Peace in Our Time, Part 2: A Collaborative Timeline

[DirtyCommie]

When last we visited the world of PioT, the miscellaneous Great Powers of Earth faced a crucial turning point in the planet's history. For the first time in recorded memory, every major power had put aside their differences and joined together in an effort to ensure global peace, no matter what the cost. Communism and capitalism embrace as brothers as ailing corporatism falls by the wayside. The Third Industrial Revolution has begun to sweep, titanically, over Asia, Africa, and South America, with native leaders holding the reins. However, there continue to be dangers. 7 blocs wage an economic and espionage war for the fate of Europe. Japan and China stare each other down across the Sea of Japan, while the breakaway nations of the 1920s and '30s frantically seek sponsors, fearfully watching the great giant of East Asia. The United States, though experiencing economic rebirth, simmers with barely-concealed racial and social tensions. The Entente, longtime protector of world peace, is declining quickly, attempting to set up client states before they must flee their colonies. Either these dangers or these triumphs will craft the future.

February 3, 1952: Alexei Rykov dies of a heart attack after a long night of debating in the Politburo. Andrei Zhdanov, a puppet of the New Triumvirate (formerly the Second Quadrumvirate), takes his place as Chairman of the Central Executive Committee. The transition of power is unusually smooth, leading to rumors of Rykov's poisoning. These are soon dispelled by very pointed statements from Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

August 10, 1952: Aram Khachaturian is lauded by Sergei Kirov as the "composer for the new world". His popularity quickly rises in communist nations throughout the world.

 

[Xnyrax]

January 5, 1950--February 1, 1950: General William Slim, commander of the Armed Forces of the Federation of the Seven Sister States, is shot at during a military parade in the capital. While Slim is injured, he lives, and, after evidence emerges of the government's involvement in the assassination attempt, orders his forces to surround the palace on January 19, demanding President Ambikagiri Raichoudhury's arrest and execution for attempting to kill Slim. When the civilian guard of the palace refuses and fires upon Slim's troops, the soldiers storm the palace, massacring more than fifty people, including Raichoudhury and most other important government officials. Slim is declared by his troops to be the new King of the Seven, prompting huge revolts in the west, led by civilian police. The states surrounding the Federation close their borders on January 22 as a show of protest to Slim's impromptu coup. A civil war is beginning in the easternmost Indian state.

 

[Pragmatic Progressive]

I would participate, but need an overview again: What is the world doing?

Are any famous political figures still alive? Especially Reds: Kim Il-Sung, Erich Honecker,...?

What states are there? What wars are going on?....

 

[DirtyCommie]

I would participate, but need an overview again: What is the world doing?

Are any famous political figures still alive? Especially Reds: Kim Il-Sung, Erich Honecker,...?

What states are there? What wars are going on?....

The world is currently going through an early computer revolution and has just ended its (first) space race. Decolonization is going faster, but better, than OTL. Kim Il-Sung is definitely alive, but a very minor player in the Korean native resistance. The Balkan Federal State, comprising every Balkan state including Turkey and Trieste, is the new power in the Mediterranean, rapidly overshadowing Italy and Spain and even catching up to France. The Kingdom of Greenland is now an independent semi-communist state in personal union with Denmark, while states like Somaliland, the Imperial Federation of Indochina, Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Communist India, the Punjabi Republic, the Seven Sister States, and Afghanistan have arisen from the several wars of the 1930s and 40s. A large war in Europe has just ended with the defeat of the corporatists; Hungary has been forcibly democratized by Austria and Czechoslovakia, while Poland is now a Soviet client state. I don't have much time now, so I'll explain more later, but I hope this helps somewhat.