Timeline (II)

1971:

* Economic crisis hits the world after the great economic boom of the 50s and 60s dies off quicker than expected and Wall Street is in crisis.

1976:

* The late 70s farm crisis hits extremely hard and when combined with the current economic depression food shortages begin in the United States, as a result large scale riots and uprisings in major US cities. As these uprisings get worse the US military is dispatched to restore order and a national emergency is declared by President Jimmy Carter.

* In the Soviet Union the Kaunas High School uprisings boil over into a full scale uprising in Lithuania and the surrounding Soviet republics. As a result, a coup carried out by the KGB throws Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin is overthrown in Moscow and the process of De-Stalinization ends in the USSR.

1978:

* Yuri Andropov becomes new Soviet Premier, he locks down the Soviet bloc and begins rapid military expansion. Doing away with the former economic policy, collective farms and factories once again dominate the Soviet economic landscape.

* The Canadian federal election results almost in a complete tie, however the Liberal Pierre Trudeau wins the election by a margin, as a result vast political violence begins in Canada.

* With the situation increasingly unstable at home, the United States military prematurely withdraws from Japan and Korea. As a result, North Korea armed by China invades the now practically defenseless South Korea and declares the “Democratic People’s Republic of Unified Korea”.

* The Japanese people now terrified of the Unified Korea and their Chinese allies turn to corporate security who quickly overthrow the weak Japanese government and establish the Kyoto Republic and maintain control over the population through the all powerful Public Safety Bureau. The Japanese government from here on out is an authoritarian corporatist state that dominates the South Pacific.

1979:

* With the Soviet Union pushing more and more power away from the Eastern Bloc states, the Eastern bloc states unify into the Federative Republic, a state based on democratic Socialism, the Soviet Union who is now surrounded makes little attempts to stop this short of diplomatic protest.

* In response to this, the European Coal and Steel community meets to discuss a union to hold off the FR. With US support at an all time low France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands unify into the Western Union, a military-economic alliance designed to defend member-states from the FR. It’s capital is selected as Brussels. With both sides new found independence, an economic boom occurs in the FR and WU.

1980:

* Britain becomes suspicious of the new European powers and eventually the xenophobic and ultra-nationalistic “British Union of Fascists” takes over in a parliamentary election. They institute highly nationalistic policies and crackdown hard on Northern Ireland, they also help the former British colonies in Africa (Rhodesia and South Africa) fight off African guerillas and White-minority rule continues in Rhodesia, South Africa (now the State of Cape), Namibia and Malawi.

* As a result of this, Canada revokes her membership in the Commonwealth. This outrages Anglo-Canadians and the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba express particular outrage.

* Britain is renamed to the United Empire, in the process it solidifies it’s sovereignty over the British overseas territories.

* In the United States, the heavily militarized Ring-wing becomes disgruntled with the extra-powers given to the US President and believes it’s an attempt to seize the weapons of US citizens and create an authoritarian state. Multiple Right-Wing anti-government groups form East to West and gain popular support due to the economic crisis.

* In Canada, the Western provinces begin to rally as multiple groups declare that independence of the Western provinces (British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta) to be the only way to preserve the Conservative way of life in Canada, soon the Premiers of all the Western provinces meet in Calgary to declare their independence. As a result the Canadian government convicts these Premiers of treason.

1981:

* Canada activates the War Measures Act and deploys the Canadian Armed Forces to put down the independence movement in Saskatchewan, after deployment to Saskatchewan the CAF engages with multiple armed groups who have formed over the past year. They take over 230 prisoners province wide and kill 23 insurgents and take 14 casualties themselves, this is referred to by the Canadian media as the “10-Day Insurgency”. Order has been restored in Saskatchewan and the Premier arrested for treason.
* École Polytechnique massacre occurs in Montreal, sparking a fierce debate about gun control in Ottawa.

