Timeline (6.0)

## Intro Lore

On July 16th, 1945, the finest American scientists gathered in the New Mexico desert to witness the results of their work on the Manhattan Project. Some feared that the Trinity test would light the atmosphere aflame, while others believed it would end the war in the Pacific. Unfortunately, the former group was partially correct. The detonation sparked a worldwide increase in both atmospheric and oceanic temperature, with the polar ice caps melting at a rate none thought possible. Without the atomic bomb, the United States was forced to execute Operation Downfall – an amphibious invasion of Japan. Casualties were even higher than expected, as the increasing water levels from the melting ice caps destroyed most port facilities and made resupplying Allied troops far more difficult. Eventually, the war ground to a standstill, as the Japanese imperial war machine had been broken by years of war while the products of the American industrial juggernaut were simply unable to be shipped to the front. With the logistics network intended to support Downfall collapsing under the rising floodwaters, hundreds of thousands of GIs were stuck in Japan with dwindling supply caches.

However, the American invasion was not the only threat to Japan. With the defeat of the Germans in May 1945, the Soviet army began an occupation there and surplus units were shipped to the Japanese front. Without the port of Vladivostok, however, no serious invasion of the Japanese home islands was attempted. While the Allies and the Soviets were technically still allied against Japan, the fact that it was American scientific hubris that caused the global catastrophe was not lost on the Soviets. An intense rivalry developed between the two countries, with the brightest designers in each competing to build ever larger diesel- and oil-powered walking, rolling, and/or floating war machines that could shrug off any attack and deliver heavy blows in response. Soviet and American engineers both struggled to rebuild the port infrastructure that had been destroyed by the floodwaters, now standing 108 meters above previous sea levels, knowing that this was the key to breaking the stalemate and that the first country to do so would have global dominance.

Alas, neither country succeeded. The breakdown of the economy was nearly complete across the globe, culminating in the collapse of the American financial markets and the fall of the Soviet government in Moscow. Although global temperatures and sea levels remain elevated, there are some sparks of hope for a return to normalcy in the war-torn wastelands…

## Timeline

### 40s

**1945**

* **July 2** - US Forces capture Okinawa.
* **July 16** - Trinity Test. The flooding begins. **Point of departure from actual history.**
* **24th of July** - Under the NKVD, the Dalstroy of Yakutia begins to receive additional political prisoners from across the Soviet Occupations in Europe. Many ethnic Germans are amongst those moved, expected to be Gitlersy spies, they were politically convenient to be employed as a labour force in the East.
* **August 1**  - Two weeks after Trinity - Major flooding in Indonesia has put almost all coastal population centers underwater. In Sumatra, many urbanites survive the slow rise, being marshalled inland by Japanese troops after they set the cities alight. While they do not wish to leave and the march is typically brutal, there is no Palembang left to remain in.
* **August 4** - Civilian boats begin arriving on Australian soil following severe flooding of indonesian coastline
* **August 8** - USSR Declares War on Japan.
* **August 9** - Red Army invades Manchuria.
* **August 11** - Red Army invades South Sakhalin.
* **August 12** - Battle of Mutanchiang begins between the Red Army and IJA.
* **August 13** - Recognizing the inevitability of an American invasion and the futility of holding out in Manchuria the IGH orders the Kwantung Army to withdraw to the Home Islands.
* **August 16** - Battle of Mutanchiang ends in a Soviet victory.
* **August 17** - Red Army captures Chongjin.
* **August 18** - Elements of the Kwantung Army reach Ryojun and successfully acquire transport to the Home Islands.
* **August 20** - Red Army enters Mukden, Changchun, and Qiqihar. Konstantin Rodzaevsky surrenders to the Red Army and is imprisoned pending transportation to Moscow for execution.
* **August 22** - The evacuated elements of the Kwantung Army reach Kyushu. General Otozō Yamada, seeking redemption for the ‘failure’ of his forces in Manchuria, requests that he and his men be placed in the initial defences of Operation Ketsugō. His request is granted.
* **August 23** - Arrival of civilian refuge vessels continues to increase as sea levels rapidly rise. Australian parliament under Prime Minister Ben Chifley enters debates on how to deal with this influx of refugees
* **August 25** - Last Japanese forces on Sakhalin are defeated. South Sakhalin is considered Japanese territory and thus remains under military occupation rather than a civilian government.
* August 26 - By a slim margin a bill is passed allowing for the restriction and returning of civilian vessels attempting to enter Australia. This bill was known by the opposition as the “Iron Visa” - an immigration policy that restricts all passage and defends the state with iron force.
* **August 27** - Genrikh Lyushkov, wanted dead by both the NKVD and Japanese intelligence, goes underground, forming the nucleus of the Manchurian Resistance
* **August 24** - Red Army enters Pyongyang.
* **September 14** - The invasion of Manchuria by the Red Army and whispers of an American invasion of the Home Islands leads to a semi-organized retreat of IJA forces deep in China
* **September 19** - Kim Il-Sung, a Major and guerrilla fighter in the Soviet Armed Forces arrives in Pyongyang for the first time in 26 years after exile.
* **October 3** - Red Army sets up the Soviet Civil Administration in Northern Korea.
* **October 5** - Chiang Kai-shek moves against Long Yun, Governor-General of Yunnan, deposing him without much of a struggle as his private army was in Indochina on Kai-shek’s orders. He is replaced by Lu Han.
* **November 1** - Operation Downfall Begins, Operation Olympic begins with the American invasion of Kyūshū.
* **November 1** - Blockade of Korea Begins, and American forces enter Jeju Island.
* **November 3** - General Otozō Yamada and his ill-equipped Kwantung Army are smashed utterly by the American landings. Reserve troops are left scrambling to plug the holes they leave before they can be properly reinforced. Casualties on both sides race skywards as the reserves try to literally banzai charge the Americans off the beaches.
* **November 8** - Americans enter Nagasaki, the city’s infrastructure is greatly damaged but most Japanese lives are spared.
* **November 10** - Dikes on the Isthmus of Perekop break, turning Crimea into an island. Crimea is evacuated, leaving the SS XV Cossack Corps behind in a POW camp.
* **November 19** - General Kiril Meretskov, in charge of the Soviet Occupation of  Manchuria enacts Operation Red Fields, evacuating thousands from the Soviet Far East and beginning the seizure of land from Manchurian landowners to settle the refugees. The landowners which are first targeted are those who collaborated with the Japanese, although the need for more land to settle more refugees will lead to more and more landowners being targeted.
* **19th of November** - New telephone and telegraph lines are installed across the body of water separating Primorsky Krai to the mainland by the soviet navy reconnecting the province to soviet high command
* **20th of November** - In response to Operation Red Fields, anticipating a prolonged conflict in the Eastern Theatres, NKVD operated resource extraction operations are expanded in geographic scope in order to best support the annexation of Manchuria.
* **21st of November** - Additional NKVD assets from the Primorsky Krai are transferred into Manchuria beginning a process which would weaken NKVD strength around the Primorsky and Khabarovsk krai
* **November 21** - Operation Ketsugō is mainly a failure as the IJA fails to properly defend most of Kyūshū from the American invasion, some IJA units are evacuated to Honshu. Other IJA units, including the remnants of the Kwantung Army in Japan, stay to hold out.
* **November 19** - Operation Coronet begins with the American invasion of the Kantō Plain.
* **November 20** - Putting aside their inter-service rivalry, at least for the moment, the IJA and IJN band together to fanatically resist the American push towards the Empire’s capital.
* **November 25** - IJA forces have fallen back to the east of Xingbe and the farthest south any meaningful IJA forces left in southern China is Nanjing
* **November 30** - Last contact between IJA and Korean Peninsula. Jeju’s occupation is completed by American forces.
* **December 5** - SS XV Cossack Corps escapes from their POW camp and becomes the only organized armed organization in Crimea
* **December 8** - Kim Il-Sung is installed as First-Secretary of the North Korean Branch Bureau of the Korean Communist Party.
* **December 20** - It becomes apparent to the IGH that further resistance by the IJA and IJN will not inflict appreciable casualties on the Americans and the order to withdraw is given.
* **December 21** - Even as preparations are made to move the functions of government from the city the IGH declares that all citizens of the city are drafted into the Volunteer Fighting Corps and expected to resist the invaders to their last breath.
* **December 22** - The hastily called together ‘militia’, armed with everything from staffs to weeding knives to bamboo spears, attempt to hold off the American advance. It is a bloody, short-lived affair.
* **December 23** - The city of Tokyo is captured by the United States Army. The Japanese government and Imperial Court moves to Kyoto.

