need help a with USA USSR war

I have a timeline nearly maped out in my head. This is one of the main sticking points. In said timeline the cold war will go hot (but no nukes will be used) I am not sure what use to trigger the war. Neither Nato nor the Warsaw Pact were ever created. Cuban missle crisis will not work because cuba is an american state. It would be nice but not essential to have the war fought during the term of Reagan I could have him win in 76 if it helps get the war with soviets in his term. Thanks for your help
 
Afghanistan springs to mind.

Or perhaps the US could be dragged into the Kashmir mess, while the Soviets support India.
 
I have a timeline nearly maped out in my head. This is one of the main sticking points. In said timeline the cold war will go hot (but no nukes will be used) I am not sure what use to trigger the war. Neither Nato nor the Warsaw Pact were ever created. Cuban missle crisis will not work because cuba is an american state. It would be nice but not essential to have the war fought during the term of Reagan I could have him win in 76 if it helps get the war with soviets in his term. Thanks for your help
A coldwar where NATO nor the Warsaw Pact form???? Cuba is an American State? Reagan in 76?

I think we need some more information to help you with what you have planned. Because to get Cuba to become an American State normally takes a POD in the 1870s or earlier. And with a POD like that a lot of things will be different ITL.

Also from what I seen, once the Cold War goes hot nuclear weapons normally follow within 24 to 48 hours of the fighting starting. Unless you have ABM systems, and that keeps the nukes in checked.
 
I have a timeline nearly maped out in my head. This is one of the main sticking points. In said timeline the cold war will go hot (but no nukes will be used) I am not sure what use to trigger the war. Neither Nato nor the Warsaw Pact were ever created. Cuban missle crisis will not work because cuba is an american state. It would be nice but not essential to have the war fought during the term of Reagan I could have him win in 76 if it helps get the war with soviets in his term. Thanks for your help
Okay if Cuba is an American state that requires a very early POD

Just make something up, your POD is early enough almost anything could work
 
I think you need to take butterflies in to account. When does Cuba become a state and how does that change possible future events? How do you even have a Cold War without NATO or the Pact? What's the probability of Reagan rising to prominence at the same general time in what would already be a vastly different world?

Much of Reagan's appeal came from being a strong leader that made Americans proud again against an ineffectual President who was viewed as weak. America felt defeated in 1980 and Reagan came along as the American definition of a badass cowboy at just the right time. Without that situation, he has a harder time becoming President at all.

It's hard for the US to experience the ~10 years of defeat and weakness that gave a cowboy like Reagan his chance without a Warsaw Pact.
 
pod is very early. As to Reagan in office I am a major fan of him. the cold war with out the aliances is simply a usa ussr cold war. after wwII both sides keep their occupied german territory.the usa keeping german territory europe does not wish to form a continuing alliance with the usa with. But usa convinces stalin to get the heck out of the rest of eastren europe or the wanked usa will destroy the already slightly screwed ussr. with out the buffer states of east europe no warsaw pact. Also the usa here is much more religious.
 
pod is very early. As to Reagan in office I am a major fan of him. the cold war with out the aliances is simply a usa ussr cold war. after wwII both sides keep their occupied german territory.the usa keeping german territory europe does not wish to form a continuing alliance with the usa with. But usa convinces stalin to get the heck out of the rest of eastren europe or the wanked usa will destroy the already slightly screwed ussr. with out the buffer states of east europe no warsaw pact. Also the usa here is much more religious.
Here is might thoughts on a POD that early.

If Cuba is an American State that means the Spanish-American war much be pre-1880. With a POD like that, it means a lot of things would have changed on the world stage by 1976. Its very likely the Reagan would never be born. WW1 and 2 could be very different, possibly nukes dropped on the European mainland as well as Japan. The Cold War may not happen. IMO if NATO nor the Warsaw Pact form you have no cold war. This would just be a pissing match between the US and USSR if there is even a Soviet Union in 1976. The fucking crazs could set be leading Russia with a POD that early.

I have to ask what do you want to do in this TL of yours? If you want to PM the plans so I can give better feed back fill free to do so.
 
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