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The world in 1980, when Gorbachev is the leader of the Soviet Union.
Multiple PODs
Antebellum
-Rhodesia joins South Africa
-1934 Mao dies in the Great March
-1936 Algerian Citizenship passes
WW2
-Thailand wins the Franco-Thai War in 1940 and doesn't join Japan , leaving Japan with only Vietnam
-Ho Chi Minh dies of dissentery during WW2
-Ireland joins the Allies for the promise of Northern Ireland. The Brits keep their promise considering their condition post-WW2
-(Actual) Partially failed Attempt On Stalin, FDR and Roosevelt (only this guy dies) in Operation Long Jump so they agree on the Roosevelt Plan for Germany post-WW2
-People's Republic of Korea actually stays on , but in Park chung-hee Coup in 1961 succeeds.
Beginning of the Cold War
-FDR has better health and is followed by two Truman terms, barely passing each time (the Republicans return to the White House only in 1962, with a healthier Eisenhower) and concedes more to Stalin, that proceeds to annex Manchuria ("todays" known as Man'chzhuriya Krai )
-Greek Civil War won by the communists, the losers go in to exile in Crete and Cyprus
-Beria Plan with Greek Partecipation , the USSR invade and divides Turkey
-No 1953 coup in Iran
-1958 Lebannon Crisis sees the annexation of Lebannon into Syria and De Gaulle dies in the May Coup
-Congo Crisis : Katanga succeeds (helped also by an healthier Eisenhowr first US Republican president since 1932), Lumumba isn't couped and has to join the Warsaw pact to survive
-14 July Revolution happens and both kings of Iraq and Jordan are under Abd al-Karim Qasim, before being couped later in the
8 February Revolution
-Togliatti is assassinated and leads to a second Italian Civil War, the Communists get wrecked or exiled in the (TTL expanded) Warsaw Pact
-Some people live longer/avoid mysterious deaths in Italy : Olivetti, Mario Tchou and Mattei
-Khruscev isn't putsched out of power, after his death in 1970 is followed by Kosygin
-Biafra, also helped by Eisenhower, secedes and Nigeria collapses into a multisided civl war. The Result are the formation of Arewa, Yorubaland and another country
-formation of the East African Federation (Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya)
-In France Mitterand is elected in 1969
-Somalia asks help to Italy against Siad Barre
-Italian backed Somalia goes to war against Ethiopia, exiling Haile Selassie and the country dismantles after Somali gains and Eritrean independece
-In the Indo-pakistani War of 1971 Afghanistan partecipates on the side of India. Kashmir, Khalistan (Sikh Punjab) and Sindh are indipendent, while Baluchistan and the Pashtun areas of Pakistan are passed on to Afghanistan, so the Afghan King's cousin stop complaining and doesn't overthrow him.
-1972 South Yemen wins the border war and 1972 The Italian Social Movement is elected and sparks a war involving Malta (Labour Government) , France (Non Soviet Democratic Socialist Government) and Yugoslavia (Tito). They loose (and I am trying to find a way in which Italy can actually win, maybe first Yugoslavia then France or vice versa?)
-1973 Israel is better prepared in the Yom Kippur War
-1974 the Federation of Arab Republics succeds (halfway)
-Portugal keeps the colonies (all of them)
-1979 -economic, political and cultural unification of Syria-Lebannon and Iraq-Jordan
-1979 Park chung-hee survives his latest assassination attempt.
-Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso isn't assassinated, joins the Warsaw Pact
-1985 after Sigonella, Italy leaves NATO (maybe ASB, a large part of the Italian Social Movement was very Atlanticist)
Epilogue of the Cold War...Or Not.
-Kosygin is succeded by Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, manages to reform just about right
-The Warsaw Pact hangs in the balance