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Banned
This is a project I have been working on for a little while now, I’m typing with one hand so forgive any misspellings or grammar errors. Not 100% yet, and this is a rough draft. While I know Mr. Ayers didn’t form Weather Underground until 1969, that’s not the point.
POD: Richard Nixon is assassinated when a bomb planted by Bill Ayers explodes near the former Vice President in Chicago. The Republicans nominate Nelson Rockefeller in Nixon’s place. Rockefeller loses the election as Tennessee and North and South Carolina vote for George Wallace, with Humphrey picking up Virginia, Missouri, Ohio and New Jersey to win the 1968 Presidential Elections.
Major Changes:
The Vietnam War continues as it did in OTL except no invasion of Cambodia until 1971 when the Paris Armistice is signed by representatives of the United States, South Vietnam and North Vietnam. An American military presence is maintained in South Vietnam, but the numbers are reduced to about 25,000 mostly Army and Air Force personnel.
The Khmer Rouge never comes to power in Cambodia; the Cambodian Republic becomes a pro-west military police state after receiving massive aid from U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the 1970’s.
Hubert H. Humphrey loses his bid for re-election to Republican California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1972. Reagan is sworn in as the 38th President and immediately begins reversing the détente policies of his predecessor with the Soviet Union and slams the door on possible dialogue with the Peoples Republic of China. Fears of a new conflict in Vietnam arose in 1974 when Reagan ordered air strikes against North Vietnamese outposts in South Vietnam. The air strikes allowed for the Democrats to take both the House and the Senate in the November elections.
As a result of Reagan’s saber rattling, the Soviet Union and Peoples Republic of China hold the first of three summits at Pyongyang in 1975. The three summits played a vital role in the Sino-Soviet rapprochement, the other two summits were held in Beijing in 1978 and Moscow in 1980.
Following Chairman Mao’s death in 1976, the Peoples Republic came under the influence of the Gang of Four. Economic reforms never occurred.
The Democrats were split in the 1976 election between former Vice President Edmund Muskie on the left and Senator Henry Jackson on the right. Ultimately Jackson won the nomination and as a unifying gesture selected liberal Senator Walter Mondale as his running mate. The Jackson/Mondale team performed well in the Northeast and Great Lakes states and was the last Democratic ticket to carry Virginia, however Reagan/Rumsfeld easily won reelection as the GOP reclaimed the Senate.
The United States nearly found itself at war for a second time in Korea following the Axe Murder incident. Knowing the public was still weary of war, and a war against North Korea could easily provoke North Vietnam, forcing the U.S. to fight a two front war and possibly draw the ire of China, Reagan opted for a diplomatic solution.
When the Shah of Iran was forced to abdicate in 1979, Reagan ordered the CIA to encourage a military coup. A month of bloody street fighting, and an oppressive military crack down resulted in the establishment of the pro-western Republic of Iran, much to the anger of Moscow. Shortly after the Soviet Union launched an invasion if Afghanistan, creating tensions between the U.S. & Western Europe against the USSR and the Warsaw Pact.
With the Chappaquiddick Incident butterflied away, Ted Kennedy had little difficulty securing the Democratic nomination. As his running mate Kennedy selected Ohio Senator John Glenn. Vice President Donald Rumsfeld staved off a challenge by Secretary of Defense George H.W. Bush to secure the GOP nomination, and selected John Connally as his running mate. In spite of Reagan’s endorsement, Rumsfeld was crushed by Kennedy who promised a return to Camelot. Twenty years after his older brother Ted Kennedy was sworn in as the 39th President.
Ted Kennedy’s Presidency lasted a mere six months when he was shot and killed outside of the White House by Mark David Chapman during a Fourth of July celebration. Vice President Glenn, who was celebrating the holiday with the crew of the USS Iowa, was immediately flown to Washington D.C. where he was sworn into office by Chief Justice Byron White. Following his rise to the Presidency, Glenn nominated Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen as his Vice President. Bentsen was succeeded in the Senate by George H. W. Bush.
Like his predecessor Glenn sought to cool off relations with the USSR signing a treaty to limit the arms build up between the two super powers. However Glenn instead invested American currency into NASA and space exploration. The USSR unwilling to cede space to the U.S. tried to keep up. The U.S. successfully launched the largest and most advanced Space Station in 1985, the Skylab II. The Space Station remains in orbit.
Due to his popularity and success at getting the Kennedy Universal Healthcare bill passed, Glenn had little trouble defeating Phil Crane and his running mate Alexander Haig to win the election in his own right.
