Timeline (Seven Days to the River Rhine)

Back to Seven Days to the River Rhine

1924

 * Vladimir Lenin dies of a heart attack on January 21, 1924. General Secretary Joseph Stalin becomes the new leader of the USSR.


 * Adolf Hitler is pardoned from jail on December 19, and decides to visit the Soviet Union, where he meets the newly appointed leader Joseph Stalin. Stalin invites Hitler to lunch where they have a long talk about politics and other major topics, Hitler shakes Stalins hand then leaves for Germany.

1933

 * Hitler leads the Nazi Party to power in Germany and forms Greater Germany, backed by the Soviet Union Germany becomes a formidable power in Europe.

1939

 * The Molotov Ribbentrop Pact is signed by the leaders of Nazi Germany and the USSR.


 * On September 1st, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany invade Poland, the Nation falls in less than three weeks and is later partitioned between the two countries.


 * Primarily lead by Britain and France the Allied powers are formed to combat the Nazis and the Soviets.

1940

 * Tripartite Pact is signed by Nazi Germany, Italy, Japan, and the USSR, thereby officially forming the Axis powers.


 * France falls to Germany, and the Middle East falls to the Soviets a few weeks later.


 * Italy invades north Africa.

1941

 * Due to Soviet oil exports, Japan is able to move in and conquer the Philippines. Japan proposes a plan to invade the U.S. but this is rejected by the other members of the Axis Powers.


 * Although Germany (As well as the Soviet Union) had superior forces and greater numbers, their blitzkrieg campaign to occupy Britain fails, forcing them to withdraw and reinforce their military.


 * Hitler assimilates Northern France into Germany, and Vichy France is simply renamed France. This move is questioned by Stalin, so to compensate, Hitler allows the USSR more land in what was once Poland.

1942

 * Italy is able to occupy all of northern and western and Africa (not including Liberia), forming Italian West Africa and Italian North Africa.


 * Britain along with Ireland (who was convinced to intervene by Britain in exchange for Northern Ireland) invade former France in an attempt to liberate the country from Nazi Germany.


 * The Soviet Union begins adding Germany in France.


 * The United States of America begins giving massive military funding to the Allies, including Ethiopia.

1943

 * Britain's attempted to campaign to free France fails and both British and Irish forces are forced into retreat.


 * Germany attempts to invade both Britain and Ireland, while the Soviet Union attempts to help the Japanese defeat both China and Australia.


 * Italy's attempted campaign of Ethiopia begins to fail.

1944

 * Germany is only able to occupy a small portion of Britains south coast, many German citizens believe that Germanys second invasion of Britain is becoming a failure.


 * Pressured by the Unites States both Britain and reluctantly Germany agree to end the war in Europe, by signing the Treaty of Munich. Many considered it an Axis victory in Europe.


 * Northern France remains part of Nazi Germany, and a sliver of Southern England is annexed. The USSR lays claim to all of Eastern Europe that isn't part of Germany or already a member of the Axis. The War continues in the Pacific with Northern Australia and all of Indonesia and Indochina becoming part of Japan, and both the USSR and Japan fighting to defeat the Chinese.

1945

 * Mao Zedong, a Chinese rebel leader attempting to defeat the USSR and Japan, is secretly transported to the United States. The U.S. agrees to help Zedong defeat his enemies if he agrees to establish China as a Socialist Democracy instead of a communist country. Mao agrees to accept the United States help.


 * The OSS trains groups of Chinese and Japanese Americans to help China defeat the USSR and Japan.


 * Although not considered to be defeated the USSR and Japan agree to sign a peace accord with China.


 * With war finally over the U.S. begins to openly send relief efforts to Britain and other Allied nations that where not conquered, while Germany and the Soviet Union begin rebuilding there own home territories.

1947

 * Massive unrest begins to rise in Germany as Jews begin to break of concentration camps and start attacking German soldiers and civillians.


 * The United States and its allies form the United Western Alliance (UWA) to counter the rise of Germany and its allies, while Germany reforms the Axis powers transforming them into the Eastern Socialist Coalition (ESC) the two powers start a bitter rivalry.

1948

 * Unrest begins to explode in Germany, many citizens fear civil war as angry jewish mobs take to the streets in germany. Both Stalin and Hitler fearing civil war decide to cooperate with the UWA, the only time the two powers work together, the find the best decision is to make a mass exodous of the Jewish people to America.


 * The U.S. settles the Jewish refugees in the Caribbean and south Pacific, they make both Guam and Pureto Rico states, and also begin settling them mainly in long island.


 * The explosive Jewish population also causes more settlements across the east coast creating the States of Long Island, and Washington which is made up of Southern Maryland, the nations capital is simply renamed Columbia.

1950

 * A revolution springs up in Honduras It is backed by the ESC, the UWA attempts to counter by giving support to the government loyalists but this ultimately fails.


 * The OSS of the United States is reformed into National Office of Espionage and Internal Affairs or the NOEIA its job is it to send spies abroad to counter and gather intelligence on the ESC while also countering threats within the USA making them the United States only Espionage and Crime enforcement agency.