I wrote this after being inspired by a threat about a Nazi-Soviet alliance. If you don't mind some implausibilites or like a dictatorwank then this should be fun.
1.
1938: Munich conference decided in favour of Germany. Sudetenland annexed.
March 1939: Germany annexes Bohemia and Moravia, Slovakia becomes a puppet.
April 1939: Hitler tragically dies in a plane crash. A huge monument is erected by the new Führer, Hermann Goering.
May 1939: A coup by the SS led by Himmler takes place, claiming that Goering is untrue to Hitler's legacy and is incompetent. The Heer manages to strike the SS down. Himmler, Heydrich and the SS are purged and will never rise to prominence again. Instead the SA gets a new life.
June 1939: Negotiations over an Anglo-German alliance fail because Britain demands the return of Bohemia and Moravia to Czechoslovakia. Goering can't do this. The rearmament is pushing Germany's economy to the breaking point. The Skoda factories help relieve the pressure.
August/September 1939: After months of negotiations the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop agreement is signed. Initially a non aggression pact, on Goering's initiative transformed into an alliance. Secret clause about Poland's partition. Germany gets 1914 borders and the Soviets everything up to the Vistula river. Germany concedes that Finland and the Baltics are in Stalin's sphere of influence. Central Europe and the Balkans become German. With Britain unwilling to become an ally and Italy being untrustworthy and dead weight, this is Goering's best option. France and Spain are not interested for obvious reasons. Japan is not worth much as it has an own agenda, not caring what the Germans want.
September 1939: German infiltrators ignite a rebellion in Danzig. Initially the riots are small. The riots increase in number and size and the swastika is hoisted on city hall. The Danzig city council votes to rejoin Germany and the Polish army is sent in to crush the German uprising. Germany uses this as a pretext to declare war on September 15th 1939. France and Britain drew the line at Poland and Germany crossed it. They don't want to see Germany gobble up more territory. As was prearranged at the start of the month the Red Army invades from the east on the 17th. The French and British don't declare war on the Soviets. The Soviets don't declare war on them either in spite of their alliance as they 'are not prepared for such a conflict.' This is true. The Red Army might be the largest army in the world but is still reeling from the purges and is halfway through a modernization/reorganization. Poland is run over in under a month with Germany restored to 1914 borders and the Soviets occupying everything up to the Vistula river. Creation of a Polish SSR. The remainder of Poland becomes an axis puppet. Goering is angered because Stalin doesn't support him against the Allies but can do nothing against Stalin's treachery.
November 1939: The Soviets invade Finland. Britain declares war, followed by France (reluctantly). To them it was obvious that the Soviets were in league with the Germans. They invaded Poland two days after the Germans and are now attacking Finland. Any idiot can see they have carved up Europe as Germany doesn't make any noise about Soviet aggression as one would expect.
April 1940: Britain and France invade Norway. A German invasion takes places as a response to Norwegian pleas for help. Denmark is overrun in the process. Germany overruns most of Norway, confining the allies in a pocket in northern Norway and securing the flow of Swedish iron ore to Germany. The Kriegsmarine was however badly damaged in the operation. The British and French are now seen in a bad light and neutral Sweden refuses to let their forces pass through Sweden to Finland, fearing occupation. Soviet forces under German guidance perform reasonably well. Finland surrenders. Creation of the Finnish SSR.
May 1940: Germany launches Fall Gelb, the invasion of the Low Countries. It is supported by a Soviet Expeditionary Force. The Low countries are overrun in weeks.
June 1940: A follow up operation, Fall Rot, is launched and France is invaded. Italy under heavy German pressure holds up its obligations to the Berlin-Rome axis. On June 10th Italy declares war and invades southern France. In spite of advancing German and Soviet forces France still manages to repulse the Italians who make little gains. The British in the meantime have largely evacuated Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo in spite of axis air superiority. Losses were heavy though. Several ships were sunk and 25.000 men were left behind thanks to the Red Air Force's and Luftwaffe's sheer weight of numbers. France is fully occupied by the start of July but refuses to surrender. Instead France fights on from her colonies.