**1946**

* **January 1** - United States contact with the troop is becoming less and less between. The leader named John Jackson is beginning to rule based on his own interest.
* **January 7** - Firebombing attacks by the USAF continue on what remains of most Japanese cities.
* **30th of January** - Infrastructural projects in the Soviet Far East begin to re-orientate from a Transiberian focus, to supplying material to the Manchurian and Korean occupations.
* **February 8** - Provisional People's Committee of North Korea founded.
* **March 3** - Rising flood waters have forced the majority of seaside towns and cities to evacuate. Australia is on the brink of an internal humanitarian crisis.
* **March 9** - Sakhalin occupation authorities request aid from Moscow as more people are displaced. Minimal aid is given as preparations for evacuation of areas projected to be flooded begins.
* **March 11** - the 'New Willow Palisade' is established by the Red Army, restricting the movement of refugees from North China into Manchuria, while refugees from the Soviet Far East continue to enter. This leads to mass unrest within the Han population in Manchuria.
* **March 17** - Once more moving in reaction to the events in Manchuria, the NKVD Dalstroy administration begins the process of negotiating with the Moscow Soviet for the responsibility for the construction of further arms and ammunition in order to provide local support.
* **March 23** - Darwin, after suffering the most devastation in WW2, is entirely submerged in water. An estimated 20k citizens are forced inland toward the baren scrub and desert.
* **May 3** - the 'Harbin riots' led by Russian Fascist Blackshirts and a mob of Han Manchurians calling themselves 'Blueshirts' succeed at temporarily ousting the Red Army from the city, and freeing Rodzaevsky from prison.
* **May 6** - Rodzaevsky gives his 'Manchuria for the Manchurians' speech condemning Soviet colonization and calling on Han, Manchu, and Russian alike to oppose the Red Army
* **May 7 -** Harbin is retaken by the Red Army and Rodzaevsky is killed, but the Manchurian Resistance is galvanized and will continue guerilla warfare against the Soviets for decades.
* **May 9** - Red Army attempts to re-establish control of Crimea but are defeated by the XV Cossack Corps. Cossacks commandeer landing ships to escape Crimea.
* **7th of June** - Permission is granted for the expansion in Dalstroy Responsibilities. Already present Logging is officially recognised, along with the attempted agricultural exploitation of the land. Crucially, prisoners are permitted to take part in arms manufacturing under the discretion of the NKVD authorities.
* **June 10** - Later known as the “Lockhart Massacre”, a large number of civilian refugee vessels were sunk off the coast of far north queensland. These vessels were “harbouring individuals with intent to invade Australian land” yet no weapons or munitions were recovered. Reports were leaked that children were the majority occupants of the vessels.
* **June 14** - Due to supply mismanagement, Nagasaki is cut from communications indefinitely, effectively rendering it null in void in terms of US military presence. IJA brigades remain, though they are loyal to the local governors and act as private armies.
* **June 17** - IJA forces in China have completely evacuated, integrated, turned to banditry, or otherwise do not remain in any meaningful capacity. Chiang Kai Shek and the KMT claim victory alongside the CCP as the United Front collapses nigh immediately
* **July 2** - Heavy flooding in Central Japan, Japanese government fails to properly evacuate the provisional capital of Kyoto.
* **July 4** - Forces of the IJA and Kenpeitai, slow to react with the ongoing invasion, attempt to crackdown on the growing dissent in Kyoto and Nagasaki.
* **July 8** - After a heavy rain season, most of the Kanto Plain in Japan is submerged with water. Operation Coronet is mostly cancelled and attempted evacuation begins. Attempts to conflate the rising waters with the kamikaze that threw back the Mongol invasions are met with a less than positive response from the public.
* **July 21** - Japanese government flees Kyoto in the wake of protests, retreats to Matsumoto in Nagano.
* **July 22** - Citing the breakdown of the Japanese state, the Sakhalin garrison requests a transfer to civilian governance, and again requests more resources for aid. Resources sent are minimal due to preoccupation with Manchuria and prioritizing Soviet citizens. Due to the largely Japanese population, Moscow elects to continue military occupation.
* July 24 - Longreach protests sees first refusal to give up land to government officials, police found to be in support of civilians over government.
* **July 30** - Kai-Shek announces a radical clamp down on “internal threats and communist treachery,” leading to skirmishes across China. Neither side makes any real inroads and fighting is often limited due to each side having little control over regions recently abandoned by the IJA and extreme resource limitations due to the Collapse.
* **August 3** - **Last official communication between US Pacific Forces and the US command in Pearl Harbor.**
* **August 4** - **Last communication between the United Kingdom and Australia**.
