World War II

### Concurrent

Second Sino-Japanes War, Japanese invasion of Manchuria, German Civil War, Second Russo-Japanese War

### Date

1939-1945 (Normal timeline)1931-1946 (Alternate timeline)

### Location

Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa, Horn of Africa, Australia, briefly North and South America

### Result

Allied victoryCollapse of Nazi Germany

Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires

Dissolution of the League of Nations

Creation of the United Nations

Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers

Beginning of the Cold War

## Major Events

### Battles

Invasion of PolandAssassination of Adolf Hitler

Battle of the Atlantic

Second Russo-Japanese War

German Civil War

Operation Torch

Battle of Seelow Heights

Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of Moscow

Battle of Iwo Jima

Battle of Guadalcanal

Battle of Midway Island

Siege of Nanking

Battle of Peking

Operation Red Star

Operation Downfall

## Combatants

### Allied Combatants

The Big Four:West Rome

Soviet Union

China

Occupied countries with governments in exile:

France

Poland

Yugoslavia

Greece

Netherlands

Belgium

Luxembourg

Norway

Czechoslovakia

Other Allied Combatants

Ethiopia

Egypt

South Africa

Australia

Canada

Federation

### Enemy Combatants

Axis Powers:Nazi Germany

Imperial Japanese Empire

Axis Co-Belligerents:

Romania

Hungary

Italy

Bulgaria

Other:

New Dawn

## Commanders

### Allied Forces

* Franklin D. Roosevelt (KIA)
* Joseph Stalin (KIA)
* Winston Churchill
* Alan S. Brooks
* David J. Hernandez
* Elaine J. Lapham
* Marsha A. Harris (WIA)
* Joshua J. Mayberry
* Raymond H. Alvardo
* Alexandra Kendrick
* Samantha Kendrick
* Burt Kendrick
* Gloria M. Livingston
* Yuri Ilyin
* Sashenka Tikhonova
* Oleg Sidorenko
* Aram Komulakov
* Georgy Zhukov
* Boris Shaposhnikov
* Aleksandr Vasilevsky
* Semyon Timoshenko
* Aleksei Antonov
* Ivan Konev
* Ivan Bagramyan
* Konstantin Rokossovsky
* Vasily Chuikov
* Nikita Khrushchev
* Kostya Danilov
* Konstantin Bandanov
* Vanya Shvernik
* Lev Filipchenko
* Konstantin Bandanov

Raven:

* High Command of Raven
* Walther Sommerfeld
* Adelmar Weizenbaum
* Frank Pickler
* Felix Hasselbach
* Sascha Tischer
* Ferdinand Nebe
* Anneliese Heumann
* Lena Kranefuss
* Yvonne Heinrich
* Traute Hanfstaengl
* Katarina Schwarzman
* Sabrina Stockmann
* Petra Gustloff
* Sarah Stadler

### Enemy Forces

Imperial Japanese Empire:Hirohito

Hideki Tōjō

Otozō Yamada

Yoshijirō Umezu

Korechika Anami

Yasuhiko Asaka

Shunroku Hata

Seishirō Itagaki

Kotohito Kan'in

Iwane Matsui

Toshizō Nishio

Yasuji Okamura

Hajime Sugiyama

Krishima Shinzaburo (KIA)

Nazi Germany:

* Adolf Hitler (KIA)
* Pascal Hacke (KIA)
* Anatol Bohm
* Erich Schultze
* Mario Ettlinger (KIA)
* New Dawn:

High Command of New Dawn

## Casualties

### Allied Losses

Military dead: Over 36,000,000Civilian dead: Over 45,000,000

Total dead: Over 81,000,000

### Opposition Losses

Military dead: Over 10,000,000Civilian dead: Over 14,000,000

Total dead: Over 24,000,000

In the normal timeline, **World War II** was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. In the alternate timeline, World War II was a conflict from 1931-1947, which ended in a stalemate. The vast majority of the world-including all the Great Powers-split into two main alliances: the Axis and the Allies. However, in this alternate universe, neither side gained an advantage and eventually fought to a stalemate, and eventually a ceasefire. This ceasefire abruptly ended with the Japanese invasion of the USSR in 1940 and the sinking of the RMS Eden that same year. From that point forward, World War II was a full-scale war in which both the Allies and the Imperial Japanese Empire fought tooth and nail to destroy each other, culmilating in Operation Downfall in 1946.

## Background

On September 18, 1931, a more advanced Imperial Japanese Emprie deployed the Kwangtung Army to invade Manchuria. On July 7, 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War started with Japan invading the rest of the Republic of China. Two years later, in 1939, Adolf Hitler  was assassinated in a coup kick-started by "traitorous separatists" (later revealed to be militants loyal to a terrorist group called New Dawn). With the ensuing civil against the Nazis in 1939, numerous events that would have occurred in the normal timeline of World War II, particularly the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, never happened.

With Hitler gone, another radical Nazi official, Pascal Hacke, took his place. The Nazis vowed to retaliate against the separatists that killed Hitler. The result was the German Civil War that raged between the Nazis, New Dawn terrorists that assassinated Hitler, and the Raven separatists, all fighting in a three-front civil war to reform Germany and destroy the Nazi regime. At around the same time, Hacke blamed the Jews for kick-starting the assassination, accusing Jews of feeding "propaganda" to the separatists responsible for Hitler's assassination. Henceforth, an alternate Holocaust transpired, one that saw a higher death toll than the Holocaust that occurred in the old timeline.

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union, West Rome and England sent troops and equipment to support the Second United Front, an alliance between the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Communist Party of China (CPC) against Imperial Japan. Hoping to cripple the foreign support for China, Imperial Japanese sleeper agents infiltrated the USSR, West Rome and other countries, leading to a series of terrorist attacks against the Russians, West Romans, and the British on December 7, 1941 (These terrorist attacks replaced Pearl Harbor). The Japanese soon followed up with a surprise Japanese invasion of the USSR on December 15, 1940, intending to cripple the Soviet support for China by destroying key factories producing military equipment for China's own military. This abruptly escalated the war, with the Soviets and West Rome declaring war on Japan immediately afterwards.

Japan soon began closing down the waters around Japan and Occupied China, practicing unrestricted submarine warfare against American and British ships daring to cross into the Orient. The most notorious incident was the sinking of the RMS Eden on February 3, 1940, in which a Japanese midget submarine ambushed the ship as it was carrying both Chinese refugees and foreigners fleeing the nation from China to the United States. About 900 people died in the sinking, many of them family members of prominent members of the West Roman government.

For West Rome, this was the final straw. The very next day on February 4, West Rome declared war on Japan.

The Second World War had officially begun.

## Major Theaters of War

* Japanese Theater
* Chinese Theater
* European Theater (Includes German Civil War).
* American Theater (American Homefront)

## Major battles

### Chinese Theater

* Siege of Nanking
* Battle of Peking

### European Theater

NOTE: This includes the events of the German Civil War, in addition to the Second Russo-Japanese War.

* Battle of Kamchatka
* Siege of Moscow
* Battle of St. Petersburg
* Operation Bluebird
* Battle of Seelow Heights
* Siege of Hamburg
* Siege of Berlin

### Pacific Theater

* Battle of Midway Island
* Battle of Iwo Jima
* Battle of Leyte Gulf
* Battle of the Coral Sea
* Battle for the Philippines
* Battle of Okinawa
* Operation Downfall
* Operation Red Star

### Homefront Theater

NOTE: This includes both America, the USSR, and the UK

* December 7, 1941 Terrorist Attacks
* Hunt for Sugano Yasuhiko
* Operation Stingray