Grigory Romanov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, his attempts to crackdown on dissent in Eastern Europe flairs up Cold War relations, eventually leading to his removal in 1987. Romanov was succeeded by the pragmatic Nikolai Ryzhkov. Realizing the USSR could not survive while occupying Eastern Europe and continuing the Cold War, Ryzhkov began withdrawing Soviet troops out of Eastern Europe, vowing not to interfere with the domestic affairs of the Warsaw Pact. In 1988 Hungary was the first to throw off the shackles of Soviet oppression, and was joined the following year by Bulgaria, Poland, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
With the collapse of the communist regime in Hungary, Vice President Bentsen and the Glenn administration was given credit. Bentsen defeated fellow Texan George H.W. Bush, but lost his home state in the 1988 elections.
The communist government of the Peoples Republic of China collapsed when large numbers of troops defected to join the students in the Tiananmen Square Revolution. The Revolution was much better organized than the Communist government had previously thought, with democrats, socialists and reformers united together in an anti-government alliance. Revolts soon flared up all across China, resulting in the collapse of the government still led by the unpopular gang of four. Tibet declared independence in late June, and was followed by Uighuristan in mid July. The Chinese Federal Republic succeeded the Peoples Republic, and in the tradition changing capitals with governments, the capital of the new government was moved to Xi’an.
In 1990 the Communist regimes of East Germany, Romania and Albania collapsed, the following year East Germany and West Germany reunited as the Federal Republic of Germany over Soviet, British and French protests.
In 1992 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic’s ceased and was succeeded by the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics. No longer did the Soviet government espouse communist rhetoric as the USSR had adopted capitalist reforms, under the new Technocratic government. An elected Duma would assure the success of the Presidential Council, in truth the Duma is a toothless tiger.
Although President Bentsen could claim to have overseen the end of the Cold War, the United States was in an economic slump. Though Senator Bob Dole did support the US intervention in the former Yugoslav Republic, he felt the President could have handled it differently. Dole narrowly defeated Bentsen with the election being decided by Missouri.
Bob Dole’s attempt to end the Universal Health Care program led to a Democratic sweep in congress in 1994; however President Dole would soon find his attention drawn to the other side of the world. Following the death of Kim Il-sung and the rise of his son Kim Jong-Il, North Korea feeling isolated since the collapse of the Peoples Republic of China began building a nuclear processor in hopes of developing the nuclear bomb. President Dole tasked Secretary of State George H.W. Bush to negotiate with Pyongyang. Jong-Il refused the American ambassador access to North Korea, but agreed to meet him at Panmunjom. The meetings broke down with the North Korean delegation storming out. After economic sanctions were placed on North Korea, Jong-Il ordered the missile strike on Seoul and a full scale frontal assault on the DMZ.
Over 250,000 South Korean citizens were killed during the attack on Seoul, with 7,000 ROK and 900 American troops Killed in the first week of combat. President Dole addressed a joint Congress, requesting and receiving a declaration of war, the first since World War II. Secretary Bush built an impressive coalition consisting of India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, France, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Greece, the Philippines, Spain, Portugal and Iran. The coalition Air Force easily took control of the skies destroying most of the North Korean Air Force on the ground, and swatting the rest from the air. The already halted North Korean advance started a long retreat. The coalition scored a major diplomatic with the Chinese Federal Republic allowing the use of military bases for staging grounds in North Korea.
Three months after the initial North Korean breakout, the Coalition had captured Panmunjom in their rapid advance north. Isolated in what was increasingly appeared to be a lost cause, North Korean soldiers began to surrender in droves. Jong-Il committed suicide rather than risk capture by the coalition, the country was divided between hardliners wishing to fight to the end and survivors wanting to negotiate a peace. Kim Yong-nam succeeded Jong-Il and continued to prosecute the war; he was killed by the RAF fleeing Pyongyang as the Coalition forces closed in on it. Pak Pong-ju was recognized as the leader of the crumbling nation and requested a cease-fire, later officially surrendering North Korea. The Korean War was finally over, and the two Koreas united. In return for surrendering North Korea Pak Pong-ju was granted political asylum in the USSR.
In spite of the United States suffering 5,500 casualties during the 9 month campaign, the Democrats were unable to seriously threaten President Dole for the White House. Former Vice President Joe Biden lost a humiliating defeat in 1996. There were still elements of the North Korean state that refused to acknowledge surrender and continued to fight a guerilla war, eventually shifting tactics to terrorism.
Bob Dole’s second term focused on conservative domestic issues, such as the Defense of Marriage Act, Military Reforms, and Focus on the Family, Welfare Reform and the failed Anti-pornography Act. For the most part Dole’s Second term was uneventful and ho-hum.
