Construct-a-Timeline: A Collabarative Venture

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Stolengood

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The TL thus far: ;)

August, 1945: The coup against Emperor Hirohito and the peace faction is successful. The peace seekers around the Emperor are executed, and the Emperor put under "protective custody". Japan does not surrender.

August 19th, 1945- The United States drops a third atomic bomb on Kokura, as preparations for Operation Downfall continue.

August 20th, 1945: The new Japanese military government fears a possible fourth nuclear strike on Tokyo. They announce that a ceasefire "but not surrender" are under consideration.

August 21st, 1945: Proposed ceasefire communique sent to Washington. Said offer would require Japan to be permitted to maintain colonial possessions, its current government, and for the Allies to try no Japanese for war crimes nor occupy Japan. This "conditional" proposal is flatly refused by Washington. Meanwhile, the average Japanese is suffering from blockade and continued bombings. Malnutrition and starvation are beginning to take hold, and droves are dying from the Allied attacks on the home island. The Japanese populace is becoming increasingly disillusioned with the government, and ire against the state begins to fester.

October, 1945: Operation Downfall commences, with Kyushu attacked and occupied by Allied forces. Japanese attempted counterattack is initially brutal, featuring suicidal fighting and kamikazes, but fails due to lack of supplies and beleaguered supply lines, and lack of communication. Japanese Imperial Army pushed back. Allied victory.

November, 1945: Launching from occupied Manchuria, Soviet forces begin their advance into formerly-Japanese Korea. Plans are drawn in the Kremlin up for an amphibious assault on Hokkaido.

November 1945: starving workers across Japan are joined by soldiers sailors and marines from the home garrisons, taking to the streets demanding the government surrender, and electing their own prefecture councils to replace the government
'Just like the riots of 1917 and 1918 in Germany and Russia' reports one neutral Swedish journalist, prompting fear of communist revolution in the US, and stirring hopes of expanding Stalin's empire in Moscow.
Devoid of supplies and limited communication from higher HQ, commanders from New Guinea to French Indochina begin to surrender, almost begging for resupply of everything except water.
Naval groups not in port begin to surrender to any allied ships they see, including one destroyer surrendering to a Malay fisherman.

January 1946 - The Soviets steamroll through Korea, with approximately 1/5th of the country in Soviet hands. Resistance is mild. The Soviet navy begins setting sail for Hokkaido.

January 1946 - Ho Chi Minh marches at the head of hundreds of (poorly) armed supporters into the Japanese miliary governers office, and declares 'I have accepted the Japanese military surrender, and i now declare Viet-nam to be a free nation, free of occupying armies, colonial rulers and foriegn domination. WE ARE A FREE NATION!'
British are quick to acknowledge this statement and recognize his interim government, the French claim that it is still their colony and the US scramble to find out more about Ho and who supplied his 'revolution'.

February 1946 - Plans are drawn up by the Office of Secret Services (OSS) and the US Department of State for increased support of Chiang Kai-Shek's regime in China. The first level of the plan intends to deliver weapons and "advisors" to the Kuomintang. The purpose of this plan is to provide a strong foothold in Asia, since Korea is most likely to fall into the Soviet sphere of influence.

March 1st, 1946: Operation Coronet commences. Allied forced land at Honshu.
In Japan, after demonstrations calling for the end of the war are met with brutal suppression by the military government, the populace has erupted into full blown rebellion, and Japan is in a state of Civil War. The Japanese are calling for the overthrow of the government, with preservation of the Emperor. This is not the first time such a call has been made, but it is the first time in several centuries. As the Emperor is revered.
Since the invasion, the Allies have been using several atomic bombs on the Japanese home island to support the invasion. After said bomb is dropped, troops wait 48 hours before entering an area hit by such a strike to secure it.
The Japanese military government, meanwhile, has been attempting a brutal counterattack campaign against the Allied forces, involving kamikazes, civilian resistance (often suicidal), fanatical fighters, and the use of Allied POWs used as human canon fodder. However, such counterattack has been plagued by incompetence, lack of resources, and overestimation of result and effectiveness. And most Japanese civilians, disillusioned with a state which promised them empire and delivered them dead friends and family and empty stomachs, do not wish to kill themselves for the military government.

March 20th, 1946 - Shots are fired by an unknown assailant at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg during the Trial of Hermann Goering. No injuries but the Nuremberg Trials are suspended pending investigation.

March 21, 1946 - The Nuremburg assailant is captured. His identity is unknown.

March 22nd 1946: Transjordan becomes independent from the United Kingdom. In East Asia, French soldiers launch an amphibious raid and take Saigon back with little resistance from the remaining Japanese. However, Communist still hold power in Hanoi.

April 1946 - The Soviet Union has established tentative control over Hokkaido. Having heard of the unrest in Japan, Joseph Stalin telegrams an order to proclaim a People's Republic of Japan in Sapporo, which is promptly carried out. Sanzo Nosaka is invited to serve as interim leader and with much fanfare leaves Yan'an by train for Vladivostok, from where he will be ferried to the port of Otaru by a Soviet ship.

