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Game Turn Time-Line Analysis
Game Turn 00 [Winter 1941-42]
December: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, invades Philipines. German attack on Moscow fails. January: Germans begin U-boat offenisive against Allied shipping, Eastern USA sea zone. Japan invades Burma. Rommel counterattacks at El Aghelia. February: Japan captures Singapore, bombs Australia. Battle of the Java Sea.
Game Turn 01 [Spring 1942]
March: Soviet offensive in the Crimea [Ukraine] fails. Japan invades Dutch East Indies. April: Surprise U.S. bomber raid on Tokyo. German bomber offensive against England. May: Battle of the Coral Sea. Japan attacks China. German offensive in the Crimea. Rommel attacks in North Africa.
Game Turn 02 [Summer 1942]
June:Battle of Midway. July: First Battle of El Alamein. Germans attack towards Stalingrad [Caucasus]. August: US Marines land on Guadacanal [Solomon Islands].
Game Turn 03 [Fall 1942]
September: Battle of Stalingrad begins. British & Indian troops attack Burma. October: Second Battle of El Alamein. November: British counterattack in Egypt; Rommel retreats. Operation Torch: US invasion of North Africa. Soviet counteroffensive at Stalingrad begins.
Game Turn 04 [Winter 1942-43]
December: Germans begin retreat from Caucasus. January: Soviets destroy German 6th Army at Stalingrad. February: Soviets capture Kursk and Kharkov [Ukraine]. Battle of Kasserine Pass [North Africa].
Game Turn 05 [Spring 1943]
March: Germans re-capture Kharkov. April: Germans withdraw to Tunisia [North Africa]. May: Germans surrender in North Africa.
Game Turn 06 [Summer 1943]
June: US submarine war against Japanese shipping begins. Allies land on New Georgia [Solomon Islands]. July: Operation Citadel: Germans attack at Kursk. [Last major German offensive in the east]. Allies land in Sicily [Southern Europe]. August: Soviets recapture Kharkov. Allies capture New Guinea.
Game Turn 07 [Fall 1943]
September: Italy suurenders. Allies land at Salerno and Taranto. Germans occupy Rome. October: Allies enter Naples. Italy declares war on Germany. November: US Marines land on Bougainville [Solomon Islands]. US troops land on Tarawa [Gilbert Islands, west of Caroline Islands, not represented on game map].
Turn 08 [Winter 1943-44]
December: Soviets attack in Ukraine. German battleship Scharnhorst sunk in Battle of North Cape [UK sea zone]. January: Soviets enter Poland [Eastern Europe]. Allies land at Anzio [Italy, Southern Europe]. After 900 days, Seige of Leningrad ends [Karelia]. February: US troops take Kwajalein [Marshall Islands, west of Caroline Islands, not represented on game map]. US air raid destroys Japanese naval base at Truk Island [Caroline Islands].
Game Turn 09 [Spring 1944]
March: Soviets attack in Eastern Europe. Battle of Imphal [Burma, French Indo-China] April: Japan launches major attack against China. May: Soviets recapture Sevastopol [Crimea, Ukraine].
Game Turn 10 [Summer 1944]
June: Allies enter Rome. D-Day landings in France. Soviets begin offensive against Finland. Soviets begin offensive against Germans in Eastern Europe. Battle of the Philipine Sea. July: US Marines land on Guam. US troops in Normandy break out west of St. Lo. August: Soviets attack Rumania. Allies liberate Paris.
Game Turn 11 [Fall 1944]
September: Allies liberate nearly all of Western Europe. Finland & USSR agree to ceasefire. Operation Market Garden, major Allied airdrop. October: Allied air raids on Okinawa. Battle of Leyte Gulf. November: US navy bombards Iwo Jima.
Game Turn 12 [Winter 1944-45]
December: Battle of the Bulge begins. January: Battle of the Bulge ends. US troops land in the Philipines. Soviets capture Warsaw. February: US troops land on Iwo Jima. Dresden destroyed by firestorm resulting from Allied bombing raids.
Game Turn 13 [Spring 1945]
March: Allies establish a bridgehead across the Rhine. Heavy bombing raids begin on Tokyo, other Japanese cities. Soviets capture Danzig. April: US troops invade Okinawa. Battle of East China Sea. Soviets begin final offensive on Berlin. Mussolini captured and hanged by partisans. Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. May: Unconditional surrender of all German troops to the Allies. Japanese troops begin pullback in China.
Game Turn 14 [Summer 1945]
June: Allied powers partition Germany. Japanese resistance on Okinawa ends. July: Liberation of Philipines declared. August: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Soviets declare war on Japan and invade Manchuria. Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Japanese accept Allied surrender terms.
Game Turn 15 [Fall 1945]
September: Japanese formally surrender in Tokyo, China, Burma. October: United Nations comes formally into existence. November: Nuremberg war crimes trials begin. NOTE: If the Allies haven't won by now, the Axis players have done much better than their historical counterparts.
