Timeline 191 - Random Events Post Second Great War

Wednesday, October 18, 1939
Lee Harvey Oswald is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Confederate States of America.

Friday, March 12, 1943
Amanda Davis is born on a CS transport train that is transferring black detainees from Camp Determination to Camp Humble. The train derails near Waco, Texas, allowing Amanda's mother to escape with her daughter into the countryside.

Monday, March 15, 1943
Amanda's mother meets up with black Marxist guerrilla fighters. They take her in, and she spends the next few months as a cook for the fledgling insurrectionist group.

Monday, June 14, 1943
Democratic Governor of New York State, Thomas E. Dewey announces his 1944 presidential campaign at a banquet held at New York's Waldorf Astoria.

Wednesday, June 16, 1943
Amanda becomes sick as the band of guerrillas make their way into US occupied West Texas. Amanda and her mother are turned over to the US Eleventh Army and put into a refugee camp not far from Camp Determination. There is adequate food and medicine, but living conditions are harsh. They will sit out the next few years in the camp.

Friday, July 7, 1944
Jake Featherston is shot and killed by a black guerrilla fighter named Cassius Madison along a remote stretch of Georgia State Route 24 between the cities of Athens and Madison. Cassius is the son of Anne Colleton's black servant Scipio (aka Xerxes) and did not adopt the name surname "Madison" until 1945.

Friday, July 7, 1944
A US soldier rummaging through the wreckage of Featherston's plane finds the autographed copy of Over Open Sights belonging to Lulu Mattox and takes it home with him to his house in Queens, New York. Years later the book will be purchased by Lee Harvey Oswald at a used bookstore in Brooklyn.

Friday, July 14, 1944
Confederate Vice President, Donald Partridge surrenders to US General Irving Morrell in Pineville, North Carolina.

Tuesday, July 18, 1944
The US Army smuggles Donald Partridge out of the defeated CS and transports him to a secure location at a secret Navy base in Bayview, Idaho. Partridge will later work for the US government.

Monday, September 4, 1944
The US government encourages residents of Ohio and Pennsylvania displaced by the war to resettle in Kentucky and Houston. During the coming decades millions of people will migrate from one part of the country to another.

Saturday, October 14, 1944
Thousands of investors become overnight millionaires as the Dow Jones Average reaches an all-time high at 191.66 signaling the rise of the postwar US economy.

Tuesday, November 7, 1944
Dewey wins presidential election in surprise landslide.

Monday, January 1, 1945
The newly independent nation of Australia invites US Mormons to settle in the Australian Outback. The government of Australia is eager to boost its white manpower in the face of threats emanating from Japanese occupied Indonesia, and then later from Red China. The Mormon settlers will be followed by Anglo-Confederate refugees from fleeing Sonora and Chihuahua, and also British colonials fleeing India and East Africa.

Wednesday, January 17, 1945
Emperor Francisco Jose II of Mexico is killed by Republican troops, and the Third Mexican Republic is declared.

Friday, January 19, 1945
Martin Alcantar Vald‚s is proclaimed President of Mexico.

Monday, January 22, 1945
Flora Hamburger invites a recent war-widow to speak in front of the House of Representatives. The question is raised as to whether the CS should be given limited sovereignty as a means of stemming violence in the defeated CS.

Wednesday, January 31, 1945
The hit Broadway musical, Sequoyah! Staring Jackie Gleason and Marion Love opens on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater.

Thursday, February 1, 1945
Dewey is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States of America. At 42 he is the youngest person to ever become president.

Thursday, February 1, 1945
US occupation troops begin to experience a sharp uptick in Freedom Party terrorist attacks across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Troops are called in from other parts of the defeated CS to deal with the increased violence.

Friday, February 2, 1945
Dewey announces that Baja California will be returned to Mexico, US troops are quickly withdrawn.


Sunday, February 4, 1945
First border clashes between the Republic of Mexico and the Republic of Texas. The clashes go relatively unnoticed by the US press.

Friday, February 9, 1945
Clarence Potter is killed by a hit and run driver while walking home from a Richmond park located near the defunct CS Capitol building. Witnesses reported observing Potter muttering to himself as he carried a stray cat in his hands. Potter seemed to be distracted by the stray cat, and apparently didn't notice the approaching Birmingham sedan before he stepped off the curb. The impact killed Potter instantly, and the driver of the vehicle that hit him was never identified.

Wednesday, February 14, 1945
A study commissioned by the US Department of War concludes that it will be virtually impossible for the US military to effectively occupy the defeated Confederate State of America, while still maintaining large numbers of occupation troops in Canada. Approximately five and a half million US troops are garrisoned throughout the defeated Confederacy.

Thursday, February 15, 1945
Seeing no future for her and her daughter in America, Amanda's mother decides to resettle in a Marxist republic that has been setup by black refugees in West Africa. The US govt. pays for her transit as part of a reparations program.

Friday, March 2, 1945
A full scale Freedom Party uprising occurs in Jackson, Mississippi. The small contingent of US troops in the area is forced to retreat.

Wednesday, March 7, 1945
Former US Congressman George Mahon is declared the President of the Restored Confederate States of America. However, the restored Confederacy has little authority beyond the outskirts of Jackson, Mississippi.

Wednesday, March 14, 1945
The US amasses 80,000 troops outside of Jackson, and begins a ground invasion of the rebelling city. Large numbers of US troops are also positioned outside of Tallahassee, Tuscaloosa, and Little Rock out of fear that uprisings may occur in those cities as well.

Thursday, April 5, 1945
US troops drag the so called president of the restored Confederacy, George Mahon, from a bunker underneath the Mississippi Governor's Mansion and execute him on the front lawn. Mahon is made to kneel on the grass with his hands bound behind him. A US Army sergeant places the barrel of his .45 to the back of Mahon's head. Mahon shouts "Freedom!" just before the front of his head disappears in a pink mist. The footage is shown to movie audiences all over the defeated Confederacy.

Tuesday, April 10, 1945
President Dewey asks for and receives the resignation of General Ironhewer (Ironhewer had been Military Governor of Mississippi). General Irving Morrell is reassigned to duties in Washington DC.
Friday, April 13, 1945
President Dewey sacks General of the Army John Abell, and replaces him with General Daniel MacArthur.

Monday, April 23, 1945
Freedom Party extremists attempt to assassinate Texan President Wright Patman by placing a bomb under the hood of his limo. The bombing misses President Patman but kills several of his most trusted bodyguards. Soon afterwards, Patman launches a secret purge against Freedom Party cliques operating in Texas. The incident is not made public until many years afterwards.

Tuesday, May 1, 1945
New Mexico Senator Barry Goldwater unofficially floats the idea of granting Sonora and Chihuahua to the Republic of Texas. The idea is resoundingly rejected by Goldwater's fellow Congressmen who are concerned that a more powerful Texas may become an adversary to the US several decades in the future.

Friday, June 1, 1945
The US Occupation Authority is created to oversee the occupation of the defeated Confederacy. The director of the USOA will be given a cabinet level post within the Dewey Administration and will also be granted carte blanche to whatever is necessary to break the Freedom Party resistance movement. A diverse mixture of Madison Avenue executives, New York mobsters, federal law enforcement officials, and military officers are recruited to run the USOA. A news blackout is declared across the entire defeated Confederacy, and for the next few years the US press will have focus on the war crimes tribunals of CS staff serving in the death camps during the war. Approximately five and a half million US troops are garrisoned throughout the defeated Confederacy.

Friday, June 1, 1945
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is created to oversee interstate criminal activities in the US. The NBI will have a strong hand in the US states of Houston and Tenseness while they are under martial law, and as a result, power struggles will occur between the directors of the NBI and the USOA.

Friday, June 1, 1945
Much of Eurasia begins to experience waves of Marxist-Trotskyist violence following the collapse of the Old World Empires. Arab nationalism sweeps across the Middle East as the last vestiges of the Ottoman Empire crumble. Bloody fighting occurs between Hindus and Muslims in the wake of British colonials departing the Indian subcontinent. Newly independent European colonies in Central and East Africa descend into chaos as colonial settlers are either forced to flee or be killed. Japanese factory workers stage violent strikes as Imperial Japanese troops continue to battle Mao's Red troops in China. In Ireland a full scale civil war breaks out between the Catholic dominated government, northern Protestants who wish to live under their own rule. For the time being, the people of the US are more or less oblivious to the events occurring beyond their borders.

Monday, June 11, 1945
General Abner Dowling is recalled to active duty and place in charge of US troops in the Republic of Texas.

Sunday, July 1, 1945
US unemployment dips below 2%. Virtually every working age adult who wishes to find a job can do so. The US will continue to experience a robust economy until the stock market bubble of August 1972.

Wednesday, July 4, 1945
The surviving ships of the Confederate fleet are towed to a location approximately one hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles and are sunk using a blast from an underwater 20 kiloton superbomb. The footage is repeatedly shown to movie audiences throughout the defeated Confederacy.

Tuesday, August 7, 1945
Former CS Vice President Donald Partridge begins recording public service announcements which will be played on public radio and shown to movie theater audiences across the defeated Confederacy. Partridge attempts to encourage his former countrymen into cooperating with the US, but his message meets mixed results amongst the people of the defeated Confederacy.

Wednesday, December 5, 1945
USOA agents Alphonse Turrentine, Philip Maher, and Christopher Bartol make contact with Jerry Dover at his restaurant, the Huntsman's Lodge in Augusta, Georgia. Turrentine threatens to reveal love letters to Dover wife, Sally Dover, which Dover had earlier written to US agent Melanie Leigh during the war. Dover agrees to work with the USOA and he and his family are airlifted out of Georgia the following morning. Dover and Bartol will later become good friends in Los Angeles.

Tuesday, December 11, 1945
Dover arrives in Hollywood and begins working at the Albert Roach studios where he advises propaganda film makers on the idiosyncrasies of the Confederate people.

Monday, December 31, 1945
US President Dewey announces that Sonora and Chihuahua will be returned to Mexico.

Monday, January 7, 1946
Constitutional delegates in Ottawa produce the first rough draft for a Canadian Constitution.

Tuesday, January 8, 1946
Martial law is lifted in the US state of Houston. Independent candidate, Beauford H. Jester is elected as governor.

Saturday, January 26, 1946
Sean Enos, son of George Enos Jr. is born in Boston, Massachusetts. Senator John F. Kennedy serves as Godfather during Sean's christening. The Kennedy family will maintain close ties with Sean as he is growing up.

Friday, March 1, 1946
Living conditions are extremely harsh in West Africa, so after listening to a speech delivered by a Red agitator, Amanda's mother decides to travel to Russia in order to support the Red movement seeking to overthrow the Czar.

Saturday, March 2, 1946
Sonora officially returned to Mexico. The US leases the former CS naval base at Guaymas. The city of Guaymas itself becomes a special US economic zone under US authority.

Wednesday, May 1, 1946
US President Dewey announces that Canada will be given full independence.

Sunday, June 9, 1946
Amanda and her mother travel across Iran and enter the Russian Empire at the Azerbaijan border. An entire throng of American blacks have made the journey from West Africa to the Azerbaijan border along with them.

Wednesday, June 12, 1946
US Army General Irving Morrell is sent to Canada in order to help establish the new Canadian Army.

Thursday, June 27, 1946
Jerry Dover is a natural behind the camera. He is promoted to film director, producer, and finally executive producer. Jerry puts the organizational skills he learned at a restaurant manager and as a supply officer to use in his new career in the film industry, and he quickly gains respect among Hollywood elite executives.