April 9, 1946 - The Nuremburg Trials start back up, along with the trial of the still unidentified assailant.

April 15th, 1946-An 8th bomb is dropped in Japan, and with the nation falling apart (not to mention the Soviet creation of a "Peoples Republic of Japan") The Emperor decides that enough is enough. Using a series of couriers loyal to him and him alone, he makes contact with the civilian leaders of the rebellion. Plans are drawn up for an attempt to rescue the Emperor.

April 16, 1946 - Chiang Kai-Shek's forces deliver a deciding blow to Mao's PLA. With all the destruction in Japan, Mao and his men flee to the Soviet Union.
March-May 1946:
Ho Chi Minh takes all Japanese arms and equipment he can find, and forms the Vetnamese Free Army, to fight the colonial power (France).

March 1946: Australia formally annexes the western part of New Guinea island, renaiming the whole as Australian New Guinea; Royal Navy completes its operations to take all japanese naval shipping into Singapaore, and inters all naval and military personnel in tents on the west side of the island, which quickly develops into a poorly sanitised mess that causes outbreaks of disease across the island's civilian population

April 1946- King of Thailand moves to occupy Cambodia and Laos, but recognises Ho Chi Minh's Veitnamese Republic, offering to send advisors to train the VFA; the Royal Marine task force sent to reclaim Hong Kong is attacked from the mainland by local partisans, covertly encouraged and supplied by the KMT

April 17, 1946 - The Soviet-run People's Republic of Japan announces a formal withdrawal from the war. However, the Imperialist rebels continue to fight.

April 2nd 1946 - The Dutch government sends a letter of protest via their embassy in London to the British government demanding the return of Western New Guinea.

April 23rd 1946 - Soviet forces land in Aomori Prefecture

May 5th 1946 - "5/5/46", a note from the Emperor, delivered with great difficulty, is read on Japanese radio, proclaiming an immediate cease fire and the Emperor's abdication, with Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni as regent for the new Emperor, Akihito.

May 6th 1946 - Douglas MacArthur telegrams an outline of occupation zones in Japan to his British and Soviet counterparts.

May 8th, 1946 - Mao Zedong is tasked by the Soviet government to assimilate American, British, and Chinese territories into the People's Republic of Japan.

May 11th, 1946-Several US marines turn up dead near the Soviet occupation zone. The Soviets as well as underground Japanese nationalist groups are suspected, both deny any connection and President Truman demands a full investigation.

May 12th, 1946 - Mao arrives in Japan, where he meets Kenji Miyamoto. The two plan on exploiting the influx of American agents on their way to Japan.

May 15th, 1946: Hideki Tojo is captured by American forces outside of Tokyo. US army medics note the sudden rise of non-combat deaths to soldiers. Radiation Poisoning is suspected.

May 10 1946 - Saigon falls to joint Thai/VFA forces, commanded by Ho Chi Minh. To erase the memory of the French colonial government, he renames the city Ho Chi Minh City, much to the chagrin of the Thai King

May 30 1946 - China and UK forces clash in the New Territories of Hong Kong, and Chinese forces reclaim Macau from Portugal.

May 31st, 1946 - Ignoring complaints from the Netherlands government, and taking advantage of Portugal's weakness, Australian troops occupy and annex both East and West Timor, to much cheering of the locals who remeber Sparrow Force and there defiance of the Japanese when the colonials fled.

June 1st, 1946 - Thai forces begin to march down the Malay Peninsula, claiming to have been 'invited' by the Malay's to 'liberate' them from the British Empire.

June 12, 1946- The assailant at the Nuremberg Trials is identified to be Martin Bormann.

June 2nd, 1946 - A troop plane on it's way to American Japan is hijacked and crashes into the U.S government building in Tokyo. Hundreds are killed, and the Japanese Communist forces are suspected.

June 3rd, 1946- President Truman sends a harsh message to Moscow to stop Communist attacks against US forces immediately or face consequences.

June 5th, 1946- Communist Partisans storm Western allied administrative headquarters in Berlin and Tokyo taking and holding the buildings for twelve hours before reinforcements drove them out. It is later confirmed that these partisans were funded and armed by Moscow.

June 18th 1946: More Non-Combat Deaths and Illnesses reported amongst soldiers and civilians. Only clear common factor is that they were near Atomic Bomb Blast Sites. Case for Radiation Poisoning gains momentum.

June, 1946 - American planes continue to be hijacked. Moscow denies any involvement.

June 5th, 1946 - President Truman arrives in Japan to visit troops and the survivors of the June 2 attack. For the next two weeks, he travels through all of American-occupied Japan.

June 20th, 1946 - Upon arriving in the States, Truman begins to feel ill and takes a break from his duties.

June 21st, 1946: President Truman is admitted to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington DC.

June 24, 1946: President Truman is informed that he is suffering from radiation poisoning.

June 29, 1946: President Truman dies from radiation poisoning; Secretary of State James F. Byrnes is woken at home half an hour later, informed of the news, and given the Oath of Office.

