Here's a rough draft of my upcoming "Crazy Days" Timeline. It's set in a world where Stalin became a theocratic Nationalist extremist (and later a military dictator), and Mussolini remained a Red instead of becoming the Black shirt we know in OTL. I'm still adding many more details and events, and I'm open to suggestions or criticism (I’m especially open to suggestions for Pop-culture events, which I really need to add to complete this ATL). Anyway, without further delay I present to all of you a preview of:
Crazy Days!
1900s
1901: Teddy Roosevelt became president after William McKinley's assassination.
1903: Wright Brothers made their successful airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
1903: Henry Ford organized the Ford Motor Company.
1904: Stalin joins the Russian Army.
1905: Stalin begins his rise to prominence in the military after Russo-Japanese war.
1906: Earthquake and fire killed 500 in San Francisco.
1909: North Pole reached by American explorers.
1910s
1911: Norway's Roald Amundsen led first expedition to reach South Pole. British crew arrived a month later, but didn't survive trip back.
1914: Assassination of Austria-Hungary Archduke led to World War I. Over 60 million troops engaged, 35 million casualties, and 10 million killed.
1914: Panama Canal opened, providing a water route from Atlantic to Pacific.
1915: Jack P. Kennedy is born.
1916: Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity. He won a Nobel Prize in 1921.
1917: Bolshevik (Communist) revolution crushed in Russia.
1917: The United States entered WWI on the side of England and France.
America sent five million soldiers and suffered 320,000 casualties.
1919: Prohibition - started by 18th Amendment - confirmed by Volstead Act.
1920s
1920: Census showed that a majority of Americans lived in cities.
1920: The 19th Amendment granted women suffrage.
1920: First transcontinental air-mail route between San Francisco and New York City.
1922: Mussolini’s stages Communist takeover of the Italian government. Italian Socialist State Republics (I.S.S.R) formed.
1922-1929: Red Scare in United States.
1924: Shun Tian Jiao, formed in Szechwan, they are a nationalistic society similar to the Boxers, who fanatically support the monarchy.
1925: Wyoming elected the first woman governor.
1927: Little Falls' Charles Lindberg made first solo flight across the Atlantic.
1927: The Jazz Singer became first successful talking motion picture.
1929: Stock market collapsed, leading to the Great Depression.
1929: Stalin leads White Orthodox Revolution. Becomes head of the Orthodox Nationalist Party.
1929: Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch establishes him as Chancellor…
1929:"Declaration of Loyalty" promoted by Metropolitan Sergius and Metropolitan Peter of Krutita, as a means to insure loyalty to the Stalinist regime.
1930s
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front named Best Motion Picture at the third Academy Awards ceremony.
1930s: Drought and financial crisis caused 33 percent unemployment rates and the Gross National Product dropped by 50 percent.
1931: Robert Frost won the second of three Pulitzer Prizes in poetry.
1931: Gangster Al Capone sentenced to 11years in prison for tax evasion.
1933: Prohibition repealed by the 21st Amendment.
1936-1939: Spanish Civil War occurs. Communists seize power in Spain; Spain becomes part of the I.S.S.R.
1939: Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, starting European hostilities in what became World War II.
1939: Gone with the Wind won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture.
1940s
1940: John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath.
1941: German forces invade the I.S.S.R Italian losses in the war reached 10 million, while German losses were 15 million.
1941: The U.S. entered WWII after Japan's surprise attack at Pearl Harbor.
America sent 16 million troops and suffered two million casualties.
1943: White Orthodox Russia invaded by Nazi Germany.
1943-1948: Russian Orthodox leaders plan for the Post-war order by planning efforts to spread the Orthodox Church south into the Mediterranean, specifically to act as a counterweight to the Vatican.
1945: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 70,000 people in each Japanese city.
1946: World War II ends as Nazi Germany surrenders to the “big four”: The USA, UK, ISSR, and White Orthodox Russian Empire.
1946: Winston Churchill refers to Communist I.S.S.R as behind an "Iron Curtain" and Orthodox Russia as a “Holy Horror”, as 40-year Cold War starts.
1947: The Diary of Anne Frank published posthumously. One of the six million victims of the Holocaust, she died in a concentration camp.
1947: India, led by Mohandas Gandhi, gained independence from Britain.
1948: Tennessee Williams won his first Pulitzer for A Streetcar Named Desire.
1948- Subhas Chandra Bose leads a Communist Revolution in India, seizing control of the government.