October 1940: Mussolini invades Greece jealous of German and Soviet successes. The Italian army's bumbling leads to the Greek army repulsing them and even making inroads into Italian occupied Albania.
March 1941: Germany invades Yugoslavia. Hungary, Bulgaria and Italy jump on Yugoslavia's back. Yugoslavia surrenders and is carved up. Hungary annexes Slavonia and Macedonia goes to Bulgaria. Fiume, Dalmatia and Istria are seized by Italy. Germany installs puppet regimes in Croatia and Serbia.
April 1941: Germany comes to the aid of the failing Italians in Greece. Soviets launch an invasion pushing into Persia.
May 1941: Germany invades Crete which is run over by June.
July 1941: Germany and Italy launch a joint operation to invade Malta. This is called operation Herkules and the island falls within days. German paratroopers secure the island after the Regia Aeronautica and Luftwaffe bombed it into submission. Around 70.000 marines land and secure the island. Axis supply lines to North Africa are under less threat and more supplies get through to Libya.
December 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Germany uses this to denounce Japan. Goering sends his condoleances to President Roosevelt as does Stalin. He deeply regrets the loss of American lives and offers his help to beat the backstabbing treacherous Japanese. Roosevelt declines the offer and continues lend lease to Britain. He however doesn't declare war on the Germans since it would involve the Soviets, widening the conflict to scale that he doesn't want. Such a war would be costly and would be difficult to win. Germany and the Soviet Union have a huge army and economic power. The Soviets are the world's second largest industrial power with access to many strategic resources such as oil, coal, iron ore and tungsten among other things. Backed with Germany's technology and good general ship, the Axis is unbeatable. Following this reasoning, Roosevelt decides to focus on Japan.
1941-1942: German Afrika Corps is reinforced with additional panzers and air support. The lacking infrastructure plagues the Germans but the allies have to divide their attention between Persia, North Africa and South East Asia. The French are decisively beaten and Italy annexes Tunisia. A puppet government is set up that rules from Paris. Tobruk falls by the end of 1941 and Rommel pushes into Egypt as the Soviets battle in central Persia and in Afghanistan/north west British India. The Germans reach the Suez canal and cross into the Sinai desert in mid-1942. Turkey declares war on the Allies under heavy Soviet and German pressure in August. Turkey is surrounded by Axis forces and doesn't have much of a choice. Germany invades Cyprus with Turkish and Italian forces as auxiliaries. The island falls after a month of heavy British resistance. The Germans land a force in Tyre, Syria which becomes the principal Axis port for resupplying the newly formed "Deutsche Nahe Osten Korps" formed out of the Afrika Korps. Iraq falls in September 1942 and the German Middle Eastern Corps links up with the Red Army in Persia. The pro-Axis rebels form a government. Rommel and Zhukov shake hands in an iconic moment. Britain still refuses to surrender. Germany starts preparing for a British invasion in the long term. This is to take place in 1945 if Britain is still in the war by then. Soviet forces in the meantime keep advancing into India.
Japan finishes its conquest of Indonesia and Burma. The Japanese fleet is soundly defeated at Midway. The IJA in the meantime launches a campaign into India to link up with Germany which, despite Goering's denouncing of Japan, officially still is Japan's ally as the Tripartite pact was never dissolved.
1943: The German-Soviet advance slows down to a creep as the Pakistani mountains favour defensive warfare. Germany and the Soviets are now stuck in a quagmire of hostile tribes in unfavourable terrain. Angered, Stalin orders a bombing campaign. Large segments of the Red Air Force are moved from the western districts to Central Asia. New Delhi and several other cities in north western India are carpet bombed by Ilyushin Il-4 bombers but to no avail, British-Indian resolve stiffens. Through sheer weight of numbers the Germans and Soviets reach New Delhi in Autumn of 1943 and lay siege to it.
The Panzer V 'Panther' enters production as Germany's latest tank. It borrows heavily from the Red Army's work horse, the T-34. It has the same sloped armour but is larger. Its armour is thicker, resulting in a heavier tank. The Panther therefore is more costly but its long 75 mm gun is lethal. Later on the Panther will be upgunned to an 88 mm main gun; this option is chosen over a completely new design, the heavy Panzer VI. The Panther performs well in combat even though it has engine problems. The Soviets stick with the T-34 which is later upgunned with an 85 mm gun. This proves insufficient against late war allied designs and eventually the IS series is developed. The T-34 will serve until the end however.
