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The Mongolian War was a conflict that took place between the Mongolian People's Republic, allied with the Soviet Union, Republic of China, and Warsaw Pact, against the Japanese Empire and its allies in the Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere, with a small number of "Free Mongolian Forces", joined by American mercenaries warring against both sides. The war began on June 13, 1952, when, after a vote in the State Great Khural to have Mongolia join the Soviet Union as the "Mongolian Autonomous Oblast", Japan announced an invasion to "protect pan-Asian sovereignty". The fighting ended in 1959, with a compromise established where Mongolia would remain independent (although still under Soviet influence with a Communist government), and a DMZ would be established between Mongolia and the Japanese puppet-state of Mengjiang.
In 1950, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal would rise to power in Mongolia after Khorloogiin Choibalsan's death from cancer. Tsedenbal was a noted ally of the Soviet Union, and viewed advancing Soviet communism as significantly more important than nationalism, to the point that even celebrations of Genghis Khan were suppressed due to "nationalism". As such, he became an advocate for Mongolia, a client-state of the Soviet Union, to be fully annexed into the Soviet Union. Although under Stalin his proposals fell on deaf ears, Stalin's death and the rise of Lavrentiy Beria would lead to Tsedenbal attempting to join the Soviet Union as an Autonomous Oblast.[1]
Japan had long attempted to influence politics in Mongolia, and before the conflict, border conflicts between Mongolia and Japanese puppet-state Mengjiang had been a semi-regular occurrence in the years between WWII and the Mongolian War. The attempted annexation of Mongolia into the Soviet Union was a direct threat to Japanese and CPS interests, and as such Japan would invade, declaring in front of the United Nations that the annexation was a "threat to Asian sovereignty". Along with Japan, their puppet states in the area, Mengjiang and Manchuria would join forces and invade alongside the Japanese military. Vietnam and Burma, both members of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, would join the conflict as allies, sending troops alongside the Japanese.
The Soviet Union saw the intervention of Japan as part of a long list of conflicts between the two states and blocs that had been occurring since WWII's end. Almost immediately after the war, the two former allies nearly broke out into war over the Soviet Union backing the establishment of a rump Chinese state south of Japan's sphere, which would be created only out of Soviet-American collaboration to establish a state led by Carsun Chang. Along with this, the Soviet Union had allies in East Turkestan, which, while not of any real interest to the Japanese, had complained of "Japanese interference" in their affairs. Although the entire Warsaw Pact would back the conflict financially, only the Soviet Union, China, and the Soviet puppet states of Tuva and East Turkestan would send troops into the conflict.
In response to the Soviet Union's attempted annexation and Japan's attempted interference in Mongolian affairs, a third army was founded by Altaniin Kuchar[2], a former solider in the joint Mongolian-Soviet-Japanese intervention to defeat the Nazi-aligned Kuomintang in World War II. Kuchar's military, the Free Mongolia Forces, advocated nationalism, which was antithetical to both the Soviet and Japanese goals for Mongolia. The FMF would gain financial support from the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Philippines, all of whom had interests in the greater Chinese area against both the Japanese and Soviets. Stories of the brave FMF fighters, warring against oppression from both the Soviet Union and Japan would garner interest from Americans, which would lead to several mercenaries, led by former Navy commander and congressman George Lincoln Rockwell, who had served in the war against China, going to Mongolia to join the FMF. Rockwell's participation in the conflict would lead to the perception of him as a "freedom fighter", leading to him being elected to the senate from Illinois in 1960, and later President in 1964.
The Mongolian War would terrify observers across the war, as both the Soviet Union (1949) and Japan (1951) had successful nuclear weapons tests. Although the fear of nuclear weapons would lead both sides to avoid using them in the conflict, both sides would utilize chemical weapons, leading to long-term negative health and environmental effects in Greater Mongolia.
At the beginning of the war Japan would see great success, largely owing to Mengjiang troops attacking through the south, they struggled to get through the Khangai Mountains, which largely protected Mongolia's population centers. The result would be an offensive from Soviet-Mongolian forces, which pushed out Co-Prosperity Sphere forces. As the war went on, the conflict would largely come to a standstill, with most of the war being focused on border conflicts, where mass atrocities were committed by both sides. The FMF would largely fail to make much of an impact, and seven years into the war, after a minor rebellion amongst Mengjiang troops, an armistice would be signed, establishing a DMZ between the two nations and keeping Mongolia as a nominally independent country.
