World War III Brink of Nations Part 1

Countdown to War 

• January 1: Happy New Year. 

• February 7-23: The Winter Olympics take place in Sochi, Russia. During this event, the world gets a major glimpse of Putin's Russia. 
• February 26: crisis Ukraine pro-European union and pro-Russian riots civil unrest left 100 dead in kiev.
• February 28: Russian military the enter Crimea by Russian. Russian troops illegally walk out of their bases and begin running around Crimea, siezing ports, airports, and Ukrainian military bases and kicking out the Ukrainian military there. 
• March 16: Crimea holds a referendum and votes to join Russia.
• March 18 Russia annexes Crimea. 
• March 24: Russia is kicked out of the G-8.
• April 7: The pro-Ukrainian governments of the Donetsk oblast is overthrown and the new government declares independence from Ukraine. A similar coup attempt in the Kharkiv oblast fails.
• April 27: The Luhansk oblast has a Donetsk millitary coup and declares independence.
• May 7: Russia announces its intent to withdraw troops from the eastern Ukrainian border, which had been stationed since the beginning of the Crimean crisis. It also announces its support for the May 25 Ukrainian elections and discourages upcoming referendums in Donetsk and Luhansk, which are scheduled for May 11.
• May 11: The referendums in Donetsk and Luhansk are held. The majority votes in favor of staying part of Ukraine but refusing to recognize the new government.
• May 25: New elections are held in Ukraine. Petro Poroshenko is elected President and promises to have Ukraine join the European Union by the end of the year.
  
• June 5: A terrorist organization called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have risen and laid serious attacks in the Middle East
• July 17: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down with a surface-to-air missile by pro-Russian rebels near the Ukraine–Russia border. In response the US calls for EU countries to impose trade sanctions on Russia. Tensions continue to rise. After a five-hour humanitarian ceasefire, Israel confirms the beginning of a ground offensive in Gaza.

• July 8–August 26: Tensions between Israel and Hamas grows after the kidnapping and murdering of three Israeli teenagers in June and launches an operation on the Palestinian Gaza strip in missile strikes.

• August 1: Putin bans food imports from the EU and restricts European airlines from crossing Russian airspace in apparent retaliation to Western sanctions.
• September 5: The Minsk Protocol is signed, and it serves as a temporary ceasefire between Ukraine and Novorossiya. The Protocol eventually falls apart.
• September 10: NATO intervenes in Syria to bomb ISIS targets.
• December 25: Merry Christmas.
• December 31: Happy New Year's Eve. Meanwhile, US troops withdraw from Afghanistan.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2015
• January 1: Happy New Year. The Eurasian Union is formed, and as a result Russia basically annexes Belarus and Kazakhstan. Western Media nicknames the EAU "the New Soviet Union."
• January 2: Armenia joins the Eurasian Union.
• January 22: Pro-Iranian militias overthrow the Yemeni government.
• January 27: Vladimir Putin orders the Russian Navy to begin an expansion program with the goal of returning to its pre-1991 size by 2020.
• February 27: Russian opposition politican Boris Nemtsov is assassinated just outside the Kremlin. 
• March 14: South Ossetia and Abkhazia join the Eurasian Union.
• March 15: Russia occupies Georgia.
• March 18: The "Turkish War Scare" occurs. Russia and Turkey almost go to war when Turkish naval ships fire on Russian naval ships in the Black Sea.
• March 21: Putin repeats his threat to invade Ukraine.
• March 23: Egypt joins the CSTO. Meanwhile, a second war between Sudan and South Sudan breaks out.
• April 1: The Syrian Civil War ends with a Syrian Government victory.
• April 3: Putin orders his chiefs of staff to start drafting plans for an attack on Ukraine. The attack would take place on August 25. Meanwhile, the new government in Afghanistan collapses and the Taliban comes back into power.
• April 4: The second Sudan-South Sudan war ends in an armistice.
• April 7: Afghanistan's government collapses. Iran invades Afghanistan in response to several border clashes with Taliban insurgents.
• April 10: A UN Security Council meeting held to address the invasion of Afghanistan is held. The meeting devolves into a series of insults and threats by the American and Russian delegates, and they both walk out of the meeting.
• April 11: The UN is shut down until further notice, as it acknowledges that based on the language used between the American and Russian delegates, a new global war and global reset is imminent.
• April 12: After 5 days of fighting, Afghanistan is annexed into Iran. Obama's approval ratings plummet. One American newspaper publishes the headline "How did we lose Afghanistan?"
• April 28: Putin calls for a special session of the Duma. During his speech, he renounces all START treaties.
• May 1: Kyrgyzstan joins the Eurasian Union.
• May 17: Finland, Sweden, and Lebanon reject Russian offers of non-aggression pacts.
• May 22: Iran joins the CSTO.
• July 7: India announces that it is leaving the BRICS due to hostility from Russia and China over the Afghanistan crisis.
• July 10: An emergency meeting of the NATO countries is held in Brussels. NATO reasserts its promise to protect Ukraine.
• August 23: Turkey and Russia sign a non-aggression pact.
• August 25: Putin delays the attack on Ukraine by a week in response to Iranian threats to withdraw from the CSTO if Russia attacked Ukraine.