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World Maps:

Political Map:

Alliances Map:

Major Alliances:
Blue: Entente Cordiale
Yellow: Mitteleuropa Pact
Red: Syndicalist Internationale
Green: Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Minor Alliances:
Light Blue: Platinean Pact
Burgundy Red: Belgrade Pact
Sand Yellow: Eastern Coalition
Orange: Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Grey: Neutral Nations

 

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Timeline (1914-1919): The Weltkrieg

1914:

June 28: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is assassinated by Gavrilo Princip.In a reaction Austria-Hungary sends an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, whose contents are deliberately made unacceptable to the Serbs. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia shortly after receiving German backing. The Russian Empire in turn declares war on Austria-Hungary and the German Empire, dragging its ally, the French Republic, waiting for an opportunity to reclaim Alsace-Lorraine, into the war too.

August-September: When Germany invades the neutral Kingdom of Belgium to execute the Schlieffen Plan the British Empire declares war on Germany. The German advance to Paris is halted at the Marne and a series of flanking attempts, known as the Race to the Sea, prove unsuccessful. The war in the West grinds down to a halt.

The Germans are much more successful in the East, repulsing the Russian invasion of East Prussia and defeating the Russians at the battles of the Mazurian Lakes and at Tannenberg. The architects of these victories, Field Marshall Hindenburg and General Ludendorff would play key roles in the final German victory.

October: The Ottoman Empire joins the Central Powers later in the year, after a dispute with Britain about the confiscation of ships being built for the Empire.

November-December: Almost all German colonies are occupied before the end of the year, besides German East-Africa. Here General Von Lettow-Vorbeck will play a game of cat and mouse with the allied forces until the end of the war.

1915:

Spring 1915: In the West the lines remain static, but the fighting increases in brutality, with chlorine gas being first used during the Second battle of Ypres on 22th of April.


In the Eastern Front, Russia is being pushed back by the Germans, but manages to hold on to Galicia.

May: The Kingdom of Italy joins the war on the allied side, hoping to claim the Austro-Hungarian Illyrian provinces. The campaign bogs down to trench warfare.

May 7: A German submarine sinks the Lusitania. A severe backlash from the United States of America leads to Germany abandoning its unrestricted submarine warfare, which had hoped to strangle Britain into submission. Many speculated that a continuation of the unrestricted submarine warfare could have led to the entry of the United States into the war.

October: The Bulgarian Empire joins the war on the side of the Central Powers and Serbia becomes the first allied nation to be defeated.

April 1915-April 1916: In an ill conceived effort to knock the Ottomans out of the War, allied troops land near Gallipoli, hoping to gain control of the vital Dardanelles. The whole campaign becomes a disaster and the allies will pull back their forces before the year ends. A British invasion on Mesopotamia is repelled and the remaining troops retreat to Kut, where the disastrous siege of Kut will start.

1916:



February-December: The Battle of Verdun attempts to bleed the French army dry. In reality all sides lost troops equally in a battle which soon loses its military objective. A similar attempt that the British forces at the Somme has the same outcome. 1916 also saw the first use of tanks at the Battle of Cambrai.

April: The British troops at Kut are forced to surrender, dealing a heavy blow to British prestige. The Ottomans are being pushed out of the Caucasus and Armenia by a successful Russian campaign. The Sharif of Mecca starts of a general Arab revolt against the Turks.

May 31-June 1: At sea the First Battle of Jutland ends in a tactical German victory, but a strategic British victory, as the Hochseeflotte will remain in port until late 1918.

June-September: In the East the Brusilov offensive is launched. While very successful at first, the offensive doesn’t manage to either knock the Austro-Hungarians out of the war, or drive Germany from Russian Poland.

August-December: The Kingdom of Romania tries to profit from Austrian setbacks and invades Transylvania. German assistance would lead to a quick collapse of Romania, with Bucharest being taken by August von Mackensen within the year. Further south the allies have taken positions around Salonika.

1917:

March-November: Russia collapses into anarchy, with the Czar abdicating early 1917. A provisional government is formed under Alexandr Kerensky, but this government was overthrown by Lenin's Bolsheviks in November 1917, starting the Russian Civil War.

April-October: On the Western front the heavy French casualties lead to a strike among the French soldiers. This would paralyze the French Army until the end of the year, giving Germany a chance to recover from the Brusilov Offensive.

July: In Germany chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg is forced to resign, being replaced by Georg Michaelis. It was soon clear that Michaelis was little more than a puppet for Hindenburg and Ludendorff.

October: In Italy the Caporetto Offensive beats the Italians back, while a last minute defense saves Venice in the nick of time.

December: The Ottomans receive blow after blow, with both Baghdad and Jerusalem being lost to British forces.

1918:

January: In early January the Peace of Brest-Litovsk is signed between the Germans and the Bolsheviks, freeing thousands of German and Austrian troops. The Bolsheviks turn over Finland, the Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine to the Germans.

March-May: A great allied spring offensive, designed at breaking the Germans before their reinforcements arrive, is being repulsed at great cost of life.

June-July: Operation Teutoberg is launched, attempting to kick Greece out of the war. Instead of assaulting the Salonika stronghold head on, the Central Powers make extensive use of specialized Storm troopers and so called infiltration tactics. The defenders at Salonika are pinned down while the rest of the Central forces sweep through Greece. Athens fell on July 3rd, causing the Greek government to surrender. The forces at Salonika are evacuated soon afterwards.

August: General Allenby manages to pull of the last great allied victory of the war, encircling and destroying large parts of the Ottoman Army and conquering Damascus. Only the last minute arrival of two German divisions in Asia Minor prevents an invasion of Anatolia.

