United States wins in Vietnam

United States wins the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War deeply scared the United States from he idea that the United States could lose a War to Vietnamese Militias, After defeating Nazi Germany and The Japanese Empire in World War II was shocking to many Americans and also many Americans lost trust with the System after seeing the atrocities caused by U.S. Troops overseas. This changed the way United States looked at the World and the way they reacted. But what if the Vietnam War had played out differently, and what if the United States had won the Vietnam War.

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 * Japan is defeated by the Allies in World War II, leaving a power vacuum in Indochina. France begins to reassert its authority over Vietnam.
 * Ho Chi Minh declares an independent North Vietnam and models his declaration on the American Declaration of Independenceof 1776 in an (unsuccessful) effort to win the support of the United States.
 * After Atomic Bombs Are Dropped On Hiroshima And Nagasaki, The Japanese Offer Surrender In World War II. Russian Troops Enter Korea.
 * After Reaching The 38th Parallel Of Korea, Russian Troops Stop.
 * Syngman Rhee Makes First Public Appearance In South Korea After Years Of Exile.
 * Ho Chi Minh rejects a French proposal granting Vietnam limited self-government and the Viet Minh begins a guerrilla war against the French.
 * UN Passes American Resolution Calling For Free Elections In Korea.
 * Korean Election Day.
 * In North Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of Korea (PRK) Proclaimed.
 * The French install former emperor Bao Dai as head of state in Vietnam.
 * The People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union formally recognize the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam and both begin to supply economic and military aid to communist resistance fighters within the country.
 * Assisted by the Soviet Union and the newly Communist China, the Viet Minh step up their offensive against French outposts in Vietnam.
 * The United States, identifying the Viet Minh as a Communist threat, steps up military assistance to France for their operations against the Viet Minh.
 * In South Korea, Republic Of Korea Elections. Many Conservatives Ousted By Moderates.
 * North Korea Crosses The 38th Parallel, Invading South Korea.
 * First Blair House Meeting.
 * North Korea's Tanks Reach The Outskirts Of Seoul.
 * Truman Commits US Naval And Air Support To South Korea.
 * American Delegate Asks UN To Furnish Assistance To ROK (Republic Of Korea) To Restore International Peace.
 * General MacArthur Flies To South Korean Headquarters At Suwon.
 * With US/UN/ROK Forces Pushed Back Nearly To The End Of The Korean Peninsula, MacArthur Launches The Inchon Invasion.
 * Walker's Eighth Army Makes Contact With X Corps. MacArthur Gives OK For US Forces To Cross The 38th Parallel.
 * Syngman Rhee's Government Ceremonially Restored In Reconquered Seoul.
 * US Army Crosses 38TH Parallel Near Kaesong.
 * Wake Island Meeting
 * US Forces Occupy Pyongyang
 * MacArthur Orders His Troops Into Korea's Northernmost Provinces.
 * South Korean ROK Forces Annihilated By PRC (People's Republic Of China) Forces At Pukchin.
 * First US Vs. Communist Chinese Fighting At Unsan
 * UN Resolution Passed, Censuring North Korea For "Breach Of Peace"
 * Congressional Elections In US, Seen As A Referendum On Truman's Policy.
 * US Marines/Infantry Surrounded By Chinese Communist Forces At Chosin Reservoir.
 * Operation Thunderbolt. US/UN/ROK Forces Go Back On The Offensive.
 * UN Censures People's Republic Of China For "Aggression"
 * Operation Killer Begun.
 * Ridgway Launches Operation Ripper.
 * US/UN/ROK Forces Retake Seoul.
 * MacArthur Unilaterally Issues An Ultimatum To The People's Republic Of China.
 * Congress Endorses NATO, Sends Eisenhower To Head Unified NATO Command.
 * Operation Rugged.
 * Truman Dismisses MacArthur From Command.
 * Senate Foreign Relations Committee Investigates MacArthur's Dismissal.
 * Gen. James Van Fleet Assumes Tactical Command Of Eighth Army.
 * All-Out Communist Offensive Fails To Retake Seoul.
 * Truman Announces He Will Not Run For Reelection.
 * Truman Relieves Eisenhower Of Command So He Can Run For President.
 * Washington Authorizes Bombing Korean Power Plants On The Yalu River.
 * US Air Attack On Pyongyang.
 * Rhee Wins Another Clearly Rigged Election.
 * Eisenhower Wins Presidential Election In Landslide.
 * Eisenhower Secretly Goes To Korea On Fact-Finding Mission.
 * Eisenhower Replaces The Frustrated Van Fleet With Lt. Gen. Maxwell Taylor.
 * Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin Dies and is replaced by Nikita Khrushchev making him General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
 * Peace Treaty Signed At Panmunjom. 38th Parallel Reset As Boundary Between Communist North And Anti-Communist South. The Korean War Ends with a Victory for the United States, and South Korea. South Korea’s Invasion of North Korea is repelled and North Korea’s Invasion of South Korea is repelled.
 * South Korea (Republic of Korea) becomes a Democratic Regime and a Western Alliance Nation with ties to the United States, with U.S. Money and Investments going into South Korea making South Korea prosper making them Second World Nation.
 * North Korea (Democratic Peoples’s Republic of Korea).
 * French troops are humiliated in defeat by Viet Minh forces at Dien Bien Phu. The defeat solidifies the end of French rule in Indochina.
 * U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhowersays the fall of French Indochina to communists could create a “domino” effect in Southeast Asia. This so-called domino theoryguides U.S. thinking on Vietnam for the next decade.
 * The Geneva Accords establish North and South Vietnam with the 17th parallel as the dividing line. The agreement also stipulates that elections are to be held within two years to unify Vietnam under a single democratic government. These elections never happen.
 * North Vietnam forces begin to build a supply route through Laos and Cambodia to South Vietnam in an effort to support guerrilla attacks against Diem’s government in the south. The route becomes known as the Ho Chi Minh Trailand is greatly expanded and enhanced during the Vietnam War.
 * U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnsonbecomes president.
 * U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnsonbecomes president.
 * USS Maddoxis allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin (the attack is later disputed), leading President Johnson to call for air strikes on North Vietnamese patrol boat bases. Two U.S. aircraft are shot down and one U.S. pilot, Everett Alvarez, Jr., becomes the first U.S. airman to be taken prisoner by North Vietnam.
 * The attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin spur Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorizes the president to “take all necessary measures, including the use of armed force” against any aggressor in the conflict.
 * The Soviet Union increases its support to North Vietnam, sending aircraft, artillery, ammunition, small arms, radar, air defense systems, food and medical supplies. The Soviet Union even sent several Military Forces, Advisors and the KGB. The Soviet Union trained North Vietnamese Troops in their homeland through various Military Schools and Academies and the North Vietnamese Army even trained the Viet Cong the same exact way the Soviet Union trained them. Meanwhile, China sends several engineering troops to North Vietnam to assist in building critical defense infrastructure.
 * U.S. President Lyndon Johnson wins the Presidency over U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater.
 * U.S. President Lyndon Johnson orders the bombing of targets in North Vietnam in Operation Flaming Dart in retaliation for a Viet Cong raid at the U.S. base in the city of Pleiku and at a nearby helicopter base at Camp Holloway.
 * U.S. President Lyndon Johnson launches a three-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Operation Rolling Thunder. The same month, U.S. Marines land on beaches near Da Nang, South Vietnam as the first American combat troops to enter Vietnam.
