Alternate History Timeline
June 6, 1944
D-Day goes very badly due to unexpected bad weather.
Hitler is taken sick and cannot personally intervene in the affairs.
June 8, 1944
Rommel’s concentrated counter-attack by all German units in Western Europe sends the Allies back into the Channel.
June 10, 1944
Last US paratroopers surrender at St Mere Eglise.
European Front is no more.
June 11, 1944
Allies cancel Operation Dragoon (invasion of Southern France in August of 1944)
July 20, 1944
Hitler is killed at Wolfsschanze in Rastenburg by Claus von Stauffenberg’s suitcase bomb.
General Ludwig Beck becomes shadow government’s head of state
Dr. Carl Goerdeler is shadow government’s Chancellor
Sporradic uprising by SS and Gestapo around Berlin begins.
Shadow government requests help from Western Allies.
Most Luftwaffe grounded; some individual pilots make their own choices for whom to support.
July 21, 1944
Western Allies enter temporary cease fire with Germany.
Berlin is fully in Shadow government’s hands.
Goering joins the Shadow government.
July 24, 1944
Himmler is killed in an air attack.
Some SS units begin to join the shadow government.
July 25, 1944
Emergency meeting is held between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill in Stockholm.
Churchill wants a conditional surrender. Stalin wants to continue the war. Roosevelt is on the fence.
July 26, 1944
All German military units pledge allegiance to the Shadow government.
Churchill leaves the conference and announces he will seek unilateral peace with the new Germany.
Roosevelt demands that for US to stay in the war with Germany, USSR must declare war on Japan.
July 27, 1944
Several Soviet marshals plead with Stalin to seek peace with Germany
July 28, 1944
Stalin and Roosevelt fail to reach an agreement, and abandon negotiations.
US enters temporary cease-fire with Germany.
Stalin has his peace-seeking marshals executed.
July 29, 1944
Churchill and Goerdeler sign a Peace Pact.
Germany begins to move all units to the Eastern Front.
US and Great Britain begin a colossal operation of moving all European Forces to the Pacific.
August 1, 1944
1st Ukrainian Front’s Sandomierz Operation encounters fresh Panzer armies from the West.
August 3, 1944
1st Ukrainian is thrown back across the Vistula.
August 12, 1944
Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern is crowned Wilhelm, Kaiser of Germany and King of Prussia
August 23, 1944
Red Army begins the Battle of Romania (Jassy-Chisinau Operation). German strength is over 1 million men.
August 24, 1944
Germany begins a concentrated offensive
Army Group A is aiming towards Kiev
Army Group Center is attacking towards Minsk and Leningrad
August 25, 1944
Army Group A takes Lublin and Przemysl
Army Group Center takes Grodno and Luga
2nd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts are shifted to fight Army Group A
3rd Ukrainian Front begins to retreat
August 28, 1944
2nd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts are surrounded near Vinnitsa between advancing Army Groups A, South and F
Army Group Center is shelling Leningrad
August 30, 1944
German IV Army under Balck enters Kiev
Roosevelt re-enters the scene and offers to mediate peace between USSR and Germany
August 31, 1944
Cease-fire begins on the Eastern Front
September 2, 1944
Stalin meets Kaiser Wilhelm in US-occupied Rome.
September 5, 1944
USSR and Germany sign a Peace Pact. Germany takes Luthiania, Poland, Western part of Ukraine including Kiev, Belarus half-way to Minsk.
April 12, 1945
Franklin D Roosevelt unexpectedly dies. Harry S Truman becomes president.
July 3, 1945
US and British forces invade Kyushu.
August 6, 1945
US drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo
August 9, 1945
US drops an atomic bomb on Kyoto
August 11, 1945
Japan surrenders.
US occupies of all Korea and Manchuria.
June 22, 1946
Soviet Union begins a major offensive along the entire Soviet-German border.
