Der Kalte Krieg - The Cold War - La Guerre Froide - La Guerra Fría

The  Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc  (the United States  with NATO  and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc  (the Soviet Union  and its allies in The Warsaw Pact ). The POD in this scenario is that the Empire of Japan does not surrender after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagazaki. In fact, the United States and Britain will launch an invasion of Japan Homeland while the Soviet Union will invade Manchuria and Korea. By the way, sorry for my bad english,  I'm used to speak french.

1945-1946 : Downfall

On November 1st 1945, led by Marshall Douglas MacArthur, 14 U.S. Divisions landed on Kyūshū from Okinawa on 35 landing beaches. 2 days before, on orders of MacArthur, 4 nuclear bombs were dropped on Japanese stronghold. After 90 days of fights, 500 000 U.S. casulties were reported. Japan surrendered on May 2nd 1946, after 3.5 millions of U.S. casulties.

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union was not able to launch an amphibious attack on '''Hokkaidō. '''They rather decided to begin an offensive in Manchuria and Korea by August 1945. By the time of the invasion of Japan in March 1946, the People's Republic of China was a country - thanks to the help of Soviet Union - and Kim Il Sung, a hero of the war against Japan, formed the People's Republic of Korea (Korea is not divided). Mao was killed by the NKVD and a more Pro-Soviet government is put in China, the Soviet Union gained some parts of Northern Manchuria and annexed Mongolia.

By the end of 1946, Indochina rebels against their french colonists. They are helped by the PRC and the USSR and it becomes the People's Republic of Indochina. By the following years, communism is spread in Siam and Burma.

1947-1950


Following World War II, the Soviet Union becomes more powerful than in OTL, they have put a more friendly regime in China. The United States send billions of money to reconstruct Japan and even begins to build an army called The Japanese Defense Forces (JDF) to prevent any agression from Korea, China or the Soviet Union.