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Important events in the TL How many Sixes does Adolf Nazi have to Roll?.
Since the PoD[]
The first new Six:[]
- 25th of May 1940 (PoD): The Panzer troops of Guderian take Dunkirk, therefore the last accessible harbor for the 400,000 cut-off Brits and French is lost.
- 2nd of June: BEF capitulates at Ypres
- 2nd to 9th of June: Wehrmacht advances to the Seine
- 7nd to 9th of June: British Troops (somewhat more than 10,000) evacuated from Le Havre.
- 8th of June: Italy declares war on the Allies.
- 9th of June: Last Norwegians capitulate
- 10th of June: The Wehrmacht occupies Paris; Spain occupies Tangier.
- 10th to 12th of June: The Sowjetunion occupies Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 12th to 19th of June: Close to 150,000 Allied Soldiers evacuated from France.
- 14th of June: Free France proclaimed in London by Charles de Gaulle. Meanwhile, Vichy France under Philippe Pétain is ready for an Armistice.
- 19th of June: Armistice between the Axis Powers and France effective.
- 22nd of June: The Sowjetunion occupies Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. That's why on June 28th, the Romanian government falls.
- 25th of June: Winston Churchill acknowledges Free France as the legitimate government in exile.
- 27th of June: "Operation Catapult": Great Britain strikes against the French Fleet at Oran.
- 30th of June: The Wehrmacht occupies the Channel Islands.
- 4th of July: Romania leaves the League of Nations.
- 9th of July: Italo Balbo has the Troops in Libya invade the Kingdom of Egypt.
- 13th of July: The axis-hostile Japanese cabinet Yonai falls after minister of war Hata steps back. New Prime minister is Prince Konoye, new minister of war is Hideki Tojo.
The second new Six:[]
- Mid-July 1940 (PoD): SD and Gestapo break the back of the "Schwarze Kapelle" ("Black Orchestra") in the Abwehr. Hans Oster, Dohnanyi, and Josef "Ochsensepp" ("Ox Joe") Müller have to give up their offices and are put under House arrest.
- 16th of July: The "Führer" orders "Operation Sea Lion", the planned Invasion of Great Britain.
- 18th of July: With the Generalfeldmarschall Ceremony, more than a Dozen of the supreme commanders of the Wehrmacht are promoted.
- Second half of July: Wilhelm Canaris, on his trip through Southern Europe, cannot give useful advice to Franco and Pétain how to sabotage the collaboration with the Nazis (different to OTL).
- Until and incl. August: The Italian colonial troops can advance over 100 km against the much weaker British Troops in Egypt, Kenya, and the Sudan, and conquer all of British Somaliland.
- Early August: As support for Seelöwe, "Unternehmen Adlerangriff" (Operation Eagle Attack) is started, big-scale Bombardment of Britain.
- 8th of August: "Adlertag" (Eagle Day), so far biggest aerial attack on Britain.
- 11th of August: Karl Dönitz orders to notch up the security of submarine Enigma up to M-4. Until October, this order is executed.
- 14th of August: Hardest day of the "Battle of Britain". The Germans lose almost 100 planes, the Brits around 70.
- 18th of August: Leon Trotsky murdered in his Exile in Mexico; his bodyguards afterwards kill the assassin, Ramon Mercader.
- Around 1st of September: Beginning of the Dictatorship of Ion Antonescu in Romania, abdication of King Carol II in favor of his Son Mihai I.
- September: After both operations failed to reach their objectives by far, "Seelöwe" is officially postponed for 1941.
- Tripartite Pact made.
- Churchill becomes new head of the Conservative Party, after Chamberlain had to step back for health reasons.
- Mid-October: Adolf Nazi meets at first in Montoire with Pétain, two days later in Hendaye with Franco. While they both don't give in as much as he'd wish, but there's quite some Collaboration of Vichy France (incl. rights to pass through Tunisia), and Franco would be willing to participate in a military Operation against Gibraltar - albeit with high demands.
- 28th of October: «Όχι» Day: Italy gives Greece an Ultimatum, which is declined. Thus, there is war.
- Early November: Italian colonial troops under Italo Balbo have reached Marsa Matruh, but are stuck now. Around the same time, the Italian Offensive in Greece fails.
