Neue Sonne Uber Europa is my personal take on an Axis victory scenario, spanning from 1939 to 1985 and depicting a five-way Cold War between Germany, Italy, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States. This first part of the timeline will be covering events in Asia and Oceania, a region where the Rising Sun's rays are cast far, but struggle to burn out the many voices calling for freedom
Other timelines can be found here:
Europe
Africa
Middle East
The Second Sino-Japanese War
Pictured: Chinese Communists in western China, 1947 (exact date unknown)
This timeline will cover all countries on the Asian continent. The exceptions to this rule are the Soviet Union, unless it specifically concerns the Central Asian SSRs or the Siberian regions of the Russian SFSR, which was covered in the Europe timeline, and nations which fit the definition of the Middle East, defined and covered in the Middle East timeline.
1939
Asia Under the Rising Sun
Pictured: American soldiers inspecting a downed helicopter in Vietnam, June 1965
1950
The Oriental War and Beyond
Pictured: A Japanese soldier armed with a Type 103 (unlicensed copy of the M20 Super Bazooka) during World War III in Kaesong, July 1978
December 1975: The Laotian Civil War ends in Pathet Lao victory, forming the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
1976
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. The next timeline will be of events in the Americas from 1939 to 1985. Farewell!
Other timelines can be found here:
Europe
Africa
Middle East
The Second Sino-Japanese War
Pictured: Chinese Communists in western China, 1947 (exact date unknown)
This timeline will cover all countries on the Asian continent. The exceptions to this rule are the Soviet Union, unless it specifically concerns the Central Asian SSRs or the Siberian regions of the Russian SFSR, which was covered in the Europe timeline, and nations which fit the definition of the Middle East, defined and covered in the Middle East timeline.
1939
- April: Robert Menzies becomes leader of the United Australia Party and prime minister of Australia
- May: Subhas Chandra Bose forms the All India Forward Bloc
- June: Japanese forces blockade the British concession of Tientsin, sparking the Tientsin Crisis. Later, Siam officially changes its name to Thailand
- August: The Tienstin Crisis ends with Britain promising not to interfere in Japanese affairs in China
- February: In Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso is declared the 13th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama
- March: Wang Jingwei forms the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China in Nanking
- September: Japan invades French Indochina
- November: The Khmer Issarak is formed to oust the French and Japanese from Cambodia
- January: Bose flees British India
- February: Kichisaburo Nomura becomes the Japanese ambassador to the United States. He will later become known for holding the position during the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
- May: The Viet Minh is formed
- July: Germany and Italy recognize Jingwei’s government as the legitimate government of China
- August: Menzies resigns and is replaced in his role as leader of the UAP by Billy Hughes and prime minister by Arthur Fadden
- October: The New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy is integrated into the New Zealand Armed Forces as the Royal New Zealand Navy
- November: Britain promises to declare war on Japan if the United States does so
- December: The Bombing of Pearl Harbor occurs, crippling the US Pacific Fleet and causing the United States and Britain to declare war on Japan and Germany and Italy to do so on the United States. Later, Thailand joins the Axis
- January: The Japanese invasions of Burma and the Dutch East Indies begin
- February: Malaya falls to the Japanese
- March: The Dutch East Indies fall to the Japanese
- April: The Doolittle Raid, one of the only Allied bombing raids on the Japanese Home Islands, occurs
- May: The Battle of the Coral Sea is fought. It ends in a Japanese victory and is the first naval battle in which the opposing fleets don’t see each other. Later, the Philippines fall to the Japanese
- June: The Battle of Midway is fought. It also ends in a Japanese victory and secures Japanese naval supremacy for the duration of the war
- August: The Guadalcanal Campaign begins
- February: The Guadalcanal Campaign ends in one of few American victories of the war
- May: The Communist International, or Comintern, is dissolved in Vladivostok
- June: The Japanese battleship Mutsu, sister ship of the Nagano, is destroyed by the accidental detonation of one of its magazines