At the dawn of the new millennium, the U.S. Presidential election was a bitter contest between Vice President Pat Buchanan and Indiana Governor Evan Bayh. Buchanan had hoped to win black votes by choosing Alan Keyes as his running mate; Bayh on the other hand selected Senator Bob Graham. In the most hateful election in American history, Buchanan painted Bayh as an immoral liberal whose policies would destroy the fabric of the family. Bayh portrayed Buchanan as a fanatical nut, who did not understand the separation of church and state. The behavior of the Republican ticket, refusing to shake hands with their Democratic opponents may have cost them the election.
President Bayh’s first term was mostly uneventful with his administration focusing mostly on education reform and Agricultural support. In 2004 he successfully defeated a Republican Senator Lamar Alexander to win a second term. Bayh’s second term saw the President issue executive order 13484 allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military, passing The Stem Cell Research bill and the Alternative Energy Act committing the U.S. to new energy sources.
In 2008 Governor Mike Huckabee won the Republican nomination against moderate Massachusetts Senator Mitt Romney, going on to defeat Vice President Bob Graham in the Presidential elections. Huckabee’s running mate Susan Collins became the first woman Vice President in history.
Alternate Olympics Locations
1968: Mexico City, Mexico
1972: Munich, West Germany
1976: Philadelphia, USA
1980: Istanbul, Turkey
1984: Seoul, South Korea
1988: Toronto, Canada
1992: Petrograd, USSR
1996: Athens, Greece
2000: Madrid, Spain
2004: Sydney, Australia
2008: New York, USA
2012: Rome, Italy
Timeline 1968-1980
1968: Cynical since the death of Nixon, NL President does not believe Montreal is ready for a team, and in spite of earlier promises grants the expansion team to Bud Selig to play in Milwaukee.
1968: Comedian Bob Hope outbids Bob Short for ownership of the Washington Senators baseball club
1969: Sharon Tate goes into labor on the night of August 8, avoiding her fate, her friends will return to her home to find the slain bodies of Steven Parent and William Garretson. Tate refused to return and moved into a secure luxury suite in LA
1969: John Lennon dissolves the Beatles after the release of Abbey Road
1969: George Harrison joins Eric Clapton, Rich Grech and Ginger Baker to form Blind Faith. Harrison’s new band would be one of the most influential and successful of the 1970’s
1969: The Chicago Cubs hold off the New York Mets to win the NL East and sweep the Atlanta Braves for their first trip to the World Series since 1945. However the Baltimore Orioles prove too much for them with the O’s winning the series in six games.
1969: Not to be discouraged from losing his bid to buy a baseball club, Bob Short buys the Seattle Pilots from the bankrupt William Daley. Short moved the team out of run down Sicks Stadium to Turnpike Field near Dallas, Texas renaming the team the Texas Rangers.
1970: Charles Manson is arrested for the murder of a Police Officer who pulled him over in California; he is sentenced to death by the gas chamber. The sentence is carried out in 1972.
1970: The Portuguese monarchy is restored after the death of Salazar with the crowning of Duarte Nuno
1970: King Hussein of Jordan is overthrown by Palestinian militants who declare Jordan as the Republic of East Palestine and a homeland to the Palestinian people. Yasser Arafat is the President of East Palestine.
1971: Qatar joins the UAE
1971: The Vietnam War ends
1971: Sharon Tate divorces Roman Polanski after she catches him in bed with another woman
1972: An 8.8 Earthquake kills 21,000 in Ankara and causes billions of dollars in damage, the Turkish government moves its capital to Istanbul (permanently in 1975)
1972: George C. Wallace is shot and killed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
1972: Bob Hope sells the Washington Senators to George Steinbrenner
1972: Whig Party USA is founded (analogue of OTL Libertarian Party) as of 2009 it is the Third Largest Party behind the Democrats and Republicans and has some representation in the Senate and House.
1972: Hassan II of Morocco is killed when his plane crashes after being accidentally shot down by its own Air Force.
1972: Roberto Clemente’s plane lands safely in Nicaragua
1972: Hogan’s Heroes is given a proper finale, with the allies liberating Stalag 13. It is revealed later in the episode both Schultz and Klink plan to settle in what will become West Germany.
1973: The United States adopts the Metric System
1973: Buffalo Bills running back is sold to the San Francisco 49ers after four mediocre seasons. In his first year in SF Simpson runs for 2,000 yards with 17 touchdowns
1973: Roberto Clemente suffers a career ending injury when he shatters his ankle sliding into home during a Pirates-Giants game in San Francisco.