* The US Congress assembles the “House Committee on Economic Emergency” do discuss a solution to the economic crisis in the country, massive demonstrations begin in Washington calling for the impeachment of US President Jimmy Carter.

* After seeing what happened in Saskatchewan, the Yukon, British Columbia and Alberta divisions of the RCMP declare themselves on the side of the separatists after a meeting of the Police Officer’s labour union, with almost complete support from the police the separatists quickly gain hold in the aforementioned provinces and declare the “Commonwealth of Victoria” a commonwealth of the Yukon, British Columbia and Alberta which has its capital in Victoria, BC. It declares itself to be the legitimate government of Canada, while the Ottawa based government of course disputes this.

* The Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique experience the African revolution which has been sweeping across southern Africa, while Portugal is able to maintain control of Angola, they fail to secure Mozambique which becomes the People’s Republic of Mozambique and receives economic and military support from the Soviet Union, and receives diplomatic support from the Federative Republic.

* The adoption of an East German-style outlook to the Federative Republic and a Yugoslav economic system, the Federative Republic gains a fair amount of public support who believe socialism is still possible.

* Western Europe holds its first elections as the the interim government’s term is over and Adalene Laporte is elected President of the High Authority she begins choosing Cabinet members from around the Western Union.

1982:

* In Florida, a massive assault by Right-wing paramilitary groups (who have been supplied with Soviet weapons and armour) is launched on the Blount Island Command Centre in Florida, with large numbers and vast amounts of weaponry the facility is overtaken after a 2 day battle, this is the beginning of the 2nd American Civil War.

* The attack on Blount Island was a bombshell, it signified that to other Right-wing/Libertarian resistance groups that now is the time to begin the uprising. Using inspiration from books like the Anarchist Cookbook, The Turner Diaries, and Hunt methods and ideas of resistance are easy to come by for these groups, and with Soviet support they are highly effective.

* The United States government has little knowledge on the rebels, as they had been previously occupied with fixing the economic situation, though the executive branch had reports from the NSA on dangerous armed groups, they dismissed it as a “domestic issue”.

* Attacks had become so widespread and frequent the the US military simply couldn’t keep up, it turns out they had experience in deployment everywhere \*but\* the United States itself.

* Britain begins to deport the country’s sizable Eastern European minority back to their former countries, the FR accepts them back as “refugees of fascism”.

1983:

* The American Civil War rages on between the US Government, various Anti-government factions, and military splinter groups.

1986:

* American Civil War ends. Many thousands are dead and much of the country is in ruins, the US Government collapsed in the Battle of Arlington which brought an end to the war and the country is divided. In the war, Alaska and Hawaii both declared independence from the United States.

* In the war there were 3 major rebel factions: the Rocky Mountain Militant Movement, Libertarian Constitutional Party and the American Dawn party. They all decide to meet in Denver, Colorado to discuss the future of the United States
* The talks break down as groups cannot come to an agreement as to what party should rule the continental US, in the process the Texan delegation declares their own republic.

The remaining groups splinter into the following: RMMM forms the Republic of Concordia, the LCP forms the Pacific Union and the American Dawn forms the Union of States.

1995:

* A nationalist movement in the Ukrainian, Moldovan, and Belarusian SSRs causes militias within Kiev, Donetsk, Odessa, Chisinau, and Minsk.

* The new movement, named “Национални Фаланге Украјине” (National Phalax of Ukraine)

* The movement infiltrated the capital building of the Ukrainian SSR in Kiev, massacaring the entire legislature and declaring themselves the new government.

* The Ukrainian SSR breaks from the USSR, the new Ukrainian Sovereign Republic  formed. Moldova and Belarus join shortly after, which then forms the Ukrainian-Belarusian Sovereign Unitary Republic (Ukraine).

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1995:

* Riots in the Federative Republic break out across the nation, people wanting the death of socialism and the split-up of the Federative Republic.
* The Federative Republic splits up, following this, the Western Union also splits up