A World Without- A Timeline

Joshua Ben Ari

An Overview of the State of Israel

Born out of the ashes of the Holocaust and Zionist aspirations during the preceding century, Israel struggled to survive in their War of Independence against the invading Arab armies and was given extensive military assistance by the Soviet Union and their allies.

Coupled with Soviet-made weapons and over 2 million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, the Israelis managed to push the Syrians, Transjordanians, Lebanese and Saudi Arabians back in a defense war. The Israeli borders were solidified, stretching from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Golan Heights, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Out of gratitude to the Soviets and with the dominance of Mapai, Israel slowly moved into the Soviet sphere. The Israelis were the Soviets' greatest allies, firm friends though remaining socialist. Innovative in science, the Israelis helped the Soviets with their "Virgin Lands" program, as well as making the deserts bloom.

Mapai will remain dominant in Israeli politics for the next 28 years, until the election of Elie Wiesel as Prime Minister in 1977 (who belonged to Likud) and the first non-Mapai Prime Minister. While Wiesel and his successor, Menachem Begin and eventually Binyamin Netenyahu, are the only three non-Mapai Israeli prime ministers- they broke Mapai's dominance over Israeli politics.

With the continuing liberalization of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact members, Israel began moving away from the Soviet sphere to a friendly relationship between the two nations (a slightly watered-down version of the US-Israeli relationship).

With regards to the Arab population, Israel urged Arabs to stay in the country and continue living in peace with their Jewish neighbors, like they did under British rule. While some Arabs agree to remain in the country, most Palestinian Arabs (near 85-90%) flee to Transjordan. The Israeli Arab population comprises nearly 5% of the Israeli population in 1959 and is projected to reach 10-14% by 2009. Despite some radical Israeli Jewish fears, the Jewish demographic remains high.

List of Israeli Prime Ministers (1948 to present)

1. David Ben-Gurion, 14 May 1948- 26 January 1954 (Mapai)
2. Moshe Sharett 26 January 1954- 3 November 1955 (Mapai)
(1) David Ben-Gurion, 3 November 1955- 26 June 1963 (Mapai)
3. Levi Eshkol, 26 June 1963- 26 February 1969 (Mapai/Alignment)
4. Yigal Allon, 26 February 1969- 17 March 1969 (Mapai/Alignment)
5. Golda Meir, 17 March 1969- 3 June 1974 (Alignment)
6. Yitzhak Rabin, 3 June 1974- 20 June 1977 (Alignment)
7. Elie Wiesel, 20 June 1977- 10 October 1983 (Likud)
8. Menachem Begin, 10 October 1983- 20 October 1986 (Likud)
9. Shimon Peres, 20 October 1986- 13 July 1992 (Labour)
(6) Yitzhak Rabin, 13 July 1992- 18 June 1996 (Labour)
10. Binyamin Netenyahu, 18 June 1996- 6 July 1999 (Likud)
11. Ehud Barak, 6 July 1999- 7 March 2001 (Labour)
(7). Elie Wiesel, 7 March 2001- 4 May 2006 (Likud)
12. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, 4 May 2006 to present (Labour)
 

Joshua Ben Ari

1992: The Japanese Mandate begins reforms, finally allowing whites civil and political rights within the Mandate. The Japanese also begin plans for the eventual independence of their Mandate. They mandate, however, that the successor state grant full civil rights to all citizens, regardless of gender or race or religion.

1993: Terrorist attacks begin in the Dominion of Canada, sponsored by the ALO. Decades of warfare and strategy prompt the Israeli embassy to offer their aid to the RCMP, Canadian police and the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service (CSIS). The Canadians gratefully accept.

1994: The State of Israel is granted probationary membership into the Imperial Council. The ALO begins anti-Semitic rants against Israel and Jewish citizens/subjects in Canada, the British Mandate and the rest of British possessions.

1995: William Clinton is elected governor of Connecticut and approved of by the British Governor-General of North America. Canada begins negotiations within the Imperial Council to send RCMP and CSIS agents into the Commonwealth Mandate to capture and eventually interrogate members of the ALO.

1996: ALO members begin a series of terrorist attacks on New York City, Salt Lake City, Boston, Toronto and Montreal. Despite the British and Commonwealth attempts to prevent it, upwards of 100 people are killed in the explosions. The British begin legislating against the ALO. The Israelis begin sending military attaches to North America to help intelligence gathering on the ALO.

The ALO releases a statement to the entirety of North America, stating, “We will fight for the liberation of the United States of America from the Commie-loving traitors.”

1997: The British Mandatory government announces that in the year 2000, the Mandate will be given another vote to determine their future- to maintain themselves as a Mandate of the British Empire, to become a Dominion of the British Empire and Commonwealth or to become part of the Dominion of Canada with Canadian approval.

