Alternate History of Southeast Asia (1945)

An imaginary alternate history visualized and narrated by Anonymous Kabataan

As the Second World War progresses, the tide turned on the Axis Powers. From successful Allied military operations in Africa to the Soviet victory on the 2nd of February 1943 at the Battle of Stalingrad up to the surrender of Italy on the 8th of September the same year. With these tides, Operation Overlord was conducted on the 6th of June 1944 launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe that lead to the combined Allied invasions of the Greater German Reich from the Eastern and Western fronts that lead to the last battle of the Second World War in Europe which was the Battle of Berlin which lasted from the 16th of April until the 2nd of May 1945. At the falling action of the Battle of Berlin, Hitler died by exposing himself outside that led to his brutal death after being hit by an artillery shell. With Hitler being dead, the emergency government of the German Reich was established and agreed to sign an unconditional surrender to the Allies that happened on the 7th of May 1945.

On the other side of the ocean, Japan is also suffering the same fate as its European allies where it suffered loss at the Battle of Hawaii which was the turning point of the Second World War in the Pacific in this timeline happened from the 17th until 19th of September 1942 unlike in our real timeline the Battle of Midway which happened on from the 4th until the 7th of June 1942. With the turning point happened, during the Battle of the Coral Sea which happened from the 6th until the 10th of November 1942 resulted in a tactical victory for the Japanese and it inflicted more casualties on the Allies while it was a strategic victory for the Allies which the planned Japanese invasion of Port Moresby was canceled. The Southern Pacific front was a balanced war for the Japanese while the Eastern Pacific front was a heavy loss that paved the way for the Battle of Leyte Gulf which happened from the 23rd until the 26th of October 1944 up to the Battle of Bessang Pass happened from the 1st until the 15th of June 1945 which led to General Yamashita's surrender.

As you see on the map as the Japanese forces began to lose, several Asian nations began to declare their independence from their Japanese overlords. Examples were the Republic of Nusantara which declared independence on the 17th of August 1945 and found itself in a war with its enemies Britain because of its desire to maintain the strategic trade colony in Asia unlike India and the communist Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army led by Chin Peng, and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam which declared independence on the 12th of August 1945, and the Provisional Government of Free India which would become the First Republic of India declared independence on the 20th of August 1945. Although Burma was still under Japanese occupation, later it will declare independence from the Japanese five days before the official surrender of its overlords on the 2nd of September 1945. With the Nusantaran independence fighters capturing Batavia from the Japanese control, they changed its name from Batavia to Jakarta. With the Japanese surrender announced, the Japanese forces were evicted from the areas where the Asian countries declared their independence or defected to the newly created armies of those newly created Asian nations to avoid being punished for war crimes.

Soon after the war, these nations would find themselves in a war with their returning victorious Allied colonial powers of Britain, France, and the Netherlands which the United States of America pressured these European colonial powers politically and financially by pressuring them not to expect economic aid from the U.S. which is called the Marshall Plan in order for European countries to get recovered from the ashes of the Second World War caused by Nazi Germany and its allies. After the war like in our real timeline, former Nazi Germany was divided into 4 occupations of American, Soviet, British, and French zones, unlike Japan where it was occupied solely by the Americans. What happened to the other Axis Powers? As in our timeline, Italy became a republic, and the Eastern European Axis powers of Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria were occupied by the Soviet Union. Finland was a lucky country after the Second World War where it managed to maintain its independence and avoided being occupied by the Soviets.