 * Many Soviet Ships stationed at the Coast of North Vietnam.
 * In several battles in Vietnam between the United States, Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, U.S. Forces encountered several Soviet Troops and Military Advisors.
 * The United States sprays Agent orange and fire to burn the traps and hiding spots the Viet Cong has set up.
 * U.S. President Lyndon Johnson calls for 50,000 more ground troops to be sent to Vietnam, increasing the draft to 35,000 each month.
 * In Operation Starlite, some 5,500 U.S. Marines strike against the First Viet Cong Regiment in the first major ground offensive by U.S. forces in Vietnam. The six-day operation diffuses the Viet Cong regiment, although it would quickly rebuild.
 * U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam rise to 400,000.
 * American aircraft attack targets in Hanoi and Haiphong in raids that are among the first such attacks on cities in North Vietnam.
 * Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Cambodia, Laos and The Philippines sent Military Forces and Aid to South Vietnam to support the United States and South Vietnam fighting the Viet Cong, North Vietnam, China, North Korea and the Soviet Union.
 * U.S. troop numbers stationed in Vietnam increase to 500,000.
 * U.S. aircraft bomb Haiphong Harbor and North Vietnamese airfields.
 * U.S. President Lyndon Johnson sends 700,000 more U.S. Forces into South Vietnam.
 * The United States establishes a more better and stabilized Capitalist Government in South Vietnam.
 * The Tet Offensivebegins, encompassing a combined assault of Viet Minh and North Vietnamese armies. Attacks are carried out in more than 100 cities and outposts across South Vietnam, including Hue and Saigon, and the U.S. is better prepared.
 * Battles at Hue and Saigon end with American and ARVN victory as Viet Cong guerillas are cleared from the cities.
 * The U.S. decided to keep their Bases and Command Posts and HQ in the Cities because they have better support in the Cities. The Viet Cong regrouped and stayed in the Farm Villages in the Jungles since they were being fed and aided by the Farm Villagers in South Vietnam, and they were supplied by the North Vietnamese Army and Soviet Forces and Supplies from the Chinese Forces stationed in North Vietnam.
 * U.S. President Lyndon Johnson has the U.S. Supreme Court vote in favor of stopping the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War from being published on the Newspapers and not televising the Battles.
 * Because the United States and it’s allies keep their Bases in the Cities, and because the SCOTUS voted to stop the Pentagon Papers on the War from being Published, The Battles aren’t televised, because of this, the American People back home don’t see the atrocities happening live on TV.
 * U.S., Thailand, The Philippines Australia, New Zealand, Khmer Republic and  South Vietnam crushed the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia after the Soviet Union bombed a U.S. Air Base in Cambodia. After that South Vietnam and United States invades Laos and destroys the Laotian Pathet.
 * The United States launches a Successful air assault on the Ho Chih Minh Trail, destroying and Shutting off the Trail, stopping the Viet Cong from entering South Vietnam.
 * After the destruction of the Ho Chih Minh Trail, U.S. Forces began to savage and burn the Villages and the Farms throughout the Countryside of South Vietnam.
 * U.S. Forces supplied and rationed the Farmers and Villagers in South Vietnam, giving them enough Supplies  and Food to feed and support themselves and not the Viet Cong, causing them to weaken and starve. This caused the Viet Cong to come out looking for Supplies and Food.
 * U.S. Troops learn about the whereabouts of all Viet Cong Hideout in South Vietnam, after that U.S. Troops began to bomb the Rice Patties causing it to flood and flush out the Viet Cong Hidden Hideouts, while spraying Agent orange and fire to burn the traps and hiding spots the Viet Cong has set up.
 * U.S, Australian, New Zealander, Thai, Japanese, South Korean, Philippino, Cambodian, Laotian, and South Vietnamese Forces wipeout all Viet Cong Guerrillas in South Vietnam.
 * The United States and South Vietnam launches a Massive and Successful Bombing Campaign over North Vietnam, destroying all Chinese Bases, Soviet Ships, North Vietnamese Army Bases, Cities in North Vietnam, aircraft, artillery, ammunition, small arms, radar, air defense systems, food and medical supplies coming from North Korea, China and the Soviet Union, and all Viet Cong locations.
 * Following the Successful bombing raid over North Vietnam, the Viet Cong dissolves. Because that North Vietnam ends their Guerrilla Campaign in the Vietnam War and continues to fight the Vietnam War using a Conventional Warfare Campaign.
 * The Hippie Movement still forms and protests against the Vietnam War, but because of the successful accomplishments in the War, Hippies aren’t able to expand their peace protests and this prevents the protests from occurring especially since the War is made less bloody during their victories while being televised and not scaring the American People watching the War televised LIVE back home.
 * U.S. President Lyndon Johnson wins a Second Term defeating U.S. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and U.S. Governor George Wallace.
 * U.S. President Lyndon Johnson visits China and the Soviet Union and persuades them isolate North Vietnam and withdraw from the War.
 * After successful negotiations China, Soviet Union and North Korea withdraws all Forces and support from North Vietnam, isolating North Vietnam.
 * The United States and South Vietnam crushes all North Vietnamese Army Forces forcing them to retreat back into North Vietnam.
 * After North Vietnam retreats from South Vietnam, the North Vietnamese Leaders call for a Ceasefire and Negotiate for Peace.
 * U.S. President Barry Goldwater, & all leaders of South Vietnam and North Vietnam all Meet in Saigon, South Vietnam. The Treaty of Saigon is signed after that, The Vietnam War ends with a Victory for the United States, and South Vietnam. South Vietnam’s Invasion of North Vietnam is repelled and North Vietnam’s Invasion of South Vietnam is repelled.
 * South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) becomes a Democratic Regime and a Western Alliance Nation with ties to the United States, with U.S. Money and Investments going into South Vietnam making South Vietnam prosper making them Second World Nation.
 * North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam but soon becomes the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) remains a Communist Regime.
 * United States, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Japan, South Korea, and The Philippines withdraws from South Vietnam. U.S. Troops return back home to a Cheering Chanting Crowd because the United States had won the Vietnam War as the American People view the War as a Massive Victory.
 * Hippies still exist to the present but later they fade away for not gaining the political remembrance for failing to expand their protests for peace.
 * Many more people began to trust the U.S. Government even more despite any scandals politicians might causer get themselves into.
 * After the United States won The Korean War and The Vietnam War, The United States becomes so enthusiastic about their Victories and become more motivated to fight more Wars in other Nations around the world believing it would lead to a U.S. Victory because it worked in Korea and Vietnam.
 * Siad Barreoverthrows the government of Somaliain a bloodless coup. He declares himself President of Somaliaand reorganizes the country into a one-partycommunist state, the Somali Democratic Republic.
 * The Hippie Movement dissolves and becomes a dissolved movement like the Flappers and Beatniks, since they didn’t get the Political Remembrance for trying to end the Vietnam War, since the United States had won.
 * Former U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon (R) Wins the Presidency over U.S. Senator George McGovern (D).
 * Former U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States of America.