Syria begins militarization, preparing to attack the State of Israel. Israeli intelligence catches whiff of Syrian mobilization and begins preparing for the upcoming war.

1998: Israel invades Syria, destroying the Syrian Air Force within a matter of hours. The IDF maintains the pressure on the Syrians, pushing towards Damascus within three days. After an additional three days, the Israelis take Damascus. The provisional Syrian government agrees to a ceasefire.

1999: The Israelis begin withdrawing from Syria, leaving a provisional government in control of the country. By mid-May, the Israelis have fully withdrawn from Syria. The ALO begins plans for a…millennial celebration in Britain and North America.
 

Joshua Ben Ari

An Overview of North America After the North American War

North America has been scorched by war and intolerance. Bigotry and racial discrimination...and genocide. The failed American invasion of Canada and the British colonial possessions, as well as the genocide of more than 14 million black Americans scarred the North American continent's consciousness for generations.

Not to mention, of course, the nuclear detonations in the American cities of Philadelphia, Washington DC, Denver and the nuclear explosion outside of Atlanta, Georgia which killed tens of thousands of American citizens.

Following the American surrender in 1976, the former United States was divided into mandates under the control of the major powers- the British Empire and Commonwealth, the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan. Huge swathes of land in the American Midwest are annexed into the Dominion of Canada, allowing both for the Canadians to ensure there is never another united American state and to allow for military and civil equipment and food supplies to reach the Commonwealth Mandate for North America.

The British Mandate (comprised of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania) is headquartered in the bombed-out ruins of New York City. The state of Maine is handed over to the Canadian province of New Brunswick, while the rest of the states are placed under British military occupation and collaborators from the States.

The Soviet Mandate (comprised of North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, the Virginias, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana, is brutally suppressed with the collaborators of the Eastland presidency (those who helped the massacre of black Americans) shipped to London for their trials for crimes against Humanity. The Red Army divisions help ensure that the population will never rise up agains their Soviet rulers.

The Japanese Mandate (comprised of Hawaii, Oregon, California and Nevada) is similarly suppressed by Imperial Japanese Army troops and members of the Japanese secret police and the Intelligence agency. Blacks, Asians (particularly Japanese and Korean) and Hispanics are preferred for over white Americans for the Mandatory civil government.

The Commonwealth Mandate, independent of the British mandate, rules over Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico (as well a small strip of land between Arizona and the Gulf of California). While smaller than their British, Soviet and Japanese counterparts, the Commonwealth maintains strict guidelines for their American subjects, as well as their military personnel.

For the first twenty years, the occupying forces maintain strict "no-nonsense" relations with the Americans- refusing to "go easy" on the Americans and the various calls for a restored United States. The terrorist attacks conducted by the various American "liberation" organizations have solidified rule over the North American territories.

Recognizing the fact that they cannot remain in control of North America forever, the Mandatory powers have prepared for the inevitable end of their rule. The Commonwealth has proposed handing over their mandate to become Canadian territories or establish the Republic of Deseret pending a referendum;

the Japanese have begun enacting plans to establish the "Second California Republic", comprising of all the states in their mandate;

the British mandatory government have proposed establishing either their Mandate as an independent Dominion of the British Empire (granting self-rule but maintaining British control), continued rule as a Mandate or independence as the "United States of New England".

The Free Republic of South Carolina, the legally-recognized black State, has sworn to ensure that any independent American state on their borders is fully demilitarized or has an armed force of no larger than 100,000 soldiers. South Carolina has also granted all black survivors, spouses and their descendants the right to claim South Carolinian citizenship (similar to the Israeli Right of Return). The black government has taken precautions to ensure that the ALO, the ALA or any of the American liberation groups or Eastlanders are among the State's white population- for nearly a decade maintaining a curfew, banning the organizations and police and intelligence investigation.

North America is radically different than it was in 1970- tens of thousands killed in nuclear explosions, more than 14 million black Americans slaughtered for no other reason than their skin colour and perceived "disloyalties", the occupation of the continent by the British, Japanese, Commonwealth and Soviet armies.
 
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Joshua Ben Ari

31 December 1999, 12:58pm

The rain fell to the city like tears from eyes. Thousands of people crowded the city center, preparing for the new year. Streamers, fireworks and a party atmosphere permeated the city.

Five men stared at the city, disgust in their eyes. A box sat silently on the business building, a mere mile away from the party.

"Get it ready, boys," the leader began, "We're gonna start this party off with a BANG."

They began work on the sphere in the box, connecting wires and preparing it for its...maiden voyage. Only a minute passes before it is ready for detonation.