1974: The Conservative Party wins the 1974 General elections in the UK
1974: Rolling Stones lead singer, Mick Jagger is found dead in his bathtub, the victim of a speedball. Surviving members of the Stones announce in a press conference the band is now dissolved
1974: John Lennon and Yoko Ono are exported to the United Kingdom after failing to obtain a Green Card. After a year apart from each other and the stress of being exported, Lennon and Ono divorced.
1974: Sharon Tate marries Jay Sebring
1975: Jimmy Hoffa is found dead in his kitchen with a gun shot wound to the head
1975: President Reagan posthumously pardons Robert E. Lee
1975: California Governor Jerry Brown is killed by Sara Jane Moore
1975: John Lennon marries May Pang in London
1975: A complicated swap is announced in Major League Baseball, the Chicago White Sox will move to Seattle (becoming the Mariners) while the Oakland A’s will move to Chicago becoming the new White Sox. It is the last time any franchise in MLB will relocate to date.
1976: The Gang of Four assumes control of Red China
1976: The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Boston Red Sox for their first ever World Series title
1977: Star Wars opens in cinemas with Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Jodie Foster as Princess Leia and Mel Gibson as Luke Skywalker.
1977: Elvis Presley is rushed to the hospital after an accidental overdose, he is listed in critical but stable condition.
1977: The Washington Senators outfielder Reggie Jackson leads the team to its first World Series victory defeating the Cincinnati Reds 4-3
1977: The Church of scientology is declared a cult by the US government and not protected by the Separation of Church and State amendment. The Churches headquarters is raided by police, and the organization is forced out of the United States. The Church was forced to move its headquarters to Pretoria, South Africa.
1978: Larry Flynt is shot and killed
1978: The US begins production of the Neutron Bomb
1978: Paolo Marella is elected Pope, taking the name Pius XIII
1979: Yoko Ono, ex-wife of former Beatle John Lennon is killed in a car crash in Tokyo
1979: Military coup establishes the Republic of Iran
1979: The USSR invades Afghanistan
1979: Ayatollah Khomeini is martyred when he is killed by the Iranian military touching off two weeks of rioting
1979: Labour under James Callaghan wins the General Election
1980: An attempt to lure a baseball team to the abandoned Oakland market fails in part thanks to a collaboration with the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco Giants both of whom were uninterested in another team in the area.
1980: The National League announces its plans to expand for the 1981 season adding teams in Toronto and Denver.
1980: Democrat Ted Kennedy defeats Republican Vice President Donald Rumsfeld for the Presidential election.
1981: Pope Pius XIII is shot and killed by Mehmet Ali Agca
1981: Eight Weeks after the Papal assassination, Polish Cardinal Karol Jozef Wojtyla is elected Pope, taking the name Pius XIV
1981: President Kennedy is shot and killed by Mark David Chapman, Chapman is himself killed when fired on by the Secret Service.
1981: Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Menachem Begin of Israel sign a Peace Treaty in Washington D.C. former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and his successor Jimmy Carter both played a crucial role in the development
1982: Edmonton Oiler fans are shocked to learn Wayne Gretzky had been traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs
1982: The Federal Republic of Canada is established
1982: The USSR invades Poland to crush Solidarity, Lech Walesa escapes to Finland and is later granted political asylum in the United States
1983: Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the UK when her Conservative Party wins the General Election
1983: At the peak of his popularity Rock Legend Michael Jackson is killed when his private jet crashes while landing in Detroit. A mechanical error was later faulted for the crash.
1983: John Hinckley attempts to gain the attention of Jodie Foster by hijacking an airplane in Baltimore, Md. His attempt ends in failure and a sentence term of ten years in prison.
1983: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is released, featuring a Wookiee army helping the Rebel Alliance overthrow the Empire
1984: Wayne Gretzky gets his revenge on his former team by leading the Toronto Maple Leafs over the Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup
1984: The state of Maryland seizes control of the Baltimore Colts through eminent domain just as Mayflower trucks were attempting to pull out of the Colts headquarters.
1984: NFL War results in an agreement where former Colts owner being forced to settle for an expansion team, however he would instead purchase the USFL’s Houston Gamblers and join the NFL, a process repeated by Ted Diethrich and his Arizona Wranglers. The Gamblers were renamed the Indianapolis Stallions and began play in the AFC Central, while the Wranglers began play in the NFC West.
Nothing is set in stone, but I wonder if anybody may have ideas or suggestions they would like to include.
