Red Scare World

In 1916, a visitor who traveled from the future, shot and killed Corporal Adolf Hitler of the German Army. History proceeds relatively normal until the mid-twenties since Hitler was not around to attempt his first overthrow of the German government. In 1917, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin overthrow the Russian Government. After Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin took control of the Soviet government and became dictator by 1928.

In the late twenties, the economy took a turn for the worst. The stock market had suddenly plummeted and threw the world into the Great Depression. Many countries, such as the United States, Germany, and others suffered an increase in unemployment and poverty. Several wars broke out in the mid-thirties to mid-forties. Spain had gone into a civil war. Fascist Italy sent aid to their allies in Spain. However so did Soviet Russia. By 1936, the communists had seized control of Spain, as well as Italy since their navy tried to stop Stalin's convoys from reaching Spain to assist the communists. At the same time, the Japanese launched several attacks in China and the two countries fought well into the early fifties with considerable losses on both sides.

During the mid-forties, many European countries, mainly Germany, suffered greatly from the worsening Great Depression. German communists supported by Stalin toppled the German government and seized control of much of the country. In 1947, the US economy suffered another blow with a vast majority without federal aid. The rumors came in that an alien ship had crashed in Roswell, New Mexico which sparked the interest of Stalin. The Soviet dictator believed if Russia were to obtain the alien technology, he could use it to usher in World Revolution. He turned to assisting communist rebels in countries like Cuba and Mexico. In 1948, Stalin made territorial demands. The League of Nations tried a policy of appeasement by allowing Stalin to annex parts of Poland and Finland, but he ended up taking both countries.

The League of Nations tried to stop Stalin, but with Germany in revolution and the Soviet occupation of Italy, the Russians were able to take much of Eastern Europe as well as reinforce the communists in Germany. Then in 1952 as England and France were facing attacks from three sides, Stalin's armies launched a full scale invasion of America from Mexico. Soviet Pacific forces also struck the US territories of Alaska and Hawaii. Due to the low defense budget caused by the continuing Depression as well as an uprising by American communists, the United States was defeated within two years and it was rumored Stalin secured alien technology at a secret US base known as Area 51. One day, Stalin died from a stroke in 1953 and the very next day Stalin had suddenly returned to life and looked younger due to cloning achieved by alien technology obtained from Area 51. From that moment, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was now known as the Union of Soviet Stalinist Republics.

After the Japanese and Chinese had wore each other out, Soviet forces attacked both countries. However the fanatical Japanese forces inflicted so many heavy loses on the Red Army that Stalin decided to settle on Manchuria, parts of China, and northern Korea. The Chinese decided to set aside their differences and merged with the Empire of Japan as an equal partner.

After the fall of the British Empire, Australia and the surviving British territories had formed the Commonwealth of Australia. Included in the Commonwealth was Australia, New Zealand, East New Guinea, and several nations of South Africa. India is jointly run by the Australian Commonwealth and the Empire of Japan.

The Japanese Empire and the Australian Commonwealth forms the Anti-Comintern Alliance Pact in order to counter the military might of the Soviet Union. The Alliance secretly supplies the growing rebellion in the western hemisphere spearheaded by the North American Resistance.

Stalin and his NKVD had killed over a 100 million people whom he considered potential enemies or a threat to his power.