"Get ready, boys. We're gonna light this city up like the 4th of July!"

"10!"

The five men began setting the sphere.

"9!"

The people in the city square were screaming themselves hoarse, ready to bring on the new year.

"8!"

The men began looking at their watches, synchronizing themselves to each other.

"7!"

The police stationed in the city remained unaware of the threat in their city.

"6!"

The leader lit a cigarette and took a deep drag. He smiled slightly, looking at his comrades with approval.

"5!"

The city was alive with light and laughter.

"4!"

The men ensured their...present was ready for its debut in the city.

"3!"

They began the detonation sequence. They began the countdown, looking at each other wildly.

"2!"

The city people cheered as the clock moved closer to the new millennium

"1!"

The men watched as their watches reached only a second from a new year.

"See you in Heaven, boys."

The box exploded in a flash of light and a crash of thunder. The city was covered in a cloud of dust and pain and fire. As the cloud reached the heavens, it took a terrible form.

A mushroom cloud hovered over the city.

London was burning.

"5-4-3-2-1, let's start a fire/Burn this city from inside out till no one's left alive/And you can't feel the rhythm of your steps when you hit the street"*

* (Counting 5-4-3-2-1, Thursday)
 

zeppelin247

this is quite amazing and cool and very exciting and I am loving the super powerful British Empire but I have to think is this really at all plausible
 

Joshua Ben Ari

historybuff: thanks, man

zeppelin247: I admit, it seems...slightly....implausible. The British began reforms in India, build up industry in their colonies, got incredibly lucky during the Second World War with the Soviet Union aiding them against the French and later the Americans. Honestly, it's part implausible and part incredible amounts of luck.
 

Joshua Ben Ari

An Overview of the Empire of Japan

Opportunistic.

Realistic.

Capable.

These words have defined the Empire of Japan since the1930s with the invasion of Manchuria and Japanese involvement in the Great War, the Second Great War and the North American War. Japanese troops fought in the front lines during the British-Commonwealth-Italian invasion of French-occupied Europe, as well as seizing French colonial possessions (such as French Indochina) and ensuring the surrender of French Madagascar.

Japan’s empire stretches from Manchuria in East Asia, informal control over large parts China to the Mandate in North America. Countless millions of subjects enjoy the protection of the Emperor and the military might of the Imperial Japanese forces. The Imperial Japanese Armed Forces remain in the millions, coupled with a large Japanese birthrate and encouraged repatriation of South Americans of Japanese descent to the Empire and their colonial holdings.

Allied to the British, the Japanese have benefitted from the research and aid- atomic aid which allowed the Japanese to go nuclear in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a joint Soviet-Japanese task force which stormed the American West Coast and Hawaii and establishing a mandate over the Pacific states.

Japan has ensured its continued importance, both national and imperial. Continued Anglo-Japanese cooperation during the “New Great Game” or the Cold War, as they refer to the tensions between themselves and the Soviet Union have ensured closer relations with the British, their empire, the Commonwealth and British-allied states. Despite having an impressive nuclear arsenal, the Japanese remain distinct for being the only occupying power in North America to not have detonated a nuclear bomb.

As the decades have marched on and seeing first-hand the survivors of the Black Holocaust (and countless amounts of testimony from German, Jewish, countless other survivors of the French-led European Holocaust), the Empire began immediate reforms- granting Korea and Formosa representation in the Imperial Diet, recognizing them as legitimate subjects of the Japanese Emperor and full civil and political rights. The Empire of Japan is more along the lines of the United Kingdom and the deceased Second German Empire- the Emperor of Japan has some authority and rights for the Imperial Diet, but the Prime Minister remains the dominant authority in Imperial politics.

The Pacific has been relegated to a Japanese lake, though the Japanese remain the dominant force in the area and seems to be for the next several decades. The proposed Second California Republic, with the capital in San Francisco, will assume independence at Japan’s discretion and has already ensured that the state’s military will not exceed anymore than 10,000, their navy to be one-fourth the size of the Imperial Japanese Navy and to accept Anglo-Japanese rights to inspect military sites.

There are proposals floating around for the Empire of Japan to either become an observing member (and non-voting member) of the Imperial Council to later be granted full membership or for Japan to join the British Commonwealth. While many support these ideas, these are rejected by the Imperial Japanese government.

