Timeline of World History

## 1914 CE

* A workers' uprising, known as the Cape Rebellion, happens in the Union of South Africa, only to be brutally crushed by the government.
* Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, leads a failed assassination attempt on Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. The Third Balkan War begins not long after.

## 1916 CE

* Franz Joseph I dies and Franz Ferdinand is crowned as Ferdinand II.

## 1917 CE

* In order to get Russia out of the Third Balkan War, Germany sends exiled Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin into the country. A few days after he arrives, the First Russian Civil War begins.
* The Third Balkan War comes to an end with a stalemate, following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The Germans and Austro-Hungarians take the most territory, largely at the expense of their Italian ally.
* Erich Ludendorff becomes Chancellor of Germany, beginning the period known as the 'Ludendorff Dictatorship.'
* Many white and black workers in South Africa band together to fight against the Boer ruling class out of anger of the constant violent put-downs of miner strikes. President Barry Hertzog gets assassinated and General Jan Smuts declares a military dictatorship, leading to the beginning of the First South African Civil War.

## 1918 CE

* In the belief that Italy was not given proper representation in the Treaty of Versailles, Italian ultranationalist Gabriele D'Annunzio attempts to take over the city of Fiume. Italy and Austria-Hungary refuse to recognize his claims and they crush the uprising.

## 1920 CE

* The First South African Civil War ends in a victory for the military dictatorship and the International Socialist League is forced underground.
* Anton Drexler, alongside Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, founds the German Aryan Brotherhood Party.
* The Bavarian Revolution briefly takes place as far-left militants take over the capital of Munich.

## 1921 CE

* Angered over the loss of their brethren to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the remaining free territories of the Balkan rise in revolt.

## 1923 CE

* Having successfully overthrown all the Balkan monarchies, the remaining free territories unite together as the Republic of Yugoslavia, to prevent further Imperial European aggression.

## 1924 CE

* The Bolsheviks win the First Russian Civil War, declaring the creation of the Soviet Union.

## 1925 CE

* Austrian national-anarchist and mystic, Karl Wiligut, teams up with Heinrich Himmler to found a neo-pagan cult called Totenkopf. They also found the Germanic Cultural Unity Party, a political front for the cult.
* As a result of public pressure, Kaiser Wilhelm II is forced to make Ludendorff resign. His fellow war hero, Paul von Hindenburg, is made the new Chancellor.
* Otto Strasser, a former member of the Social Democratic Party, defects over fear of the rising popularity of the Communist Party and Aryan Brotherhood Party. He instead founds the Social Revolutionary Party, based on the principles of left-wing nationalism and authoritarian socialism.

## 1927 CE

* The Chinese Civil War begins, as the Communist Party of China and the Nationalists come to blows.
* Angered by Italy's failed involvement in the Third Balkan War and inspired by the success of the Russian Bolsheviks, far-left revolutionaries in Italy decide to defy their own monarchy. The Italian Civil War begins.

## 1929 CE

* The Italian Civil War comes to an end with a stalemate. King Victor Emmanuel III flees to the island of Sardinia, from which he continues ruling the Kingdom of Italy. The northern half of the Italian Peninsula is transformed into the Socialist Republic of Italy, while the southern half becomes the Italian Federation.

## 1930 CE

* J. F. C. Fuller, a retired Major-General of the British army, founds the British National Aryan Front.

## 1932 CE

* Emperor Hirohito is assassinated by a Korean nationalist and his brother Yasuhito is crowned as the new Emperor. Yasuhito reverses most of his brother's policies, due to his more Western-friendly attitude.
* A series of far-right terror attacks strike out at the growing 'left-populist' movement in the Democratic Party, most notably claiming the lives of Louisiana Governor Huey Long and New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt.

## 1933 CE

* Extremist members of the Communist Party of Germany, led by Ernst Thälmann, seize the Reichstag, holding Chancellor Hindenburg hostage. The Reichstag is eventually burned down, leading to many of the insurrectionists dying, including Thälmann. Hindenburg is also killed during the fire.

## 1934 CE

* Following a decade of political instability, the French Republic collapses following a Communist uprising. The Paris Commune is established, as a far-right counter-coup launches an offensive. After a few brutal days of fighting, the Commune is overthrown and the Kingdom of France is reestablished under the Regency of Charles Maurras.

