cold war

Is it possible, with a PoD ideally after 1922 (the formation of the Soviet Union, though it can be as early as 1917 if the SU still eventually forms, or some similarly recognizable alternative), for the British Empire to remain the premier superpower of the Western world, and take the place of...

Consider a scenario where a general war broke out between NATO + allies and the Warsaw Pact + allies in what could be described as the 'peak' of the Cold War - the period between the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the Chernobyl disaster (1979-1986). In this period, both alliances were at...

Can India fall under a capitalist dicatator like Park Chung Hee in south korea after discontent about failure to conquer Kashmir and unify India ? is it possible modernize India in the East Asian economic model by maintaining artificially low wages and high inflation to avoid middle income trap...

Twelve years before his OTL election as president of Chile, Salvador Allende almost accomplished that exact same feat in 1958, but he lost to Jorge Alessandri (who he would eventually defeat in 1970) by a margin of less than 3%. What if he won? How different would this hypothetical presidency...

Hope and Strife; A Cold War political timeline...

諸言-Intoduction China has been a great civilization since antiquity. But with greatness comes envy. For thousands of years, China’s enemies sought to plunder and conquer. Since these enemies usually came from the North, a Great Wall was built to keep them out. But no one had expected that...

Hey all, So, as we all know, the Korean Peninsula has been divided since the late 1940s. At the beginning, the North was a Soviet client state under the presidency of Kim Il-sung, while the South was an American client state under Syngman Rhee. Both were brutal dictatorships, both were puppets...

I want to start a timeline but I don’t know when to place it, I want it To either take place in the 60s or the 80s. Both have their pros and cons and both have their own vibe to them. Hopefully by listing the pros and cons of each that you can decide for me which decade for me to place my...

This may somehow border into current politics so please keep it to a minimum. In OTL September 1991, the Philippine Senate voted not to renew the lease of the U.S. military bases in the archipelago. This was following the Mount Pinatubo eruption in June of that year in which Clark and Subic...

Right now, there are only a hand full of self-declared "Marxist-Leninist" states that remain after the end of the cold war: China, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba. This has remained the case since the end of the cold war and especially following the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, is there any...

The dictator of East Germany, Walter Ulbricht, enacted a series of reforms known as the New Economic System from 1963 onward. This program consisted, to put it in a very simplified way, of shifting investments away from heavy industry towards consumer goods and high technology, as well as...

So I thinking of a 1945/1946 divergence. Who could be a potential Reformer? Is there anyone Gorbachev or Yavlinsky style?

What it says on the tin. A red world timeline of sorts. Hope you enjoy