Japan in the meantime keeps buying oil and several other key resources such as coal, iron, molybdenum, copper, zinc and tungsten from the Soviets who use it to fund their war machine with. This greatly slows the American advance in the Pacific as the Japanese army and navy can operate much more effectively when fully fuelled and supplied. America finds out about this Soviet aid to the Japanese. Anti-communist hawks in Congress use this as an excuse to push through a declaration of war against the German-Soviet axis along with the sinking of an American battleship on neutrality patrol by a U-boat. America switches to full war production and increased funding to the Manhattan Project. Germany and the Soviets merge their atomic bomb projects. The overall leader is Igor Kurchatov. Ins spite of this Germany and the USSR are still one to two years behind on the Americans.
The Americans and British start a bombing campaign against German cities with the Americans bombing by day and the British by night. Casualty rates sore as German and Soviet factories pump out thousands of fighter craft. Germany manages to hold onto air superiority and the number of raids decreases. The air war becomes a nightmare.
1944: German-Soviet forces end the siege of New Delhi which went down in history as one of the most bloody battles in history. Japanese and German-Soviet forces come within a hundred kilometres from each other but the British prevent their linking and push the Japanese back who are now losing bad against the Americans. The Americans are in an island hopping campaign and are headed for Saipan and the Philippines but the Japanese resist heavily with Soviet aid which puts the Soviets into the awkard position of supporting Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-Shek in China and Japan at the same time. Germany and the USSR advance further down the Indian subcontinent with an Anglo-American-Australian offensive stopping them and almost pushing the Japanese out of Bengal.
Americans conquer Saipan, Guam and Wake Island by the end of the year but fail to retake the Philippines. The Soviet Union introduces the IS-1 tank. The Germans launch the first A4 ballistic missiles against London as a response to the Allied bombing campaign. Goebbels later renames the missile the V2, Vergeltungswaffe 2 which means vengeance weapon 2. The Germans in the meantime also introduce the Messerschmitt Me 262, further increasing allied casualties and strengthening Axis control over Europe’s skies. A Soviet copy, the MiG-4, goes into mass production in the Soviet Union. Very soon hundreds of MiG-4s/Me 262s are being produced each month.
1945: The Axis and Allies are deadlocked in a stalemate with the Axis in control of North Africa, Europe and the Middle East and the mountainous north west of the Indian subcontinent and the Allies unable to push them out. The vast Axis industrial complex ensures a flow of weapons, resources and fuel. Hiroshima and Kyoto are wiped away with nuclear weapons. Japan refuses to surrender. The US respond by destroying Nagasaki and Osaka. Yokohama and Miyazaki are also destroyed. This combined with Anglo-American landings leads to Japan surrendering.
1946: After Germany’s refusal to surrender Hamburg is destroyed with a nuclear weapon. Instead of surrendering Germany retaliates by loading a V2 missile with nerve gas and using it against Southampton. The Allies in response use another nuclear weapon against Dresden and another one against Stuttgart. This results in Germany nerve gassing Hastings and Brighton.
Anglo-American forces in the meantime have landed in China and Korea using Japan as a staging ground. There they open up a new front for the Soviet Union. As a response to the nuclear bombing, Germany gives the design of the V2 missiles and nerve gas. When general Macarthur uses a nuclear weapon against Soviet defences on the Yalu river. Stalin responds with a massive artillery strike with shells filled with chemical weapons, among them German Nerve gas.
The Americans react by destroying Moscow by means of a B-32 bomber loaded with an atomic bomb. Stalin is not in the city because he feared exactly this. He moves his capital to Stalingrad and later to Omsk which is out of Allied bomber range.