* **August 5**  - Queensland citizens begin increasing protests, rallying against the labour government in barcaldine and burning the tree of knowledge - the founding site for the leading party of the
* **20th of August** - First Dalstroy produced firearms are approved for use by the NKVD officials operating the facilities. Works begins to supply the Manchurian Occupation in the face of their continual conflict..
* **October 17** - As Darwin becomes completely flooded, a new workers union seeking to strengthen and unite the peoples forms. The DWA begins defying Federal orders and works to begin smuggling immigrants past the naval patrols.
* **October 27** - SS XV Cossack Corps arrives in Iran, where they are welcomed by Mohammed Reza Shah (whose father was, after all, a Cossack), and become the Persian Cossack Cavalry Corps, forming the backbone of the new Persian Army.
* **November 3**- Establishment of the American Occupation Government of Ryukyu & Kyushu.
* **November 6** - Following the success of neighbouring unions/protest groups, the Blue Collar Brigade forms out of Longreach, led by Tony Dunkin.
* **November 10** - Further worker unions and anti-government groups begin to formalise and stand in defiance of the Federal government. Notable groups were; The Blue Collar Brigade (QLD), Tran-State navvies union (Nationwide), Darwin Workers Alliance (NT), Blue Mountaineers (NSW), Victorian Stockmen Union (VIC), The New Guard (WA, SA).
* **November 11**  - Operation Sanctuary begins. American forces invade Taiwan. All further offensives in Japan are cancelled. Operation Downfall is declared a failure. American forces withdraw to Kyushu.
* **December 20th** - Nuon Chea’s Issaraks complete their conquest of the island following a triumphant entry into the villages, now overwhelmed with refugees. He orders the construction of a new city to house them and begin developing the region from small villages. Construction of Phnom Neak begins east of Chamnar village.

**1947**

* March 24 - The DWA and BCB join arms and via peaceful protests block land transport of goods via the Barkly Highway - the last major highway connecting the east and west coast of australia.
* March 29 - The Federal government reroutes all land transport over sea routes, though the victory of the new civilian movements is noted across the continent.
* **April 4** - Surrender of IJA forces in Taiwan. Territory is placed under the administration of Douglas MacArthur under the American Occupation Government of Ryukyu, portions of Kyushu, & Taiwan. American forces on Kyushu begin to withdraw to the “Sampson Line''.
* **April 6** - MIO forces occupy Gokase and resume large-scale skirmishes with American forces. Skirmishes with remaining IJA forces continue in the North.
* **April 6** - Soviet Civil Administration in Korea led by Ivan Chistyakov and Terenty Shtykovnov gave control over Korea to the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea, leaving the Soviet Civil Administration to only govern the Soviet refugees in Korea.
* **April 12** - Sakhalin occupation authorities finish construction of temporary housing and begin evacuation of the city of Toyohara.
* **April 16** - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea declared in Pyongyang.
* **April 25 -** Blue Collar brigade stages organised protests across the landsborough highway region. Petitions are put forward calling for QLD independence from
* **May 7** - Evacuation of Toyohara complete. The city is stripped for valuable materials, most of which are kept in Sakhalin thanks to the garrisons’ mistrust of Moscow.
* **June 10** - The IGH praises the troops for taking the initiative in organizing themselves to better fight the invading barbarians.
* **July 15** - Lu Han defects from the KMT to the CCP. Li Mi succeeds him as governor of Yunnan.
* **August 19** - Efforts by the MIO to capture Kagoshima and Yakushima are fruitless due to superior American naval power. Nonetheless, the Southern conflict is considered a resounding success by the Mikinoko. Small skirmishes with the final remaining IJA forces continue.
* **October 15** - **Flooding stabilizes. Present-day sea level reached.**
* **October 24** - **Contact between Red Army forces in the east is broken with Moscow.**
* **November 27** - With no contact from Moscow in over a month, General Leonty Cheremisov, who had led the invasion and had been put in charge of occupation, declared an “indefinite period of diplomatic, political, and military autonomy for the island of Sakhalin, until the national political situation has stabilized and order has been restored”. Most Japanese POWs are pardoned, and allowed to live as civilians.
* **December 1** - The IGH continues to downplay the severity of the Empire’s situation to the public and the Emperor; assuring them that their enemies are paper tigers simply waiting to be swept aside.
* **December 2**- **The Battle of Cunderdin**: Federal government forces arrive in Cunderdin, a few hours out of Old Perth to prepare for arresting Prince Henry. However, on entry to Cunderdin they are met by a joint force of rebel ADF soldiers and Anarchist Militia forces. The Federal Government is largely repelled from Cunderdin.
* **December 25**- Christmas celebrations in the federal occupied town of York are cut short when the anarcho-nihilist group; the Firestarter Cells, throw grenades and molotovs at the town hall.

