The Cold War RP (OOC, Open)

[Asardia]

The Cold War

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent"
-Winston Churchill

IC and World Map

Political Alliance Map

Co Ops: Derika, The Felan Federation, Dentali

The year is 1949. The Berlin Blockade, an attempt by the Soviet Union to take complete control of Berlin, has ended. Tensions are now high only four years after the most devastating war the world has ever seen, and with the USSR testing their own nuclear weapon, war is once again on the horizon. With the future of the world uncertain, it is up to you to shape how events turn out. The struggle between Capitalism and Communism has the possibility to result in the end of humanity. Every choice you make will cause ripple effects down the line.

History: The timeline for now is the same as the real world. You can make your own fictional country if you want. POINT OF DIVERSION FOR MAJOR POWERS WILL BE LIMITED TO 1945. I'll place a timeline here in order to give you a brief overview of events, and before the IC starts, we'll have a concrete plan on what changes were made to ensure things work well. This is also a reboot of an earlier cold war rp, which was made by Derika. The timeline shows both real life events and alt history events.

1911: Xinhai Revolution and collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China
1914-1918: World War One
1917-1922: Russian Revolution and subsequent Civil War
1927-1937: Chinese Civil War before Japanese Invasion
1929-1939: Great Depression
1936-1939: Spanish Civil War
1942-1946: Manhattan Project
1939-1945: World War Two
1945: First use of nuclear weapons in war
1945: Japan surrenders to the Soviet Union, ending WW2. The People's Republic of Japan is established
1945: Soviets unite Bulgaria and Romania into a single country
1946: The British create the state of Norddeutschland in their zone of occupied Germany
1946: Communists and Nationalists in China agree to a unified government
1946-ongoing: First Indochina War
1947–1949: Palestine war
1948-1949: Berlin Blockade
1949: Soviets test their own nuclear weapon

Rules:
No godmodding
Stay realistic
Only two countries in the world had nukes at this time. You can go and develop atomic bombs, but it will take years of research and other countries will catch on.
No sudden troop movements or sudden victories

Accepted Nations:

Countries
Soviet Union: Asardia
The Syndicates of France: Alta Californians (they should be communist after WW2)
United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland: Hypron
People's Republic of Japan: The Felan Federation
Yugoslavian SFR: Derika
Republic of China: Dentali
Kingdom of Sweden: The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune
United States of America: The Imperial Warglorian Empire
Norddeutschland: The Hobbesian Metaphysician
Socialist Republic of Spain: Agarntrop
Persia: The Persian State
Kingdom of Egypt and Sudan (only controls Egypt): Yaruqo
The Imperial Democratic Republic of Japan/The Imperial Ryukyu Republic: TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON
Portuguese Union: Arvenia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Aviz Portugal
Republic of Argentina: Peroniist Argentina
Italian Republic: World Anarchic Union
Federal Republic of Venezuela: United Elemental Nations
Belgian Congo: Ha Liang
Republic of Malaysia: Chinese Kaohsiung
Republic of Korea: Kamchakta
Kataas-taasang: Greater Seludong
Mexico: Normudria
Confederacy of South African Republics: Confederate American SU
Canada: Lemlar


Factions:
The African Socialist Provisional Government: The World Capitalist Confederation
Vänsterförsvar: The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune
Herrförsvar: The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune
Rising Sun Resistance: TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON
Darul Islam: Speyland
26th of July Movement: Puertollano
Malayan Communist Party and the Malaysia Royal Guard (two factions): Chinese Kaohsiung
United African Commune (faction): The World Capitalist Confederation

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Organization/faction app (to be used for new faction to counter NATO/Warsaw Pact, or a faction like the Viet Minh)

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Country Name: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Head of State/Government: Premier Joseph Stalin, and Chairman Nikolay Shvernik (Stalin holds the real power)
Type of Government: Communist one party state, and socialist republic
Capital: Moscow
Map/location (an actual map or description is fine here):

Population: 170,548,000
Faction: Warsaw Pact/Communism
History: The history of the USSR goes back to the 1917 Russian Revolution and the overthrow of the Tsar. The chaos of World War One led to the Bolsheviks taking control and signing the Treaty of Brest Litovsk. The next five years would see a brutal civil war where the Red Army led by Vladimir Lenin would eventually win in 1922. The number of casualties ranged around 7-12 million, and this would only be the beginning. Lenin would soon die, and a power struggle would result in Joseph Stalin gaining power, and keeping until his death in 1953. The next few decades would see famines and the Great Purge right before the start of World War Two. Although Stalin believed that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty would keep the USSR at peace, the Germans betrayed them in 1941. When the war ended in 1945, the Soviet Union ensured it created buffer states, such as East Germany and the Eastern Bloc. In August 1945, the Red Army invaded Manchuria, and along with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered. The Soviet Union would test the West in Berlin with a blockade that would ultimately fail, and the testing of an atomic bomb in 1948, ending the American monopoly on nuclear weapons.