1947: The Axis tests its first atomic bomb at the Semipalatinsk test site. Germany’s test launch of the A9/A10 fails due to electronics problems. A German Junkers Ju 390 heavy bomber takes off from Holland and destroys Manchester. Britain responds by bombing Munich. Another bomb intended for Leipzig fails to reach its target as the bomber is shot down by an Me 262. Liverpool is destroyed by a German atomic bomb. American bombers stationed in Korea bomb the Transsiberian railroad, cutting off the Russian Far East. America breaks the siege of Vladivostok by destroying the surrounded Soviets with a nuclear weapon. Stalin retaliates by using a nuclear weapon against American forces in Mongolia. A bomber sent to retaliate against the Red Navy in Leningrad crashes in Estonia after being attacked by MiG-4s. A partial nuclear reaction takes place, causing a lot of radiation and a one kiloton blast.
1948: Germany successfully tests the A9/A10 as part of Projekt Amerika. Germany launches an A9/A10 rocket against America. Its gyroscope breaks causing it to land in Nova Scotia. Several more were launched, hitting American cities on the eastern seaboard. A British bombing raid destroys the launch area in western France for A9/A10 missiles later that year. The missiles are loaded with conventional explosives as nuclear weapons don’t fit. A 1 tonne warhead however can still wipe out a city block, killing hundreds.
1949: Germany test launches an A11 ballistic missile.
1950: Novosibirsk and Kazan are destroyed by nuclear weapons. Germany retaliates for its ally and launches A11 missiles loaded with nuclear missiles against New York. Philadelphia follows. A third missile bound for Boston overshoots its target and lands in Main, causing massive forest fires and radiation contamination from which nature there won’t recover for years. Kiel, Hannover and Bremen are destroyed in retaliation. Both parties make tentative peace offers. Peace is made. Axis forces fully withdraw from China and India. Axis forces leave the Middle East but install friendly regimes armed to the teeth there. North Africa and Europe end up in Germany’s sphere of influence. The Soviets maintain compete for influence in the Middle East with Britain. He moves his capital back to Stalingrad. India becomes independent as Britain promised it would become after the war. Chiang Kai-Shek wins the Chinese civil war with American aid and becomes a western ally and the main counter against communism in Asia. Burma, French Indochina and Indonesia are recognised as independent states. Italy keeps Libya, Italian East Africa, Tunisia and Greece.
1.
1938: Munich conference decided in favour of Germany. Sudetenland annexed.
March 1939: Germany annexes Bohemia and Moravia, Slovakia becomes a puppet.
April 1939: Hitler tragically dies in a plane crash. A huge monument is erected by the new Führer, Hermann Goering.
May 1939: A coup by the SS led by Himmler takes place, claiming that Goering is untrue to Hitler's legacy and is incompetent. The Heer manages to strike the SS down. Himmler, Heydrich and the SS are purged and will never rise to prominence again. Instead the SA gets a new life.
June 1939: Negotiations over an Anglo-German alliance fail because Britain demands the return of Bohemia and Moravia to Czechoslovakia. Goering can't do this. The rearmament is pushing Germany's economy to the breaking point. The Skoda factories help relieve the pressure.
August/September 1939: After months of negotiations the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop agreement is signed. Initially a non aggression pact, on Goering's initiative transformed into an alliance. Secret clause about Poland's partition. Germany gets 1914 borders and the Soviets everything up to the Vistula river. Germany concedes that Finland and the Baltics are in Stalin's sphere of influence. Central Europe and the Balkans become German. With Britain unwilling to become an ally and Italy being untrustworthy and dead weight, this is Goering's best option. France and Spain are not interested for obvious reasons. Japan is not worth much as it has an own agenda, not caring what the Germans want.
September 1939: German infiltrators ignite a rebellion in Danzig. Initially the riots are small. The riots increase in number and size and the swastika is hoisted on city hall. The Danzig city council votes to rejoin Germany and the Polish army is sent in to crush the German uprising. Germany uses this as a pretext to declare war on September 15th 1939. France and Britain drew the line at Poland and Germany crossed it. They don't want to see Germany gobble up more territory. As was prearranged at the start of the month the Red Army invades from the east on the 17th. The French and British don't declare war on the Soviets. The Soviets don't declare war on them either in spite of their alliance as they 'are not prepared for such a conflict.' This is true. The Red Army might be the largest army in the world but is still reeling from the purges and is halfway through a modernization/reorganization. Poland is run over in under a month with Germany restored to 1914 borders and the Soviets occupying everything up to the Vistula river. Creation of a Polish SSR. The remainder of Poland becomes an axis puppet. Goering is angered because Stalin doesn't support him against the Allies but can do nothing against Stalin's treachery.