November: The successful allied tactics against the German u-boats and the blockade of Germany itself leads to a desperate sally of the Hochseeflotte. The Second Battle of Jutland ends in a tie, but the shock of being assaulted forces the Royal Navy to break their blockade. The end of the blockade and the influx of Ukranian grain end all fears of Germany being starved into submission.

1919:

February-September: Baron Ungern von Sternberg and his ‘Wild division’ take the Mongolian capital of Urga, with Sternberg declaring himself Mongolia's supreme ruler.

March-September: On the second of March the Germans launch their Great Offensive. The infiltration tactics prove to be successful, with Nancy falling on the 16th. The French organize an ad hoc defense, leaving their flank exposed. An attack on Rheims on the 26th splits the allied forces in two. An attack on Chateau-Thierry meant the French couldn’t retreat back to the Marne. In effect the entire French army was forced to retreat south and Paris was now under siege.


Operation Radowitz is launched on the 11th of march, attacking the Italian forces from Trento. Vicenza and Verona fall on the 24th pinning the Italians between two Central armies when Venice is reached on the 10th of April.


The siege of Venice would last until July, but with most of the Italian army occupied the rest of Italy lay defenseless, with Rome falling on the first of August. Italy would surrender a few days later. The surrender of Italy meant the road to Southern France was now open, with Marseilles falling in September.

April: The Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) declares a general strike in reaction to the bloody defeat of the French army during the German Great Offensive and the second mutiny. Its main aim was an immediate end to the war. After the fall of Paris the government of Georges Clemenceau was replaced by a Provisional Government under Aristide Briand.

June: Jacobin radicals start a series of attacks on government officials and public buildings, ending a chance of the CGT and Provisional Government reaching an agreement. An attempt of the government to use demobilized soldiers to restore order ends in many soldiers joining the revolutionaries. France in engulfed in a short but bloody war, ending in a victory for the revolutionaries.The CGT starts with the difficult task of changing the French Republic into the Union of the Communes of France.


The remains of the French establishment flee to Algiers, setting up a government-in-exile, led by Maréchal Foch.

Summer-Fall: The White generals agree to coordinate their efforts with Kerensky’s provisional government to fight the Red Army at the Congress of Omsk. Trotsky decides to focus his efforts on defending Moscow, allowing the White armies to retake St. Petersburg.

September-October: Allied setbacks would lead to Allenby, and most of his troops, being redeployed to France. Allenby’s successor, Sir William Marshall, is forced to slowly retreat because of a lack of man.
The retreat of the French army leads to the positions of the BEF becoming indefensible. Most of the British forces were evacuated at Dieppe in June, leaving the French on their own. At this point the French army, battered, war-weary and with little hope of victory was in open rebellion. With a second mutiny, a general uprising of the working classes imminent, the fall of Paris a certainty and Marseilles in German hands, the French government capitulated on the 4th of October, ending the war in Europe.

 

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Timeline (1920-1935): Rise of the Internationale

Timeline (1920-1935): Rise of the Internationale

1920:
The fall of France, Russia, Italy and its allies in the Balkans reduced the Entente to the British Empire, the Empire of Japan and the Portuguese Republic. While none of these countries was under direct German threat, none was able to pose a threat to Germany likewise. The battle between Germany and Britain continued for two more years at sea, with the Battle of Rockall on March 20, 1920, being the last great engagement, best known for the fact a torpedo launched from an airplane from the aerodrome-ship Argus managed to cripple the German battle cruiser SMS Würtemberg.
Peace was being made on harsh terms with all former Entente nations:
- Serbia to cede Macedonia to Bulgaria and accept Austria-Hungary as its nominal overlord. Montenegro was annexed by Austria outright. (The Serbian King retreated to exile)
- Greece to cede Greek Macedonia and Salonika to Bulgaria, while it had to accept a German lease on Crete for as long as the Kaiser deemed necessary.
- Romania to cede Oltenia to Austria-Hungary and the port of Constanta to Bulgaria. The oilfields of Ploesti where leased to Germany. Romania was allowed to annex Moldova however.
- Italy was split apart in a number of weak republics, duchies and principalities, with some returning on the map of Europe for the first time since 1859 and 1870. The Kingdom of the Sicilies was ravaged by revolution soon afterwards and the Northern states united themselves as the Italian Federation, under the symbolic and spiritual leadership of the Pope. The Veneto was annexed by Austria outright. Libya became a kingdom under Ottoman protection while Germany’s last minute ally, the Ethiopian Empire was allowed to annex most of Somalia, mainly because neither Germany nor Austria had any interest in it.
- France to cede the French Congo, Madagascar and the French Pacific colonies, in addition to the occupation of parts of French Lorraine. The revolution prevented the ratification of the treaty, causing Germany to simply occupy these colonies.
- Belgium was changed into the Kingdom of Flanders-Wallonia, with the Kaisers son Adalbert becoming the new king. The Belgian Congo was given to Germany and Wallonia east of the Meuse, the location of most Belgian industry would be occupied as long as the German government deemed necessary. The Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg would become a constituent state of the German Empire.
- In the East the acquisitions of the Brest-Litovsk treaty where organized into a series of puppet states. The Baltics where united into the United Baltic Duchy, with Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg becoming its first Grand Duke. The Kaisers brother Heinrich became king Genrikh I of White Ruthenia (Belarus). Poland and Finland became independent states under German protection, with the Kaisers brother-in-law Friedrich-Karl von Hessen becoming king of Finland. Lithuania became independent with Wilhelm von Urach, Duke of Urach, becoming King Mindaugas. The Austrians where allowed to put Archduke Wilhelm Franz on the Ukranian throne in exchange for guarantees about Ukranians rich supplies of coals and grain.

