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Twilight 2000: Countdown to Armageddon
by Richard A. Spake ©


20 September 1994 - 1 May 1995: Thanks to years of negotiations between Soviet Premier Danilov and US President Clinton, the Soviet Union slowly starts to allow limited western business investments in the Eastern bloc.

1 May 1994 - 29 April 1996. The West Germans invite their East German brothers to join the major reconstruction program that they and the State of Israel have hoped would become the ultimate in ensuring the documentation of Nazi atrocities for all time. The project was to refurbish and return Nazi sites back to the appearance they had while in use... this Project would include the reconstruction of Nazi death camps and locations where the Nazi leadership held their most public and private ceremonies. The West Germans had already brought in assistance from the State of Israel and other holocaust survivor groups to assist in ensuring that no one could either forget or deny the horrors that the Nazi regime had committed on their fellow human beings. The two concentration camps that were chosen for the project were Dauchau & Ravensbrück, and they were both opened as Holocaust Memorials on 29 April 1996.

12 February - 27 February 1994. The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Kingdom of Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event. Lillehammer was awarded the games in 1988, after having beat Anchorage, United States; Östersund, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria. The games were the first to be held in a different year than the Summer Olympics, the only to be held two years after the previous games, and the last to be held in a small town. The games were the second hosted in Norway, and the second Winter Olympics in the Nordic Countries, after the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.

1994. The formation of the Bagdad Pact occurs in the Middle East of those nations that are opposed to the continued interference in Middle East Affairs by the United States of America and the other Western allied nations. The First signatories of the Bagdad Pact Alliance are the Republic of Iraq, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The member nations of the apt called Bagdad Pact begin a major program of modernization of their armed forces using the lessons learned during Operation: Desert Storm. The influx of the importing of modern Soviet weapon systems being used for the expansion and modernization of their armed forces provides a greater amount of economic recovery for the Soviet Union.


29 May 1994. Erich Honecker died from cancer. <Hans Modrow> had used the death of his predecessor to create a national week of mourning by giving him a state funeral with full ceremony that was combined with a great deal of pomp and circumstance. This allows <Modrow> to launch a major reorganization of East German political power, and ends the stranglehold of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany over political power in the DDR. Even with the modernization of the East German government, <Madrow> does not change the fact that the position of the Chairman of the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic would remain the supreme leader of the DDR.

1994. The Persian Gulf Treaty Organization of Cooperation and Mutual Assistance is formed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Iran and the Syrian Arab Republic; many observers will refer to the new Iranian dominated political alliance as the Baghdad Pact. The formation of the Baghdad Pact occurs in the Middle East of those nations that are opposed to the continued interference in Middle East Affairs by the United States of America and the other Western allied nations. The First signatories of the Baghdad Pact Alliance are the Republic of Iraq, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The member nations of the apt called Baghdad Pact begin a major program of modernization of their armed forces using the lessons learned during Operation: Desert Storm. The influx of the importing of modern Soviet weapon systems being used for the expansion and modernization of their armed forces provides a greater amount of economic recovery for the Soviet Union. The Republic of Iraq (1994), the Islamic Republic of Iran (1994), the Syrian Arab Republic (1994), the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (1996), the Democratic Republic of Yemen (1997), the Yemen Arab Republic (1998), and the Palestinian National Authority aka the State of Palestine (1999).


1994. Fighting between Pro-Democracy and Pro-Communist forces in the Republic of Angola ends with the military intervention of the People’s Democratic Republic of the Congo shifting the balance of power and creating the new Socialist Democratic Republic of Angola that almost immediately joins the new Congo Pact.

20 September 1994 - 1 May 1995: Thanks to years of negotiations between Soviet Premier Danilov and US President Clinton, the Soviet Union slowly starts to allow limited western business investments in the Eastern bloc.

1 May 1994 - 29 April 1996. The West Germans invite their East German brothers to join the major reconstruction program that they and the State of Israel have hoped would become the ultimate in ensuring the documentation of Nazi atrocities for all time. The project was to refurbish and return Nazi sites back to the appearance they had while in use... this Project would include the reconstruction of Nazi death camps and locations where the Nazi leadership held their most public and private ceremonies. The West Germans had already brought in assistance from the State of Israel and other holocaust survivor groups to assist in ensuring that no one could either forget or deny the horrors that the Nazi regime had committed on their fellow human beings. The two concentration camps that were chosen for the project were Dauchau & Ravensbrück, and they were both opened as Holocaust Memorials on 29 April 1996.

12 February - 27 February 1994. The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Kingdom of Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event. Lillehammer was awarded the games in 1988, after having beat Anchorage, United States; Östersund, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria. The games were the first to be held in a different year than the Summer Olympics, the only to be held two years after the previous games, and the last to be held in a small town. The games were the second hosted in Norway, and the second Winter Olympics in the Nordic Countries, after the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.

