Alternate History Timeline 2

### **1942**

* At the height of the war, the Sierra Army Depot is erected. It is intended to be a storehouse of defensive ordnance. This weaponry would be used to defend the United States should Japan make a daring attack on the west coast.

### **1945**

* **August 6 and 9**: The world's first use of Atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occurs.
* **October 24**: The United Nations is officially formed after diplomats from around the world signed the U.N. Charter in the city of San Francisco.

### **1947**

* **April 12**: The Canadian Intelligence Agency (CIA) is established.
* **June 19**: The United States Department of Intelligence (USDI) is established.

### **1948**

* Thomas E. Dewey wins the 1948 Unites States presidential election after Dwight D. Eisenhower agrees to become his running mate.

### **1949**

* The "West European Coal Community" is formed when France, West Germany, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and Italy entered into a mutual agreement to centralize the coal industries of the member states.
* The SVT-49 is adopted by the Soviet Union as their new assault rifle.

### **1950**

* **June 25**: The Korean War begins as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea invades the Republic of Korea.
* **October 14**: China invades Tibet, incorporating it into the People's Republic.
* The Nardone Family Mob comes to power in Las Vegas.

### **1953**

* **July 9**: The United States Space Administration (USSA) is established
* **July 27**: Talks of an armistice between the North and the South of Korea begins, but during the talks, General MacArthur ordered UN forces to push back the rest of the communist forces out of Korea.
* **October 19**: The United States Committee for Aeronautics (USCA) is dissolved.
* **October 29**: The Chinese are pushed back across the border. The communist government of North Korea is crushed, and the Republic of Korea becomes the peninsula's sole government.

### **1954**

* **August 1**: The First Indochina War ends as British Indochina is partitioned between the Democratic Republic of Indochina in the north and the State of Indochina in the south.

### **1959**

* **January 1**: Fidel Castro’s troops successfully overthrow the Batista regime in Cuba, establishing a Communist regime in the region.

### **1961**

* **January 20**: Richard M. Nixon is sworn into office as the 35th President of the United States. He defeats Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
* **April 17**: 5,000 USDI-Trained Cuban Exiles invade the Bay of Pigs.
* **April 23**: Fidel Castro’s government is overthrown. He flees into exile in Argentina.
* **July 12**: Captain Carl Bell of the USSA becomes the first human in space, lasting 18 minutes in his capsule Defiant 7. Unfortunately, he perishes during his crash landing back to Earth.
* **August**: The West European Coal Community is renamed: The Commonwealth of European Nations.

### **1962**

* ***October 11***: China detonates its first Atomic Bomb

### **1963**

* ***November 22***: During a visit to the city of Dallas in Texas, an assassination attempt was made on President Nixon's life by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former marine and communist dissident. After firing three times on the presidential motorcade (Hitting him once in the wrist), he was gunned down by Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippet shortly after fleeing the scene. The officer was awarded the Medal of Honor shortly there after.
* ***December 23***: The Commonwealth Reorganization Act is signed in the White House.

### **1964**

* ***January 4***: The Commonwealth Reorganization Act of 1964 takes effect. Instead of 48 states (plus the territories of Alaska and Hawaii), the United States houses 13 Commonwealths, each encompassing several states. The flag is changed to reflect this change, with the stars rearranged to 13 stars in a circle (representing the commonwealths), surrounding a larger fourteenth (representing the Federal Government and the nation as a whole). The states do gain some sovereignty (for example, presidential elections are determined by states), but are still governed by a Governor of the Commonwealth.
* ***August 11***: Richard Nixon initiates Project GOLIATH, a program to create a practical, and cost effective powered exoskeleton.