Although the war would end in a stalemate, it firmly established the "Cold War" as a three-way conflict between the United States, Soviet Union, and Japan. Although in 1959 many were declaring Asia as the front for this conflict, as Africa became decolonized, much of the conflict would take place there, as Soviet, American, and Japanese proxies would war over the continent. It also wouldn't be the last war in Asia, with the Formosa Rebellion in 1960 and Philippine Civil War breaking out in 1961 largely due to Japanese influence.
[1] Tsedenbal was a major advocate of this OTL, but his plans fell on deaf ears. ITTL, with Japan bordering Mongolia through Mengjiang, and a paranoid Soviet leadership in the east, his plan has more appeal.
[2] Generated name
1962 Californian Gubernatorial Election
The Anarchy
The Mongolian War was a conflict that took place between the Mongolian People's Republic, allied with the Soviet Union, Republic of China, and Warsaw Pact, against the Japanese Empire and its allies in the Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere, with a small number of "Free Mongolian Forces", joined by American mercenaries warring against both sides. The war began on June 13, 1952, when, after a vote in the State Great Khural to have Mongolia join the Soviet Union as the "Mongolian Autonomous Oblast", Japan announced an invasion to "protect pan-Asian sovereignty". The fighting ended in 1959, with a compromise established where Mongolia would remain independent (although still under Soviet influence with a Communist government), and a DMZ would be established between Mongolia and the Japanese puppet-state of Mengjiang.
In 1950, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal would rise to power in Mongolia after Khorloogiin Choibalsan's death from cancer. Tsedenbal was a noted ally of the Soviet Union, and viewed advancing Soviet communism as significantly more important than nationalism, to the point that even celebrations of Genghis Khan were suppressed due to "nationalism". As such, he became an advocate for Mongolia, a client-state of the Soviet Union, to be fully annexed into the Soviet Union. Although under Stalin his proposals fell on deaf ears, Stalin's death and the rise of Lavrentiy Beria would lead to Tsedenbal attempting to join the Soviet Union as an Autonomous Oblast.[1]
Japan had long attempted to influence politics in Mongolia, and before the conflict, border conflicts between Mongolia and Japanese puppet-state Mengjiang had been a semi-regular occurrence in the years between WWII and the Mongolian War. The attempted annexation of Mongolia into the Soviet Union was a direct threat to Japanese and CPS interests, and as such Japan would invade, declaring in front of the United Nations that the annexation was a "threat to Asian sovereignty". Along with Japan, their puppet states in the area, Mengjiang and Manchuria would join forces and invade alongside the Japanese military. Vietnam and Burma, both members of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, would join the conflict as allies, sending troops alongside the Japanese.
The Soviet Union saw the intervention of Japan as part of a long list of conflicts between the two states and blocs that had been occurring since WWII's end. Almost immediately after the war, the two former allies nearly broke out into war over the Soviet Union backing the establishment of a rump Chinese state south of Japan's sphere, which would be created only out of Soviet-American collaboration to establish a state led by Carsun Chang. Along with this, the Soviet Union had allies in East Turkestan, which, while not of any real interest to the Japanese, had complained of "Japanese interference" in their affairs. Although the entire Warsaw Pact would back the conflict financially, only the Soviet Union, China, and the Soviet puppet states of Tuva and East Turkestan would send troops into the conflict.
In response to the Soviet Union's attempted annexation and Japan's attempted interference in Mongolian affairs, a third army was founded by Altaniin Kuchar[2], a former solider in the joint Mongolian-Soviet-Japanese intervention to defeat the Nazi-aligned Kuomintang in World War II. Kuchar's military, the Free Mongolia Forces, advocated nationalism, which was antithetical to both the Soviet and Japanese goals for Mongolia. The FMF would gain financial support from the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Philippines, all of whom had interests in the greater Chinese area against both the Japanese and Soviets. Stories of the brave FMF fighters, warring against oppression from both the Soviet Union and Japan would garner interest from Americans, which would lead to several mercenaries, led by former Navy commander and congressman George Lincoln Rockwell, who had served in the war against China, going to Mongolia to join the FMF. Rockwell's participation in the conflict would lead to the perception of him as a "freedom fighter", leading to him being elected to the senate from Illinois in 1960, and later President in 1964.
The Mongolian War would terrify observers across the war, as both the Soviet Union (1949) and Japan (1951) had successful nuclear weapons tests. Although the fear of nuclear weapons would lead both sides to avoid using them in the conflict, both sides would utilize chemical weapons, leading to long-term negative health and environmental effects in Greater Mongolia.
At the beginning of the war Japan would see great success, largely owing to Mengjiang troops attacking through the south, they struggled to get through the Khangai Mountains, which largely protected Mongolia's population centers. The result would be an offensive from Soviet-Mongolian forces, which pushed out Co-Prosperity Sphere forces. As the war went on, the conflict would largely come to a standstill, with most of the war being focused on border conflicts, where mass atrocities were committed by both sides. The FMF would largely fail to make much of an impact, and seven years into the war, after a minor rebellion amongst Mengjiang troops, an armistice would be signed, establishing a DMZ between the two nations and keeping Mongolia as a nominally independent country.
