Sunday, March 23, 2008

Changes to Our Timeline: 1916 - 1939

The list which follows below is only of major shifts in the original timeline so as to help my readers who are wondering where my alternate history departs from the original history. Events such as the Spanish Civil War, Italy's invasion of Absynnia, and other events which are not listed are to be presumed as to have happened on their original dates.

March 1916 - Richard Sorge dies in combat on the Russian Front

1918 - Georgi Zhukov dies of Typhus in Moscow

June 1928 - Manchurian Warlord Zhang Zuolin assassinated. Son, Zhang Xueliang, also dies.

December 1928 - The Kwangtung Army and Yang Yuting forge a government in Manchuria which declares the independent state of Manchukuo.

January 1929 - January 31st Incident in Shanghai between Japan and China demilitarizing the city

January 1930 - Battle at the Great Wall between Japan and China

December 1931 - Churchill dies after being struck by a taxi

March 1932 - Adolf Hitler elected President of Germany

May 1932 - Reichstag fire. Enabling Decree and Reichstag Fire Decree implemented

May 1932 - He-Umezu Agreement

July 1932 - Ching-Doihara Agreement

Feb. 1933 - President-elect FDR assassinated

March 1933 - John N. Garner sworn in as 32nd President of the United States

May 1933 - Hitler declares plans for German rearmament

May 1933 - Mongol Military Government established

August 1933 - Night of the Long Knives

November 1933 - Suiyuan Campaign began by Mongol Military Government. Chinese forces would retreat surrendering Suiyuan Province to Pro-Japanese forces

July 1934 - Marco Polo Bridge incident

Feb. 1935 - Greek War Minister Georgios Kondylis dies of a heart attack

March 1935 - German troops enter the Rhineland

March 1935 - Attempted coup by Liberals in Greece. Beginning of civil war

April 1935 - Japanese meddling in Jiangsu Province leads to outbreak of Second Sino-Japanese War

August 1935 - Nanjing falls to Japanese forces. Massacre of Nanjing occurs

March 1936 - Greek Liberal leader Venizelos dies. Succeeded by Plastiras

March 1937 - Anschluss

Sept. 1937 - Munich Pact

1938 - Three Alls policy created by Japanese forces to deal with Chinese opposition

March 1938 - Germany invades Czechoslovakia

April 1938 - Italy annexes Albania

August 1938 - Non-Aggression Pact signed between Germany and the Soviet Union

Sept. 1938 - Germany invades Poland. Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. Poland falls within a month

Nov. 1938 - The Soviet Union attacks Finland

March 1939 - The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union ends in an armistice

March 1939 - New Fourth Army Incident. Decisive break between Nationalist and communist forces in China from that point on

April 1939 - Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark capitulates within the month

May 1939 - Germany invades France and the Low Countries. Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg are quickly overrun

May 1939 - The Massacre at Dunkirk. Only 45,000 Allied troops escape

June 1939 - Italy declares war on France and Great Britain. France surrenders soon afterwards

July 1939 - Japan invades Hong Kong and Burma

July 1939 - Great Britain decides against bombarding French Fleet based at Oran leaving it intact

July 1939 - Great Britain signs an armistice with Germany

August 1939 - Battle of Nomonhan. Ends in a bloody stalemate

August 1939 - Armistice between Great Birtain and Japan signed. Japanese gains recognized

September 1939 - Japan invades and occupies Vietnam, and later, Indochina

October 1939 -Mussolini invades Greece. Secures Epirus periphery within two weeks

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