Cold War

### Date

March 12, 1947–December 26, 1991 (Original timeline)1946-2017 (Alternate timeline)

### Outcome

Soviet Union collapsesGermany reunified

Cuba becomes communistVietnam unified under communist control

Korea united into Democratic Empire of Korea

Angolan Civil War ongoing until 2002

World War III begins in 2017

Panama liberated

Taliban takes power in Afghanistan

## Combatants

### Allies

NATOUnited States

United Kingdom

West Germany

South Vietnam

South Korea

Orthodox Federation of Russia (late conflict)

Federation (Late conflict)

### Enemies

Warsaw PactUSSR (Early conflict)

Federation (Early conflict)

East Germany

Co-belligerents:

* New Dawn
* People's Republic of China
* North Korea (Early conflict)
* Democratic Empire of Korea (Late conflict)
* North Vietnam
* Khmer Rouge
* North Vietnamese Army
* Viet Cong
* MPLA
* Afghanistan
* Butch Family Murder Cult

## Commanders

### Allied Commanders

John F. KennedyRichard Nixon

Ronald Reagan

George H.W. Bush

Other US Presidents

Robert McNamara

Other US SecDefs

### Enemy commanders

Nikita KhrushchevOther Soviet leaders

Fidel Castro

Kim Il-Sung

Mao Zedong (KIA)

Ho Chi Minh (KIA)

Leader of New Dawn

## Strength

### Allies

NATOUnited States

United Kingdom

West Germany

South Vietnam

South Korea

Orthodox Federation of Russia (late conflict)

Federation (Late conflict)

### Enemies

Warsaw PactUSSR (Early conflict)

Federation (Early conflict)

East Germany

Co-belligerents:

* New Dawn
* People's Republic of China
* North Korea (Early conflict)
* Democratic Empire of Korea (Late conflict)
* North Vietnam
* Khmer Rouge
* North Vietnamese Army
* Viet Cong
* MPLA
* Afghanistan
* Butch Family Murder Cult

## Casualties and losses

### Total casualties

Unknown (Projected to be extremely high)

​In the normal timeline, the **Cold War** was a period of geopolitical tension between the Communist Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and the non-Communist West (the United States of America, NATO, its allies and others), spanning from 1945 to 1991. In the alternate timeline present in the TACITUS series, the Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Communist East and the non-Communist West, which eventually escalated into a series of military conflicts that lasted from 1946 to 2017, when, thanks to the actions of the Democratic Empire of Korea and the Islamic State of New Palestine, everybody's fears concerning the Cold War ever since it first began came true and the Cold War escalated into World War III.

## Notable deviations from actual history

* The Second Russian Civil War occurs in this alternate timeline, which leads to the USSR falling later in this alternate timeline
* West Rome develops the nuke later (in the mid 1950s) after sabotaging the Federation's own nuclear weapons program.
* The Korean War is longer and has a rather devastating alternate outcome: the West Roman Air Force irradiates the border between North Korea and China (this, unfortunately, helped to escalate the Cold War into World War III in 2017), but loses the war (in the original timeline, the war resulted in a stalemate).
* The Federation invents the nuke instead of West Rome (due to the failure of the Manhattan Project).
* Outraged at Mao Zedong and his actions in China, the terrorist group New Dawn deploys a team of assassins to China to kill him.
* The newly formed Communist Federation heads the Cuban Missile Crisis, rather than the Soviet Union
* The Russo-Afghan War (which replaces the Soviet War in Afghanistan ) occurs when the newly-established Christian Republic of New Russia invades Afghanistan, feeling that Russian missionaries on mission in Afghanistan are being threatened by Islamic extremists and need to be protected. At the same time, the Federation also sends soldiers in to deal with the Islamist militants in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, but also clash against the Russians due to a conflict of interest.
* The Vietnam War transpires differently in this alternate universe than in the normal timeline-Rather than just sending soldiers to assist in Vietnam without declaring war, West Rome actually ***declares war*** against North Vietnam and sends soldiers to help take out Ho Chi Minh, the leader of North Vietnam.
* There is a plot hatched by Soviet sleeper cells, in coordination with an East German terrorist group known as Obsidian, to sabotage the African American Civil Rights Movement , which is foiled.
* In an attempt to turn the tide of the Cold War in their favor, the Soviet Union abducts and brainwashes Agnes Peterson into becoming a Soviet sleeper agent/super-soldier-assassin, hoping to use her to assassinate John F. Kennedy. The operation fails when Russian defector Yuri Belov sabotages the brainwashing attempt.
* The existence of a murder cult known as the Butch Family Murder Cult, which fights its own war of terror against soldiers and agencies from both sides.
* America actually wins the Tet Offensive (and the war in Vietnam) due to support from the Christian Republic of New Russia.

## Notable events

* 1953-Second Russian Civil War begins, West Rome loses the Korean War
* 1964= Gulf of Tonkin Incident
* 1965= US declares war on North Vietnam and sends soldiers to invade North Vietnam, drawing the wrath of Communist China.
* 1968= Siege of Khe Sanh-Successful repelling of North Vietnamese Army siege of USMC base at Khe Sanh
* 1968-Tet Offensive= Successful rescue mission of Yuri Belov, Russian defector
* 1969-Operation Black Bear= Simultaneous exposure/elimination of Iron Wolf leader Alexandre Vyshniskiy and the Butch Family Murder Cult at the hands of Task Force Charybdis
* 1986= Second Russian Civil War ends, coup against Soviet leadership, Christian Republic of New Russia established.
* 1979-1989= Russo-Afghan War begins
* 1979-1981= Iranian Hostage Crisis
* 1989-Russo-Afghan War ends