[Tysoania]

Country Name: Democratic Republic of Germany (commonly known as East Germany)
Head of State/Government: President Wilhelm Pieck and the Socialist Unity Party
Type of Government: One-party state
Capital: East Berlin
Map/location:

Population: 18,300,000
Faction: Warsaw Pact
History: With the collapse of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War, Germany was occupied by the major Allied powers and divided into zones of occupation. The Soviet zone immediately saw its factories and workshops dismantled for transport to the USSR, while the Soviet authorities began devising the new political system that would run East Germany. On October 7th, 1949, the Democratic Republic of Germany was proclaimed, with the USSR surrendering its formal military control to the new East German government. Under the new constitution, a new rubber-stamp legislature also opened for the first time under the leadership of Wilhelm Pieck, President of the Republic. However, despite all the trappings of democracy and its proximity to NATO and the West, East Germany is still very much a Soviet satellite state and an outpost of Communism.

[The Felan Federation]

I got a question.

How can we make a fictional nation if everything is according to our IRL timeline?

Does that mean all nations are the same as they were 1949? Or can we make some custom nations depending on the lore that has happened?

Also. Hi.

[Asardia]

I got a question.

How can we make a fictional nation if everything is according to our IRL timeline?

Does that mean all nations are the same as they were 1949? Or can we make some custom nations depending on the lore that has happened?

Also. Hi.

Hey!

The IRL timeline is just a placeholder to allow for you to choose to either stay with it, or branch out. As you remember in the last RP, there was an issue with the timeline when it was changed. My goal is just to have everything laid out, so you can change it as you choose, and we can all agree on it and go from there.

For example, you can make a communist UK for example, or a fascist USA. Maybe if the Confederates win the Civil War. There's no hardset rules on that. Sorry for the ambiguous wording.

Country Name: Democratic Republic of Germany (commonly known as East Germany)
Head of State/Government: President Wilhelm Pieck and the Socialist Unity Party
Type of Government: One-party state
Capital: East Berlin
Map/location:

(Image)

Population: 18,300,000
Faction: Warsaw Pact
History: With the collapse of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War, Germany was occupied by the major Allied powers and divided into zones of occupation. The Soviet zone immediately saw its factories and workshops dismantled for transport to the USSR, while the Soviet authorities began devising the new political system that would run East Germany. On October 7th, 1949, the Democratic Republic of Germany was proclaimed, with the USSR surrendering its formal military control to the new East German government. Under the new constitution, a new rubber-stamp legislature also opened for the first time under the leadership of Wilhelm Pieck, President of the Republic. However, despite all the trappings of democracy and its proximity to NATO and the West, East Germany is still very much a Soviet satellite state and an outpost of Communism.

Accepted

[The Felan Federation]

I got a question.

How can we make a fictional nation if everything is according to our IRL timeline?

Does that mean all nations are the same as they were 1949? Or can we make some custom nations depending on the lore that has happened?

Also. Hi.

Hey!

The IRL timeline is just a placeholder to allow for you to choose to either stay with it, or branch out. As you remember in the last RP, there was an issue with the timeline when it was changed. My goal is just to have everything laid out, so you can change it as you choose, and we can all agree on it and go from there.

For example, you can make a communist UK for example, or a fascist USA. Maybe if the Confederates win the Civil War. There's no hardset rules on that. Sorry for the ambiguous wording.

Country Name: Democratic Republic of Germany (commonly known as East Germany)
Head of State/Government: President Wilhelm Pieck and the Socialist Unity Party
Type of Government: One-party state
Capital: East Berlin
Map/location:

(Image)

Population: 18,300,000
Faction: Warsaw Pact
History: With the collapse of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War, Germany was occupied by the major Allied powers and divided into zones of occupation. The Soviet zone immediately saw its factories and workshops dismantled for transport to the USSR, while the Soviet authorities began devising the new political system that would run East Germany. On October 7th, 1949, the Democratic Republic of Germany was proclaimed, with the USSR surrendering its formal military control to the new East German government. Under the new constitution, a new rubber-stamp legislature also opened for the first time under the leadership of Wilhelm Pieck, President of the Republic. However, despite all the trappings of democracy and its proximity to NATO and the West, East Germany is still very much a Soviet satellite state and an outpost of Communism.

Accepted

Thanks for the reminder.

Since you are USSR again. May I be communist Japan again?

EDIT: Damn. We got a lot of Commies in here.