Monday, July 15, 1946
Canadians go to the polls to elect a new government. It is the first time in their history that the people of Canada have been allowed to elect their own national leaders.

Sunday, September 1, 1946
Amanda's mother is assigned to a combat unit of the People's Revolutionary Army. Amanda's mother sees combat while participating in hit and run raids against imperial Russian forces. At first the American blacks fighting for the revolutionary cause find the fighting to be exhilarating, but when later battles produce heavy casualties amongst the black fighters, some question if they aren't simply being used as cannon fodder. Amanda is cared for by a rotating group of women as her mother fights.

Tuesday, September 3, 1946
Canada gains full independence as the Federal Republic of Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador will be annexed by the Republic of Quebec, while New Brunswick and Nova Scotia will become US states. Most Canadians are happy with their new found independence, even if they have lost some territory to the east. British Colombia is renamed Vancouver.

Saturday, October 12, 1946
Chihuahua officially returned to Mexico. The Mexican government engages in an unofficial policy of ethnic cleansing against Anglo-Confederates still living in Sonora and Chihuahua. Most Anglo-Confederates will eventually flee Sonora and Chihuahua and resettle in Texas, Australia, South Africa, and Argentina. The people of the US have little sympathy for the Anglo-Confederates of Sonora and Chihuahua, and very few of them are allowed to enter the US until after 1949.

Thursday, October 24, 1946
German fighter ace Horst Ahrens exceeds breaks the sound barrier in a Messerschmitt Me 283 rocket powered airplane.
Tuesday, November 5, 1946
Violent Marxist uprisings force Germany to abandon its possessions in Ukraine, Belarus, and Western Russia. German commanders reposition their forces just west of the old Belarus border in hopes retaking their lost territory once the violence dies down. However, unknown to German officers, many German soldiers have been exposed to the latest virulent strain of Marxist-Trotsky ideology, and they will carry the infection back to Germany's industrial heartland.

Monday, December 23, 1946
Dover is surprised to meet Melanie Leigh at an office Christmas Party and the two immediately resume their torrid affair. Melanie is no longer with the US government, and her affections towards Jerry appear to be legitimate.

Tuesday, December 31, 1946
The musical comedy "Clear Skies" staring Humphrey Bogart and Martha Vasconcellos is the number one movie of 1946.

Monday, January 27, 1947
US Army General Abner Dowling physically assaults Texas President Wright Patman following Patman's second presidential inauguration. Dowling is upset regarding the deaths of black inmates at death camps in Texas, and accuses Patman of covering up the deaths. Patman covers up the attack, and the US govt. does not learn of it for over a year.

Wednesday, March 26, 1947
Dover's wife, Sally Dover, learns of his affair with Melanie Leigh and returns to Augusta, Georgia with their son teenage son Jethro. Sally learns of the affair via a letter sent to her by one of Jerry's rivals at the film studio.

Monday, May 12, 1947
German troops stationed in Bavaria rebel and declare Adolf Hitler the Chancellor of the short lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. The fledgling state is crushed within a month, and Hitler is killed by German troops loyal to the Berlin government. As a result of the uprising, the German government grants its citizens more rights and implements constitutional reforms. These reforms help the German government to successfully stave of future Marxist uprisings, and by 1949 the Marxist movement in Germany is more or less over.

Wednesday, June 1, 1947
Work begins on the US Interstate Highway System. Much of the work will be done by disarmed Confederate troops still being held in US custody. Highway construction in the defeated Confederacy will lag behind until the late 1950s.
Wednesday, June 4, 1947
Flora Hamburger makes a speech in front of the US House of Representatives criticizing Dewey's decision to buy Canadian treasury bonds as a means of propping up the failing Canadian Dollar. (Hamburger decries the powers of the state being used to fix the failures of capitalism.)

Monday, September 1, 1947
The Canadian dollar rebounds beyond its initial Independence Day valuation. Canadian consumer confidence continues to grow as the Canadian economy begins to pick up momentum.

Sunday, November 2, 1947
Dover marries Melanie Leigh in Cancun, Mexico. Although he continues to support his ex-wife and son, he has little contact with them. His work colleagues tell him not to worry about it, and that everyone in Hollywood has at least two ex-wives they're supporting.

Friday, November 7, 1947
The Russian Empire is finally overthrown and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is declared with Moscow as its capitol and Leon Trotsky has its premier.

Wednesday, December 24, 1947
Flora Hamburger lands at New York's La Guardia Airport after a weeklong visit in Moscow and boldly declares in front of the cameras, "I have seen real socialism in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and it works!" At the time her remark garners little attention in the US media, but it will be cited several times during her criminal trial the following year.

Wednesday, December 31, 1947
"It Happened In Manhattan" staring Francis Sinatra and Kate Gray is the number one movie of 1947.

Thursday, January 1, 1948
Manhattan's Garment District begins to relocate across the Hudson River to New Jersey due to higher rents in Manhattan. The flight of semi-skilled workers from urban centers will disrupt the Socialist Party's base. White collar workers take over lower Manhattan.

Monday, March 1, 1948
The fledgling Canadian Army finds itself engaged in full scale battles with Marxist insurgents from Russian Alaska.

Friday, March 5, 1948
Flora Hamburger is arrested during a federal raid of Socialist Party headquarters in New York City. Hamburger is charged with violating the Logan Act and with funneling aid to the Marxists during the Russian Revolution. A 1914 street corner speech in which Hamburger called for the workers of the world to rise up and smash the capitalists is used by prosecutors as proof of her secret desire to destroy the United States and to create a global Marxist dictatorship.

Friday, March 12, 1948
Germany invades and annexes the Austro-Hungarian Empire as the Austro-Hungarian Empire teeters on becoming a Marxist state. Most people Austro-Hungarians are happy to see German troops in their country.

Saturday, March 6, 1948
US President Dewey has dinner with Mexican President Martin Alcantar Vald‚s at the White House and informs him that Mexico must cease all hostilities towards the Republic of Texas. The border clashes immediately stop.

Tuesday, March 16, 1948
US and Texas forces participate in Operation Chickenhawk and stage a coordinated attack against Freedom Party bases hidden in the Cherokee Homeland located in the US state of Sequoyah. Fighting is over in less than a week, with light casualties for both the US and the Republic of Texas. Earlier, the bases in the Cherokee Homeland had been used to stage raids into the Republic of Texas, and were a destabilizing factor as Texas President Wright Patman attempted to battle both Mexican forces on the Rio Grande, and Freedom Party fighters crossing into Texas from Sequoyah. Many Texans begin to view the US more favorably after the Freedom Party bases in Sequoyah are destroyed. Patman also sees a rise in popularity as victorious Texas troops return home from the battle. US troops are led by General Dowling.

Wednesday, March 1, 1948
General Dowling officially resigns his commission with the US Army. A secret agreement with President Dewey allows him to retain his retirement benefits and he is also given generous bonus to not write any books
Tuesday, April 6, 1948
Texas President Wright Patman visits the White House in Washington DC. Patman and Dewey discuss the idea of Texas rejoining the US.

Thursday, April 15, 1948
The US Press begins to carry stories of horrific human rights abuses occurring within the RSFR. A front page story in the New York Times shows a picture of a Russian refugee whose hands have been horribly smashed in a hydraulic press. The caption underneath the story reads, ?Is this what your donations to the US Socialist Party helped pay for?".

Monday, April 19, 1948
Texas President Wright Patman addresses a joint session of the Texas Congress and tells them that the only way forward for the people of Texas is to become a US state.

Saturday, May 1, 1948
Amanda and her mother settle in Kiev. The communal apartment where they live was formally inhabited by German settlers who had years earlier come to live in Ukraine before being driven out.. Amanda's mother works in a chemical plant. Amanda begins attending school and is indoctrinated into Marxist ideology.

Thursday, May 27, 1948
Mexico invades and annexes the former British territory of Belize, where black refugees from the CS are attempting to setup a Marxist government. Fighting is over in less than three weeks. The US government makes no public comments and continues to supply Mexico with arms. Is is the first time that US arms are used to kill black Marxists who were previously allied with the US during the Second Great War.

Monday, June 21, 1948
The city of Prince Rupert on the Vancouver coast (formerly British Colombia) is briefly occupied by Marxist guerrilla fighters from Russian Alaska. The entire downtown area is destroyed, but the Red fighters withdraw after holding the town for only five days. The incident sets off alarm bells in both Ottawa and Washington DC.

Thursday, July 1, 1948
The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs begins conducting special hearings regarding the Russian Revolution and the threat posed to national security by Marxist guerrillas operating from Russian Alaska.

Friday, July 16, 1948
Leon Trotsky dies in his sleep. Lavrentiy Beria is named Premier of the RSFR.

Wednesday, August 11, 1948
A fighting force consisting of US, Canadian, Qu‚b‚cois, and Mexican troops is hastily assembled for an invasion of Russian Alaska. General Morell commands the US led Coalition Force. Red Army troops stationed in Alaska are caught off guard and are quickly over run and taken prisoner.

Sunday, August 29, 1948
The Russian Red Army attacks and invades the Prussian province of Posen along Germany's eastern border. One phalanx of the Red Army reaches the Baltic Sea and is able to temporarily cut off the Pomeranian coast from the main body of Germany. Another phalanx of the Red Army heads south towards Sachsen, but is blocked by reinforcements from the Old Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Red Army will advance to within 75 miles of Berlin before their advance is finally halted and turned back. The Red Army attack is commanded by former German officer Friedrich Paulus who defected to the Marxists while he was in command of German troops in Ukraine. The German government asks the United States for assistance, but the US is only able to provide material aid, and does not send in its own troops.

Wednesday, September 1, 1948
A team of congressional investigators, made up of mostly Democrats, determines that the US Socialist Party aided the Marxist revolution in Russia leading to the establishment of the RSFR, and in turn to the guerrilla war now being fought in Alaska.

Thursday, September 30, 1948
A college championship baseball game between the Stony Brook Giants and the University of Massachusetts Seahawks is watched by almost quarter of a million television viewers. Television executives quickly realize that the quaint New England sport could be a boon to their fledgling industry, and during the following years professional baseball teams are organized throughout the US and Canada. Other popular televised sports will include hockey, auto racing, and gridiron football. It will take another quarter century for basketball to attract widespread viewership.

Friday, October 1, 1948
The US Socialist Party officially ceases all operations as Socialist members of Congress take turns denouncing their former party bosses. Most Socialists will simply move to the Republican Party, but it will take the US progressive movement decades to recover.

Monday, November 1, 1948
A special plebiscite election is held in the US state of Houston, and also in the Republic of Texas. The votes of Houston vote to rejoin Texas, while voters in Texas vote to become a US state.

Tuesday, November 2, 1948
US President Dewey defeats his Republican challenger, Adlai Stevenson II and is elected to a second presidential term.

Friday, November 5, 1948
Flora Hamburger is sentenced to five years in prison for violating the Logan Act and for also aiding the 1947 Russian Revolution. Hamburger dies of a brain aneurysm while being held in the New York Women's House of Detention before being transferred to federal custody. Many will claim that she was murdered, while others will claim that her death was a suicide.

Saturday, January 1, 1949,"Texas becomes the first former CS state to rejoin the US. Texas President Wright Patman automatically becomes the US Governor of Texas, and he is sworn in as a Democratic governor on the first day of Texas statehood. Patman will be on the only American politician in US history to transition from being a governor of CS state, the president of an independent country, and finally a governor of a US state. Patman will also be made a co-chairman within the US Democratic Party, and his clout amongst former CS Whig politicians will be instrumental in bringing former CS states back into the US.

