World of Warsaw

Following the Second World War, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as new superpowers. The major point of divergence in World of Warsaw begins around 1960 with the United States suffering embarassing losses against communist forces in Vietnam, Angola, and Grenada. The increased spending on defenses by the Reagan administration sends the American deficit far too high, plunging the United States into a deep depression in 1987. In 1988, newly elected President Michael Dukakis vows to lead the United States out of the depression and calls off the Cold War. The underfunded American military is forced to withdraw from their bases in Western Europe, South Korea, the Philippines, and Japan. North Korea launches an attack on their southern neighbor and completely conquers it, absorbing it into their state and forming a single Korean communist state. The Arab League and Israel break their peace treaty and Israel is suddenly surrounded by enemy troops. However, the Soviet Union intervenes on behalf of Israel, saving the country but making it into a Soviet client state in the process. By the year 2000, the United States has split into several different states: the Republic of California consisting of California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana; Rushmore, consisting of North and South Dakota; the Mormon Republic, consisting of Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado; the Republic of Arizona, consisting of Arizona and New Mexico; the Midwest American Republic, consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin; the Republic of Texas, which also controls Mexico as a puppet state; Georgia; the Second American Confederacy, consisting of Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia; the Republic of Carolina; and the rump United States of America, now consiting only of New York, Pennsylavania, New Jersey, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Hawaii. Following the dissolution of the United States, Cuba came to control Florida and Alaska was sold back to Russia, becoming the Alaskan Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.