January-December: The threat of becoming surrounded by syndicalist states, as well as the presence of Makhno’s Black Army in Eastern Ukraine makes Germany intervene in the Russian Civil War. General Wilhelm Groener is ordered to support the White generals in their fight. Groener manages to drive Makhno out of the Ukraine, but fails to rally the Cossacks in support of the Kerensky government. The Cossacks would soon form their own state, just as Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Alash Orda and Turkestan would secede. Georgia quickly fell to the so called Menshevist remnants in the Caucasus.

November: Republican candidate Leonard Wood defeats his democratic opponent William McAdoo, replacing president Woodrow Wilson. Wilsons deteriorating heath prevented him from running for another term.
Wood would become known for his strong crackdown on socialism and syndicalism alike and a policy of strict isolationism, jailing Eugene V. Debs, but was unable to prevent the Zapatista from gaining control in Mexico.

1921:
The war between the Entente and the Central Powers dragged on in 1920 and 1921, with the Royal Navy and Hochseeflotte occasionally butting heads and Central troops trying to break through the British lines at the Suez channel. With no chance of either side breaking the stalemate, and with Russia, France and Southern Italy engulfed by revolution, General Ludendorff proposed a ‘Peace with Honor’ to the Entente. The remaining Entente members would acknowledge the peace treaties between Germany and the former Entente members and return Germany’s colonies in exchange a status-quo peace. The peace itself was signed on November 11th 1921, ending the Weltkrieg after seven long years.

February-September: The combined forces of Marshall Denikin and Groeners expeditionary corps defeat the forces of Trotsky and Tukhachevsky at Tsaritsyn on the 21th of February after weeks of bitter street fighting. With the road to Moscow open, Baron Wrangel takes the city in September. Trotsky uses the confusion to flee the country, but the civil war is at an end.

1922:

January 1: after the Easter Uprising in 1916 and five years of war, a peace treaty is concluded between UK and Irish rebels that led to the creation of a new Free Irish State on Jan. 1 1922. Negotiations with German ambassador Franz von Papen convinced Michael Collins to offer the crown of King of Ireland to Prince Joachim, but German delays and reluctance to let the Prince depart to Ireland led to the declaration of the Republic in October. Marshall Collins becomes the head of the Irish state. The whole affair was deeply embarrassing to the Ludendorff/Hindenburg junta and was quickly swept under the carpet.

August: South Rhodesia joins South Africa, nervous of potential German expansionism in its region.


1923:
Having been thrown into depression after his short reign as King of Ireland and his unhappy marriage, Prince Joachim attempted suicide. The scandal is initially covered but leads to speculation.

1924:
November: President Wood gets reelected, defeating his democrat opponent Albert Smith.

December: Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak attempts to coup the Russian government but fails to secure the vital support of Denikin and Wrangel. He quickly flees to Vladivostock, where the Japanese set him up as president of Transamur.




December: The German press, dominated by DVP supporter Alfred Hugenberg, finds out the truth behind Prince Joachims suicide attempt and accuses Ludendorff of mishandling the Irish crisis. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, now the leader of the DVP, manages to gain the Kaisers support to force de facto dictator Erich Ludendorff to step down. Tirpitz then replaces feeble Michaelis as chancellor. The old and respectable Field Marshall Hindenburg was made minister of war in Tirpitz cabinet, suggesting some kind of behind-the-screen dealings between Tirpitz, Hindenburg and the Kaiser.

1925:
Spring: A coalminers strike in Wales quickly escalates into a general strike when the government threatens to send in the army. The strike was quickly followed by a mutiny of parts of the navy and ended with the king and the government fleeing to Canada. A coalition of syndicalists, Labour, Welsh and Scottish nationalists and suffragettes take over the government under the charismatic John McLean.



The fall of Britain itself lead to a massive land-grab by many of its longtime enemies. Gibraltar finally fell into Spanish hands once again, while Argentina quickly seized the Falklands, Egypt gained sole authority over the Sudan and the Ottoman Empire regained control over Cyprus. The German Empire managed to secure most of the British African Empire as well as the strategic colonies of Malta, Suez, Aden, Ceylon, the Strait Colonies, Brunei and Sarawak.


Australia and New Zealand seize the British part of New Guinea and Fiji. Later in the year both nations would form the Australasian Confederation for mutual protection.


India, once the pearl in the British crown breaks down into three new states. The Princes of Kashmir and the Punjab unite with the remnants of the Raj to create British friendly Delhi while a revolt in Bengal leads to the establishment of a syndicalist state there. The Princes of the South form their own, independent Princely Federation. Burma becomes an independent kingdom once again.


South Africa manages to secure the Bechuana Protectorate and Nyassaland. Tension between pro-Entente Smuts and pro-republic Hertzog grows.


The only thing left for Canada and the Royal Navies Caribbean squadron is to secure the British colonies in the region. These colonies, together with the former French colonies in the region would form the Caribbean Federation.


In Canada the senate is replaced by a House of Lords, members of the British aristocracy who fled to Canada.


Fall: Xu Shichang manages to become president of the divided Chinese Republic. In an effort to restore order, Xu asks the German Empire to help him restore order in China. In exchange he would accept the restoration of Pu Yi to the Chinese throne. The Guominjun accuses Xu of betraying the Republican principles of Sun Yat-Sen and declares war on him.


Winter: In order to manage its many Imperial possessions in Africa,Germany creates the Freistaat Mittelafrika after the model of the British Raj. Field Marshal Von Lettow-Vorbeck becomes its first Stadthalter.

1925-1927:
Second Arab Revolt: Ottoman Empire faces against Arab irredentist movements in Mesopotamia, which ends with German intervention.