Interlude:[]
- 5th of November: US Elections of 1940. Roosevelt defeats Wendell Willkie with 468 to 63 electors.
- Death of Neville Chamberlain.
- 9th of November: In the Battle of Taranto, the Brits damage three battleships, one light cruiser, and two destroyers of the Italians, while losing just three planes.
- 11th of November: Greek counter-offensive begins.
- Other than in OTL, there is no Automedon incident. Hence, no secret documents of the Brits fall into Japanese hands, since the SS Automedon isn't caught by the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis.
- 4th of December: The "Führer" approves Unternehmen Merkur (Operation Mercury).
- 6th of December: British ambassador in the USA Lord Lothian dies. His Post goes to so-far Foreign minister Lord Halifax, who's replaced by Anthony Eden.
- Turn of the year 1940/41: Fliegerkorps X under Hans Geisler arrives in Sicily. 20 German subs go to the Mediterranean.
- Early February 1941: German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau try to break out into the Atlantic, but are caught in a trap by the Royal Navy, so both are sunk by the battleship Hood. Because of this, Raeder is succeeded on the 24th of April by Dönitz, who'll prefer his submarines from now on.
- March: Erwin Rommel defeats the Brits in Egypt in "Unternehmen Sonnenschirm" (Operation Parasol) and advances as far as El Alamein.
- US Congress passes Lend and Lease.
- For a lack of Troops (late consequence of Dunkirk), there's no British landing on the Lofotes.
- 13th of March: Prince regent Pavle of Yugoslavia joins the Axis. On the very same day, a Putsch against him happens, during which he is killed. The country is thus drawn into the war, defeated in the same Month, and divided. Croatia and Montenegro become independent.
- Spring: Putsch of the "Golden Square" in Iraq, which is defeated by the Brits until the End of June.
- End of March: Thanks to better Enigma Security, the Italians avoid the Sea battle of Cape Matapan.
- April: German Invasion and occupation of Greece.
- Japan makes a Non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union for five years.
- May: Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland, wants to negotiate a peace, but is arrested and declared insane by the "Führer".
- Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3, the first Digital computer. It uses the Binary system, Postfix Notation, floating point arithmetic, separates RAM and hard disk.
- Late May: Crete occupied by German parachutists (Operation Mars).
- June: After no convoy has made it to Malta for months, the island group capitulates and is occupied by the Axis powers.
The third new Six:[]
- 12th of June 1941 (ZdA): Beginning of Operation Barbarossa, ten days earlier and with twelve German Divisions more than in OTL.
- Early July: Wehrmacht standing in the South of Estonia and near Smolensk, but hasn't reached yet Dniepr in Ukraine as planned.
- August: Soviets and Brits invade Iran together.
The fourth new Six:[]
- September 1941: In Unternehmen Goldfuchs (Operation Golden Fox), Finnish General Siilasvuo destroys a whole Soviet division in central Karelia and thus opens the Way to the East. This leads to the conquest of all of Karelia and the Kola peninsula with Murmansk.
- 9th of September: Soviet General (and "Comrade" Stalin's drinking buddy) Semyon Budyonny dies when his plane is shot down, when it leaves the encircled Kiev.
The fifth new Six:[]
- Autumn/fall: Hideki Tojo becomes the new (40th) Prime minister of Japan.
- October: A British Bomb destroys the Neue Reichskanzlei, which causes the wrath of the "Führer". Secret negotiations with the SU started.
- First half of October: The Winter Rasputitsa begins across the whole country, the German advance gets stuck.
- Early November: Frost makes the muddy Ways in Russia freeze, the Germans can advance again.
- 11th of November: Official armistice between the "Reich" and the Soviet Union.
- 28th of November: The "Ostfrieden" ("Eastern Peace") between the Axis powers and the Soviet Union is made.
- 30th of November: Surprise attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- 1st of December: USA and Britain declare war on Japan.
- Japan starts the Invasion of Thailand, Malaya, and the Philippines.
The sixth new Six:[]
- 6th of December: The "Caudillo" gives his final agreement for Operation Felix.
- 7th of December: The "Reich" and Italy declare war on the US.
