Max Sinister
Banned
@Wendell:
1. Poland keeps Lemberg, but loses all the other areas in the East acquired in the war of 1920. And other than OTL, the German border is farther East - they keep parts of Pomerania, Silesia and all of Neumark.
2. Stalin's Russia did most of the fight against the nazis, so it's fair that they get their occupation zone.
3. The cabal? What are you talking of? The NSDAP was founded in Munich, that's true, but Hitler himself was Austrian, Göring and Goebbels came from North Germany, and the NSDAP was pretty much everywhere elected. In fact, in East Prussia more than 50% voted NSDAP. And of course it's easy to draw a line from the Prussian kingdom to the Third Reich - which is why Prussia was dissolved by the Allies in 1946, to prevent Prussian militarism rising again. It was more symbolically, but still.
And now back to the story.
The end of the war in Asia and the Pacific
The fights in Shikoku are indecisive. Although the American tanks can smash the Japanese army in every battle in the countryside, in the cities the Japanese fight for every house and inflict high losses on the GIs. In China, however, the Americans are more successful and help Chiang Kai-Shek to drive the Japanese back in the valleys of Yangtze and the Yellow river. In the South, Hankau is reconquered, and more important, the harbor of Canton is liberated. Now the Americans can send even more help along the railroad to Changsha.
In July, when the first nukes are dropped on Germany, the Allies hope that Japan might give up. This is not the case. While in Europe Hitler is toppled, Germany makes peace and is occupied, the fight goes on. In September, the scientists have finished two more nukes, which are dropped on the Japanese cities of Niigata and Nagasaki (after seeing the effects in Germany, it's decided that the GIs are too close to Hiroshima). Now the Japanese government is finally willing to surrender unconditionally. Stalin used the opportunity again to invade Manchuria (where he helps Mao's Communists to take power), South Sachalin and the Kuriles. After the Japanese army in China has surrendered, American troops are stationed in China - Truman is too suspicious of Stalin and doesn't trust the corrupt Guomindang to defend China properly against the Communists.
1. Poland keeps Lemberg, but loses all the other areas in the East acquired in the war of 1920. And other than OTL, the German border is farther East - they keep parts of Pomerania, Silesia and all of Neumark.
2. Stalin's Russia did most of the fight against the nazis, so it's fair that they get their occupation zone.
3. The cabal? What are you talking of? The NSDAP was founded in Munich, that's true, but Hitler himself was Austrian, Göring and Goebbels came from North Germany, and the NSDAP was pretty much everywhere elected. In fact, in East Prussia more than 50% voted NSDAP. And of course it's easy to draw a line from the Prussian kingdom to the Third Reich - which is why Prussia was dissolved by the Allies in 1946, to prevent Prussian militarism rising again. It was more symbolically, but still.
And now back to the story.
The end of the war in Asia and the Pacific
The fights in Shikoku are indecisive. Although the American tanks can smash the Japanese army in every battle in the countryside, in the cities the Japanese fight for every house and inflict high losses on the GIs. In China, however, the Americans are more successful and help Chiang Kai-Shek to drive the Japanese back in the valleys of Yangtze and the Yellow river. In the South, Hankau is reconquered, and more important, the harbor of Canton is liberated. Now the Americans can send even more help along the railroad to Changsha.
In July, when the first nukes are dropped on Germany, the Allies hope that Japan might give up. This is not the case. While in Europe Hitler is toppled, Germany makes peace and is occupied, the fight goes on. In September, the scientists have finished two more nukes, which are dropped on the Japanese cities of Niigata and Nagasaki (after seeing the effects in Germany, it's decided that the GIs are too close to Hiroshima). Now the Japanese government is finally willing to surrender unconditionally. Stalin used the opportunity again to invade Manchuria (where he helps Mao's Communists to take power), South Sachalin and the Kuriles. After the Japanese army in China has surrendered, American troops are stationed in China - Truman is too suspicious of Stalin and doesn't trust the corrupt Guomindang to defend China properly against the Communists.