1999 – The New Millennium
1999.
It has been 20 years since the events of Tensions Rise. After Germany began to hold its first free elections in 1986, the geopolitcal landscape of the continent and practically the world dramatically shifted. The NSDAP had been down by over 90% in support since its election in 1933, and the election had been won greatly by the new German Democratic Party. Following the election, the party promised freedom to those previous oppressed by the Nazi regime and freed hundreds of thousands, even millions of oppressed peoples from concentration camps (and potentially from their deaths) that were later demolished. Efforts to repopulate Africa went into fruition to clear the nuclear wasteland that was the Sahara Desert and the radiation had mostly been cleared. The USSR had collapsed due to the rise of democracy around 1992, leaving the United States as the one sole superpower of the world. A few years prior, a bill was passed by the German government for denuclearization in 1987, with the US, UK, the USSR and France as additional signatories. In 1988, The United Nations was formed to ensure that a World War so catastrophic for the world would never happen again. The Axis Powers, without their sole leader Germany began to fail leading to the signing of the Rome Convention on September 14, 1989 officially marking the dissolution of the Axis Powers. After Mussolini’s death at the ripe age of 97 in 1980, Italy had mostly taken on a democratic stance much like the Western countries. Due to this, it had been excluded from the Axis in 1981. Japan gained its independence in 1982 with Hirohito remaining as Emperor until his death from old age in 1989. Since 1990, the world had mostly been decolonized leading to the formation of independent African governments. The Paraguayan-Bolivian War ended in 1997 when a peace treaty was signed between the two combatants, (Argentina had since left in 1988) ending the 21-year-long conflict.
The world, after centuries of crusades, skirmishes, conflicts and wars was finally at peace.
But one question remains: will it last long?
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