- August: The State of Burma is formed as a Japanese puppet state
- September: The Japanese invasion of Australia begins
- October: Burma falls to the Japanese, who begin advancing further into India. Later, the Second Philippine Republic is formed, also a puppet of Japan
- November: The Provisional Government of Free India, or Azad Hind, is formed as a puppet of Japan
- December: The Azad Hind moves from Syonan (formerly Singapore) to the Indian city of Port Blair
- February: The First Indonesian Revolt begins
- April: One of the last and most major Japanese offensives in China, Operation Ichi-Go, begins
- June: Australia, New Zealand, and India surrender
- July: The British Raj is officially dissolved and the Azad Hind, now administering all of India, movies to Delhi
- August: The Free Indian Republic is declared, albeit it remains a puppet of Japan
- September: The Commonwealth of Oceania is formed as a Japanese puppet state in Australia and New Zealand
- October: American forces led by Marshal Douglas MacArthur make landfall in the Philippines. Though they are successful in establishing a beachhead, a Japanese counter-offensive quickly cuts them off. The survivors flee into the jungle to continue a guerilla war against the Japanese. MacArthur is never seen in public again
- December: Operation Ichi-Go ends, thought by many to be the beginning of the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War
- January: In one of the largest actions by resistance forces in the Philippines, a combined force of over 900 Filipino guerillas and American soldiers frees 831 American POWs from the prison camp at Cabanatuan. They take up arms and join the resistance
- February: The last major campaign of the Pacific Theater of World War II, the Hawaiian Islands Campaign, begins. It includes the shortest battle of the war, the Battle of Puwaii, which lasted four hours and 38 minutes
- March: Three puppet states are formed in former French Indochina: the Empire of Vietnam, Kingdom of Kampuchea, and Kingdom of Luang Prabang. Later, the Hawaiian Islands Campaign ends in Japanese victory
- April: With the signing of the Treaty of Pearl Harbor, World War II ends in the Pacific, with Japan being granted American, British, French, and Dutch colonial possessions in the Pacific. Japan also annexes the Andreanof and Fox Islands and Kodiak Islands, which it administers under the Northeastern Islands Military Governorate
- July: Eric Campbell is officially instated as prime minister of Oceania
- August: The Vietnamese Revolution begins, with the Viet Minh attempting to establish an independent Vietnamese state based in Hanoi. While they are unsuccessful, they are not destroyed
- September: The Kuomintang surrenders to Japan, officially ending the Second Sino-Japanese War, with Jingwei’s regime becoming the only government of China. However, Japanese and Chinese collaborationist troops continue to clash with Communists further inland
- March: Japan invades Siberia, capturing Vladivostok and overrunning Mongolia by the end of the month
- April: After the Japanese offensive bogs down, Stalin issues Order 278, resulting in a Soviet offensive in Manchuria and, to the west, the withdrawal of Soviet forces in Manchuria to more defensible positions near Lake Baikal, emphasizing the defense of Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude
- May: The Soviet offensive bogs down due north of Harbin and their defensive line, dubbed the Konev Line, is extended to the Amur River
- June: Bhumibol Adulyadej
- August: In the Week of the Long Knives, violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta kills 3,000
- October: The Noakhali Riots begin in Bengal
- November: The Noakhali Riots end. While some sources give estimates for the death toll as low as 285, others give numbers as high as 5,000
- December: The First Indochina War begins
- February: The Kuomintang Riots, calling for the formation of a government in exile for the old Kuomintang in Formosa, modeled off of the government of Canada, begin in Japanese Formosa
- March: Corregidor comes under the administration of the Imperial Japanese Army
- May: The Kuomintang Riots end unsuccessfully, with 18,000-28,000 deaths
- June: The Treaty of Yakutsk is signed. A Japanese puppet state is formed in Mongolia, the Mongol Republic, and Japan annexes Primorsky Krai
- August: The Muslim Revolt begins in India
- October: In reprisal for Muslim resistance, Indian and Japanese troops in Kashmir massacre 20,000-100,000 Muslims
- November: The princely state of Junagadh declares its support for the rebels in the Muslim Revolt, causing India to invade with Japanese support
