Ceasefire 1947

On June 5th, 1944, on the eve of D-Day, it was a critical moment. The Allies of World War II were about to launch the largest military operation of the 20th century, yet the weather didn't look supportive of an attack. Although most weather experts thought it would rain through June 6th, General Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower refused to delay the invasion, which if he did, would be postponed to June 19th. D-Day went forward, and was a success- a costly one- but a success.

But what if the invasion was postponed? In OTL, on June 19th, the worst storm since the 1920s swept the English Channel. One of the two "mulberry harbors" was destroyed, and an invasion in this climate would have been impossible. So if the invasion was postponed, imagine a D-Day failed. When Ike made that critical choice not to attack, who knew he would change the fate of the entire war?

1944
June 6th: General Eisenhower postpones Operation Overlord.

June 19th: The invasion of Normandy takes place during the worst storm to hit the English Channel in years. Few Allied troops even land, and those that do are gunned up by German troops.

June 30th: The failure of the Allies D-Day invasion motivates Hitler and the Nazis to launch a counter-offensive on the Italian Front.

July 24th: German forces re-capture Rome.

August 6th: The Allies again attempt to invade France, but fail. Hitler sends 1,000,000 troops to France to repel any more attacks.

August 14th: The Hamburg Project begins, as Germany comes into the latter stages of developing an atomic bomb.

December 16t: Germany launches Operation Solstice on the Eastern Front, and pushes Soviet troops several hundred miles back East. The Soviet advance is delayed by six months.

1945
June 6th: Operation Beginning of the End is put into action, and 5,000,000 Allied troops invade Normandy. This time, the invasion is a success, and the Allies secure a beachhead in northern France.

July 2nd: After months of intense combat, Warsaw falls to Soviet troops.

July 16th: The American atomic bomb test, Trinity, proceeds at Las Alamos. The Target Commission plans for the bombs use against Germany and Japan.

July 22nd: Before the USA has a chance to use the Atom Bomb, Germany drops an atomic bomb on Warsaw. Allied leaders are shocked Germany had developed it so quickly.

August 4th: President Truman announces the "Every Day" doctrine, and that every day, the United States would drop the atomic bomb on Axis targets until surrender.

August 6th: The USA nukes Hiroshima

August 7th: Germany nukes Moscow. The USA nukes Berlin.

August 8th: The USA nukes Paris.

August 9th: The USA nukes Nagasaki

August 10th: Germany nukes Vienna, the USA nukes Osaka.

August 15th: Japan surrenders to the United States.

August 22nd: Mushroom Day: Germany nukes over 70 targets at once on both fronts, killing over 5 million people. World War II is now declared a nuclear war.

1946-1947
From August, 1945, until the end of the war in 1947, World War II turned into a nuclear war. Neither side advanced as countries used the bomb as their primary method of offensive. On August 22nd, Germany dropped over 70 atomic bombs on various targets on both the Eastern and Western Front. The anti-war movement grew strongly. Little advances took place on ethier side during the war. In the spring of 1947, the United States created a gun called the Fat Man- a missile launcher that shot mini-nukes at targets. This technological feat led to a slow advance on the Western Front. By the Fall of 1947, Allied forces have almost reached the River Rhine. But riots are rocking both sides, and both sides are desperate for peace, bankrupted, and had little capability to fight.

On September 3rd, 1947, the Great Peace was made. Both sides agreed to a ceasefire. The United Nations was created, and it's first task was securing a "demilitarized zone" between France and Germany, and Germany and the Soviet Union.

On December 16th, 1944, Germany attempted its last desperate measure for success on the Eastern Front by marshaling German reserves to launch a massive counter-offensive from Slovakia north to Minsk, and then link up with Lithuanian Partisans. This would push the front several hundred miles back east, encircle large portions of Soviet troops, and cut of the Soviet Union's advance into Poland. This was successful, and by January, most Soviet forces in the newly-created "Polish Pocket" surrendered, with few escaping to Russia.

In Italy, the Western Allies remained stalemated at the German defensive line. In mid-July 1945, the Soviets attacked in Poland, pushing to the Odor river in Germany, and overran East Prussia On June 6th, 1945, the Allies invaded Normandy. 5 million British, American, and Canadian troops attacked northern France and gained a beachhead.