June 30, 1946: The nation is informed of President Truman's sudden death from "a heart attack", brought on by the stress of his tour of Japan.

July 4, 1946: As the United States celebrates its Independence Day, the War Department quietly requests the production of 500,000 more Purple Heart medals.

July 18, 1946: Pope Pius XII loudly criticizes the overuse use of atomic bombs in Japan. He writes, "Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man itself. It merits unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation". In private, he calls the actions of all sides to be barbaric.

July 20, 1946: Ho Chi Minh delivers a speech addressed to the new President Byrnes, imploring him to officially recognize a free and democratic Vietnam; Byrnes does not respond for several days.

July 21, 1946: A hijacked commercial flight crashes into the south side of 40 Wall Street, killing 258 people and eventually taking down the building with it by the end of the day.

July 22, 1946: Shortly after emergency protocols are set into motion across the Eastern Seaboard, Mao Zedong issues a statement taking responsibility for the 40 Wall Street hijacking.

July 23, 1946, 8:00 AM: President Byrnes makes a public speech to the American people, telling them not to "let their strong sense of victory be ruined by angry men who can't handle defeat". He declares that Mao will be found and brought to justice.

July 23, 1946, 8:42 AM: Byrnes contacts the Allied nations, asking them to help search Japan for Mao.

July 23, 1946, 8:45 AM: Byrnes announces that he will reckognise Vietnam's sovereignty if they assist in the manhunt.

July 23, 1946, 3:45 PM (EST): Ho Chi Minh responds to Byrnes's request, stating he will "do anything in my power to bring the killer Zedong to justice".

July 23, 1946, 7:00 PM (EST): President Byrnes contacts new Secretary of State John Wesley Snyder (having been promoted under presidential succession) and urges him to start the processes to officially recognize Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam.

July 23, 1946, 7:45 PM (EST): Byrnes cables Gen. Douglas MacArthur: "FIND THAT SOB MAO".

July 24, 1946: Large amounts of troops are sent to Japan from the US, UK, and Vietnam. France politely declines to send any for the moment.

July 25, 1946: Mao goes into hiding and Miyamoto flees to the Soviet Union. They refuse to let him in.

July 26, 1946: Secretary of State Snyder issues a diplomatic cable formally recognizing Vietnamese independence, joining Britain and Thailand in doing so. Sweden and the USSR follow in the next few days.
General MacArthur sends a heavily encrypted cable to President Byrnes, requesting he release authority to order the use nuclear weapons to commanders in the theatre "If they deem so necessary". Byrnes, a staunch anti-communist sends one word in reply; "Yes".

July 27, 1946: Kenji Miyamoto is shot while trying to cross the border into China.

July 28, 1946: Mao passes through the city of Asahikawa in Hokkaidō on his way north to Sakhalin, where he plans to sneak back into the Soviet Union; however, word of Miyamoto's luck at this reaches him, and he stays on the outskirts of the city for the time being.

July 29, 1946, 12:30 AM local time: In Asahikawa, a man calling himself "Higashizawa" checks in to an inn. The proprietor is put off by the man's heavy Chinese accent and drunken behavior, and swears he recognizes the man's face.

July 31, 1946: Sanzo Nosaka, the Premier of the People's Republic of Japan, as become increasingly disturbed by reports from communist sympathizers inside South Japan of large numbers air transports from Australia, Hawaii, and the Philippines arriving at airfields in the south and by the terrorist campaign launched by Mao Zedong and the recently killed Kenji Miyamoto.

August 1, 1946: An aid to Nosaka reports to him in the morning that the police in Asahikawa saw a man resembling Mao Zedong calling himself "Mr. Higashizawa". Nosaka, dumbfounded, laughs. "Higashizawa", he notes to himself, is spelled with the same characters as "Zedong". He telegrams the local police to detain "Higashizawa" for questioning.

August 2, 1946: Reconnaissance flights over parts of Tohoku (In North Japan) are started by the US occupation forces in the first hours of the morning.
Police in Asahikawa report to Nosaka they are fairly confident that "Higashizawa" is in fact Mao Zedong. Nosaka orders the state news bureau to publish the story immediately. The cause for arrest is stated to be public drunkenness and suspicions of espionage. The former charge is largely true. In evening, North Japanese radio reports the story and a telegram from the government is received by the Allied headquarters in Japan that Mao Zedong has been detained and that the government is willing to cooperate with the Americans with regards to his admitted crimes.

August 3, 1946: At 5:00 in the morning, a bomb explodes in the local Asahikawa prison; several inmates and guards are killed, but Mao's body is not found. The few eyewitnesses to the event later report having seen an "emergency crew" rush into the building shortly after the blast and emerge with a single man on a stretcher; the closest witness, a bicycling messenger boy starting his early morning runs, swears he saw the man smile as they put him into the ambulance.

August 3, 1946, 11:00 AM (EST): President Byrnes, shortly after congratulating General MacArthur on successfully capturing Mao, is informed of Zedong's escape from prison. Byrnes angrily recalls MacArthur to the room, informing him of Mao's escape and firing him, famously accompanied by the phrase, "Dammit, you promised me Mao!"