- January: Japanese plans for an Indonesian puppet state are scrapped and development of plans for Indonesia as a Japanese colony begins
- February: The Malaya Federation is formed as a colony of Japan. Later, the Communist Party of India, or CPI, begins its insurgency
- March: Japan declares the Tripartite Pact null and void, dissolving the Axis and fully allowing Japan to pursue its own agenda in Asia
- April: The Jeju Uprising begins
- June: The Juju Airlift begins after a famine hits the island, caused by fighting between Japanese and rebel forces. Later, the First Malayan Uprising begins
- August: In the Babrra Massacre, 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar are killed by the Indian National Army
- September: The Indian National Army invades Hyderabad, which is annexed by India
- October: The first engagement between Soviet forces and the Turkestan Legion occurs near Ashgabat, considered the start of the Turkestan Insurgency
- January: The Bangalore Decree ends the Muslim Revolt in partial success. The Islamic Republic of Bangladesh is formed and all Muslims in India are deported there. Any who attempt to resist or flee are killed
- May: Japan declares Formosa under indefinite martial law
- June: Orapin Chaiyakan becomes the first woman in Thailand’s parliament
- July: The Kingdom of Luang Prabang chances its official name to the Kingdom of Laos
- November: India’s official constitution is adopted
- December: The First Indonesian Uprising ends in failure, resulting in the Military Transitional Authority for the East Indies, commonly known as the Japanese East Indies, being formed. Later, the last Communist forces in China surrender, widely considered to be the true end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. While Japan and China believe he is dead, the Communists’ leader, Mao Zedong, is currently in hiding in the Soviet Union
Asia Under the Rising Sun
Pictured: American soldiers inspecting a downed helicopter in Vietnam, June 1965
1950
- January: India officially promulgates its constitution. Later, the Indian National Army occupies the Kingdom of Mysore, which India later annexes
- June: The Korean War begins, being a three-way conflict between Korean Communists, Korean anti-Communists, and Japan
- October: The Sino-Tibetan War begins. Later, Manchukuo, in a bid for independence and the restoration of the Qing Dynasty, declares war on China, causing Japan to declare war
- November: Following the Sea of Okhotsk Incident, a false flag attack by the Soviet Navy, the Soviet Union intervenes in Korea
- February: The Nepalese Revolution occurs, resulting in the adoption of a democratic constitution
- May: With the signing of the Seventeen Point Agreement, the Sino-Tibetan War ends in Chinese victory. Later, Japan detonates an atomic bomb at Enewetak Atoll, making them the third nuclear power of the Cold War, the other two being the United States and the Soviet Union
- July: Negotiations for a ceasefire in the Korean War begin at Kaesong
- October: Field Marshal Shunroku Hata is killed by Malayan rebels
- November: Liaquat Ali Khan, prime minister of Bangladesh, is assassinated
- February: In the Dhaka Incident, the Bengal Army fires on a procession of students protesting for the recognition of Bengal as a national language (the only currently legally recognized language is Arabic). Four are killed, sparking nationwide protests that are ultimately successful
- October: Ceasefire negotiations in Korea are postponed
- January: The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma
- July: The Panmunjom Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War. China annexes Manchukuo, Japan retains control of the Korean Peninsula south of the 38th Parallel, and the Soviet Union forms a puppet state to the north, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also known as the DPRK or North Korea, led by Kim Il-sung and the Workers’ Party of Korea, or WPK
- August: While Soviet and Japanese POWs of the Korean War are repatriated, Korean POWs are sent to North Korea while Manchu POWs are sent to China
- February: Germany pledges its support for Japan in the First Indochina War
- March: Japan tests its first hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
- April: Vladimir Petrov, the Soviet ambassador to Oceania, requests asylum in Oceania
- July: Following the Geneva Conference, the First Indochina War ends. The Empire of Vietnam retains control south of the 16th Parallel while the Viet Minh controls the north, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, or North Vietnam. Cambodia and Laos are also granted independence