- 16th to 22nd of December: Admiral Canaris convinces Franco on his own not to opt out from "Felix", because he otherwise fears an occupation of Spain by the Wehrmacht.
- Early 1942: The Soviet Union occupies the Rest of Iran.
- 9th of February: Singapore capitulates.
- Early March: Capitulation of the Allies on Java.
- 28th of März 1942: İsmet İnönü orders total Mobilization of Turkey.
- 30th of März: Beginning of "Fall Schwarz" (Case Black).
- Spring: Start of "Felix".
- Brits conquer most of Italian East Africa.
- April: Istanbul occupied.
- May: Axis in Ankara. Preparations for "Fall Kupfer" (Case Copper), the conquest of Cyprus.
- June: Kurdistan proclaimed as new State.
- July: Conference of "Stambul", spheres of influence newly ordered.
- Mid-July: Axis occupy Syria.
- Summer: British occupation force of Gibraltar capitulates.
?: Britain hands over the peninsula to Spain in the Armistice of Cork.
The seventh new Six:[]
- Summer: Operation Freedom begins: Troops of the US and the Empire are landing in French Morocco.
- 31st of October: US Army General Omar Bradley has to capitulate to Erwin Rommel with the allied Troops in the City of Casablanca.
- 3rd of November: US Elections of 1942. The Democrats of President Roosevelt suffer a bad defeat.
The eighth new Six:[]
- Mid-1943: "Palace revolution" against Churchill, Eden takes over as head of the Party and Prime minister.
- Western Allies and European Axis Powers make Peace of Dublin.
The aftermath:[]
- Spring 1944: Beginning of the post-war Baby boom in the "Reich".
- Summer: Olympic Games in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which are boycotted by the World outside the Nazi-fascist Block.
- US-Democrats nominate Roosevelt for a fourth term; this time, his running mate is Harry Truman.
- 28th of July: Death of FDR.
- 7th of November: US Elections of 1944.
- 4th of December: Inauguration of the newly elected US President.
- 22nd of March 1945: Greater Germanic Reich officially proclaimed.
The past[]
Back to front!
Before diverging from OTL:[]
- 10th of May 1940: Invasion of the Benelux States
- 9th of April 1940: "Operation Weserübung" - Denmark und Norway invaded and occupied by the Wehrmacht
- November 1939 to März 1940: Finnish-Soviet Winter War
- 8th of October 1939: Poland defeated and divided, leaving only the "General Government".
- 17th of September: The Soviet Union invads Poland from the East
- 3rd of September: Great Britain and France declaration of war to Nazi Germany
- 1st of September: Invasion of the Wehrmacht in Poland
Before World War II:[]
- March 1939: Memel land "returns to the Reich", rest of Czechia occupied
- 9th of November 1938: Reichspogromnacht against the Jews
- 1938: Austria and Sudetenland "return to the Reich"
- 7th of July 1937: Japan openly makes war against China
- 7th of March 1936: Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
- 15th of September 1935: Nuremberg Laws against the Jews
- 16th of March 1935: Reichswehr renamed to Wehrmacht
- 13rd of January 1935: Saar "returns to the Reich"
- 2nd of August 1934: Death of the Reich's president Hindenburg, Adolf Nazi is "Führer und Reichskanzler"
- 22nd of March 1933: Concentration camp of Dachau opened
- 30th of January 1933: Adolf Nazi appointed chancellor
Before the Nazi Dictatorship:[]
- 18th of September 1931: Japan starts occupying Manchuria
- 24th of October 1929: Great Depression begins
- 28th of June 1919: (Unpopular) Peace treaty of Versailles signed
- 9th of November 1918: Revolution in Germany, soon in Austria-Hungary as well. The Kaiser and the princes step back, Republic proclaimed. Start of the (not very successful) Weimar Republic.
- 28th of July 1914: World War I starts.
- 1910: First Hollywood Film
- 20th of April 1889: Birth of Adolf Nazi
- June of 1888: Kaiser Wilhelm the II and last rises to the Throne
- 18th of January 1871: The Second German Reich proclaimed in Versailles. "Gründerzeit" (a boom time) in Germany begins.
Before the Kaiserreich:[]
- 1861: Bismarck become Minister president of Prussia. Under his government, Prussia wins the German Unification Wars.