[The Felan Federation]

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[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

Heavy WIP.

Country Name: The Peoples Confederation of America.
Head of State/Government: The Congress of Revolutionary Authority.
Type of Government: Socialism with American Characteristics.
-A government by radical socialism, anarchism, leftist religious thought, and egalitarianism. The government is centered around the congress and its speaker.
-An economic model run by unions, worker councils, workplace democracy, and syndicalism.
-A military structure, and secret police which protects the revolution, and engages in the most authoritarian aspects of the country.
Capital: Birmingham.
Map/location (an actual map or description is fine here)
Population:
Faction: Neutral, but disagrees with the Stalinism, and marxist-Leninist thought in general.
History:

[Nea Byzantia]

Tag.

[Tysoania]

EDIT: Damn. We got a lot of Commies in here.

If it helps in any way, I was planning to have East Germany try to move towards democracy and capitalism.

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

Hey!

The IRL timeline is just a placeholder to allow for you to choose to either stay with it, or branch out. As you remember in the last RP, there was an issue with the timeline when it was changed. My goal is just to have everything laid out, so you can change it as you choose, and we can all agree on it and go from there.

For example, you can make a communist UK for example, or a fascist USA. Maybe if the Confederates win the Civil War. There's no hardset rules on that. Sorry for the ambiguous wording.



Accepted

Thanks for the reminder.

Since you are USSR again. May I be communist Japan again?

EDIT: Damn. We got a lot of Commies in here.

Well, to be fair my countries policies are aimed at preserving a revolutionary form of democracy guided socialism more than Stalinism. Which a lot of people viewed in a dim light especially Yugoslavia, and their market socialist policies.

[Dentali]

Tag please reserve China

[The Felan Federation]

Thanks for the reminder.

Since you are USSR again. May I be communist Japan again?

EDIT: Damn. We got a lot of Commies in here.

Well, to be fair my countries policies are aimed at preserving a revolutionary form of democracy guided socialism more than Stalinism. Which a lot of people viewed in a dim light especially Yugoslavia, and their market socialist policies.

You do realize Birmingham is British.

And you are trying to implement American Socialism in the British Empire?

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

Well, to be fair my countries policies are aimed at preserving a revolutionary form of democracy guided socialism more than Stalinism. Which a lot of people viewed in a dim light especially Yugoslavia, and their market socialist policies.

You do realize Birmingham is British.

And you are trying to implement American Socialism in the British Empire?

Birmingham is a major industrial city in the American south...

[Alta Californians]

I'll be back in a bit, just bookmarking this page

[The Felan Federation]

You do realize Birmingham is British.

And you are trying to implement American Socialism in the British Empire?

Birmingham is a major industrial city in the American south...

Damn. That is a lot of Birminghams.

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama

It served as the center of a lot of activity for the civil rights campaign of the 1950s, and 1960s. It was a staunch beholder of jim crow laws, and one of the biggest cities post-civil war to embrace northern industrialization. So in a way a post-slavery confederacy would have to adopt industrialization to survive, and this brings with it all of the issues of class conflict, idealogues, racism, and other problems. So naturally, an alternate history Confederacy might not have a civil rights campaign so much as a revolution.

[Asardia]

Hey!

The IRL timeline is just a placeholder to allow for you to choose to either stay with it, or branch out. As you remember in the last RP, there was an issue with the timeline when it was changed. My goal is just to have everything laid out, so you can change it as you choose, and we can all agree on it and go from there.

For example, you can make a communist UK for example, or a fascist USA. Maybe if the Confederates win the Civil War. There's no hardset rules on that. Sorry for the ambiguous wording.



Accepted

Thanks for the reminder.

Since you are USSR again. May I be communist Japan again?

EDIT: Damn. We got a lot of Commies in here.

Yes you can be communist Japan

Tag please reserve China

China will be reserved

[Alta Californians]

Country Name:The Syndicates of France
Head of State/Government:Adolphe Reanoú
Type of Government: French Syndicalist Republicanism
Capital:Paris
Map/location (an actual map or description is fine here)
Located in modern-day france, with added Wallonie, andEast Switzerland
Population:32 Million people
Faction:Undecided(will decide after 2nd Congress)
History:In 1910, a Syndicalists victory in the french electon caused french Bourgoise to declare war on this nation.The traitorous leaders were arrested less than a week after the declaration of war, and the 3rd Republic surrendered. The 4th Republic was dismantled, into the 5th Republic. The 1st Congress of Socialists of France(1st Congress) Was called on November 13th,1948, ti decide the path of the nation.After it, the general Election came,where the Syndicalists won, and began the Syndicate. The Syndicalists have been in power always, except for the 4th congress period, where power was taken by the Communists.The Communists influenced pro-french Seperatists in Wallonie and Eastern switzerland, gven that these places are french.Once that happened, they made those now free nations beg for annexation, which france would do. Soon, the 7th Congress will come, and with it, a ideological battle between French Communists, who lean to the USSR, French Social Democrats, whom lean to the US, or the Syndicalists, whom wish for a 3rd path, one to unite all syndicates of the world!