- September: The Greater East Asia Treaty Organization, or GEATO, a military alliance between Japan, its puppets, and Thailand, is formed in Bangkok
- April: An assassination attempt on Jingwei fails
- November: North Vietnam invades the south, starting the Vietnam War
- December: The Liberal Party and Japan Democratic Party merge with the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, creating the 1955 System in Japan
- May: India announces the opening of diplomatic relations between it and Spain
- October: Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar, along with 385,000 followers, converts to Buddhism, creating the Neo-Buddhist Movement
- November: The 1956 Summer Olympics open in Melbourne, Oceania
- March: Martial law is declared in the Japanese East Indies
- April: Japan announces that Hong Kong will gain independence from China on January 1, 1958
- May: Anti-Japanese protests erupt in Formosa
- December: 326,000 Dutch nationals in the Dutch East Indies are deported to Suriname and the Dutch Antilles
- January: The Free Port of Hong Kong is formed. While it is nominally independent, it remains a puppet of Japan
- July: The Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA, begins supporting the Tibetan Resistance
- March: The Tibetan Uprising occurs after Chinese officials attempt to arrest the Dalai Lama. Later, in Operation Buddha, the Dalai Lama, having fled to India, is extradited to the United States
- April: The Kashag is formed to govern Tibet on the behalf of the Chinese government
- May: The Laotian Civil War begins
- June: China, with Japanese backing, demands that Portugal cede Macau, sparking the Macau Crisis
- July: The Portuguese government relents and Macau is ceded to China, ending the Macau Crisis
- August: Macau is transferred to Hong Kong and the United Port Authority is formed
- September: The first large unit action of the Vietnam War takes place when two Imperial Vietnamese Army companies are ambushed by the 2nd Liberation Battalion, North Vietnamese Army
- March: Japan announces its plan to send 3,500 combat troops to Vietnam
- April: Pro-democracy protests in Japanese Korea are suppressed, killing 180
- June: Nobusuke Kishi, prime minister of Japan since 1960, resigns and is replaced by Hayato Ikeda
- July: Malayan rebel leader Chin Peng is captured and executed, ending the First Malayan Uprising. Later, Sirimavo Bandaranaike is appointed governor of Japanese Ceylon, making her the first female colonial governor
- December: King Mahendra of Nepal deposes the nation’s democratic government and assumes absolute authority
- May: Park Chung Hee becomes the first Korean governor-general of Japanese Korea
- June: Soviet and Japanese tanks face off near the Rimjin River, sparking the Rimjin Crisis
- November: The US sends 18,000 military advisors to Vietnam. Later, the Rimjin Crisis ends with the withdrawal of both Soviet and Japanese forces
- December: 400 American and Japanese personnel arrive in Hanoi and Saigon respectively
- January: The Samoan Uprising is suppressed in Oceania
- February: West Irian is transferred from Oceania to the Japanese East Indies
- September: The first of the Sino-Soviet Border Skirmishes erupts
- November: A ceasefire is signed between China and the Soviet Union, temporarily ending the Sino-Soviet Border Skirmishes
- December: The Sino-Soviet Border Skirmishes pick back up. This time, they are not publicly acknowledged by either government
- January: North Vietnam wins its first major victory of the Vietnam War in the Battle of Ap Bac
- March: The deportation of indigenous Australians to Tasmania begins
- May: Following the Hue Phat Dan Shooting, wherein nine Buddhists are killed for protesting the ban on flying the Buddhist flag on Vesak (the Buddha’s birthday), the Buddhist Crisis begins in South Vietnam
- November: South Vietnamese prime minister Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated and replaced by Duoung Van Minh, ending the Buddhist Crisis
- January: Nguyen Khahn executes a coup in South Vietnam
- May: The first protests against Japanese presence in Vietnam begin
- June: Amidst mass student protests, martial law is declared in Japanese Korea
- July: Another 5,000 military advisors are sent to Vietnam
- August: The USS Maddox is attacked by South Vietnamese gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin, resulting in the United States intervening in the war, starting with the bombing of South Vietnam by aircraft from the Ticonderoga and Constellation
- January: The mass killing of suspected Communists in the Japanese East Indies, nicknamed the East Indies Red Scare, begins