Saturday, January 29, 1949
The German Army introduces the Sturmgewehr 49 assault rifle, US developed napalm, and turbo powered ground attack aircraft as a means of countering the Red Army's human wave tactics. The tide of the war begins to turn in Germany?s favor.

Tuesday, February 1, 1949
Dewey is sworn into his second term as US President.

Monday, February 21, 1949
Patman gives his famous "We are all Americans" speech in front of a joint session of the US Congress. Barry Goldwater and Earl Warren secretly express concerns that Patman is stealing their anti-Marxist thunder, and some express concerns that Patman may attempt to have the US Constitution amended so that he can run for US President. Patman becomes popular with the DC elites. Time Magazine names Patman its Man of the Year. ?Wright? becomes a popular boys name.

Tuesday, March 8, 1949
Martial law is lifted in the US state of Kentucky. Democrat, Kenneth H. Tuggle, is elected governor.

Tuesday, March 22, 1949
General Motors begins production at the shuttered Vauxhall auto assembly plant located in Austin, Texas. The plant will mainly build Cadillacs focused on the local oil executive buyer.

Tuesday, April 5, 1949
Florida becomes a US state and elects newly declared Republican candidate Thomas Osborn as governor.

Wednesday, May 11, 1949
With strong encouragement from Germany, most of Europe is organized into The European Confederation. However, Switzerland, Portugal, and Greece do not join. Likewise the newly independent nation of Greenland does not join, but Iceland does. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Bulgaria are occupied by Red Army troops from the RSFR, while Spain's possessions in North Africa are lost to rising Arab nationalism. The bicameral European Congress meets in Bonn, Germany, but neither the EC Congress nor the EC President will have any real power for decades to come. By this time the German Kaiser is reduced in status to an empty figurehead, similar to the British monarchy.

Thursday, September 8, 1949
The German Army captures Warsaw and declares the free-state of Poland. In response, the government of the RSFR demands that Ukraine also be given a vote in the League of Nations.

Saturday, October 1, 1949
Mao Zedong declares the People's Republic of China as the last Imperial Japanese troops are driven from Mainland Asia. The Nationalists attempt to set up a rival government in Taiwan, but their regime collapses due to a lack of outside support, and Taiwan is absorbed into the PRC. Mao's Red troops invade the entire Korean Peninsula and sets up a puppet regime in Seoul. The People's Republic of China will pursue a more Leninist form of Marxism to be called Maoism, and thus they will often be at logger heads with the Trotskyists governments of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and also the People?s Democratic Republic of (Northern) Japan.

Saturday, October 8, 1949
The Ford Motor Company unveils the two-seater Thundercat and markets the car as a personal luxury sports car.

Wednesday, December 7, 1949
Worker demonstrations and riots intensify across the industrial cities of Japan. The Japanese police crackdown hard upon the agitators resulting in many civillian deaths. Those killed by the become martyrs and help to fuel a second cycle of violence. Many demonstrators carry signs reading "Down with the Cult of Death!, Down with Bushido!, and "Our sons are worth more than One Yen and Five Rin!" One yen and Five Rin being the cost of a death notice postcard used to inform family members that a son, husband, or brother had died in overseas fighting. Japan has suffered approximately 3.5 million military casualties during the non-stop fighting which began at the start of the First Great War, and many Japanese citizens are beginning to demand change.

Sunday, January 1, 1950
The US government officially declares the Freedom Party resistance movement to be over. Martial law begins to wind down across the defeated Confederacy as the region is re-branded in the US media as the ?New South?. The USOA begins to focus more upon unifying utility and highway systems, and less upon propaganda. Dover's film work begins to slow down. The US Army begins to demobilize, and approximately one year later US troop strength will be reduced to roughly 800,000 men.

Friday, February 10, 1950
The Mexican Army launches an invasion of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Northern Venezuela. Most Central Americans welcome the Mexican Army into their countries with open arms, and there is comparatively little actual combat during the invasion. The government of Mexico justifies the annexation of Central America by highlighting the fact that the region broke away from Mexico shortly after Mexico gained its independence from Spain in the 1820s. The Central American republics become Mexican states, and the Mexican military manages to establish a small toe hold in South America before encountering stiff resistance from the Colombian Army. The US voices no objections to the action.

Tuesday, March 21, 1950
In response to the European Confederation, Moscow sets up puppet governments in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Bulgaria, and establishes the Riga Collective Treaty Organization, which is sometimes unofficially referred to by Westerners as "RICO".

Monday, April 3, 1950
German scientists perfect the process of turning biomass (agricultural waste, scrap wood, and later farmed algae) into synthetic gasoline. A negative side effect is that auto manufactures do not feel pressured to reduce fuel consumption or to reduce tailpipe emissions. By the mid-1950s, chronic smog from automobile traffic chokes many large cities around the world.

Monday, May 8, 1950
Dover turns down several offers from major film studios, and instead goes to work for the fledgling NBS television network. Unlike the other two major television networks, NBS skips black and white broadcasting entirely and goes straight to color programing thanks to Selectratron solid state technology developed in Germany.

Tuesday, May 9, 1950
Louisiana becomes a US state and narrowly elects Democratic candidate William Joseph Dodd as governor. Some will later charge that Dodd's election was aided by Texas Rangers illegally Louisiana and stealing ballot boxes in districts favorable to Republican candidate Robert F. Kennon. However, the allegations are never proven.

Thursday, June 1, 1950
The US Department of War is reorganized into the US Department of Defense, as the US Army Air Corps is reorganized into the US Air Force. Former head of the United States Occupation Authority, Lawrence Groves, is appointed Secretary of Defense. The US begins to put more emphasis on sea and air power at the expense of the US Army.

Saturday, June 3, 1950
The family of Lee Harvey Oswald move from Louisiana to New York City to live with distant relatives.

Wednesday, July 12, 1950
The Indian military defeats Muslim separatists movements operating in the extreme western and eastern regions of the country.

Saturday, August 19, 1950
Tibet is incorporated into the People's Republic of China following the defeat of the Tibetan Army at the hands of the Chinese Red Army. The Dalai Lama flees to India.

Saturday, September 16, 1950
Iranian Marxists seize the northern third of the country and declare the People's Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan. Over the next few decades Muslim guerrilla fighters will engage in an unsuccessful campaign to unseat the Marxist-Trotskyist government headquartered in Tabriz. The Muslim campaign against Tabriz is stymied by a lack of support from the West.

Sunday, October 1, 1950
A three way civil war breaks out in the Japanese home islands as Trotskyists, Maoists, and Imperialists all battle one another for control over the country. The Imperial government attempts to bring its expeditionary forces back home to put down the worker rebellions raging all across the country. However, many returning troops simply join the Reds they were supposed to crush, while others simply remain in Southeast Asia and the jungles of the South Pacific where they attempt to establish their own feudal states.

Tuesday, October 10, 1950
Martial law is lifted in Tennessee. Democrat Alan T. Taylor is elected governor.

Tuesday, November 7, 1950
Wright Patman wins his first elected term as US Governor of Texas.

Sunday, November 19, 1950
US demographers take note of a surge in childbirths as US troops are discharged from active duty. The term "Baby Boom" is coined to describe the unexpected trend in higher birthrates, and the expression "Baby Boomer" will later be used to describe people born between 1950 and 1970. Meanwhile, birthrates in the defeated Confederacy decline sharply between the years 1941 and 1951, and birthrates in the New South do not begin to show a marked increase until approximatively 1957.

Wednesday, January 31, 1951
The United State Occupation Authority is officially disbanded. Most elements of the USOA will be folded into the US Department of Defense, the National Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Central Intelligence, and the US Department of the Interior.

Tuesday, February 13, 1951
Arkansas becomes a US state and elects Democrat Joseph L. Shaver as governor.

Sunday, March 4, 1951
Dover experiences success as the executive producer of a hit television situation comedy called "Ma's Coffee". The show is set in a Washington DC coffee shop during the First Great War as Ma Semphroch and her shapely daughters use their guile to coax military secrets from Confederate forces occupying their city. A bumbling shoe repairman from across the street ads to the fun. The show will run for nine seasons and will remain in syndication for decades afterwards.

Monday, April 2, 1951
With the aid of the RSFR, Japanese Trotskyists gain the upper hand over the Maoists who are turn being supported by the PRC. Most of the Japanese Maoists eventually end up fleeing to Korea, but a few of them manage to make their way north to the Kuril and Sakhalin islands where they work with the Ainu people to prevent the Trotskyists from excreting control over the northern most islands of the Japanese archipelago. Meanwhile, the Chinese are unable to adequately support their allies in the Kuril and Sakhalin islands, and as a result, the most northward reaches of Japan will continue to exist in a stateless political limbo during the next few decades.

Monday, May 14, 1951
The US explodes a 10.5 megaton sunbomb on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. The explosive yield of the device is roughly 700 times the yield of the average superbombs used during the Second Great War. The blast creates a crater 1.5 miles wide, and leaves the island uninhabitable. Later tests will be conducted in the South Pacific and also in the Antarctic. "

Tuesday, May 1, 1951
The world's first turbo airliner, the Junkers 152 Meteor enters service with Lufthansa airlines, but the plane is plagued with numerous technical flaws which causes several 152s to crash within the first few months of service. As a result the 152 is withdrawn from service as experts reevaluate its design. While the 152 is out of service, the Lockheed CL102 enters service and acquires much of the earlier turboliner market.

Tuesday, June 19, 1951
The Chinese Red Army invades and quickly conquerors French Indochina, Thailand, and Burma. Chinese troops attempt to move down the Malay Peninsula towards Singapore, but stiff resistance from Muslim tribesman stalls their advance near the former Imperial Japanese rail hub at Chumphon. Maoist puppet governments are installed, but unlike Tibet, the newly "liberated" states are allowed to maintain some pretense of being independent sovereign nations.

Thursday, August 2, 1951
American blacks living in the RSFR engage in violent street riots in reaction to perceived racism emanating from ethnic Russians and Ukrainians, and as a result, American blacks are deported from European Russia. Amanda and her mother are sent to an agricultural collective on the shores of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan to grow cotton.

Tuesday, September 4, 1951
The US and its North American allies begin to secretly supply weapons and other military aid to the Ainu people of the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands so that they may resist the authority of the People?s Democratic Republic of Northern Japan. The People's Republic of China also supplies its own aid to the Ainu.

Friday, November 9, 1951
John Glenn exceeds an altitude of 422,000 feet in the Bell X1-C experimental rocket plane and becomes the first human being to reach outer space. Glenn completes a single orbit of the Earth while occasionally firing his rocket engines in order to maintain orbital velocity. After a roughly 90 minute flight returned to Earth for a successful landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Wednesday, January 2, 1952
The Dodge Motor company purchases both the Studebaker and Packard automobile companies and begins assembling a newline of cars out of the old Birmingham auto plant located in Birmingham, Alabama. Dodge will focus on building low cost vehicles for buyers in the New South, but will begin to supply luxury and performance vehicles in the coming decade. Previously Dodge had been known as a parts supplier for both GM and Ford, and not as an automotive manufacture.

Wednesday, February 27, 1952
Grundig Electronics of Frankfurt, Germany introduces the world's first hand held transistor radio, the Regentschaft ZR-1, The low cost radio quickly gains popularity amongst teenagers and avid sports fans.

Tuesday, May 20, 1952
The Island of Cuba is granted full Independence as Fidel Castro becomes president . The US leases the former CS Navy base at Guantanamo Bay.

