are burned to death.
July 15th 1945- Prime Minister Hideki Tojo proclaims that the assassination of the Emperor proves that the American are barbarians and that Japan will fight on to the end.
1945 - In the first general election for more than 10 years, Winston Churchill found himself and his Conservative Party flattening the Labour party's attempt to win a majority.
Leading the UK through much of the Second World War, the charismatic prime minister was resoundingly re-elected by the voters as their choice for peacetime leader.
Clement Atlee's socialist programme of radical social reform and the nationalisation of key industries was rejected so heavily by the voters it gave the conservative party a commanding 146-seat lead over the other parties - while the Labour Party took just 12 seats.
Part of Churchill's reason for re-election was his promise to integrate the rest of the colonies into the commonwealth along with his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech during the election campaign, and he also highlighted Soviet atrocities in the occupied territores. Then he pointed out that Atlee and Labour were homegrown socialist parties. And this certainly roused the British citizenry's awareness of the Socialist menace.
Aug 1945 With American aide, the Viet Minh finally clear Vietnam of all Japanese forces, and proclaim the Republic of Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh is elected President pro tem, till open elections can be implemented. The capitol is moved to Hue, the ancient capitol. Ho invites the Americans to set up air and naval bases in Vietnam. Truman hints to the French that if they try to oust the Vietnamese they will recieve no help what so ever from America and her allies.
October 19th 1945- Operation Olympic proceeds with the invasion of the Japanese Home Island of Kyushu. The Japanese activate Operation Ten-Go and the resistance is suicidal, as even women and children attack the Allied forces.
November 8th 1945- Kyushu is secured at the cost of 150,000 Alliled casualties and 98% of the Japanese civilian and military population. Very few surrender.
December 5th- 1945 Operation Coronet, the Invasion of the Japanese Home Island of Honshu begins. The resistance is, if possible even more so, fanatical than on Kyushu.
December 25th 1945- A Christmas eve attack led by the army, but mainly consisting of civilians, including vast numbers of women and children, succeed in destroying the US Army's 16th Infantry division. Using false surrenders of the civilians that then proceeded to, when the army attacked, attack from behind. This attack convinced the Allies that they could no longer accept ANY surrender by the Japanese.
It had become a war of extermination that would bring about the fullfilment of Admiral Halsey's prediction that Japanese would only be spoken in hell.
March 10th 1946- Operation Coronet ends in success for the Allies when the last resistance on the Island of Hokkaido is finally overwhelmed.
Final casualties for the Japanese Home Islands campaign were more staggering than even the most cynical had believed possible. Allied casualties were 1.5 million, and out of those 568,000 dead.
Japanese casualties were even more staggering, out of a pre-war population of 45 million, only 214,000 Japanese survive, fullfilling Admiral Halsey's prediction. The Japanese Home Islands are divided between The UK and the US, with the UK getting Kyushu and Shokaku, while the rest went to the US.
1948 Stalin has accepted a report by Marshal Zhukov that states the best plan to fight the imperialism of the west is to wait till the Soviets are strong enough, and not antogonise the west. It also points out that without an outside threat democracies tend to fall apart. Stalin wisely chooses to not antogonise the US over Berlin like he had been contemplating. He also withdraws support from the Greek communists.
Jan 1950 "wild Bill" Donovan head of the US O.S.S. receives information from his agents in Korea that Mao-Tse-Tung is egging Kim-Il-Sung into attacking South Korea.
Feb-1950 Donovan passes on the information to President Truman who dismisses the information as anti-communist propaganda. Truman continues to have support as the democrats still have control of the Senate. Truman orders further cuts in US defense spending, based on Stalin's and Mao's assurances that communist forces are not trying to spread communism.
April-1950 in response to the presidents and congresses cutbacks the War Department cuts US overseas troop deployment to the bone.
June-1950 The communist forces of North Korean leader Kim-Il-Sung attack the democratic forces of Syngman Rhee in South Korea. By the middle of the month, with no US forces to aid the South, North Korea Overruns all of South Korea. The People's Republic of Korea is proclaimed. Stalin is as surprised by the attack as Truman is.