## 1936 CE

* The Spanish Civil War begins as Aryanist partisans under the control of General Francisco Franco attempt to overthrow the Republic.
* The brief Austrian Civil War ends with the ousting of Minister-President Adolf Hitler at the hands of far-left revolutionaries. To prevent a full-out Communist revolution, the social democratic and German-friendly Georg von Trapp is made the new Minister-President. Richthofen and Trapp form a ‘Schutzpakt’ between their two countries, which many historians consider to be the unofficial beginning of the Federation of Germania.
* Charles Lindbergh gets elected as US President after beating Al Smith in the 1936 election.
* The end of the Chinese Civil War with a victory for the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP allies itself fully with the Soviet Union, due to their help with the victory.
* William H. Murray has a secret meeting with far-right spiritualist William Dudley Pelley, finalizing his decision to split off from the Democratic Party. The two men instead create the Aryanist-inspired National States' Rights Party, with Murray being the Chairman and Pelley being made the Deputy Chairman.

## 1937 CE

* The Second Sino-Japanese War begins as the Empire of Japan invades the recently created People's Republic of China.
* The Soviet Union succeeds in the Winter War and makes Otto Wille Kuusinen the Premier of the Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic.
* In response to his increasingly xenophobic and authoritarian attitude, the leaders of the Ottoman Empire elect to send Enver Pasha to govern Ottoman Jerusalem.
* An attempted communist uprising in the Kingdom of Poland led by Edward Ochab causes concern among Germany and Austria-Hungary, who mobilize their armies to crush it.
* The constant failed communist takeovers throughout the world angers the Soviet Union, who declares war on the West, beginning the Great Soviet War.

## 1938 CE

* Many exiles from Finland ally themselves with Vidkun Quisling, the head of the Nordic Aryan Union. Fearing Soviet expansion, the countries of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark unify into the Commonwealth of Scandinavia under the control of Chancellor Vidkun Quisling.

## 1939 CE

* The Spanish Civil War comes to an end with a victory for the Republicans as the Second Spanish Republic is maintained.

## 1940 CE

* Gregor Strasser, the leader of the Revolutionary National Socialist Party, is assassinated by a member of the German Aryan Brotherhood Party. Boris Savinkov takes over Strasser’s position as party leader.

## 1941 CE

* Wilhelm II dies and Crown Prince Wilhelm is crowned as Wilhelm III.
* In a shocking move, the young reformist Herbert Frahm is selected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Germany. Inspired by the 'Spartacist' ideas of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, he tries to move the KPD away from Leninism.
* The Germanic neo-pagan cult Totenkopf comes to an end as Karl Wiligut decides that the Germanic people are beyond saving, causing him and his followers to commit ritualistic suicide.

## 1942 CE

* Aryan Brotherhood Party Chairman Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter is arrested along with his Deputy, Rudolf Hess, for their involvement in the plot to assassinate Gregor Strasser.
* Impressed by the actions of the British intelligence services and fearing those of the Soviet Union, President Charles Lindbergh authorizes the creation of the Office of Strategic Services.
* After the grueling Battle of Stalingrad, Premier Zinoviev is forced to surrender. The Great Soviet War comes to an end with a victory for the Allies.
* In the aftermath during the Berlin Conference, the major Allied powers and the Comintern sign the Treaty of Charlottenburg. It is agreed that Ukraine will be split into two zones. West Ukraine will belong to the Western Allies, while East Ukraine will still belong to the Soviet Union. Stepan Bandera is made the leader of West Ukraine, while Nikita Khrushchev becomes the leader of East Ukraine.
* The Republic of Finland is freed from Soviet control and annexed into the Commonwealth of Scandinavia, becoming its fourth province.

## 1943 CE

* The infamous British Viceroy of India, Winston Churchill, is violently overthrown and killed in an uprising by the Indian population. Archibald Wavell is pulled from his military service to put down the rebellion and is then made the new Viceroy.

## 1945 CE

* Manfred von Richthofen steps down as Chancellor of Germany and Hermann Göring takes the position. One of Hermann’s first actions is the declaration of the Federation of Germania, consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Poland.
* The Korean Revolution begins, as both Republicans and Communists fight to liberate themselves from the Empire of Japan.

## 1946 CE

* Chancellor Vidkun Quisling is assassinated by an unknown gunman. Carl Gustaf Mannerheim becomes the new Chancellor.
* Enver Pasha is assassinated by Lehi, a Zionist militia under the control of Avraham Stern.

