Post by lordroel on Oct 11, 2024 14:38:17 GMT
While this thread might not get the traction as one thread on AH.com and a entire board on HPCA, i still want to share this universe with those who do not know it.
As World War III started in 1985 according to the movie Red Dawn (Movie - Red Dawn (1984) this thread will be named Red Dawn + 40.
Plot According to the 1984 movie
In the 1980s, the United States becomes increasingly isolated after a green political party gains power in West Germany and successfully persuades Western Europe to remove its nuclear weapons. Subsequently, NATO dissolves. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is devastated by a failed wheat harvest and invades Poland to suppress food and labor riots. Soviet allies Cuba and Nicaragua build up their military strength while El Salvador and Honduras fall under Soviet influence and a communist coup d'état seizes control in Mexico.
In the town of Calumet, Colorado, a high school class is interrupted by a Soviet-led invasion. Some students, including brothers Jed and Matt Eckert, escape the chaos as Soviet paratroopers attack. Combined Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan soldiers then occupy Calumet. Jed, Matt, and their friends Robert, Danny, Daryl, and Arturo flee into the countryside after procuring supplies and weapons from a store run by Robert's father. When they encounter a Soviet roadblock, they are saved by a U.S. helicopter gunship. After several weeks hiding in the forests, the group learns that Mr. Eckert is held at a re-education camp at Calumet's drive-in. Visiting the camp, they speak to him through a fence and learn that Mrs. Eckert is dead; he tells the group to avenge him.
The group visits the Mason family in occupied territory and learns that Robert's father was executed by the occupiers. The Masons ask Jed and Matt to care for their granddaughters, Toni and Erica. The group begins launching guerilla attacks on the occupational forces, calling themselves the "Wolverines" after their high school mascot. The occupiers respond with brutal crackdowns, resulting in the executions of Mr. Eckert and Arturo's father, but the Wolverines are undeterred. They meet crashed USAF pilot Andrew Tanner, who informs them of the current state of the war: Several American cities, including Washington D.C., were destroyed by nuclear strikes, Strategic Air Command was crippled by Cuban saboteurs, and paratroopers were dropped from commercial airliners to seize key positions in preparation for the main assaults via Mexico and Alaska. Most of the southwestern United States and Northwestern Canada are occupied by the Soviets, but American counterattacks halted their advances between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. Europe has decided to remain neutral. America's only remaining foreign allies—China and the United Kingdom—remain active against the Soviets, but are militarily crippled.
Map: events described in the movie: Blue: The United States and its allies Canada, the United Kingdom and China. Red: The Soviet Union and its allies Cuba and Nicaragua. Green: The neutral countries of Western Europe. The arrows show the invasion routes, and the red dots show the cities that were destroyed by nuclear weapons: Washington D.C., Omaha, Nebraska, New York City, Kansas City, Missouri and Beijing
Tanner assists the Wolverines in their guerrilla operations, which leads to increased reprisals by occupational forces against civilians. Visiting the front lines of the war, Tanner and Arturo are killed in the crossfire of a tank battle between Soviet and U.S. forces. The Soviets bring in Colonel Strelnikov, a brutal Spetsnaz commander and his men, to track down the Wolverines. Daryl is arrested by the KGB after his father betrays him. They force him to swallow a tracking device and release him to rejoin the Wolverines. Soviet troops track the group to the forests using radio triangulation equipment but are ambushed by the Wolverines, who trace the source of the signal to Daryl; confessing the truth, he pleads for mercy but is shot dead by Robert.
Shortly thereafter, the remaining Wolverines are ambushed by Soviet helicopter gunships, which kill Toni and Robert. Jed and Matt decide to attack the occupational forces in Calumet to distract them while Danny and Erica escape. The plan works, but Jed and Matt are severely wounded by Strelnikov before Jed can kill him. They are discovered by Cuban Colonel Ernesto Bella who, completely disillusioned with both the war and Soviet ideology (seeing it as a lost cause), lets them go; the brothers sit on a park bench together where they presumably bleed to death. Danny and Erica trek through the mountains and reach American-held territory.
In the closing scene, a plaque is shown in the mountains. It is fenced off and a U.S. flag flies nearby, confirming that the U.S. ultimately won the war. The plaque states that:
In the early days of World War III, guerrillas, mostly children, placed the names of their lost upon this rock. They fought here alone and gave up their lives, so "that this nation shall not perish from the earth."
Links of interest
History, Politics And Current Affairs (HPCA): Red Dawn + 20
alternatehistory.com: Images Of Kara's First Day: Pictures Of Red Dawn's WW3 And The Aftermath
alternate-timelines.com: Red Dawn 20+ AH.com archive
TV Tropes: Red Dawn +20
TV Tropes: Movie - Red Dawn (1984)
Fandom Wiki: Red dawn alt hist wwIII Wiki
As World War III started in 1985 according to the movie Red Dawn (Movie - Red Dawn (1984) this thread will be named Red Dawn + 40.
