Timeline (Soviet Defeat)

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1939

 * The Molotov Ribbentrop Pact is signed by Hitler and Stalin in August


 * World War II Starts with the Nazi Invasion of Poland. The Soviets take the east half a few weeks later.  The Second World war has begun.  In the East however, the Soviets win a massive victory over the Japanese at Khalkhin Gol.  Gerogy Zhukov was the commander of the Siberian armies facing the Japanese. his rise is percieved as a threat to Stalin.

1940

 * France falls in what is described as a Blitzkrieg Campaign


 * Hitler persuades Mussolini not to invade Greece, and instead divert the troops to north africa.


 * Zhukov argues for a Soviet first strike against the Nazis. Stalin, alarmed, has him sent to Siberia.

1941

 * Operation Barbarossa Commences on the 22nd of June. Zhukov is recalled by Stalin, but he is found dead in a Siberian work camp.


 * Japan Hits Pearl Harbour. America Declares war on Japan and Germany, and the axis powers do likewise


 * Moscow falls to Nazi forces on November 7th.


 * The Philippines is invaded by the Japanese.


 * Soviet Partisans become active, which are a strain on the German forces. Hitler accepts Manstein's idea of subcontracting the problem to other axis powers, including Hungary, Romania and Croatia.

1942

 * Indonesia is occupied by Japanese Forces, who begin a massive build up in preparation for an invasion of Australia.


 * Japanese troops invade the Soviet Far East, taking Vladivostock and Magadan. Soviet forces under Apanasenko, a protege of Zhokov, quickly rally.


 * Operation Hercules is launched upon Malta, which falls a few days later.


 * The 7th and 10 Panzer divisions are sent to North Africa


 * Egypt falls on September 3rd, the third aniversary of Britain's entry into the war.

1943

 * Omar Bradley is given overall command in the pacific. He liberates the philippines within months.

1944

 * The United States comes up against the Kwangtung Army. The bloodiest encounter is in Shanghai, which descends into a bloodbath with 1/4 of the city's population dead either in the crossfire or in massacres.


 * Mao Tse-Tung goes into hiding.

1945

 * Elektroboote submarines inflict serious damadge on British merchant convoys.


 * New York City is hit by long range A11 Missiles fired from Germany, to demonstrate Germany's ability to strike the US


 * The Treaty of Stockholm is signed on July 2nd. Germany is given free hand in Europe. However, Italy, already crumbling, agrees to withdraw from Ethiopia to consilidate its other gains in Africa. Emperor Haile Selassie declares Eritrea, Djbouti and Somalia Protectorates of the Ethiopian Empire, with the backing of the US.  Britain gives up its colonial Empire in Africa.  The Cold war has begun.


 * Operation Olympic begins with the invasion of Japan by the Commonwealth, America and China. massed use of Kamakazes turn the operation into a bloodbath.


 * Meanwhile, the OSS manage to evacuate a small Jewish family in Amsterdam while retrieving a defector. One of them has kept a diary of their time in the attic.  This flares up anti-German sentiment in the United states, although the true nature of what has happened to the Jews will not be revealed for some time.  Slavs from Russia also begin fleeing to the United States.  They are settled mainly in Texas, California, the Deep South and the Great Lakes under the Refugee act of 1945.  Slavic and african culture begin to intermix, with a large Russian Community in New Orleans.  Novaya Arkangelsk is also established in West Texas

1946

 * Japan capitulates after atomic devices are used on troop concentrations in northern Kyushu. total casualties on both sides are at almost 2,000,000. The US, seeing Germany in the middle of a Scramble for whatever allies it has in Turkestan and Africa as well as the middle east, decides to assess the situation.


 * Omar Bradley proposes the Bradley Plan: money to be spent improving the infrastructure in Ethopia and its protectorates, Liberia (which annexes sierra leone), Latin America and South East Asia. This would be an unprecedented Aid project.


 * President Truman meets with Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi, and tells him that India will eventually be free. sectarian violence between muslims and hindus flares up.