July-1950 "Wild Bill" Donovan is disgusted by what he sees as a failure to prevent the spread of communism by the president and congress, if only they had acted on his warnings. Donovan contacts a little known republican senator from Wisconsin, named Joseph Mcarthy. For the next year Donovan secretly gathers background material on suspected communist spies for Mcarthy.
August-1951 Mcarthy starts his communist hunt by calling for an impeachment of the president and members of Congress who had voted for US military cutbacks, which led to the loss of Korea. He then starts to reveal how well infiltrated American society has become with communist sympathizers and spies. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, along with their contacts are arrested. The American public goes wild with the revealing of this information.
September-1951 The impeachment trial of Harry S Truman and several prominent democratic leaders begin.
October-1951 In a swift and merciless trial Truman and the congressional leaders are convicted of treason, and in an unprecedented show of unity, congress votes for their execution.
November-1951 Truman and 25 former members of congress are executed by firing squad. The "Red hunt" begins in earnest. The elections are held, and not one representative who had advocated military budget cuts is reelected. the House of representatives swings wildly to the right. In the Senate for the first time the Senate is controlled by the Republicans.
For the next 4 years Mcarthy and the conservatives, both democrat and republican continue to "cleanse" America of traitors and spies. The Cold War becomes decidedly colder.
November-1955 in a landslide election Joseph Mcarthy "the savior of America", is elected President of the United States, with 85% of the popular vote. Considering his election a mandate president Mcarthy proposes an UnAmerican actions bill which would lay out what is considered American and what is not. Mcarthy uses Donovan to help convince the Supreme Court justices to "retire" early, his replacement nominees are swiftly confirmed by the senate.
27th October 1956, the Israeli Army, led by General Moshe Dayan, invaded Egypt in a lightning campaign to gain the east bank of the Suez canal. Two days later British aircraft bombed Egyptian airfields in an attempt to ground the Egyptian air force. British troops then landed at Port Said at the northern end of the Suez Canal on 5th November to secure the Med terminus of the canal.
By this time the Israelis had already captured the Sinai peninsula and the Red Sea terminus of the canal. On 30th October president Mcarthy decided to announce his full support for Great Britian in their decision to aid Israel in its invasion of Egypt. 2 weeks later Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser was forced to give up power and King Farouk I was restored to his throne, who invited the British to set up bases in Egypt.
January-1957 after the swearing in of the newest group of congressmen and senators the UnAmerican Actions bill is passed without 1 single dissenting vote. The bill states as of January 1958 anything that is considered UnAmerican will be prosecuted as a treasonous act. The automobile industry is "requested" to keep everything looking like 1957 model automobiles. All changes are to be under the hood and no cosmetic changes, as that would be considered UnAmerican.
The nascent electronics industry is given a severe blow when the leading researcher, William Shockley, on transistors was drafted into the nuclear arms programs, then proceeded to quietly protest the governmental policies and is killed in a automoblie "accident." All his research into nuclear physics and transistors is classified most secret, and anyone divulging that information will be prosecuted and executed as a traitor. So no Shockley labs and the transistor is given a 30 year setback.
In 1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed by six European countries (France , the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and this established the European Economic Alliance or the Common Market, which sought to abolish tariffs and trade restrictions between member countries.
The dilemma for Britain lay in the fact that it retained considerable extra-European trading links and a strong relationship with the United States,which the French greatly resented. That was the reason France gave for not asking the United Kingdom to join the EEA, as President DeGaulle feared that the Anglo-American relationship would try to establish military bases in Europe and expand their hegemony to the continent. The rift between Britain and Europe began to grow once more, along with a growing closeness between the mother country and the former colony.
1958- Fidel Castro and his rebel forces, known as the 26th of July movement, are steadily increasing control of the nation of Cuba.
January 1 1959- Batista flees from the country, and Fidel Castro assumed power.
February 16 1959- Fidel Castro takes the role of Premier, and proclaims the People's Republic of Cuba. The President arranges meetings with the heads of the Senate and House to discuss the Cuban problem. The consensus is that if allowed to exist it will draw more communist revolutions in the Americas.
February 23 1959- In a secret codocil the US government decides that Cuba must be taken from the godless communists to keep anymore dominoes in the new world from falling. Planning for the invasion of Cuba begins in earnest.