Plot According to the 1984 movie
In the 1980s, the United States becomes increasingly isolated after a green political party gains power in West Germany and successfully persuades Western Europe to remove its nuclear weapons. Subsequently, NATO dissolves. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is devastated by a failed wheat harvest and invades Poland to suppress food and labor riots. Soviet allies Cuba and Nicaragua build up their military strength while El Salvador and Honduras fall under Soviet influence and a communist coup d'état seizes control in Mexico.
In the town of Calumet, Colorado, a high school class is interrupted by a Soviet-led invasion. Some students, including brothers Jed and Matt Eckert, escape the chaos as Soviet paratroopers attack. Combined Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan soldiers then occupy Calumet. Jed, Matt, and their friends Robert, Danny, Daryl, and Arturo flee into the countryside after procuring supplies and weapons from a store run by Robert's father. When they encounter a Soviet roadblock, they are saved by a U.S. helicopter gunship. After several weeks hiding in the forests, the group learns that Mr. Eckert is held at a re-education camp at Calumet's drive-in. Visiting the camp, they speak to him through a fence and learn that Mrs. Eckert is dead; he tells the group to avenge him.
The group visits the Mason family in occupied territory and learns that Robert's father was executed by the occupiers. The Masons ask Jed and Matt to care for their granddaughters, Toni and Erica. The group begins launching guerilla attacks on the occupational forces, calling themselves the "Wolverines" after their high school mascot. The occupiers respond with brutal crackdowns, resulting in the executions of Mr. Eckert and Arturo's father, but the Wolverines are undeterred. They meet crashed USAF pilot Andrew Tanner, who informs them of the current state of the war: Several American cities, including Washington D.C., were destroyed by nuclear strikes, Strategic Air Command was crippled by Cuban saboteurs, and paratroopers were dropped from commercial airliners to seize key positions in preparation for the main assaults via Mexico and Alaska. Most of the southwestern United States and Northwestern Canada are occupied by the Soviets, but American counterattacks halted their advances between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. Europe has decided to remain neutral. America's only remaining foreign allies—China and the United Kingdom—remain active against the Soviets, but are militarily crippled.
Map: events described in the movie: Blue: The United States and its allies Canada, the United Kingdom and China. Red: The Soviet Union and its allies Cuba and Nicaragua. Green: The neutral countries of Western Europe. The arrows show the invasion routes, and the red dots show the cities that were destroyed by nuclear weapons: Washington D.C., Omaha, Nebraska, New York City, Kansas City, Missouri and Beijing
Tanner assists the Wolverines in their guerrilla operations, which leads to increased reprisals by occupational forces against civilians. Visiting the front lines of the war, Tanner and Arturo are killed in the crossfire of a tank battle between Soviet and U.S. forces. The Soviets bring in Colonel Strelnikov, a brutal Spetsnaz commander and his men, to track down the Wolverines. Daryl is arrested by the KGB after his father betrays him. They force him to swallow a tracking device and release him to rejoin the Wolverines. Soviet troops track the group to the forests using radio triangulation equipment but are ambushed by the Wolverines, who trace the source of the signal to Daryl; confessing the truth, he pleads for mercy but is shot dead by Robert.
Shortly thereafter, the remaining Wolverines are ambushed by Soviet helicopter gunships, which kill Toni and Robert. Jed and Matt decide to attack the occupational forces in Calumet to distract them while Danny and Erica escape. The plan works, but Jed and Matt are severely wounded by Strelnikov before Jed can kill him. They are discovered by Cuban Colonel Ernesto Bella who, completely disillusioned with both the war and Soviet ideology (seeing it as a lost cause), lets them go; the brothers sit on a park bench together where they presumably bleed to death. Danny and Erica trek through the mountains and reach American-held territory.
In the closing scene, a plaque is shown in the mountains. It is fenced off and a U.S. flag flies nearby, confirming that the U.S. ultimately won the war. The plaque states that:
In the early days of World War III, guerrillas, mostly children, placed the names of their lost upon this rock. They fought here alone and gave up their lives, so "that this nation shall not perish from the earth."
Links of interest
History, Politics And Current Affairs (HPCA): Red Dawn + 20
alternatehistory.com: Images Of Kara's First Day: Pictures Of Red Dawn's WW3 And The Aftermath
alternate-timelines.com: Red Dawn 20+ AH.com archive
TV Tropes: Red Dawn +20
TV Tropes: Movie - Red Dawn (1984)
Fandom Wiki: Red dawn alt hist wwIII Wiki