It’s early 1950 and Germany has had enough. The Wehrmacht successfully blows up Hitler and his inner circle. They immediately ask for a cease fire but are forced to accept unconditional surrender.
Tojo has a massive stroke and is incapacitated. While the Army and many in the Navy as well, want to fight to the death, the Emperor has enough foresight to understand it is better to surrender now and face occupation before all of Japan is burned to the ground. He knows the Americans will grow tired of occupation and in 10 years Japan will once again begin to take it’s rightful place as a world power.
Japan, while not in as bad of position militarily as Germany, asks for surrender terms. The USA tries to force an unconditional surrender on Japan as well. Japan refuses and leaks to the American press their desire to end the war.
The Americans, war weary themselves, accept less than unconditional surrender and the war is over.
I used a prerelease version of triplea which had a few errors and skewed things a bit but was still fun. Gonna start a new one with an earlier JPN attack and focus on DEI before china. We’ll see how it goes lol