 * U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns and is replaced by U.S. Congressman Gerald Ford, after U.S. Senate Approval from U.S. President Richard Nixon.
 * U.S. President Richard Nixon resigns due to the Watergate Scandal while an Impeachment takes place. Following the Resignation of Richard Nixon, U.S. Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States making Nelson Rockefeller Vice President. U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons Former President Richard Nixon.
 * More of the American People trust the U.S. Government in higher numbers despite any Political Scandals.
 * U.S. President Gerald Ford pulls a Victory U.S. Governor Ronald Reagan scored a huge upset at the Republican National Convention.
 * U.S. President Gerald Ford chose U.S. Senator Bob Dole as his running mate.
 * U.S. Governor Jimmy Carter Wins the Democratic Nomination with U.S. Senator Walter Mondale as his running mate.
 * Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter defeated Republican nominee Ronald Reagan.
 * Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States.
 * Western Somali Liberation Front(WSLF) operating in the Somali-inhabited Ogaden area, which by late 1975 had struck numerous government outposts. From 1976 to 1977, Somalia supplied arms and other aid to the WSLF.
 * Mengistu accused Somalia of infiltrating SNA soldiers into the Somali area to fight alongside the WSLF. Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, Barrestrongly denied this, saying SNA "volunteers" were being allowed to help the WSLF.
 * The Soviet Union and Cuba began their military intervention in Ethiopia, aiding Ethiopia.
 * The Soviet Uniondisapproved of the invasion and ceased its support of Somalia, instead starting to support Ethiopia; the United States, conversely, ceased its support of Ethiopia and started supporting Somalia. Ethiopia was saved from a major defeat and a permanent loss of territory through a massive airliftof military supplies (worth $7 billion), the arrival of 16,000 Cuban troops, 1,500 Soviet advisors and two brigades from South Yemen, also airlifted to reinforceHarar.
 * U.S. President Jimmy Carter sends U.S. Forces into Somalia and Ethiopia to assist Somalia, WSLF, Israel, and West Germany, after Congressional Approval.
 * The United States, West Germany, and Israel sent Forces into Somalia and Ethiopia.
 * The United States, West Germany, Israel, Somalia, and the WSLF prevailed at Harar, Dire Dawa and Jijiga, and began to push the Ethiopian Troops, Cuban Troops, and Soviet Forces systematically further into Ethiopia.
 * The United States had captured Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, prompting the defeated Cuba and Soviet Union to give up their claim to the region, and withdraw. A third of the initial Soviet, Cuban, and Ethiopian National ArmyDefense force was killed, and half of the Cuban and Soviet Airforce destroyed. Cuba and the Soviet Union withdraws from Ethiopia. The United States, WSLF and Somalia defeats Ethiopia and overthrows the Communist Regime in Ethiopia.
 * The Ogaden Warends with Ethiopia becoming a Democratic Capitalist Regime established by the United States. Ethiopia becomes a Western backed Nation.
 * Somaliabreaks all ties with the Soviet Unionand the Warsaw Pact and every single Communist and Socialist Nation all around the World. The U.S. Victory in The Ogaden War prevents the Somali Rebellion from happening. Somalia never has a Revolution, Rebellion and the Pirates never form or rise in Somalia. Somalia trades with NATO, United States and the west. Somalia and Ethiopia both become allies of the United States and NATO becoming Western Backed Nations with all ties to the West, protecting the Horn of Africa.
 * After Korea, Vietnam, and Ethiopia, Most Communist Nations including the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact understands the Insanity of invading a Non Communist Nation with fear of the United States retaliating Militarily. Many Conflicts are averted.
 * Spain, Finland, Austria, Ireland, Sweden, Jordan, Israel, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Columbia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, South Korea, South Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Angola all joins NATO, this leads to an expansion of U.S. and NATO allies believing having the United States and NATO as allies would be a great idea because the United States and NATO would protect them from all Communist Nations that might want to try and hurt them.
 * The Expansion of U.S. and NATO Allies terrifies the Soviet Union, because Communism to them is important and is shrinking and therefore the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact act more Irrational.
 * Since the Soviet Union’s Allies and possible allies are in the America’s or Africa, and Because the Oceans are inassessable to the Soviet Union directly because the Oceans are controlled by the United States Military, The Soviet Union heavily invest in Cuba by giving them Money, Weapons, and Supplies, getting Cuba involved in any War or Conflict in the America’s and Africa.
 * President of AfghanistanSardar Mohammed Daoud's government is overthrown when he is murdered in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
 * The Iranian Revolutionousts the pro-Western Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and installs a theocracyunder Grand AyatollahRuhollah Khomeini. CENTO dissolves as a result.
 * U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, sign the SALT IIagreement, outlining limitations and guidelines for nuclear weapons.
 * President Carter signs the first directive for financial aid to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul, Afghanistan.
 * Saddam Husseinbecomes President of Iraqafter Ahmed Hassan al-Bakrsteps down.
 * Islamist Iranian students take over the American embassy in support of the Iranian Revolution. The Iran hostage crisislasts until January 20, 1981.
 * The Soviet Union invades Afghanistanto oust Hafizullah Amin, beginning the Soviet-Afghan Warand resulting in the end of Détente.
 * The High Intrest Rates and Inflation and Gas Shortages worsen with the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
 * The United States and its allies boycottthe 1980 Summer Olympics(July 19-August 3) in Moscow.
 * Iranian Embassy in Londonis taken over by DRFLAmilitants starting a 6 day long hostage situation.
 * U.S. Governor Ronald Reagan (R) is elected President against U.S. President Jimmy Carter (D), Independent U.S. Congressman John Anderson, and Libertarian Ed Clark.
 * The Republicans regained control of the U.S. Senate. The Democrats retained control of the U.S. House of Representatives
 * Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States. Iranian hostage crisis ended, The Iranian hostage crisis ended 444 days after it began.
 * U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the House Democrats and Senate Republicans cut Taxes and Regulations, Shrunk the U.S. Government by a small margin, Increased Military Spending heavily enhancing the U.S. Military, and gave speeches on Faith and Morality, also creates new jobs drills oil from the United States and triples Ford’s Deficits, and barrows Money from other nations around the World. Interest Rates decreases and the Inflation ends.
 * U.S. President Reagan signs the first directive for financial aid to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul, Afghanistan.
 * The U.S., U.K., Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Jordan begins to support the Mujahidin in the Soviet War in Afghanistan.
 * U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the "Caribbean Basin Initiative" to prevent the overthrow of governments in the region by the forces of communism.
 * Argentinainvades the Falkland Islands, starting the Falklands War. Cuba supported by the Soviet Union enters the war on Argentina’s Side. United States and Brazil enters the War on Great Britain’s Side.
 * Israel invades Lebanon to end raids and clashes with Syrian troops based there. Cuba supported by the Soviet Union enters the war. United States enters the war on Israel’s Side.
 * Falkland Islands liberated by British task force. End of the Falklands War. Cuba withdraws from Argentina
 * Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev.
 * Yuri Andropov becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
 * In speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
 * Ronald Reagan proposes the Strategic Defense Initiative(SDI, or "Star Wars").
 * Civilian Korean Air Lines Flight 007, with 269 passengers, including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald, is shot down by Soviet interceptor aircraft.
 * The U.S.S.R. nuclear early warning system reports launch of multiple U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles. Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, correctly identifies them as false alarms. This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack based on erroneous data on the United States and its NATO allies, which likely would have resulted in nuclear war and the deaths of hundreds of millions of people.
 * U.S. President Ronald Reagan has the U.S. Congress vote on Strategic Defense Initiative(SDI, or "Star Wars").
 * The U.S. House of Representatives votes on Strategic Defense Initiative(SDI, or "Star Wars") and it passes.
 * The U.S. Senate votes on Strategic Defense Initiative(SDI, or "Star Wars") and it passes.
 * U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs Strategic Defense Initiative(SDI, or "Star Wars") into law implementing it and the development begins.
 * Strategic Defense Initiative(SDI, or "Star Wars") is completed and becomes fully operational. A wide array of advanced weapon concepts, including lasers, particle beam weaponsand ground- and space-based missilesystems were studied, along with various sensor, command and control, and high-performance computersystems that would be needed to control a system consisting of hundreds of combat centers and satellites spanning the entire globe and involved in a battle that would last only minutes. A number of these concepts were tested.
 * Strategic Defense Initiative(SDI, or "Star Wars") are set up on Earth.
 * U.S. President Ronald Reagan warns the World take fire upon the United States if you dare and that they put them down for good.
 * The Soviet Union and Cuba tried to develop their own SDI but failed and nothing made a difference. The United States won the most Powerful Weapon of all Time had been made.
 * U.S. forces invadethe Caribbean island of Grenada in an attempt to overthrow the Communist government, expel Cuban troops, and abort the construction of a Soviet-funded airstrip.
 * Yuri Andropov dies. Konstantin Chernenkois named General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
 * Various allies of the Soviet Union boycottthe 1984 Summer Olympics(July 28 - August 12) in Los Angeles.
 * During a microphone sound check for his weekly radio address, U.S. President Ronald Reagan jokes about bombing the Soviet Union. "My fellow Americans," Reagan says. "I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." The quip is not aired but is leaked to the press. The Soviet Union temporarily puts its defense forces on high alert.
 * U.S. President Ronald Reagan (R) is re-elected defeated Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale (D).
 * Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the New General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
 * Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at a summitin Geneva, Switzerland, where they agree to two (later three) more summits.
 * Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev announces political reforms in the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact introducing Glasnost (Openess) and Peristroika (Restructing).
 * Mikhail Gorbachevproposes a 15 year timetable for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
 * U.S. planes bomb Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon.
 * Chernobyl disaster: A Soviet nuclear power plant in the Ukraine explodes, resulting in the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.
 * U.S. President Ronald Reaganadmits to a secret arms deal with Iran.
 * It is admitted that money from arms sales to Iran was illegally passed to Contras.
 * Democrats retained control of the House of Representatives. The Democrats regained the Senate.
 * Natives within the Party who oppose his policies of economic redevelopment (Perestroika). It is Gorbachev's hope that through initiatives of openness, debate and participation, that the Soviet people will support Perestroika.
 * The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treatyis signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Some later claim this was the official end of the Cold War. Gorbachev agrees to START Itreaty.
 * Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, a supporter of Glasnost and Perestroika reforms, visits East Berlin. During his return flight, the hard-line Communist leadershipstages a coup that deposes Gorbachev and installs Soviet General Vladimir Soshkin as the new Soviet leader. The Soviet government announces that Gorbachev resigned for "reasons of ill health," but his true fate is "lost in the darkness of history."
 * Soshkin and the hard-liners fiercely resist the rise of glasnostand perestroika. They are determined to end the uprisings in East Germany and the rest of the Eastern Blocwith a swift Chinese-style military crackdownin late October.
 * In late November, a demonstration in Leipzigis brutally repressed by the East German Armyat great loss of life. Two days later, a demonstration at the Brandenburg Gateends with East German soldiers killing many East Berlin residents trying to scale the Berlin Walland a West German cameraman filming the events. Those soldiers also fire shots over the wall into West Berlin. Soon after, the East German government responds to the international condemnation of their conduct by ordering all foreign journalists out of the country.
 * In mid-December, NATOairlifts military reinforcements to West Berlin. Soon after, Secretary of StateJames Bakerarrives in West Berlin to secretly meet with General Dmitry Leonov, the Soviet commander in East Germany, who strongly opposes Soshkin's crackdown. However, on the way to the meeting, Leonov is killed by a car bomb, for which a West German neo-Nazigroup claims responsibility. After an interview with West German TV in which Soshkin implicitly threatens West Berlin, an American colonel orders that tactical nuclear weaponsin West Germany be placed on high alert it shows scenes of what appears to be a Pershing 1a or 2 being prepared. Soshkin responds with new threats, a massive deployment of the Soviet submarine fleet, and incursions of Soviet Bear bombersinto Alaskanairspace.
 * On March 12, Soshkin orders a full-scale amphibious landingnear Kielon the Baltic coast. The landings catch NATO off-guard, and they scramble forces northward to push back the beachhead. The next day, Warsaw Pactground forces drive through the Fulda Gap, with orders to push to the Rhineto divide the stretched out NATO armies. Meanwhile, the Soviet Air Force bombards Ramstein Air Baseand other NATO bases in Germany. The goal is to cripple the NATO buildup with a swift strike and then press for a new round of diplomatic bargaining from a stronger strategic position. NATO forces, faced with superior numbers and surprise, are pushed back, though they are able to inflict significant losses on the Warsaw Pact forces. By March 17, Warsaw Pact forces have advanced 50 miles into West Germany.
 * While preparing to launch a tactical nuclearcounter-assault, NATO authorizes a last-ditch conventional air campaign, Operation Bloody Nose, launched 24 hours before the nuclear strikes were to begin. It is an overwhelming success: the initial strikes cripple Warsaw Pact command and controlposts, throwing their armies in the field into chaos, and in the ensuing air battle, NATO inflicts devastating losses on the Soviet Air Force (which had already lost 20% of the aircraft supporting the initial offensives), gaining air supremacyover Eastern European airspace. Combined with assistance from the Polish undergroundthat cuts off Soviet supply lines, the tide of the war turns. With their numerical superiority negated by the Western technological superiority, the East German and Soviet armies melt under NATO air strikes, and NATO forces cross into East Germany on March 23.