April 10 1959- the invasion and annexation of Cuba is swift and brutal. The US government immediately issues a warning to the Soviets to keep their noses out of the region. At the time the Soviets know they can't win an atomic war with the US yet, so issue a statement that although the repression and overthrow of the legitimate Cuban government is reprehensible, the Soviet Union has no interest in the Americas. The total purge of all communist and anti-American forces begins.
July 4th 1959 - Hawaii and Alaska are admitted to the Union as the 49th and 50th states respectively. The population of the Territory of Japan has rebounded to 6 million due to American immigration to the newest territory. The surviving Japanese population has been completely assimilated by now, with only the old speaking Japanese.
June 12 1960 President Mcarthy in a move hailed by Congress and the citizens, withdraws the US from the United Nations and kicks all UN ambassadors out of the country. In his famous 'Good Riddance' speech he states that the UN has become a communist mouthpiece, and could no longer stand that 'nest of vipers' on sacred American soil. Without American financial support the UN eventually fades into just another version of the League of Nations, and then is relegated to the dustbin of history.
November 1960 Mcarthy in a landlside victory defeats his Democratic rival, an unknown, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
June 1961- The Mexican Secession war begins. The Northern Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California begin their revolt against the Distrito Federal, Federal District of Mexico, in a bid to seperate themselves from the economic morass that is Mexico. Eventually the revolt would spread to Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Baja California Sur, Durango and Sinaloa.
April 1962- Mcarthy in a Speech delivered in Austin, hints that if the Mexican rebels win their bid to seperate from the rest of Mexico, Texas' border would expand.
October 20 1962 - Border skirmishes had not prepared India for October 20, 1962, when the first group of 200,000 People's Liberation Army troops began a well-planned assault across the Thagla Ridge, near the northernmost and best-defended point of the Chinese border with India’s province of Assam. Almost simultaneously, China attacked at the southern end of the Tibetan border with the Ladakh region of Kashmir. The next day China opened a third front near the triple border of China, India and Burma. PLA maneuvers through the mountain terrain repeatedly flanked Indian formations that moved only on the limited roads in both regions. On the fourth day of fighting, China had inflicted over 8,000 casualties and completely cut off an additional Indian brigade in the east from communications and supply.
The PLA controlled several Indian cities, and had cleared a path to the capital of both provinces. Most observers felt that the two Indian provinces would be overrun, consolidating the Chinese fronts into a single army advancing south. To appease angry public sentiment, Indian Prime Minister Nehru on October 29, called on the rest of the Commonwealth to come to it's aid, and requested emergency military aid from the United States. The United States, Great Britain and Canada developed a joint plan that began to provide emergency military supplies to India on November 3. By this time, the PLA controlled a portion of India equal in area to Great Britain.
On November 16, The United States activated it's strategic Air Forces and went to Defcon 3. The same day the British 1st Airborne Division had been flown into India thanks to the new bases they had in Egypt. The US and the UK gave China an ultimatum to accept the offered cease-fire plan in which each side would withdraw their troops twelve-and-one-half miles behind the positions held on 20 October, 1959, thereby creating a buffer zone between the countries. If not, then the United States Air Force would commence Nuclear Bombardment of Mainland China.
On November 21, to the surprise of everyone, the People's Republic of China announced it would accept the unilateral cease-fire and indicated it would begin withdrawing troops on December 1 to establish a buffer zone identical with the November 8 proposal. By December 10 PLA forces had retreated to a point behind their starting locations. The Intense rivalry between China and the US had just begun.
This episode in world affairs came to be known as the Indian Crisis, or also known as "The Bombardment Threat of October. The prestige of President Mcarthy and the United States was never higher than it was at the resolution of this crisis.
December 15th 1962- Prime Minister Nehru, in the wake of the recent Sino-Indian conflict realises that neutrality in the increasingly hostile world is not a viable political option. So he calls for a gathering of British Commonwealth Nations to discuss furthering closer economic and political ties in the Commonwealth.
November 22nd 1963- The assassination of Joseph Mcarthy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 PM Central Standard Time. Mcarthy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding in a presidential motorcade within Dealey Plaza.