[1] Tsedenbal was a major advocate of this OTL, but his plans fell on deaf ears. ITTL, with Japan bordering Mongolia through Mengjiang, and a paranoid Soviet leadership in the east, his plan has more appeal.
[2] Generated name
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The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea between June and November 1950. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following years of hostilities between the two countries. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union while South Korea was supported by the United States and allied countries. The fighting ended with an armistice on November 30, 1950.
In 1910, the Empire of Japan annexed Korea, where it ruled for 35 years until its surrender at the end of World War II on 15 August 1945. The United States and the Soviet Union divided Korea along the 38th parallel into two zones of occupation. The Soviets administered the northern zone, and the Americans administered the southern zone. In 1948, as a result of Cold War tensions, the occupation zones became two sovereign states. The Soviets eventually established a communist state, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, in the north under the rule of Kim Il Sung, while a capitalist state , the Republic of Korea, was established in the south under the autocratic leadership of Syngman Rhee. Both governments laid claim to rulership over the entire peninsula and neither considered the border permanent.
The period prior to the outbreak of hostilities were marked by border clashes between the two countries and and a low-level insurgency in the South funded and armed by the North. After several attempts by several parties at finding a permanent, diplomatic solution North Korean forces (Korean People's Army or KPA) crossed the 38th parallel on 25 June 1950, formally starting the war. The United Nations Security Council denounced North Korea's actions and authorized the formation of the United Nations Command and the dispatch of forces to Korea to repel it. The Soviet Union was boycotting the UN for recognizing the Kuomintang government on Taiwan as China, and the People's Republic of China was not recognized by the UN, so neither could support their ally North Korea at the Security Council. Sixteen countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel, and represented the first attempt at collective security under the United Nations system.
After the first two months of fighting, the South Korean army and the hastily assembled American forces were on the point of defeat, forced into a narrow defensive line known as the Pusan Perimeter. In September 1950, UN Commander Douglas MacArthur, seeking to regain the initiative, embarked on a risky plan to sunder the North Korean lines and switch over to the offensive. The bold UN counteroffensive was launched with a surprise amphibious landing at the port of Incheon, cutting off KPA troops and supply lines in South Korea. Those who escaped envelopment and capture were forced back north. UN forces then invaded North Korea in October 1950 and moved rapidly towards the Yalu and Temun river borders with China.
The Chinese, alarmed at the near collapse of their North Korean ally, planned to intervene massively by poring hundreds of thousands of 'volunteer' troops - the People's Volunteer Army (PVA) - across the Yalu and drive back the UN forces. However, the US became aware of their plans through aerial reconnaissance and intelligence developed by ROC agents on the mainland. President Truman, not wishing to trust such sensitive information to normal channels, delivered the intelligence personally to MacArthur at their famous meeting at Wake Island in mid-October. MacArthur, normally distrustful of any intelligence not developed by his own staff, was convinced after Chiang Kai-Shek concurred largely with the Pentagon's assessment that the Chinese would enter the war in a manner of days. Truman and the Joint Chiefs left Wake thinking that MacArthur would halt the advance and switch to a defensive posture, awaiting for additional US reinforcements and the continued build up of the South Korean forces. MacArthur, per usual, had other ideas.
Immediately upon returning from Wake Island, MacArthur ordered nearly every air asset under his command to undertake Operation Rainbow, a massive campaign to destroy the Yalu and Temun river crossings to prevent Chinese crossing the border in force and disrupt further resupply of the North Koreans. Truman and the Pentagon, fearful of the war expanding into China, were initially enraged and briefly considered relieving MacArthur of command. But the air campaign had caught the Chinese almost completely by surprise and by early November, almost 80% of the border crossings had been destroyed and the Chinese had only been able to move less than a third of the planned 300,000 troops into the North. These forces, along with the remnants of the North Korean army, were largely destroyed at the twin engagements known as The Battle of Ch'ongch'on River and The Battle at the Chosin Reservoir in mid-November.
With UN forces now having split North Korea into two after advancing to Chasŏng and worried that the Americans would look to expand the war into Manchuria and return Chiang to power, the Chinese pressured Kim Il Sung to offer an immediate armistice. Negotiations for a final disposition of the war and prisoner exchanges would drag on for months until Kim Il Sung's mysterious death on April 13th. Faced with a power vacuum and no obvious replacements to Kim, the Chinese and the Soviets took control of the remaining rump sections of the North and established the People's Republic of P'yŏngan (aka West Korea) and the Hamgyŏng People's Republic (aka East Korea), both of whom signed the Treaty of Vladivostok on June 15th.