**1948**

* **January 18**- **The Massacre of Diamond Tree**: Federal forces attack a vastly unprepared Anarchist militia force in Diamond Tree, winning a small victory for the central government. Federal forces also engage in a massacre against local inhabitants for “treasonous allegiances”.
* **January 20**- Reprisals for the Massacre occur and many WA locals find their support moving to the rebels instead of the Federal Government because of the atrocity.
* **January 27**- Operation “Lea” begins, airborne infantry as well as mechanised detachments attack the Viet Minh stronghold of Bac Kan. The airborne infantry surprised Ho Chi Minh and his lieutenants, capturing all except for the Chairman himself. A major victory for the French.
* **February 12** - As Sakhalin warms, the “temporary evacuation housing” begins to be converted into a proper city.
* **February 14** - Rallies erupt across WA in support of the Anarchists who led the rebellion against the Federal Government. Many factories and farms have their owners killed or arrested and communal ownership begins.
* **April 2** - KMT forces struggle to achieve any strategic victories due to lack of cooperation from warlord allies and other local powers that either are too powerful to be broken by the KMT or sympathize with groups such as the CPC.
* **April 3** - MacArthur establishes the Transitional Administration of Ryukyu & Taiwan. The Military Occupation Government of Kyushu is integrated into the Territory of Ryukyu. MacArthur issues the “Declaration of Neutrality” and announces the cessation of all hostilities with Japanese entities. MacArthur recognizes the People’s Republic of Japan.
* **3rd of October** - Significant caches of Dalstroy produced weaponry are located by NKVD personnel within a prisoner operated Gold Mine. Crucially no further action is taken beyond it’s confiscation, and no wide-spread investigation takes place for fear of highlighting NKVD incompetence.

**1949**

* **January 6** - Last fleet dispatched by MacArthur to reattempt contact with American mainland. Fleet is lost. Further efforts were deemed an unnecessary waste of vital resources and cancelled.
* **February 1**- The anarcho-nihilist Firestarter Cells begin a reign of terror in their Autonomous Zone, mass killings of suspected counter revolutionaries and capitalists are common. Seeing people hanged from traffic lights and sign posts is a normal site.
* **February 17**- The Firestarter Cells form the “Blackguards”, a force of hardline anarchist ex-ADF soldiers. They begin routinely partaking in “Street Court”, wherein they test locals on their devotion to anarchism. Failure to pass the test ends in arrest or summary execution.
* **April 3** - MacArthur announces that all state functions will transfer to the Transitional Administration before April 3, 1959, and that a constitution will be established and elections held.
* **May 17** - With attempts to reopen official communications with Moscow ending in failure, Kiril Meretskov declares the Manchurian Soviet Socialist Republic with a capital in Harbin. His private vision is to make Manchuria, the most industrialized part of mainland East Asia and comparatively untouched by the floods, into the centre of a new state including the Soviet Far East.
* **May 23** -  The Manchurian Communist Party is formed as the sole political party of the Manchurian SSR. It is open to all those literate in Russian, and takes the position that Maoism is the revisionism that results from attempts to translate Maxism-Leninism into Chinese. Despite its claims to Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, the MCP remains simply a propaganda tool for Meretskov’s military dictatorship.
* **July 7** - Aiming for the Taiyuan Arsenal, a holdout continigent of the PLA marches from their base of operations in Yan’an.
* **July 18**  - The PLA crosses the Yellow River and takes Lüliang.
* **July 30**  - KMT Forces under Ma Dunjing arrive in Xi’an at Kai Shek’s behest.
* **September 8**  - Battle of Taiyuan begins, between KMT forces under Yan Xishan and the People's Liberation Army
* **November 12** - Li Mi, governor-general of Yunnan, is killed during the Battle of Taiyuan. Governor Tang Zhenya is appointed as his replacement, notable for being a Mosuo woman in a rare position of governmental authority.
* **November 18** - Yan Xishan is killed during the Battle of Taiyuan

### 50s

**1950**

* **January 10** - Through the cooperation of KMT-aligned Hui and a network of agents in Shanxi and Shaanxi, the KMT break the siege at Taiyuan to take control of a major arsenal in China and one of the first meaningful battles in the Chinese Civil War post Collapse.
* **January 10** - The Chinese People's Liberation Army retreats north and takes the city of Datong.
* **Between March 24, 1948 and December 31, 1950** - Over 5,000 Ainu were imprisoned, executed, or deported by the IJN. These effectively amounted to pogroms by the Japanese against the Ainu. Large scale unrest led to the formation of underground movements that were hunted down by the IJN.