1926:

April: Governor Hans von Seeckt of German Indochina is ordered to intervene in the civil war in support of Xu. Within six months Germany manages to defeat the Guominjun and secure most major centers of industry and population. The opponents of the government retreat to the remote west, Yunnan or Manchuria Pu Yi is restored as Emperor, but has to accept a conglomerate of German enterprises, known as the AOG (Algemeiner Ostasien GmbH) taking economic control of the industrial south. Hans von Seeckt would become its first governor-general. In order to safeguard the economic interests of other major powers all the port cities are united as the Legation Cities and are put under joint control.
Japan intervenes too in support of Zhang Zuolin, but isn't willing to risk conflict with Germany. The Fengtian Republic is set up in Manchuria.

1927:
March: President Wood dies of a malignant brain tumor. His vice president Irvine Lenroot becomes the next president.

May: The renegotiation of the Ausgleich between Austria and Hungary nearly leads to a split up of the Dual Monarchy. Only German intervention prevents the split. The final outcome is a federalization of the Empire, with Bohemia, Galicia-Lodomera, Croatia and Bosnia all gaining limited home-rule. In the confusion Serbia manages to break out of the Austrian sphere of influence.

Ukraine, which was part of the Austrian sphere of influence, becomes part of Mitteleuropa, as ’reward’ for Germany’s mediation.

August: Revolts sweep through Guatemala, toppling the government. British Honduras quickly falls to revolution too, joining the new syndicalist state.

1928:
November: Republican Herbert Hoover defeats New York governor Al Smith.
December: The Central American revolt spreads to El Salvador. Guatemala and El Salvador merge to form the Union of Centroamerican Republics.

1929:

April: The inability of the Entente nations to pay off their enormous debts and Germany’s heavy protectionism have hurt the American economy for years but in 1929 the New York stock exchange finally collapses, sending America into the Great Depression. The economic crisis remains limited to the American continent, with the European economies now oriented on the Berlin stock exchange.


July: The Iron Guard party coups the Romanian government, installing Corneliu Codreanu as the Conductare.

1930:
Grand Admiral Afred von Tirpitz dies on the 6th of March. He is replaced by Fieldmarshall Oskar von Hutier, the man finalizing the encirclement of Paris during the Weltkrieg. He was the most successful and popular chancellor in German history behind Otto von Bismarck himself.

1931:
In a reaction to the growing threat of Centroamerica, Nicaragua and Costa Rica unite to form the United Provinces of Central America.

1932:

November: Herbert Hoover narrowly defeats Franklin D. Roosevelt, mainly because the once Solid South voted for Gerald K. Smith, the candidate put forward by popular Louisiana governor Huey Long and his American First movement. The syndicalists, led by Alexander Berkman and John ‘Jack’ Reed manage to win the state of New York.

December: In South Africa Barry Hertzog wins the elections and declares South Africa to be a republic. South Africa leaves the Entente.

1933:
March: Chancellor Von Hutier dies and is replaced by Franz von Papen.

May: A series of border skirmishes between Paraguay and Bolivia leads to Argentina and Bolivia go to war over the alleged Bolivian attempts to annex Paraguay.

1934:

Argentina manages to drive the Bolivians out of the disputed Gran Chaco region. Brazil decides to intervene on Bolivia’s behalf, sparking off the Great South American War. Uruguay is quickly overrun by Brazilian forces, having the misfortune to be in the way. The march towards the River Plate ended in trench warfare.

1935:
April: Franklin D. Roosevelt is assassinated on the 12th of April by a radical American Firster.


July: Argentinian troops, fresh from defeating Bolivia counterattack the Brazilian lines along the River Plate. The tired Brazilian forces break and Brazil quickly seeks terms. Paraguay and Uruguay join Argentina in the newly created Federation of La Plata.

 

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Timeline (1936-1945): The Spread of Syndicalism

Timeline (1936-1945): The Spread of Syndicalism

1936:

January-July: East Turkestan War: An alliance between Mongolia and the Kingdom of Tibet fought against the Warlords of Xibei San Ma. The war ended with the partitioning of Ma territory between the two countries.

November: The Brazillian government collapses due to a worker’s revolution. A new Syndicalist Government takes power in Brazil, where in Bolivia, it too suffers a violent revolution that led to the creation of a separate Socialist state.

Meanwhile in a four way Presidential Election, Huey Long becomes the 32nd President of the United States. However, Jack Reed of the Combined Syndicates contests the results.

1937:
January: The Death of Pope Pius XI, which leads to Austria pushing Josef von Österreich-Toskana as King of the Italian Federation.

April: Vladimir I, King of White Ruthenia (Belarus) was assassination when a huge explosion destroyed the National Theatre in Minsk. Sigusmund, his younger brother, succeeds him as King.

1937-1939:

American Civil War: Unpopular support across the country over Long’s policies as well as MacArthur launching a coup attempt against Long led to several states seceding from the Union. The Combineds Syndicates, taking control of the Great Lakes and spreading control across the Mid-Atlantic, as well as the American United States, which held sway over the South declared war on the federal government. California also seceded, taking Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada with them. However the new Pacific States remained neutral in the conflict.

Canada tried to control of New England to prevent the spread of Syndicalism, but the CSA managed to take control before Canada made its move.

The war ended with mediation from both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Canada, and all three nations recognized their gain made.

First Tuareg Revolt: The French Republic fights the Tuareg Confederation and the Republic of Guinea. First Tuareg War comes to an end with the Rebels reincorporated into French Africa.

The Ausglich War: A 4 way war between the Austrian Empire and its former constituent states, the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Croatia is fought over the future of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Croatia annexed the Duchy of Bosnia into its territory, whilst the state of Galicia-Lodomeria was given to the Kingdom of Poland. With German assistance, Austria and the warring nations agreed to the Augslich of 1867, re-creating Austria-Hungary.


