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 (the official claim is that the members are of Foshan, Guangdong descent), 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 catastrophic earthquake struck his hometown.

1912: Former Qing official Yuan Shikai strips Sun Yat-sen of his presidency of China. Zhong's brother 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 Zhong's and KMT efforts, after a brief period 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 Wenhan 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 Zhong's 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 immigrants in Palestine has prompted the Chinese to intervene, giving more places to the diaspora in New Guinea.

1941:
 * Chinese counter-attack in Beijing, Shanghai and northeast territory. The Treaty of Nanjing forces 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 signed by US, Soviet and Chinese leaders. Its details are:
 * Europe will be divided between the Americans, who occupy the West as well as south of East Prussia (now renamed as Konisberg), and the Soviet Union who occupies the rest that includes the north of East Prussia (Kaliningrad SSR).
 * China will re-administer 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 overthrows the Japanese-puppet government there.
 * May: The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence is announced just as in OTL. Now that Vietnam comprise the entire Indochinese peninsula. Afterwards, works begin on obliterating the famine and illiteracy that swept the country before.
 * September: China installs home-rule governments in Tibet, Xinjiang and Mongolia.

Cold War
1946
 * January: The Commonwealth of Indochina is established that encompasses Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, with the government modeled after the Soviet and Chinese customs.
 * September: France returns to Indochina for re-occupation. 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 help if necessary.

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

1948
 * In the historical land of Palestine, the Jewish state of Israel is created. Those who stayed in  New Guinea create another Jewish nation there, which is known to the world as Federation of New Guinea.
 * 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, which consists of Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia, in Soviet zone are created simultaneously in Europe.
 * America annexes Cuba as its 49th state after a coup in that country.

1950
 * The Act of Succession: Europe directly administer former member nations’ colonies (Falkland Island, Polynesia, Hong Kong, Macau) as foreign individuals, with the two latter's administration will end after 20 years. Europe also annex Libya and Tunisia for economic issues. Dutch Antilles, Bahamas, Bermuda and Jamaica will hold a referendum to decide whether to join the United States as territories or not (surprisingly all of them agreed and they are unofficially incorporated later). Australia will have a Confederacy of its own.

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

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

1955
 * The Pacific and Indian Ocean Coalition (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.
 * In what would later become the first democratic presidential vote in China, Liu Shaoqi is elected the President of China.

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

1958:
 * Alaska, Hawaii and the Marshall Islands are admitted as 50th, 51st and 52nd state of the United States.

1960: 1961
 * The victory of Dong Khoi movement creates a pro-Soviet government just south of pro-US Saigon government, 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 northeastern-most of Germany to Debelirtic 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 People's Republic there. Later in the year, Burma conducts an invasion of Thailand to regain the territory that belonged to the glorious Taungoo Empire.

1963:
 * Federation of Malaysia is created. Because of the situation in Burma, this nation manages to unite in diversity between Malays, Chinese and Tamils (citizens in all these races can vote to the Parliament, and is equal in political rights). This kind of union still occurs to the present day.
 * Philippines makes the alignment with USA thanks to Ferdinand Marcos.

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

1967
 * The Philippine Missile Crisis based on suggestions that China intervenes in the war of Indochina, with the US is suspected to carry its nuclear missile to the Philippines for its national protection. In the aftermath, a truce is concluded in which America removes its missile from Philippines, and China ceases its intervention in the War.
 * Television Broadcast Limited (TVB) opens as the first cable television system in Hong Kong.
 * Thanom Kittikachorn conducts a series of modernization programs that would lead to a period known as "Miracle in Thailand". This nation has becomes one of the four tigers in Asia that also includes Korea, Malaysia and New Guinea.

1968
 * Soviet Union funds the Tet Offensive, which is largely successful 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. Some says it is a lobbyist, but there is nothing to prove such an idea. Now that the Saigon government is shattered beyond recovery.
 * 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, to be mourned by millions of people across the nation and the world.
 * The final meeting of South Vietnamese congress announcing the dissolution of Republic of Indochina and the re-unification to the North. Saigon is taken peacefully by North Vietnam and the Liberation Front.
 * Asteroid mining makes a debut thanks to NASA, beginning in America.

1971
 * After a crisis in October 1970 that saw the secession of Quebec from Canada, the short-lived Republic of Quebec is now willing to join the United States. It is later admitted as its 53rd state. Rest of Canada does so in later times, with new states created includes Yukon (also encompass Northern Territories and Yukon), Jefferson (former British Columbia), Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New England (encompass Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick). Now the United States has 60 states.
 * 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 Bangladesh.

1972
 * Celestial Entertainment opens in Guangzhou, 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 New Guineans) are rescued.

1973
 * China launches its device to the Moon and also participate in asteroid mining.

1974
 * PC is now widely used by 50% of humanity. Many are concerned about a cyber attack, but in this period everything is under control.
 * Thanom Kittikachorn, who refused to resign a year earlier (unlike OTL), is assassinated by an official who cries out for democracy.

1975
 * April 30: Fall of Islamabad and the annexation of Pakistan as well as Bangladesh into India.
 * Deng Xiaoping, a reformist, enters presidency.
 * Group of Six (G6) is formed to include United States, European Federation, China, Korea and Japan, to be later joined by Australia (1979), Brazil (1985), Soviet Union (1987) and India (1995), known today as Group of Ten (G10).
 * Locally-made commercial airplane debut and first flight in China, made by Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation.

1976
 * India becomes a Tribal Confederacy between Hindus, Muslims and the Sikhs.
 * The SEATO dissolves. Australia, Thailand and Philippines join the PIC.
 * Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos is overthrown, tried and imprisoned in China for "crimes against the Philippine people".
 * 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.
 * The Indochinese nations, while active in the Commonwealth, join the United Nations and Non-Aligned Movement, declaring neutral from all spheres of influence, still have the normal relationships to the world.
 * 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 benefited from the agreement.
 * May 29: Zhong Wenhan's wife Soong Ching-ling succumbs to her illness and dies, having been a Honorary President of China for days.

1984: The Green Revolution begins in Europe, then spreads to North America, Singapore, Japan and Korea, and later, the world.

1985: A specialized school is built in Hanoi to educate the students who are specialized in all subjects. It is named Alfred Nobel Middle and High School (OTL: Hanoi - Amsterdam High School) based on the friendship between Vietnam and Sweden (Alfred Nobel is a Swedish national figure). At the same time in India, the Asahi University is also built to commemorate the Japanese support of the country.

1987: The European protectorate of North Africa is granted the Dominion Status. At the meantime, North Africa co-operates with Europe to build desalination plants as well as solar plants.

1986: Mission to Mars occurs.

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

1988: Zhong Wenhan finally returns to San Francisco.

1992: February 13: Wenhan dies peacefully in San Francisco, USA, aged 111. His state funeral in China, which goes alongside a ceremonial funeral in San Francisco, is the largest in world history, surpassing the one for Josip Broz Tito. Due to his wishes, he is to be buried in his ancestral home in Foshan, Guangdong, China.

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

2001: September 11: America and Europe are under African terrorist attacks, with several buildings (including the WTC and the Buckingham) suffer severe damages. The US and EF manage to track down the plotters, and in the following years, the US, EF and China form the United Nations Multinational Forces to counter global terrorism.

2013: October 4: Indochinese guerrilla general Vo Nguyen Giap dies at age 102. A series of state funerals in his honour are held simultaneously in Vietnam and all of South East Asia.