Cold War! (Map Game)

Welcome to the Cold War Map Game! Like you already know, this map game details the events of the Cold War -- although there is a twist. There are three teams, NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Non-Aligned Movement. You don't need to sign up. I cannot deny you entrance, but If you say that the Soviet Union takes over America using Robot Space Pirate Monkeys created by Ganon the Evil Magician, or anything similar, you will be banned from participating for 10 years. The Map game will go in half-years. It begins in 1955, and ends in 2010.5, although the Cold War must have ended by 2010. Now for the rules:

NO Ninja Robot Space Pirate Monkeys allowed.

NO drastic turns. No, Switzerland cannot join the USSR and nuke all of Europe in the same half-year.

NO similarities to 1983: Doomsday. There will not be a country named Pais del Oro, Delmarva, Superior, and anything similar. Certain countries similar to 1983:DD may be allowed, however.

These rules apply to the teams: For NATO members, the U.S's states may not declare independence. Multiple states may form unions if a war ravages the country and destroys America. Great Britain may not take over Ireland. France may not take over Monaco. West Berlin cannot take over East Berlin. Italy may not take over San Marino. Spain may not take over Andorra. Basically, all micro-states must either stay independent, or offer to join a country.

For Warsaw Pact members, the USSR may not start a huge offensive over Europe. The Germanys cannot take each other over in a year. The USSR cannot split apart in a year, unless a war ravages the country. The USSR cannot take over the US via Alaska or any other stupid thing like that.

For Non-Aligned Movement Members, just don't do anything that was mentioned above. These are the administrators of the Map Game, they are the overseers and must keep the peace between the two other sides. You may not turn it into a NATO or Warsaw puppet state. You cannot force any country, member, or team to switch over. You ARE allowed to participate in any side you wish, but please be respectful.

You MUST submit to Oerwinde, the Administrator of the Map Games.

If you want to, you may create your own sphere of influence, but it will not be a major element of the Cold War Map Game.

One final rule: You must place a map on every turn. It must be .png as well.
The Members will be listed below:

Non-Aligned Movement
Bern, Switzerland, - Commander Overseer - Arstarpool.

NATO/Western Powers&Allies
Washington, USA -Secratary of Coolness-BoredMatt
 * United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland-Mumby

Latin American Union (ally of NATO)

 * Caracas, Venezuela- VENEZUELA

Warsaw Pact and Allies
Soviet Union - ProfessorMcG (really?)

Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Secretary-General- Ownerzmcown

1955
The Warsaw Pact is formed, US and USSR tensions begin to increase. The Cold War Begins.



NATO convenes at the Hague, and decides on a policy of supporting peaceful democracy movements throughout the world.

USA sends 500 instructors to South Vietnam, and gets complete military access to both them and the Phillipines.

1955.5
China, hoping to stem away from the totaltarianism of the Soviet Union, sets up a meeting between them, India, and Indonesia, in China in what is later called the Shanghai Conference. They create a document that is called the Asian Defense and Economic Cooperation Treaty, this is supposed to create better relations and military cooperation between the three countries. Soon the three countries begin talks about creating their own defense union like NATO or the Warsaw Pact.



1956
India, China, and Indonesia meet again in Shanghai and create the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, it operates just like the Warsaw Pact and NATO and is centered in Shanghai.

Talks begin between NATO and Western-alligned powers, such as Persia, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, SK, Japan, etc. to discuss the creation of a worldwide democratic alliance against communism.

The US expands research on weapon systems, primarily primitive ICBMs and MBTs. The US begins production on 19 Roosevelt class carriers. These are intended to be mainly ASW/Support/Command type ships, not full supercarriers like the previous Wasp class.

The US outlines it's internal policy:

Complete nonintervention in the economy, except in cases of consumer fraud.

Abolishment of the income tax, a flat tax rate is established.

Federal Reserve is abolished, all money is either put towards the military or returned to taxpayers as tax credits.

1st amendment is to be stringently upheld, to the point of allowing communists to organize.

Citizenship is offered to all foriegners that have any special scientific, engineering, or really any sort of technical expertise.

1956.5
The SCO decides to hold a conference every year in Shanghai to discucc foreign policy, defense, and economics, also, an offer of participation is extended to Burma, who wholeheartedly accepts the offer, seeing as a way to extend their world influence.

NATO concludes it's talks with the Western-alligned nations, and announces the creation of the Pacific Rim Trade Organisation, which has Japan, SK, Taiwan, S. Vietnam, and The Phillipines as it's members. It, while seemingly independant, is rally just an extension of NATO. It has a headquarters in Tiapei.

NATO and PRTO begin talks with the SCO over preventing the expansion of WP influence.



