The Great Betrayal - 1939:
September 1st: The forces of Nazi Germany invade Poland. The western powers Britain and France, although obligated by treaty to aid the Poles, view another war in Europe as a scenario which must be avoided at all costs. The general consensus among the populous of these countries is in accordance with the policies of both governments.
September 27th: The Polish armies surrender at Warsaw. Germany and Russia divide Poland as agreed upon in a secret agreement.
October 18th – October 24th: Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Italy meet in Paris in yet another European-wide conference. At this point the political climate in Britain and France is one of appeasement. However, a great minority is furious that Hitler has been allowed to invade Poland without consequence. At the conference, Hitler appeases the west once more.
October 29th: Hitler commands the German high command to begin preparations for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Soviet Russia, to begin no later than May of 1940.
1940 - "Everything I do is directed at the East...":
February 7th: The first Nazi concentration camps are constructed in Poland. Two camps will soon be joined by another couple, bringing the total to four. The Nazis will mutilate over 3,000,000 Jews within these camps from 1940-1950. Still more Jews are forced into slave labor within Germany. The Allied abandonment of Poland will be forever viewed as an unforgivable betrayal by the Poles.
April 29th: Over 4,000,000 Germans participate in the inaugural stages of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Russia is stunned at the shocking speed of the blitzkrieg. Entire armies are encircled and destroyed. Three prongs are poised to strike towards Leningrad, Moscow, and the Ukraine. Romania, Hungary, and Finland join Germany in the assault.
May 7th: German forces expel the Russian army entirely from Poland, reaching the Russian border with dazzling speed.
May 18th: Riga falls to Germany.
May 19th: Soviet resistance in the Minsk pocket ends. The city falls to the Germans.
June 11th: Odessa falls to German and Romanian forces.
June 14th: Resistance inside the Smolensk pocket ends. The city succumbs to German forces.
June 22nd: Leningrad is encircled by German and Finnish forces. The siege of Leningrad begins.
June 25th: Germany captures Dnepropetrovsk. The Germans begin a massive pincer movement to subdue resistance in the Ukraine.
July 6th: Massive slaughter in the Kiev pocket as Soviet resistance there ends. The Nazis murder thousands.
July 12th: Germany takes Kharkov.
August 18th: Soviet counteroffensive against Army Groups Center and South fails miserably. Massive retreat ensues. Germany responds by launching Operation Typhoon against the city of Moscow.
September 6th: Soviet leadership escapes the city of Moscow. Stalin and company relocate the government to the city of Omsk.
September 28th: The encirclement of Moscow is complete, but Hitler warns the Reich a bloody battle is still ahead.
October 5th: The Siege of Sevastopol begins.
October 12th: Army Group North is ordered to advance on the city of Leningrad and capture the city at all costs.
October 15th: German divisions fight their way into the Moscow suburbs on the southwest and northeast quadrants. Stiff resistance continues.
October 22nd: Another Soviet counteroffensive at Kharkov in the south is unsuccessful.
October 28th: Soviets launch counteroffensive in an attempt to relieve the Moscow pocket.
November 8th: The Soviet counteroffensive is repulsed.
November 14th: Leningrad surrenders to the German siege. Stalin criticizes defenders of the city as a disgrace.
December 5th: The Kremlin is destroyed by heavy German bombing. Generals in the area proclaim Germany has secured over 90% of the city.
December 21st: The Moscow pocket surrenders to Germany. Nazis march victoriously through what is left of the Soviet capital.
December 26th: The last resistance at Sevastopol surrenders to the Third Reich.
December 29th: Hitler congratulates his armies on an impressive victory, making a surprise trip to Moscow. He commands his generals to prepare a massive offensive in the spring of 1942 aimed at the Soviet heartland and the oilfields of the Caucasus.
1941 - The Second Phase
March 5th: The Red Army launches a frontal offensive designed to retake the cities of Leningrad and Moscow.
March 22nd: Amid heavy casualties, Soviet generals are forced to abort their offensive.
April 8th: Germany launches its southern offensive aimed at the Soviet heartland and the oil fields of the Caucasus.
April 20th: Germans capture Kursk.
April 27th: Germans cross the Don River.