**1951**

* **February 11** - The victory at Taiyuan the previous year has strengthened the KMT’s position in China but it has also strengthened Chiang Kai Shek. Fears of his power and influence threatened many local and regional power brokers who began to formulate around central figures such as Sun Li-Jen, Tang Zhenya, and Zhang Xueliang.
* **April 12**  - The Manchurian SSR unveils its new education program, designed to promote literacy through the introduction of a newly-formulated Cyrillic Pinyin. While many will still retain literacy in Literary Chinese, the mandatory primary education will teach Cyrillic Pinyin. Russian-language schools will also be set up for those with at least one Soviet parent, and Russian will be taught as a second language in Chinese-language schools.
* **July 3** - The People's Liberation Army retreat from Datong into Inner Mongolia, where the army is mostly dissipated.
* **September 8** - A CPC-backed Tibetan rebellion begins in Qinghai.
* **October 31** - Cambodia stabilizes, Phnom Neak is established as the new capital as the last refugees from the east settle in the city.

**1952**

**1953**

**1954**

* **27th of April** - The Small Mercy. An NKVD administrator at the now “Kronstadt” camp, in the face of extended communication severance, and worsening conditions, takes it upon himself to grant pardons to all those imprisoned, and allow the former-prisoners to begin the process of converting the work camp into a permanent settlement.
* **28th of April** - The Kronstadt former-prisoners arrest the NKVD guards, and disarm them, awaiting a public trial by the newly liberated.
* **29th of April** - Establishment of the Kronstadt Soviet in order to conduct the trial of the former wardens, and organise the settlement moving forward.
* **30th of April** - The NKVD guards are found innocent of any crimes against the former-prisoners by an overwhelming majority. Their granting of freedom more than outweighed the continued detainment felt by many of the population. Some suspect Stockholm Syndrome had a deal to play within this verdict.
* **1st of May** - The Dalstroy rebellions begin. The NKVD operated gulags across the Soviet Far East began to fall, due to escalating prisoner riots armed with contraband firearms - and the intervention of the Kronstadt Soviet. Outnumbered staff either surrender to the incarcerated, or begin to execute prisoners on an arbitrary basis. Successfully rebellious gulags begin to liberate the prisoners from other camps, and begin mass trials of both the incarcerated and captors.
* **6th of August** - The results of the inter-gulag trials are found in a majority position, on both the account of the captive, and the captors. Of the captives: those that have records, have any crimes prior to incarceration purged, but any violent acts in that time considered. Those without records are considered innocent. Of the captors: each individual is prosecuted individually, but their service to the NKVD is recognised as not a crime in and of itself.
* **November 27** - Rampant corruption, lack of a centralized bureaucracy, the ongoing low-scale conflict with the CCP, and the ongoing refugee crisis from the sea rise leads to an incredibly weak KMT in projecting its power outside of its urban centers.
* **December 25** - American soldiers and locals attempt to reunite the Philippines under one rule.

**1955**

* **1st of May** - Officially the proclamation of the formation of the Trudarmistenland für alle Russlanddeutsche, a confederation of former gulag camps liberated in the Dalstroy Rebellions. Due to the breakdown in infrastructure and communications it has been left uncertain as to the exact day(s) of these events. The confederation is centred around the findings of the trials in the previous year, and an implicit understanding of a sense of collective debt to society to be repaid.
* **7th of June** - First skirmish between the civilian militia of Trudarmistenland and a town in the Soviet Far East. The town had been found to be controlled by an armed reactionary group, and would be liberated by the Trudarmistenlanders. This would begin a period of conflict between the expanded gulag towns, and bandit groups. The absence of an organised Red Army becomes increasingly obvious.
* **July 9** - The replacement for Toyohara now resembles a proper, if poor, city. Locals typically refer to it as “New Toyohara” in Japanese or “South Salahinsk City” in Russian.

**1956**

* **April 3** - The Federation of Ryukyu & Taiwan is formally established with the election of General William Wagner as its first elected President.
* **May 13** - The KMT’s struggles to maintain a semblance of unity with a number of its regional allies refusing to cooperate and famines all across China. Tang Zhenya pushes for increased autonomy and gubernatorial powers.
* **May 18**- While the KMT has had continued success in defeating the CCP in the field of battle due superior resources, manpower, and military leadership, CCP agents were able to assassinate Chiang Kai-Shek in between his home and his office. The news spreads fast, and chaos ensues. The KMT is left practically headless, and KMT generals and other such influential people use this opportunity to take more direct control of their regions. Riots break out in a number of KMT-strongholds, and with its most famous war hero dead it becomes much easier to criticize the KMT.
* **October 3** - A constitutional convention for the KMT is called to be hosted in Xi’an in the aftermath of Kai Shek’s assassination, but it moves at a snail’s pace to a poor bureaucracy and the non-cooperation of many key figures within the KMT.

**1957**

* **February 17** - Trudarmistenland formally agrees a standardised language of High German using the Cyrillic script, and many Russian and Soviet loanwords.
* **November 27** - With ten years having passed since the “declaration of autonomy”, a referendum is held in Sakhalin on whether it should declare independence and become a republic, which passes.

**1958**

* **May 1** - First Sakhalin elections are held. The elections are rigged by the government, and the military-backed Sakhalin Communist Party wins by a large margin. Leonty Cheremisov becomes the first President of the Republic.
* **July 16** - Genrikh Lyushkov is finally captured and killed by the Manchurian Soviets, bringing the Manchurian Resistance to an end. However, Kiril Meretskov's reputation as a butcher has been cemented into the minds of Manchuria. The remaining resistance fighters will flee into China proper.
* **December 22** - The constitutional convention in Xi'an, China finally goes underway after over two years of practically no progress, and some figures like Sun Li-Jen simply do not show up. While the convention has the membership numbers to be ran under current Party rules, its legitimacy is severely damaged.