The Belgrade Pact is formed between the Kingdom of Greece, the Kingdom of Serbia and the Fascist Romanian Government in an attempt to defeat its common enemies, being Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire.


1937-1940:

Second Spanish Civil War begins: Spanish Royalists fight against pro-Catholic Carlist movement and pro-Syndicalist CNT-FAI. The Spanish Royalist government defeats the Carlists in December, whilst the war with the CNT continued until it ends in a cease-fire armistice, with CNT-FAI largely retaining its possessions.

1939:

Central Asian War: The Republic of Alash Orda is confronted by the Islamic Republic of Turkestan to the South, the Mongol Khanate to the West (Turkestan trying to unite the two nations as one Caliphate with Mongol help) and the Don-Kuban Union to the east (looking to expand on their territory). The Russian Empire later that year manipulates the remnants of Alash Orda into joining Russia, thus the country was now divided between Russia and Turkestan.

After a vote in Parliament, the Russian Empire was reestablished as a Constitutional Monarchy with Kyril, the Grand Duke of Russia becoming the new Tsar.

1940:
Chile, who was worried about Brazil and Bolivia’s threats against Chile’s sovereignty, accepted the proposal to join the La Plata Federation, thus bringing all of Southern South America under one nation.

Korea, an area under Japanese control, was allowed Independence as part of a Japanese Commonwealth, with the Japanese Emperor recognized as its head of state. A similar precedent done with the Fentingen Republic, the Commonwealth of Transamur and the Commonwealth of the Philippines after the latter fell into Japan’s Sphere of Influence after the American Civil War.

Iceland gains independence from Denmark, and falls under Canada’s Sphere of Influence, despite not being a member of the Entente.

1940-1951:

American United State Civil War: Despite the successful peace conference in February 1940, North America could not live in peace for long. In the South, tensions were on the rise between supporters of Huey Long and his opponents. Part of the population and political leadership was not very fond of the regime's domestic policy. Traditional Southern politicians, who supported Long before and during the war because of his fight for the Southern cause, accused Huey Long and his supporters for ruining traditional Southern rights with his limitations on free market, freedom of small business, and most important of all, abolition of state system. Traditional Dixiecrats claimed that South always fought for state's rights, but Huey Long had abolished them and established a Unitarian system.

The American Union State, dominated by massive corporations and with the big government deciding how the wealth should be shared, was seen by Dixiecrats and Neo-Confederates as completely against Southern tradition. The regime was very harsh: Many political opponents were arrested or exiled. This forced opposition to act fast before being exterminated by Long and his minions. Long's opponents in the AUS administration, military and security forces accepted call of opposition and rose against the regime.

Huey Long was glad to keep his Minutemen intact and under his influence. Together with Minutemen and other loyal forces he managed to crush most of the conspirators in short, but brutal fighting, that took place all across the country. Rebels managed to take control only in Texas, where opposition against Long was always strong.

The rebel forces had large amount of heavy weapons, brought in by part of the military which revolted against Long's regime, and managed to change Texas into a fortress. Long's forces had suffered heavy losses when destroying rebellion, and plans for invasion of Texas were terminated. American Union State still considers Texas as legal part of its territory, but doesn’t try to incorporate it by force due to the strong army that defends Texas.

Texas which became independent after rebellion in 1951 and claims to be legal heir to the Confederate States of America and even claims that entire Old South must be liberated one day. Although consisting only of the territory of the former US state of Texas, this country never really used name Texas. It's official name, chosen after the rebellion, was the Southern Commonwealth.

1942:
Peru-Bolivian Unification: The Syndicalist Government of Bolivia is overthrown in a Peruvian-sponsored coup. The new Bolivian government agrees to a unification with Peru, reforming the Peru-Bolivian Commonwealth.

1943:
German Intervention in Panama: Syndicalist Revolutions in Panama sparked a crisis for many of the world’s nations. Refusing to lose access to the Panama Canal to all but the Syndicalist states, Germany launched four interventions to prop up the Panamanian government between 1943 and 1958.

 

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Timeline (1946-1963): The Pacific War and Decolonization

Timeline (1946-1963): The Pacific War and Decolonization

1947-1950:

Great Pacific War: Mitteleuropa fights the Tokyo Pact in the first full scale war between alliances since the Weltkrieg (1914-1921). On December 3, the Japanese Imperial Navy suddenly launched a surprise attack on the German fleet based in Singapore. Aircraft from nine Japanese aircraft carriers struck the German ships in harbor, sinking five German battleships including the SMS Amerika, the largest battleship of German Asiatic fleet, thus beginning three years of bitter war between the two great powers. Germans quickly sent the strong parts of other fleets to reinforce thei Asiatic fleet. It was a large handicap for Germany not to start larger construction of aircraft carriers several years before, a consequence of German traditionalist views on a military that saw use of battleships and heavy cruisers as the best option for naval warfare. On the other hand, Japan experimented with new naval technology since the end of the Weltkrieg.

To preserve stability in Europe and Africa, Germany decided not to drag the non-Asian members of Mitteleuropa into war. Germany was aided by the Princenly Federation, the AlgOstAsien GmbH and the Qing Empire. Japanese Empire was assisted by all members of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: Transamur, Korea, Philippines and Fengtien Republic. The first part of the war was fought on the sea. After the destruction of their most advanced carrier, SMS Graf Zeppelin, and several capital ships in Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 1948), Germans knew they can't win the war on the sea and the German Pacific islands quickly fell into Japanese hands one after another. In end of 1948 Germans concentrated on the war in China. Beijing was twice captured by the Japanese and then subsequently liberated by Qing troops, commanded by German general Alexander von Falkenhausen (working in China as Chief Inspector of Imperial Chinese Army and as Chairman of AlgOstAsien GmbH Board of Directors).

