Red Dream

What if the D-Day landings failed? Would USSR won the cold war?

Key Dates
June 1944: The D-Day landings happened just as in OTL, however, Hitler's subordinates received words about the invasion plan, causing the latter to fail. This is celebrated as one of the greatest Nazi victories.

20 July 1944: The infamous 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler is successful. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler became the chancellor of Nazi Germany.

December 1944: By this point the Nazi Empire is plunged into a civil war between the Hitler loyalists and the new regime. The USSR exploited this opportunity to extinguish the fascist regime by pushing their line further to the west.

January 1945: The Western Allies made 2nd D-Day attempt by landing in French and Norwegian beaches, which are successful.

April 1945: Italian dictator Mussolini is executed.

July 1945: The first atomic bomb test is successfully conducted in New Mexico, USA.

August 1945: After USSR conquered the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium and all of Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Goerdeler surrendered to both the USSR and the Western Allies, in a ceremony held in Nuremberg. The U.S. drops the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but Japan refused to surrender.

September 1945: The USSR invades Northeastern China and the whole Korean Peninsula. Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun is spirited to Moscow, along with the rest of advanced German technologies.

November 1945: The Allies invade the Japanese Empire in Operation Downfall.

1947: After a massive amounts of casualties, including the Japanese Royal family, the Allies finally bring Japan to its knees. The Soviets occupy the Hokkaido while the U.S. occupies the rest.

1949: Mao Zedong and his Chinese Communist Party (CCP) defeated Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang government in mainland China. The latter fled to Taiwan.

1950: The Supreme Leader of the People's Republic of Japan (North Japan) Kyuichi Tokuda starts a civil war with its southern counterpart Republic of Japan. The Soviet Union, Communist China, and Korea gave support to Tokuda with military interventions. As part of a diversion campaign, USSR and Mao Zedong's China invaded Taiwan and executed Chiang Kai Shek. The remaining Kuomintang members fled to the U.S.

1953: The Japanese War ends. Sanzo Nosaka, the successor to Tokuda, signed the Armistice with ROJ.

1955: Division of Vietnam.

1957: USSR launched first satellite Sputnik, with the help of Von Braun and Sergei Korolev. The U.S. is not capable to foment its own response to this event since both its rocket technologies is far behind than that of OTL and it is exhausted from the wars in the past decade.

1961: Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. USSR leadership soon decided to set their goals to the Moon.

1965: North Vietnam annexes South Vietnam after a brief war started by Ho Chi Minh. Alexei Leonov is the first man to space walk.