May 8th: A state of emergency is declared in Stalingrad as the first German panzers reach the outskirts of the city.
May 12th – May 24th: Stalingrad is subjected to the most horrific bombing ever inflicted upon a modern city. Thousands are killed as the city is nearly turned to rubble in a massive firestorm.
June 2nd: German units fight their way into the Stalingrad suburbs.
June 18th: Soviet forces in the Caucasus are completely cut off from resupply by Army Group South. Massive retreat begins.
July 25th: Soviets launch Operation Uranus, an attempt to trap the German 6th Army inside Stalingrad. At first the attack is successful, advancing nearly twenty miles in three days.
July 28th: The Germans counterattack, repudiating the Soviet counteroffensive. Hitler uses this as an opportunity to warn against overconfidence.
August 8th: Hitler urges his army to capture Stalingrad by the end of the month. A four-pronged assault begins as Germany attempts to annihilate further Soviet resistance.
August 24th: The last Soviet resistance in Stalingrad ends amidst the rubble of the city center. Millions die in the valiant defense.
October 28th: German armies storm the city of Baku. Paratroopers are able to secure a large portion of the oilfields before the Red Army is able to set them ablaze.
November 2nd: Hitler declares victory in the great war against the Bolsheviks. Millions are sent from the Ukraine to concentration camps in Poland.
November 18th: Hitler extends peace terms to Stalin, which the Russian dictator is forced to reluctantly accept. Germany has effectively more than doubled its territory in the two-year campaign.
1942-1947: - Happy Years / The Great Pacific War...
Hitler continues to make overtures towards the west and the United States. The Fuhrer annexes Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary to the dismay of Britain and France, but the west chooses to overlook these further territorial gains. Hitler promises the region stability and prosperity, as the German economy blossoms. Meanwhile, the Nazis continue their horrific mass murders of the Jewish people, largely unbeknownst to the western establishment. Rumors matriculate to the United States and Europe, but they too are largely dismissed.
Meanwhile, relations begin to sour between the Empire of Japan and the United States in the Pacific. On October 16th, 1943, the Empire of Japan stunningly attacks the American Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. Japan attacks several locations across the Pacific, including Singapore, Guam, Wake Island, Indonesia, the Philippines and Burma. The Japanese war effort is largely successful throughout 1944 until a large American naval victory at the Island of Midway.
American, British, and Australian forces defeat Japanese troops at Guadalcanal and effectively turn the tide of the war. Hitler sees this as an opportunity to further appease the west, and decides to declare war on the Empire of Japan. The powerful German navy combines with the resurgent American force to cripple the Japanese in a matter of months. The Germans participate in the critical battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima, fighting alongside American forces.
Hitler also aids his Chinese allies by supplying tanks and aircraft. The west is able to relegate Japan to her homeland by the beginning of 1946. A massive invasion is planned.
On February 8th, 1946, American, British, French, German, Italian, Australian, and Canadian forces combine their strengths to invade the Japanese mainland. Fighting is bitter and lasts for over six months, but eventually the Imperials are forced to surrender to the Allies on September 3rd, 1946.
The Chinese are eternally grateful to the Germans and Americans for their support, and gladly welcome the idea of a German controlled Korean Peninsula. Mussolini is gifted a portion of Manchuria. In addition to this, Hitler is gifted with a naval base on the island of Timor in the south Pacific. The Great Pacific War as it is called also serves to establish the United States as a global superpower. The American economy establishes itself as a supreme force in world.
1948-1950: The Road to War...
Seven months of peace ensue, but at this stage the German mass-murders of the Jews begin to become less secretive. Information is released abroad as escapees, partisans, and refugees spread images of the horror inflicted upon millions of ethnic “inferiors” trapped in German territory. By this stage Hitler has initiated massive programs designed to repopulate captured territory with German citizens, including those territories in the Pacific. New politicians in the west, particularly in the United States, Britain, and France take offense to this horrendous treatment of the Jewish people. Dwight D. Eisenhower, a war hero of The Great Pacific War, refers to the Nazis as “evil” much to the dismay of the Fuhrer.