None of the sides could achieve air superiority over China. Germans compensated for their unsuccessful naval campaign with their air campaign in the skies over China. Germany managed to counter the IJAAF by changing China into one “big unsinkable carrier”. The Luftwaffe payed a high price to prevent Japanese from dominating the skies over China, but it was not alone. Although not all members of Mitteleuropa being in the war against Japan, many of European nations sent unofficial aid. Many Austro-Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian pilots flew in their fighters under emblem of Luftwaffe. In 1948, Luftwaffe started with limited operational use of the Messerschmitt Me 262, first jet-powered fighter aircraft. This aircraft was not produced in big numbers due to lack of testing and many unsolved technical problems. Thus, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 stayed most reliable German fighter until the end of the war.

Frustrated by lack of success on continent and in desperate need of resources to fed war industry, Japan invaded Dutch Indonesia in 1949, pushing Netherlands closer into German bloc. Weak colonial troops of Holland were not able to stop Japanese from seizing entire Indonesia soon. However, entire Royal Netherlands Air Force was soon taking part in dogfights over China. Japanese also attempted to land in Southern China and Indochina, but without success, thanks to land forces of the Princenly Federation which were shipped to Southern China and German Indochina to defend those areas against Japanese invasion. Germans also managed to keep Singapure in their hands despite heavy Japanese air and naval bombardment. Japanese were pressing on Siam to enter the war, but Siam was paralyzed by peasant uprisings, sponsored by Bengal, what was of great fortune for Germans.

In middle of 1950, it was more than clear this war is not going anywhere. Japanese occupied all German Pacific possessions, but were unsuccessful on Chinese mainland. The Kriegsmarine was no match for IJN in direct combat, but Germans, hitting their ships in small Chinese ports, still waged irritating raids on less defended Japanese naval units and convoys. Germany also started with massive use of submarines in Pacific. But Germans didn't how long can they still bear burden of war in Asia. German economy, just getting back on feet after Market Crash in 1936, was in downfall again. Trade routes with Asia were very limited and this was great blow to German economy. On September 3, 1950, a peace treaty was signed in Shanghai, only confirming gains and losses of the war. Japanese gained all German Pacific islands including German New Guinea and Dutch Indonesia. However, Germans were allowed to keep North Borneo, since Germans successfully defended this possession trough entire war, despite Japanese occupation of entire Indonesia. Japanese established the Indonesian Confederation, a new client state in the lands of former Dutch Indonesia and German New Guinea.

1948-1979:
Insurgency in the Philippines: Several Low-Level Syndicalist movements occur in the Philippines between the pro-Japanese Philippine government and the local Syndicalists. Despite two interventions by the Empire of Japan, the Philippines remained unstable until a military junta came to power in 1987. It wouldn’t be until 2003 that the country transitions to a democracy.

1949:
April-June: The Albanian War, the Belgrade Pact (Serbia, Greece and Iron Guard Romania), originally established to combat Bulgaria fought against the former Ottoman tributary Kingdom of Albania. The war ends with Serbia and Greece partitioning Albania between the two.

In the Khartoum accords of 1949, the nation of South Africa began the process of self determination for two of its territories, the Republic of Rhodesia (from South Africa) and the Republic of Nyasaland (from Mittelafrika)

1949-1950:

The Winter War: The Winter War is fought between the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Finland. The war ends with Karelia being given to the Russian Empire.

1949-1953:
United Provinces Civil War: A Civil War is fought between Unionists and Costa Rican Seperatists. The United Provines manage to barely survive from splintering apart, largely thanks to nation of Honduras, which agreed to join the Union in 1951.

1950:
The British Commonwealth, a group of independent nations that were members of the old British Empire is created, following the Japanese example. The Commonwealth consists of Canada, the Caribbean Federation and Australasia, all three of which recognizes the monarch, at the time Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State.

1951:

The Changsha Rebellion: The Allgemeine Ostasiatische Gesellschaft (Shortened to AOG) faced a revolution in Central China against Chinese Republicans. After a few months of losing battles and the destruction of the Yunnan Clique, the AOG turned to Germany for help. As a result of the German-Japanese War. Germany and Japan mediated the terms, the AOG would acquire its German possessions in Indochina and Singapore, and Republican China would be allowed to establish a government in the territories they acquired in the rebellion.

A coup d’tat led to the restoration of the Serbian Monarchy. Petar II claims the throne as King of Serbia.

Honduras is admitted to the United Provinces as a member state to ensure protection from the Centroamerican Union.

1952:
In a positive vote, Germany allows the Kingdom of Morocco, the Indochinese Empire (from the German East Asia Company) and the Republic of Crete to become independent.

1956:
The Federation of Iberian Anarchists, the Spanish Syndicalist State was overthrown in a French/British-supported coup when it was realized that the Anarchists was driving the state to a civil war.

1957-1959:

Nationalist France becomes embroiled in the Second Tuareg Revolt. The conflict led to the introduction of a more liberal Fifth French Republic.

The Don-Kuban pipeline, connecting the oil reserves in Azerbaijan to Mitteleuropan territories was built in this time period.

1960:
Don-Kuban Union joins Mitteleuropa as a member state.

1962:
The Republic of Delhi, is renamed the Republic of India to declare itself as the legitimate successor to all of the Indian realms.

 

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Timeline (1964-2002): Technological Evolution

Timeline (1964-2002): Technological Evolution



1964:

The Russian Empire builds the first mobile suit, a hybrid tank model codenamed “Shagohod”, pioneering the use of armored walking and treaded weapons in military combat.

1965-1968:
South Thailand Insurgency: The Pattani Region in Southern Thailand is subjected to a Syndicalist Islamic Rebellion which is ruthlessly crushed by royalist forces after 3 years of concentrated conflict.

