Timeline

This is the full series of events of the Roterkrieg timeline.

1910s
Everything up until 1916 is the same as our timeline.

1916

 *  November : Charles Evans Hughes wins the 1916 United States presidential election for the Republican Party, beating Democrat incumbent Woodrow Wilson. Hughes promises to maintain neutrality from the war in Europe and focus on Mexico.
 *  December : Battle of Verdun ends with 550,000 French and 450,000 German casualties. It results in a French victory.

1917

 *  February : Despite German submarine attacks on American supply ships, President Hughes holds firm that America will not join the war. Hughes cuts diplomatic ties with Germany but ignores pressures from the Entente to join.
 * February Revolution results in new Provisional Government taking control. Despite this, fighting continues with Kerensky as Minister of War.
 *  April : The United States turns its eyes south to focus on the ongoing Mexican Revolution. President Hughes looks to establish an American sphere in Mexico.
 *  July : Kerensky Offensive results in a detrimental defeat.
 *  November : October Revolution results in the Bolsheviks taking charge. Vladimir Lenin becomes leader of Soviet Russia.
 *  December : Soviet Russia signs an armistice with Germany.

1918

 *  January : Woodrow Wilson becomes an international figure, calling for peace and states that Hughes should have entered the war. President Hughes remains adamant that the United States is doing enough.
 *  March : The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk pulls Soviet Russia out the war.
 * Germany focuses on the Western Front.
 *  April : Offensives on both sides result in deadlocks and stalemates.
 * Britain under David Lloyd George reaffirms the need for the United States, but is rejected.
 *  August : Germany and Britain face industrial and economic turmoil as the war worsens.
 * September: Entente forces attempt an attack at Meusse-Argonne, but are ultimately forced back into a stalemate.
 *  November : Rising pressure amounts to Kaiser Wilhelm II demanding the people 'hold firm' and 'fight on'.
 *  December : Beginning of the 'Bleak Christmas' riots on both sides.

1919

 *  January : 'Bleak Christmas' riots hit Germany close and the Kaiser makes a public appearance. He is shot at but survives.
 *  February : Kaiser Wilhelm II agrees to abdication to boost moral of the German army.
 *  March : 'Bleak Christmas' riots in Germany spill out to pro-Marxist demonstrations.
 *  May : Entente troops push the German lines back and the German government agrees to surrender.
 *  June : Paris Peace Conference begins.
 * German revolutionaries prepare for uprisings.
 *  September : The 'Branston Meeting' between top German socialist politicians. Demonstrations planned in 1920.
 *  December : Treaty of Versailles is agreed.

1920

 *  January : Treaty of Versailles takes effect. Wounds are damaging on the German economy and industry. Riots and rebellions begin.
 * Prohibition begins in the United States, ratified under the Volstead Act.
 *  March : The 'Red Banner' waves in Berlin as workers rise up. The Spartacist Revolution is conducted. Karl Liebknecht takes command, and orders the workers to storm the Reichstag. Communists hold the Reichstag until the government ratifies socialist victory. Karl Liebknecht takes command of Germany.
 * The German government flees majorly to East Prussia, forming a de facto government in the region, the German Free State, protected by Poland. Others are exiled to Austria.
 *  April : British Cabinet debate on whether to intervene in Germany. David Lloyd George's Cabinet divided.
 * President Hughes states that "Germany has chosen her path, and we should leave her to it".
 *  June : Eastern and Southern European states, such as Italy, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, agree to recognise the Free State as the rightful legitimate Germany.
 * Karl Liebknecht announces the formation of the German Socialist Republic (DSR) with German Spartacism as its main ideology.
 *  July : British workers and soldiers protest in London over possibility of a second war so soon after the first. British Cabinet announce no intentions of intervening in Germany.
 * Britain and France agree to recognise the German Socialist Republic.
 *  September : The Russian Civil War ends, due to White Movement disorganisation and the brilliant military manoeuvres of Leon Trotsky. The Bolsheviks fully secure power.
 *  October : The 'Rotebindung' agreement is signed between the DSR and Soviet Russia. Germany joins the Comintern.
 * President Hughes' newfound unpopularity leads him to announce he will not be running for a second term.
 *  November : Warren G. Harding wins the 1920 Presidential election on behalf of the Republican Party.
 * T. E. Lawrence leads the British in helping the Hashemites in the Arabian Wars.
 *  December : Liebknecht promises elections in Germany. He forms the Rat der Kommissare, the main governing politburo of Germany. Only Spartacist-approved politicians can run for a seat.