Tuesday, June 24, 1952
The government of the RSFR declares a Jewish homeland in the Crimea. Calls to create an independent Jewish state in the Levant are abandoned as thousands of Jewish migrants settle in Crimea. However, tensions between Muslim Crimean Tartars and Jewish settlers soon escalate. Moscow responds by deporting the Tartars to Alaska and elsewhere.

Sunday, July 13, 1952
Alabama becomes a US state and elects Democrat William Hardwick as governor.

Tuesday, November 4, 1952
Democrat Earl Warren wins the 1952 presidential election over Republican San Francisco Mayor, Pat Brown. Richard Nixon becomes Vice President.

Monday, January 5, 1953
Jerry Dover purchases an ultra-modern cubist style eight bedroom house off of Mulholland Drive in Bel Air, California in order to appease his wife Melanie. Jerry's outdoor swimming pool has a commanding view of ManDeVille Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Saturday, January 24, 1953
The world's first nuclear submarine, USS Poseidon is launched at Mare Island Naval Shipyard near San Francisco, California. The USS Poseidon becomes the first submarine to transit under the Northern Polar icecap.

Wednesday, April 1, 1953
The North American Treaty Organization if founded in Colorado Springs, Colorado as a means of coordinating resistance against the spreading Red menace in Alaska and Northeast Asia. Founding members include; The United States, Canada, Quebec, Mexico, and Cuba. Each member is required to spend a certain percentage of its national GDP on defense, and to also pledge a specific number of troops to NATO. In exchange for participating in the US led NATO alliance, member states are given preferential access to the US consumer market.

Thursday, May 28, 1953
Amanda and her mother live in a one room cabin with a dirt floor in Kazakhstan. By May of 1953 the health of Amanda's mother deteriorates to the point that she will become bedridden for the rest of her life. Amanda's mother blames her failing health on the chemical plant in Kiev where she used to work, but Amanda is certain that her mother's health was ruined in Camp Determination. Many blacks living in the RSFR begin to complain that conditions on the collectives are just as bad as a Confederate plantation.

Monday, July 27, 1953
Start of the first Maoist-Trotskyist war between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the People's Republic of China. Fighting breaks out after the Russian Red Navy fires upon Chinese naval vessels attempting to intercept arms shipments intended for Marxist rebels in Northern Japan. Moscow now finds itself engaged in a three front war against Germany in Europe, China in Central Asia and Siberia, and NATO in Alaska.

Tuesday, September 8, 1953
Virginia becomes a US state and elects Democrat John Battle as governor. Virginia's borders are restored to their prewar configurations.

Thursday, October 1, 1953
General Motors introduces the Pontiac Banshee. The popular two-seat sports car is produced in a partnership between GM and Mercedes Benz. The Banshee is introduced to compete with the Ford Thundercat.

Friday, October 2, 1953
German troops cross the old Belarus border and begin to advance on Moscow.

Friday, November 13, 1953
A peace treaty is signed between the RSFR and the PRC. China agrees to not interfere with arms shipments to Northern Japan, and Moscow agrees to provide China with technical assistance in exchange for wheat from China. Both sides return to their respective borders.

Thursday, December 24, 1953
The US Air Force airlifts Cuban troops to the Islands of Jamaica and Hispaniola in order to suppress Marxist uprisings being fomented by black refugees from the Confederate death camps. Eventually both islands will be officially incorporated into the Republic of Cuba. The event goes relatively unnoticed by the American public.

Friday, January 1, 1954
The Mexican Canal across the Isthmus of Panama is opened. The US provides technical and financial assistance with the understanding that the new canal must be wide enough to accept its planned fleet of super carriers.

Monday, January 4, 1954
Moscow signs an armistice agreement with Germany. The border between Russia and Germany is relocated to a position roughly one hundred miles east of Warsaw. The border jogs slightly to the west as it approaches the Baltic Sea so that Riga remains in the RSFR. Although the two countries have stopped fighting with one another, they will technically remain at war with one another for many years to come.

Monday, February 15, 1954
Dover's second wife Melanie Leigh suddenly leaves him. Dover asks his NBI friend Christopher Bartol to track her down, but Bartol tells Dover to let her go as the two of them are drinking near Dover's pool. Dover asks Bartol if the US government really had plans in place to kill every man, woman, and child in the defeated Confederacy back in 1944? Bartol replies that he really didn't know, and his job was just to recruit people. It could be possible, things were crazy back then.

Friday, March 5, 1954
Premier of the RSFR Lavrentiy Beria dies of suspicious circumstances; however, the official cause of death will be listed as cerebral hemorrhage. It is estimated that Beria may have infected hundreds of woman with venereal disease during the time that he led the RSFR. Alexander Peshkov is named Premier of the RSFR.

Monday, May 24, 1954
Mississippi becomes a US state and elects Democrat Sam Lumpkin as governor.

Tuesday, June 1, 1954
The government of the RSFR estimates that roughly four million soldiers have died during the six year war to liberate Europe from Capitalism, and that the RSFR cannot afford another major war with the West for at least another twenty years.

Saturday, July 31, 1954
The Japanese home islands are partitioned along the 36th line of latitude. Southern Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu remain under the control of Imperial Japan, while Northern Honshu, and Hokkaido are given to the newly created, People?s Democratic Republic of Japan, or Northern Japan. The League of Nations brokers a cease fire between the two Japans. Thousands of boat people flee Northern Japan and head for other countries around the Pacific Basin, including the US.

Thursday, September 23, 1954
The Superman and Hyperman television show, which is produced by Jerry Dover, debuts on the NBS network and becomes an instant hit. Most storylines will consist of Hyperman being held captive by colorful villain until he is rescued by Superman in a two part episode. The show will remain in production for seven seasons, and will maintain a cult following for decades afterwards.

Monday, October 4, 1954
Life Magazine carries a cover story regarding a young Mississippi singer by the name of Jesse Garon Presley, who has begun to attract a loyal following of female bobby soxer fans as he tours state and county fairs around the country. Presley is signed to a record label and has a number of hits such as "It'll Be Alright" and Don't Stand In My Way". However, many music critics dismiss him as talentless, and many Conservative Christians across the New South view his wild hip gyrations and tight pants as an immoral northern influence that is being forced upon them against their will. Presley is inducted into the US Army in June of 1955, and will spend the next four years at a remote army base in Eastern Alaska. By the time that Presley is discharged from the army his fickle fans will have forgotten about him, and instead of returning to the stage, he will become a policeman in Memphis, Tennessee.

Tuesday, November 2, 1954
Patman wins his second and final term as US Governor of Texas.

Friday, December 17, 1954
Daniel Partridge portrays himself in the United Pictures Technicolor movie "Command Choice". Although the movie is criticized by historians, it nonetheless becomes a box office success and spawns a stream of other big budget Second Great War films stretching over the next few decades.

Tuesday, January 25, 1955
Representatives from the RSFR sign a truce agreement with NATO members in Lisbon, Portugal. An unofficial demarcation line will separate NATO forces stationed in Eastern Alaska from the Russian Red Army in Western Alaska. However, Moscow does not relinquish its claim to all of Alaska.

Sunday, March 6, 1955
Dover marries his third wife, Hollywood actress Melissa Montgomery, he is nearly thirty years her senior, but Dover feels he can confide in her because she is a fellow Southerner. Montgomery will make appearances in several of Dover?s shows.

Monday, July 4, 1955
North Carolina becomes a US state and elects Democrat Lester Hodges as governor.

Monday, October 1, 1956
Wide spread crop failure occurs in Mainland China as a result of poorly planned agricultural reforms. Mao announces that he is canceling all future wheat shipments to the RSFR. The move sours relations between Moscow and Peking.

Wednesday, October 24, 1956
Oswald enlists in the United States Marine Corps.

Tuesday, November 6, 1956
Earl Warren wins second term as US President over Republican Ohio Senator, Frank Lausche.

Thursday, December 26, 1957
Oswald is investigated by military intelligence after a copy of Das Kapital is found in his footlocker. Oswald convinces his commanders that he is studying the book to better understand the enemy. Oswald is transferred from a US listening post in the Canadian state of Vancouver to Camp Pendleton in California.

Friday, January 24, 1958
Georgia becomes a US state and elects Democrat Samuel Griffin as governor.

Saturday, January 4, 1958
The US press begins to carry stories of suspected wide spread famine occurring in Mainland China. Fishermen from South Japan tell of finding emaciated bodies floating in the South China Sea which have apparently washed out of the Pearl River Delta near Hong Kong. Historians will later estimate that number of dead at roughly 8 – 10 million.

Tuesday, November 4, 1958
Lyndon Baines Johnson wins his first term as US Governor of Texas.

Tuesday, January 6, 1959
South Carolina becomes a US state and elects Republican Philip McDonald as governor.

Tuesday, January 20, 1959
Wright Patman leaves the Texas Governor's Mansion as Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in. Patman will go onto work at the US State Department as an Assistant Secretary of State, until 1972.

Wednesday, February 25, 1959
Oswald is given a special hardship discharge from the US Marine Corps.

Thursday, October 1, 1959
Oswald begins to become disillusioned with Marxism after reading of the severe famine occurring in the People's Republic of China. He laments over the fact that although the RSFR had a large grain surplus, Moscow did not send any food aide to relieve mass starvation occurring in China. Oswald begins to suspect that the leaders of the Marxist cause have no real intentions of improving the lives of the world's poor, and that they are really just trying to establish a global dictatorship for their own benefit. Oswald returns to New York City where he stumbles from one odd job to to the next as he searches for a new identity.

Wednesday, December 2, 1959
US President Earl Warren signs federal legislation legalizing compulsory sterilization for the purpose of eugenics. Over the next few decades, hundreds of thousands of people including the mentally ill, criminal convicts, and others deemed feeble-minded are forcibly sterilized against their will. Although the stated goal of the program is to improve the genetic quality of the US population, the sterilizations are generally not carried out on a racial basis.

Tuesday, August 23, 1960
Oahu (formerly the Sandwich Islands) is admitted as the fiftieth US state. Democrat, H.I. Hayakawa is elected as governor.

Tuesday, November 8, 1960
Democrat Richard Nixon wins the 1960 presidential election over Minnesota Republican Senator Hubert Humphrey Jr. John F. Kennedy will serve as Vice President.

Monday, February 1, 1960
A relative helps Lee Harvey Oswald get a good paying clerk's job with the New York City Department of Education. Oswald moves into a remodeled apartment on the corner of W25th and 7th Avenues in Lower Manhattan.

Thursday, September 1, 1960
The US Census Bureau determines that most Americans are now living in suburban single family tract homes built around older industrial city centers. Urban areas such as Los Angeles, Long Island, Richmond, Levittown, Columbus, Dallas, and the San Francisco bay area experience phenomenal population growth due to the rise of suburban housing during the 1950s. The runaway growth in suburban housing is satirized in the 1961 hit song "Ticky Tacky Boxes" sung by Malvania Seeger. During the 1970s the Republican Party will make the curtailment of urban sprawl a central part of their party platform.

Wednesday, March 1, 1961
Amanda is promoted to the position of Zveno Director on the agricultural collective where she lives and works near the shores of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan. Amanda oversees a group of about 40 adults as they manually harvest cotton.

Monday, April 10, 1961
Amanda is recruited by the government of the RSFR to travel back to America and to agitate the black population still living in the US into violence against the US government. Before leaving Kazakhstan to attend special training in Moscow, Amanda's mother informs her that her father was a guard at Camp Determination by the name of Hipolito Rodriguez. Amanda burns the name into her memory. A few days before she departs for Moscow, Amanda's mother passes away.