**1959**

* **January 2** - The Xi'an constitutional convention continues to struggle to achieve progress, and the topic of the successor to Chiang Kai Shek is avoided for fear of attendees walking out and the convention losing all legitimacy
* **February 3** - After a broad KMT party platform and constitution is adopted by the Xi'an Convention, the topic of dealing with the hyperinflation and famines throughout China leads to a breakdown in negotiations as more left leaning and right leaning members of the KMT disagree heavily on possible solutions. This escalated as the lack of a central figure being able to pick a side or mediate, and after months of negotiations the constitutional convention disbanded in disgrace.
* **March 10** - In a bold move to mobilize the KMT convention, Ma Dunjing attempts a repeat of the Xi’an Incident. Storming Xi’an with his troops, he attempts and fails to kidnap the major attendees of the convention. While nobody important is killed, gunfights throughout the city and countryside surrounding Xi’an scatter the convention attendees.
* **March 13** - The Xi’an Convention is officially declared ended. The failed constitutional convention and the continued lack of a proper successor to Kai Shek leads to a practical collapse of the KMT as a national unity organization. While regional party structures are maintained in some areas such as Fujian, most are turned into some sort of military government or an independent governor with ties to the old party.
* **March 16** - With the complete failure of the Xi’an Convention, Governor Tang Zhenya declares the Autonomous Province of Yunnan’s independence from the KMT.
* **March 19** - Kung Hsiang-hsi, Tian Songyao, and Ma Bufang endorse the Xi'an Party Platform in Chongqing, continuing the National Government of the Republic of China and begin the transition to a proper democratic civilian government.
* **April 20-** Dissident elements in the South led by Li Zongren's New Guangxi Clique, and the Chinese Democratic League form an opposition government in the South, they are joined by elements of the YCP(most of whom oppose the LKMT), several former LKMT members and disillusioned intellectuals, Hu Shih among them.
* **June 7 -** Declaring the Xi’an Convention a failure, Zhang Xueliang returns to the Northeast, and begins building an army in Western Liaoning outside the Manchurian SSR’s ‘New Willow Palisade’. ‘China must be reunified by force,’ he declares, ‘starting with the Northeast’.
* **June 15-** Long Yun and the LKMT join the Guangzhou Government led by Li Zongren and the CDL
* **July 10** - Ma Bufang returns to Qinghai-Gansu and begins implementing the new constitution of the Republic of China.
* **September 29** - The Youth League of the Three Principles of the People (YLTPP), the successor cover for the old Blue Shirts Society (BSS) after Chiang Kai Shek’s crackdown on their activities due to fear of their threat to his power, takes action in the remnants of Beijing and the other old principle territories at the center of the KMT’s influence since the Collapse destroying Nanjing, Shanghai, and many other important KMT strongholds.
* **October 20** - Governor Tang Zhenya announces the reorganization of the Autonomous Province into the Enlightened Matriarchy of Yunnan, modeling it after the Mosuo societal structure.

### 60s

**1960**

* **January 7** - CPC agents and sympathisers attack Chiang Wei-kuo during a speech, Wei-kuo is sent to hospital.
* **April 13** - YLTPP and its allies, such as Dai Li and Feng Ti, mobilize its members in a number of prominent marches throughout refugee slums, cities, and major roads in the Northeast of China. They are militant and maintain pride in their membership in the KMT, which is losing popularity fast due to the collapse of its national government. Clashes between opposing organizations and the YLTPP is commonplace, and they increasingly become the most active KMT organization in the region.
* **July 3** - Dai Li and his Investigation and Statistics Bureau connections are a huge boon to the YLTPP. The YLTPP’s willingness and capability to use force makes it quickly become the go-to for KMT leaders in the region to quell rebellion, and their effectiveness makes them known to many. While it is hated by those that oppose the KMT, it also becomes seen as the vanguard for those who still associate themselves with the KMT’s ideals.

**1961**

* **March 16** - Backed by Zhang Xueliang, former members of the Manchurian resistance together with other exiles from the Northeast forms the One China Party to promote the reunification of the Northeast with China. The Manchurian Communist Party quickly outlaws the new party.

**1962**

* **February 11** - Mohammed Reza Shah is overthrown, bringing to power a modernist regime uninterested in employing Cavalry. The Cossacks flee Eastward into Central Asia with their horses and weapons.
* **March 15** - After a slowdown of unrest in the previous two years, continued lack of food leads to a major revolt in the slums of re-built Beijing. This poor and peasant revolt quickly flamed out of control and it is widely believed to have been supported by CCP agents and sympathizers. Fear of falling to the communists leads even the most anti-YLTPP members of the regional organization of the KMT to reach out, and their reaction is brutal. While they restore order quickly and violently, their follow-up is done independently of the leaders of the KMT in the region and is much more cooperative. Food banks are established, Dai Li’s connections to illegal triads funnel bribes to slum lords, and recruitment centers swell.
* **May 2** - Feng Ti, leader of the YLTPP, makes a rare bid within the KMT party structure. He gets the YLTPP formalized once again as an official military branch of the KMT, at least in the region, and puts himself at the head with his allies filling other positions.

**1963**

* **October 23** - Out of fear of the One China Party, Kiril Meretskov bans the possession of firearms by anyone who is not a member of the Manchurian Communist Party. As the MCP still requires literacy in Russian as a prerequisite for membership, this policy effectively ensures that only those tied to the Russian ruling class can serve in the military.