Great Britain attempts to draw up a compromise amongst the powers of the world, offering to divide its Palestinian mandate into two portions – Trans-Jordan, and a soon to be reborn nation of Israel. The proposal makes ground in the United States, France, and Britain, but Hitler is furious. His anti-Semitism reaches new heights when he informs President Eisenhower he will fight a war to prevent the creation of a Jewish state. Nonetheless, the newly confident and empowered United States spearheads motions to create a new Israel. On February 4th, 1951, the League of Nations passes Mandate 45, a policy creating the nation of Israel. The message from Eisenhower is essentially this – Germany must halt the Holocaust, they must accept the establishment of a Jewish homeland, and recognize the nation of Israel, or fight.
Hitler is furious, and on February 7th, 1951, the Fuhrer declares war on the United States and the new nation of Israel. Britain and France this time have no alternative –they must stand alongside America in a final showdown with Adolf Hitler and the Germans. Hitler appeals to his axis, citing years of neglect from the western powers to persuade the Chinese to join him in a “most holy crusade”. Hitler promises the Chinese an empire in the Pacific, prepared to draw upon his vast new territories in the Soviet Union to wage a great war against Britain, France, and the United States. The date is February 10th, 1951. German panzers are poised to descend from the heights of the Caucasus and advance from the desserts of Libya in a two-pronged offensive aimed at the Middle East and the city of Jerusalem. Chinese infantry flood into Burma and southern Korea, while the German Luftwaffe stands poised to cripple the Allies both in Europe and the Pacific.
The Axis of Germany, China, Italy, and others, will wage war against the United States, Britain, France, and a Soviet Union thirsty for revenge. The greatest war in human history – World War 2, is set to begin as nations fight for both empire and freedom. All the armies of the world are prepared now to descend upon Israel in a tangle of fire, but this war will be waged far beyond the streets of Jerusalem. Every corner of the globe will be touched, in a conflict that will reshape human history. Which cause will prevail? Empire or Freedom
Thoughts and feedback welcome. This project will likely be done at some point over the summer. I look forward to hearing what you guys think / have to say. I'll provide more details regarding some of the things I'd like to accomplish within the design and gameplay at a later time. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
September 1st: The forces of Nazi Germany invade Poland. The western powers Britain and France, although obligated by treaty to aid the Poles, view another war in Europe as a scenario which must be avoided at all costs. The general consensus among the populous of these countries is in accordance with the policies of both governments.
September 27th: The Polish armies surrender at Warsaw. Germany and Russia divide Poland as agreed upon in a secret agreement.
October 18th – October 24th: Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Italy meet in Paris in yet another European-wide conference. At this point the political climate in Britain and France is one of appeasement. However, a great minority is furious that Hitler has been allowed to invade Poland without consequence. At the conference, Hitler appeases the west once more.
October 29th: Hitler commands the German high command to begin preparations for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Soviet Russia, to begin no later than May of 1940.
1940 - "Everything I do is directed at the East...":
February 7th: The first Nazi concentration camps are constructed in Poland. Two camps will soon be joined by another couple, bringing the total to four. The Nazis will mutilate over 3,000,000 Jews within these camps from 1940-1950. Still more Jews are forced into slave labor within Germany. The Allied abandonment of Poland will be forever viewed as an unforgivable betrayal by the Poles.
April 29th: Over 4,000,000 Germans participate in the inaugural stages of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Russia is stunned at the shocking speed of the blitzkrieg. Entire armies are encircled and destroyed. Three prongs are poised to strike towards Leningrad, Moscow, and the Ukraine. Romania, Hungary, and Finland join Germany in the assault.
May 7th: German forces expel the Russian army entirely from Poland, reaching the Russian border with dazzling speed.
May 18th: Riga falls to Germany.
May 19th: Soviet resistance in the Minsk pocket ends. The city falls to the Germans.
June 11th: Odessa falls to German and Romanian forces.
June 14th: Resistance inside the Smolensk pocket ends. The city succumbs to German forces.
June 22nd: Leningrad is encircled by German and Finnish forces. The siege of Leningrad begins.
June 25th: Germany captures Dnepropetrovsk. The Germans begin a massive pincer movement to subdue resistance in the Ukraine.
July 6th: Massive slaughter in the Kiev pocket as Soviet resistance there ends. The Nazis murder thousands.
July 12th: Germany takes Kharkov.