1969:
The Kingdom of Egypt buys the Suez Canal from Germany, on agreement that the Canal is closed to all enemies of the German Empire.

The German Empire succeeds in putting a man to space, thus starting an ultra-intensive space race between Canada, Germany, the French Commune and Japan.



1970:
January-May: Great Arab Revolt: Ottoman Empire fights against Arab Nationalists both in Libya and in Mesopotamia. While the Ottomans succeeded in quelling the rebellion in Mesopotamia, Egypt’s refusal to allow troops and German mediation led to the recognition of a Kingdom of Libya free from Ottoman influence.

February: The Egyptian Revolution leads to the reduction of the King to a puppet as Egypt is transformed into a Parliamentary Monarchy.

1971:

Tamil Rebellion: A Rebellion in German Ceylon is launched with support from Bengal. The rebellion fails and its members jailed or executed.


Siam joins the Tokyo Pact as a fully fledged member, becoming the first Tokyo Pact member to not be a part of the Japanese Commonwealth

The Indochinse Empire was given full independence by Germany as a Mitteleuropa member. The Empire is ruled by the descendents of the Dai Nam Monarchy.

1973:
The Eastern European Riots: Riots in Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine led to the reestablishment of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, while Ukraine established an equal division of powers between the monarch and Parliament.

Venezuelan Revolution: Despite the neutrality that Venezuela tried to maintain, the Revolutionary Movement of the Bolivarian Republic, successfully launched a revolution against the government, and established a Syndicalist State.

1974:
The Dutch Syndicalist Coup: Dutch Intellegence Agencies succeeded in preventing a pro-Syndicalist coup d’état.

1974-1978:

Centroamerican Civil War: The Centroamerican Government fights a Civil War between the Syndicalist Government and right wing Conservative Democrats. Once again, with Mexican support, the government triumphed over its adversaries and continued Syndicalist dominance over Central America.

Central American War: The United Provinces begins a conflict between the government in San Jose with separatists in Honduras and Nicaragua. The war ends with a peace accord moving the capital to Managua in Nicaragua province.


1975:
The United States and France jointly claim to successfully put a man on the moon. Japan meanwhile creates a space station, intent on using the knowledge gained to create a colony in space.


1978:
Persian Islamic Revolution: The Persian Empire is embroiled against the House of Khomeini, a noble house seeking to establish the Islamic Republic of Persia. The Persian Empire survives this by executing thousands of suspected Revolutionaries, including Ahmad Khomeini, who led the rebellion.

1979:

Japan builds the first Gundam, a more heavily armed and armored, bipedal mobile suit, thus establish the next branch in mobile suit technology.

1980-1983:
The Civil Agitation: National France is embroiled in a Great Arab Revolt in Northern Africa, which ends with greater liberties to the Arab population and amendments to the 1959 French Constitution.


1984-1992:

The Scramble for Space: Each alliance competes with one another to develop and put colonies in space. The Commune of France was the first, developing the colony, Internationale in 1984. The following years saw various nations, from Japan and Canada, to Greece and Egypt build space colonies that displays their own projection into Space.



1997:
Pacifican-American War: The Pacific States fought the United States over who should succeed in a united government. Despite Pacifican attempts to defeat the Americans, they were repulsed by superior American firepower and tenacious defense. In the end, the Pacificans abandoned the offensive and announced a peace deal, continuing the status quo. It was the first major conflict involving Gundams in active battle.

 

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Major Alliances: The Entente Cordiale

The Entente

The Entente Cordiale (short for Cordial Understanding) was created in 1904 as a political alliance between France (the French Third Republic) and Great Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). The inclusion of the Russian Empire in 1907 turned the alliance into a Tripartite Pact of defense.

The Entente, originally established to counter the dominance of the German Empire in international politics, culminated in the Weltkrieg, which pitted the British, Russian and French against Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Central Powers. Even with the support of other minor nations such as Portugal, Japan and Romania. But as Russia fell to revolution and civil war in 1917 and France fell to the Syndicalists in 1919, the Entente, reduced to just Britain, Portugal and Japan, signed the "Peace with Honor" thus ending the Weltkrieg with their territorial possessions mostly intact. The fall of Great Britain to the Syndicalists left the Entente shattered.

The modern Entente formed in 1922 as a pact between the Dominion of Canada, consisting of the Royal Family and emigres from the Kingdom of Great Britain, the remnants of the former British Dominions (The Dominion of Delhi, the Caribbean Federation, the Australasian Federation and South Africa) and the French National Republic (known simply as National France). South Africa would abandoned the Entente and the British Commonwealth when it declared itself a republic in 1925.

Since then, the Entente fought to curb Syndicalism in it's remaining dominions as well as play a preventative role in the spread of Syndicalism. Through it, they've gained new allies, including Portugal, South Africa (who rejoined in 1964), Colombia and the remnant United States.

Member States:

Leader: The Kingdom of Canada
Capital: Ottawa

Australasian Federation
Capital: Canberra

Caribbean Federation
Capital: Saint John's (Executive) (ITTL Antigua-Barbuda) and Georgetown (Guyana) (Judicial)

Republic of India
Capital: New Delhi

French National Republic:
Capital: Algiers

Republic of Liberia:
Capital: Monrovia

Republic of South Africa:
Capital: Pretoria, Orange Free State

Republic of Gran Colombia:
Capital: Bogota

Republic of Portugal:
Capital: Lisbon

Republic of Rhodesia:
Capital: Salisbury (ITTL Zimbabwe)

Republic of Nyasaland:
Capital: Zomba (ITTL Malawi)

Sultanate of Oman:
Capital: Muscat

Dominion of Hawaii:
Capital: Honolulu

Republic of Cuba:
Capital: Havana

Republic of Puerto Rico
Capital: San Juan

Mobile Suits:
CR-MS077 Knight
Armament:
1x Beam Rifle, 60-mm, Stored on hip, hand carried in use
1x Missile Launcher, Stored on and launched from Shoulder or,
1x Rocket Launcher, 300-mm, Stored on shoulder, hand carried in use

CR-MS083 Lancelot
Armament:
1x Sniper Rifle, 127-mm Stored on Back, hand carried in use
1x Electronic Countermeasure Pod Dispenser, built in frame's torso.