August 4, 1946: News of Kenji Miyamoto's death finally leaks past the Bamboo Curtain.

August 5, 1946: Matthew Ridgway formally becomes commander of the Allied forces in Japan. Having spent several days gathering all information available on Sanzo Nosaka, he concludes that Nosaka, a friend and protege of Mao Zedong while he was in China and an acquaintance of Russian communists, is most likely being disingenuous with his offers of cooperation. He orders that the troop buildup in South Japan be restarted immediately.
Sanzo Nosaka, increasingly suspicious of Mao and the USSR's actions, leaves Sapporo for Asahikawa to attempt to meet with Mao, his old mentor and friend.

August 6, 1946: Planning continues on a strike against the Soviets and their Japanese and Korean puppets. The naval component will consist of three task forces; one in the Yellow Sea, one in the Sea of Japan, and one in the northwest Pacific off Tohoku. It is dubbed Operation Pitchfork. Byrnes, Snyder, and Ridgway, meeting several days later in San Francisco, plan to strike by the end of September.

August 7, 1946: Nuclear weapons begin arriving at the port of Yokohama, earmarked for possible use against North Japan and the USSR.

August 7, 1946 (later that same day): Allied forces receive an anonymous tip that Sanzo Nosaka is headed for Asahikawa; after approval from Ridgway, a company quickly plans an operation to trap him.

August 8, 1946, 10:45 PM: Tired from the long journey, Nosaka heads to a small pub on the outskirts of Asahikawa; midway through his third drink, he is surprised by the manager with a gun, and is captured by Allied Special Forces -- they'd done reconaissance on every pub or bar on the far edge of town to see where he'd be.

August 8, 1946, 11:30 PM: Mao Zedong, decamped on the far western coast of Russia, near Sakhalin, receives word that Nosaka has been taken; his anonymous tip gambit has paid off.

August 10, 1946, 7:00 AM Moscow Time: Stalin receives word that US special forces have infiltrated the PRJ and arrested Sanzo Nosaka. Nearly choking on his breakfast, Stalin, enraged, concludes the western Allies have made the first move of a war.

August 10, 8:30 AM Washington Time: An urgent telegram interrupts the breakfast of the Soviet ambassador to the United States, who delivers it at around this time to the State Department; the USSR has declared war.

August 10, 1946, 11:30 AM (EST): American ambassador to the U.N. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. comes before a hastily organized emergency session of the U.N. to announce that the United States has no wish for war with the Soviet Union.

August 10, 7:30 PM (UTC+09:00): General Douglas MacArthur, having gone rogue and heard of the declaration of war, orders troops still loyal to him to fly an atomic payload and drop it over Vladivostok; all but two men refuse, but only one, Paul Tibbets, is brave enough to report MacArthur's actions to other commanding officers.

August 10, 8:35 PM (UTC+09:00): General Ridgway orders the rogue aircrafts to be intercepted and, if necessary, shot down, and MacArthur, wherever he is hiding, to be found and taken into custody.

August 10, 8:47 PM (UTC+09:00): Despite all efforts, the intercepting fighters are forced to shoot down the rogue pilots over the Sea of Japan; the wingman bails out before crashing and is successfully captured.

August 11, 1946: The People's Republic of Japan, now under young pro-Soviet Premier Kasuga Shojiro, follows the Soviet Union in declaring war on the United States.
The surrounded Soviet garrison in Tokyo deliberates on what action to take; the American and British forces haven't made their move despite the declaration of war. 200 kilometers to the north, the Soviet and North Japanese garrison at Shirakawa cross the border into Tochigi Prefecture in the American Zone.

August 12, 1946: Ridgway confirms to President Byrnes that the naval forces needed for Operation Pitchfork are not in place in Japan. He also informs Byrnes of MacArthur's failed order to drop an atomic bomb on Vladivostok. Byrnes is of two minds; he had relieved MacArthur of his command after Mao's escape, but he had released the authority to use nuclear weapons to the commanders in the field and with Operation Pitchfork unable to go ahead, he can see few options. Byrnes and Secretary of State Snyder deliberate for several hours.

August 13, 1946, 11:45 AM Washington Time: President Byrnes requests a prompt declaration of war on the USSR in a speech to a joint session of Congress.

August 13, 1946, 1:00 PM Washington Time: Congress passes the declaration of war 93-1 in the Senate (2 absent) and 401-5 (29 absent).

August 13, 1946, 2:30 PM, Washington Time: President Byrnes signs the declaration of war. After signing the bill, he sends a cable to Matthew Ridgway; "Fire at will".

August 11, 1946: The People's Republic of Japan, now under young pro-Soviet Premier Kasuga Shojiro, follows the Soviet Union in declaring war on the United States.
The surrounded Soviet garrison in Tokyo deliberates on what action to take; the American and British forces haven't made their move despite the declaration of war. 200 kilometers to the north, the Soviet and North Japanese garrison at Shirakawa cross the border into Tochigi Prefecture in the American Zone.

