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Red Arturoist's Timeline
An attempt at a (very rough) world history. Mostly focused on Europe probably, but tackling other parts of the world, too:
And of course, it is still a WIP. What do you think of it?
1917: Unrestricted submarine warfare is given up on, America never enters the war.
October 1917: Russian revolutionaries conclude the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk hastily, setting Poland, Lithuania, the United Baltic Duchy, Belarus and Ukraine free.
November 1917: With a bad harvest and little will left to fight, French soldiers mutiny en masse. France is beginning to turn red.
Germany and the Central Powers have won World War I!
December 1917: The Christmas Revolution in France sees much of Paris fall to a revived Commune. As uprisings spread and under pressure from the rebels and mutineers, the French government seeks an armistice with Germany.
February 4, 1918: King George V dies at the hands of a union activist. Widespread strikes and riots force significant portions of the army to be recalled to maintain order. An anti-union movement begins among the returning soldiers, who eventually suppress the “Red Spring” by May.
April 1918: Russian revolutionaries conclude the Treaty of Vilnius, with Poland, Lithuania, the United Baltic Duchy, Belarus, Ukraine, Crimea and Kuban becoming independent under varying levels of German influence. Montana, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Dagestan become independent under Ottoman influence.
May 1918: Without much hope after France’s surrender and troubled by internal instability, Britain also seeks peace; Belgium, now effectively abandoned, follows suit.
June 1918: The French Fourth Republic is proclaimed, adopting a constitution on socialist principles.
August 1918: The Treaty of Strasbourg ends the war on the Western Front with German annexation of the French departments of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Belfort and parts of Vosges; the entire nation of Luxembourg, and the Belgian provinces of Liège and Luxembourg. Significant colonial concessions are also obtained, resulting in the creation of German Central Africa.
1918-19: Regimes in Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine stabilise. Belarus, however, falls to anarchist Makhnoist-types (is that plausible, @Augenis ?) and in order to restore order, (Poland and) Lithuania invade. Litbel is formed.
1918-1922: Emperor Karl I. manages to reform Austria-Hungary into a constitutional democratic monarchy, however, to the chagrin of many, he makes the nation a unitary one. It is unitary to an extent that the second-level subdivisions consist of 87 Bezirke. Cultural and linguistic minorities have the right to speak their language and educate their children in it. Now, the nation is officially called Kingdom of the Danube (Donaumonarchie).
1920-1927: Paul von Hindenburg proves an excellent administrator of Germany, though somewhat authoritarian. He also manages to seize or negotiate away many colonies from France, Britain and other nations falling to diverse revolutions, and thus, Mittelafrika is achieved by the late 1920s. Even the Congo goes German as Belgium falls to a civil war.
In the same vein, the Dutch East Indies turn German.
I pictured something like - all still subject to objections and changes:
Mid-1917: Russian revolution. Kerensky or another Republican comes to power. First Russian Civil War
October 1917: Lenin comes to power along with Lev Bronstein. Iosib Bessarionis Dzugashvili is already dead or incapacitated.
The Republic of Siberia stays independent and can never be retaken by the USSR.
January 27, 1926 (I made this date up arbitrarily): Lev Davidovich Bronstein is assassinated by a radical antisemitic reactionary.
Late 1927: Lenin dies a natural death, and soon after - at the least by December 1927 - infighting in the USSR begins.
1927-1930: Second Russian Civil War. In 1930, democratic republicans win.
March 23, 1931: Konstantin Rodzaevsky takes over the "New White Movement" party, an extremely nationalist one.
June 7, 1931: The first free and fair elections on Russian soil are held.
August 1935: The Volgograd Coup fails?
Mid-1939: After an economic crisis in Europe, having started in Berlin and with US repercussions, the New White Movement gains a majority in the Duma over the "United Democratic Party" and the Communist Party. But nearly a year before, de facto civil war breaks out in Russia with the Black Hundred et al. fighting red revolutionaries around Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev et al. and democratic paramilitaries.
1930-1939: Orthodox supremacist or extremely nationalist governments come to power in Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece. Germany, on the other hand, secures the stability of the Kingdom of the Danube.
1939-1940: Russia under Rodzaevsky, calling himself Vozhd of All Russians is turned into a totalitarian theo-nationalist dictatorship with Orthodox Supremacy. Muslims are the first target of persecution.
1940: The Republic of Siberia is retaken against more or less token resistance. Rodzaevsky's armies only encounter significant resistance in and around Vladivostok.