POD: Richard Nixon is assassinated when a bomb planted by Bill Ayers explodes near the former Vice President in Chicago. The Republicans nominate Nelson Rockefeller in Nixon’s place. Rockefeller loses the election as Tennessee and North and South Carolina vote for George Wallace, with Humphrey picking up Virginia, Missouri, Ohio and New Jersey to win the 1968 Presidential Elections.
Major Changes:
The Vietnam War continues as it did in OTL except no invasion of Cambodia until 1971 when the Paris Armistice is signed by representatives of the United States, South Vietnam and North Vietnam. An American military presence is maintained in South Vietnam, but the numbers are reduced to about 25,000 mostly Army and Air Force personnel.
The Khmer Rouge never comes to power in Cambodia; the Cambodian Republic becomes a pro-west military police state after receiving massive aid from U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the 1970’s.
Hubert H. Humphrey loses his bid for re-election to Republican California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1972. Reagan is sworn in as the 38th President and immediately begins reversing the détente policies of his predecessor with the Soviet Union and slams the door on possible dialogue with the Peoples Republic of China. Fears of a new conflict in Vietnam arose in 1974 when Reagan ordered air strikes against North Vietnamese outposts in South Vietnam. The air strikes allowed for the Democrats to take both the House and the Senate in the November elections.
As a result of Reagan’s saber rattling, the Soviet Union and Peoples Republic of China hold the first of three summits at Pyongyang in 1975. The three summits played a vital role in the Sino-Soviet rapprochement, the other two summits were held in Beijing in 1978 and Moscow in 1980.
Following Chairman Mao’s death in 1976, the Peoples Republic came under the influence of the Gang of Four. Economic reforms never occurred.
The Democrats were split in the 1976 election between former Vice President Edmund Muskie on the left and Senator Henry Jackson on the right. Ultimately Jackson won the nomination and as a unifying gesture selected liberal Senator Walter Mondale as his running mate. The Jackson/Mondale team performed well in the Northeast and Great Lakes states and was the last Democratic ticket to carry Virginia, however Reagan/Rumsfeld easily won reelection as the GOP reclaimed the Senate.
The United States nearly found itself at war for a second time in Korea following the Axe Murder incident. Knowing the public was still weary of war, and a war against North Korea could easily provoke North Vietnam, forcing the U.S. to fight a two front war and possibly draw the ire of China, Reagan opted for a diplomatic solution.
When the Shah of Iran was forced to abdicate in 1979, Reagan ordered the CIA to encourage a military coup. A month of bloody street fighting, and an oppressive military crack down resulted in the establishment of the pro-western Republic of Iran, much to the anger of Moscow. Shortly after the Soviet Union launched an invasion if Afghanistan, creating tensions between the U.S. & Western Europe against the USSR and the Warsaw Pact.
With the Chappaquiddick Incident butterflied away, Ted Kennedy had little difficulty securing the Democratic nomination. As his running mate Kennedy selected Ohio Senator John Glenn. Vice President Donald Rumsfeld staved off a challenge by Secretary of Defense George H.W. Bush to secure the GOP nomination, and selected John Connally as his running mate. In spite of Reagan’s endorsement, Rumsfeld was crushed by Kennedy who promised a return to Camelot. Twenty years after his older brother Ted Kennedy was sworn in as the 39th President.
Ted Kennedy’s Presidency lasted a mere six months when he was shot and killed outside of the White House by Mark David Chapman during a Fourth of July celebration. Vice President Glenn, who was celebrating the holiday with the crew of the USS Iowa, was immediately flown to Washington D.C. where he was sworn into office by Chief Justice Byron White. Following his rise to the Presidency, Glenn nominated Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen as his Vice President. Bentsen was succeeded in the Senate by George H. W. Bush.
Like his predecessor Glenn sought to cool off relations with the USSR signing a treaty to limit the arms build up between the two super powers. However Glenn instead invested American currency into NASA and space exploration. The USSR unwilling to cede space to the U.S. tried to keep up. The U.S. successfully launched the largest and most advanced Space Station in 1985, the Skylab II. The Space Station remains in orbit.
Due to his popularity and success at getting the Kennedy Universal Healthcare bill passed, Glenn had little trouble defeating Phil Crane and his running mate Alexander Haig to win the election in his own right.