August 12, 1946: Ridgway confirms to President Byrnes that the naval forces needed for Operation Pitchfork are not in place in Japan. He also informs Byrnes of MacArthur's failed order to drop an atomic bomb on Vladivostok. Byrnes is of two minds; he had relieved MacArthur of his command after Mao's escape, but he had released the authority to use nuclear weapons to the commanders in the field and with Operation Pitchfork unable to go ahead, he can see few options. Byrnes and Secretary of State Snyder deliberate for several hours.

August 13, 1946, 11:45 AM Washington Time: President Byrnes requests a prompt declaration of war on the USSR in a speech to a joint session of Congress.

August 13, 1946, 1:00 PM Washington Time: Congress passes the declaration of war 93-1 in the Senate (2 absent) and 401-5 (29 absent).

August 13, 1946, 2:30 PM, Washington Time: President Byrnes signs the declaration of war. After signing the bill, he sends a cable to Matthew Ridgway; "Fire at will".

August 14, 1946, 5:00 AM (UTC+09:00): The forces of the People's Republic of Japan launch a surprise attack on the British Zone; they subdue stationed forces after another five hours.

August 14 (early morning in Britain): Prime Minister Clement Attlee is awoken to the news that the British Zone of Japan has been taken by the People's Republic.

August 14 (some time later, yet in an even earlier time zone): President Byrnes is awoken to the same news in Washington.

August 14, 1:00 PM (Washington Time): Byrnes makes a furious radio address, broadcast the world over, exclaiming that "the Soviets and their proxies will not occupy Japan long... not so long as I'm Commander-in-Chief!"

August 14, 2:45 PM (Washington Time): Byrnes publicly fires Ridgway for, as he terms the matter privately, "letting the Japs catch us with our pants down"; he immediately reinstates Douglas MacArthur as interim Commander of Allied forces for the time being.

August 14, 4:00 PM (Washington Time): Byrnes and Snyder finally get through to Ho Chi Minh's advisors, nearly halfway around the world, via telegraph; they promise to provide as many troops as possible to drive the People's Republic out of Japan, and begin mobilizing shortly after the deal is struck.

August 15, 1946:The PRJ seizes several ships from the remnants of the Japanese Navy and newly-captured PRJ battleships are seen firing on nearby Allied installations and at Allied ships. The surprise assault sinks an American battleships, the USS South Dakota,with a loss of all hands. The enraged Americans go for an all-out hunt for the PRJ vessel (the Nagato), akin to the British hunt for the Bismarck five years earlier.

August 16, 1946: As a present for democratic Vietnam, the U.S. donates the decommissioned Gleaves-class destroyer USS Stockton to Ho's forces, docking it at the coastal port city of Qui Nhon; Ho Chi Minh, delighted with the gift, rechristens it the Byrnes.

August 17, 1946: Allied troops land at Akita City, on the Western coast of the PRJ, and begin a long, drawn-out battle for the entire Akita prefecture.

August 18, 1946: Resisting lieutenant general Takashi Sakai is killed while leading a small, suicidal charge against Allied forces.

August 19, 1946: Canada's Minister of National Defense, Douglas Abbott, taking note of the war infolding in East Asia and the use of several atomic bombs in the invasion of Japan, writes the highly confidential Abbott Memo, ordering that Canada immediately start the development of an independent nuclear weapons program. Given Canada at this time is bested perhaps only by the US in nuclear science, he is confident that a bomb can be tested by 1950.

August 10, 1946: The United Auto Workers Union goes on strike, demanding better pay and a larger voice in management. Reporters largely lash out against the UAW for striking during a war.

August 17, 1946- A small military uprising occurs in Staraya Ladoga, outside Leningrad. The mutinous soldiers manage to execute their superiors and seize the fort before being put down by the larger Soviet army.

August 20, 1946- The participants in the Starayana Uprising are executed. Their names are erased from all records and photos of them are destroyed.

August 21, 1946- GallUp Poll reports President Byrnes' approval rating at 40%.

Also on August 20, 1946, after several weeks under FBI surveillance, IMF head Harry Dexter White is caught leaving the Soviet embassy in Washington; workers at the IMF report several files missing from their records shortly before White's arrest, and eyewitnesses identify White as carrying boxes suspiciously resembling those used in the IMF file rooms. White denies any and all charges against him.

August 22, 1946: Torpedo bombers from the USS Boxer (CV-21) cripple the Nagato at the Battle of the Tsugaru Strait. She sinks two days later in the entrance to Mutsu Bay. A notable casualty of the battle is navy aviator George H.W. Bush, the second son of prominent Connecticut businessman Prescott Bush and a new father, whose torpedo bomber was shot down over the strait.

August 24, 1946: The Essex Class carrier CV-46 is christened the USS Nimitz at it's commissioning in Newport News, after Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who had been killed during Operation Downfall when his ship was hit by a kamikaze strike.