- February: The Free City of Syonan is formed as a puppet of Japan
- March: The American bombing of South Vietnam, codenamed Operation Rolling Thunder, begins
- April: 3,500 US Marines arrive in North Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops deployed there
- May: Oceania announces that it will send an infantry battalion to aid South Vietnam
- June: Oceanic troops arrive in South Vietnam
- July: Nguyen Cao Ky becomes prime minister of South Vietnam
- August: The United States announces its intention to increase its presence in Vietnam, currently at 75,000, to 125,000
- September: The Philippines announces that it will contribute troops to South Vietnam
- November: The Battle of Ia Drang, the first major battle for Japanese forces in Vietnam, is fought. It ends in both sides claiming victory
- February: In the Honolulu Summit, Japan, South Vietnam, Oceania, and the Philippines outline their three goals for the Vietnam War: The destruction of the Viet Minh, the preservation of the Nguyen Dynasty’s rule, and the expulsion of American forces
- March: The Soviet Union demands that Japanese troops leave Vietnam. Japan ignores them
- April: The Buddhist Uprising begins in South Vietnam
- May: Radio Peking claims that a Chinese plane was shot down by an American one over Yunnan. The United States denies this
- June: The Notification marks the start of the Cultural Revolution in China
- July: An American F-4C Phantom II is shot down by a South Vietnamese SAM near Saigon, the first American aircraft to be shot down by a SAM in the Vietnam War
- March: The Cambodian Civil War begins
- April: South Vietnam adopts a new constitution
- May: Protests over Japanese dominion over Hong Kong begin
- June: The Naxalite Insurgency begins
- July: Japan begins expanding its military bases in Malaya, a move that is condemned by Oceania and China
- August: Two American jets after shot down after straying over the airspace of the Japanese East Indies
- September: Nguyen Van Thieu becomes prime minister of South Vietnam
- January: One of the largest offensives of the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive, begins
- June: The Second Malayan Uprising begins
- September: The Tet Offensive ends in a success
- December: As part of the Cultural Revolution, children in the Chinese countryside are sent to urban areas for reeducation
- February: The Soviet Union invades Mongolia, starting the Steppes War
- March: To bring an end to the Steppes War, Mongolian, Chinese, and Japanese delegations are sent to the Novosibirsk Peace Conference
- April: An American reconnaissance aircraft is shot down over North Korea, an act which is denounced by the Soviet Union
- June: With the signing of the Treaty of Novosibirsk, the Steppes War ends in the reformation of the Mongolian People’s Republic and its annexation of Inner Mongolia
- July: Mao becomes chairman of the newly reformed Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party, or MPRP
- August: During a meeting between Thieu and Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato at Middou-e, formerly Midway Island, Japan reveals that 25,000 of its troops will soon be withdrawn from Vietnam
- September: The withdrawal of Japanese forces from Vietnam begins
- June: The Tonga Uprising is suppressed
- October: The Khmer Republic is declared in Cambodia
- November: The ultranationalist paramilitary group Tatenokai, led by Yukio Mishima, attempts a coup in Japan via taking over a radio station and broadcasting a message advocating for the dissolution of the Imperial Diet and absolute authority of the Emperor. The speech fails to sway the population and Mishima commits suicide
- February: With Japanese fire support, South Vietnam invades Laos
- March: The Hindu Genocide, or Gonohotta, begins, targeting Bangladesh’s Hindu minority
- April: The Ceylon Rebellion begins
- August: Oceania announces its intention to withdraw from Vietnam
- September: Thailand invades Laos
- October: Japanese troops in Vietnam drop to 196,700, the lowest it’s been since January 1966
- November: Sato sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the withdrawal of another 45,000 Japanese troops
- January: India announces its intention to start a nuclear weapons program. Later, a skeleton wearing an American field marshal’s uniform is found in the jungles of the Philippines. It is identified as MacArthur, whose death is dated to 1964
- February: The 1972 Winter Olympics are held in Tokyo
- March: The NVA’s Easter Offensive begins in Vietnam