Hitler had Parkinson's and wasn't good at looking after his health. Even if WW2 were avoided (unlikely as it was pretty much the point of Nazism) a death date after 1955 is IMHO unlikely.
Why do all these castings works so good? Timothee Chalamet as Trotsky is podracing.
I tried to go for resemblance, and thinking that Chalamet looked like a young Trotsky and DiCaprio wasn't a bad look for Lenin (and has supposedly said he'd like the idea of doing a Lenin biopic in the past) got me started. I originally had Cate Blanchett for Krupskaya, but realised that Scarlett Johansson looked a little like her, at least when she was young, pre-Graves etc.
Might just be me but I thought Cillian Murphy and Kerensky kind of have similar eyes.
Still no LBJ Oliver Stone film to complete the Presidents trilogy... LBJBros it's over why has god for forsaken us to this purgatory...
What if Chappaquiddick and Watergate never happened? (Ran with President Elect 1988)
The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Richard Nixon, the incumbent Republican president, was ineligible to seek a third term. Democrat Ted Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts and younger brother of John F. Kennedy, defeated Republican John Connally in a somewhat narrow victory.
Connally started with a lead due to Nixon's popularity, but a poor performance in a debate held just one week before election day along with several missteps on the campaign trail allowed Kennedy to secure a narrow popular vote victory and a large electoral vote margin (though most states were decided by less than 4 points). The race also saw independent candidate Eugene McCarthy secure 6% of the popular vote.
The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Richard Nixon, the incumbent Republican president, was ineligible to seek a third term. Democrat Ted Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts and younger brother of John F. Kennedy, defeated Republican John Connally in a somewhat narrow victory.
Connally started with a lead due to Nixon's popularity, but a poor performance in a debate held just one week before election day along with several missteps on the campaign trail allowed Kennedy to secure a narrow popular vote victory and a large electoral vote margin (though most states were decided by less than 4 points). The race also saw independent candidate Eugene McCarthy secure 6% of the popular vote.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – July 17, 1974) was an American pharmacist and politician who served briefly in the United States Senate.
Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota. Humphrey was Mayor of Minneapolis, and helped found the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action. In 1948, he was elected to the U.S. Senate and successfully advocated for the inclusion of a proposal to end racial segregation in the 1948 Democratic National Convention's party platform.
Humphrey began his Senate career as a leading Liberal and advocate for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. However, his career was derailed in 1950 when, during a debate on wiretapping, Humphrey became enraged at California Senator Richard Nixon. Humphrey assaulted Nixon, who would fall into a coma, before resigning on the Senate floor. Humphrey avoided charges by being placed in a sanitarium. He was released in 1957 and never returned to politics.
(all text recognizable is from Humphrey's OTL Wikipage)
Part 2: What if Chappaquiddick and Watergate never happened? (Ran with President Elect 1988)What if Chappaquiddick and Watergate never happened? (Ran with President Elect 1988)
The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Richard Nixon, the incumbent Republican president, was ineligible to seek a third term. Democrat Ted Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts and younger brother of John F. Kennedy, defeated Republican John Connally in a somewhat narrow victory.
Connally started with a lead due to Nixon's popularity, but a poor performance in a debate held just one week before election day along with several missteps on the campaign trail allowed Kennedy to secure a narrow popular vote victory and a large electoral vote margin (though most states were decided by less than 4 points). The race also saw independent candidate Eugene McCarthy secure 6% of the popular vote.
The 1980 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. Incumbent president Ted Kennedy and incumbent vice president Walter Mondale were re-elected to a second term, narrowly defeating the Republican ticket of former California Governor Ronald Reagan and former vice president Gerald Ford. It was the fourth of five American presidential elections, and the first since 1888, in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote, and is considered one of the closest U.S. presidential elections, with long-standing controversy about the result.
President Kennedy had mixed opinions among the American public, though faced no significant primary challenge. The Republican primaries were contested between Reagan, former C.I.A. director George Bush, and U.S. representative John Anderson, among others, after the 1976 nominee John Connally declined to run again. Reagan ultimately won the nomination, and held the lead in polls for most of the campaign season. However, the result on Election Day was extremely close in the state of California, Reagan's home state, where Kennedy defeated him by a slim margin of 0.2%, or 17,364 votes, out of 8,466,974 votes cast in the state. The state was not called by most major networks until 6:30 AM the following day, with Reagan conceding the election at approximately 7:30.
Very cool!