Operation Unthinkable

Operation Unthinkable
Date 1 July 1945 (proposed) Location Europe Result Cancelled; never took place.
Belligerents
Western Allies British Empire United States Wehrmacht (under Allied control)	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Winston Churchill Bernard Montgomery Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower Douglas MacArthur	Joseph Stalin Georgy Zhukov Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Units involved
British Armed Forces Royal Navy Royal Marines British Army Royal Air Force United States Armed Forces United States Army United States Marine Corps United States Navy United States Air Force	Red Army Soviet Air Forces Soviet Air Defence Forces Soviet Navy Soviet Airborne Forces

Operation Unthinkable was a codename plan by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to attack the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe in hope of getting rid of Soviet/communist influence in the East, right after World War II ended in Europe. The plan was never done and cancelled by high-ranking generals from both the United Kingdom & United States.

Winston Churchill feared the Soviets would invade the West & communism in general. So in May 1945, he proposed this plan with U.S. President Harry Truman and other generals from both US & UK. They didn't accept because: the risk was high, the Soviets outnumbered them and public opinion wouldn't accept such massive war since they just got out of World War II in Europe plus a betrayal of the Western Allies since they cooperated with the Soviets in most of the war. If done, it would be happening on 1 July 1945 (over a month after WWII) with British, American and rearmed Wehrmacht troops attacking the Soviet Union.

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