- May: The Dominion of Ceylon is formed as a puppet of Japan, primarily to transfer the burden of fighting Communist rebels on the island from the Imperial Japanese Army to local forces
- November: Newly reelected US president Richard Nixon announces that, with the situation in Vietnam stabilizing in favor of the North, the United States will be withdrawing
- December: All Oceanic personnel in Vietnam are withdrawn
- January: Japanese and American involvement in the Vietnam War ends
- April: Bangladesh adopts a new constitution
- October: A popular uprising occurs in Thailand, protesting the military rule of Thanom Kittikachon, prime minister of the country since 1963. Though 77 are killed, Thanom flees the country and is replaced by Sanya Dharmasakti
- December: The New Guinea Uprising is suppressed
- February: Bose is assassinated. While he is replaced by Basappa Danappa Jatti, or B.D. Jatti, this is seen by many as the first step on the road to the Oriental War
- March: A famine begins in Bangladesh
- September: Jingwei dies in office and is succeeded by Zhou Fohai
- December: The famine in Bangladesh ends. Though government estimates put the death toll at 27,000, unofficial estimates are as high as 1.5 million
- January: The North Vietnamese Politburo approves a final offensive against South Vietnam
- February: India adopts its current flag
- April: The Cambodian Civil War ends in Khmer Rouge victory, forming the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea. Later, with the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War also ends in North Vietnamese victory, with the North annexing the South
- May: The Cambodian-Vietnamese War begins. Latter, with the abolition of the Chogyal, Sikkim joins India
- June: Jose P. Laurel, president of the Philippines since the formation of the Second Philippine Republic, dies and is replaced by Ferdinand Marcos
- September: Campbell goes missing and is presumed dead. He is soon after replaced by John Wilton
- November: A massive uprising by the New People’s Liberation Army, or NPLA, a Chinese resistance group led by Zhu De, begins, opening the Pacific Theater of World War III, also known as the Oriental War
The Oriental War and Beyond
Pictured: A Japanese soldier armed with a Type 103 (unlicensed copy of the M20 Super Bazooka) during World War III in Kaesong, July 1978
December 1975: The Laotian Civil War ends in Pathet Lao victory, forming the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
1976
- January: Laos, Mongolia, North Korea, and the Soviet Union begin providing support to the NPLA
- February: Wilton declares the separation of Oceania into Australia and New Zealand
- March: Japan intervenes in the Oriental War
- April: Australia and New Zealand declare war on Japan
- June: The Soviet Union, North Korea, and Mongolia declare war on China and Japan
- July: India declares war on Japan and China
- August: Romeo Espino executes a coup in the Philippines, killing Marcos and declaring war on Japan
- September: Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal becomes chairman of MPRP upon the death of Mao
- October: The Thai Revolution occurs, resulting in the formation of the Republic of Thailand and Thailand’s declaration of war on Japan and China
- December: The deportation of indigenous Australians ends
- January: Bangladesh declares war on China and Japan
- April: The NPLA captures Nanjing, the capital of China, causing Japan to nuke the city. The city’s entire population of almost 8 million is killed, either from the immediate blast and subsequent shockwave or radiation poisoning. However, president Fohai is in Tokyo at the time of the attack. This becomes the only use of a nuclear weapon in combat in history
- July: The NPLA announces that upon the successful conclusion of hostilities with Japan, Beijing will become the new capital of China
- September: The Siege of Seoul begins
- October: The NPLA takes over Hong Kong
- December: The Malaya Federation collapses and is replaced by the Malay People’s Republic, which attacks the Free City of Syonan
- February: The Burmese Revolution results in the formation of the Republic of Myanmar and their declaration of war on Japan and China
- March: The United States occupies the Northeastern Islands
- April: The Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, or ANZAC, is reformed to conduct operations in China
- June: The ANZAC lands in China and begins operations to assist the NPLA
- July: The Solomon Islands declare independence from Japan
- September: Syonan surrenders after nine months of fighting to Malaya
- October: Malaya announces that the official name of Syonan is once more Singapore and that it is now the capital of Malaya
