1940 turned out to be a really busy year.
10 January: Japan, and her puppet state of Manchuko joined the Axis alliance.
February 6: Bolivia joined the Axis.
February 29: Denmark and Norway joined the Grand Alliance.
9 March: France fell to Germany. The puppet state of Vichy France was created. Vichy France refused Japan's demands for her colonies, and Siam also joined the Axis.
1 April: Romania joined the Axis, the USSR annexed Finland, and we developed a basic submachinegun for our infantry forces.
3 May: Germany invades Russia, bring the rest of the world into a war.
20 June: The US and her puppets (Liberia and the Philippines) joined the Grand Alliance.
22 June, US gives us the Isotope Separation Process, the next step in the nuclear chain.
2 July: The 1st and 2nd Infantry reach Hanoi, and begin moving south and southeast, into Aixs Siam and Vichy Indochina.
24 August: Siam is annexed, Indochina is split between us and the Dutch.
28 August: The UK annexes Afghanistan.
29 August: The USSR annexes Manchuko.
12 September: Venezuela joins the Allies.
7 November: Italy annexes Spain.
24 November: Argentina joins the Axis.
Things are going well at home, but in Europe, the situation looks bleak.
Our progress up the nuclear tree is slow but steady.
Steele