Red Sun Black Cross Historical Timeline

US, Japan and Italy declared neutrality / Poland

surrendered
1929/10 Start of the Great Depression
11 Germany invaded Scandinavia / USSR declared war on
30/1 Congress of Disarmament held in London
Finland / Roosevelt decided not to rerun for presidency
9 Nazi made big gains in election
1940/1 First cabinet of Miller
31/4 Spain Republican Revolution
4 Germany invaded Denmark. Denmark surrendered /
9 Manchuria Incident
Norway surrendered
32/1 Litton Investigation (Shanghai incident)
5 Cabinet of Churchill started / Germany invaded the three
3 Manchukuo established
countries of Benelux
5 Incident of 5.15 (a coup in Japan)
Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg surrendered
7 Nazi became the biggest party
6 France surrendered / Japan-Thai friendship treaty signed /
10 Litton report released
US, Stark Bill was not passed, Manhattan Project did not
33/1 Hitler took power
get started
2 League of Nations kept open the Manchukuo problem
7 Japan and UK signed the agreement on Burma.
3 Roosevelt became President of USA / Japan annexed Jehol
Provisional agreement of the second Anglo-Japan
province into Manchukuo
Alliance reached.
34/7 SS became independent
8 Dewey and Doclin vowed to reinforce the "Doctrine of
8 Hitler became president
Monroe" / Air battle waged on the sky above Britain
35/3 Germany declared rearmament
9 The elimination of RAF. The start of Operation Seelowe
4 Stressa conference
10 Anglo-Japan Military Agreement signed. Japan decided
6 Naval agreement between UK and Germany
to spread its force to India, on the name of "protection of
8 US passed the bill of neutrality
British interests
10 Italy invaded Ethiopia
in East Asia"
36/1 The second congress of disarmament held in London failed
11 Organized fighting on the Britain Isles ended. George VI,
to produce an agreement
the government and the navy fled to Canada / Hitler
(Unrestricted arms expansion started)
ordered the preparation of Operation Barbarossa / US
2 Incident of 2.26 suppressed by Konoe Division. The
preemptively occupied the British colonies in the
decline of Army's power
Caribbean and the Atlantic
3 Reoccupation of Rheinland
12 Dewey became US President / UK government moved to
7 Spain Civil War
Australia
10 Germany - Italy Axis founded
1941/1 Japan occupied the French Indo-China
11 Anti-Communist Treaty between Japan and Germany
2 Suzuki Cabinet started / Failed coup by Sakura Society.
failed
From then on, the power shifted to the political parties
12 No co-operation reached between Chinese Nationalists
and the navy
and Communists
3 Balkan countries joined the Axis
37/5 Cabinet of Chamberlain started
4 US occupied Greenland
5-10 America did not expand the act of neutrality / Roosevelt
5 Operation Barbarossa started / Africa was fully occupied
gave the "isolation" speech
6 Special large-scale maneuvers by Kwantung Army. War
6 Tohachevsky Incident
started between Japan and USSR / Free British Australia
7 China and Japan successfully stopped military conflict
New-Zeland United
around the Marco Polo Bridge
Kingdom founded
38/3 Anschluss of Austria
7 Japan ordered the combat formations of the India
7 UK mobilized the navy
Expeditionary Force to be organised
9 Munich Conference / Germany annexed Sudetenland
10 Operation Barbarossa ended. Soviet Russia collapsed.
1939/3 Czechoslovakia split
Germany took the territory west of the Urals, Japan the
4 End of Spain Civil War
far east.
5 Nomohan Incident. It evolved into a limited war between
11 Dewey called for meetings for world peace
Japan and USSR
42/2 Casablanca Conference. Hitler, Dewey and Suzuki
6 Japanese navy occupied Urashio
discussed the 3-way partition of the world
8 Mutual non-aggression pact between Germany and
4 Independence War of India (Civil War) started. Free
USSR / Agreement reached between Japan and UK
British Army did not intervene.
Start of the negotiation for the second alliance of Japan
6 Civil war between Chinese Nationalists and Communists
and UK.
intensified
9 Germany occupied Warsaw / UK and France declared war
43/1 League of Nations convened the general assembly at
on Germany. Start of WWII
Geneva

7 Disarmament Congress in Tokyo (the age of de-facto

treaties)
44/2 Chinese Civil War between the Nationalists and
Communists in effect ended / Resistance movement
against Japan intensified
5 Germany intervened in the Indian Independence War.
Military conflict with Japanese army (Baluchistan
dispute)
45/3 Germany invaded Africa. Skirmishes with Japanese
army (West Africa Incident)
7 Germany and Japan pulled out from Africa
11 Indian Independence War in effect ended
46/1 Germany declared withdrawal from the second Tokyo
Congress
5 Anti-America riots broke out in the Philippines
6 Remnants of Chinese Communist army entered into
India. The government of India asked Japan for military
intervention
47/3 Persian Gulf Incident / German-Japanese Trade Treaty
voided
5 US started the Philadelphia Experiment
6 Germany started the Wilhelm Experiment
7 Japan started the Gego Experiment
12 Merchant ships sank around the Indian Ocean
1948
48/1 Diplomatic relation between Germany and Japan severed
4/1 Two reinforced army groups of the Indian Army invaded
Africa (the start of WWIII)
3 Japan dispatched one corp into Afghanistan and engaged
the German army / Germany and Italy declared war on
Japan /
Japan set up the General Headquarters
6-8 Sea Battle of Goa shoal

9 German army occupied Kabul. The regular Afghan

Army eliminated / Japanese reinforcement army retreated
to Kyber /
Muslims in Afghanistan vowed Jihad
10 General mobilization in India
12 Battle of Khyber. Japanese Army retreated into India /
-21 German Persian Army Group occupied Kandahur / Japan
15th Army and part of India 1st Corps deployed around
Qetta
25 German Army broke through into India territory,
occupied Peshawar, surrounded Qetta / Japan 1st and 15th
Army destroyed
26 General mobilization in Japan mainland. The Marine
Guard of Japanese Navy moved to Taipei and Singapore.
30 The sea supply line of Japanese Army continually
disrupted by U-boat
5/1-6 German Caspian Army Group occupied PeshwarLawarpinje / Japan 1st Army retreated to just before
Lahore
9 Mohenjodaro Offensive
12 Japan Navy Air Force officially committed to battle
21 German Army reached the front of Karachi / The
remaining force of Japanese Army evacuated to Bombey
26 Japanese Convoy (Reinforcement) fleets reached
Calcutta Madras
6/4 German Air Force bombed Bombey
10 German Caspian Army Group penetrated the Satrage
Defense Line / Ireland and Ukraine declared war on Japan
21 Battle of Delhi started / Around this time the tonnage of
merchant shipping sunk by German ships reached its peak
27 One Japanese corps was surrounded in Gujarat (later
evacuated by sea)
7/9 German army occupied Delhi