- 1831: Goethe finishes his Faust, the peak of German Literature
- 1815: Napoleon I finally defeated. The Hopes of German Patriots for a Constitution, democracy, or even a Republic are disappointed by the princes.
- 1806: Holy Roman Empire officially dissolved
- 1789: French Revolution
- 1776: Declaration of Independence of the USA
Before modern civilization:[]
- 1740-86: Friedrich/Frederick the Great in Prussia
- 1685-1750: Johann Sebastian Bach, Peak of German Music
- 1684: After developing calculus independently from Isaac Newton, Leibniz publishes his results first.
- 1618-48: Thirty-Year War
- 1517: Martin Luther starts the Protestant Reformation
Before the Modern Age:[]
- 1474: First time the term "German Nation" is used in the context of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1346-53: Black Death in Europe
- 1250: After the death of Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich/Frederick II, the Interregnum starts, which will cause great damage to the Empire. The Legend emerges that the Emperor was really sleeping in Kyffhäuser mountain, but will return as soon as the country is truly in dire. (Later, this Legend will be twisted to be about his Grandfather Friedrich Barbarossa.)
- 1241: Battle of Legnica. Central Europe only is saved because the Mongols surprisingly retreat.
- 1095: Crusades start
Before the Millennium:[]
- 962: Proclamation of the Holy Roman Empire
- 955: Otto the Great defeats the Hungarians at the Lechfeld. An Event people will still remember a thousand years later.
- 843: First "German" State, the realm of East Francia under King Ludwig the German
- 800: Charlemagne crowned emperor by the Pope
- 732: Charles Martell defeats the Saracenes, Central Europe won't become Islamic
- 6th to 10th century: Christianisation of the Germanics, esp. by Boniface. Michael becomes the National saint of the Germans.
- 476: Odoaker destroys the last Remains of the Western Roman Empire.
Before the Medieval Ages:[]
- 451: Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, victory over Attila the Hun. But the Burgundian realm is eradicated, as are 90% of its population.
- 5th century: Angels, Saxons and Jutes emigrate to Britain
- 375-568: Völkerwanderung
- ~200: Runes invented
- 96-180: The five good emperors in Rome, peak of the empire
- 33: Crucifixation of Jesus
- 9: Germanics under Arminius (Hermann?) the Cheruskian defeat three Roman Legions
- +1: Start of Christian calendar
- -113 - 101: The Germanic Cimbri and Teutones try to conquer Rome, but are defeated by the imperator Gaius Marius.
Before Germanic History:[]
- -216: Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War, the "greatest hour" of the Romans
- -356 - 323: Alexander the Great
- -431 - 404: Peloponnensian War
- -480: Battle at Salamis
- -509: Start of the Roman Republic
- -753: Rome founded
- -11th century: Kings Saul, David, Salomo of Israel
- -12th century: Start of the Iron Age
- -2nd/1st millennium: Ur-Germanic language
Before the Germanics:[]
- -16th to 13th century: History of Moses and the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
- -18th century: King Hammurabi of Babylon creates the first written Code of Law
- -2,000 (very roughly): History of Abraham from Ur of the Chaldaes
- -26th century: First Egyptian Pyramids
- -3rd/2nd millennium: Pre-Germanic language
- -33rd century: Start of the Bronze Age
- -4th millennium: Ur-Indoeuropean language. Horse domesticated for the first time, in Central Asia.
- -10,000: Start of the Holocene Era. End of the last Ice Age (very roughly).
- -11th millennium: Start of Agriculture
Before Civilisation:[]
- -40,000: First humans in Europe
- -200,000: First humans outside of Africa
- -2.5 Millions: First humans
Before Mankind:[]
- -20 millions: First great Apes
- -55 millions: First Proto-Primates
- -65 millions: Extinction of the Dinosaurs
- -300 millions: First mammals
Before Mammals:[]
- -540 millions: Cambrian Explosion
- -850 millions: First Plants on Land
- -2,000 millions: Sexual reproduction
- -4,400 to -3,400 millions: First Lifeforms on Earth
Before Earth:[]
- -4,600 millions: The Solar System forms
- -13,800 millions: The Big Bang