1957

 * Meanwhile, in Venezuela dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, is making Venezuela the power in South America, having an economic and social boom. He make an election for staying to power until 1963, just some believe the results, tensions starts at the country.
 * Dictators from Venezuela, Colombia, and Paraguay plus Ecuador and Bolivia (which are supported by USA, and specially Venezuela influenced by USA) make a conference to create an economic and political organization, which secretly is under Venezuela's Sphere of Infuence, The Latin American Union is created. Communism which was already wiped from most of this countries is wiped out finally.
 * After the talks with the Western nations and changes in many Soviet policies, a great schism occurs between the USSR and the PRC, they now fully embrace their membership in the SCO and cut off most diplomatic relations between the Soviet government, membership into the SCO is also extended to Laos, which is now still a constitutional monarchy.
 * After a massive media campaign, the USA launches it's first manmade object into space, the Explorer, using a prototype Vanguard ICBM as the delivery system. A new rocket designed specifically for space missions, the Columbus, is designed. By 1959, it is estimated that the US can put a man in space using it. In order to coordinate all the programs concerning space exploration, congress creates a new department known as the Space Exploration and Development Department (SEDD).
 * Due to increasing troop movements throughout Karelia, Finland joins NATO, fearful of a second Russian invasion.

1957.5



 * After long, extensive dealings, the SCO extends their sphere of influence and membership to Nepal. (Laos is a member of the SCO, remember that when making the next map)
 * A common currency is added to the LAU, the Bolivar.
 * NATO offers the LAU engineers to help expand their infastructure, in return for lower oil prices. LAU accepts.
 * Phillipine marines move into North Vietnam, as due several thousand Japanese troops. The South Vietnamese conduct a massive invasion of the North, utilizing democratic guerrillas known as the Viet Cong.

1958

 * This years Shanghai Conference makes a resolution that decides to interevene on Vietnam conflict, they send their own troops into North Vietnam, seeing their communist ideas also as totaltarianism, and soon close in on Hanoi.
 * After a long confernce Uruguay and Dominican Republic with dictator Leonidas Trujillo joins LAU. Franco in Spain support this.
 * a failed coup to overthrown Perez Jimenez happened, soon the secret police create a subdivision to eliminate all people wanting to make coups de'etat.1958_map_game.png
 * In Colombia the dictator is overtrhown, but seeing their prosperity they stay in the LAU.

1958.5

 * Cold War tensions increase when North Vietnam, an ally of the Soviet Union, is now on the verge of being overthrown. In Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, a Soviet soldier kills one West Berlin civilian and one American tourist. Tensions build, since this is the first armed conflict of the Cold War.\


 * In Cuba, LAU, the Cuban Revolution begins. This deeply hurts Cuba's relationship with its' fellow members as the Communist dictatorships comes into place.

1959
Ireland joins the Unaligned Movement after significant harassment from Northern Ireland.

The first nuclear missile, named Big Joe, is launched at an uninhabited Canadian island. It is a 900KT missile.

1960

 * After large amounts of talking and appealing, Thailand is admitted into the SCO.

1960.5
A small border conflict and pressure from surrounding nations force Isreal to join NATO. Palestine, Egypt, and Syria all join the Warsaw pact, fearing a combined NATO force if

war erupted with Israel.

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1961
Due to rising tensions, Spain joins NATO as well.
 * The UK goes into discussions with the USA, Canada and Australia concerning escalating tension in Europe. If Britain were to be caught in the middle of a nuclear conflict then they want a back up plan and they have contacted these countries concerning evacuation of people to these countries and the formation of a government-in-exile. If these plans do not come to fruition then preparations for a system of underground bunkers to be built across the UK begins.
 * US troops are brought into Vietnam in large numbers. The PRTO troops, supported by S. Vietnam, have surrounded Saigon. The US uses it's massive aircraft carriers to bombard the North, destroying much of the roads and bridges north of Saigon. The Viet Cong continue to spread democracy, and much of the smaller villages and hamlets, while ostensibly under Communist control, are technically just extensions of S. Vietnam.
 * The United Republics of Malaysia and Singapore joins the PRTO, and immediately contribute troops to S. Vietnam, mainly in a supporting mode.
 * The Columbus is launched, carrying SEDD astronaut John Glenn. He remains in orbit for 15 hours, and then drops back to Earth 40 miles west of Samoa. He is hailed as a hero, and the idea of the space race (now very one-sided) is born. As the public is enamoured by the idea of space, the US pumps much of it's money originally intended for welfare into space. However, as the standard of living is the highest it's ever been, the money is considered to be well-built. Plans are made for a permenant space station by 1970, while communications sattelites are lauched. These enable the US (and to a lesser extent, NATO and the PRTO) to be able to communicate worldwide with each other. This helps out the campaign in Vietnam greatly.
 * Lebanon and Syria, both with large Orthodox, Coptic, and Syriac populations, join NATO as a result of pressure from the Christians, and the threat of Israel on the border.

1961.5
After diplomatic troubles, Kalingrad (East Prussia) is removed from Russia and is admitted as an independent SSR to the Soviet Union.

A communist coup in Haiti is backed by the USSR and Cuba.

After seeing the reach of the US and PRTO troops as they move in on the North Vietnamese capital, the Chinese and Laotian governments, along with support from the other SCO members begin to build a wall of forts and troops along their borders with North Vietnam.