- November: The Soviet Union begins bombing Japan
- January: The Cambodian-Vietnamese War ends in Vietnamese victory, with Kampuchea becoming a Vietnamese puppet, the People’s Republic of Kampuchea
- February: Vietnam declares war on China and Japan
- March: The United Nations declare war on Japan. Later, the United States invades the Hawaiian Islands
- April: Student protests break out in Nepal
- May: Micronesia declares independence from Japan
- June: Australia and New Zealand announce their recognition of Elizabeth II as Queen of Australia and Queen of New Zealand respectively
- July: Japanese forces in Hawaii surrender
- September: The Dominion of Ceylon collapses and is replaced by the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, led by Rhana Wijeweer, leader of the People’s Liberation Front
- October: The Korean Peninsula falls to Soviet-backed North Korean forces after Japanese troops in Seoul surrender
- November: The Chinese government sues for peace
- January: In Operation Downfall, American forces land in Japan
- February: Vanuatu and Tafea jointly declare independence
- March: The People’s Republic of China is declared
- May: A referendum on the system of Nepal’s government results in the country preserving its non-partisan Panchayat system
- June: The Siege of Tokyo begins
- November: The Tokyo Revolution (though really more of a military coup) occurs amidst the Siege of Tokyo, resulting in the abdication of emperor Hirohito and the resignation of prime minister Zenko Suzuki, with coup leader Goro Takeda declaring the dissolution of the Empire of Japan and formation of the Republic of Japan, and requesting negotiations for a peace treaty with all nations it is currently at war with. A ceasefire is agreed upon and negotiations begin in San Francisco
- January: The Treaty of San Francisco is signed, ending World War III in the Pacific. North Korea annexes the South,the Soviet Union annexes former Primorsky Krai, as well as Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, the East Indies come under UN occupation, the Japanese military is dissolved, the Commonwealth of the Philippines is reformed, and Japan will pay massive reparations to all countries it was at war with
- May: Ziaur Rahman, president of Bangladesh, is assassinated, causing the Bengal Revolution, which forms a Communist state, the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
- June: The Naxalite Insurgency, after years of gradual escalation, turns into the Indian Civil War
- July: The Vladivostok Defense Organization, or VDO, is formed between the Soviet Union, China, Korea, and Communist states across Asia
- August: A Korean SAM is fired at an American SR-71 Blackbird, which misses
- November: The New York Conference begins, with the Netherlands negotiating for the return of the East Indies. This sparks the Second Indonesian Uprising
- June: The Second Indonesian Uprising ends in the UN agreeing to grant Indonesia independence. The People’s Democratic Republic of Indonesia is formed subsequently
- July: Indonesia joins the VDO
- August: China announces its official annexation of Hong Kong
- November: Following Japan’s first presidential election, Yasuhiro Nakasone is elected president
- December: The Constitution of the People’s Republic of China is adopted
- February: Bangladesh, China, and the Soviet Union begin providing support to Naxalite forces in India
- March: Australia holds its first elections since 1943, resulting in Bob Hawke being elected prime minister
- May: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States
- July: The Sri Lankan Civil War begins
- October: Australia and New Zealand join the UN
- November: China announces that it has acquired nuclear weapons
- January: Sarawak declares independence from Malaya
- February: Sarawak joins the UN
- June: The Indian Civil War ends in Naxalite victory, and the Socialist Union of India is formed
- July: India joins the VDO
- October: Nambala Keshava Rao, general secretary of the Communist Party of India, is assassinated. On the recommendation of the KGB, he is replaced by Dipankar Bhattacharya, who is much more pro-Soviet
- November: Anti-Sikh pogroms occur in India as reprisal for Rao’s assassination. About 3,350 are killed
- January: North Korea announces that it has acquired nuclear weapons
- May: Until the full extent of the Turkestan Legion’s presence in Afghanistan can be investigated, martial law is declared in all Central Asian SSRs
- September: Japan joins the UN
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. The next timeline will be of events in the Americas from 1939 to 1985. Farewell!