List of Japanese Prime Ministers, 1926 to present:

1) Tanaka Giichi (20 April 1927-2 July 1929)
2) Hamaguchi Osachi (2 July 1929-14 April 1931)
3) Wakatsuki Reijirō (14 April 1931-13 December 1931)
4) Inukai Tsuyoshi (13 December 1931-15 May 1932)
5) Takahasi Korekiyo (15 May 1932-26 May 1932)
6) Saitō Makoto (26 May 1932-8 July 1934)
7) Okada Keisuke (8 July 1934-9 March 1936)
8) Yamanashi Hanzō (9 March 1936-5 June 1939)
9) Konoe Fumimaro (5 June 1939-16 January 1940)
10) Mitsumasa Yonai (16 January 1940-18 October 1941)
11) Terauchi Hisaichi (18 October 1941-22 July 1944)
12) Yoshida Shigeru (22 July 1944-24 May 1950)
13) Ashida Hitoshi (24 May 1950-10 December 1954)
14) Hatoyama Ichirō (10 December 1954-23 December 1956)
15) Eisaku Satō (23 December 1956-9 December 1963)
16) Hayato Ikeda (9 December 1963-7 July 1969)
17) Nakasone Yasushiro (7 July 1969-18 May 1974)
18) Suzuki Zenko (18 May 1974-27 November 1982)
(17) Nakasone Yasushiro (27 November 1982-6 November 1987)
19) Toshiki Kaifu (6 November 1987-5 November 1991)
20) Hosokawa Morihiro (5 November 1991-28 April 1994)
21) Hashimoto Ryutaro (28 April 1994-30 July 1998)
22) Kan Naoto (30 July 1998-26 April 2001)
23) Fukuda Yasuo (26 April 2001-23 September 2006)
24) Aso Taro (23 September 2006-present)

Green- *Liberal Party, Blue- Navy Faction, Red- Army Faction, Black- Independent, Orange- Democratic Party, Cyan- Constitutional Democratic Party

* analogous to the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan

List of Emperors of the Empire of Japan:

Emperor Meiji (1867-1912)
Emperor Taisho (1912-1926)
Emperor Showa (1926-1989)
The current Emperor of the Empire of Japan (1989-present)
 

Joshua Ben Ari

London, 2000:

The screams of the dying shook him to his core-. The army, the police, hell even MI6 and SIS were combing the parts of destroyed London looking desperately for survivors.

They should be thankful, he thought, since the bomb was only a 5 kiloton instead of the 15 and 25 kiloton bombs used in North America.

Buckingham Palace was untouched, as was both Houses of Parliament. Big Ben stood proudly over the ruins of London, defiant until the last. The Royal Family, thankfully, had been in Balmoral when the bomb went off- and were quick to return to show strength and inspire the people of London.

Reports were coming in from nearly a quarter of the city. Casualties ranged from several hundred to several hundred thousand. MI6 began frantically trying to find those responsible and, after nearly 15 hours of continual searching, found the charred bodies of five men in a warehouse in the epicenter.

A message had been carved into the wall behind them and have survived the blast. A message that read: "We, the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, are waging a holy war against the Godless and their Colonial Allies. You will know us by our actions. London is our responsibility."

Police Constable Michael Owens stood with the members of MI6, SIS and the Metropolitan Police in the ruined quarter of London, hatred in his eyes. His whole body shook with rage, his heart pounding rapidly.

He was not alone.

An entire Empire was burning with hatred and anger and fury at the Americans.

The beating heart of an Empire was burning with rage and anger and fire.

The sun had not set on the Empire.

The sun of the Empire will remain.

They would survive. No....they WILL survive.

The upstart Americans would finally know to fear the Empire.

And the Empire knew just where to make it hurt....
 

Valdis

so where about in london was this, as the houses of parliment are fine i would assume it wasent in westminster right? Also this is currently my favorite ongoing TL!
 
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Joshua Ben Ari

Valdis, you just made me the happiest guy alive. I'm glad you're enjoying the timeline- it's incredibly fun to see my work appreciated.

Anyway, since you asked where the bomb was detonated, it was detonated in the borough of Lambeth. Since the day when the bomb went off had thin fog, which affected the explosion, it was not as big as it could have been. So there was intense damage to the City of London, it was less than it could have been.

See here: http://www.nucleardarkness.org/nuclear/nuclearexplosionsimulator/

Just put in Lambeth, London, United Kingdom with a 5kt nuclear bomb with thin fog and you'll see the image of the nuclear destruction.

Also, since you've all been such good and wonderful fans, I'll do an update late Saturday afternoon/early evening with the MAPS FOR THIS TIMELINE! :D

The maps will start in 1938 and continue in chunks, but I promise- they will show the world up to the present day.
 

Clintville

Why, exactly did the United States turn into a genocidal dictatorship? That seems to be a bit unexplained. Of course the same thing happening to France is pretty unlikely.
 

Joshua Ben Ari

Here is 1930

1930.jpeg
 

Joshua Ben Ari

Well....that turned out not like I expected. Does anyone know a good program for Macs? I'm using GIMP and it appears to not work as well as I want it to.
 
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