August 18th: Soviet counteroffensive against Army Groups Center and South fails miserably. Massive retreat ensues. Germany responds by launching Operation Typhoon against the city of Moscow.
September 6th: Soviet leadership escapes the city of Moscow. Stalin and company relocate the government to the city of Omsk.
September 28th: The encirclement of Moscow is complete, but Hitler warns the Reich a bloody battle is still ahead.
October 5th: The Siege of Sevastopol begins.
October 12th: Army Group North is ordered to advance on the city of Leningrad and capture the city at all costs.
October 15th: German divisions fight their way into the Moscow suburbs on the southwest and northeast quadrants. Stiff resistance continues.
October 22nd: Another Soviet counteroffensive at Kharkov in the south is unsuccessful.
October 28th: Soviets launch counteroffensive in an attempt to relieve the Moscow pocket.
November 8th: The Soviet counteroffensive is repulsed.
November 14th: Leningrad surrenders to the German siege. Stalin criticizes defenders of the city as a disgrace.
December 5th: The Kremlin is destroyed by heavy German bombing. Generals in the area proclaim Germany has secured over 90% of the city.
December 21st: The Moscow pocket surrenders to Germany. Nazis march victoriously through what is left of the Soviet capital.
December 26th: The last resistance at Sevastopol surrenders to the Third Reich.
December 29th: Hitler congratulates his armies on an impressive victory, making a surprise trip to Moscow. He commands his generals to prepare a massive offensive in the spring of 1942 aimed at the Soviet heartland and the oilfields of the Caucasus.
1941 - The Second Phase
March 5th: The Red Army launches a frontal offensive designed to retake the cities of Leningrad and Moscow.
March 22nd: Amid heavy casualties, Soviet generals are forced to abort their offensive.
April 8th: Germany launches its southern offensive aimed at the Soviet heartland and the oil fields of the Caucasus.
April 20th: Germans capture Kursk.
April 27th: Germans cross the Don River.
May 8th: A state of emergency is declared in Stalingrad as the first German panzers reach the outskirts of the city.
May 12th – May 24th: Stalingrad is subjected to the most horrific bombing ever inflicted upon a modern city. Thousands are killed as the city is nearly turned to rubble in a massive firestorm.
June 2nd: German units fight their way into the Stalingrad suburbs.
June 18th: Soviet forces in the Caucasus are completely cut off from resupply by Army Group South. Massive retreat begins.
July 25th: Soviets launch Operation Uranus, an attempt to trap the German 6th Army inside Stalingrad. At first the attack is successful, advancing nearly twenty miles in three days.
July 28th: The Germans counterattack, repudiating the Soviet counteroffensive. Hitler uses this as an opportunity to warn against overconfidence.
August 8th: Hitler urges his army to capture Stalingrad by the end of the month. A four-pronged assault begins as Germany attempts to annihilate further Soviet resistance.
August 24th: The last Soviet resistance in Stalingrad ends amidst the rubble of the city center. Millions die in the valiant defense.
October 28th: German armies storm the city of Baku. Paratroopers are able to secure a large portion of the oilfields before the Red Army is able to set them ablaze.
November 2nd: Hitler declares victory in the great war against the Bolsheviks. Millions are sent from the Ukraine to concentration camps in Poland.
November 18th: Hitler extends peace terms to Stalin, which the Russian dictator is forced to reluctantly accept. Germany has effectively more than doubled its territory in the two-year campaign.
1942-1947: - Happy Years / The Great Pacific War...
Hitler continues to make overtures towards the west and the United States. The Fuhrer annexes Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary to the dismay of Britain and France, but the west chooses to overlook these further territorial gains. Hitler promises the region stability and prosperity, as the German economy blossoms. Meanwhile, the Nazis continue their horrific mass murders of the Jewish people, largely unbeknownst to the western establishment. Rumors matriculate to the United States and Europe, but they too are largely dismissed.
Meanwhile, relations begin to sour between the Empire of Japan and the United States in the Pacific. On October 16th, 1943, the Empire of Japan stunningly attacks the American Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. Japan attacks several locations across the Pacific, including Singapore, Guam, Wake Island, Indonesia, the Philippines and Burma. The Japanese war effort is largely successful throughout 1944 until a large American naval victory at the Island of Midway.