Summer 1940: A Muslim rebellion in the southern areas of the Russian Orthodox Union (ROU) is crushed
March 3, 1941: The reconquest (= Anschluss - what would be the Russian term?) of Ukraine is completed against token resistance. Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea (maybe even more?) becomes Russian.
1941: Russia restores the Empire of Japan. Its Taishō Emperor had fled to Siberia in 1923(?), died there, and Hirohito had been Emperor of Japan in exile since February 20, 1938. Hirohito returns to the throne, and the Second Empire of Japan becomes a close Russian ally.
Winter 1941-42: The Baltics can be put under "protectorate", Germany trusts Russia that they will not annex the Baltic states.
May 24, 1942: World War II is started by an attack on Finland. The annexation of the Baltic states is completed by August 24.
some time in 1942: A non-aggression pact by Russia with Red France is concluded.
Late 1942-early 1943: With assistance due to the Great Abkhaz Betrayal, the Caucasian nations are invaded and Commissariats established. They are ruled by Commissars who get their orders from Moscow and Moscow only.
1943: A coup establishes an Orthodox supremacist government in Romania.
On the eastern front, China is invaded on March 11, 1943. The Kuomintang and the CCP join, setting their infighting aside.
Early 1944 (April or May?): Feeling extremely confident now that all lands of the USSR are Russian again, Russian armies invade Poland.
Early 1945: The Polish government, despite all the help they got from Germany and its allies, is overthrown by Russia and its allies. Poland is re-incorporated and subjugated as they are regarded as "Catholic traitors". People who convert to Russian Orthodoxy are held in high esteem as they "have proven to be true Slavs".
With the invasions of Galicia and an uprising in Hungary, Austria-Hungary falls into civil war and Serbs, Slovaks, Czechs and especially East Galicians are propped up by Russia.
September 1945: Germany is invaded simultaneously by Russia and Red France. Austria, and Hungary (now separate), along with the Czech Republic hastily formed from Bohemia and Moravia, help Germany, while Romanist Spain and Portugal stay neutral. Britain is on the Russian side.
Shortly after Königsberg and some areas of the Rhineland (up to Krefeld and Mönchengladbach) are taken, the invasion stalls in winter.
France does proclaim a "Workers' Union of Germany" (Union der deutschen Arbeiter) in French-controlled areas, with its government in Trier, the hometown of Karl Marx.
Lagardelle's France also reincorporates Alsace-Lorraine.
1946: The Battles of Berlin, Köln and Frankfurt prove the most difficult in World War II yet as German soldiers engage their enemies in grueling house-to-house combat, fighting to their deaths for every inch. Millions of soldiers die and many aircraft and pieces of equipment are lost on both sides.
Early 1947: As the winter was extraordinarily cold and last summer saw bad harvests in Ukraine (and other areas?), food rations are cut all over Russia. The first riots erupt in Vladivostok and St. Petersburg.
by late 1947: The riots got worse and worse, and spiralled into a civil war. Germany retakes its territory and in Poland, Ukraine and the Caucasus, underground guerilla activities to liberate their respective homelands begin to be supported by the German allies. Also, a quick civil war has reinstated democracy in Romania.
Early 1948: Most anti-Rodzaevksy rebels join Germany and support the German Empire in defeating Russia. The Jews, most of whom had been deported to Green Ukraine/Transcathay, rise up for an independent nation and are supported by Kuomintang China.
early 1948:
until October 1948: Moscow is taken in arduous house-to-house combat, and on November 18, the German flag is flying on the Kremlin. The Rodzaevsky government however does not surrender.
December 6, 1949: Codenamed Nikolaus, Germany tests its first nuclear bomb in the deserts of Namibia.
December 27, 1949: The city of Saratov is nuked.
January 11, 1950: The city of Novosibirsk is nuked.
February 12, 1950: The Rodzaevsky regime surrenders. This is commonly considered the end of World War II, it ends in a German victory. However, there still is a front in East Asia...
Provisionally, Siberia and the Russian Federal Republics are let into self-governance, at least in internal affairs. Militarily, Germany keeps advisors.
July 29, 1951: China reconquers the last of Manchuria.
October 18, 1951: After nearly two years of vicious aerial bombardment, a naval landing on the Japanese home islands is staged. Many left-wing to communist collaborators greet the Chinese Army as liberators.
May 29, 1952: In order to speed the process up and avoid millions more casualties against Kamikaze suicide commands, Kokura is destroyed with a nuclear bomb.
June 1952: The Treaty of Vilnius finalises the borders of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II.