November 1939: The Soviets invade Finland. Britain declares war, followed by France (reluctantly). To them it was obvious that the Soviets were in league with the Germans. They invaded Poland two days after the Germans and are now attacking Finland. Any idiot can see they have carved up Europe as Germany doesn't make any noise about Soviet aggression as one would expect.
April 1940: Britain and France invade Norway. A German invasion takes places as a response to Norwegian pleas for help. Denmark is overrun in the process. Germany overruns most of Norway, confining the allies in a pocket in northern Norway and securing the flow of Swedish iron ore to Germany. The Kriegsmarine was however badly damaged in the operation. The British and French are now seen in a bad light and neutral Sweden refuses to let their forces pass through Sweden to Finland, fearing occupation. Soviet forces under German guidance perform reasonably well. Finland surrenders. Creation of the Finnish SSR.
May 1940: Germany launches Fall Gelb, the invasion of the Low Countries. It is supported by a Soviet Expeditionary Force. The Low countries are overrun in weeks.
June 1940: A follow up operation, Fall Rot, is launched and France is invaded. Italy under heavy German pressure holds up its obligations to the Berlin-Rome axis. On June 10th Italy declares war and invades southern France. In spite of advancing German and Soviet forces France still manages to repulse the Italians who make little gains. The British in the meantime have largely evacuated Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo in spite of axis air superiority. Losses were heavy though. Several ships were sunk and 25.000 men were left behind thanks to the Red Air Force's and Luftwaffe's sheer weight of numbers. France is fully occupied by the start of July but refuses to surrender. Instead France fights on from her colonies.
October 1940: Mussolini invades Greece jealous of German and Soviet successes. The Italian army's bumbling leads to the Greek army repulsing them and even making inroads into Italian occupied Albania.
March 1941: Germany invades Yugoslavia. Hungary, Bulgaria and Italy jump on Yugoslavia's back. Yugoslavia surrenders and is carved up. Hungary annexes Slavonia and Macedonia goes to Bulgaria. Fiume, Dalmatia and Istria are seized by Italy. Germany installs puppet regimes in Croatia and Serbia.
April 1941: Germany comes to the aid of the failing Italians in Greece. Soviets launch an invasion pushing into Persia.
May 1941: Germany invades Crete which is run over by June.
July 1941: Germany and Italy launch a joint operation to invade Malta. This is called operation Herkules and the island falls within days. German paratroopers secure the island after the Regia Aeronautica and Luftwaffe bombed it into submission. Around 70.000 marines land and secure the island. Axis supply lines to North Africa are under less threat and more supplies get through to Libya.
December 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Germany uses this to denounce Japan. Goering sends his condoleances to President Roosevelt as does Stalin. He deeply regrets the loss of American lives and offers his help to beat the backstabbing treacherous Japanese. Roosevelt declines the offer and continues lend lease to Britain. He however doesn't declare war on the Germans since it would involve the Soviets, widening the conflict to scale that he doesn't want. Such a war would be costly and would be difficult to win. Germany and the Soviet Union have a huge army and economic power. The Soviets are the world's second largest industrial power with access to many strategic resources such as oil, coal, iron ore and tungsten among other things. Backed with Germany's technology and good general ship, the Axis is unbeatable. Following this reasoning, Roosevelt decides to focus on Japan.