[Pannerstone]

tag

trying to think about what to be

[Asardia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama

It served as the center of a lot of activity for the civil rights campaign of the 1950s, and 1960s. It was a staunch beholder of jim crow laws, and one of the biggest cities post-civil war to embrace northern industrialization. So in a way a post-slavery confederacy would have to adopt industrialization to survive, and this brings with it all of the issues of class conflict, idealogues, racism, and other problems. So naturally, an alternate history Confederacy might not have a civil rights campaign so much as a revolution.

Are the Confederates just the IRL Confederacy, or are they in control of the entire US?

Country Name:The Syndicates of France
Head of State/Government:Adolphe Reanoú
Type of Government: French Syndicalist Republicanism
Capital:Paris
Map/location (an actual map or description is fine here)
Located in modern-day france, with added Wallonie,East Switzerland,and Catalonia
Population:32 Million people
Faction:Undecided(will decide after 2nd Congress)
History:In 1910, a Syndicalists victory in the french electon caused french Bourgoise to declare war on this nation.The traitorous leaders were arrested less than a week after the declaration of war, and the 3rd Republic surrendered. The 4th Republic was dismantled, into the 5th Republic. The 1st Congress of Socialists of France(1st Congress) Was called on November 13th,1948, ti decide the path of the nation.After it, the general Election came,where the Syndicalists won, and began the Syndicate. The Syndicalists have been in power always, except for the 4th congress period, where power was taken by the Communists. Soon, the 7th Congress will come, and with it, a ideological battle between French Communists, who lean to the USSR, French Social Democrats, whom lean to the US, or the Syndicalists, whom wish for a 3rd path, one to unite all syndicates of the world!

Seems interesting. First off, is there any particular reason why France has East Switzerland, Wallonie, and Catalonia? The history doesn't seem to explain it, and I'm confused about 1910. Was there a Civil War right before WW1?

[Alta Californians]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama

It served as the center of a lot of activity for the civil rights campaign of the 1950s, and 1960s. It was a staunch beholder of jim crow laws, and one of the biggest cities post-civil war to embrace northern industrialization. So in a way a post-slavery confederacy would have to adopt industrialization to survive, and this brings with it all of the issues of class conflict, idealogues, racism, and other problems. So naturally, an alternate history Confederacy might not have a civil rights campaign so much as a revolution.

Are the Confederates just the IRL Confederacy, or are they in control of the entire US?

Country Name:The Syndicates of France
Head of State/Government:Adolphe Reanoú
Type of Government: French Syndicalist Republicanism
Capital:Paris
Map/location (an actual map or description is fine here)
Located in modern-day france, with added Wallonie,East Switzerland,and Catalonia
Population:32 Million people
Faction:Undecided(will decide after 2nd Congress)
History:In 1910, a Syndicalists victory in the french election caused french Bourgoise to declare war on this nation.The traitorous leaders were arrested less than a week after the declaration of war, and the 3rd Republic surrendered. The 4th Republic was dismantled, into the 5th Republic. The 1st Congress of Socialists of France(1st Congress) Was called on November 13th,1948, ti decide the path of the nation.After it, the general Election came,where the Syndicalists won, and began the Syndicate. The Syndicalists have been in power always, except for the 4th congress period, where power was taken by the Communists.These Communists bought Wallonie,Catalonia and East Switzerland Soon, the 7th Congress will come, and with it, a ideological battle between French Communists, who lean to the USSR, French Social Democrats, whom lean to the US, or the Syndicalists, whom wish for a 3rd path, one to unite all syndicates of the world!

Seems interesting. First off, is there any particular reason why France has East Switzerland, Wallonie, and Catalonia? The history doesn't seem to explain it, and I'm confused about 1910. Was there a Civil War right before WW1?

Yes. It shows that, but the "Civil war" was EXTREMELY SHORT, due to the Capitalist pigs leaders being arrested.
Fixed the part for Wallonie,East Switzerland, and Catalonia

[Pannerstone]

wish I had a better idea on the history of this world

[Dentali]

wish I had a better idea on the history of this world

Yea problem when you leave it that wide open is that it difficult to have a starting point

[The Felan Federation]

Kek. World is Socialist...

[Dentali]

Kek. World is Socialist...

China won’t be