occupied. Trade offers can be made to any other country, even ones with poor diplomatic relations, although allied nations are more willing to accept more favorable trade offers. Manpower, IC and TC are not tradeable. Scenarios In the game, a player assumes direct control of a nation at the start of a scenario through 1948. The following scenarios are available: The Road to War, beginning on New Year's Day, 1936; The Gathering Storm, beginning in September 1938, just before the Munich Agreement; added in the v1.2 patch. Blitzkrieg, beginning with Hitler's declaration of war upon Poland (the invasion of Poland) on 1 September 1939; Awakening the Giant, beginning on 22 June 1941, at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. Götterdämmerung, beginning on 20 June 1944, two weeks after the Western Allies landed at Normandy. Added in Iron Cross: 1933, beginning on 30 January 1933, when Hitler takes power in Germany. 1934, beginning on 1 October 1934, at the start of the October revolution. Playable operations are: Fall Gelb, the German invasion of France in 1940. Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in Summer of 1941. The Ardennes Offensive, centered around the Battle of the Bulge, on the Franco-Belgian-German frontier the winter of 1944, which was also playable in the game's demo. Southern Conquests, revolving around the Japanese centrifugal offensive into the southern resource area in South-East Asia, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Operation Watchtower, the battle for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Fall Weiss, the German invasion of Poland Fall Grün, the planned German attack on Czechoslovakia Platinean War, a fantasy scenario where German-backed Argentina and American-backed Brazil clash in a conflict that would involve most of South America. Winter War, the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939–1940. Desert Fox, the African campaign that culminated in the Battle of El Alamein. Operation Husky, the Allied landings in Sicily and the subsequent Italian Campaign. Operation Overlord, the Allied landings in Normandy. Operation Downfall, the planned Allied invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. Spanish Civil War, the conflict between the Spanish republicans and nationalists in 1936–1939. Battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese plan to capture Port Moresby on New Guinea by sea and the following carrier battle. Fall Blau, the German 1942 summer offensive against the Soviet Union, eventually culminating in the Battle of Stalingrad; added in the v1.2 patch. Warfare Hearts of Iron II is a grand strategy game.