1921

 *  January : Official start of the 'Hostile Peace' between the European powers and the German Socialist Republic.
 *  February : President Harding is the first American to visit the new German state, being one of the first nations to open formal and official relations with the country. Anti-Socialism still remains heavy in the United States, however.
 *  April : 'Die Drei Generäle', aka Paul von Hindenburg, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and Erich Ludendorff take control of the German Free State, establishing military control. They constantly bicker over how to establish the state.
 *  July : Irish War of Independence concludes, beginning the Irish Civil War.

1922

 *  April : Britain, France and Belgium found the Council of Allies. The United States is also invited to join, but refuses.
 *  August : The Empire of Japan, the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Italy joins the Council of Allies.
 *  October : The March on Rome results in Benito Mussolini becoming the Fascist dictator of the Kingdom of Italy. Italy is pulled out of the Council of Allies, as Mussolini is still sour about the betrayal over the 1915 Pact of London.
 *  December : Soviet Russia merges with other socialist republics and forms the Soviet Union, to expand their influence and to combat the growing communist dominance of the Germans.

1923

 *  April : Poland and Austria join the Council of Allies.
 *  May : Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the first time as part of the Conservatives.
 *  July : The Arabian Wars finish. The British and the Hashemites together establish the Hashemite Kingdom of Arabia.
 *  August : Warren Harding dies, resulting in his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge, becoming President.

1924

 *  January : Vladimir Lenin, leader of the USSR, dies, starting a power vacuum. From it, emerges Joseph Stalin.
 * Stanley Baldwin loses Prime Minister to Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party in a minority government.
 *  November : Calvin Coolidge wins the 1924 Presidential election for the Republicans.
 * Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister again.
 *  December : Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia join the Council of Allies.

1925

 *  January : Assassination attempts on crime boss Johnny Torrio bring Alphonse Capone into the limelight of the criminal underworld as head of the Chicago Outfit.
 *  April : British Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill returns Britain to the Gold Standard.
 *  August : The Chinese Civil War begins between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China.
 *  October : Volksführer Karl Liebknecht is declared unable to rule following terminal cancer of the brain and mental redundancy. A triumvirate forms of Ernst Thälmann, August Thalheimer and Walter Ulbricht.

1926

 *  January : Thalheimer throws support behind Thälmann to become the new Volksführer.
 *  February : Ulbricht presents the Testament of the Volksführer, a potentially-fabricated document decreeing that Ulbricht was the rightful chosen heir of Liebknecht.
 *  March : Ulbricht is declared the new Volksführer. Thälmann and Thalheimer are granted Home Minister and Foreign Minister of Germany respectively, becoming known as the Governing Triumvirate.
 *  April : Karl Liebknecht, the first Volksführer of Germany, dies. A state funeral is held in his honour.
 *  May : Britain undergoes a General Strike. The government fears a revolution similar to Germany, and it is swiftly put down by fascists and military support, under Winston Churchill's supervision.
 *  July : The Council of Allies are made a mockery of over relations with the German Free State, with many declaring it to be an unofficial and inefficient set of agreements, rather than a full military alliance. The German Free State becomes an observing state.
 *  August : Brutal rise of Joseph Stalin results in start of split between Germany and the USSR, known as 'Der Roterspaltung'.
 *  September : Stalin announces 'the Red Binding is becoming unbound', directly addressing Russia's recognition of the Red Split.
 *  November : Germany leaves the Comintern.
 *  December : Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan.

