Lore Progress Tracker

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Only include things relevant to the SW and this milestone, but please leave pre-SW context if necessary. List consensuses and to-dos here.

Google Docs list

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North America

SW Timeline of North America

Put overarching SW timelines/details for North America here. For country specific information, check country-specific section.

Pre-SW Context

• 1931: NNL & Mexico start winding down their economic and political rivalry in the aftermath of the Floridian revolution.
• 1935: NNL & Mexico have joint talks about the "European threats".
• 1937: New England Independence supported by NNL, Mexico & Virginia
• 1937: Tussenland pulls out of the Great War in fear of the North American alliance forming- American first parties win power
• 1937: Mexico and NNL supports Cuban rebels

SW Part 1 (1935-1965)

• 1940: Russia reorganizes Alyeska into a new Autonomous National Republic (protests ensure from Alyeskans who aren't happy with the more direct rule)
• 1940: New France starts sliding into Anglo sphere.
• 1941: The Westerzee National Movement starts agitating for a Boer-state in the pacific north-west.
• 1942: The British start a process of heavy modernization of their Rupertsland & Greenlandic military bases and depots
• 1943: AFS starts building strong ties with the RNR.
• 1943: Mexico & NNL become more concerned with Russian and British encroachment on the continent and talks begin in Tussenlandt for closer ties.
• 1944: Fears of insurgencies in South America and rumors of Russian agents in the ACB islands threatens NNL government.
• 1945: Tensions continue to rise- (British spy discovered sabotaging Mexican Nuclear program?, or maybe something with the Canal?)
• 1948: In a united effort, which includes the formation of a so called American security council Tussenland, Mexico, Virginia, NNL and NE meet to discuss a path forward for pushing European influence out of North America (maybe have success in swaying New France)
• 1949: More formal talks start on the creation of a permanent structure of American cooperation are accelerated when a British bases in Rupertsland is discovered to be outfitted with (Nuclear armed?) long distance bombers (maybe they perform exercises over Tussenland airspace?)
• 1950: American leaders meet in Tussenland to start the formal negotiations of what would eventually become the ANAN

SW Part 2 (1965-1985)

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Country-specific

Alyeska

• 1940: Alyeska was made into an Autonomous National Republic. Unpopular move within Alyeska.
• 1968: Russian oil tanker disaster in Alyeska.
• 1978-1979: Alyeskan War of Independence

Amerikaens Free State

Pre-SW context

• 1938: Goudpaerdt family returns to power, with the election of Goedelt Goudpaerdt as president. Starts sliding in to Russian influence.

SW

• 1941-1953: Supported Amerikaener rebels in the Westerzee Troubles.
• 1953: ANAN-backed coup ousted the Goudpaerdt family from power, replaced by De Clercq family (Pro-ANAN)
• 1953: Treaty of Etersheym ended the Westerzee Troubles

Florida

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Mexico

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New England

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New France

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New Netherland

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Opdamsland

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Rupert's Land

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South Tussenland

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Tussenland

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Virginia

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South America

Brasil

• 1935-1939: Brasil enters the Great War(1935-1939) on the Cordial League side.
• 1944: Equador suffers a National Republican military coup.

Guyana

• Pre-SW context: Becomes penal colony of Britain ITTL.

Carolina

• Pre-SW context: Lore basics to about 1850 are complete, with the British buy the Rio de la plata territory from the Spanish after the great Silesian war and early British settlement of the region complete. Post 1850 a war between argentine successionists is planned but lore is vague.