 * NATO forces reach and liberate West Berlin on March 27. The American leadership tries to reassure Soshkin that NATO has no intention to press their advance beyond East Germany. However, open revolt erupts across the Eastern Blocas citizens of communist nations, and ethnic minorities within the Soviet Union, press for the overthrow of their own leaders, emboldened by the collapse of the GDR and the fact that the Soviets are obviously losing the war. Soshkin's paranoia and desperation rises swiftly as the entire Eastern Bloc falls apart around him, and while NATO has no intention of actually doing so, Soshkin quickly becomes convinced that they will try to exploit the situation and fight all the way to Moscow.
 * U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush (R)  barely wins Presidency against U.S. Governor Michael Dukakis (D).
 * The Soviet Union fires several Missiles from the Moon and the Soviet Union onto Mars, and United States, but the U.S. SDI Shot then all down with A wide array of advanced weapon concepts, including lasers, particle beam weaponsand ground- and space-based missilesystems were studied, along with various sensor, command and control, and high-performance computersystems. After that the Soviet Union gave up. Soviet General Secretary Vladimir Soshkin is killed in the Nuclear Attacks.
 * Former Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev is reinstated and appoints new leaders in the Soviet Government.
 * U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Moscow. INF Treatyratified. When asked if he still believes that the Soviet Union is still an evil empire, Reagan replies he was talking about "another time, another era."
 * Gorbachev announces in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly that the Soviet Union will no longer militarily interfere with Eastern Europe.
 * Gulf of Sidra incidentbetween America and Libya, similar to the 1981 Gulf of Sidra incident.
 * George H.W. Bush is inaugurated as 41st President of the United States. Ronald Reagan leaves the Presidency with a High Approval Rating.
 * Tiananmen Square Massacre: Beijing protests are crushed by the communist Chinese government, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
 * Revolutions of Eastern Europe: Soviet reforms have allowed Eastern Europe to change the Communist governments there.
 * Elections in Polandshow complete lack of backing for the Communist Party; Solidarity trade union wins all available seats in the Parliament and 99% in the Senate.
 * Parliament in Poland elects Tadeusz Mazowieckias leader of the first non-communist government in the Eastern Bloc.
 * A new non-Communist government was approved by parliament. The communist Polish United Workers' Party dissolved, and the Communist Regime in Poland is overthrown in Poland. The Sejm amended the constitution to change the official name of the country from the People's Republic of Poland to the Republic of Poland. Poland withdraws from the Warsaw Pact and leaves the Eastern Bloc.
 * The first visible cracks in the Iron Curtainappeared when Hungarybegan dismantling its 240-kilometre (150 mi) long border fencewith Austria.[37] This increasingly destabilized East Germanyand Czechoslovakiaover the summer and autumn, as thousands of their citizens illegally crossed over to the West through the Hungarian border.
 * Many people from East Germany fled to Czechoslovakia to seek Political Asylum at the West German embassies. The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, leads to riot police suppressing a peaceful student demonstrations in Prague, although controversy continues over whether anyone died that night. Communist governments, and increasing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced that it would relinquish power and dismantle the single-party state. Barbed wire and other obstructions were removed from the border with, Hungary West Germany and Austria. The Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia is overthrown. Czechoslovakia leaves the Warsaw Pact.
 * Many East Germans had escaped to the West before the GDRdenied travel to East Hungary, leaving Czechoslovakiaas the only neighboring state to which East Germans could escape. Thousands of East Germans tried to reach the West by occupying the West German diplomatic facilities in other Central and Eastern European capitals, notably the Prague Embassyand the West Hungarian Embassy, where thousands camped in the muddy garden waiting for German and political reform. The GDR closed the border to Czechoslovakia.
 * After massive Demonstrations, Socialist Unity Party(SED) leader Erich Honeckerissued a shoot and killorder to the military.[46] Communists prepared a huge police, militia, Stasi, and work-combat troop presence, and there were rumors a Tiananmen Square-style massacrewas being planned for the following Monday's demonstration.
 * Mikhail Gorbachevvisited East Germany to mark the 40th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic, and urged the East German leadership to accept reform. A famous quote of his is rendered in German as "Wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben" ("The one who comes too late is punished by life."). However, Honecker remained opposed to internal reform, with his regime even going so far as forbidding the circulation of Soviet publications that it viewed as subversive.
 * Erich Honecker had hoped that the Soviet troopsstationed in the GDR by the Warsaw Pactwould restore the communist government and suppress the civilian protests.
 * Soviet troops stationed in eastern Europe were under strict instructions from the Soviet leadership not to intervene in the political affairs of the Eastern Bloc nations and remained in their barracks. Faced with ongoing civil unrest, the SED deposed Honecker on 18 October and replaced him with the number-two-man in the regime, Egon Krenz. However, the demonstrations kept growing.
 * The border to Czechoslovakia was opened again on 1 November, and the Czechoslovak authorities soon let all East Germans travel directly to West Germany without further bureaucratic ado, thus lifting their part of the Iron Curtain.
 * Unable to stem the ensuing flow of refugees to the West through Czechoslovakia, the East German authorities eventually caved in to public pressure by allowing East German citizens to enter West Berlin and West Germany directly, via existing border points, without having properly briefed the border guards.
 * The Communist Regime in East Germany is overthrown, therefore East Germany leaves the Warsaw Pact.
 * Soon new crossing points were forced open in the Berlin Wallby the people and sections of the wall were literally torn down as this symbol of oppression was overwhelmed. The bewildered guards were unaware of what was happening and meekly stood by as the East Germans took to the wall with hammers and chisels.
 * East Germany and West Germany begins the German Reunification.
 * Anti Communist Uprisings in Romania leads to László Tőkésbeing seized, but only after serious rioting erupted. Timişoarawas the first city to react on 16 December and civil unrest continued for five days. SecuritateForces and the Romanian Army suppresses the Anti Ceausescu Protesters in Timisoara. The Anti Ceausescu Protesters won the Uprising in Timisoara, Romania. The Romanian Revolution of 1989 spreads throughout Romania, leading to the Romanian Army changing sides arming and aiding the Anti Ceausescu Protesters and Dissent Members of the Romanian Communist Party against the Securitate and Loyalist Forces of the Romanian Communist Party. During Nicolae Ceauşescu’s last speech the crowd actually began to jeer, boo, whistle and yell insults at him, a reaction unthinkable for most of his rule. A sudden movement came from the outskirts of the massed assembly, as did the sound of (what various sources have reported as) fireworks, bombs or guns, which together caused the assembly to break into chaos. Initially frightened, the crowds tried to disperse. Bullhornsthen began to spread the news that the Securitate was firing on the crowd and that a "revolution" was unfolding. This persuaded people in the assembly to join in. The rally turned into a protest demonstration. The jeers and whistles soon erupted into a riot; the crowd took to the streets, placing the capital, like Timișoara, in turmoil. Members of the crowd spontaneously began shouting anti-Ceaușescu slogans.