August 23, 1946: After having handcuffs slapped on him while in custody, Harry Dexter White begins complaining about a cut on his wrist, but soon tells his warders his lips and tongue are growing numb; within an hour, his entire face feels numb, he is lightheaded, and begins vomiting profusely. He is taken to an Army hospital, where the cuffs are taken off and his blood is sampled, revealing tetrodotoxin saturated in his blood and in the wound on his wrist, as well as hardened along the sharp edge of the cuff (but which softens and melts when blood is applied).
Within six hours, White is dead; the culprit is soon identified by eyewitnesses as Morris Cohen, a demobilized soldier who somehow managed to sneak in under military police garb with the poisoned handcuffs.

August 27, 1946: Near the Paracel Islands, new Vietnamese ship Byrnes scores its first victory against the forces of the People's Republic, driving the enemies' watercraft all the way back to the Pratas Islands with massive PRJ casualties.

August 30, 1946: On Victory Day in Turkey, a bomb explodes under a railway bridge, destroying the celebratory train driving over it and killing 188 people. New prime minister Recep Peker blames Soviet dissidents for the disaster, and uses this opportunity to back the efforts currently attempting to oust the PRJ from Japan.

September 3rd, 1946: Thanks to a great team of doctors, and also luck, King George VI looks as though he will survive his assassination attempt. On the negative side, the bullet, which entered through his stomach, damaged part of his spinal cord. Doctors inform the royal family that the King is unlikely to ever walk again.

September 5, 1946 Cheng Hai-Chek orders a full out invasion of Korea, Pyongyang is captured.

September 4, 1946: Turkish forces begin shipping out to Southeast Asia.
France attempts, via diplomatic cables, to convince the Allied nations recognizing Vietnam to withdraw their support, to no avail.

Also on September 5, 1946: Attempting to regroup, PRJ forces swarm at the Byrnes and her sister ships, beginning the days-long Battle of the Pratas Islands.

September 6, 1946: King George VI begins feeling chronic pain and nausea in his stomach, as well as a harsh, metallic taste in his mouth, which lasts for several weeks. He eats little, as a result.


September 7th, 1946: US President James F. Byrnes dispatches top secret messages to all the leaders of nations "strongly allied to the United States", Canada, the United Kingdom, France and China amoung them. The purpose of the message is to conduct a top secret meeting on the out break of war in Asia. Byrnes soon gets replies throughout the day, all saying they will attend. The location remains to be seen...
August 16th 1946: Australia completely annexes New Guinea and Timor. They will remain territories until being admitted as states into the Commonweakth of Australia in a couple of years.

August 25th 1946: Soviet soldiers along with soldiers from East Germany attack the British, American and French garrisons in Berlin. The Allied soldiers fight back against the Communist for 5 days before being defeated.

August 30th 1946: The East German and Soviet Armies cross into West Germany engaging with the Allies.

September 8, 1946: King George VI's assailant is finally identified by his mother, Lady Diana Mosley, as 16-year-old Jonathan Guinness. Despite her pleas, the Crown Courts do not allow Guinness to be released into her custody, instead preparing for a formal trial.

The Byrnes and company finally route PRJ forces at the Pratas Islands, destroying all but a few ships and allowing those ships that survive to limp back to Japan as a warning.

September 9, 1946: En route to a briefing concerning Soviet incursion into West Germany, General Dwight D. Eisenhower's convoy is hit by a bomb thrown into its midst; Eisenhower's car is launched end-over-end, leaving the general himself badly injured and many of his retinue heavily wounded or dead.

President Byrnes is informed of this later that night in Washington, and immediately attempts to charter a plane to Germany, but is held back by cautious advisors, who calm him down and convince him to stay put for the time being.

September 11, 1946: Reports have been coming in to Washington, DC, stating that the Soviet Union had carried out their first nuclear test, detonating a 14kt fission device over the Aral Sea.
September 10, 1946: The Byrnes is called back to the Paracel Islands to make peace with locals angered over collateral damage from their initial fight with PRJ forces.

September 11, 1946, 7:30 PM: In his hospital bed in Munich, General Eisenhower dies in his sleep from a pulmonary embolism. He is fifty-five years old.

September 12, 1946: PRJ premier Kasuga Shojiro boasts in a conference that he has acquired nuclear devices from the Soviets; this soon leaks out to the press.

September 14, 1946: James Francis Byrnes sits in the Oval Office and fumes. With the Soviets and Japanese already at war and now having the bomb, a strike on Allied bases in Europe and East Asia is, he feels, only a matter if time. He sends two telegrams, one to Douglas MacArthur and one to the Allied commander in Europe, Joseph T. McNary.

September 16, 1946: Nine B-29 bombers take off from airfields in South Japan. Five are shot down, but four atomic bombs are successfully dropped in quick succession on Sendai (Two bombs), Sapporo, and Vladivostok. Nearly a quarter million people die from the bombings on this day, with the death toll over the next few months being estimated at as high as half a million.


