Timeline (Tiger Unleashed)

The Timeline of the Drive of History althist

Early Times
1881: Zhong Wenhan was born in San Francisco, California, to a Chinese immigrant family, followed by the birth of Wenhong (1883) and Wenshi (1886)

1906: Following his family’s step on the way return to Hong Kong, China, Zhong brothers begins their work in a Hong Kong workshop. This is just months before a castatrophic earthquake struck his hometown.

1912: Former Qing official Yuan Shikai strips Sun Yat-sen of his presidency of China. Zhong brothers and his boss Sun Yat-sen moves to Japan and then California where Wenhan marries Soong ching-ling.

1914: For the second time Zhong Wenhong returns to China. A specialist in natural and political science, he and other scientists help develop Canton into a scientifically developed city. Wenshi sends a design of color camera into the United States under the pseudonym “Fred Ewing”. From there, colored movies and television get an earlier start.

1917: Yuan Shikai dies after resigning his infamous presidency. Thanks to the Zhongs' and KMT efforts, after a brief peroid of warlords, China is quickly unified.

1918: Zhong Wenshi is welcomed as guest at the Versailles peace treaty, in which he suggest that territories occupied by Germany prior to World War I should be given back to China, in exchange for this nation itself be democratized. because of its role as Entente nation in the combat. Other delegates accept his request.

Formation of the People's Republic
1921: Zhong Wenhan is appointed by Sun Yat-sen as Vice President of KMT. He helps open the Whampoa Academy, which is modelled after the American West Point.

1925: Sun Yat-sen dies. Zhong Wenhan assumes control over KMT and the newly-formed People’s Republic of China. It is a mixed Marxist-Leninist and Capitalist, under control of the brand new Progressive party created by Zhao Tong and Mao Zedong. At the same year Wehhan open the nation for foreign corporations to trade with China, including those from the friendly America.

 The People's Republic of China

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1933: Reformation of Republic of China Armed Forces, using the newly-invented Zhongs' weapons as well as those imported from the West.

1937: Japanese invasion of China. After a fierce resistance, the Japanese were stopped in northeast territories as well as Shanghai. Film actress Li Shumeng escapes to the United States.

1938: Former diplomat Ho Feng Shan works with Zhong on establishing the “New Eden” asylum for the Jews in New Guinea, with no opposition from local government.

1940: The refusal of Jewish immigrant in Palestine has prompt the Chinese to intervent, giving more places to the disapora in New Guinea.

1941:
 * Chinese counter-attack in Beijing, Shanghai and northeast territory. The Treaty of Seoul forcing Japan to cease hostilities with China.
 * The Battle of Hong Kong is a major but pyrrhic success for British and Chinese alike, against a Japanese surprise strike there.

1944
 * December: Berlin and the rest of Germany are taken by the US. Hitler commits suicide in a hidden bunker at German/Polish border. Meanwhile, the Soviets reach Auschwitz as well as East Prussia.

1945
 * February: Treaty of Yalta singed by US, Soviet and Chinese leaders. Its details are:
 * Europe will be divided between the American, who occupies the West as well as south of East Prussia (now renamed as Konisberg), and the Soviet Union who occupy the rest that includes the north of East Prussia (Kailningrad SSR).
 * China will re-adminstrate Mongolia and Taiwan and will conduct a full-scale invasion of Japan to end the fascism.
 * Korea will be divided between China in the north of 38th parallel, and the United States in the south. The two portions will merge, in later times, into a unified republic of Korea.
 * Rest of the world will stay under European's influence.


 * March: US and China drop atomic bombs in Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrenders, finally ending the WWII.
 * April: A revolution occurs in Vietnam that overthrow the Japanese-puppet government there.
 * May: The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence is annouced just like in OTL. Now that Vietnam comprise the entire Indochine peninsula. Afterwards, works begin on obliterating the famine and illiteracy that swept the country before.

Cold War
1946
 * January: The new government of Indochina is established, modelled after the Soviet and Chinese customs.
 * September: France returns to Indochina for reoccupation. The First Indochina war begins.
 * During the Indochinese patriotic war, a Vietnamese diplomat is sent to UN Headquarters in New York to ask for additional helps if necessary.

1947
 * The partition of the former British India as in OTL that made a bit of controvesy.

1948
 * In the historical land of Palestine, the Jewish state of Israel is created. Those who stayed in  New Guinea  creates another Jewish state there.
 * August 15: Republic of Korea is created. It is, similar to China, a mixed socio-democratic republic.

1949
 * The European Federation in American zone and the Republic of Warsaw in Soviet zone are created simunaterously in Europe

1952
 * Soviet Union agrees to support the Indochinese resistance. China allows its mercenaries and supplies to be acquired by either French or Vietnamese’s reinforcements if necessary

1954
 * Vietnam won over the French at Dien Bien Phu.
 * Treaty of Geneve marking the initial division (pro-Soviet and pro-US) and the upcoming unification. However, the pro-US section (Cochinchine and Cambodia) seccede and forms a republic of its own, while the rest is intergrated into a democratic republic.

1955
 * The Pacific and Indian Ocean Coaliation (PIC) is established by China, India and Korea, in response to the US-led SEATO. At the time of establishment, the PIC is then known as “Golden Triangle”
 * Sino/Soviet border conflict.