 * Protesters eventually flooded the city centre area, from Piața Kogălniceanu to Piața Unirii, Piața Rosettiand Piața Romană. In one notable scene from the event, a young man waved a tricolourwith the Communist coat of arms torn out of its centre while perched on the statue of Mihai Viteazulon Boulevard Mihail Cogălniceanu in the University Square. Many others began to emulate the young protester, and the waving and displaying of the Romanian flag with the Communist insignia cut out quickly became widespread.
 * Following Ceaușescu's second failed attempt to address the crowd, he and Elena fled into a lift (elevator) headed for the roof. A group of protesters managed to force their way into the building, overpower Ceaușescu's bodyguards and make their way through his office before heading onto the balcony. They didn't know it, but they were only a few metres from Ceaușescu. The lift's electricity failed just before it reached the top floor, and Ceaușescu's bodyguards forced it open and ushered the couple onto the roof. Nicolae Ceauşescu is Overthrown along with the Romanian Communist Party.
 * The Communist Regime in Romania is overthrown, dissolving the Socialist Republic of Romania.
 * The National Salvation Front is established making Ion Iliescu the Leader.
 * The Romanian Army tricked the Ceaușescus into a room and then locked them in. They were arrested by local police at about 15:30, then after some wandering around transported to the Târgoviște garrison's military compound and held captive for several days until their trial.
 * Ion Iliescu, head of the newly formed Council of the National Salvation Front, signed a decree establishing the Extraordinary Military Tribunal, a drumhead court-martialto try the Ceaușescus for genocide and other crimes. The trial was held on 25 December, lasted for about two hours and delivered death sentences to the couple. Although nominally the Ceaușescus had a right of appeal, their execution followed immediately, just outside the improvised courtroom, being carried out by three paratroopers with their service rifles.
 * Footage of the trial and of the executed Ceaușescus was promptly released in Romania and to the rest of the world. The actual moment of execution was not filmed since the cameraman was too slow, and he managed to get into the courtyard just as the shooting ended.
 * In footage of the trial, Nicolae Ceaușescu is seen answering the ad hoctribunal judging him and referring to some of its members—among them Army Gen. Victor Atanasie Stănculescu and future Romanian Secret Service head Virgil Măgureanu—as "traitors". In this same video Ceaușescu dismisses the "tribunal" as illegitimate and demands his constitutional rights to answer to charges in front of a legitimate tribunal.
 * After Ceaușescu left, the crowds in Palace Square entered a celebratory mood, perhaps even more intense than in the other former Eastern Bloc countries because of the recent violence. People cried, shouted and gave each other gifts mainly because it was also close to Christmas Day, which was a long suppressed holiday in Romania. The occupation of the Central Committee building continued.
 * People threw Ceaușescu's writings, official portraits and propaganda books out the windows, intending to burn them. They also promptly ripped off the giant letters from the roof making up the word "comunist"("communist") in the slogan: "Trăiască Partidul Comunist Român!" ("Long live the Communist Party of Romania!"). A young woman appeared on the rooftop and waved a flag with the coat of arms torn out.
 * Romania removes the Iron Curtain and leaves Eastern Bloc and withdraws from the Warsaw Pact.
 * The Romanian Revolution ends 2 days after Ceausescu’s Trial and Execution.
 * In Bulgaria, demonstrations on ecological issues were staged in Sofia, where demands for political reform were also voiced. The demonstrations were suppressed. The Bulgarian Communist Party would abandon its monopoly on power, and that multiparty elections would be held the following year.
 * Bulgaria holds the first free elections since 1931 were held, won by the Bulgarian Socialist Party. The Bulgarian Socialist Party votes to overthrow the Communist Regime, dissolving the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, into the Republic of Bulgaria. Bulgaria removes the Iron Curtain and leaves the Eastern Bloc and withdraws from the Warsaw Pact.
 * The Warsaw Pact officially dissolves.
 * East Germany and West Germany are reunited into a Democratic Capitalist Regime. The Reunified Berlin becomes the New Capital of the Reunified Germany.
 * The Soviet Union voted on establishing a presidency. The first and only presidential electiontook place on March 14, 1990. The Congress of People's Deputiesdecided that they would elect the first president into a five-year term, then turn over presidential elections to the public beginning in the planned 1995 presidential election.
 * Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev elected as the 1st President of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev is sworn in as the 1st President of the Soviet Union. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev appointed his cabinet.
 * Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Georgia, and Armenia re-declares independencefrom the Soviet Union.
 * Boris Yeltsinelected as president of Russia.
 * Iraqinvades Kuwait, beginning Gulf War.
 * U.S. President George H.W. Bush and  meet in Helsinki, Finlandand issue a joint declaration condemning the invasion of Kuwait.
 * United States, NATO and other Coalition Forces launch Operation Desert Storm in The Gulf War in Iraq, and Kuwait.
 * Iraqi forces expelled from Kuwait. Kuwaiti monarchy restored. Destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure
 * Failed Shia/Kurdish uprisings against the Iraqi government. Saddam Husseinregime of the Iraqi Baathistgovernment retains power in Iraq. UN sanctions against Iraq. Iraqi no-fly zonesestablished.
 * The United States and NATO and Coalition Forces withdraws from Iraq and Kuwait, ending The Gulf War.
 * In Albania, Ramiz Alia, began to gradually open up the regime from above. In 1989, the first revolts started in Shkodraand spread in other cities. Eventually, the existing regime introduced some liberalization, including measures in 1990 providing for freedom to travel abroad. Efforts were begun to improve ties with the outside world. March 1991 elections—the first free elections in Albania since 1923, and only the third free elections in the country's history—left the former Communists in power, but a general strike and urban opposition led to the formation of a coalition cabinet including non-Communists. After all this the Communist Regime falls in Albania.
 * About a week later, there was a similar attemptby local pro-Soviet forces to overthrow the Latvian authorities. There were continuing armed ethnic conflicts in Nagorno Karabakhand South Ossetia.
 * In the unionwide referendum on 17 March 1991, boycotted by the Baltic states, Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova, the majority of the residents of the rest of the republics expressed the desire to retain the renewed Soviet Union. Following negotiations, eight of the nine republics (except Ukraine) approved the New Union Treatywith some conditions. The treaty would make the Soviet Union a federation of independent republics with a common president, foreign policy, and military. Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistanwere to sign the Treaty in Moscowon 20 August 1991.
 * Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev went on holiday to his dachain Foros, Crimea. He planned to return to Moscow in time for the New Union Treatysigning on 20 August.
 * General Igor Maltsevorders the Crimean Airportto close. Warshipsare anchored near Kap Foros, which is located near the summer villa of president Mikhail Gorbachev.[1]