**1964**

* **June 27** - A number of suspicious accidents and murders occur throughout 1964, as a number of prominent KMT leaders are eliminated. To those aware of party politics, many of them were very old members, a number of which were part of Chiang Kai Shek’s inner circle.
* **September 14** - With conditions worsening in the East, the politburo of the Mongolian People’s Party offers refuge to remaining Soviet forces east of the urals.
* **September 20** - The Mongolian People’s Party stops attempting to contact Moscow, and begins to diverge ideologically.
* **September 21** - The Soviet Embassy in Ulaanbaatar remains open despite the lapse in communication. It is one of the few contiguous entities of the former Soviet Union in the Far East.

**1965**

* **August 18** - YLTPP membership swells once more as the continued chaos and regionalism in China doesn’t seem to be disappearing anytime soon. The ultranationalism and Minsheng (welfare) spouted by the ideologues of the party appeal to many young adults, especially with the Manchurian SSR nearly bordering the province.
* **December 30** - Ferdinand Marcos is elected president of the Philippines

**1966**

* **May 20** - Ethnically Han dissidents within the Manchurian Communist Party begin quietly criticizing Meretskov’s disenfranchisement of the majority. They argue that promoting Manchurian identity as a single multi-ethnic nationality distinct from China would be a more effective way of combating the One China Party. The call themselves the Manchurian People’s Caucus

**1967**

* **November 17** - President of Sakhalin Leonty Cheremisov dies. While some hope that his successor will transition to a genuine democratic or socialist state, he is instead replaced by Kiichiro Higuchi, who keeps the status quo.

**1968**

* **February 15** - The YLTPP is the primary force in an offensive against a local warlord who refused to cooperate with the KMT government in Beijing. It’s swift victory grows its respect amongst the military minds of the KMT in the region, and locals freed from the warlord’s grasp are quickly swept up by the YLTPP’s ideologues.
* **December 30**- Kiril Meretskov dies and is succeeded as Military dictator of the Manchurian SSR by Afanasy Belborodov. Calls for civilian government Manchuria go unheeded, as it is believed that the civilian government will be too weak to combat the One China Party

**1969**

* **February 8** - Zhang Xueliang invades Manchuria with backing from the One China Party
* **February 11** - The YLTPP push for formalized and active support of Zhang’s invasion of Manchuria, citing the need to restore the national government and push out foreigners who aim to exploit China just as they did before the Collapse. The leaders refuse, citing their own resource shortages and, behind closed doors, their fear of Zhang’s position should he be successful. Feng and his allies are deeply troubled by this decision.
* **March 18** - Zhang Xueliang reaches New Shenyang as the defensive lines around the city collapse due to a Han uprising within the city.
* **March 21** - Afanasy Belborodov receives a report from the Red Army staff: despite possessing superior tech to Zhang Xueliang, the Red Army simply does not have the manpower to oppose the invasion. The ban on non-Communists from serving in the Red Army is blamed, but stepping back from a commitment to Communism will likely prove fatal to Red Army Morale.
* **March 22** - Afanasy Belborodov announces a new policy of mass conscription without ethnic or linguistic restrictions. The conscripts will form a new army known as the Manchurian People’s Army. He asks the Manchurian People’s Caucus to oversee the ideological screening of recruits to ensure they are ready to fight for Manchurian independence.
* **April 3** - Changchun falls to Zhang Xueliang after a protracted siege. The Manchurian SSR prepares to make a stand at Jilin.
* **April 28** - The Battle of Jilin begins.
* **May 17** - The Battle of Jilin ends. Red Army mechs and Manchurian People’s Army infantry have held back the attack. Zhang Xueliang retreats to Changchun to regroup.
* **May 21** - Zhang’s setbacks but limited success is cited by the YLTPP as proof that if he was more properly supported Manchuria could be liberated. A steady flow of YLTPP members make it into Zhang’s army, and acting against direct orders many of its leaders provide substantial support to Zhang.
* **June 8** - As part of a propaganda campaign to support the war effort, Belborodov officially makes the Manchurian SSR a two-party state, allowing the Manchurian People's Congress to form their own political party, and openly promoting the idea of Manchuria as its own multi-ethnic nation which must maintain its independence at all costs.
* **September 9** - After a summer of buildup, Zhang launches another offensive, this time directed at Harbin.

### 70s

**1970**

* **January 10** - A huge march is held in Taiyuan by the YLTPP to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the victory at Taiyuan against the Chinese Red Army that drove them out of the region. Feng holds a speech at Xishan’s arsenal, and directly criticizes the reigning KMT leadership for their inaction and inability to mobilize.
* **January 11** - The Harbin offensive has been defeated, and Zhang has been pushed back to Changchun yet again. A cease-fire ends the Manchurian War.
* **January 24** - The celebration at Taiyuan created significant buzz both in the wider populace and within KMT leadership. YLTPP activity increased significantly afterwards, incensed by the announcement of a cease-fire ending the Manchurian War in a failure for Zhang. This culminates in a pre-meditated “flash” riot followed by an arrest of the existing KMT civilian leadership by military leaders. A kangaroo court session is held with the prosecution led by Dai Li, head of the secret police. All who were tried were found guilty and were either exiled or put into house arrest permanently. De-facto military control is established, with Feng Ti as President. He officially “resigns” as leader of the YLTPP, Liao Chengzhi being announced as his successor.
* **February 1** - Feng announces the regional party of the KMT in Hebei to be renamed to the Tengmenghui, after the historical movement led by Sun Yat Sen that toppled the Qing. He claims the new leadership will lead the KMT to re-unify China once more against the forces of chaos, and to purify China in the aims of returning to the ancient and historied Chinese culture. Foreign influences and internal saboteurs are quoted as the instigators against these goals.