### **1965**

* ***February 2***: The first prototype born from Project GOLIATH is tested. Though this version is bulky and uncomfortable, the core mechanics are enough to impress the U.S. military that more funding was given for later versions.
* **May 3rd**: President Nixon signs the Civil Right's Act of 1965 and Voting Rights Act.
* **August 10**: North Indochina invades its southern neighbour. The United States declares war.
* **August 12**: The U.S. deploys 600,000 troops to southeast Asia, in an attempt to defend the western allied state of South Indochina against the communist north.
* **August 16**: The GOLIATH Mark II is introduced, sporting less bulky components. A few units were sent to Indochina for a full field test.
* **October 9**: The first energy weapon comes out for the Public. This forces the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to change it's name to incorporate all categories of weapons into the Bureau.
* **December 14**: Two U.S. destroyers were allegedly attacked and sunk by a northern Indochina Navy warship. The truth is that the USDI detonated explosives aboard the ship to create a false attack. This gave the U.S. incentive to send more troops.

### **1966**

* **January 12 - 23**: 1 Million more U.S. troops are sent to Indochina.
* After hearing of the success of the M1 and M18, Nixon begins to fund such companies as Cunningham Industries and others to produce weapons. He also begins to fund the company General Atomics to build nuclear reactors around the United States, which would help start it's climb to power.

### **1967**

* **June 5**: Israel launches a pre-emptive attack on Egypt, starting the Six-Day War.
* **June 10**: The Six-Day War ends as Israel occupies Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.

### **1968**

* Richard Nixon decides to run for a third presidential term, citing his massive popularity.
* **April 4**: An assassination attempt on Martin Luther King Jr. takes place. He is shot in the chest, and taken to a hospital. He makes a full recovery. James Earl Ray, the assassin, was sentenced to death.
* **June 25**: Robert Stanfield wins the 1968 Canadian Federal Election (albeit by a very, very small margin).
* **Summer**: The infamous “Summer of ‘68” takes place.

### **1969**

* **July 16**: Valiant 11 lands on the moon, with a crew of Cpt. Richard Wade, Cpt. Mark Harris, and Cpt. Michael Hagen; make America the first country to land on the Moon as they take their steps on it. The three crew members become the first men on a celestial body other than Earth.

### **1971**

* **July 4**: American President Richard Nixon shocks the world as he announces the cessation of hostilities between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
* **July 20**: King Hussein of Jordan begins a campaign of aggression against such organizations as the Palestine Liberation Organization to reassert his authority over the country. Thousands of Palestinians are killed during King Hussein's campaign of violence, and President Nixon is forced to act. Nixon spoke to Hussein personally, trying to convince the him to draw his forces back, which the King refused.
* **October 14**: Nixon is convinced he must intervene in the conflict in the middle-east. With the help of the USSR’s Navy, the US Navy’s 6th fleet is sent to the mediterranean to increase pressure on Jordan.

### **1972**

* **January 6**: After learning that 50 citizens from Germany, Britain, and the U.S. are being held by Palestinian forces in Jordan, Nixon becomes angered, to the point where he threatens to bomb the city of Amman.
* **January 10**: Jordan, Syria, and the PLO sign a treaty, thus putting an end to the conflict. U.S. Marines serve as peacekeepers in the region.
* **March 9**: President Nixon visits the Soviet Union and meets personally with Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev. As a direct result of this historic event, the U.S.S.R. begins a period of economic liberalization and free market reform.

### **1975**

* **April 12**: Valliant-Jedinstvo space mission occurs, in which an American and a Soviet spacecraft met in orbit over the Earth, with the captains of both spacecraft greeting each other with a handshake. This historic events marks a sparking relationship between the US and the Soviet Union.

### **1977**

* **January 20**: President Nixon retires to his country home in the Southwest Commonwealth. He would remain there until his death in 2015. His vice-president Ronald Reagan takes his place.

1978

* The Iron Curtain completely collapses as the last of the Eastern European nations.