Peru

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Colombia

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Palissandria

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Paraguay

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Europe

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East Asia

Pre-SW context:

• 1931: The National Reform Party dismantles the Cantonese monarchy. The RNU welcomes this development. Britain and France are alarmed but do not intervene as the event came as a result of a peaceful and democratic process. Country is renamed the Wah-hah Republic (華夏民國, Huaxia/ wah-hah man-kwok)
• 1931: 2nd Sino-Corean War: A knee-jerk reaction by Corea, pre-emptively invading the Great Qing before it could fall under the hands of Huaxia. This violated the treaty they had with Russia. Kingdom of Haboek is established as a puppet state in Hebei, China.
• 1932-1935: Russo-Corean War (NL+Corea vs Russia+Japan+Canton)

Middle East

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South East Asia (Indonesia and Indochina)

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The Philippines

• Pre-1950 lore too long for progress page. Moved to Talk:Philippines.
• Need to work on Soenda-Philippines War

Central Asia

• Trans-Himalayan War of 1967.

Oceania and the Pacific Isles

SW Timeline

• 1932-35 – Georgian involvement in the great war as part of the greater British Commonwealth war effort.
• 1939 - Union of the crown colony of Parmelia with the Dominion of Georgia.

• 1941 – Independence of Fiji
• 1943 - Establishment of Commonwealth of Georgia
• 1944 – Formation of Quamilarai, current Australian capital
• 1946 - Australian-Russian Treaty of Cooperation and Amity (TARCA)
• 1952 – Establishment of New Zealand as a French constitutional part, with departments of Rochefort, Jacquesville and Awaroi
• 1956 – Establishment of Tolongasport, capital of Georgia
• 1962 – First migration wave from East Indies
• 1969 – Second migration wave from East Indies
• 1971 – Civil Rights Act of Georgia, giving full civil rights Chinese, Indians and other ethnic minorities as well as banning public discrimination.
• 1974 – Establishment of New Batavia as a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
• 1976 – Settlement Law of New Batavia and construction of new cities
• 1981 – Australian Act of Aboriginals

Australie

• Pre-SW context:
  • 1877 - Independence (1st Australien revolt, ends when communard rev ends)
  • 1917 - 2nd Australian revolt, afterwards the more autocratic government cracks down hard and sends in a wave of French settlers to act as a favored group in Australian administration.
  • 1935 - GW starts, the French navy invades British Tasmania, & starts mobilizing for invading Georgia -
  • 1936 - start of the Australia Guerilla war led by anti-French creoles armed by the British
  • 1937 - Australia declares independence, French retreat to New Zealand and firebomb Australian cities as they retreat

South Pacific

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Cold War Timeline

Might contain outdated info: especially re: "Indonesia War" portion (supposed to be EIC)

• 1938-1940: End of the Great War, the breaking up of Austrian and Ottoman empires and the the dividing up of Europe into various spheres of influence.
• 1941-1945: Cuban civil war. After joint Mexican-NNL support for Anti British Cuban rebels, the British are kicked out of Cuba. This cooperation leads to the formation of the ANAN in 1951.
• 1945-1946: Overthrow of the Sultanate of Turkey and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Turkey
• 1946: Signing of the Antarctic Treaty (1946)
• 1951-1956: Japanese Civil War. After the end of the great war, Anti-Russian Japanese leader rally start a rebellion against the Japanese state. Their qualms are that Japanese interests were subsumed by Russian ones, they want the return of Japanese land and they didn't get as much land as promised from the Russo-Corean war. After two years of intense fighting between Russian and Japanese forces, and then the other three years of insurgency fighting in the mountains Japan is split between East and West Japan with one side being British backed the other side being Russian backed.
• 1961-1975: Indonesia War. A major war of decolonization occurs in Indonesia as Dutch rule over the islands start to wane. Leads to a Dutch exodus of the region (but they keep Dutch Australia as a place for Dutch and Indos living in the former colony to move to). In 1975 the Dutch officially pull out and recognize Indonesian independence, leading to the Dutch realigning themselves to the nonaligned block).
• 1979: Collapse of the Russian Nationalist Regime amidst large scale civilian rebellions.
• 1980: The end of the cold war leading to the creation of the new Russian State, as well as the start of the British recession.

Urban geography

See: Urban Geography (internal)