delaying DDay by even a month could get you there. Weather was bad; Eisenhower almost didn't go. That would also probably delay Dragoon (Invasion of S France). So allies might not even get to Brussels before November.The ardennes offensive is more successful or the D-Days landings are delayed until early 1945?
Yalta (February 1945) was more or less a reflection of "facts on the ground" - where the different allies were then and were likely to end up. US still hadn't crossed Rhine; Russians were in Budapest. Yalta was just drawing a line to avoid another war. Not some big plot. If Market Garden had succeeded Czech and maybe more of Germany would have ended up in Western zone.FDR dies or retires in 1944 due health issues and Wallace becomes president. Stalin manages Wallace making more confessions in Germany and accepting Austria becoming Soviet satelite.
Isn't this literally the immediate post-World War 2 map from "For All Time"?
-Just to top everything off, the Tehran Conference, from late November to early December, sets the stage for the post-war world. America and the Soviet Union agree to divide their efforts on nuclear projects as they share knowledge; the Soviet Union will work on the gun-type bomb, while the Americans will work on the implosion-type. As per the war in Europe, all the powers agree to offensives in the summer of 1944.
The British Empire, Americans, and Free French will go north through Sicily and the rest of the Mediterranean, while the Soviets will strike again in the Ukraine. The Soviet Union also pledges to declare war on Japan within a month of Germany's surrender. Very preliminary plans for the post-war world are drawn up; the Soviet Union will occupy Austria, along with eastern and central Germany, until democracy can be established, while the US, the UK, and France will hold the rest.
Correct, and for some reason the timeline never mentions why Greece, or Yugoslavia end up in Stalin's camp.