## 1947 CE

* The beginning of the War of Ideologies between America and the Soviet Union, with the signing of the MacArthur Doctrine. Its first era, called the ‘Era of the Red Flood,’ begins with the Kharkiv Airlift.
* Famous German wartime doctor Josef Mengele is executed after evidence comes to light of his secret unethical human experimentation on POWs during the Great Soviet War.
* Based on a request from Viceroy Wavell, Britain finally frees India from its control following the Partition of India, creating two new nations.
* The Korean Revolution comes to an end, with the Republicans taking control of the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, and the Communists controlling the northern half.
* As a result of the Ausgleich of 1947, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dismantled, resulting in the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary becoming their own nations again.
* In retaliation for the assassination of Enver Pasha, Ottoman agents orchestrate a terrorist attack on a Yishuv council, resulting in the death of David Ben-Gurion. Menachem Begin uses this as an excuse to take over and declares his intentions to lead a Zionist revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
* After a brief argument, it is decided to reinstate the House of Habsburg-Lorraine in the Kingdom of Hungary, as Prince Karl is crowned as King Charles IV.

## 1948 CE

* Under a commission from the Göring government, ‘Project Sealion’ begins under Werner Heisenberg. Along with many other famous German scientists, including Albert Einstein and Wernher von Braun, the first atomic bomb is created. It is eventually sold to the American government.
* With the backing of various Western powers, the Zionist rebels successfully oust the Ottoman Empire from Palestine. Two new states are created on the region, Israel and Palestine.

## 1949 CE

* The First Yugoslavian Civil War begins as Josip Broz Tito, a Communist revolutionary, declares war on both the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Ustaše, an Aryanist partisan group.

## 1950 CE

* Josip Broz Tito succeeds in his revolution against the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He declares himself the first Premier of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. King Peter II goes into exile.
* The Korean War begins, as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea declares war on the Republic of Korea, backed by the Soviet Union, seeking revenge on the West.
* Enver Hoxha, emboldened by the recently successful Communist revolutions, leads his own revolution to overthrow the Kingdom of Albania. With the backing of both the Soviets and the Yugoslavs, he succeeds.

## 1951 CE

* Wilhelm III dies and Louis Ferdinand is crowned as Ferdinand I.

## 1952 CE

* The Kingdom of Egypt is overthrown by a far-left military coup, leading to Gamal Abdel Nasser being instated as the first Premier of the Socialist Republic of Egypt.

## 1953 CE

* The first era of the War of Ideologies comes to an end as Moscow is nuked by America, killing most of the Soviet leadership. The second era, called the ‘Era of the Proxy Wars,’ begins with the strengthening of the Korean War.
* Nikita Khrushchev is called in from the Ukrainian SSR to become the new Premier of the Soviet Union following Zinoviev's death in the nuking of Moscow. Lazar Kaganovich becomes the new Premier of the Ukrainian SSR.

## 1955 CE

* The Korean War comes to an end, as the Republic of Korea takes over the entire Korean Peninsula.

## 1961 CE

* Nikita Khrushchev is ousted from power of the Soviet Union by a Red Army coup, lead primarily by reformists who view Khrushchev as being too moderate and compromising. He is placed under house arrest, as Marshal Georgy Zhukov is declared the new Premier.
* The Cuban War begins with the largely disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion.
* Premier Zhukov's attempts to hold the Soviet Union together fail and the Second Russian Civil War begins.

## 1962 CE

* The Second Russian Civil War comes to an end as Russia is ‘balkanized.’ The Russian SFSR is shrunk down to the territory surrounding its capital of Leningrad, the left-opposition forms the Russian Federal Republic, while the right-opposition forms the Tsardom of Muscovy. Siberia also proclaims its independence as the Siberian Free State.
* Within the Russian SFSR, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is split between two warring factions. The reformist faction becomes the Workers' Reform Party, led by Georgy Zhukov and Pavel Batov. The loyalist faction becomes the Revolutionary Leninist Communist Party, led by Leonid Brezhnev and Dmitry Ustinov.

## 1963 CE

* President Joseph Kennedy Jr. is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, an American soldier who had fought in the Cuban War, but was secretly a double agent. Vice President Hubert Humphrey gets sworn in as President.

## 1964 CE

* Ian Smith, a far-right extremist in South Africa, founds the National Syndicalist Apartheid People's Party, and begins plotting to overthrow the Communist government.

