1982:
The Death Throes of the West
The Death Throes of the West
The year is 1982. The world has undergone major changes in recent decades. It all started in 1963, when Spain led an invasion of Gibraltar, in an effort to take what Franco claimed to be occupied land. The result was a war between Spain and the United Kingdom, having much greater implications than thought. After a year of fighting, Spain emerged victorious from the war, having annexed Gibraltar and defeated the former mighty British Empire. The United Kingdom was humiliated and felt betrayed by one of her closest allies, the United States of America, which, in an effort to not disturb NATO and its partnership with Spain and Portugal against the "Red Menace" of the Warsaw Pact, believing this to be an European affair. And it surely was.
Quickly, NATO fell apart. Most of the European countries started to reject American authority, which culminated in the 1966 London Crisis, when NATO quickly fell apart and the remnants of the Marshal Plan were discarded by the frustrated European leaders. The only exception being West Germany, which, seeing the need for a partnership with one of the strongest countries in the world, rejected European pressure. Meanwhile, Spain and Portugal increased ties with South American powers, Argentina and Brazil, resulting in the creation of a Fascist Bloc, spanning across three continents: Europe, South America and Africa, where Spain and Portugal retained most of their colonies, waging a bloody war against independence movements and rejecting UN authority. This was not the case with other major European powers, however, which, by 1975 had given independence to a great amount of their former colonies. These countries often embraced socialism to some degree which resulted in the growth of the Soviet sphere of influence in Africa and Asia. Most of the countries of North Africa had, by 1978, become satellite states to the Soviet Union, while Ethiopia, South Africa and Rhodesia became great allies of the United States of America, resulting in major fighting in Africa between those competing blocs.
Latin America had fallen, as well, to a fever of revolution. In Central America, after the successful revolution of Cuba and the subsequent defeat of US-backed Cuban troops at the notorious Bay of Pigs invasion, Che Guevara set out to spread communist revolution in Central America. Soon, most countries of Central America had experienced revolutions to the USA's dismay and the USSR's rejoice. This led to the Havana Pact, which created the Union of Central American Republics, an union of socialist countries in Central America, allied to Cuba. Guevara traveled to Africa, later, in order to spread revolution there. Inspiring change and revolt, he was captured and executed by counter-revolutionary Congolese troops and CIA agents in 1968.
However, there was a second kind of fever in South America. Argentina and Brazil both embraced fascism and became, although rivalry, allies. Swiftly, they became much stronger. In Chile, the election of Marxist President Salvador Allende left a distaste to the Argentinian and Brazilian dictators who, by 1972, and with US aid, had successfully overthrown him and replaced by Augusto Pinochet, a general who became Chile's dictator. Argentina and Brazil worked to overthrow Marxism and establish a continental fascist state, although competing against one another as to who would lead it.
In 1972, an inevitable war happened. The next phase of the Arab-Israel conflict, the Yom Kippur War had massive effects on the volatile region. Israel defeated drastically the Arab states, successfully managing to incorporate its gains in it. This event marked the beginning of the greater influence of the USSR in the Arab world. The creation of a Ba'athist State, between Iraq, Syria and Jordan, followed suit with Egypt leading most of North Africa towards the USSR. The Ba'athist State, alongside the North African states, South Yemen and Mongolia became the newest members of the Warsaw Pact. Saudi Arabia and most of the Gulf States became greater allies of the United States.
Iran, in 1979 became embroiled in a violent civil war between the Royalists of the Shah, the Fundamentalists of Khomeini and the People's Mujahideen of Iran or MEK, being set up as an alliance between socialist and communist groups. The next site for a proxy war was set up.
The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was growing in power exponentially. It had now allies across most continents, with its economy having overtaken the United States' by 1980. However, that is not to say it was completely dominant. The Afghan Civil War was ongoing with no clear winner as Leonid Brezhnev refused the full military intervention of the USSR to defend the socialist government there, instead sending equipment, weapons, financial and humanitarian aid. The Sino-Soviet split had, as well, taken massive repercussions as China had effectively created a bloc of its own under the guidance of Mao Zedong and his successors. This had come about after the victory of American forces in Vietnam and the encouragement Japan and South Korea received from this, which were soon expanding their military considerably, each preparing for war with their respective neighbour. East Asian communists had become disillusioned and disappointed with the lack of aid Hanoi had received by the USSR, blaming its fall on the Soviet Union, and had turned towards the People's Republic of China for help. Countries like Albania and North Korea, which had always favoured the PRC, more or less, became satellite states of the Chinese nation and India experienced a Maoist Revolution, the new government, still not effectively controlling all of India, allying with China. As such, the Chinese bloc was effectively created.
Now, we come to the present. There in nothing certain about where the world is headed. The only certain thing is, there will be conflict...
Hello and welcome all to 1982:The Death Throes of the West, an Alternate History RP set during the Cold War. In this RP, history has changed quite a bit since 1963. You can take control of three nations or groups and alter them in a realistic way, with the POD being, as mentioned, 1963. The general plot, as outlined by the description, will remain the same, however you can choose the fate of any country not clashing with the things detailed above. Have fun!
Rules:
1) No metagaming, godmodding etc.
2) Posts should be at the absolute minimum, a paragraph.
3) Each player is allowed up to three nations or groups.
4) You must respect the word of the OP and the Co-OP(s).
5) Have fun!
OP:World Anarchic Union
Co-OP:Sanabel, Franco-Iberie
IC: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=371502