1979

* May 22: Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Canadian Federal Election

### **1984**

* **April 10**: Chinese reconnaissance planes begin their runs inside the Soviet border (not an uncommon thing during the period), but instead of giving the Chinese pilots rude gestures, the Soviet forces stationed at the border bases flew several sorties against the Chinese recon planes, and shot down the vast majority of them. The Chinese interpreted this as a declaration of war, and so the Sino-Soviet War begins.

### **1985**

* Summer: The Soviets beat back the Chinese across the Mongol border.
* Winter: Ran Zhen Mao and Boris Stanislav sign a cease fire, although the meeting goes sour and leads to a fistfight between the two leaders ending with Stanislav throwing Mao out of a window into a dumpster.

### **1989**

* January 20: George Herbert Walker Bush is inaugurated.
* A new Soviet rifle, later to be dubbed the SVT-92, begins development

### **1992**

* The mission of the Sierra Army Depot is repurposed, and is set to the task of decommissioning outdated or otherwise unacceptable ordnance. SAD falls under the control of the US Army's Industrial Operations Command (IOC) for this mission, and its activities are overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
* A new Soviet weapon, later to be dubbed the SVT-94, begins development as the Soviets look for an update to their current service rifle.

1997

* January 20: George W. Bush is sworn into office
* March 28: The Polish-Czechoslovak war begins. This was instigated by the hardline leadership of Czechoslovakia, which developed anti-Soviet policies, including deportation of former Soviet citizens. Recently, 12 Polish citizens vacationing to Czechoslovakia were executed over claims of spying (which proved to be false after a UN investigation was conducted). The Czechs sent their tanks north the next day. Throughout the war, the Soviets supported the Polish with weapons and other non-combatant aid. Thousands of new SVT-92s were lent to the Polish, with the Polish military giving positive feedback on the rifle’s effectiveness on the battlefield.
* December 21: With Christmas on the horizon, Polish troops siege Prague, and occupy the city. With Polish permission, Soviet leader Serik Armanev traveled to the war-torn city, and personally executed Gustav Adamcik, the megalomanian tyrant who led Czechoslovakia since 1992, and whose policies harmed hundreds of thousands of foreign workers (primarily Soviet).

2000

* January 1: The Commonwealth of European Nations changes it's name to the "European Commonwealth". Over the course of the next 20 years, the union becomes more integrated, to the point where they have a shared currency and a unified military command (even a president). The member-states of the European Commonwealth essentially ceased to exist except on paper.

2001

* April 16: West Tek Research Facility is founded.
* September 11: An attempt to destroy the World Trade Center in New York is prevented.

2004

* January 11: Khaled Al-Asad is located and killed in Afghanistan.
* January 13: The United States, no longer seeing a purpose to keep US soldiers in Afghanistan, pull the troops out.

2015

* August 15: Richard Nixon, the 35th President of the United States, dies in his sleep at the ripe old age of 102. He is often remembered as one of the best presidents of all time.
* March 8: The United States sends 50,000 Marines to Iran to take out the leader of a maoist insurgency: the People’s Liberation and Resistance, again with the help of the Soviets.
* October 7: A small rebellion in the country of Taiwan overthrows the old Nationalist government, and becomes a part of the People's Republic of China.
* November 6: The PLR is crushed, and the tyrannical government is overthrown..

2032

* December 18: 21st Century Pictures Inc. is founded.
* December 29: After much debate, Soviet Leader Alexei Dubrovsky gives Mongolia independance.

2035

* May 31: 21st Century Fox is founded as a result of the merger between Fox Film Corporation and 21st Century Pictures Inc.

2037

* August: The Mister Handy series of robots is released to the public.

2045

* March 2: The People's Liberation Army invades the nation of Burma.
* March 15: The Burman Campaign ends as PLA tanks roll down the streets of Naypyidaw.

2047

* March 19: Kim Il-Li, the leader of the Red Korean Army (RKA), a terrorist organization, launches a full-scale insurgency on it’s home country of the United Republic of Korea. The Chinese help their campaign with both military aid and bombing runs.