1949: Communists defeated by Nationalists in Chinese Civil War. Pu Huan takes over as constitutional monarchy.
1950s
1950-53: The United States fought in the Korean War, contributing 5.7 million soldiers and suffering 157,000 casualties.
1951: Linus Pauling discovers the DNA molecule.
1953- Jaya Prakash Narayan, Minister of Industry, initiates the first Five-Year Plan in India.
1950s: Television invaded American homes.
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower is given the Republican nomination for the 1952 presidential race. Eisenhower is elected President.
1953: Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1953: Edmund Hillary, of New Zealand, and Tenzing Norkay, of Nepal, reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
1954: U.S. Supreme Court ruled against school segregation.
1954: Algeria becomes a hot bed of Cold War activity. The US will fund anti-terrorist forces here for the next twenty years.
1954: 22nd Amendment is passed. It limits the amount of terms a president can be elected to only two, and it increases the number of years in each presidential term to five rather than four. It also makes presidents inaugurated in November, eliminating the “lame duck” months of the presidency.
1955: Primer Palmiro Togliatti rises to power in the I.S.S.R.
1954: Dr. Jonas Salk started inoculating children against polio.
1954: I.S.S.R. began space exploration with the launching of La Revolution.
1955: W.O.R.E. admitted into the United Nations.
1955: Eisenhower dies of a heart attack. Nixon sworn in as president.
1955: Subhas Chandra Bose dies. Jana Sangh takes control of the Communist Party of India.
1956: Suez Crisis begins to turn “hot”. Nuclear War barely averted; Communists surrender control of Suez Canal.
1956: Pan-Arab Federation forms in response to I.S.S.R aggression.
1957: Nixon is elected president.
1957: COMECON (Council of Economic Mutual Assistance) formed in Rome
1958: Communist Party leader Jana Sangh begins calls for Cultural Revolution in India.
1959: Fidel Castro took power in Cuba with the aid of I.S.S.R.
1959: Thirty mile Berlin Wall built to divide North and Southern Berlin.
1960s
1960: I.S.S.R. sponsors communist uprising in Egypt.
1961: Alan Shepherd Jr. became first American in space.
1962: Jack P. Kennedy is given the Republican nomination for the 1962 presidential race. Kennedy is elected president.
1962: John Glenn became first American to orbit the earth.
1963: US signs Protection Pact with Nationalist China.
1963: Two hundred thousand people attended civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered "I Have a Dream" speech.
1963: Attempted assassination of President Jack P. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
1964: Kadhafi becomes dictator of Libya; it is revealed that the I.S.S.R sponsored his take over of the government. WORE doesn’t take kindly to this, and sends in troops to over throw the “infidel communist.” The US, China, and PAF respond in turn by sending in their own troops. World War Three begins.
1964: The Beatles debut in America via the “Ed Sullivan Show.” They become an instant sensation (despite the war), and will later go down as the most popular and influential rock group in history.
1965: ISSR occupies Turkey, parts of the Urals, and France.
1965: Vice-Primer S. Mokhenjie calls for a declaration of a "State of Emergency" after Hindu nationalist violence erupts.
1966: WORE occupies Afghanistan, Germany, and parts of Iran.
1967: Congress passed various civil rights laws. Kennedy re-elected with Barry Goldwater as vice-president.
1967: USA, PAF and China launch counter attack on WORE and ISSR. Siberia, Spain, and Greece are now occupied.
1968: Black voting rights legislation passed.
1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated. Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated.
1968: WORE government is overthrown by military as China continues its assault. The new URS (Union of Russian States) signs a armistice.
1969: Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon saying, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
1969: The ISSR begins to experience unrest, as food shortages and rioting continue to increase.
1970s
1970: Apollo 13 disaster.
1971: The Beatles break up.
1972: Communists in the ISSR are overthrown. World War Three ends.
1972: Berlin Wall taken down after collapse of Italian Communism. North and South Germany reunited after twenty years of separation.
1972: Hubert Humphrey is given the democratic nomination for the 1972 presidential race. Humphrey is elected president of the United States.
1972: Communist Regime in India collapses.
1973: Infamous Black Busing Riots begin.
1974: Return of Czar Alexander III to Russia.
1974-1978: Civil War begins in Italy when Palmiro Bertulazz’s Red Brigade attempts to overthrow the capitalist regime.
1975: Coronation of Czar Alexander III in St. Petersburg.
1977: New York Black out.
1978: Cardinal Karol Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II.