Grigory Romanov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, his attempts to crackdown on dissent in Eastern Europe flairs up Cold War relations, eventually leading to his removal in 1987. Romanov was succeeded by the pragmatic Nikolai Ryzhkov. Realizing the USSR could not survive while occupying Eastern Europe and continuing the Cold War, Ryzhkov began withdrawing Soviet troops out of Eastern Europe, vowing not to interfere with the domestic affairs of the Warsaw Pact. In 1988 Hungary was the first to throw off the shackles of Soviet oppression, and was joined the following year by Bulgaria, Poland, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
With the collapse of the communist regime in Hungary, Vice President Bentsen and the Glenn administration was given credit. Bentsen defeated fellow Texan George H.W. Bush, but lost his home state in the 1988 elections.
The communist government of the Peoples Republic of China collapsed when large numbers of troops defected to join the students in the Tiananmen Square Revolution. The Revolution was much better organized than the Communist government had previously thought, with democrats, socialists and reformers united together in an anti-government alliance. Revolts soon flared up all across China, resulting in the collapse of the government still led by the unpopular gang of four. Tibet declared independence in late June, and was followed by Uighuristan in mid July. The Chinese Federal Republic succeeded the Peoples Republic, and in the tradition changing capitals with governments, the capital of the new government was moved to Xi’an.
In 1990 the Communist regimes of East Germany, Romania and Albania collapsed, the following year East Germany and West Germany reunited as the Federal Republic of Germany over Soviet, British and French protests.
In 1992 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic’s ceased and was succeeded by the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics. No longer did the Soviet government espouse communist rhetoric as the USSR had adopted capitalist reforms, under the new Technocratic government. An elected Duma would assure the success of the Presidential Council, in truth the Duma is a toothless tiger.
Although President Bentsen could claim to have overseen the end of the Cold War, the United States was in an economic slump. Though Senator Bob Dole did support the US intervention in the former Yugoslav Republic, he felt the President could have handled it differently. Dole narrowly defeated Bentsen with the election being decided by Missouri.
Bob Dole’s attempt to end the Universal Health Care program led to a Democratic sweep in congress in 1994; however President Dole would soon find his attention drawn to the other side of the world. Following the death of Kim Il-sung and the rise of his son Kim Jong-Il, North Korea feeling isolated since the collapse of the Peoples Republic of China began building a nuclear processor in hopes of developing the nuclear bomb. President Dole tasked Secretary of State George H.W. Bush to negotiate with Pyongyang. Jong-Il refused the American ambassador access to North Korea, but agreed to meet him at Panmunjom. The meetings broke down with the North Korean delegation storming out. After economic sanctions were placed on North Korea, Jong-Il ordered the missile strike on Seoul and a full scale frontal assault on the DMZ.
Over 250,000 South Korean citizens were killed during the attack on Seoul, with 7,000 ROK and 900 American troops Killed in the first week of combat. President Dole addressed a joint Congress, requesting and receiving a declaration of war, the first since World War II. Secretary Bush built an impressive coalition consisting of India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, France, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Greece, the Philippines, Spain, Portugal and Iran. The coalition Air Force easily took control of the skies destroying most of the North Korean Air Force on the ground, and swatting the rest from the air. The already halted North Korean advance started a long retreat. The coalition scored a major diplomatic with the Chinese Federal Republic allowing the use of military bases for staging grounds in North Korea.
Three months after the initial North Korean breakout, the Coalition had captured Panmunjom in their rapid advance north. Isolated in what was increasingly appeared to be a lost cause, North Korean soldiers began to surrender in droves. Jong-Il committed suicide rather than risk capture by the coalition, the country was divided between hardliners wishing to fight to the end and survivors wanting to negotiate a peace. Kim Yong-nam succeeded Jong-Il and continued to prosecute the war; he was killed by the RAF fleeing Pyongyang as the Coalition forces closed in on it. Pak Pong-ju was recognized as the leader of the crumbling nation and requested a cease-fire, later officially surrendering North Korea. The Korean War was finally over, and the two Koreas united. In return for surrendering North Korea Pak Pong-ju was granted political asylum in the USSR.
In spite of the United States suffering 5,500 casualties during the 9 month campaign, the Democrats were unable to seriously threaten President Dole for the White House. Former Vice President Joe Biden lost a humiliating defeat in 1996. There were still elements of the North Korean state that refused to acknowledge surrender and continued to fight a guerilla war, eventually shifting tactics to terrorism.
Bob Dole’s second term focused on conservative domestic issues, such as the Defense of Marriage Act, Military Reforms, and Focus on the Family, Welfare Reform and the failed Anti-pornography Act. For the most part Dole’s Second term was uneventful and ho-hum.
