Timeline (Heute Europa)

1941

 * With the Annihilation of the BEF at Dunkirk, after Hitler gave Guderian the go ahead to advance on the British troops, preparations to for the invasion, code named 'Operation Sealion' are made. With 75% of the RAF destroyed in northern France after Churchill sent more aircraft to aid the French, the Luftwaffe gain total air supremacy. Squadrons of Weser VTOL planes are built to be used as invasion transports. Groups of VS8 hydrofoil landing crafts are also prepared. Bombing raids throughout 1940 knock out most of the radar stations, and U-boats sink most of Britain's merchant fleet. The invasion is launched on March 3rd 1941. Sqradrons of Me 109s and 110s tear through the sky, bombing and strafing anything that moves. Paratroops drop all over southern England, and VTOL planes carry more troops over. Landing craft beach and unload panzers and more troops. The Royal Navy tries to intervene but is attacked by aircraft, which sink most of the battleships and carriers. The British fight fiercely, but cannot stand against the immense power of the German Reich. On September 16th, the British Empire surrenders both itself and its colonies to Nazi Germany. Several colonies, including Canada, Australia, and India, revolt and set up independent governments.
 * With Britain out of the picture, and Spain practically a vassal state, Germany is prepared to invade Russia.

1942

 * On March 17, 1942, just after the spring thaw made the USSR passable, the massive German armies invaded in Operation Barbarossa. The simple fact that the USSR was the last power on the continent gave Stalin an idea that they might attack, but everyone was unprepared for the speed and force with which Germany would attack. In just a few days panzer units advanced more than 200 miles, wiping out the Red Army and taking millions prisoner. By July 1 German forces were approaching Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev. on July 22nd, the germans take moscow. the first tank to enter the red square is one of the new Tiger Tanks, that had just entered service. Once those three cities were taken, and defensive lines established, German soldiers set up defensive lines around the cities and waited for winter. In the south, at Ukraine, troops continued to advance to the edge of the Ukraine before digging in, as the winter there would be less harsh and come later. During the winter of 1942-1943 the defending Red Army did all it could to regroup. Rather than continue to conquer and overextend German forces, the German army sent groups of scout troops to round up all citizens within 100 miles of the front lines, and along with the already-captured soldiers and captive citizens of the areas already conquered, these people proved to be potent hostages. Germany threatened to kill every last one of them unless Stalin surrendered himself, and Russia withdrew its border to the Ural Mountains.

1943

 * On February 7, 1943, the Japanese attack the American fleet at Pearl Harbour. They achieve complete surprise, and destroy 80% of the Pacific fleet, including all of its aircraft carriers. Three days later, on February 1943, the 3rd flotilla invades Hawaii. By March of that year, the islands are firmly in Japanese hands.
 * At the same time, the Japanese army goes on the offensive, invading the Philippines, Guam, Midway, Singapore and Burma.
 * On July 4th, the Soviet Union unleashes its final strength in a massive summer offensive, code named 'Operation Pluto'. the offensive consists of several Siberian divisions, 30 new divisions hastily raised over the winter of 42-43, and large amounts of tanks being manufactured in the Ural factories, including KV1s, T34s, SU 85s and SU76s. the offensive takes the German forces of guard, pushing the German army back all across the front.

1944

 * Stalingrad is taken after a 6 month struggle costing 100,000 lives.
 * Australia is invaded
 * Japan invades far eastern Siberia in Operation Otsu

1945

 * Hitler proclames victory in Europe, only America remains.
 * Operation Shiden is launched on August 12.

1946

 * American troops in New Zealand surrender on January 27th
 * America is hit by 3 atom bombs
 * World War II ends on April 20th

1947

 * Construction begins on the Arch of Victory in Berlin.

1950

 * The Transylvanian War between Romania and Hungary begins on July 27th.

1952

 * Start of the German space programme. In a speech, Adolf Hitler states that "Providence has proven the superiority of the Aryan race, as they are the first people to explore the depths of space." The project bears the codename Walkyre (Valkyre) with the research being conducted by German top scientist Wernher von Braun. Valkyre is under the auspices of the SS Special Projects Group. Valkyre 1, the first A9-12 rocket Booster becomes ready to launch on August 10; however at 36,000 feet the ship explodes, and when it crashes, it sets 200 acres of grassland ablaze.
 * Increasing tensions between Germany and Japan

1953

 * German GDP now higher than Japan's.
 * Valkyre 2 lifts off on April 20th, coinciding with Hitler's birthday. Raumfahrer-SS Viktor Kraus and Raumfahrer-SS Wilhelm Tannert become the first men to reach outer space, and spend 6 days in space studying the effects of space on the human body. Both reach earth safely.
 * Japanese-American Treaty: For mutual economic cooperation, Japan apologises for the attacks of Pearl Harbor; the Empire promises to return the Hawaiian archipelago in 50 years. Meanwhile, the strict Japanization policy in Hawaii goes on.
 * While publishing his revised Unified Field Theory, Albert Einstein criticizes the US government heavily for their foreign politics towards the Axis. His call, however, is neglected, especially because of the improving American-Japanese relations.

1954

 * May: Pan-Russian Uprising: "True Patriotic" Russians riot in Petrograd, Moskva, Omsk and Vladivostok. The Russian puppet regimes hesitate to put the uprising down. Ensuing bloody intervention by Germany and Japan worsens attitude of Russians towards the Axis.
 * July: Construction begins on the first von-Braun armed space station with Valkyre 5 carrying six Raumfahrer SS to construct it, the mission is a success, though the rocket explodes on re-entry, killing all the crewmembers.

1955

 * The von-Braun space station is by now 45% complete, with 4 of the space rockets destroyed, either on takeoff or in space.


 * The Translvanyian War Between Romania and Hungary ends.

1956

 * April 20th- completion of the Braun armed space station. It is christened 'Wilhelm' after the late Kaiser. The station can carry warheads to hit targets out of ordinary reach, giving the German people a priceless tactical advantage. The other nations are all worried at the ramifications of this.

1957

 * The United States tests the world's first hydrogen bomb, giving them a new threat to use against the Japanese Empire and the German Reich.

1960

 * Ocenanian uprising- People in Australia and New Zealand rise against the occupying Japanese. the uprising is covertly aided by the US. the Uprising is crushed by the 17th of July.

1965

 * The Fuhrers 75th birthday. a mass of celebrations are held all over the German Reich.