1978: Agreement made by Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin.
1979: Nuclear accident occurred at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.
1979: Mother Theresa won the Noble Peace Prize for her work in India.
1979: Shah overthrown in Iran. PAF denounces Islamists, but soon experiences the loss of several members.
1979: Saddam Hussein comes to power in Iraq.
1980s
1980: The United States boycotted the Summer Olympics Games in Moscow to protest the Orthodox regime’s failure to deal with
1981: Iran militants free 52 American hostages that had been held for 14 months in the captured U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1982: Ronald Reagan gets the Republican nomination for the 1980 presidential race. Reagan is elected President.
1982: GTC dome and Pentagon bombed by newly formed Al-Qaeda terrorist network. Twin Towers narrowly avoid flames.
1982: President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman justice, to the Supreme Court.
1982: Space shuttle Columbia made a five-day inaugural space flight.
1982: Solidarity movement outlawed by Polish parliament.
1983: Terrorist bombing killed 237 U.S. Marines in Beirut, Lebanon. Reagan denounces attack and pressures the Lebanese government to take action against terrorists.
1984: Gas leak in Bhopal, India, killed 2,000 and injured 200,000.
1985: "We Are the World" - a song to benefit relief efforts for starvation in Africa - won three Grammy awards.
1986: Space shuttle Challenger exploded 75 seconds after launch, killing seven.
1987: Reagan re-elected president in a landslide.
1990s
1990: Apartheid ended in South Africa. Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years, and elected president in 1994.
1990: Iraqi forces, under Saddam Hussein, invaded neighboring Kuwait and began Gulf War. USA becomes involved in Gulf War, defeating the Ba’ath Regime and occupying Iraq for the next nine years.
1991: Three Baltic republics declared their independence from the White Orthodox Russian Empire.
1992-1996: Yugoslavian Civil War occurs.
1992: Zell Miller gets the Democratic Party’s nomination for the 1992 presidential race. Miller is elected President of the United States.
1994: North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, liberalizing trade between Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
1995: Most drugs are legalized in the US.
1995: Quebec secedes from Canada.
1996: Zell Miller attacks Taliban-Afghanistan to deal with the re-emerging Al-Qaeda terrorist network.
1997: Miller is re-elected President of the United States.
1997: Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.
1997: Financial crisis hits Asia, prompting billion dollar IMF bailouts.
1998: All-Ireland vote approved peace plan leading to home rule a year later.
1999: Iraq occupation ends.
Crazy Days!
1900s
1901: Teddy Roosevelt became president after William McKinley's assassination.
1903: Wright Brothers made their successful airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
1903: Henry Ford organized the Ford Motor Company.
1904: Stalin joins the Russian Army.
1905: Stalin begins his rise to prominence in the military after Russo-Japanese war.
1906: Earthquake and fire killed 500 in San Francisco.
1909: North Pole reached by American explorers.
1910s
1911: Norway's Roald Amundsen led first expedition to reach South Pole. British crew arrived a month later, but didn't survive trip back.
1914: Assassination of Austria-Hungary Archduke led to World War I. Over 60 million troops engaged, 35 million casualties, and 10 million killed.
1914: Panama Canal opened, providing a water route from Atlantic to Pacific.
1915: Jack P. Kennedy is born.
1916: Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity. He won a Nobel Prize in 1921.
1917: Bolshevik (Communist) revolution crushed in Russia.
1917: The United States entered WWI on the side of England and France.
America sent five million soldiers and suffered 320,000 casualties.
1919: Prohibition - started by 18th Amendment - confirmed by Volstead Act.
1920s
1920: Census showed that a majority of Americans lived in cities.
1920: The 19th Amendment granted women suffrage.
1920: First transcontinental air-mail route between San Francisco and New York City.
1922: Mussolini’s stages Communist takeover of the Italian government. Italian Socialist State Republics (I.S.S.R) formed.
1922-1929: Red Scare in United States.
1924: Shun Tian Jiao, formed in Szechwan, they are a nationalistic society similar to the Boxers, who fanatically support the monarchy.
1925: Wyoming elected the first woman governor.
1927: Little Falls' Charles Lindberg made first solo flight across the Atlantic.
1927: The Jazz Singer became first successful talking motion picture.
1929: Stock market collapsed, leading to the Great Depression.
1929: Stalin leads White Orthodox Revolution. Becomes head of the Orthodox Nationalist Party.