At the dawn of the new millennium, the U.S. Presidential election was a bitter contest between Vice President Pat Buchanan and Indiana Governor Evan Bayh. Buchanan had hoped to win black votes by choosing Alan Keyes as his running mate; Bayh on the other hand selected Senator Bob Graham. In the most hateful election in American history, Buchanan painted Bayh as an immoral liberal whose policies would destroy the fabric of the family. Bayh portrayed Buchanan as a fanatical nut, who did not understand the separation of church and state. The behavior of the Republican ticket, refusing to shake hands with their Democratic opponents may have cost them the election.
President Bayh’s first term was mostly uneventful with his administration focusing mostly on education reform and Agricultural support. In 2004 he successfully defeated a Republican Senator Lamar Alexander to win a second term. Bayh’s second term saw the President issue executive order 13484 allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military, passing The Stem Cell Research bill and the Alternative Energy Act committing the U.S. to new energy sources.
In 2008 Governor Mike Huckabee won the Republican nomination against moderate Massachusetts Senator Mitt Romney, going on to defeat Vice President Bob Graham in the Presidential elections. Huckabee’s running mate Susan Collins became the first woman Vice President in history.
Alternate Olympics Locations
1968: Mexico City, Mexico
1972: Munich, West Germany
1976: Philadelphia, USA
1980: Istanbul, Turkey
1984: Seoul, South Korea
1988: Toronto, Canada
1992: Petrograd, USSR
1996: Athens, Greece
2000: Madrid, Spain
2004: Sydney, Australia
2008: New York, USA
2012: Rome, Italy
Timeline 1968-1980
1968: Cynical since the death of Nixon, NL President does not believe Montreal is ready for a team, and in spite of earlier promises grants the expansion team to Bud Selig to play in Milwaukee.
1968: Comedian Bob Hope outbids Bob Short for ownership of the Washington Senators baseball club
1969: Sharon Tate goes into labor on the night of August 8, avoiding her fate, her friends will return to her home to find the slain bodies of Steven Parent and William Garretson. Tate refused to return and moved into a secure luxury suite in LA
1969: John Lennon dissolves the Beatles after the release of Abbey Road
1969: George Harrison joins Eric Clapton, Rich Grech and Ginger Baker to form Blind Faith. Harrison’s new band would be one of the most influential and successful of the 1970’s
1969: The Chicago Cubs hold off the New York Mets to win the NL East and sweep the Atlanta Braves for their first trip to the World Series since 1945. However the Baltimore Orioles prove too much for them with the O’s winning the series in six games.
1969: Not to be discouraged from losing his bid to buy a baseball club, Bob Short buys the Seattle Pilots from the bankrupt William Daley. Short moved the team out of run down Sicks Stadium to Turnpike Field near Dallas, Texas renaming the team the Texas Rangers.
1970: Charles Manson is arrested for the murder of a Police Officer who pulled him over in California; he is sentenced to death by the gas chamber. The sentence is carried out in 1972.
1970: The Portuguese monarchy is restored after the death of Salazar with the crowning of Duarte Nuno
1970: King Hussein of Jordan is overthrown by Palestinian militants who declare Jordan as the Republic of East Palestine and a homeland to the Palestinian people. Yasser Arafat is the President of East Palestine.
1971: Qatar joins the UAE
1971: The Vietnam War ends
1971: Sharon Tate divorces Roman Polanski after she catches him in bed with another woman
1972: An 8.8 Earthquake kills 21,000 in Ankara and causes billions of dollars in damage, the Turkish government moves its capital to Istanbul (permanently in 1975)
1972: George C. Wallace is shot and killed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
1972: Bob Hope sells the Washington Senators to George Steinbrenner
1972: Whig Party USA is founded (analogue of OTL Libertarian Party) as of 2009 it is the Third Largest Party behind the Democrats and Republicans and has some representation in the Senate and House.
1972: Hassan II of Morocco is killed when his plane crashes after being accidentally shot down by its own Air Force.
1972: Roberto Clemente’s plane lands safely in Nicaragua
1972: Hogan’s Heroes is given a proper finale, with the allies liberating Stalag 13. It is revealed later in the episode both Schultz and Klink plan to settle in what will become West Germany.
1973: The United States adopts the Metric System
1973: Buffalo Bills running back is sold to the San Francisco 49ers after four mediocre seasons. In his first year in SF Simpson runs for 2,000 yards with 17 touchdowns
1973: Roberto Clemente suffers a career ending injury when he shatters his ankle sliding into home during a Pirates-Giants game in San Francisco.