Thursday, July 27, 1961
Jerry Dover decides to leave his office a little bit early so that he can contemplate a few ideas for new television shows. Jerry pulls over to observe some teenage boys who are ridding skateboards in a Hollywood public park. However, after observing the skateboarders for a few minutes, Jerry realizes that one of them has a blue "X" spray painted on the bottom of his wooden skateboard. Jerry becomes enraged and smashes the board has he screams at the boys. Someone writes down Jerry's license plate number and calls the police. A deal is made in which Jerry must visit the home of each boy and apologize to their parents. Jerry also makes a sizable donation to a policeman's charity, but the matter stays out of the court system and out of the press.

Tuesday, October 3, 1961
Harvest yields begin to return to normal in China. Considered by many historians to be the end of the Great Three Year Famine.

Monday, May 21, 1962
A Russian attack submarine deposits Amanda on the beach at Amagansett, New York, where she is picked up by a couple named Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The Rosenberg's bring Amanda back to their home in New York City where they provide her with fake documents and additional training. Amanda is thunder struck by a major US supermarket, but the Rosenbergs warn her not to be wooed by the glitz of consumerism and capitalism.

Monday, July 9, 1962
Assistant Secretary of State Wright Patman arrives in Manila, the Philippines to broker a deal which will allow the US Navy to lease the former Japanese base at Subic Bay.

Tuesday, July 17, 1962
Oswald gets into a shouting match with his black supervisor, Charles Dumont. Dumont is a decorated flying ace from the Second Great War, and he looks unfavorably upon Oswald's poor work habits and lack of personal discipline. Oswald shouts that he was a sharp shooter in the Marines, and that he knows how to take care of people like Dumont. Oswald is fired, and not even the powerful city employees? union helps him to keep his job. - This is the point in which Oswald turns away from Liberalism, and begins to embrace the racist ideology of the Freedom Party. Oswald's uncle who helped him get his job with the city disowns him when he learns of his firing.

Wednesday, July 18, 1962
Amanda and the Rosenbergs move into a suburban home in San Fernando, California. Amanda begins going by the name Angela Davis, and enrolls in UCLA during the fall semester. Her cover story is that the Rosenbergs adopted as a refugee baby from Camp Determination at the end of the war.

Tuesday, September 25, 1962
Dover purchases a limited edition 1963 Cadillac DeVille from a dealership in Hollywood. his new car features a unique bubble shaped passenger compartment, a stereo Blaupunkt tape player, and a V-10 engine imported from Stuttgart. While at the dealership Dover meets a young Brian Wilson who is working at the dealership because his record contract only provides him with 2.5 US Cents for each record sold. Dover is impressed with Wilson's salesmanship ability, and advises him to get out of the music business. Dover pays cash for the car and as a result Wilson receives a huge bonus and quits the music business.

Sunday, October 7, 1962
Oswald reads a supplement article in the New York Times which seems to imply that Freedom Party redoubts exist in the mountains of Sonora and Chihuahua. Oswald becomes obsessed with finding a copy of Jake Featherston's book, Over Open Sights, and he neglects to look for a new job.

Monday, October 15, 1962
Lee Harvey Oswald purchases Lulu Mattox's copy of Over Open Sights at a second hand bookstore in Brooklyn for approximately four US Dollars. The shop keeper, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, places a slip cover onto the book reading "A Catcher in the Rye – a novel by Jeremy Salinger" so that Oswald can read the book in public without being noticed. Although the book is not illegal outside the New South, it is still considered to be taboo, and owning a copy might raise eyebrows.

Monday, October 15, 1962
Jerry Dover gets into a shouting match with the son of a NBS vice president. Senior management at the network advise Dover that has been working too hard, and that perhaps he should take a few weeks off. Jerry decides to take his new Cadillac on a cross country to drive and to visit Augusta, Georgia.

Thursday, November 8, 1962
Oswald is kicked off of a Greyhound bus after a fellow passenger discovers his copy of Over Open Sights, and newspaper clipping he has kept regarding the Freedom Party redoubts in Mexico. Oswald is knocked on conscious by a punch from a college football player. The bus driver advises Oswald that he is now Arkansas, and that local authorities may not take to kindly to his love of the Freedom Party. Oswald spends the next year doing odd jobs and living in flop houses as he attempts to figure out his next move.

Tuesday, November 20, 1962
Amanda is dismayed to discover that most of the black college students attending UCLA are not open to her Marxist message. Her activities attract the attention of NBI agent Christopher Bartol who is close personal friend of Jerry Dover.

Wednesday, November 21, 1962
Dover visits Augusta, Georgia for the first time since he was recruited by the USOA. He visits his old restaurant the Huntsman Lodge, but is dismayed to find that it is now a Japanese fast-food place called "Yoshi's" which is apparently run by a family of Japanese refugees who are living in the back rooms of the restaurant. All of the war damaged buildings have been replaced with modern boxy looking apartment buildings, and Jerry recognized very few of the faces in his old town.

Tuesday, December 11, 1962
Amanda comes home to find that the home of the Rosenberg's has been raided by the NBI, and that the Rosenberg's have been arrested. Amanda flees with the clothes on her back and the money in her pocket and heads to Las Vegas where she uses her special training to keep on step a head of the NBI.

Monday, December 31, 1962
The number one selling car in the US is the Ford Champion station wagon. Most models come equipped with an automatic transmission, an overhead valve V8 in excess of four hundred and ninety cubic inches, and simulated wood paneling on the exterior hearkening back to wooden bodied automobiles of the 1930s and 40s.

Saturday, February 23, 1963
USS Sealion is christened by California's First Lady, Bernice Layne Brown, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The Sealion is the second in the US Navy's Dolphin class fast-attack submarines which are equipped with titanium hulls.

Saturday, October 12, 1963
A commissioning ceremony is held at San Francisco's Pier 45 as the USS Sealion is placed into active duty and assigned to the aircraft battle group centered upon the sixty-thousand ton USS Theodore Roosevelt. The USS Roosevelt and is associated battle group will operate from Pearl Harbor.

Monday, November 11, 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to assassinate President Nixon in Las Vegas, Nevada. His shot misses, and First Lady Pat Nixon suffers minor injuries from fragments hitting her upper arm. Oswald avoids capture and heads to Mexico.

Wednesday, January 1, 1964
Lee Harvey Oswald illegally enters Chihuahua, Mexico by crossing the Rio Grand.

Tuesday, February 4, 1964
Sean Enos enlists in the US Navy, but gets into trouble after going AWOL with Freddie Kennedy soon after completing his basic training. A few well-placed phone calls from Vice President John F. Kennedy and Sean is released from the brig. Commanding officers regard Enos as a "celebrity" Seaman Apprentice who cannot be counted upon to complete assigned tasks properly.

Monday, February 3, 1964
Amanda arrives in Baroyeca, Sonora to see if she can track down info regarding her father, Hipolito Rodriguez.

Saturday, February 8, 1964
While drinking beers with his friend Christopher Bartol, Jerry confides that he is having trouble with a fellow executive producer who happens to be the son of one of a network vice presidents. Bartol provides Dover with a top-secret drug known as LSD, and tells Dover to put into the drink of the person annoying him at work. Jerry does as instructed, and his rival dies when his Pontiac Banshee runs into an embankment on the side of the 101 freeway at a high rate of speed. The police check the deceased for alcohol, but no one thinks to check for illegal drugs.

Monday, February 24, 1964
The Beeltes appear on the Edward McMahon Show on the NBS television network. Jerry Dover observes their performance from a backstage booth, and does not like what he sees.

Thursday, April 16, 1964
The Ford Motor Company unveils the Falcon XB at the 1964 World?s Fair in order to provide a low cost alternative to GM's Pontiac Banshee.

Sunday, May 3, 1964
Although the family of Hipolito Rodriguez accepts Amanda she feels distant from them and decides to travel to Houston, Texas, where she believes some of her mother's family may still live. Amanda travels across Chihuahua on foot as she heads towards the Rio Grande.

Friday, July 3, 1964
Oswald makes contact with a group of Freedom Party die-hards in the mountains of Chihuahua, but he is dismayed to find that the group he's encountered is really only a bunch of people living in abandoned buses as they drink themselves to death on homemade moonshine. Oswald attempts to impress a girl he's met in the group by telling her that he was the one who shot at Nixon in Las Vegas, but unknown to Oswald, the girl is an agent for the Mexican Federal Police.

Saturday, July 4, 1964
Amanda is arrested for petty theft in Chihuahua City.

Tuesday, July 7, 1964
Oswald is arrested when the compound where he is staying is raided by the Mexican Federal Police. The other people in the compound accuse Oswald of being a spy, and he is attacked in the back of a police van on his way to prison. The Mexican police further beat and abuse him while he is in jail.

Monday, July 13, 1964
Oswald meets Amanda Davis as the two of them are riding in a police van to meet a representative from the US Consulate. The guards driving the van decide to stop for lunch leaving Oswald and Amanda unattended in the back of the van. Amanda picks their shackles and hot-wires the van. The two drive deep into the desert and abandon the van. Oswald realizes that he will need to stick with Amanda if he is going to survive.

Saturday, August 1, 1964
Oswald burns Lulu Mattox's copy of Over Open Sights as he and Amanda are camping in the mountains of Chihuahua. The newspaper article regarding Freedom Party redoubts in Mexico is also tossed into the fire. The fire is also used to cook a desert hare. Amanda has nothing to burn, but says she is done being a spy for the RSFR.

Monday, July 20, 1964
Sean Enos is assigned to the USS Sealion. Sean visits Honolulu's Japan Town and is seduced by a beautiful female North Japanese agent named Fusako Shigenobu. Over the next few months Enos provides Fusako with detailed information about the submarine he is serving upon. Chief Petty Officer Frost is assigned to keep an eye on Sean and to act as his big brother, but he is unaware of Sean's secret relationship with Fusako Shigenobu.

Saturday, October 31, 1964
After they have finished making love out under the desert stars, Lee Harvey Oswald asks Amanda how it is that she is so fluent in Spanish, given the fact that she was raised in Russia. Amanda explains that she once had an Argentinian lover by the name of Pablo Gutierrez, but she has not seen him since she left the collective in Kazakhstan. Oswald is somewhat put off by her worldliness as he sulks.

Tuesday, November 3, 1964
Richard Nixon wins second term as president over Republican challenger, Los Angeles Mayor, Sam Yorty.

Tuesday, December 1, 1964
Oswald and Amanda travel back to Baroyeca, Sonora, where the sons of Hipolito Rodriguez help them establish a new life.

Thursday, April 1, 1965
The Beetles make their second appearance on the Ed McMahon show. Dover decides that band member Johnathan Stanley is an extremely dangerous person, and that it is up to him to eliminate Winston, before Winston can do any real harm to the young people of America.

Saturday, April 3, 1965
Dover and Bartol formulate a plan to spike Johnathan Stanley's drink with LSD before he goes onstage during the Beetles' final concert of their 1965 US tour at the Hollywood Bowl.

Thursday, April 29, 1965
Dover's connections within NBC allows him and Bartol to get into the Beetle's dressing at the Hollywood Bowl. Dover brings along his stepson from his marriage with Melissa Montgomery. Bartol spikes Stanley?s drink when no one is looking, but unbeknownst to Bartol, Stanley does not drink from the glass before going on stage. Dover, Bartol, and his stepson watch the concert, but they are disappointed when Stanley doesn't have a mental breakdown on stage. Bartol surmises that the drink must still be in the dressing room, but when he attempts to enter he is blocked by a large roadie by the name of Mal Evans, who has been instructed to keep people out of the dressing room as the Beetles are having sex with female fans from the audience. Bartol and Evans get into a physical fight. Bartol pulls his service revolver and shots Evans in the chest killing him instantly. The Beetles manager attempts to intervene, but Bartol also shoots and kills him.