1941-1942: German Afrika Corps is reinforced with additional panzers and air support. The lacking infrastructure plagues the Germans but the allies have to divide their attention between Persia, North Africa and South East Asia. The French are decisively beaten and Italy annexes Tunisia. A puppet government is set up that rules from Paris. Tobruk falls by the end of 1941 and Rommel pushes into Egypt as the Soviets battle in central Persia and in Afghanistan/north west British India. The Germans reach the Suez canal and cross into the Sinai desert in mid-1942. Turkey declares war on the Allies under heavy Soviet and German pressure in August. Turkey is surrounded by Axis forces and doesn't have much of a choice. Germany invades Cyprus with Turkish and Italian forces as auxiliaries. The island falls after a month of heavy British resistance. The Germans land a force in Tyre, Syria which becomes the principal Axis port for resupplying the newly formed "Deutsche Nahe Osten Korps" formed out of the Afrika Korps. Iraq falls in September 1942 and the German Middle Eastern Corps links up with the Red Army in Persia. The pro-Axis rebels form a government. Rommel and Zhukov shake hands in an iconic moment. Britain still refuses to surrender. Germany starts preparing for a British invasion in the long term. This is to take place in 1945 if Britain is still in the war by then. Soviet forces in the meantime keep advancing into India.
Japan finishes its conquest of Indonesia and Burma. The Japanese fleet is soundly defeated at Midway. The IJA in the meantime launches a campaign into India to link up with Germany which, despite Goering's denouncing of Japan, officially still is Japan's ally as the Tripartite pact was never dissolved.
1943: The German-Soviet advance slows down to a creep as the Pakistani mountains favour defensive warfare. Germany and the Soviets are now stuck in a quagmire of hostile tribes in unfavourable terrain. Angered, Stalin orders a bombing campaign. Large segments of the Red Air Force are moved from the western districts to Central Asia. New Delhi and several other cities in north western India are carpet bombed by Ilyushin Il-4 bombers but to no avail, British-Indian resolve stiffens. Through sheer weight of numbers the Germans and Soviets reach New Delhi in Autumn of 1943 and lay siege to it.
The Panzer V 'Panther' enters production as Germany's latest tank. It borrows heavily from the Red Army's work horse, the T-34. It has the same sloped armour but is larger. Its armour is thicker, resulting in a heavier tank. The Panther therefore is more costly but its long 75 mm gun is lethal. Later on the Panther will be upgunned to an 88 mm main gun; this option is chosen over a completely new design, the heavy Panzer VI. The Panther performs well in combat even though it has engine problems. The Soviets stick with the T-34 which is later upgunned with an 85 mm gun. This proves insufficient against late war allied designs and eventually the IS series is developed. The T-34 will serve until the end however.
Japan in the meantime keeps buying oil and several other key resources such as coal, iron, molybdenum, copper, zinc and tungsten from the Soviets who use it to fund their war machine with. This greatly slows the American advance in the Pacific as the Japanese army and navy can operate much more effectively when fully fuelled and supplied. America finds out about this Soviet aid to the Japanese. Anti-communist hawks in Congress use this as an excuse to push through a declaration of war against the German-Soviet axis along with the sinking of an American battleship on neutrality patrol by a U-boat. America switches to full war production and increased funding to the Manhattan Project. Germany and the Soviets merge their atomic bomb projects. The overall leader is Igor Kurchatov. Ins spite of this Germany and the USSR are still one to two years behind on the Americans.
The Americans and British start a bombing campaign against German cities with the Americans bombing by day and the British by night. Casualty rates sore as German and Soviet factories pump out thousands of fighter craft. Germany manages to hold onto air superiority and the number of raids decreases. The air war becomes a nightmare.
1944: German-Soviet forces end the siege of New Delhi which went down in history as one of the most bloody battles in history. Japanese and German-Soviet forces come within a hundred kilometres from each other but the British prevent their linking and push the Japanese back who are now losing bad against the Americans. The Americans are in an island hopping campaign and are headed for Saipan and the Philippines but the Japanese resist heavily with Soviet aid which puts the Soviets into the awkard position of supporting Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-Shek in China and Japan at the same time. Germany and the USSR advance further down the Indian subcontinent with an Anglo-American-Australian offensive stopping them and almost pushing the Japanese out of Bengal.
