User:Gillan1220/Sandbox/The Era of Relative Peace

My ideas for the timeline of The Era of Relative Peace.

World War III
Counter-coup in the Soviet Union. Hardliners arrested. Moderate government takes over and free Mikhail Gorbachev from the Lubyanka Prison. Gorbachev orders all troops fighting in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America to withdraw. Date: August 1990?

Peace talks: September 16, 1990 in Geneva.

Soviet Union
Majority of Soviet satellite states declare independence. Soviet Union holds out for another year before dissolving in 1993 as the Russian Federation (two years later than OTL). Similar to OTL, Gorbachev resigns and the position of the President of Russia goes down to Boris Yeltsin. The Post-USSR states would include most countries that became independent OTL (Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakstan, etc.) as well as separatist areas in Russia OTL (Chechnya, Dagestan, South Ossetia, etc).

China
The People's Republic of China breaks up to the following states: Despite Hong Kong being invaded, the British government recognized the CFU as a moderate democracy and was able to renegotiate the handover with the new Chinese regime. Handover is the same as OTL (July 1, 1997).
 * Chinese Federated Union
 * Ughyurstan
 * Tibet
 * Taiwan (Independent on October 1, 1991)

The Rest of the Iron Curtain
East Germany and West Germany unite more or less the same as OTL

Western World
The end of World War III flourished the dominance of the American culture worldwide. Britian, despite being one of the victors, was affected when some of its overseas possessions were invaded. It projected the end of the British Empire (see Hong Kong above).

Yugoslavia
I still have to determine what would happen to Yugoslavia. It may possibe the ethnic clashes took place earlier, becoming a front during WWIII.