Monday, May 10, 1965
The Beetles release their psychedelic hit "Glass Onion" which quickly climbs to the top of the charts. Dover suspects that the LSD Bartol placed in Stanley's drink inspired the lyrics, but he doesn't say anything.

Tuesday, June 1, 1965
Investigators question Dover about the deaths of Evans and Epstein, but they do not charge him with anything. Bartol is eventually found guilty on two counts of capital murder. Bartol is sentenced to life in prison, and dies of a heart attack in Alcatraz Prison in 1974.

Thursday, June 3, 1965
The Mutsu Bay Incident. The USS Sealion becomes disabled as the result of an engagement with the naval forces of the People?s Democratic Republic of Japan in Mutsu Bay. The Sealion and its crew are taken prisoner by the North Japanese, but pressure from Moscow soon forces Nagano to release its American prisoners along with their submarine. The Sealion had entered Mutsu Bay with the intent of laying equipment that would eavesdrop deep-sea military cables between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. Sean Enos defects to the North Japanese; the scandal rocks the Kennedy family. (Prisoner swap between US and RSFR)

Saturday, September 25, 1965
Amanda gives birth to Oswald's son. The two of them have sworn off political fanaticism, and have decided to spend the rest of their as farmers in the mountains of Sonora. Both seem happy with their new existence.

Friday, December 31, 1965
At 17.5 million, Texas surpasses New York and becomes the most populace state in the Union. Most of the population growth is driven by migration from other states as people come to take advantage of Texas' low tax rates, cheap housing, and booming economy.

Saturday, January 1, 1966
Dover's reputation is tarnished by his close personal association with a convicted killer. There are murmurs around the water cooler at work, and many of his ideas are rejected by network executives. At the age of 67 Dover goes into permanent retirement.

Monday, February 7, 1966
Sean Enos begins staring in North Japanese propaganda films. Enos will play various roles including a maniacal US general who is intent on taking over all of East Asia, a US President who has been driving mad by untreated syphilis, and an earnest US factory worker who organizes his coworkers to strike back against their capitalist bosses. When Jerry Dover reads of Enos' activities in the newspaper, Dover curses Enos and calls him a traitor to his country.

Thursday, July 7, 1966
A joint US - German lunar mission is launched from Cape Blanca in the Yucatan Peninsula. On July 11, 1966, German fighter pilot, Theodor Hoffmann becomes the first human being to set foot on the Moon. A few seconds later Neil Armstrong becomes the first American and second human being to set foot on the Moon. The agreement to allow Hoffman to set foot on the Moon first was decided by a coin toss amongst German and American flight engineers at the Cancun Space Center. Both the US and German flags are planted in the Sea of Tranquility, along with a plaque promoting peace and cooperation amongst the nations of the Earth.

Wednesday, December 21, 1966
The world's first double decker airliner, the Lockheed L-1014 capable of carrying up to 700 passengers goes into service. The L-1014 is based upon the Lockheed C-6 Galaxylifter military strategic airlifter.

Tuesday, November 21, 1967
The Boeing 747 is introduced. The single decker 747 is marketed as a lower cost alternative to the Lockheed L-1014 in the transcontinental jumbo jet market.

Tuesday, November 5, 1968
Democrat Barry Goldwater wins presidential election over Republican Minnesota Senator, Eugene McCarthy. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. will serve as Vice President.

Thursday, March 6, 1969
Oswald and Amanda grow concerned regarding the growing tensions between the US and RSFR, and decide to travel to New Orleans, Louisiana to attend a peace rally, even though Amanda has just given birth to their third child.

Tuesday, May 6, 1969
Oswald is shot and killed by a Louisiana state militiaman during a rally on the campus of Tulane University. A photographer captures the famous image of Amanda on her knees wailing over the crumpled body of Lee Harvey Oswald. Her hands are outstretched to her sides as her tear streaked face is turned towards the sky. During the coming decades the photograph will be reprinted countless times in books and magazines, but Amanda is able to slip away from the crowd before anyone bothers to ask her name. The authorities are puzzled by the presence Oswald at the rally, and it will take another twenty five years before an investigative journalist matches the finger prints of Lee Harvey Oswald with the rifle that was recovered in Las Vegas, Nevada, following the attempted assignation of Richard Nixon in November of 1963. Historians well later estimate the number of student protesters killed that day at 200 - 300.

Tuesday, July 15, 1969
An official peace treaty is signed between the RSFR and NATO. Alaska is divided along the 158th line of longitude. Eastern Alaska will become an official territory of Canada.

Monday, October 12, 1970
Amanda is unable to locate any of her mother's family in the Houston area, so she returns to her children in Baroyeca and takes them with her to live in a Mennonite community in Chihuahua. Amanda embraces the Mennonite faith, and believes that life amongst the peaceful Mennonites is the best way to shield her children from harsh violence of the outside world. However, as her children grow older they begin to feel stifled by the strict values of the community where they are living.

Wednesday, April 7, 1971
The Texas Instruments Corporation of Dallas, Texas introduces the Plateau, the world's first personal computer. Sales are sluggish until Texas Instruments begins offering a dial up network service allowing users to play games, use bulletin boards, share files, and to exchange electronic postcards. By 1980 51% of US households will have a personal computer connected to the Global Network. The following year Xerox Corporation of Palo Alto, California will introduce their own more powerful NOVA personal computer.

Tuesday, November 7, 1972
Republican William Carter wins the presidential election over incumbent, Barry Goldwater. Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. will serve as Vice President.

Wednesday, November 22, 1972
Now in his mid-twenties, Jerry Dover's stepson, Michael Dover capitalizes on his famous stepfather's last name and obtains a supporting part in the daytime television soap opera "The Search for Yesterday". Michael Dover's acting career will span well into the next century and will include numerous lead roles in television and movies.

Tuesday, March 6, 1973
The US airlifts Mexican troops into Peru to put down Maoist rebels attempting to seize control of the national government in Lima.

Tuesday, May 1, 1973
A schism begins to develop between the Old Guard of the Republican Party and the idealistic leftist college students of the Gulf Coast region. Union ship yard workers attack and severely beat a group of University of New Orleans students protesting against US involvement in Northeast Asia and Alaska. Dozens of students are killed, and even more are injured. The incident becomes known as the "Hard Hat Massacre". Student activist claim that the attack was ordered at the highest levels of the Republican Party. The Republican Party begins to distance itself and to withdraw support from student political groups.

Friday, August 29, 1975
Wright Patman goes to work for Ronald Reagan's failed 1976 presidential campaign. Patman serves as Reagan's advisor on foreign relations during the Democratic primaries. However, party delegates feel that a more moderate candidate would stand a better chance of defeating President Carter's reelection bid, and the Democratic nomination is given to Maryland Senator Charles Mathis over Reagan.

Friday, November 7, 1975
The US airlifts Cuban troops to Angola in order suppress the Angolan People's Liberation Movement being supported by Moscow. Ironically, a few officers within the Cuban expeditionary force are themselves refugees from the Confederate death camps who will find themselves fighting alongside former Confederate military personnel now serving with the South African Army. Cuban troops will remain in Angola until the collapse of the RSFR in 1985.

Monday, March 1, 1976
Changes to the German Constitution grant more powers to the Presidency of the European Confederation, and less to the German Chancellor. However, Germany will continue to wield huge influence in the EC's headquarters in Bonn. US conservatives are suspicious of these latest developments in Europe, and steps are taken to cement America's hegemony over the NATO alliance. While the EC may transform itself into a transnational super-state, NATO will more or less remain an instrument used by the US to wield power over the North American continent.

Sunday, July 4, 1976
Bicentennial - A parade of tall ships in New York Harbor.

Wednesday, July 28, 1976
The Great Tangshan earthquakes strike in the People's Republic of China killing approximately 250,000 people.

Thursday, September 9, 1976
Chairman Mao dies of a heart attack. Mao's death will mark the beginning of a violent power struggle which will last for approximately a year and a half.

Tuesday, November 2, 1976
William Carter wins second presidential term over Republican Congressman, Charles Mathis.

Wednesday, November 24, 1976
Chinese troops invade the People's Democratic Republic of East Turkestan triggering the second Maoist-Trotskyist War between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the People's Republic of China. East Turkestan had been a Russian puppet state established in the Chinese province of Xinjiang earlier in the century. The Chinese government claims that Moscow is using its small client state to agitate Muslim minorities in China's western region. However, many historians believe that the decision to invade East Turkestan was based on a desire by Chinese military commanders to show strength in the face of the lackluster response to the Great Tangshan earthquakes earlier in the year. The Russian Red Army is caught off guard as Chinese troops quickly overrun East Turkestan and slowly push into Central Asia.

Monday, August 1, 1977
Jerry Dover moves into an upscale retirement facility in Palm Springs, California.

Monday, August 15, 1977
The RSFR tests a 50 megaton sun-bomb on the island of Amchitka in the Aleutian Chain.

Tuesday, September 27, 1977
NATO Forces invade the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands to bolster the Ainu people who are under attack from Red troops from the People?s Democratic Republic of Japan. Canadian troops play a major role.

Wednesday, December 7, 1977
Elite troops from the Texas Self Defense Force take over a Russian Red Army installation in the Kamchatka Peninsula. US computer code breakers access the RSFR’s defense network, and bring it by infecting it with a malicious program which renders its hardware useless. Moscow is left blind and unable to respond effectively to the rapidly changing situation in Japan. 75-year-old mathematician and former candidate to become President of the defunct Republic of Baja California, Ruben De La Cruz, is instrumental in creating the program used to neutralize Moscow's defense network. NATO forces withdraw from the Kamchatka Peninsula after the RSFR's defense network has been brought down.

Thursday, December 8, 1977
NATO Troops enter Republic of Japan to help South Japanese troops drive invaders from Northern Japan back across the border.

Friday, December 9, 1977
The Chinese military becomes emboldened by the fact that the RSFR's command and control network has been decapitated, and the Chinese Army takes the city of Vladivostok along with the entire Primorsky region with little to no resistance. NATO military commanders begin to calculate scenarios in which the Chinese Army overruns all of Siberia.

Sunday, December 25, 1977
North Japanese forces detonate a 13 kiloton super-bomb 4,400 feet above the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The reinforced palace is slightly damaged, but the figure head emperor is unharmed. The bomb is delivered to its target by a suicide pilot in a special purpose built plane. It is unclear whether or not the bomb was meant to detonate at the altitude which it did, or whether it was supposed to detonate much lower to the ground. Surviving members of the North Japanese high command will later claim that their super bomb was exploded at a higher altitude to reduce civilian casualties and to send a symbolic message to the government of South Japan; however, military historians have their doubts.

Monday, December 26, 1977
NATO forces detonate several sub-kilo ton high altitude super bombs over Northern Japan. The resulting electro-magnetic pulse knocks out nearly all communication in the country.

Saturday, December 31, 1977
The number one movie for 1977 is the science fiction thriller "A War Amongst the Stars". The plot entails a naive farm boy who is duped into joining a terrorist organization by an older more sophisticated female socialite who has turned against society. The pair joins forces with an outlaw pirate and his alien companion as they conduct brutal raids upon government installations, killing thousands of innocent civilians in the process. Eventually the quartet of radical terrorists makes their way to a moon base orbiting a gas giant near the edge of the galaxy. There they hatch a plan to destroy a government operated space station by blowing up its nuclear generator. The space station is used to regulate commerce, enforce the rule of law, and to provide planetary aid in times of emergency. The terrorists plan on plunging the galaxy into a lawless dark age by destroying the Peace Star.