September 13, 1946: After settling the conflict with natives at the Paracel Islands, the Byrnes heads out of port and is promptly crippled by a limpet mine; 33 men are killed, and the rest escape back to shore in order to try and radio Ho Chi Minh City.

The perpetrator is presumed to have been a disgruntled native.

September 15, 1946: After embalming, General Dwight D. Eisenhower's remains are shipped back to the U.S. to be given a hero's burial. Ho Chi Minh discreetly charters a plane to attend the funeral in person the next day.

September 17, 1946: A furious Stalin cables Shojira, asking him why he bragged about weapons he didn't have. The PRJ premier has betrayed the Soviets' trust, as well as cost them hundreds of lives in Vladivostok, and now he will be left to face the consequences.

September 18, 1946: Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky orders the start of secret Soviet withdrawal from the PRJ.

September 18, 1946: Following the nuclear bombings of Sapporo, Sendai, and Vladivostok, Lavrentiy Beria concludes that Stalin must be removed from power to save the Soviet Union.

September 18-19, 1946: After much deliberation, General McNary decides that to knock the USSR out of the war, he will order the usage of the atomic bomb. Early the next morning, a formation of four B-29s, escorted by P-80 Shooting Star fighters, drop a single bomb on Minsk despite heavy fire from Soviet fighters and AA guns. In Minsk, still recovering from being devastated in the war against Germany, tens of thousands die.

September 20-21, 1946: The Red Army surrounds Hamburg, placing it under siege. The besieging forces are heavily hit Allied bombers and artillery, but remain in place for the time being.

September 22, 1946: Communist former partisans in Greece form a paramilitary group to overthrow the pro-western government, starting the Second Greek Civil War.

September 23, 1946: Turkish PM Recep Peker authorizes an immediate infusion of troops into Greece to aid pro-western government supporters.

September 24, 1946: As international watchers begin to notice Soviet withdrawal, warfarin is secretly slipped into Stalin's food; Stalin suffers a stroke that afternoon, slowly succumbing over the next four days, and subsequently allowing Levrentiy Beria to take responsibility for the withdrawal from the PRJ -- everyone under him is too terrified to say otherwise.

September 26, 1946: After nearly two months' in joint Allied custody, Sanzo Nosaka is shipped to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, as the first resident of a new detention center for high-risk detainees.

September 28, 1946, 10:00 AM (Washington Time): The Soviet ambassador is taken aback by a diplomatic cable from the Kremlin: "STALIN IS DEAD. ASK AMERICANS, PEACE?"

September 28, 1946: The Soviet ambassador delivers his message to the US State Department; the USSR will sue for peace.

Secretary Snyder calls an immediate meeting with President Byrnes, informing him of the news. Byrnes lays out the Allied demand; all Soviet forces must be withdrawn to the country's internationally recognized borders. The wording is significant; not only must the Soviets give up their influence Eastern Europe, Manchuria, Korea, and North Japan, they must restore the independence of the Baltic states, which are not recognized by the west to be part of the USSR despite their de facto annexation in 1944.

September 29, 1946: Beria deliberates on if to accept the American proposal and what, if any, conditions to force.

September 30, 1946: The Soviet ambassador delivers a message to the Americans; the USSR will accept the American terms if the USSR will be granted aid under American programs to rebuild the European economy.

Privately, Beria doubts the Americans will accept the deal; in particularly, Congress is unlikely to allow aid. Still, he hopes he can get the best deal possible out of them. As a further bluff, the message officially makes note of a Soviet nuclear test in Central Asia.

September 23, 1946:Riots against the Soviet leadership begin in Leningrad and Moscow. The mayor of Leningrad is dragged from his office into the streets and beaten to death.

September 24, 1946:
Several prisoners, aided by low level guards, are able to break out of the Vorkuta Gulag. Higher level personnel open fire on the escapees.

September 25, 1946: Human Rights groups hold protests outside the White House in response to President Brynes' excessive bombing campaign.

October 1st, 1946: A police officer in Pikesville, Maryland attempts to arrest a Russian immigrant for 'suspicious activity'. Said activity is later revealed to be speaking in Russian. When the man refuses to comply, the officer resorts to force. Outrage spreads through Russian-American communities across the country.

September 27, 1946: King George VI's health suddenly takes a turn for the worse; a ragged patch where his stomach had been stitched closed suddenly gives way, damaging his other internal organs, poisoning them with undigested food, and leaving the King feeling as though his insides are being eaten away by acid. Analysis of this also unfortunately reveals that the king's stomach wound and spinal injury had never been properly attended to, and metal imbedded in his spinal cord left over from the remains of the bullet had been leeching into his blood supply, leaving him far too weak to fend off the pervasive stomach acid.

September 28, 1946, 3:00 AM (GMT): After nearly a day in a medically-induced morphine coma to spare the King from any further agonizing pain, George VI dies from a ruptured stomach and blood poisoning.

October 1, 1946: President Byrnes orders this cable sent in response: YOU HAVE IT, I HAVE IT. WE PROMISE NOT TO USE IT, AND ALL TERMS ARE AGREED.