1927

 *  January : Australia and New Zealand agree to unite over fears of revolutionary intent in their respective nations, forming Australasia.
 *  March : Walter Ulbricht restructures and softens German Spartacism as a direct challenge to Stalinism, by focusing it on social-democracy and Pan-Germanism. A substantial change involves elections for the head of the politburo, to be held in 1932.

1928

 *  January : Stalin begins his first Five Year Plan to mass industrialise the Soviet Union.
 *  November : Herbert Hoover wins the 1928 Presidential election for the Republicans.
 *  December : The Council of Allies approves for the formation of a Japanese Chinese state in Manchukuo.

1929

 *  May : The Labour Party wins the 1929 United Kingdom general election, placing Ramsay MacDonald in power of a minority government. Popular Labour candidate Oswald Mosley is made Chancellor of the Exchequer, and implements swift reforms with public appeal.
 *  September : Economic crash hits the United States, resulting in a detrimental knock to Hoover's reputation.
 *  November : Leon Trotsky is exiled from the USSR, and welcomed into the DSR as an honorary citizen and government figure.

1930

 *  April : Empress Zewditu of Ethiopia dies, ascending Haile Selassie to the throne as Emperor.
 *  May : The March on Paris in France seeks to collapse the right wing government. It comes dangerously close to a socialist victory, but the government clamps down quickly with military intervention. Main culprit Maurice Thorez escapes to Germany, promising one day to return.
 *  November : Acclaimed general Douglas MacArthur becomes the Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

1931

 *  January : With the upcoming 1932 Presidential election, the Democratic Party reveal their main nominations as the reformist Franklin D. Roosevelt, the radical Huey Long and the lukewarm Al Smith.
 * The Republicans fear that Herbert Hoover might not be able to resecure victory, and the opposing three to his Presidency emerge, consisting of John J. Blaine, Joseph I. France and James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.
 *  March : The Three Generals in the German Free State come to an agreement over the policy of Entscheidung, given the people the opportunity to choose which way the want the country to go.
 *  April : The Labour government in Britain caves in, with MacDonald blaming Mosley for undermining the government. MacDonald announces an election in October, but states he will not be running as leader of Labour.
 *  May : 'Roterkrieg' begins surfacing in German political science, depicting war between the DSR and the USSR as inevitable.
 *  June : John Nance Garner and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. enter the Democratic nomination race, as alternative solutions in case the big three are rejected. For the most part, they are strong supporters of the economic ideas of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 * Albert Lebrun becomes President of France, committed to clamping down on socialism.
 *  July : Alphonse Capone announces his intention to run in the 1932 Presidential election under a third party, the Corporate Party, promoting a new ideology called Corporatism; specifically advocating for enterprise control of America, scepticism towards Long's and Hoover's methods for tackling the economic crisis, and advocating for the need to alleviate prohibition and make alcohol marketable again.
 *  August : Oswald Mosley assumes full control of Labour for the upcoming October election.
 * The Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Douglas MacArthur, announces an 'unofficial nomination' for the Republican Party, as a last resort candidate.
 *  September : Austrian-born soldier, spy and political activist Adolf Hitler advocates for Ludendorff's plan in the German Free State's Entscheidung, however believes he can do better if given the opportunity.
 *  October : Oswald Mosley leads the Labour Party to win the 1931 general election, the first time the Labour Party has attained a majority. Mosley becomes Prime Minister.
 * French monarchists campaign for the instatement of Napoleon VI as Emperor as a symbol of anti-socialism. President Lebrun and Prime Minister André Tardieu stress that monarchism would result in a destabilisation of the French nation, which simply cannot happen at a time where stability and security is needed.
 *  December : Prime Minister Oswald Mosley holds secret meetings with the German Free State, announcing it will guarantee their independence in the potential of Roterkrieg. Britain is mustering itself for war.