Thursday, January 12, 1978
Largest land battle in US history. US forces briefly occupy outskirts of Nagano, the capitol of Northern Japan, before being pushed back across the border by human wave attacks.

Sunday, February 26, 1978
The Gang of Four consolidates their power over the Chinese government. Brutal executions are carried out against the supporters of Hua Guofeng and Deng Xiaoping who opposed the Gang of Four. Mao's widow, Jiang Qing, is named Chairman of the People's Republic of China.

Tuesday, March 28, 1978
An Armistice is signed between the members of NATO, The People's Democratic Republic of Japan, and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The border between North and South Japan moves only slightly, but hundreds of thousands causalities have occurred on both sides. The People's Republic of China gains additional territory from the Russian Republics of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, and the entire Primorsky region is also ceded to the PRC. The armistice ceremony occurs on the flight deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt in Tokyo Bay. From this point forward, the US government will consider the People's Republic of China to be its number one threat, not the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Thursday, June 28, 1979
The non-aligned nation of Greenland petitions the North American Treaty Organization for membership, but representatives from Canada's commercial fishing industry successfully lobby their government to veto Greenland's membership. President Carter does not seem to have strong feelings on the issue one way or the other, and the media will portray his handling of the issue as being wishy-washy.

Thursday, October 4, 1979
The US press begins to carry unsubstantiated reports that German scientist are working to create a race of genetically superior humans.

Tuesday, November 4, 1980
Democrat Ronald Reagan wins presidential election over the Republican Governor of Mississippi, Cliff Finch. George H. W. Bush will serve as Vice President.

Monday, March 2, 1981
Wright Patman dies of a sudden heart attack at his home in Linden, Texas.

Saturday, May 12, 1984
The eldest son of Lee Harvey Oswald and Amanda Davis makes contact with the US consulate in Hermosillo, Mexico and his able to prove that his deceased father was a US citizen, therefore making him a US citizen. Jack Oswald is allowed to immigrate to the US and settles in Sacramento, California where he enrolls in college and attends US Air Force ROTC training.

Tuesday, November 6, 1984
Ronald Reagan wins his second term as US President over Republican challenger, Gary Hart.

Monday, March 4, 1985
Leninists seize control of the Kremlin in Moscow and declare the Democratic Republic of Soviet Socialist States. Mikhail Gorbachev is declared President of the DRSS and General Secretary of the Communist Party. Moscow develops a friendlier attitude towards the US, while China continues to remains overtly hostile.

Tuesday, October 1, 1985
The European Confederation attempts to make diplomatic overtures towards the new Leninist regime in Moscow (mainly a German driven initiative). However, in the late 1980s there are still too many hard feelings in Moscow regarding the war fought with Germany in the late 1940s and early 50s, and the overtures from Bonn are rejected out of hand.

Friday, January 31, 1986
Greenland joins the European Confederation. The move angers many in Washington DC, and the government of Greenland is warned against hosting EC troops on its soil.

Tuesday, September 2, 1986
Jack Oswald enlists in the US Air Force.

Saturday, October 4, 1986
US President Ronald Regan meets with the Premier of the CSSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, in Reykjavik, Ice Land. Friendlier relations begin to develop between the two countries.

Friday, February 13, 1987
Free elections are held in the People's Democratic Republic of Japan. The people of North Japan vote to dissolve their nation and to reunify with the Republic of (South) Japan.

Thursday, April 2, 1987
Sean Enos is arrested by Japanese authorities as he is hiding out in the mountains near Nagano. His wife, Fusako Shigenobu, is killed in a shootout with Japanese police. Enos is turned over to US officials and flown back to Pearl Harbor to face charges of desertion, espionage, and treason.

Tuesday, May 19, 1987
The people of Great Britain vote to leave the European Confederation. The legal separation is complete within a year. Representatives from the US arrive in London in an attempt to draw Britain into the US's orbit.

Tuesday, September 15, 1987
Michael Dover is interviewed on the late night evening news program 'Nightline' and describes his stepfather Jerry Dover as a kind caring man who was instrumental in shaping his own show business career. Michael Dover's remarks are in stark contrast to comments made by his own mother, Mellissa Montgomery, in her tell all book published just a year earlier in which she described Jerry Dover as a dark brooding man prone to increasingly violent fits of rage.

Tuesday, November 24, 1987
A military tribunal finds Sean Enos guilty of all charges against him. Enos is sentenced to life imprisonment in Leavenworth Penitentiary.

Friday, January 1, 1988
The US government begins to secretly monitor all Global Network traffic passing between Europe and North America.

Friday, June 17, 1988
Gaz automobiles are introduced in the North American market. The Russian made cars fail to reach target sales in the US and Canada, but do well in both Mexico and Cuba where buyers prefer their lower sticker prices. Many automotive enthusiasts remark that Gaz vehicles appear to rely upon Ford technology from two decades earlier.

Thursday, September 1, 1988
The European Confederation (Germany) and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which the EC promises to provide technical assistance in exchange for EC listening posts on Chinese soil.

Tuesday, November 8, 1988
George H.W. Bush wins presidential election over Republican challenger, Paul Simon. Alexander Haig becomes Vice President.

Tuesday, January 24, 1989
The President of the European Confederation, Francois Mitterrand, travels to the People's Republic of China and is warmly greeted by Mao's widow and Chairman of China, Jiang Qing. Although historians will note that only Mitterrand could go to China, diplomatic progress with the PRC will occur at an extremely slow pace over the next two decades.

Thursday, November 9, 1989
The first modules of the US Liberty space station are launched by heavy lift rockets from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and also from Cape Blanca, Mexico. Originally the station was to be christened "Space Station Freedom" but a Gallup poll revealed that many Americans still held negative feelings towards the word "Freedom" and that many respondents still associated it with deceased Confederate dictator Jake Featherston and the long defunct Confederate Freedom Party.

Monday, January 1, 1990
Hand held digital devices become completely ubiquitous by the start of the 1990s. Such devices are typically used for direct person-to-person communication, online banking, and accessing the Global Network. Some US government officials bandy about the idea of making the ownership of PDAs a requirement for all adults as a means of keeping closer tabs on the populace.

Thursday, July 19, 1990,
The world's first nuclear powered atmospheric scrubber goes online in Los Angeles, California. The air cleaning facility will focus upon removing solid particles, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and carbon dioxide from Los Angeles skies. Similar facilities will soon follow in Mexico City, New York City, and Atlanta.

Tuesday, November 3, 1992
Independent Candidate Ross Perot wins the presidential election over incumbent president, George H.W. Bush, and Republican challenger, Jerry Brown. John Silberman becomes Vice President.

Friday, August 19, 1994
An investigative journalist matches the fingerprints found on the rifle used in the failed November 1963 assassination attempt made against Richard Nixon with the prints taken from the dead body of Lee Harvey Oswald after he was killed by riot police on the campus of Tulane University in 1969. The information is released in the press, but for the most part only conspiracy theorist take note of it.

Saturday, January 21, 1995
US President Ross Perot pardons Sean Enos. Enos is released from military prison, but he is unable to find work, and no one is willing to publish is autobiography. The government places Enos into a witness protection program, and he spends the remainder of his adult life working as a grocery store clerk in New Mexico.

Tuesday, November 5, 1996
Ross Perot wins his second term as US President over Democratic challenger, Steve Forbes, and Republican challenger, Michael Dukakis.

Monday, January 5, 1998
Jerry Dover dies one day after reaching his 100th birthday.
 
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I tried to post the map found at the below link within the map forum here on this site, but for some reason I could not get it to work. I instead have posted it on another site, and have included the below URL link pointing to my map. This is how I imagine North America looking during the mid-1970s just before the start of a major war in the Japanese Islands.
https://postimg.cc/image/5q8v5s94f/
 
Gee, I thought that the my above timeline would at least attract a few "Hmm I don't think so", "That could never happen", or "Yeah, some of that seems like it might be slightly plausible"? Well, back to the drawing board I guess.
 
Monday, January 1, 1945
The newly independent nation of Australia invites US Mormons to settle in the Australian Outback. The government of Australia is eager to boost its white manpower in the face of threats emanating from Japanese occupied Indonesia, and then later from Red China. The Mormon settlers will be followed by Anglo-Confederate refugees from fleeing Sonora and Chihuahua, and also British colonials fleeing India and East Africa.
I could honestly see that happening man. Australia and extends New Zealand as well definitely want a population who need to breed men for future conflict against the Japanese Empire. Especially on their own Oceans, I think the Mormons will good pp for this.

The Mormons are notorious for having a lot of kids even considered to have the most kids in US compared to other American [1] I think that reason alone will want Australia and New Zealand to want the Mormons in their population because they can breed a lot like rabbits and also pp who great worked with the economic, education, and easy to adapt to Aussie culture.

They also we have to consider is if Australia government allowed the Mormon settlers practice polygamy (2) because this is TL191 world weren't accepted to America society mean No LDS church didn't condemned the practice to be accepted Utah to joined the Union. Without these events wouldn't have happened and the US Military occupied Utah as well as Anti-Mormon Sentiment is high on the US public, this is not considering the numerous rebellions between the US and the Mormons from the 1880s to 1944.

What do I say at this point, I said that that's a possibility that polygamy will be a value practice in the Church of Mormons similar to Jews with Circumcise.

So there might be many Mormons want to practice polygamy as a religious custom in Australia but the Government doesn't allowed polygamy to took place (3) so it might be interesting to see this Conflict results itself.

You mentioned that Mormons are moving to the Outback right? They might have a conflict with aboriginals who habitable there and other Aussie settlers in the outback especially if they want to repeat the Utah thing again.

There other possibilities with this Mass migration of Mormons into Australia and by Extend New Zealand in Your TL but I like to discuss this with you

(1) https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-ta...ore-children-than-other-u-s-religious-groups/

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism_and_polygamy

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy_in_Australia
 
I could honestly see that happening man. Australia and extends New Zealand as well definitely want a population who need to breed men for future conflict against the Japanese Empire. Especially on their own Oceans, I think the Mormons will good pp for this.

The Mormons are notorious for having a lot of kids even considered to have the most kids in US compared to other American [1] I think that reason alone will want Australia and New Zealand to want the Mormons in their population because they can breed a lot like rabbits and also pp who great worked with the economic, education, and easy to adapt to Aussie culture.

They also we have to consider is if Australia government allowed the Mormon settlers practice polygamy (2) because this is TL191 world weren't accepted to America society mean No LDS church didn't condemned the practice to be accepted Utah to joined the Union. Without these events wouldn't have happened and the US Military occupied Utah as well as Anti-Mormon Sentiment is high on the US public, this is not considering the numerous rebellions between the US and the Mormons from the 1880s to 1944.

What do I say at this point, I said that that's a possibility that polygamy will be a value practice in the Church of Mormons similar to Jews with Circumcise.

So there might be many Mormons want to practice polygamy as a religious custom in Australia but the Government doesn't allowed polygamy to took place (3) so it might be interesting to see this Conflict results itself.

You mentioned that Mormons are moving to the Outback right? They might have a conflict with aboriginals who habitable there and other Aussie settlers in the outback especially if they want to repeat the Utah thing again.

There other possibilities with this Mass migration of Mormons into Australia and by Extend New Zealand in Your TL but I like to discuss this with you

(1) https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-ta...ore-children-than-other-u-s-religious-groups/

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism_and_polygamy

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy_in_Australia
I'm no expert in Mormonism, and I've met very few members of the Mormon faith during the course of my life, so I hope that no one was offended by anything I put into my above timeline.

