Notice to reader:
Now this isn't technically a chapter of my story. As title suggest, this is a simple time-line acting as a prologue to the coming story. So no need to go WTF!!! THIS STORY TOTALLY SUCKS!1!!!!1!!!111!
I guarantee, there will be one
This story is a usual Harry Potter fic (Cept there's no Harry, Just OC's) only with a twist, the main perspective follows a squad of muggle soldiers during an alternate history in which JFK was assassinated a few years early and it affected the rest of history to the point that WWIII was declared
Also take note that this timeline was a major pain in the ass to make. Creating a believble alternate history isnt as easy as it sounds, so if anything here seems like it was from a movie or book you may have seen...well then that cause it probably was.
Please don't get pissed, the ideas don't belong to me; most were from Red Storm Rising, World In Conflict, Harry Turtledove's novels and Red Dawn
I own nothing; Not Harry Potter, not a Tom Clancy classic, nothing
So please enjoy this preview into a world where Magic exists and a Cold War went Hot
August 10, 1962 - President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by a Soviet sympathizing Police Officer. His Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson takes office
October 16, 1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis begins
October 29, 1962 - Without JFK's leadership, the Crisis remains at a stand still, with no side wishing to take action and Russian missile bases remaining in Cuba
August 4, 1964 - The Vietnam War begins
April 11, 1966 - A military coup in China commences, the original Chinese leadership is replaced by a Pro-Soviet Communist party
March 2, 1969 - China officially joins the Warsaw Pact causing great anxiety and tension within NATO
July 21, 1969 - The Apollo 11 mission take a turn for the worst as the US shuttle breaks apart as it exits Earth's gravity. With all three crewmen killed and the morale of the country at an all time low, the Apollo Project is cancelled and it's funds are instead used for new military research. The Soviet Union officially wins the Space Race and gains Spectral Dominance over the planet
July 25, 1969 - US troop withdrawals begin in South Vietnam
March 18, 1970 - Civil War grips Cambodia
March 25, 1971 - Bangladesh breaks off from Pakistan and declares independence sparking a war between the two Nations
December 16, 1971 - Joint Bangladesh and Indian forces are shocked to find Soviet weaponry supplied to Pakistan who immerges the victor in the conflict. The short lived Republic of Bangladesh is once again absorbed into Pakistan
January 27, 1973 - The American involvement in both Vietnam and Cambodia ends in a massive pullout, leaving local forces to take the blunt of the fighting
April 17, 1973 - Communism takes control of Cambodia, mass genocides begin within the territory
April 30, 1973 - North Vietnam invades South Vietnam. The South surrenders and Vietnam is united under a Communist government
June 25, 1975 - The Angolan Civil War breaks out. Tensions between the US and USSR grow with the conflict
December 24, 1979 - The USSR invades Afghanistan in order to save the crumbling Communist regime there
March 21, 1980 - The United States and NATO boycotts the Summer Olympics in being held in Moscow
January 20, 1981 - Ronald Reagan becomes president
June 6, 1982 - Israel invades Lebanon
October 25, 1983 - US forces invade Grenada
March 11, 1985 - Politician Mikhail Gorbachev is assassinated during his quest to become head of the Soviet Union
January 23, 1986 - Pakistan joins the Warsaw Pact
April 18, 1986 - French and American Air Forces begin operations against Communist Libya, eventual ceasefire called when the Soviet Union threatens action
May 15, 1988 - Soviet troops are on the verge of victory in Afghanistan, this comes to a shock to the US command
February 2, 1989 - The USSR spends funds to train, arm and militarize those loyal to Communist rule in Afghanistan. Within time, Afghanistan becomes a great power in the Middle East, militarily rivaling that of Israel
November 8, 1989 - West German terrorists bomb the Berlin Wall, resulting in a large chunk being destroyed. Guards on the Eastern side open fire, nearly 50 civilians are killed. Tensions between world superpowers reach critical levels
September 13, 1991 - An emergency summit is called upon in the Soviet Union. Discussions go underway as to what to do about the growing economy problems
January 27, 1993 - As a last resort, Soviet leaders blackmail Western Europe. They demanded the aid they need else they would take it by force. NATO commanders and Western Government officials took the threats as a bluff
February 10, 1993 - Large amounts of military forces from Warsaw Pact members built-up along the Iron Curtain
March 31, 1993 - Western Europe's deadline for an answer to the USSR expires
April 1, 1993 - A massive, devastating and swift Communist invasion tears right into Western Germany
April 3, 1993 - World War III is declared
August 12, 1995 - Europe is engulfed by war
November 4, 1995 - Amphibious invasion of France begins
November 29, 1995 - Washington DC is obliterated by a low yield nuclear device. Soviet army units invade Seattle, San Francisco and New York City
November 31, 1995 - Moscow is destroyed in a nuclear retaliation strike
October 19, 1995 - The offensive in both France and Western states are halted
January 26, 1996 - US Homeland defense declare that New York and other Northern states are free of Soviet occupation. Last remaining Red army troops are stationed in positions along the West Coast
February 14, 1996 - Chinese troops reinforce the Russian forces occupying the US
August 11, 1996 - Despite heavy losses, NATO slowly begins to turn the tide in Europe. Odds also begin to turn for the US troops stateside
December 19, 1996 - Mainland United States is declared liberated and free from invaders
February 21, 1997 - Beginning to run low on supplies, troops and funds, Soviet leaders plan their next desperate offensive
March 24, 1997 - Present Day