Two official investigations have concluded that Jose Rafael Alvarez, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, was the assassin, with one government investigation concluding that Alvarez acted as an agent of the Mexican Government and another suggesting that he acted alone. The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation, and has spawned a number of theories 'proving' Alvarez acted alone and his actions were used as an excuse to annex the revolting Mexican States.
Mcarthy had chosen to visit Dallas on 22 November for three main reasons: to help raise more Republican Party presidential campaign fund contributions in advance of the November 1964 presidential election; to begin his quest for re-election; and as the Mcarthy-Nixon ticket had barely won Texas (and had lost Dallas) in 1960, he sought to mend political fences among several leading Texas Republican Party members who appeared to be fighting politically amongst themselves.
The Anderson Commission later concluded that one of the five shots likely missed the motorcade, that the first to hit anyone went through the front windshield and likely caused one of Connally's injuries, one hit the president in the throat, the second to hit Governor Connally caused his chest wound and the last to hit anyone opened a fatal wound in President Mcarthy's head. Nearly all agree that Mcarthy was hit with at least two bullets, and was killed when shot in the head.
Richard M. Nixon (who had been riding two cars behind Mcarthy in the motorcade through Dallas and was not injured, even after Secret Service agents pushed him to the floor of his limousine) was first in line of succession to become President of the United States upon Mcarthy's death. Nixon took the oath of office on board Air Force One before it departed Love Field.
February 10th 1964- What has become to be called the Nehru accords, was signed into law and ratified by the participating nations. What it did was reorganise the British Commonwealth of Nations into a seperate council, like the Nascent European Alliance. The Accords allowed the integration of the economic, political, and Military of the member nations. It reorganized the individual nations militaries into one structure, which would allow for a more standardized military.
Some have referred to it as the of United States of the British Empire. The individual Commonwealth Nations will keep their individual nation's parliament seperate as a ruling body and then send a new set of MPs to a seperate Commonwealth Super Parliment ruled and overseen by the English Monarch. Not since the signing of the Magna Carta did the Monarchy have so much power and influence over the daily lives and politics of their subjects. The Seat of Government for the new British Commonwealth of Nations is located in Vancouver British Columbia. It could be said that once again the sun never sets on the 'British Empire'.
The nations that ratified the Nehru accords are as follows: United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Cyprus, Fiji, Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sri-Lanka, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The two major holdouts were Pakistan, who said that India being included would not be best for their security. And the Republic of South Africa. Who had rejected the British insistence on them giving up their aparteid laws.
New Commonwealth Flag
March 1964- As a result of increased US aid to the rebels, the revolting states finally declare themselves independent of Mexico City, and request entry in to the United States as member states. Mexico immediately issues a warning to the US to remain out of Mexico's internal affairs.
April 1964- As a result of the Mexican threat and the newly published Anderson Commission's findings that Alvarez was operating as an agent of the Mexican Government, The United States Congress declares war on Mexico. Immediately the US Army crosses the border in strength.
June 1964- The US army having secured the revolting states, surges ahead into the heart of Mexico in conjunction with the landing of the 2nd Marine Division at Vera Cruz and the 1st Marine Division at Acapulco.
July 1964- the Ratification of the Second Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo has Mexico ceding the revolting States to the US.
August 1964- After re-basing Marine and Army assets in the new territores, the US Congress has the former Mexican States of Baja California and Baja Sur rearranged as counties in California. the State of Sonora is divided between Arizona and New Mexico. The states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas have their borders adjusted 50 miles south and cede the land to the State of Texas. Then form the new Territory of Neuvo Leon. Durango and Sinaloa are reorganized as the Territory of Durango. Both new territores are assigned a territorial Governor, in hopes that in the near future they can be welcomed into the United States as member States.
September 1964- Due to the shooting of President Mcarthy and the Indian Crisis, President Nixon begins talks with the Prime Minister Nehru of the British Commonwealth of Nations for the purpose of coming up with a mutually agreeable defense pact.
November 14th 1964- To a standing ovation in both Washington and London, President Nixon of the United States of America, and Prime Minister Nehru of the British Commonwealth of Nations Sign the Treaty of London, which has come to be known as the Anglo-American Defense Pact. Both the US Senate and the Commonwealth Parliments promise swift ratification when brought before those august bodies.
