Timeline (Ready for the Mother Country)

1918 - Tsar Alexei escapes with his mother from a Bolshevik prison. In retaliation, the rest of his family are wiped out. With nowhere else to go to, Alexei assumes command of the White army. His more competent leadership helps Russia to victory

1921 - A Co-Ordinated White/Blue assault on the Urals cuts off Vladivostok from the Bolsheviks.

1922 - By now, Lenin surrenders along with the rest of the remaining Bolshevik chain of Command (Trotsky apparently fled, although he was never seen again). Tsar Alexei immediately orders their execution by firing squad. To prevent martyrdom, Alexei shows Bolshevik hoarding of grain. The youngest Romanov Tsar at 17 is crowned on June 4 1922.

The Tsar begins modernization plans, awarding contracts to oil companies to drill the oil field in the Caucasus.

1923 - The Young Tsar, heeding the advice of President Calvin Coolidge and Chang Kai Sheik, drafts a constitution for Russia with a strong Duma and Judiciary. Mikoyan-Gurevich corporation is set up.

1924 - The Petrograd military academy is set up for officers. It is based on West Point.

1929 - The Wall street crash occurs. Russia, despite the Government's best efforts suffers a famine.

1933 - The Nazi party come to power in Germany under Adolf Hitler. Tsar Alexei is wary of Hitler, given the racist diatribes about "lebensraum" and the "Herrenvolk". Russia is also wary of the Japanese coming into play, so Alexei begins talks with Franklin Roosevelt for protection from the Nazis in the Bering Strait alliance.

1934 - After Manchuria is annexed, Alexei transfers Georgy Zhukov to Russian Manchuria.

1935 - Riding a wave of new imperialism and antisemitism, Oswald Mosley is elected prime minister of Great Britain. The Bering Strait Alliance admits Mexico and becomes the Alliance.

1936 - France and China join the Alliance.

1937 - The T-34 tank enters mass production. Persia joins the Alliance.

1938 - The Anti-Comintern Pact, or Axis, is signed by Germany, Britain, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Iraq, India, Canada and Australia. Holland joins the Alliance along with Poland, Hungary, Romania (the Iron Guard never got into power), Yugoslavia, Greece and Czechoslovakia. Bulagaria joins the Anti-Comintern pact with Norway, Denmark, Turkey and Albania. Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia join the Alliance.

1939 - The Second Great War Breaks out. Britain invades the United States with Japan, Germany and Japan begin invasions of Russia and China. Within days, Vladivostok has fallen. In Europe, France has fallen after 6 months.

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1941 - Tsar Alexei orders that the Russian government evacuate to Astana under contingency 9 - to be used in the event of Petrograd or Moscow being overrun. the Alliance begins taking heavy losses, with the US Government evacuating to Fort Worth, Texas. Colonel Charles Lindbergh of the Air Force is killed when British spitfires shoot down his mustang.

1944 - The Russians destroy the German attack force at Tsaritsyn.

1945 - Vladivostok is liberated. Russian forces begin the push into Korea.

1946 - Tsar Alexei dies of Haemophlia after being hit by a stray bullet. A Junta of Generals led by Timoshenko and Zhukov assume temporary control. President Franklin Roosevelt pays tribute saying "this would never have been possible without you. Robert Goddard completes the first nuclear missile (he lived longer ATL due to the throat cancer going into remission).  At the same time, the atomic bomb is completed in West Texas.  Tsar Vladimir I is crowned in Astana.

1947 - Nuclear missiles are fired from silos in Virginia and Montana. They all hit their destinations of Tokyo, Berlin, London, Rio De Janeiro, Sydney, Johannesburg and Montreal. The Second great war is over with 100 million casualties and massive radioactive fallout. President Roosevelt meets with Tsar Vladimir to discuss the treaty of Mexico City. This treaty cedes Canada to America alongside the German corridor to Russia as well as breaking up the Anschluss. China got Manchuria and Korea became independent. The leaders of the Axis, Hitler, Heydrich, Mosley, Himmler, Tojo etc. were tried in Munich where they were shot shortly afterward.

2001 - Terrorists destroy the World Trade Centre and St Peter's Cathedral.