Timeline (World of Horror)

=1940s= April - May, 1940 Nazi Germany invades and occupies Denmark, the Low Countries, and France

October, 1940 - December, 1941 Nazi campaigns in the Balkans and Russia

December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack brings the United States into War against Japan, Germany, and Fascist Europe

Jan 1, 1942 United Nations declaration signed

June, 1944 Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France

December 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge; large Allied victory

March 5, 1945 Prime Minister of the UK Winston Churchill assassinated by Irish nationalist William O'Reilly

March 11, 1945 Anthony Eden installed as new British leader

April 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide

May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders

June 1, 1945 Prime Minister Eden launches Operation Unthinkable, invading Soviet-occupied Europe. Truman's American forces follow in the campaign

June 25, 1945 Japan and the USSR form a security pact to fight against Allied aggression. Soviets mobilize Navy in the Pacific

July-September, 1945 Allied campaign in Germany; USSR forced out of the country

October, 1945 Mao's forces announce loyalty to the USSR, and embrace an alliance with Japan. Allies provide support to the Chinese government to fight Mao's insurgency

April, 1946 Allies launch Balkan campaign, occupying Soviet-controlled Hungary, Romania

January-March, 1947 Allies launch campaign in Poland, occupying the country

May-September, 1947 Japan launches South-East Asia campaign, re-establishing control over Indo-China, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, with the aid of Soviet forces

July-August, 1948 Soviet forces invade and occupy Romania, Hungary

October 1948 Soviet campaign in Poland

March-May, 1949 USSR invades and occupies the whole of Germany. Much of Scandinavia is also taken over

August, 1949 Japanese forces occupy the Philippines. Soviet navy continues to flex its strength throughout the Pacific