As Prime Minister Nehru said in the signing ceremony," This world has become increasingly hostile to freedom loving peoples around the world. It has come time for those peoples to join together to ensure that democracy is not wiped out by the communist tide sweeping this world. It is that reason the the British Commonwealth of Nations and the United States of America have joined forces, arm in arm, to help stop that reprehensible red tide, and to eventually wipe it's scourge from face of the planet." He was given a 10 minute standing ovation in Washington and London, stony silence in Moscow, Paris and Beijing.
November 24th 1964- in a record speed for democracies, both the US Senate and the BCN Parliment ratified the London accords. The Anglo-American Defense Pact takes shape.
1965 Denmark, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden & Norway join the EEA in an attempt to counterweight the Treaty of London & take advantage of the slowly blooming EEA. Months later, the European Military Alliance (EMA) is formed due to the increasing unrest throughout the world. The EEA countries will from now on work closely with each other regarding national security. Almost all EEA members join the EMA, all except Portugal and Finland. The previously slow & bad communication between countries is now fast & centralisied. Future weapons purchases will now have to comply with european standards to more easily support other countries in need once a conflict breaks out. While everything looks good on paper, the actual setting up of the communication centers & the standard will take years due to countries fighting over the emplacements & which standard should be addopted.
July 4th 1966 President Richard M Nixon signs into law Bill Number A23856B, also known as the G.I. Jane Bill. The Branches of the military had recognized the vital role women played during the Mexican War, when many service women took up combat roles against the Mexican rebels. The GI Jane Bill is passed in the house of Representives on March 15 of this year, and was sent to and ratified by the Senate July 1st. The Bill now allows women deemed fit for combat service to serve in the combat arms. This bill was passed with ease as it reaffirm the late President Mcarthy's directive that all Americans must be on board to thwart the Red Menace. Meryl Gains is the first woman to graduate Navy SEALS training and at the age of twenty two.
1974 The Turkish invasion of Cyprus is repulsed by Greece with the help of the BCN, Turkey is isolated from the EA and AADP. They begin to look for allies among the muslim nations.
1975 General Franco dies. His successor, 'Prince' Juan Carlos is murdered by a communist activist. Soon the country decends into the anarchy of civil war. Some say the assasination was ordered by the USSR & China. Several voices within the EEA & EMA call for an intervention, but this is delayed by endless arguments & red tape.
Startled by the increasing violence, Portugal joins the EMA.
1976 As the communists seem to be winning, the civil war crosses over into the French Basque regions & Portugal. The EMA quickly reacts to the threat, conquers the lost regions & moves on into Spain. Several years of guerillia warfare ensue.
July 4th 1976 - In a celebration of America's 200th birthday the Territories of Japan, Neuvo Leon, Durango and the Phillipines are admitted to the Union as the 51st, 52nd, 53rd and 54th states respectively. The state of Japan has rebounded to a population of 12 Million.
1979: Fall of the Shah of Iran. The EA and AADP put in place embargos against Iran. Turkey and Iran begin secret talks to form an alliance.
1979 With the communist forces nearly fully surpressed, the EMA calls a democratic election in Spain. The result is a weak puppet government. A week later, Spain joins the EEA & EMA.
Jan 1980 - The Soviet Union invades and annexes Afghanistan. Warns Iran to keep its nose out of Soviet affairs.
Feb 1980 - Iraq under Saddam Hussien invades Iran, not knowing of the talks going on between Turkey and Iran.
July 1980 - Turkey, Iran and to the surprise of the rest of the world, Syria, announce the formation of the Islamic League and under it's conditions Syria and Turkey declare war on Iraq.
November 1980 - By the winter of 1980, the embargos against Iraq had weakened it to the point that it could not resist the three-pronged invasion. Iraq was conquered by the Islamic League and absorbed as follows, Northern Iraq by Turkey, South and Central Iraq by Iran, and western Iraq by Syria. The Islamic league then announced its intention to cleanse its territory of infidels. The genocide of the Kurds was just the beginning. The EA, Warsaw Pact and AADP close ranks to put full embargos in place against the nascent Islamic League. This drives the Islamic League to establish ties and hopefully from their point of view, an eventual alliance with the People's Republic of China.
