First Chronicle

The First Chronicle documents history of the An Orwellian Reality world from 1945-1949. The First Chronicle focuses on the final days of the Second World War and the course of World War III, along with the United States invasion of Japan and the eventual stalemate on the European Front around the River Meuse. The outcome of the war would ultimately lead to the start of the Oceanian takeover in 1954, documented in the Second and Third Chronicles.

## 1945

### January

**January 12th -** The Soviet Union launches the Vistula-Oder Offensive against Nazi Germany.

**January 13th -** The USSR launches their offensive into East Prussia.

**January 17th -** Warsaw is liberated by the Soviet Union.

**January 21st -** Hungary declares war on the Axis Powers.

**January 25th -** Battle of the Bulge ends in an Allied Victory, as the Germans retreat to their starting positions on the Siegfried Line.

**January 27th -** The infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp is liberated by the Red Army with 7,000 surviving immates.

**January 28th -** Katowice falls to the Soviets.

### February

**February 3rd -** The Battle of Manila begins on the Philippine Islands between the Japanese and the Americans.

**February 4th -** The Yalta Conference commences between Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union.

**February 13th -**

* The Siege of Budapest ends in Germany's surrender of the city to the Soviet-Romanian coliation force.
* Dresden Air Raid commences, killing over 20,000 civilians.

**February 19th -** The Battle of Iwo Jima begins in the Pacific Theater.

### April

**April 30th -** Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

### June

**June 22nd -** The Allies began building up troops along the Inner German border with the Soviets.

### July

**July 5th (FIRST POINT OF DIVERGENCE) -** Winston Churchill is re-elected as the Prime Minister, following a very close election between the Conservative Party and the rising Labour Party, led by Clement Attlee.

**July 8th -** Churchill informs Harry Truman about the plan to invade the USSR.

**July 10th -** After intense debate within the American and British cabinets, the Allies agree to declare war on the Soviet Union, and prepared for an invasion at the end of July.

**July 15th -** Marshal Georgy Zhukov warns Stalin of the masive buildup of troops in Germany and Austria. Stalin is alarmed but not concerned by the provactive Allies.

**July 16th -** Soviet spies finds out about the unusually high amount of bombers in Western Germany, and once again warns Stalin of the potential war. Stalin orders his troops to be on high alert.

**July 17th -** The Postdam Conference is cancelled by the Western Allies, confirming Soviet suspiscions of the Western Allies' invasing the Soviet Union. That same day, Stalin ordered Konstantin Rokossovsky to be in charge of the defense of Poland.

**July 20th -** The Allies complete their buildup of troops, unaware that the USSR had gotten wind of the immenient attack.

**July 22nd -** At exactly 0300 hours, Allied troops cross the ceasefire line, declaring war on the USSR later that morning with the cause belli of "liberating the oppressed people of Eastern Europe".

**July 30th -** The Battle of Lepizig commences.

### September

**September 1st -** The Battle of Szczecin ends in a pyrrthic Allied victory. The casualties forced the Allies to reconsider their push to the Dneiper-Daugava Line as part of Operation Sledger.

**September 2nd -** Chester Nimitz and Douglas MacArthur had a massive arguement on board the USS Missouri about whether or not should Operation Downfall go ahead, as they heard about the pyrrthic victory of the Allies in Szczecin in what was formerly Pomerania.

### October

**October 1st -** Despite of the war with the Soviet Union, the United States launches Operation Downfall, invading Kyushu.

## 1947

### February

**February 14th -** Operation Coronet is launched by the Allied Powers, as they invade the Kanto Plain to take Tokyo.

## 1948

### December

**December 17th -** The Allies are catastrophically defeated at the Battle of Choshi, ending Operation Coronet in an Allied defeat.

## 1949

### April

**April 8th -** The Battle of Metz begins, as the Soviets attempts to cross the Meuse.

**April 19th -** Battle of Metz ends in a decisive Soviet victory as Zhukov rolled in with his horse straight into Paris.

**April 28th -** The Red Army, led by Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Rokossovsky enters Paris, publically waving the Soviet flag on top of the Arc de Triomphe.

**April 30th -** Harry Truman announces that the United States will seek peace with the USSR, effectively ending World War II.

### May

**May 8th -** The Red Armistice comes into effect, ending World War II in Europe for good.

### July

**July 1st -** The Red Army withdraws from Paris to return to the Meuse River Line, as part of the Red Armistice.

**July 22nd -** On the anniversary of the Allied invasion of the USSR, the Soviets hold another mass parade, celebrating their victory against the defeated Allied Powers, also including the flag burning of the United States and Britain, like what the did to the Nazis.

### December

December 31st - End of the First Chronicle. To access history from 1950-1954, please read Second Chronicle.