Anyway, I was thinking that the Mormons moving to Australia would more or less be settled away from the big cities, so the Australian government would probably more or less turn a blind eye to things such as polygamy, just so long as the Mormons were willing to serve in the fledgling Australian military. Most people living in Australia would probably only here vague rumors of it, and maybe the Australians would whisper about the strange practices of the Mormons. I imagine that the practice of polygamy would go on for several decades before the authorities decided to do anything about it.

However, I was imagining that there might be conflict between the Mormons and Protestants (Anglicans or Methodists) who have recently moved to Australia from Britain, and or decolonized India. Also, what about white Confederates who have fled from Sonora and Chihuahua, and find themselves living in the Australian Outback? Would these refugees from Sonora and Chihuahua blame the Mormons for not fighting hard enough during the war.

Additionally, what sort of conflicts might occur between the ex-Confederates living in the Outback and Anglo refugees from India and Great Britain? Would the ex-Confederates from Sonora and Chihuahua blame the English refugees for not lending enough support to the Confederacy during the war? Also, might the refugees from Britain and India claim that the war in Europe could have been won, if the British government didn't ship so much of its material to the Confederacy?

At any rate, it seemed reasonable to assume that the Australian Outback would attract a lot of English speaking refugees following the war, and friction might develop between these groups as they attempt to settle into their new enviroments. Would the the friction result in a full scale warfare? Probably not, but maybe there would be plenty of bar fights, and hard looks when people went into town to buy supplies. Maybe there would even be an occasional bombing, but such things wouldn't be very common. I think,
 
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Friday, February 2, 1945
Dewey announces that Baja California will be returned to Mexico, US troops are quickly withdrawn.
Tuesday, May 1, 1945 New Mexico Senator Barry Goldwater unofficially floats the idea of granting Sonora and Chihuahua to the Republic of Texas. The idea is resoundingly rejected by Goldwater's fellow Congressmen who are concerned that a more powerful Texas may become an adversary to the US several decades in the future.
Monday, December 31, 1945
US President Dewey announces that Sonora and Chihuahua will be returned to Mexico.

Monday, January 7, 1946
Constitutional delegates in Ottawa produce the first rough draft for a Canadian Constitution.

Saturday, March 2, 1946
Sonora officially returned to Mexico. The US leases the former CS naval base at Guaymas. The city of Guaymas itself becomes a special US economic zone under US authority.

Wednesday, May 1, 1946
US President Dewey announces that Canada will be given full independence.

Wednesday, June 12, 1946
US Army General Irving Morrell is sent to Canada in order to help establish the new Canadian Army.n
Monday, July 15, 1946 Canadians go to the polls to elect a new government. It is the first time in their history that the people of Canada have been allowed to elect their own national leaders.
Tuesday, September 3, 1946
Canada gains full independence as the Federal Republic of Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador will be annexed by the Republic of Quebec, while New Brunswick and Nova Scotia will become US states. Most Canadians are happy with their new found independence, even if they have lost some territory to the east. British Colombia is renamed Vancouver.
Flora Hamburger makes a speech in front of the US House of Representatives criticizing Dewey's decision to buy Canadian treasury bonds as a means of propping up the failing Canadian Dollar. (Hamburger decries the powers of the state being used to fix the failures of capitalism.)

Monday, September 1, 1947
The Canadian dollar rebounds beyond its initial Independence Day valuation. Canadian consumer confidence continues to grow as the Canadian economy begins to pick up momentum.
Monday, March 1, 1948
The fledgling Canadian Army finds itself engaged in full scale battles with Marxist insurgents from Russian Alaska.
I honestly don't believe that US was never ever give Canada their independence back. Remember that Canada were conquered by the US and even settled by Yankee emigrant into the Union as well as Generation to come, is very unlikely Union will want independence to Canadians who historically attacked the US several times.

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Mexico getting their states back Is unrealistic too, Mexico actually wanted to give them away to the Confederacy because they want to have money back in 1880s. Why Mexico want a state that they legally allowed to separate from them? specially since Chihuahua and Sonora will be Angelic enough to be separated to Mexico.

Also TL191 US doesn't really like Mexico out that much and I don't think they will allow them to catch territory that they gained in SGW. Why Mexico would deport Mass Exodus of Southern whites who will be the majority of these states, small percent will be actually Mexicans?
Sunday, November 19, 1950
US demographers take note of a surge in childbirths as US troops are discharged from active duty. The term "Baby Boom" is coined to describe the unexpected trend in higher birthrates, and the expression "Baby Boomer" will later be used to describe people born between 1950 and 1970. Meanwhile, birthrates in the defeated Confederacy decline sharply between the years 1941 and 1951, and birthrates in the New South do not begin to show a marked increase until approximatively 1957.
The boomer generation will likely never existed or at least not in the extended in OTL because many of the parents would have never met or would have died in the wars between the Union and the Confederacy.

And even if the baby boomers exist they will likely be extremely reduced because of those reasons, so say goodbye boomers memes to zoomer.
Tuesday, June 24, 1952
The government of the RSFR declares a Jewish homeland in the Crimea. Calls to create an independent Jewish state in the Levant are abandoned as thousands of Jewish migrants settle in Crimea. However, tensions between Muslim Crimean Tartars and Jewish settlers soon escalate. Moscow responds by deporting the Tartars to Alaska and elsewhere.
"How could we helped the problem with Crimea tartars and Jews?"

"I know we must deported them and have no consequences at all for this"


Wednesday, December 2, 1959
US President Earl Warren signs federal legislation legalizing compulsory sterilization for the purpose of eugenics. Over the next few decades, hundreds of thousands of people including the mentally ill, criminal convicts, and others deemed feeble-minded are forcibly sterilized against their will. Although the stated goal of the program is to improve the genetic quality of the US population, the sterilizations are generally not carried out on a racial basis.
I think eugenics would be out of style in a 1950s especially with the Population reduction still living memory. Victim of the genocide would have called this decision out and quickly victims to petition to get this law out of US court.

They also chance that the Freedom genocide targeted mentally ill people to before moving on to blacks.
An official peace treaty is signed between the RSFR and NATO. Alaska is divided along the 158th line of longitude. Eastern Alaska will become an official territory of Canada.
Would the US just invade Alaska when Red revolution happens because what the reasons to just leave a place where they're going to be a lot of communism then just leave it there. It will be a perfect cover to just take Alaska to your territory and just call it just called it "temporary occupation"
 
I honestly don't believe that US was never ever give Canada their independence back.

Mexico getting their states back Is unrealistic too
But if the US is faced with a choice of trying to occupy an extremely hostile Confederacy, while at the same time trying to also occupy Canada and part of Mexico, they might be faced with a having to make some very tough choices. For example, if they give up on trying to occupy the Confederacy, the Confederate States might use nuclear weapons against the US sometime in the future, and most likely US military planners would view an independent Confederacy as an unacceptable option.

In on of my other threads I outlined a scenario in which the US might seriously consider killing off 95% of the Confederate population using chemical weapons and fire bombs.
However, if US military planners determined that they successfully occupy and reform the defeated Confederacy, but in order to do so they must use the troops they have stationed in Canada and Mexico, then I believe they'd be willing to make that sacrifice. After all, and independent Canada isn't likely to use superbombs against the US, and neither is Mexico, but the CS most assuredly will use superbombs if given the chance.

Maybe the US cannot continue to occupy all of the territory it gained in the two wars, and relinquishing Canada and parts of Mexico are simply the best options the US has available to it. Also, given the people of Canada some form of quasi-independence might help to transform them from an adversary into a reliable ally. Presumably the people of Mexico would appreciate having their lost northern territories returned to them, and thus they'd be a lot less likely to support a restored Confederacy.

But I admit that maybe there's a chance the US can hold onto all of its territory, but I think that it would have to be willing to do some very dirty work in the defeated CS to make that happen, and I decided not to write about that option.

Only Harry Turrtledove can know what would happen.
 
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"How could we helped the problem with Crimea tartars and Jews?"

"I know we must deported them and have no consequences at all for this"
I think that the US would be too busy with its own problems to worry about what was happening Crimea.

Also, I didn't want to recreate the Israeli / Palestinian conflict, or the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s, so thought that a homeland in Crimea would interesting, and I had the Germans create a method for creating synthetic fuels from algae. That way there is no need to import oil from the Persian Gulf, and the events are somewhat different from our world.

Everyone has their own view of what the world would like after In at the Death, but sometimes parsing out the finder details is like worrying about how Elliot's bicycle flew in the move ET. Did ET use telekenisys to make the bicycle fly? Did he use a levitation device to make the bike fly over the trees? Sometimes it is just better to focus on the bigger landscape and not worry too much about the finer details. That is my opinion anyway.
 
Why Mexico would deport Mass Exodus of Southern whites
Because they want the property these wealthy Southerners own, and they also want to make sure that the CS can never again reclaim these territories. Also, their would probably be some revenge involved. I think that it would actually be a very nasty scene, and might be worse than what happened to Chinese living in Malaysia in our timeline.
 
Would the US just invade Alaska when Red revolution happens
Maybe, but by this time the people of the US are probably exhausted of war, and many people in the US haven't learned to think on a global scale yet. Also, oil isn't has valuable in the scenario I've created, and the people of the US think that the Canadians should deal with the problem.
 
Tuesday, November 5, 1946
Violent Marxist uprisings force Germany to abandon its possessions in Ukraine, Belarus, and Western Russia. German commanders reposition their forces just west of the old Belarus border in hopes retaking their lost territory once the violence dies down. However, unknown to German officers, many German soldiers have been exposed to the latest virulent strain of Marxist-Trotsky ideology, and they will carry the infection back to Germany's industrial heartland.
Why Marxist uprisings in the East? Was Germany not the one that came and liberated them from the Czarist yoke in both GW's?

I think that its possible they somewhat resent the Germans, but view the Russians as a far greater problem. Ukraine would likely be pretty pro-German though, all things considered.
 
Mao Zedong declares the People's Republic of China as the last Imperial Japanese troops are driven from Mainland Asia. The Nationalists attempt to set up a rival government in Taiwan, but their regime collapses due to a lack of outside support, and Taiwan is absorbed into the PRC. Mao's Red troops invade the entire Korean Peninsula and sets up a puppet regime in Seoul. The People's Republic of China will pursue a more Leninist form of Marxism to be called Maoism, and thus they will often be at logger heads with the Trotskyists governments of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and also the People?s Democratic Republic of (Northern) Japan.
(sorry for asking so many questions, I'm doing so as I read the TL)
How'd the Chinese drive the Japs out by themselves?
 
The Mexican Army launches an invasion of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Northern Venezuela. Most Central Americans welcome the Mexican Army into their countries with open arms, and there is comparatively little actual combat during the invasion. The government of Mexico justifies the annexation of Central America by highlighting the fact that the region broke away from Mexico shortly after Mexico gained its independence from Spain in the 1820s. The Central American republics become Mexican states, and the Mexican military manages to establish a small toe hold in South America before encountering stiff resistance from the Colombian Army. The US voices no objections to the action.
Why is the new regime so expansionist? Northern Venezuela, too?
 
The US Air Force airlifts Cuban troops to the Islands of Jamaica and Hispaniola in order to suppress Marxist uprisings being fomented by black refugees from the Confederate death camps. Eventually both islands will be officially incorporated into the Republic of Cuba. The event goes relatively unnoticed by the American public.
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