Beria receives this news later that day with utter shock and joy. Back in Washington, Byres now has to break this news to Congress and the American public, however gently he can...

October 2, 1946: President Byrnes calls an emergency session of Congress to announce the terms of peace the Soviets and the U.S. State Department have agreed upon. The news sends shock waves around not only the country, but the whole world.

In response to complaints, the Pikesville police officer, Sgt. Jeffrey Wintrom, is formally charged with excessive force and unlawful arrest by the District Court. Under pressure from higher-ups, he pleads guilty.

September 28, 1946, 4:30 AM (GMT): Princess Elizabeth is awoken and informed she is now Queen.

September 28, 1946, 9:00 AM (GMT): Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth the Second, makes a highly emotional address to the British people, announcing the death of their King, who had become beloved by the country for leading them through the war.

September 29, 1946: Turkish troops cross into Greece to prop up the government there. The communist rebels immediately seize on this as a propaganda subject; "The Turk has returned to once again oppress the ambitions and liberties of the Greek people".

October 3, 1946: The American media and public explode with anger over reports President Byrnes has promised economic aid to the USSR. Many Congressmen in both parties vow that the peace proposal will not pass, some going as far as calling for the Allies to inflict "Total destruction" on the Soviets.

Beria orders an immediate ceasefire on all fronts and announces the formal beginning of peace negotiations.

October 4, 1946: Georgy Zhukov and Vyacheslav Molotov meet in secret at a dacha outside Moscow. Molotov feels Beria's capitulation is an embarrassment, a betrayal of the revolution, and a blow to Soviet power, while Zhukov greatly distrusts and fears Beria and the NKVD, which remains loyal to Beria alone. Molotov pressures Zhukov to order the army to neutralize the NKVD and overthrow Beria. Both men recognize that given the NKVD's power, this would undoubtably spark a full-on civil war.

Beria finally finds the time to be briefed on USSR's actual progress in the development of nuclear weapons. He is informed that given the further destruction and loss of blood and treasure the country suffered in it's brief war against the Western Allies and that the USSR will now likely be cut off from Czech and German sources of uranium, a working bomb is unlikely to be finished before 1951.

An envoy from the Greek rebels in Sofia enlists several hardline Soviet officers from the occupation force in Bulgaria to leave their posts to fight the Turks.

October 6, 1946: Rogue Red Army units in Bulgaria cross the Greek border and join the communist rebels.

October 7, 1946: President Byrnes and Turkish Prime Minister Peker receive reports from Greek intelligence that the Soviets have violated the ceasefire and invaded Greece.

October 7, 1946: Upon hearing of the rogue Red Army units, Beria immediately orders Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky to send in troops to assist the Turks and demolish the recalcitrant units, instructing his ambassadors to fire off several cables to the U.S., Turkey, and the United Nations explaining the situation.

October 8, 1946: Escaped political prisoners from the Vorkuta gulag, having taken several days to stake out an undoubtedly secret dacha (where two men have been in session together for nearly four days), barge in and open fire on Georgy Zhukov and Vyacheslav Molotov, killing both men and several soldiers guarding them; the remaining soldiers shoot the majority of the escapees and attempt to torture confessions out the the remaining two.

The same day, President Byrnes receives the cables and simultaneously hears from an incredulous PM Peker that Soviet troops are now aiding pro-democracy and Turkish forces in beating back the communist rebels and rogue units.

Byrnes, knowing an opportunity to advance the peace cause when he sees one, puts a bulletin out publicizing this worldwide, showing once and for all that the Sovets are dedicated to the cause of peace and deserve aid.

The same day in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh touches down at a home airbase after nearly a month in the United States, having taken notes on what he should strive to do with his own country while simultaneously seeing the sights up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

October 8, 1946, 8:45 (MSD): In the wake of the bomb's explosion, three ministers and a stenographer are seriously injured, and die soon after. The bomb, placed under a conference table, is blocked from killing the other people in the meeting by being under a thick, heavy metal table leg.

October 8, 9:00 (MSD): Beria is notified of the attack by ministers loyal to him and orders Marshal Vasilevsky to bring in his own troops to quash Antonov's traitorous actions.

October 8, 4:00 (MSD): By this time, forces under Vasilevsky have broken the hold Antonov's troops previously had over Moscow. Several hundred soldiers have been killed by this time, with a large chunk from Lenin's Mausoleum having inadvertently been blasted off into the streets.

October 8, 6:25 (MSD): Knowing his insurrection has failed, Antonov shoots himself rather than surrender.

October 8, 7:00 (MSD): Troops discover Antonov's body in his headquarters, allowing Beria to announce that "order has been restored to this land!"
 
Fine:D

October 11th 1946:Zhukov decides to listen to Molotov and begins planning a revolt against Beria. He informs Molotov of this decision.
 

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October 11th 1946:Zhukov decides to listen to Molotov and begins planning a revolt against Beria. He informs Molotov of this decision.
How can Zhukov and Molotov plot against Beria on the 11th when they were both killed on the 8th? :p

Come on, anyone else? :)
 
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