**1971**

**1972**

* **April 18** With the threat of Zhang behind them, the people of the Manchurian SSR begin to more actively agitate for civilian rule. While much of the Manchurian Communist Party remains loyal to Belborodov, the Manchurian People's party, with the support of veterans of the Manchurian People's Army, is actively campaigning for an elected civilian government.

**1973**

* **October 14** - Pro-republican protests are held throughout the year, which are at first allowed but are cracked down on by October 14th as they escalate. A meeting of the National Assembly re-defines the outline of the Tengmenghui’s party policies, and the Principle of Minquan (The People’s Power) is interpreted as a government built to serve the interests of the Chinese people in particular, just as Minsheng is the protections and support of the government in providing social goods to the Chinese people. This sparks outrage, which is dealt with through an expansion of existing Minsheng programs and protest busting by police forces.

**1974**

* **June 28** - 215 civilians are killed when Manchurian Red Army mechs open fire on a peaceful protest in Songyuan.
* **July 11** - In retaliation for the death of civilians a few weeks earlier, a car bomb is set off against a Red Army convoy through Harbin. The Manchurian People's Party denies any involvement.
* **Jule 20** - In response to a wave of protests, Belborodov agrees to hold elections for a legislative assembly, with the caveat that only candidates from the MCP and MPP will be eligible to run.

**1975**

* **February 2** - Manchurian Red Army officers attempt a coup against the 'weak' Belborodov, who is only able to stop the coup through use of Manchurian People's Party militias.
* **February 12** - Belborodov begins purges of the Red Army, dismissing those whose loyalty is suspect. In response, many within the Red Army sabotage equipment, rendering many of the best and newest mechs inoperable.
* **May 15** - The Tongmenghui establish ties with many KMT-associated organizations and warlords throughout northern China in the aims of resolving rampant food shortages and expanding the Tongmenghui’s ideals. Most notably would be Zhang Xueliang’s clique, who shared much in common with the Tengmenghui.

**1976**

* **March 7** - After 14 years working as mercenaries and outlaws in Central Asia, the Cossacks arrive in Manchuria.
* **March 10** - Cossacks raid Qiqihar, carrying off loot and embarrassing the ailing Manchurian SSR
* **March 25** - Battle of Fuyu, where Manchurian Soviet tanks (many of which are, by this point, nearly 40 years old) are ambushed and trapped by the Cossacks.
* **Maech 26** - Hearing news of the Battle of Fuyu, Belborodov resigns, asking the newly-elected legislature to appoint a civilian leader. Deadlock between the MCP and MPP in the legislature ensues.
* **April 3** - Cossacks arrived in Harbin to find a capital in turmoil as Red Army remnants fighting against militias loyal to the Manchurian People's Party. The Cossacks naturally aided the MPP.
* **May 5** - The Manchurian National Republic is declared in Harbin, created as a successful alliance between the Cossacks and the Manchurian People's Party. Most Communist legislators have fled the city.
* **May 6** - Many local governments in Manchuria refuse to recognize the new government in Harbin. Some are still controlled by remnants of the Red Army, while others ask to be annexed by China. Manchuria is balkanized, but the MNR continues to claim to be the legitimate government of Manchuria.
* **June 13** The Manchurian National Republic creates the Manchurian National Army, incorporating the MPP militias and the Cossacks into the army structure. However, without many experienced Red Army officers to lead the army, the Manchurian National Army has difficulty projecting power beyond Harbin.

**1977**

**1978**

**1979**

### 80s

**1980**

* **August 7** - Feng Ti dies of old age and is succeeded by Liao Chengzhi, the leader of the YLTPP since the creation of the Tengmenghui. As his final act as leader of the YLTPP, he announces the formation of the “Southern Blade'' elite mech squad, named so as a reference to the idea of a “Southern Expedition” in Tengmenghui party mythos that would reunite China.
* **September 5** - Dai Li’s (who is at this point deceased) Investigation and Statistics Bureau is enlarged by Liao.

**1981**

* **May 5** - After almost a decade of rule Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal is ousted by 20 year old Batbayar Ivaanjav, who replaces him as both Chairman of the Presidium and as Prime Minister of Mongolia.
* **May 6** - Ivaanjav, in a speech to the People’s Great Khural, announces an end to the “age of a submissive Mongol State”.

**1982**

* **May 23** - With the Manchurian National Republic having lost all authority beyond Harbin city limits, and with Manchuria flooded by a new wave of immigration from China, the Cossacks stage a coup. The Manchurian Cossack Horde is formed.
* **September 12** - Manchurian Cossack Horde begins its propaganda campaign promoting reunification of Manchuria through military strength, and putting up Steppe Hordes as the best historical example of overwhelming military strength. Neo-Tengriism becomes the state religion.

**1983**

**1984**

**1985**

**1986**

* **February 25** - Ferdinand Marcos flees the Philippines

**1987**

**1988**

**1989**

* **September 28** - Ferdinand Marcos, former President of the Philippines, dies.

### 90s

**1990**

**1991**

**1992**

**1993**

* **January 27** - Mongolian forces begin moving southwards, and Ivaanjav announces plans for a “Pan Mongolic State”
* **August 13** - Lee Man-hee is named Chairman of the Council of Korea, becoming the first non-Hubbard to hold the position.

**1994**

* **December 30** - Dmitry Zarubin is elected President of the Sakhalin Federal Socialist Republic after the former president's death. He is the first president to not come from an extensive military background.

**1995**

* **May 4** - Ninghsia Province collapses, causing the 82nd Army in Tsingkan to begin an expedition to retake the province.