1994. The formation of the Bagdad Pact occurs in the Middle East of those nations that are opposed to the continued interference in Middle East Affairs by the United States of America and the other Western allied nations. The First signatories of the Bagdad Pact Alliance are the Republic of Iraq, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The member nations of the apt called Bagdad Pact begin a major program of modernization of their armed forces using the lessons learned during Operation: Desert Storm. The influx of the importing of modern Soviet weapon systems being used for the expansion and modernization of their armed forces provides a greater amount of economic recovery for the Soviet Union.


22 May 1994. Pope John Paul II issues the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis from the Vatican, expounding the Catholic Church's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone" and formally allows Priests to marry if they they have done so before taking their vows.

29 May 1994. Erich Honecker dies from cancer. <Hans Modrow> had used the death of his predecessor to create a national week of mourning by giving him a state funeral with full ceremony that was combined with a great deal of pomp and circumstance. This allows <Modrow> to launch a major reorganization of East German political power, and ends the stranglehold of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany over political power in the DDR. Even with the modernization of the East German government, <Madrow> does not change the fact that the position of the Chairman of the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic would remain the supreme leader of the DDR.

14 March 1994. Apple Computer, Inc. releases the first Macintosh computers to use the new PowerPC Microprocessors. This is considered to be a major leap in personal computer, as well as Macintosh history.

6 April 1994. Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan Genocide.

7 April 1994 - 4 July 1994 (Rwandan Genocide). The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days (from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira on April 6) through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate. Estimates of the death toll have ranged between 500,000 and 1,000,000... or as much as 20% of the country's total population. It was the culmination of longstanding ethnic competition and tensions between the minority Tutsi, who had controlled power for centuries, and the majority Hutu peoples, who had come to power in the rebellion of 1959–62 and overthrown the Tutsi monarchy. In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group composed mostly of Tutsi refugees, invaded northern Rwanda from Uganda in an attempt to defeat the Hutu-led government. They began the Rwandan Civil War, fought between the Hutu regime, with support from Francophone Africa and France, and the RPF, with support from Uganda. This exacerbated ethnic tensions in the country. In response, many Hutu gravitated toward the Hutu Power ideology, with the prompting of state-controlled and independent Rwandan media. As an ideology, Hutu Power asserted that the Tutsi intended to enslave the Hutu and must be resisted at all costs. Continuing ethnic strife resulted in the rebels' displacing large numbers of Hutu in the north, plus periodic localized Hutu killings of Tutsi in the south. International pressure on the Hutu-led government of Juvénal Habyarimana resulted in a cease-fire in 1993. He began to implement the Arusha Accords. The assassination of Habyarimana in April 1994 set off a violent reaction, resulting in the Hutus' conducting mass killings of Tutsis and pro-peace Hutus, who were portrayed as "traitors" and "collaborationists". This genocide had been planned by members of the Hutu power group known as the Akazu, many of whom occupied positions at top levels of the national government; the genocide was supported and coordinated by the national government as well as by local military and civil officials and mass media. Alongside the military, primary responsibility for the killings themselves rests with two Hutu militias that had been organized for this purpose by political parties: the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi, although once the genocide was underway a great number of Hutu civilians took part in the murders. It was the end of the peace agreement. The Tutsi RPF restarted their offensive, defeating the army and seizing control of the country.

28 June 1994. Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin nerve gas in Matsumoto, Japan killing 7 and injuring over 600 people.

25 July 1994. The State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordon sign the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace that formally ends the state of war that had existed between both nations since 1948.

3 September 1994. The Union of Soviet Socialists Republics and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.

8 November 1994. Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in congressional victories all across the country that allows them to assume legislative control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate during the midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years that the Republican Party are able to gain control of both houses of the United States Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of the State of Texas.

13 November - 28 November 1994. The Kingdom of Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden and the Republic of Finland sign the Scandinavian Collective Security Treaty.

15 December 1994. The first version of the Netscape Navigator browser is released.





1994: The Year in Review

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January 1994

January 1994. D

11 January - 14 January 1994. A Summit between US President Bill Clinton and Danilov end with the singing of the Kremlin Accords that will stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each targets within each country and provides for the dismantling of each of their nuclear arsenals.

22 February 1994. Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged with spying for the Soviet Union by the United States Department of Justice. Ames is later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment; his wife receives 5 years in prison.

1994. United States Armed Forces uniform reforms, the adoption of digital camouflage by the United States sees the adoption of similar digital camouflage by other major militaries around The World.

1994. The East German and Polish computer and tech industries take off thanks to the trade policies of the Clinton Administration that allowed for the US Commerce Department to lift restrictions on the export of advanced computer technology.


February 1994

February 1994. D

28 February 1994: France officially withdraws from NATO over displeasure with how the United States and Western Europe had initially responded to the Soviet suppression of pro-Democratic movements throughout Eastern Europe known as "The Black Winter".


March 1994

March 1994. D

April 1994

April 1994. D

May 1994

May 1994. D

June 1994

June 1994. D

July 1994

July 1994. D

August 1994

August 1994. D

September 1994

September 1994. D

October 1994

October 1994. D

November 1994

November 1994. D

December 1994

December 1994. D