Commander X

In January 1941, the Second World War is raging and Nazi Germany is going to invade the Soviet Union in June. Suddenly, on the 22th of January, African rebels under the command of the mysterious Commander X rebel against all the European colonizers of the continent at the same time.

Treaty of Alexandria
The British realised they couldn't win against the rebels so they decided to negotiate a treaty with the rebels and signed a treaty on the 1st of March, 1941.

The terms of the treaty:
 * 1) All British territory in Africa will be ceded to the rebels (including dominions such as Egypt or South Africa).
 * 2) Britain will be invited to the peace negotiations between Italy and the rebels.
 * 3) Britain will pay 300,000 Pounds to the rebels in war reparations.

Treaty of Tripoli
In mid-April, Hitler ordered the Afrika Korps back from North Africa to help with Operation Barbarossa. With the most powerful German reinforcements gone, Mussolini agreed to negotiate a treaty with the rebels while getting angry at Hitler for pulling the Afrika Korps out, claiming they could've won against the rebels and the Allies had Hitler not pulled out the Afrika Korps and sent more reinforcements instead.

As promised in the Treaty of Alexandria, the British were invited to the conference, where Mussolini told Churchill about his anger at Hitler and his desire to end the war on his end, to aid the Allies after leaving the war or even switch sides altogether.

The terms of the treaty:
 * 1) All Italian territory in Africa will be handed over to the rebels.
 * 2) Italy will leave the war altogether.
 * 3) Italy will pay 500,000 Pounds to the rebels in war reparations.

Operation Barbarossa
After getting angry at Mussolini for getting angry at him and then leaving the war, Hitler decided to vent his anger on the USSR by finally beginning Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941.

The Battle of Moscow
On September 20, 1941, the German forces had already reached Moscow due to assistance from the Afrika Korps. Soviet forces were tested to the limit as the German forces pounded at their defenses. On December 7, 1941, news came in that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor.

Aware that this would most certainly cause the Americans to join the war, Stalin called in all the troops guarding the border with Japan to help defend Moscow. On January 20, 1942, the Nazis finally retreated from Moscow, promising to come back but never being able to fulfill that promise ever again.

The Battle of Stalingrad
On August 25, 1942, the Nazis decided to attack Stalingrad in hopes of cutting off the Caucasus from the rest of the USSR and gaining control of vital railways and Caucasian oil.

After 165 days (five months and 12 days) of bitter fighting, a decisive Soviet victory was achieved on February 5, 1943, ending Operation Barbarossa in a massive failure.

Italian re-entry into the war on the Allied side
On March 5, 1943, Mussolini invited Hitler to Rome to discuss Italy's re-entry into the war - but on March 6, Hitler got a nasty surprise when he touched down. The Italian escort planes bombed his plane! Hitler and most of his crew survived, but with heavy injuries and no way to inform Berlin. Hitler tried to ask Mussolini what this course of action meant but was machine-gunned before he got the chance.

On March 9, Photos of Hitler's dead body were received by the German government, and on the following day, Germany and Italy declared war on each other, followed by the Italian invasions of Vichy France and German Austria. On March 15, the Anglo-Italian Pact of Titanium, named for the fact that titanium is stronger than steel and signed on February 25, 1943, was officially put into effect.

The Battle of Kursk
On June 20, Operation Citadel was activated and the Battle of Kursk started. After just one week of fighting, Operation Citadel failed and Operation Kutuzov started. Eventually, the German forces were defeated and were forced to retreat even farther.

Battle of the Atlantic
In August 1943, with the Eastern Front collapsing and the Italians taking over their Atlantic bases on the French west coast, the Germans turned to winning the Battle of the Atlantic as their last chance to win the war. However, without naval bases to operate from (when they retook their naval bases, the Italians would just reoccupy them after they left), the U-boats ran out of fuel and surrendered to Allied submarines. By February 1944, the Germans had lost the Battle of the Atlantic.

Operation Overlord
With Italian forces already occupying France, Anglo-American troops landed easily. Thus, the Operation Overlord of this timeline was the invasion of western Germany. Meanwhile, Soviet troops were steamrolling German forces in the Baltics and Finnish forces in Finland. Operation Overlord would have to commence very fast or the Allies worried the Soviets would control all or most of Germany.

Italian troops had also invaded Bavaria, the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, giving the Allies an added advantage in the south (Yugoslavia was not invaded because it was taken over by communist guerrillas led by Josip Broz Tito). On 6 June 1944, the Allies invaded Germany from west and south, encircling some German troops in the process. Italian troops advanced north after conquering Hungary and liberated western Poland, later fighting their way to Berlin in January 1945.

East Prussia was jointly occupied by Italy and the USSR, later to be split between Poland and the USSR. Romania had decided to switch sides along with Italy a few days after Operation Overlord commenced, in exchange for Transylvania and Bessarabia. The Titoist Communists in Yugoslavia liberated Bulgaria and Greece, so the Allies didn't have to liberate the Balkans.

The Siege of Berlin
In January 1945, Allied troops had surrounded Berlin and German troops in the east were repeatedly being defeated by the Soviets, who were focusing more on Finland now. The siege carried on, and in mid-March 1945, Germany surrendered.

Finland
During Operation Overlord, the USSR was steamrolling Finland. Then Sweden joined the war, and took Aland from Finland. A few days before the German surrender, Finland agreed to the Swedish and Soviet demands and switched sides.

Germany
After the war, Germany was split into a few occupation zones: The USSR protested at not being given an occupation zone in Germany, but the Allies stood firm and the USSR backed down.
 * Italy occupied Austria and Bavaria.
 * Britain occupied northern Germany.
 * America occupied eastern Germany.
 * France occupied the rest of western Germany.

Poland
During Operation Overlord, Italy had occupied eastern Poland. Now that the war had ended, the Polish government-in-exile was ready to be reinstalled as the legitimate government of Poland. However, Mussolini was also ready to install a fascist puppet government in western Poland and Stalin was ready to install a communist puppet government in eastern Poland.

A tense three-sided debate began and it seemed a Third World War might break out right after the end of the second. Eventually, the Allies were forced to compromise and allow the two puppet governments to be installed.

Scandinavia
In 1945, Swedish forces had liberated Norway. After the war, the Norwegian and Danish governments-in-exile both wanted to be reinstalled. But although Sweden agreed to let them return, they would only do so under the Kalmar Union. The two governments-in-exile tried to negotiate, but Sweden was uncompromising, instead promising prosperity for all Nordic peoples under the Kalmar Union. Later, Finland also decided to support the formation of the Kalmar Union. Eventually, after some discussion, the Kalmar Union was finally created.

The Balkans
After the war, Titoist forces were occupying most of the Balkans, with the exception of Italian Albania. Italy and Romania were fine with Titoist forces occupying the Balkans since Titoism was a different type of communism from Soviet communism, which caused the USSR to denounce the Titoists as 'revisionists' and 'capitalist pigs'.

Italy and Romania were prepared to defend the Titoists if necessary, and war seemed about to break out. But the Western Allies and the African Federation intervened and forced the USSR to back down, telling them to be content with what they already had.

Bavaria Crisis, 1949
In 1949, the Western Allies decided to reinstate Germany as a country and requested for Italy to contribute his zone to the new Germany, but Italy refused to give up Bavaria.

As the world buckled up for another war, the UN decided on a compromise wherein Italy would be able to keep the actual region of Bavaria as a puppet state but the rest of the Italian Zone would go to the newly formed Germany.