American, British, and Australian forces defeat Japanese troops at Guadalcanal and effectively turn the tide of the war. Hitler sees this as an opportunity to further appease the west, and decides to declare war on the Empire of Japan. The powerful German navy combines with the resurgent American force to cripple the Japanese in a matter of months. The Germans participate in the critical battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima, fighting alongside American forces.
Hitler also aids his Chinese allies by supplying tanks and aircraft. The west is able to relegate Japan to her homeland by the beginning of 1946. A massive invasion is planned.
On February 8th, 1946, American, British, French, German, Italian, Australian, and Canadian forces combine their strengths to invade the Japanese mainland. Fighting is bitter and lasts for over six months, but eventually the Imperials are forced to surrender to the Allies on September 3rd, 1946.
The Chinese are eternally grateful to the Germans and Americans for their support, and gladly welcome the idea of a German controlled Korean Peninsula. Mussolini is gifted a portion of Manchuria. In addition to this, Hitler is gifted with a naval base on the island of Timor in the south Pacific. The Great Pacific War as it is called also serves to establish the United States as a global superpower. The American economy establishes itself as a supreme force in world.
1948-1950: The Road to War...
Seven months of peace ensue, but at this stage the German mass-murders of the Jews begin to become less secretive. Information is released abroad as escapees, partisans, and refugees spread images of the horror inflicted upon millions of ethnic “inferiors” trapped in German territory. By this stage Hitler has initiated massive programs designed to repopulate captured territory with German citizens, including those territories in the Pacific. New politicians in the west, particularly in the United States, Britain, and France take offense to this horrendous treatment of the Jewish people. Dwight D. Eisenhower, a war hero of The Great Pacific War, refers to the Nazis as “evil” much to the dismay of the Fuhrer.
Great Britain attempts to draw up a compromise amongst the powers of the world, offering to divide its Palestinian mandate into two portions – Trans-Jordan, and a soon to be reborn nation of Israel. The proposal makes ground in the United States, France, and Britain, but Hitler is furious. His anti-Semitism reaches new heights when he informs President Eisenhower he will fight a war to prevent the creation of a Jewish state. Nonetheless, the newly confident and empowered United States spearheads motions to create a new Israel. On February 4th, 1951, the League of Nations passes Mandate 45, a policy creating the nation of Israel. The message from Eisenhower is essentially this – Germany must halt the Holocaust, they must accept the establishment of a Jewish homeland, and recognize the nation of Israel, or fight.
Hitler is furious, and on February 7th, 1951, the Fuhrer declares war on the United States and the new nation of Israel. Britain and France this time have no alternative –they must stand alongside America in a final showdown with Adolf Hitler and the Germans. Hitler appeals to his axis, citing years of neglect from the western powers to persuade the Chinese to join him in a “most holy crusade”. Hitler promises the Chinese an empire in the Pacific, prepared to draw upon his vast new territories in the Soviet Union to wage a great war against Britain, France, and the United States. The date is February 10th, 1951. German panzers are poised to descend from the heights of the Caucasus and advance from the desserts of Libya in a two-pronged offensive aimed at the Middle East and the city of Jerusalem. Chinese infantry flood into Burma and southern Korea, while the German Luftwaffe stands poised to cripple the Allies both in Europe and the Pacific.
The Axis of Germany, China, Italy, and others, will wage war against the United States, Britain, France, and a Soviet Union thirsty for revenge. The greatest war in human history – World War 2, is set to begin as nations fight for both empire and freedom. All the armies of the world are prepared now to descend upon Israel in a tangle of fire, but this war will be waged far beyond the streets of Jerusalem. Every corner of the globe will be touched, in a conflict that will reshape human history. Which cause will prevail? Empire or Freedom
Thoughts and feedback welcome. This project will likely be done at some point over the summer. I look forward to hearing what you guys think / have to say. I'll provide more details regarding some of the things I'd like to accomplish within the design and gameplay at a later time. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
We can assume that a war with
. Germany has no interest in Pacific, nor enough logistic power to fight in Pacific. Actually not even enough to go across English Channel......(Even if Germany has air superiority, it has no enough ships to carry out Operation Sea Lion)