1929: Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch establishes him as Chancellor…
1929:"Declaration of Loyalty" promoted by Metropolitan Sergius and Metropolitan Peter of Krutita, as a means to insure loyalty to the Stalinist regime.
1930s
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front named Best Motion Picture at the third Academy Awards ceremony.
1930s: Drought and financial crisis caused 33 percent unemployment rates and the Gross National Product dropped by 50 percent.
1931: Robert Frost won the second of three Pulitzer Prizes in poetry.
1931: Gangster Al Capone sentenced to 11years in prison for tax evasion.
1933: Prohibition repealed by the 21st Amendment.
1936-1939: Spanish Civil War occurs. Communists seize power in Spain; Spain becomes part of the I.S.S.R.
1939: Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, starting European hostilities in what became World War II.
1939: Gone with the Wind won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture.
1940s
1940: John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath.
1941: German forces invade the I.S.S.R Italian losses in the war reached 10 million, while German losses were 15 million.
1941: The U.S. entered WWII after Japan's surprise attack at Pearl Harbor.
America sent 16 million troops and suffered two million casualties.
1943: White Orthodox Russia invaded by Nazi Germany.
1943-1948: Russian Orthodox leaders plan for the Post-war order by planning efforts to spread the Orthodox Church south into the Mediterranean, specifically to act as a counterweight to the Vatican.
1945: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 70,000 people in each Japanese city.
1946: World War II ends as Nazi Germany surrenders to the “big four”: The USA, UK, ISSR, and White Orthodox Russian Empire.
1946: Winston Churchill refers to Communist I.S.S.R as behind an "Iron Curtain" and Orthodox Russia as a “Holy Horror”, as 40-year Cold War starts.
1947: The Diary of Anne Frank published posthumously. One of the six million victims of the Holocaust, she died in a concentration camp.
1947: India, led by Mohandas Gandhi, gained independence from Britain.
1948: Tennessee Williams won his first Pulitzer for A Streetcar Named Desire.
1948- Subhas Chandra Bose leads a Communist Revolution in India, seizing control of the government.
1949: Communists defeated by Nationalists in Chinese Civil War. Pu Huan takes over as constitutional monarchy.
1950s
1950-53: The United States fought in the Korean War, contributing 5.7 million soldiers and suffering 157,000 casualties.
1951: Linus Pauling discovers the DNA molecule.
1953- Jaya Prakash Narayan, Minister of Industry, initiates the first Five-Year Plan in India.
1950s: Television invaded American homes.
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower is given the Republican nomination for the 1952 presidential race. Eisenhower is elected President.
1953: Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1953: Edmund Hillary, of New Zealand, and Tenzing Norkay, of Nepal, reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
1954: U.S. Supreme Court ruled against school segregation.
1954: Algeria becomes a hot bed of Cold War activity. The US will fund anti-terrorist forces here for the next twenty years.
1954: 22nd Amendment is passed. It limits the amount of terms a president can be elected to only two, and it increases the number of years in each presidential term to five rather than four. It also makes presidents inaugurated in November, eliminating the “lame duck” months of the presidency.
1955: Primer Palmiro Togliatti rises to power in the I.S.S.R.
1954: Dr. Jonas Salk started inoculating children against polio.
1954: I.S.S.R. began space exploration with the launching of La Revolution.
1955: W.O.R.E. admitted into the United Nations.
1955: Eisenhower dies of a heart attack. Nixon sworn in as president.
1955: Subhas Chandra Bose dies. Jana Sangh takes control of the Communist Party of India.
1956: Suez Crisis begins to turn “hot”. Nuclear War barely averted; Communists surrender control of Suez Canal.
1956: Pan-Arab Federation forms in response to I.S.S.R aggression.
1957: Nixon is elected president.
1957: COMECON (Council of Economic Mutual Assistance) formed in Rome
1958: Communist Party leader Jana Sangh begins calls for Cultural Revolution in India.
1959: Fidel Castro took power in Cuba with the aid of I.S.S.R.
1959: Thirty mile Berlin Wall built to divide North and Southern Berlin.
1960s
1960: I.S.S.R. sponsors communist uprising in Egypt.
1961: Alan Shepherd Jr. became first American in space.
1962: Jack P. Kennedy is given the Republican nomination for the 1962 presidential race. Kennedy is elected president.
1962: John Glenn became first American to orbit the earth.
1963: US signs Protection Pact with Nationalist China.
1963: Two hundred thousand people attended civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered "I Have a Dream" speech.