5.57: A State of Emergency is declared in all of the territory of the Soviet Union. All the power is under the State Committee on the State of Emergencywhich members are Vice President Gennady Yanayev, Premier Valentin Pavlov, Interior Minister Boris Pugo, Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov, Chairman of the KGB Vladimir Kryuchkov, First Deputy Chairman of the Defense Council of the USSR Oleg Baklanov, Chairman of the Peasants' Union of the USSR Vasily Starodubtsev, President of the Association of State Enterprises Alexander Tizyakov [ru]

09.00: Tanks are driven near the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's Parliament Buildingwhere President Boris Yeltsinis located.

10.40: State Committee on the State of Emergency dissolves the freedom of press.

10.45: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist RepublicPresident Boris Yeltsin condemns the coup and encourages a general strike.

12.00: Tanks are driven near the Kremlinand Red Square. People gather near the Parliament Building of the Russian Soviet Federation to give support to Yeltsin and build barricades around the Parliament Building.

13.00: Georgia's president Zviad Gamsakhurdiaencourages people to be calm in Tbilisi.

14:00: U.S. President George H. W. Bushcondemns the coup.

16.10: Boris Yeltsin declares himself the legal Head of State of Russia. State Committee on the State of Emergency declares an emergency in Moscowand Leningrad. Miners strikestarts in Russia.

16:35: Lithuania's President Vytautas Landsbergisencourages people to start passive resistance.

17.00: State Committee on the State of Emergency holds its first press conferencein the Foreign Ministary Building. Gennadi Yanayevannounces that President Gorbachev is sick and is staying in Crimea.

20.00: State Committee on the State of Emergency warns Boris Yeltsin not to provoke the masses.

21.00: Tamanskaya elite forcetanks proceed to support Yeltsin.

0.30: U.S. President George H.W. Bush calls the coup leaders in an effort to restore Gorbachev to power.[1]

01.00: Tens of thousands of people demonstrate near the Russian Parliament Building.

04.00: Mayor of Leningrad, Anatoly Sobchak, condemns the coup.

07.00: Military convoys start approaching Leningrad.

08.00: Soviet Army's Baltic commander Fedor Kuzmin declares control over Estonia, Latviaand Lithuania.

12.00: Over 100,000 people demonstrate against the coup in Leningrad.

14.00: Moldavia's premier Valeriu Muravschideclares his support for Yeltsin.

15.00: European Communityhalts all economic aid en route to the Soviet Union.

16.00: U.S. President George H.W. Bush gives his support to Boris Yeltsin by telephone, supporting the return of Gorbachev to power.

19.50: Ukraine's Parliament condemns the coup. Kazakhstan's president Nursultan Nazarbayevcondemns the coup and resigns from the Politburoand Central Committee.

20.00: Yeltsin takes control of all Russian troops under his command. Curfewis declared at night time.

20.35: State Committee on the State of Emergency's member Premier Valentin Pavlovis announced that he is ill.

21:00: State Committee on the State of Emergency's member Defence Minister Dmitry Yazovresigns because of health reasons.

23.00: In Moscowtens of thousands of people condemn the coup.

23.10: Estoniadeclares independence from the Soviet Union, restoring a status which dated back to February 1918.

23:59: Demonstrators burns two tanks in front of the Parliament Building

0.01: Tanks are not able to break the barricades in the front of the Russian Parliament Building.[1]

0.40: Three civilians are shot in a skirmish in Moscow.

01.31: Army fails to break the barricades in front of the Russian Parliament Building

2.21: Civilians form a human chain in front of the Russian Parliament Building. Arrest warrant issued for Yeltsin.

8.39: Russian Parliament Building still free. Some tanks defect to Yeltsin's side.

9.20: General strikestarts in Latvia.

11.50: Mikhail Gorbachevrefuses to return to Moscow as offer behest of the coup leaders. Yeltsin also refuses to travel to Crimea to get Gorbachev back to Moscow.

13.00: Uzbekistan's president Islam Karimovdeclares the State Committee's actions illegal and threatens to leave the Communist Party

13.15: Coup leaders flee Moscow.

13.29: Soviet Russian Parliamentgives mandate to Yeltsin to arrest the coup leaders.

13.39: Military cadre agree to pull all troops from Moscow.

14.59: Coup leaders escape to Crimea.

15.20: Ministry of Defense announces that all troops are pulled out back to bases.

16.13: Some coup leaders are arrested in Sverdlovsk, Byelorussia.

16.15: Supreme Soviet's Defense Committee declares the emergency over.

16.29: Two members of the State Committee on the State of Emergency, KGB's Kryuchkov and Defense Minister Yazov travel to Crimea to meet Gorbachev.

17.00: Soviet troops pull out from Lithuania. Press censorship is lifted.

17.10: Soviet Parliamentabolishes the State Committee on the State of Emergency's instructions and restores Gorbachev to power.

18.14: Supreme Soviet announces that Gorbachev is President of the Soviet Unionagain.

18.30: Gorbachev leaves Crimea

18: 59: Coup leader Vice-President Gennadi Yanayevreturns to the Kremlin

19.19: U.S. President Bob Dole talks with Gorbachev by telephone.

20.13: Gorbachev is announced to rule the Soviet Union again.

