Timeline (Operation Unthinkable)

1945:
Febuary 19th: Several key British officials, including Winston Churchill, devise Operation Unthinkable. It is presented to the British Chief of Staffs Comittee, however they dismiss it, calling to odds of it's sucess "fancifull". While the plan to attack the Soviets is abandoned, the idea's in the plan itself are kept and become the foundation for later plans of war with the Soviet Union.

May 8th: Six days after the Battle of Berlin, Nazi Germany surrenders, and the war in Europe ends. At this point, nearly 11 million Soviet Troops had been deployed in Europe.

July 16th: The Trinity bomb is sucesfully tested.

August 6th: Little Boy is dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. An estimated 120'000 civilians die.

August 9th: Fat Man is dropped on Nagasaki, killing 70'000.

September 2nd: Japan unconditionally surrenders to the Allies, ending World War 2.

1950:
May 21st: The 1950 Baltic Sea Incident occurs, when a West German Trade ship and several military ships are fired upon after accidently crossing into Polish waterspace. While the trade ships are easily destroyed, the military ships returned fire, and three managed to escape and return to their port in Rostock, and alert NAllied forces as to what happened. In total, 112 people were killed in the incident, 101 of whome were from the German convoy.

May 23rd: Following the incidents, tensions between the Allies and the Soviets were at an all time high. A peace conference was to be held in Geneva on May 27th, however two days before that many anti-communist protests broke out in East Germany. While they were intially dismissed, after a key government building was seized in Dresden, Soviet military forces moved in. However, secretely, allied forces had been arming the protesters, and when Soviet Forces were fired upon, a full scale battle broke out in Dresden.

May 26th: Following the end of the Revolt