1963: Attempted assassination of President Jack P. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
1964: Kadhafi becomes dictator of Libya; it is revealed that the I.S.S.R sponsored his take over of the government. WORE doesn’t take kindly to this, and sends in troops to over throw the “infidel communist.” The US, China, and PAF respond in turn by sending in their own troops. World War Three begins.
1964: The Beatles debut in America via the “Ed Sullivan Show.” They become an instant sensation (despite the war), and will later go down as the most popular and influential rock group in history.
1965: ISSR occupies Turkey, parts of the Urals, and France.
1965: Vice-Primer S. Mokhenjie calls for a declaration of a "State of Emergency" after Hindu nationalist violence erupts.
1966: WORE occupies Afghanistan, Germany, and parts of Iran.
1967: Congress passed various civil rights laws. Kennedy re-elected with Barry Goldwater as vice-president.
1967: USA, PAF and China launch counter attack on WORE and ISSR. Siberia, Spain, and Greece are now occupied.
1968: Black voting rights legislation passed.
1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated. Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated.
1968: WORE government is overthrown by military as China continues its assault. The new URS (Union of Russian States) signs a armistice.
1969: Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon saying, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
1969: The ISSR begins to experience unrest, as food shortages and rioting continue to increase.
1970s
1970: Apollo 13 disaster.
1971: The Beatles break up.
1972: Communists in the ISSR are overthrown. World War Three ends.
1972: Berlin Wall taken down after collapse of Italian Communism. North and South Germany reunited after twenty years of separation.
1972: Hubert Humphrey is given the democratic nomination for the 1972 presidential race. Humphrey is elected president of the United States.
1972: Communist Regime in India collapses.
1973: Infamous Black Busing Riots begin.
1974: Return of Czar Alexander III to Russia.
1974-1978: Civil War begins in Italy when Palmiro Bertulazz’s Red Brigade attempts to overthrow the capitalist regime.
1975: Coronation of Czar Alexander III in St. Petersburg.
1977: New York Black out.
1978: Cardinal Karol Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II.
1978: Agreement made by Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin.
1979: Nuclear accident occurred at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.
1979: Mother Theresa won the Noble Peace Prize for her work in India.
1979: Shah overthrown in Iran. PAF denounces Islamists, but soon experiences the loss of several members.
1979: Saddam Hussein comes to power in Iraq.
1980s
1980: The United States boycotted the Summer Olympics Games in Moscow to protest the Orthodox regime’s failure to deal with
1981: Iran militants free 52 American hostages that had been held for 14 months in the captured U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1982: Ronald Reagan gets the Republican nomination for the 1980 presidential race. Reagan is elected President.
1982: GTC dome and Pentagon bombed by newly formed Al-Qaeda terrorist network. Twin Towers narrowly avoid flames.
1982: President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman justice, to the Supreme Court.
1982: Space shuttle Columbia made a five-day inaugural space flight.
1982: Solidarity movement outlawed by Polish parliament.
1983: Terrorist bombing killed 237 U.S. Marines in Beirut, Lebanon. Reagan denounces attack and pressures the Lebanese government to take action against terrorists.
1984: Gas leak in Bhopal, India, killed 2,000 and injured 200,000.
1985: "We Are the World" - a song to benefit relief efforts for starvation in Africa - won three Grammy awards.
1986: Space shuttle Challenger exploded 75 seconds after launch, killing seven.
1987: Reagan re-elected president in a landslide.
1990s
1990: Apartheid ended in South Africa. Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years, and elected president in 1994.
1990: Iraqi forces, under Saddam Hussein, invaded neighboring Kuwait and began Gulf War. USA becomes involved in Gulf War, defeating the Ba’ath Regime and occupying Iraq for the next nine years.
1991: Three Baltic republics declared their independence from the White Orthodox Russian Empire.
1992-1996: Yugoslavian Civil War occurs.
1992: Zell Miller gets the Democratic Party’s nomination for the 1992 presidential race. Miller is elected President of the United States.
1994: North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, liberalizing trade between Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
1995: Most drugs are legalized in the US.
1995: Quebec secedes from Canada.
1996: Zell Miller attacks Taliban-Afghanistan to deal with the re-emerging Al-Qaeda terrorist network.
1997: Miller is re-elected President of the United States.
1997: Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.
1997: Financial crisis hits Asia, prompting billion dollar IMF bailouts.
1998: All-Ireland vote approved peace plan leading to home rule a year later.
1999: Iraq occupation ends.