Americans conquer Saipan, Guam and Wake Island by the end of the year but fail to retake the Philippines. The Soviet Union introduces the IS-1 tank. The Germans launch the first A4 ballistic missiles against London as a response to the Allied bombing campaign. Goebbels later renames the missile the V2, Vergeltungswaffe 2 which means vengeance weapon 2. The Germans in the meantime also introduce the Messerschmitt Me 262, further increasing allied casualties and strengthening Axis control over Europe’s skies. A Soviet copy, the MiG-4, goes into mass production in the Soviet Union. Very soon hundreds of MiG-4s/Me 262s are being produced each month.
1945: The Axis and Allies are deadlocked in a stalemate with the Axis in control of North Africa, Europe and the Middle East and the mountainous north west of the Indian subcontinent and the Allies unable to push them out. The vast Axis industrial complex ensures a flow of weapons, resources and fuel. Hiroshima and Kyoto are wiped away with nuclear weapons. Japan refuses to surrender. The US respond by destroying Nagasaki and Osaka. Yokohama and Miyazaki are also destroyed. This combined with Anglo-American landings leads to Japan surrendering.
1946: After Germany’s refusal to surrender Hamburg is destroyed with a nuclear weapon. Instead of surrendering Germany retaliates by loading a V2 missile with nerve gas and using it against Southampton. The Allies in response use another nuclear weapon against Dresden and another one against Stuttgart. This results in Germany nerve gassing Hastings and Brighton.
Anglo-American forces in the meantime have landed in China and Korea using Japan as a staging ground. There they open up a new front for the Soviet Union. As a response to the nuclear bombing, Germany gives the design of the V2 missiles and nerve gas. When general Macarthur uses a nuclear weapon against Soviet defences on the Yalu river. Stalin responds with a massive artillery strike with shells filled with chemical weapons, among them German Nerve gas.
The Americans react by destroying Moscow by means of a B-32 bomber loaded with an atomic bomb. Stalin is not in the city because he feared exactly this. He moves his capital to Stalingrad and later to Omsk which is out of Allied bomber range.
1947: The Axis tests its first atomic bomb at the Semipalatinsk test site. Germany’s test launch of the A9/A10 fails due to electronics problems. A German Junkers Ju 390 heavy bomber takes off from Holland and destroys Manchester. Britain responds by bombing Munich. Another bomb intended for Leipzig fails to reach its target as the bomber is shot down by an Me 262. Liverpool is destroyed by a German atomic bomb. American bombers stationed in Korea bomb the Transsiberian railroad, cutting off the Russian Far East. America breaks the siege of Vladivostok by destroying the surrounded Soviets with a nuclear weapon. Stalin retaliates by using a nuclear weapon against American forces in Mongolia. A bomber sent to retaliate against the Red Navy in Leningrad crashes in Estonia after being attacked by MiG-4s. A partial nuclear reaction takes place, causing a lot of radiation and a one kiloton blast.
1948: Germany successfully tests the A9/A10 as part of Projekt Amerika. Germany launches an A9/A10 rocket against America. Its gyroscope breaks causing it to land in Nova Scotia. Several more were launched, hitting American cities on the eastern seaboard. A British bombing raid destroys the launch area in western France for A9/A10 missiles later that year. The missiles are loaded with conventional explosives as nuclear weapons don’t fit. A 1 tonne warhead however can still wipe out a city block, killing hundreds.
1949: Germany test launches an A11 ballistic missile.
1950: Novosibirsk and Kazan are destroyed by nuclear weapons. Germany retaliates for its ally and launches A11 missiles loaded with nuclear missiles against New York. Philadelphia follows. A third missile bound for Boston overshoots its target and lands in Main, causing massive forest fires and radiation contamination from which nature there won’t recover for years. Kiel, Hannover and Bremen are destroyed in retaliation. Both parties make tentative peace offers. Peace is made. Axis forces fully withdraw from China and India. Axis forces leave the Middle East but install friendly regimes armed to the teeth there. North Africa and Europe end up in Germany’s sphere of influence. The Soviets maintain compete for influence in the Middle East with Britain. He moves his capital back to Stalingrad. India becomes independent as Britain promised it would become after the war. Chiang Kai-Shek wins the Chinese civil war with American aid and becomes a western ally and the main counter against communism in Asia. Burma, French Indochina and Indonesia are recognised as independent states. Italy keeps Libya, Italian East Africa, Tunisia and Greece.
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