Disortions

I just joined this site today! Needles to say, this is my very first TL! Hope you enjoy it. If not, feel free to criticise me to death...:mad:

1933: Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany.

1939: Germany invades Poland.

1940: Germany invades France and Western Europe.

1941: Germany wins the Battle of Britain and invades England in Operation Sea Lion. By conquering England, the Germans effectively block American involvement in the war in Europe. Also, the Empire of Japan suffers a catastrophic defeat in their attack on Pearl Harbour due to an alerted American government and navy, losing 5 aircraft carriers and having 1 heavily damaged, as well as a battleship and a fleet oiler. The United States only loses 2 battleships and a destroyer, both of which are salvageable.

1942: Hitler proposes Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of Russia - to his General Staff. The Generals are appalled at the concept, as the vastness of Russia has thwarted every invasion attempt since 1249, including Napoleon.

February 1942: Hitler is assassinated by members of the Black Orchestra, which includes Generals from the Army, Admiral Canaris of the Abwehr, and many other civil servants and political activists.

March 1942: The Nazi Party collapses without the hypnotic charisma of Hitler binding its disparate elements and interests together. A period of political chaos ensues, which provides many oppressed people a chance to either relocate within Europe and change their identities, or to escape the Continent altogether.

May-June 1942: The Japanese suffer further disastrous setbacks at the Coral Sea and Midway, losing multiple carriers and battleships and dozens of cruisers and destroyers.

June 1942: The power vacuum is filled by less radical German parties like the Social Democrats. Control of the war is assumed by the General Staff, who wisely leave Russia alone and instead invade the western half of the Middle East including Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. The planned extermination of the Jews is modified to a program of forced labor that quickly comes to resemble the institutionalized slavery of America's Antebellum South.

1943: The US goes on the offensive in the Pacific, quickly recapturing Wake Island and Guam against minimal resistance. The IJN suffers further damaging defeats in the Marshall and Caroline Islands, and abandon Okinawa and Iwo Jima in an attempt to deter the inevitable US invasion.

1943: Germany declares victory and ends the war in the West.

1944: The United States invades Japan's home islands, ending the war in the East.

1945 - 1951: International tensions repeatedly flare between China, Russia, Germany, and the United States, known collectively as "The Big Four". A massive arms race begins.

1951: The Korean War begins.

1953: The United States drops the first-ever atomic bomb on a large Chinese military base near Pyongyang in North Korea. China retreats, and the Nuclear Age begins.

1954: The Korean War ends with a cease fire. The 2 Koreas remain technically at war.

1954: Germany launches an artificial satellite into orbit on a rocket built by Werner Von Braun, starting the space race. (Odin 1) This same rocket is used to build the first ICBMs. First German atom bomb tested.

1955: The USA launches its own satellite. (Vanguard 1) First Russian atom bomb tested.

1956: Russia launches a satellite. (Sputnik 1)

1958: Germany puts a man in space. (Silver Bird) The USA follows months after. (Horizon SA-1)

1960: Germany (Valkyrie 5) and the USA (Horizon SA-8) both perform human flybys of the Moon.

1961: Germany occupies British Honduras.

1964: China becomes the 4th nation to test a nuclear weapon.

1965: Honduras missile crisis. Nuclear war averted through diplomacy.

1967: Germany lands a human on the Moon, beating the USA. (Valkyrie 10)

1968: NASA lands a crew on the Moon. (Horizon SA-11)
 
Welcome to the forum

Its not so much as Criticism as 'keeping it real' ;)

First of all Operation Sealion leading to a inevitable German Victory has been discussed...quite extensively on the site (and others) - the overwhelming conclusion is that Sealion stood a Ice cubes chance in Hell of succeeding for many reasons.

Please let me draw your attention to the Sealion collection on this site - the only way German troops successfully get ashore without a massive change in their navy and somehow have gained amphibious capabilities is via an administrative invasion ie they British let them in and they simply dock and troop walk down the gangplank!

Secondly Pearl Harbour - arguable the 2nd most discussed what it on the site (split between the IJN getting their heads kicked in and on the other corner the IJN managing a amphibious landing on the islands and capturing them) - again for a number of reasons the USN is highly unlikely to be able to inflict a serious reverse on the IJN that day - possible shoot down more aircraft but actually striking back on the carriers....improbable (as is the other idea of the Japanese managing to successfully land a assault force after the attack)

The obvious one here is why no war between the not Nazi Anymore honestly guv German Empire and the Russians?
 
Welcome to board.

But unfortuntately I must say that this TL is not be very well written. Speciality this Sealion part is absolutely no, no, no. And there is several other implausibilities too. I would suggest you learn more about things like USA not declare war to Germany but goes after Japan only.
 
Welcome aboard, Sputnik. You may want to go more into some of the concepts you raise. In a world like this, doubtless you'd have a much different Korea, but here it enters without any background in 1951. Even if Korea isn't central to your timeline, a line or two about how it became the center of a war would lend some flavor.
 
Welcome to the Forum.

I think the TL would benefit from expanding some of the areas. As others have noted, certain details have been discussed extensively before. For example, a German invasion of Britain is arguably one of the most covered topics on the board, with the general conclusion being that it was not a high probability event.

When you look into the how something happens, you discover knock-on consequences. For example, what happens to Britain after Sealion? There are a number of possibilities (and leaving aside the improbability of the event); Britain might have fought tooth and nail, and given that at the time, the SE of England was the most extensively defended airspace in the world, the Germans are not going to win the Battle of Britain without suffering crippling casualties to the Luftwaffe in the process. That's going to impact the Luftwaffe's capability for later in the war.

If Britain is taken out of the equation, what happens to the technical help it gave OTL with such things as Tube Alloys and the Cavity Magnetron?
 
Thank you everyone for your feedback! I really just banged this off quickly I was so excited to be on the site. I will try to do better in the future. By the way, I didn't realise Op. Sealion was such a touchy subject. Sorry!!

(Is Tube Alloys the British nuclear program?)
 
Thank you everyone for your feedback! I really just banged this off quickly I was so excited to be on the site. I will try to do better in the future. By the way, I didn't realise Op. Sealion was such a touchy subject. Sorry!!

(Is Tube Alloys the British nuclear program?)
Yeah tube alloys was the nuclear program. I guess no nuke til 53 is the result of no tube alloys aid.

Welcome to the site. I tend to do pencil timelines like this a lot in response to questions or challenges but if you post a timeline in a thread it will be ripped apart. Germany

The idea of Germany winning the battle of Britain and then pulling off sealion is where things go off track and need a decent explanation as to how.
 
By the way, I didn't realise Op. Sealion was such a touchy subject.

Not so much touchy, as incredibly thoroughly examined. To my certain knowledge, people on sites such as this have been looking at it in some detail, and I don't think there's been a plausible route to a successful military Sealion yet. One can postulate a political collapse of will, but the odds are stacked so heavily against the military operation working that it's become a byword for implausibility.

Enjoy the experience. You'll find that there are some extremely knowledgeable people here, and there will be an expert (usually more than one) on pretty much an historical subject you care to name.
 
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