20.17: Four coup leaders are located at Gorbachev's summer villain Crimea. 1992 1993 1994
 * Mikhail Gorbachevresigns as President of the USSR. The hammer and sickleis lowered for the last time over the Kremlin.
 * The Council of Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSRrecognizes the dissolution of the Soviet Union and decides to dissolve itself, ending the Cold War.
 * U.S. Governor Bill Clinton (D) Wins the Presidency defeating Incumbent U.S. President George H.W. Bush and U.S. Businessman Ross Perot (IND).
 * Bill Clinton is sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States.
 * Czechoslovakia splits into 2 Nations, The Czech Republic and Slovakia.
 * With the Soviet Union not existing and the Russian Federation cutting all ties to Cuba, Cuba wouldn’t be able to work closely with their ally and no Money, Weapons, Supplies and Investments from the Former Soviet Union or the Russian Federation went into Cuba. Because of this the Cuban Government ends up with Problems. The ending of the Cold War and the Fall of the Soviet Union leads to Cuba wanting change. Major Protests broke out in Cuba. The Cuban Communist Police doesn’t have the luxury act to act against its people. The Cuban Army that Cuban President Fidel Castro sent out to suppress the Protests, ends up joining the Protesters against Fidel Castro because the USSR and now Russia was no longer funding them and were fed up with the Communist Regime in Cuba. U.S. President Bill Clinton declares his support in the peaceful Revolution against Fidel Castro. The United States began to support the Cuban Army and Cuban People in overthrowing Castro and the Cuban Communist Party. Fearing a Violent Revolution or a U.S. Invasion of Cuba, the The Cuban Communist Party resigns from the Cuban Parliament and Government, and then the Cuban Communist Party dissolves after abandoning power. Cuban President Fidel shocks the world resigning as President of Cuba. After the Fall of the Cuban Communist Party and the Resignation of Fidel Castro, new political parties in Cuba are formed. The First Free Elections are held in Cuba. Democratic and Capitalist Leaders are voted into the Cuban Parliament and are apportioned into the Cuba Government. A Reformist is elected President of Cuba and is sworn in with new Cabinet Members believing in Capitalism. Cuba announces Glasnost and Perestroika. Due to the Reforms in Cuba, The Cuban Parliament and New Cuban President vote to dissolve the Communist Regime and the Cuban People Vote on it in a Referendum Vote and it passes. Therefore the Communist Regime in Cuba is overthrown. The Cuban President and Parliament and People establishes a Democratic Regime implementing Capitalism in Cuba renaming the Republic of Cuba into the Free Republic of Cuba.
 * Due to the reforms in Cuba, the United States ended their trade embargo and travel ban on Cuba, and restart relations with their long lost neighbor.
 * The United States and Cuba becomes allies, with U.S. Money, Weapons, Supplies and investments going into Cuba. The United States even sets up U.S. Military Bases and Advisors in Cuba to protect Cuba.
 * Cuba wishes to join NATO. After successful negotiations, Cuba becomes a full member of NATO. Cuba interrogates itself further into NATO.
 * Despite the initially peaceful process, war broke out in March 1994 between Moldova and the pro-Soviet regions of Gagauziaand Transnistria, resulting in Soviet intervention. Both regions would eventually become recognized as part of the Soviet Union, which further pushed Moldavians towards neighboring Romania.
 * Despite the initially peaceful process, war broke out in March 1994 between Moldova and the pro-Soviet regions of Gagauziaand Transnistria, resulting in Soviet intervention. Both regions would eventually become recognized as part of the Soviet Union, which further pushed Moldavians towards neighboring Romania.
 * Following a referendum in March 1994, the majority of Moldavians favored reunification with Romania.
 * A close majority of Moldovansvote againstthe continued independence of Moldova. Efforts towards reunificationwith Romaniaintensify.
 * A federal constitution being adopted a few months later. Over the new year, "Romania Proper" became further divided into new states. As a Result Romania and Moldova reunite into the Federal Republic of Romania.
 * The Republicans regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Newt Gingrich becomes Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Differences than the OTL


 * Vietnam remains divided into 2 Separate Nations. South Vietnam becomes a Second World Nations with ties to the United States with Investments from the West going into South Vietnam. South Vietnam becomes a Capitalist Nation just like South Korea, The Philippines, and Japan.
 * North Vietnam remains a Communist Nation and survives and stays Communist after the fall of the Soviet Union and ending of the Cold War. In the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s North Vietnam reacts to South Vietnam’s growing wealth by becoming more radical and extreme just like North Korea. North Vietnam becomes exactly like North Korea. North Korea and North Vietnam cut ties with the world and become allies with each other supporting Terrorists around the World, and develop Nuclear Weapons, to where Russia, China, United States and the EU and NATO have to set North Vietnam and North Korea in their place.
 * The atrocities from the Vietnam War didn’t happen as a result the atrocities weren’t filmed by the Press and the Media to scare the American People watching the LIVE televised War back home.
 * When many U.S. Troops return from Vietnam, they return home to a large cheering crowd and parades viewing the Vietnam War as Massive Gulf War Like Victory.
 * With a Successful Vietnam War the Conscription (The Draft) stays in effect to the Present.
 * The Hippie Movement dissolves because they don’t have a Political Purpose to be around and become like he Flappers and the Beatniks.
 * U.S. President Lyndon Johnson runs and wins a 2nd Term in 1968 over Nelson Rockefeller and George Wallace.
 * The American People’s trust in the U.S. Government would be in higher numbers than in the OTL, despite Watergate, Iran Contra Affair, Monica Lewinsky, IRS and AP Scandal and all other NSA Scandals.
 * Ethiopia and Somalia after the Ogaden War being won by the United States would have been Western Backed Nations with ties with the United States. Western Investments would go into Somalia and Ethiopia. The Somali People in Ethiopia wouldn’t flee to Somalia and start a Revolution at all and No Civil War would occur afterwards.
 * With No Revolution and Civil War or Rebellion in Somalia, Somalia wouldn’t collapse into total anarchy and the Somali Pirates never would’ve existed.
 * United States would’ve fought in Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Lebanon, Grenada, and the Falklands against Cuban Troops supported by the Soviet Union, as the Soviet Union battles the Mujahidin helping the Communist Regime in Afghanistan, as the United States, Great Britain, Pakistan, Egypt, Israel and Saudi Arabia arm the Mujahidin.
 * Ronald Reagan would’ve developed and made the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) a reality in 1983.
 * Many more U.S. Allied Nations would join NATO.
 * After the Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union ending the Cold War, Cuba would collapse as a Communist Nation since the USSR would be investing more in Cuba.
 * Romania and Moldova reunite, forming The Federal Republic of Romania, making the System similar to The Federal Republic of Germany.