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Preface: THIS IS A HISTORY PROJECT
This is a history project and therefore all comments will be seen as "unanimous approval of this timeline". The following also contains some information that is not accurate and can be considered a attempt to make history slightly more interesting, despite such being completley impossible due to history being boring, historian or not. -
Potsdam, Germany
Allied leaders meet in Potsdam, Germany to discuss the fate of post-war Europe, including other issues regarding Asia. While proposals do make headway, disagreements delay any progress, due to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's demand that the USSR gets its fair share of victory spoils; he never was good at social meetings. -
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China
Mao Zedong, leader of communist movement in China, declares the People's Republic of China (PRC) after forcing the last of the Kuomintang or government and military of the Republic of China (ROC) to the outlying islands off the mainland. The PRC would be generally isolated and the ROC favored by the United States until the death of Mao. Since then, few people oppose the slave enforcing dictatorship that is China. -
Moscow, Soviet Union
U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits Moscow in a "Cultural Exchange" of sorts and meets Premier Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the USSR. Little time passed before the two politicians began to publically debate over the upsides of Capitalism and Communism. Despite the unheeding exchange of sharp comments, it would ultimately be the Soviet Union that would fail to live up to its claims. It should be mentioned that their conflicting topic was (not) focused on kitchen designs and housing prices. -
Washington D.C, United States
On August 2nd, 1964, the U.S. destroyer Maddox was supposedly attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats and later again in the Gulf of Tonkin, around Vietnam. Days later, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed by the recently elected President Lyndon B. Johnson. Despite no declaration of war being called, LBJ could then move "conventional" military forces into Southeast Asia; specifically Vietnam. -
Czechslovakia
Days after the Soviet Union had secretly decided to enforce "true" communism on Czechslovakia, thousands of Russian soldiers swarmed into the country. Resistance was brutally cut down and protestors were disregarded for. On another note, the Czech uprising gave rise to other protests in Eastern Europe or "Prague Spring". -
Iran, Tehran
In support of the Iranian Revolution, college students and militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took fifty-two Americans hostage. The crisis would continue over 444 days, with few breakthroughs in negotiations and rescue operations. It should be noted that the failure to resolve the crisis early gave republican politician Ronald Reagan an vital advantage over incumbent president Jimmy Carter during the 1980 election, much to the chagrin of modern conspiracy theories. -
New York, United States
On this date, around one million people met in Central Park in the largest protest of its kind occurred in America. The protestors themselves had gathered to speak out against nuclear technology and the never ending arms race, with the exception of the occasional "Go Mets!" posterboards; they would not be disappointed. -
Iceland, Reykjavík
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and American president Ronald Reagan meet for a summit meeting to discuss a variety of things. Talks eventually broke down at the last minute (some historians argue that Gorbachev suggested they conclude the meeting with a false declaration of war for more international publicity), but the progress made then would result in the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty the following year. -
Moscow, Russia
After must discussion and a failed attempt by hardline communist to maintain their former positions, the Soviet Union collapses into a variety of countries and Russia became a Federation under a capitalist economy. The Cold War ends.
