The year is 1969 and our world, once precariously balanced between two powers, Capitalist America and Soviet Russia - already on the brink of destroying the world - has inched closer to an outcome - Nuclear War - that more and more perceive to be the outcome of this stalemate that is the international scene at this point.
The cause?
China.
Once one of the staunchest allies of Soviet Russia - Communist China - or as they are calling themselves now, Maoist China, has betrayed her once strongest ally, and declared herself to be the "sole protector of the oppressed proletariat against the Great Imperialists." With this one act, the world was caught off guard. The year the Cold War turned even colder was 1960, and that year would see the new entrant to the Cold War move swiftly and decisively. When their southern neighbor, North Vietnam, asked both the Soviets and Maoists for aid, hoping to reunify their country, China responded swiftly, sending both material aid and military advisers to the nation, gaining the trust of the people and government, who in return for this massive infusion of resources, agreed to follow Maoist teachings - those of Rural Revolution, collectivization, and rapid industrialization - the teachings that allowed China to transform from a second-rate power at best to the new world power.
With their new Chinese backers, the Vietnamese reunified by 1963, with most of the 1961-1962 being the NVA rooting out the remnants of South Vietnam's government and army who continued to resist. With the war ended, the Chinese concluded a pact with the Vietnamese, ensuring mutual defense and free trade between the two nations, with China also supplying Vietnam with the industrial supplies and advisers so that they could modernize similarly to their new Chinese allies. While they were supporting the Vietnamese, the Chinese also supported a revolt in Mongolia. Mongolia was long torn between the Soviet and Chinese spheres, and this move sparked a civil war that still scars the steppes of Mongolia today, both physically and politically. The Mongolian Civil War resulted in the nation being torn in half, with the North, or "Mongolian Socialist Republic," being supported by the USSR, and the south, or "Mongolian People's Republic," being supported by the Chinese. The Mongolian Civil War ended in 1963 as a stalemate, and both Mongolian nations quickly became little more than puppets for their Soviet and Chinese benefactors.
The next nation to fall in line with the Chinese was North Korea, who had long played China and the USSR off each other to the North Koreans benefit. Seeing the meteoric rise of China, and no doubt feeling either kinship or threatened by the Chinese who had once helped them drive the UN forces from their lands. In 1965, Kim Il Sung declared that "North Korea would embrace the philosophy of Maoism, and stand in the vanguard against the bourgeois West and imperialist USSR."
The US during this period was slow to react, considering the Chinese to be simply a new threat to the USSR, a distraction that could allow it to build it's alliances and continue to rebuild and expand their markets and economies. When Saigon fell, the US finally to notice of the rising tiger that was the new Chinese superpower. US strategic assets - missiles, bases, troops - that were once almost fully concentrated in Europe were transferred to the new Asian theater, and were positioned in the US's allies in the region - South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines. In the 1964 election, the topic of China's expansion allowed for a much more competitive Republican Party, whose candidate - Barry Goldwater - lost by a small margin to the incumbent, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The Republicans still controlled the Senate, however, and they pressured the president to increase the militaries of all of the members of NATO, and assist the Japanese in building their "Self-Defense Forces."
The final act - to the present day - that confirmed Chinese entrance into the Cold War was the detonation of their own nuclear weapon, along with an announcement that they had "more than enough to equal the warheads of the Imperialists." This is considered a lie, as the Chinese nuclear program had only been around for a decade at most, and they were mostly working with stolen Russian and American tech, but nonetheless, China proved it could make nuclear weapons, and that they would also factor into the increasingly large death total, should the great powers go to war, a war that would be the last of all wars.
Basic Rules
1. Obey the OP/Co-OPs.
--1a. Don't ask for Co-OP status.
2. Please be realistic. China isn't going to launch an invasion of the US and USSR on day one.
3. Don't Godmod.
4. Don't Metagame.
5. No one-line posts. I expect at least a decent paragraph each post.
6. Decent grammar, please.
The 1969 Map
*White areas on the map are reserved for fully player-created nations.
Nations
USA - Thesda
Republic of Korea - Toishima
Cuba - Elam-Kurdistan
Republic of Indonesia - Altito Asmoro
USSR - Great Nepal
India - Alexzanabbggggggg
The Socialist Republic of Mongolia - Neo-Assyrian Empire
Estado Español - The Miaphysite Church of Coptic Archism
APPLICATION
- Code: Select all
[b]NS Name:[/b]
[b]Nation Name:[/b]
[b]Capital City:[/b]
[b]Government Type:[/b] ([url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Forms_of_government]Use this if you are in doubt.[/url])
[b]Alignment:[/b] (Warsaw Pact, China, NATO, or Non-aligned)
[b]Power Ranking:[/b] (Superpower, Nuclear Power, Regional Power)
[b]Head of State:[/b]
[b]Claimed Territory:[/b] (Provide a detailed description, or preferred, a map.)
[b]State/National Religion:[/b]
[b]Dominant Religion:[/b]
[b]Minority Religion(s):[/b]
[b]Population:[/b] (Please keep realistic...)
[b]Military Organization:[/b] (How your military is divided and ranked.)
[b]Military Size:[/b] (Anything armed and maintained under your national flag.)
[b]National Flag:[/b] (Put in a spoiler.)
[b]Primary Culture:[/b] (Primary culture/linguistic group, Only one group.)
[b]Accepted Cultures:[/b]
[b]Other Cultures:[/b]
[b]Primary Import(s):[/b]
[b]Primary Export(s):[/b]
[b]Economy:[/b]
[b]Brief (Paragraph) Description of your nation's history:[/b] (Be sure to pay attention and involve the story mentioned above!)
[b]RP Example:[/b] (Either a link to one of you previous RPs, or a good example of your RPing style.)
1969 - Do not remove. This is so I/co-OPs can find your apps.