1974: The Conservative Party wins the 1974 General elections in the UK
1974: Rolling Stones lead singer, Mick Jagger is found dead in his bathtub, the victim of a speedball. Surviving members of the Stones announce in a press conference the band is now dissolved
1974: John Lennon and Yoko Ono are exported to the United Kingdom after failing to obtain a Green Card. After a year apart from each other and the stress of being exported, Lennon and Ono divorced.
1974: Sharon Tate marries Jay Sebring
1975: Jimmy Hoffa is found dead in his kitchen with a gun shot wound to the head
1975: President Reagan posthumously pardons Robert E. Lee
1975: California Governor Jerry Brown is killed by Sara Jane Moore
1975: John Lennon marries May Pang in London
1975: A complicated swap is announced in Major League Baseball, the Chicago White Sox will move to Seattle (becoming the Mariners) while the Oakland A’s will move to Chicago becoming the new White Sox. It is the last time any franchise in MLB will relocate to date.
1976: The Gang of Four assumes control of Red China
1976: The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Boston Red Sox for their first ever World Series title
1977: Star Wars opens in cinemas with Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Jodie Foster as Princess Leia and Mel Gibson as Luke Skywalker.
1977: Elvis Presley is rushed to the hospital after an accidental overdose, he is listed in critical but stable condition.
1977: The Washington Senators outfielder Reggie Jackson leads the team to its first World Series victory defeating the Cincinnati Reds 4-3
1977: The Church of scientology is declared a cult by the US government and not protected by the Separation of Church and State amendment. The Churches headquarters is raided by police, and the organization is forced out of the United States. The Church was forced to move its headquarters to Pretoria, South Africa.
1978: Larry Flynt is shot and killed
1978: The US begins production of the Neutron Bomb
1978: Paolo Marella is elected Pope, taking the name Pius XIII
1979: Yoko Ono, ex-wife of former Beatle John Lennon is killed in a car crash in Tokyo
1979: Military coup establishes the Republic of Iran
1979: The USSR invades Afghanistan
1979: Ayatollah Khomeini is martyred when he is killed by the Iranian military touching off two weeks of rioting
1979: Labour under James Callaghan wins the General Election
1980: An attempt to lure a baseball team to the abandoned Oakland market fails in part thanks to a collaboration with the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco Giants both of whom were uninterested in another team in the area.
1980: The National League announces its plans to expand for the 1981 season adding teams in Toronto and Denver.
1980: Democrat Ted Kennedy defeats Republican Vice President Donald Rumsfeld for the Presidential election.
1981: Pope Pius XIII is shot and killed by Mehmet Ali Agca
1981: Eight Weeks after the Papal assassination, Polish Cardinal Karol Jozef Wojtyla is elected Pope, taking the name Pius XIV
1981: President Kennedy is shot and killed by Mark David Chapman, Chapman is himself killed when fired on by the Secret Service.
1981: Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Menachem Begin of Israel sign a Peace Treaty in Washington D.C. former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and his successor Jimmy Carter both played a crucial role in the development
1982: Edmonton Oiler fans are shocked to learn Wayne Gretzky had been traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs
1982: The Federal Republic of Canada is established
1982: The USSR invades Poland to crush Solidarity, Lech Walesa escapes to Finland and is later granted political asylum in the United States
1983: Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the UK when her Conservative Party wins the General Election
1983: At the peak of his popularity Rock Legend Michael Jackson is killed when his private jet crashes while landing in Detroit. A mechanical error was later faulted for the crash.
1983: John Hinckley attempts to gain the attention of Jodie Foster by hijacking an airplane in Baltimore, Md. His attempt ends in failure and a sentence term of ten years in prison.
1983: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is released, featuring a Wookiee army helping the Rebel Alliance overthrow the Empire
1984: Wayne Gretzky gets his revenge on his former team by leading the Toronto Maple Leafs over the Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup
1984: The state of Maryland seizes control of the Baltimore Colts through eminent domain just as Mayflower trucks were attempting to pull out of the Colts headquarters.
1984: NFL War results in an agreement where former Colts owner being forced to settle for an expansion team, however he would instead purchase the USFL’s Houston Gamblers and join the NFL, a process repeated by Ted Diethrich and his Arizona Wranglers. The Gamblers were renamed the Indianapolis Stallions and began play in the AFC Central, while the Wranglers began play in the NFC West.
Nothing is set in stone, but I wonder if anybody may have ideas or suggestions they would like to include.
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You kind of cut yourself off at the end there. I will likely have post Soviet Russia retain Belarus. I may make Russia evolve into a Fascist state where Moscow bullies the Ukraine into forcing a plebecite in the Crimea (which vote to go back to Russia) and invade/annex Northern Kazakhstan due to their wanting to unite all Russian people.