1958
 * A series of reforms in agriculture and industry, and the evolutions of early-year market economy (based on Lenin’s NEP) that leads to a peroid called “Great Leap Forward” (not as in OTL).
 * Many of the Chinese emigrates to Australia as well as USA to look for better lives.

1960: 1961
 * The victory of Dong Khoi movement creates a pro-Soviet government just south of pro-US Saigon governement, called in the West as Victor Charlie or VC
 * The civil war in Indochina occurs between the North, their VC allies and the South.
 * European Wall is constructed that stretch through the northeasternmost of Germany to Debeli rtic of OTL Slovenia.

1961: Mao Zedong is assassinated by a Soviet sleeper in Chinese government.

1962: General Ne Win overthrow the government of Burma and creates a Democratic Prople's Republic there. Later in the year, Burma conducts an invasion of Thailand to regain the territory that belonged to the glorious Taungoo Empire

1965:
 * A proletarian cultural revolution takes places and is crushed in China due to heavy oppositions. Lin Biao, its engineer, is executed for treason.
 * Burmese/Thai war ceased with a truce in Pang Mapha, Thailand.

1967
 * The Philippine Missile Crisis
 * Television Broadcast Limited (TVB) opens as the first cable television system in Hong Kong

1968
 * The Act of Succession: Europe directly adminstrate former member nations’ colonies (Falkland Island, Polynesia, Hong Kong, Macau) as foreign individuals, with the two latters’ adminstration will end after 20 years. Europe also annex Lybia and Tunisia for economic issues. Dutch Antilles, Bahamas, Bermuda and Jamaica will hold a refrendrum to decide whether to join the United States as territories or not (surprisingly all of them agreed and they are unofficially incoroprated later). Australia will have a Confederacy of its own.
 * Soviet Union funds the Tet Offensive, which is largely succesful both in tactics and strategy. US involvement in the war is then condemned all over the world.

1969
 * US pulls out of South Vietnam thanks to Beijing peace treaty between the North and South Vietnam, the VC, America and China.
 * Apollo 11 triggers the human colonization of Moon.

1970
 * PC is introduced in USA.
 * President Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam passes away just days prior to the unification attacks, to be mourned by millions of people across the nation and the world.
 * The final meeting of South Vietnamese congress annoucing the dissolution of Republic of Indochina and the re-unification to the North. Saigon is taken peacefully by North Vietnam and the Liberation Front.
 * The SEATO dissolves. Australia, Thailand and Philippines join the PIC.
 * Asteroid minings make a debut thanks to NASA.

1971
 * Zhong Wenhong dies in a plane accident in Mongolia. Some people are suspicious that he is killed by a group of secessionist there.
 * Bangladesh war of Independence is opposed by Pakistan, who declares war on both India and Balgladesh

1972
 * Celestrial Entertainment opens in Beijing, China.
 * The Olympic Crisis in Munich, in which Neo-Nazi activists in (West) Europe and North African Islamic Army are involved. Eventually, all hostages (including Israeli and Australians) are rescued, but at the cost of 4 Israelis and an Australian.

1973
 * China launches its device to the Moon.

1974
 * PC is now widely used by 50% of humanity. Many are concerned about a cyber attack, but in this peroid everything is under control.

1975
 * Vietnam joins the United Nations and Non-Alinged movement, declaring neutral from all sphere of influences, still have a normal relationship to the world.
 * April 30: Fall of Islamabad and the annexation of Pakistan as well as Bangladesh into India.
 * Zhong Wenhan resigns his post and set Deng Xiaoping, a reformist, as his succedor.
 * Locally-made commercial airplane debut and first flight in China, made by Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation.

1976
 * India becomes a Tribal Confederacy between Hinduists, Muslims and the Sikhs.
 * Zhong Wenshi dies of a heart attack while visiting Tangshan shortly after a devastating earthquake there.

1977:
 * Development of Pulse Detonation Jet engine have rendered a flight from New York to Beijing in one hour a possible reality.
 * European wall falls. Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Czechoslovakia are welcomed into European Federation while other Eastern European nations break free from Soviet communism, creating what would become the Neutral Bloc.
 * Soviet Union reorganizes to be a more democratic nation.
 * The Internet becomes an entity.

Later Times
1981:
 * A trade agreement is signed between China and Yugoslavia, resolving the latter’s social and economic problems and enhancing the nation. Greece is also beneficed from the agrement.
 * May 29: Zhong Wenhan's wife Soong Ching-ling succumbs to her illness and dies, having been a Honorary President of China for days.

1982: The Green Revolution begins in Europe, then spreads to North America, Singapore, Japan and Korea, and later, the world.

1986: Mission to Mars occurs.

1987: Hong Kong returns to China after being adminstrated by Europe since 1950.

1988: Zhong Wenhan finally returns to San Francisco.

1990: Wenhan dies peacefully in San Francisco, USA, aged 109. A ceremonial funeral in his honor takes place in China and privately in USA due to his wishes.

2000: The Shard opens in London and is the tallest pyramid building in the world (500 meters), surprassing the OTL Transamerica Tower.