Sweden begins talks with NATO over incorporating it as a member nation, due to Russia's increasing naval activity in the Baltic.

The Vanguard II ICBMS are put into production. Each has a total of 4 independently-targeted warheads, 1.7 MT each (equivalent to 16 Hiroshimas). The missile itself has a range of 4,000 miles (about Hawaii to Beijing). The current production rate is at 11 per year.

The PRTO denies that it has any goals to invade the SCO, and says it only seeks to reunify Vietnam under a democratic government.



1962
Bhutan, hoping to cash in on the wealth of the SCO's economy, joins the organization and soon is able to grow its economy greatly mainly becuase its a major crossroad between China, India, and Thailand.

The US stations it's first batch of Vanguard II missiles throughout western Europe.

Talks continue with Sweden over NATO integration.

Due to recent advances in weapons development, the US (and NATO as a whole) begins to upgrade their M-14's to M-14A2, which utilizes a 30-round double column magazine, as well as fiberglass stocks and an optics rail. Many surplus M-14's are shipped to various democracy movements worldwide.



1962.5
Through careful persuasion and promises of wealth and a larger military, Thailand is admitted to the SCO.

The SCO and the PRTO (and, indirectly, NATO) begin talks on what to do with North Korea.

PRTO stance: Complete integration of N. Korea into Korea itself, using military force if needed.

SCO stance: Also to complete the integration of both Koreas, but through the absolute use of force and partially through diplomacy.

Both agree to put diplomatic pressure on NK, and, that failing, (obviously), they would gradually apply economic sanctions, and if NK doesn't give in by 1975, military action will be taken by both groups.

Sweden is finally admitted into NATO after intense debate.

N. Vietnam finally capitulates, and the Republic of Vietnam is created. A sort of democratic nationalism begins to take hold in the PRTO, which really doesn't effect anything phisically, but ties between the member states increase, as do ties with NATO collectively.



In order to lessen the increasing ethnic tensions between Turks and Kurds, the nation of Kurdistan is established. However, Kurds being both economically and socially conservative, it joins NATO with open arms.

Persia is admitted to NATO, in return for free improvement of their infastructure.

1963

 * After the LAU 1963 conference, Peru joins LAU.
 * The design of the Silver Tower space station is completed. It is designed to take 11 astronauts, and 4 Navy personnel. While ostensibly a research base, (it actually is), it's main job is to fuction as a communications and targeting hub for the developing NATO missile defense network. It also has 12 anti-missile missiles, designed to take out ICBMs as they enter suborbital space. It is planned to be launched in pieces, starting in 1966 and ending in 1969, with it being manned by 1974.
 * Czechslovakia gets a new leader who isn't just a puppet of the Soviets. Although Czechslovakia is still part of the Warsaw Pact, it is now fully independent, the first that two states of the Warsaw Pact are equals diplomatically.
 * After an attack by Pakistani forces on patroling Indian troops along their common border, the SCO declares war on Pakistan and sends a total 1,200,000 troops into Pakistan through its border with India and China, around 8,000 tanks soon follow these troops and they themselves are followed by a large series of fighter escorted bombers which bomb many vital Pakistan industrial centers including Islamabad and Karachi.


 * Britain immediatly condemns the war (as both nations are Commonwealth, and, by extension, part of the UK). NATO calls for an immediate halting of the war, with borders restored to antebellum status. NATO and the PRTO threaten sanctions on both nations if they don't immediately call a ceasefire.
 * The USA's CFI is the highest of any nations (and still climbing), while it's GDP is rising as well.

1963.5

 * After threats of sanctions on their economies, the SCO declares a unilateral ceasfire with Pakistan and pulls their forces out of Pakistan, which is by now still devestated by the enemy bombing attacks and tank battles. The SCO also remembers the Battle of Kalasha Valley, in which thousands of their troops were slaughtered because they were equipped different models of rifles and tanks, which required different types of ammunition and different amounts of fuel. They push their scientists and military experts to come up with a common rifle and tank model that not only can be accepted by all members, but also excells on the battlefield.
 * NATO and the PRTO accept the M-14A2 as their universal standard rifle. Development begins on the Oberon, a new tank that is designed to be able to not only take down other comparable MBTs, but also be small, quick, and verastile enough to fight effectively in urban enviroments.
 * Talks begin within Australia and NZ over integration with the PRTO, on one hand, it would cause both nation's status to be elevated throughout the world, and would most likely improve their economy, on the othe hand, it would strain relations with Indonesia, which are already becoming tense over Aust. supporting of East Timor's independence.

1964

 * After a Conference of the LAU with other Latin American states, Guatemala and Honduras join LAU.
 * The SCO scientists, after months of study and development finally develop a universal rifle to be put into use for all SCO nations, the model is called the Type 56, orginally to be put into mass-production by the Chinese army, the project was postponed by the creation of the SCO. The rifle is a smash hit with all the member governments and almost instantly millions of the modle are ordered and put into use in all SCO armies ASAP.