 * Juan Peron is elected in Argentina

1947

 * US Marines find and kill Mao in his hideout in Western China. This decapitates the communist movement that was already big in China.  As a result, they become disorganised and the whole movement begins to crumble.  By 1948, the Kuomintang had won the Civil War


 * The Free World Alliance is formed in San Francisco, with China, the USA, India, the UK and Brazil at the head.


 * In response, Nazi Germany founds the National Socialist Federation with its headquarters in Berlin. Its main founders are: Germany, Italy, Turan, Croatia, Romania and Hungary.  Turkey is strong-armed into the NSF

1948

 * The Coalition of the Western Hemisphere is founded in Austin, Texas by the USA, Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Brazil, Chile and colombia. Its purpose is to integrate the Americas into the US Sphere of Influence.


 * The Pacific Free Trade Agreement is made between the USA, Australia, Chile, China, Japan

1951

 * Anne Frank joins the OSS. Her first posting is to Ethiopia.

1952

 * Cuba requests annexation by the US, and is granted statehood in 1953.

1954

 * The Argentine war begins when Argentina invades Chile. President Bradley commissions General Douglas Macarthur to lead a multinational task force to defeat Peron.  Operation Thunderstorm begins when 500,000 American, Colombian, Chilean, Canadian and Brazilian troops invade Argentina through Brazil. Germany strongly protests, threatening to interviene on Argentina's behalf.  Seeing a rare moment of Sanity however, Hitler backs down.


 * Chile is split in Half when Santiago falls.


 * Hitler dies of complications from Parkinson's. His successor is designated as Albert Speer.


 * The Former commonwealth holdings un US control are granted statehood. The ensuing problems with representation leads congress to reorganise the states.  New Mexico is annexed to Arizona, the Guyanas and suriname are merged into Guyana, the Virginias are merged as well as the carolinas, North and South Dakota become Dakota, with the caribbean islands becoming caribbean with Belize being granted statehood as well.  This leaves the US a total of 51 states


 * In June, the world is shocked when the Nazis launch the first man into space. This leads President Bradley to find a place for the space programme.

1955

 * Coalition forces liberate Santiago in January and begin the march on Buenos Aires, which falls to a pincer attack in September. Peron and Evita are killed in the battle.  Argentina is put under a reconstruction government and is occupied by Chile, Paraguay and Brazil.  The Latin American War finishes.

1957

 * Fascist Partisans flare up in Panama. This leads to Operation Fire Shield, which involves US special forces defeating them on the Panamanian/Costa Rican border.

1964

 * Puerto Rico is granted Statehood, and is the last state to be granted such as of 2009.


 * The OSS reveal to Cngress news of the annihilation of the Jews and Slavs in Europe. This has a profound impact in the United States and Britain, with each having a significant Jewish Minority.  Riots break out in Houston, New York City, London, San Francisco and Chicago.


 * India tests its first Atom Bomb.

1965

 * Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon.

1969

 * The FeReA (Angolan Resistance Front) begin a rebellion. It is put down mercilessly within months.

1978

 * Germany gets a man on Mars. The Space race begins to hot up.

1980

 * John McCain is elected against Ted Kennedy in a landslide.

1981

 * McCain gets to work with a rearmament bill after kennedy's disastrous policy of Detente with the Reich.

1982

 * McCain's policies pay off with the US getting to the Asteroid Belt first.

1983

 * Germany makes it second to the Asteroid Belt

1984

 * Fuhrer Kohl is appointed.


 * President McCain wins a Second Term.

1985

 * China makes it to the Asteroid Belt.

1988

 * Britain makes it to the Asteroid Belt.


 * Newt Gingrich wins the election.

1990

 * India arrives at the Asteroid Belt.


 * President Gingrich is embroiled in a scandal revolving around drug shipments. He survives impeachment, but his political career is all but over.

1992

 * Bill Clinton wins the election against Newt Gungrich

1994

 * Atrocities since 1945 by Nazi Germany in Africa are unveiled by the OSS and various german defectors.

1996

 * George W Bush wins the election against Bill Clinton.

1997

 * President Bush puts more funding into cyberwarfare.

2004
On the libertarian ticket, Michael Hartman (Anne Frank's son), with Robert Barr as his running mate, wins the election against John Kerry.