## 1965 CE

* Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of the Balkan countries that had been under their control undergo a series of pro-democracy uprisings.

## 1969 CE

* Following investigations into his suspicious activities, J. Edgar Hoover willingly resigns as the Director of the FBI.
* John F. Kennedy, previously a moderately successful writer, releases his first bestseller, the autobiographical ‘Treatise on my Brother,’ detailing both his relationship with Joseph and his own opinions on why he was assassinated.
* Hans Modrow, a famous far-right extremist, becomes the Chancellor of Germany. He instantly sets about trying to prevent the liberal and constitutional monarchist reforms of Ferdinand I.

## 1973 CE

* In protest of the still ongoing Cuban War, radical socialist revolutionary Bill Ayers attempts to assassinate President George Wallace during a State of the Union address. His gun misfires and instead non-fatally strikes Vice President Ted Kennedy. Ayers is arrested and eventually executed for treason.
* The Cuban War comes to an underwhelming end as President Wallace calls for the troops to retreat.
* George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated by an unknown gunman, with the young Klansman David Duke replacing him as Chairman of the National States' Rights Party.

## 1974 CE

* In retaliation for the attack on President Wallace, David Duke attempts to kill CIA Director Henry Kissinger. The attempt fails and Duke is gunned down by Kissinger's bodyguards.

## 1976 CE

* King Charles IV dies and Franz Joseph Otto is crowned as Franz Joseph II.

## 1988 CE

* John F. Kennedy releases his first major historical work, ‘The Eagle Rising,’ about both his experiences fighting alongside the Germans during the Great Soviet War and Germany's struggle to regain its glory after the chaos of the Third Balkan War.

## 1993 CE

* With the backing of the National Syndicalist Apartheid People's Party, far-right Aryanist terrorist Eugène Terre'Blanche attempts a coup against the South African government. He succeeds in killing Premier Chris Hani and a few other notable members of the government, but is eventually captured and executed for treason.

## 1994 CE

* Ferdinand I dies and Georg Friedrich is crowned as Friedrich IV.

## 1998 CE

* Dmitry Yazov, the General Secretary of the Revolutionary Leninist Communist Party, dies a sudden death, with the autopsy revealing that he was poisoned. An investigation by the CSS turns up nothing, causing many to suspect that they were responsible.
* Following a rigged election, Vladimir Putin becomes the Premier of the Russian SFSR, the first member of the Revolutionary Leninist Communist Party to do so.

## 2001 CE

* The Ba'athist War begins, as America makes moves to finally finish off Communism for good, with its remnants largely remaining in the Middle East.

## 2002 CE

* Buckingham Palace is bombed by pro-Ba’athist terrorists in defiance of the UK’s support of the American troops fighting in the war. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip die in the attack. Prince Charles is crowned King Philip I and he pledges the UK’s full military support to America as a result.

## 2006 CE

* Premier Vladimir Putin is assassinated by an unknown gunman, with many rumors circulating that it was done by the CSS, after realizing that they could not control him.

## 2007 CE

* As a result of constant pressure from Israel, the Allied countries of the Ba'athist War finally agreed to drop a nuke on Iraq. Its capital, Baghdad, is chosen as the target. In the aftermath, the ‘Jihadist-Bolshevik’ forces refuse to surrender but quickly change their minds after a threat to drop more nukes is made.

## 2019 CE

* In a movement known as ‘Brexit,’ Great Britain splits off from the European Union.

## 2025 CE

* Still angered by the events of Brexit, and wanting to take advantage of Britain’s recent political crisis, a far-left Scottish independence group declares themselves to be in a state of revolution against England. George Galloway, leader of the revolutionaries, quickly works to bring people towards his side. Due to his openly socialist beliefs, Galloway also gains support from various leftists and republicans throughout the United Kingdom, most notably Jeremy Corbyn, leading to the beginning of the British Civil War.

## 2027 CE

* Tired of pointlessly wasting lives, England agrees to the demands of the leftist Republicans. The United Kingdom is officially dissolved, giving Scotland its independence, along with Wales. Two ceremonial counties at the bottom of England merge together and declare themselves independent, forming the Republic of Cornwall and Devon. Northern Ireland, after a failed referendum on whether to unify with the Republic of Ireland, becomes the Republic of Ulster. Nigel Farage resigns as Prime Minister out of shame and the monarch is abolished, as Jeremy Corbyn becomes the First Secretary of the Republic of England.