June 12th 1991- The drive for deeper integration has continued and the Maastricht Treaty, which promoted economic and military union through the establishment of a European currency and central bank, and harmonisation of defence, foreign and social policies - has resulted in the transformation of the EEA to the European Alliance (EA). One nation in all but name.
October 10th 2060 - In a surprise move the People's Republic of China invades The Republic of Vietnam, which draws in the only available US forces in the region, from the states of Phillipines and Japan.
2060 - The European Alliance (EA) begins making covert contact with the independence movement of Quebec, making it known that they would fully support and Independent French Speaking Quebec as well as providing funds for 'peaceful' demonstrations and 'educational' advertising etc. By 2061 protest marches were becoming a weekly occurrence and usually led to a violent confrontation with the police and protesters against separation. EA intelligence operatives had infiltrated the customs and security services at several airports in Quebec and the mass transport of troops, in civilian clothing, and cargo transports of armoured vehicles began.
The European Alliance's plan was simple, using the cover of the protest movement they positioned several hundred of these troops disguised and armed soldiers into the city centres of Quebec City and Montreal.
November 15th 2061 - In a move that completely takes the United States by surprise the Chinese Jump across the Straits of Tsushima and invade the American state of Japan. They complete the conquest in record time, then jump across the North Pacific and invade Alaska. In the retreat from Anchorage they catch the 2nd Marine division in a trap and encircle them. They eventually destroy the Marines, but the Marines delay the Chinese long enough for 50,000 AADP troops to escape south.
10.45 AM August 4th 2061 - The disguised EA troops began an armed assault against the EA Embassy and Consulates in Quebec City and Montreal and carefully placed operatives began sparking riots between the various protest groups and the Canadian authorities. Fifteen minutes later a low yield portable (in the back of a transport truck) atom bomb was detonated outside the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, killing hundreds of thousands including the Canadian Prime Minister and the rest of the government.
In response to a distress call from their Ambassador and the atomic blast, the European Alliance ordered their nearest carrier group (that just happened to be carrying out manoeuvres in the North Atlantic near Greenland) to make for Canada and ensure the safety of their citizens. The Carrier group began airlifting troops into Quebec, who were quickly reinforced by the soldiers and armour already waiting at the airports. After a day of fighting the riot was quelled and the EA military commander had declared martial law with EA troops patrolling the streets. At noon the following day the Chinese moved from their Alaskan beachheads and crossed the Alaskan/Canadian border. Since their 'allies' the Canadians were in a state of disarray due to the destruction of their government, the EA troops began moving to 'prevent unrest' in the rest of Quebec and by the end of the week the surrounding provinces.
The British Commonwealth of Nations (BCN) Parliament in Vancouver, began mobilising troops in response to this dual invasion, but since they were already involved with conflicts in India and Africa they had to ask the United States (US) to enter Canada to help defend it. To more effectively and legally deal with the EA actions as well as public unrest the US government in agreement with the BCN, temporarily annexed Canada in 2062.
Once the Annexation was complete, the United States gave the EA an Ultimatium, either get out of Canada or the US will delcare war on the EA. 5 complete carrier task forces began shadowing and launching mock air strikes on the EA task force off of Newfoundland.
At first the EA rehtoric was to call the US bluff, in the belief that the US would not declare war on another democracy. Then the US began to mobilize all it's naval Atlantic naval strength in conjunction with the BCN naval forces. This finally showed the EA that the US and the BCN was DEADLY serious. Since the EA was already involved in a war with the Soviet Union, they could not afford to enter into a war with the AADP at this time so withdrew their forces under tight scrutiny of the AADP.
January 2063 - The first set of twelve of EVE infilitrators are discovered on American soil. Gunnery Sergeant DeShane and Captain Walther Essex were two major factors in containing this new threat. Data tapes would surface pointing the multi-ethnic EVE operatives to the Soviets as well as the Chinese. A project that raised various peoples of diffrent groups and bred them to live and adapt in the various enviroments. The EVEs were a new form of infilitrator, one that could blend into society with ease.
2064 - In a ceremony that only made the AADP that much stronger, the United States returned Canada to the rightfull Government of The British Commonwealth of Nations.
November 24th 2077 - In a desperate attempt to halt the advancing AADP and EA, the People's Republic of China and The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Launch, what they hope it will be, A surprise nuclear bombardment of their respective enemies. They were wrong, and all it did was to nearly cause the extermination of Mankind. Within six months 95% of the world's 10 Billion people are dead from the exchange, disease and famine.
AFTER THE FALL....With the Great Rain of Fire, the survivors began to use ARF, After Rain of Fire to describe the year. To them AD died with the old world in that hell-spawned rain.
Feburary 27th 2318 to May 18th 2322 ARF - War of the Six Cities begins. The six Cities being Reno, Redding, Barter Town, Stxy, Black Oasis and Barter's Rest. The war began when the new taxation laws on trade routes stirred the Water Merchants. In retaliation, the Water Merchants went on strike, and a few of the RNC provinces went without water for months. The standoff turned bloody when the RNC military arrived and attempted to force a settlement. The negotiations grew heated and someone must have said the wrong thing - the next moment two RNC marshalls are dead and Angus McFearson Chief of the Water Merchants is lying on his desk, dead. War errupted and the Water Merchants along with conscripted mercenaries and Walther Essex's backing began a war with the RNC. The assassination of Angus McFearson, the head Water Merchant crossed the line for a lot of bad blood and mercenary companies and even the Templars became readily involved in this conflict. But the war wasn't just about Water Trade routes, it was about gaining new lands.
For years Lakshmi had been bulled by the Senate into absorbing Reno and other choice territories. Though the Benedetti cartel was more than willing to join the RNC, and the other families more or less neutral, Lakshmi had foreseen the corruption that Reno would bring to the order she was now fighting to maintain. With the RNC weakened from the war with the Foundation, absorbing Reno would be fruitful but disasterous at the same time.
In the end the RNC ended up annexing a few new territories, but Reno was left out, as Lakshmi had remained steadfast, and with the discovery of an attempted assassination on Senator Westover, all negotiations with Reno closed. The war had finally ended thanks to help of Harry Stryfe and numerous others. Also the shadowy assistance of Walther Essex had brought the war to a screeching halt.
It was said the death toll at the end of the three year war was in the tens of thousands. It took Lakshmi Darkholder, the adaged mother to strike a bargin with Walther Essex to negotiate the peace. With the remnants of the Foundation and mutant army in his care, Walther became a force to be recokened with and an unforeseen threat in the RNC frame of mind. Of course, everything has a price, and Essex aided the RNC in taking back what was theirs and cowing the Water Merchants.
November 2322 ARF - In the same breath, Harry and the Templars discovered the genetic experimentation and Walther was building an army under the RNC's nose. This had quickly turned the RNC from a friend to an aggressor and now Walther once again stood on the door of war. But there was still time for treaties and notions of peace and though Walther would not honor all the statutes, he would keep a civilized face and thus Gregory Westover came up with the Westover Pact. This would bring an end to any aggressive moves the RNC posed against Walther, and Essex in turn would discontinue any genetic experimentation or ever launch a force against the RNC and it's friendly neighbors.
Walther agreed and hands were shaken, but nothing was taken for granted. Walther made no waves and the RNC doesn't bother him. But Lakshmi had stated firmly, she would have rather gone to war with Essex then sign a piece of paper.
Walther had granted the wastes a temporary peace and allowed them to coddle false notions of a better world. But no one knew and history was never to document the unleashing of the Red Death in the Boneyard... Essex after all was never connected to the incident.
Fall of 2338 ARF Mercenary Wars
Howard of the Empire consolidates power within central Idaho, fully establishing his powerful grip throughout the northwest. In a bold plan of testing out the GOW Project, Howard sets a kings ransom in rewards for mercenaries who can secure the site deep in the wastelands.
Records show that over a hundred mercenaries had participated in this venture. The venture quickly turned into bloodshed as the mercs had been duped by The Empire and were prey to the beasts and mutants that crawled the base as well as the paranoia and fear of their peers. This war would be called the Mercenary Wars.
June- 2340 The Confederation of Eastern Vaults begins it's expansion. By the winter of 2341/42 All of the former eastern United States and Canada have fallen to their advances. All excpet for the city state holdouts of the Naw Yak, Minpolis, and Naw Lens.