CR-MS085 Gawain Alpha
Armament:
1x Ion Beam Pistol, 50-mm, Stored on Hip, hand carried in use
1x Bazooka, 150-mm, Stored on Back, shoulder-carried in use

CR-MS085P Gawain Delta
Armament:
1x Ion Beam Pistol, 50-mm, Stored on Hip, hand carried in use
1x Bazooka, 250-mm, Stored on back, shoulder-carried in use

CR-MS085M Gawain Lambda
Armament:
1x Ion Beam Pistol, 50-mm, Stored on Hip, hand carried in use
1x Heavy Machine Gun, 130-mm, Stored on Back, hand carried in use

CR-MS091 Charlemagne
Armament:
2x Buster Cannon, attached to Arms

CR-MS098 Prercival
Armament:
1x Grenade Launcher, 400-mm Mounted on Shoulder or,
1x Napalm Howitzer, 81-mm Mounted on Shoulder

CR-MS106 Arthuria
Armament:
1x Heavy Beam Saber, mounted on hip, hand-carried in use and,
1x Shield, stored on back, hand carried in use or,
1x Bazooka, 250-mm, stored on back, hand carried in use

CR-MS107 Avalon
Armament:
1x Large Missile Launcher, mounted on shoulder
1x Sub-Machine Gun, mounted on hip, hand carried in use

 

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Major Alliances: The Pax Mitteleuropa Pact

Mitteleuropa


The Pax Mitteleuropa pact (Central European Peace) was the successor to the Triple Alliance/Central Powers that fought in the Weltkrieg. Created in 1928 following the collapse of Austria-Hungary. It's original members were states originally a part of the Russian Empire before the Brest-Livtosk Treaty such as White Ruthenia, Ukraine and Flanders-Wallonia, hence the original name.

Over time, more members were inducted to the alliance. The first being the Qing Empire in 1945, but other non-European members included the Princely Federation, Ethiopia, Mittelafrika and the German East Asian Company.

Mitteleuropa, led by world superpower Germany, is the largest alliance in the world, spreading it's influence across every corner in the world, even despite having no direct members in the Western Hemisphere. But a shadow looms over the alliance, for cracks in the armor may lead to its downfall...

Member States:

Leader: German Empire
Capital: Berlin

Allgemeine Ostasiatische Gesellschaft (AOG)
Capital: Singapore

Free State of Mittelafrika
Capital: Dar es Sallam

Kingdom of Flanders-Wallonia
Capital: Brussels

Kingdom of the Netherlands
Capital: Amsterdam

Kingdom of Morocco
Capital: Rabat

Kingdom of White Ruthenia
Capital: Minsk

Kingdom of Ukraine
Capital: Kiev

Kingdom of Spain
Capital: Madrid

Kingdom of Finland
Capital: Helsinki

Kingdom of Bulgaria
Capital: Sofia

Kingdom of Poland
Capital: Warsaw

Kingdom of Lithuania
Capital: Vilnius

Kingdom of Denmark
Capital: Copenhagen

Kingdom of Sweden
Capital: Stockholm

Austro-Hungarian Empire
Capital: Vienna

Ottoman Empire
Capital: Constantinople

Autonomus State of Crete
Capital: Iraklion

Don-Kuban Union
Capital: Krasnodar

Italian Federation
Capital: Rome

Ethiopian Empire
Capital: Addis Ababa

Emirate of Tripolitania
Capital: Tripoli

Kingdom of Yemen
Capital: Aden

Indochinese Empire
Capital: Hanoi

Qing Empire
Capital: Peking (ITTL Beijing)

Kuomintang Chinese Republic
Capital: Changsha

United Principalities of India
Capital: Hyderabad

Mobile Suits:

MEMS-88 Strauss
Armament:
1x 77-mm Assault Rifle, stored on back, hand-carried in use

MEMS-88H Fliegen Straussen
Armament:
1x 65-mm Assault Rifle Carbine, stored on back, hand-carried in use

MEMS-88M Rakete Straussen
Armament:
1x 65-mm Assault Rifle Carbine, stored on hip, hand-carried in use
1x 3-barreled Missile Launcher, mounted on shoulder

MEMS-109 Eule
Armament:
1x 77-mm Assault Rifle, stored on back, hand-carried in use
1x Electronic Counter Measure Pod, built in torso

MEMS-109E Rakete Eulen
Armament:
1x 65-mm Assault Rifle Carbine, stored on hip, hand carried in use
1x 2-barrel Rocket Launcher, mounted on shoulder
1x Electronic Counter Measure Pod, built in torso

MEMS-110 Schlaeger
Armament:
1x Ion Pulse Rifle, stored on hip, hand carried in use
1x Missile Launcher, mounted on shoulder or,
1x Beam Cannon, mounted on shoulder

MEMS-111 Sternenlicht
Armament:
1x Railgun, mounted on arm

MEMS-113 Termite
Armament:
1x 90-mm Sub-Machine Gun, stored on hip, hand carried in use or
1x Beam Rifle, 105-mm, stored on hip, hand carried in use

MEMS-115 Floh
Armament:
1x Beam Rifle, 105-mm stored on hip, hand carried in use

 

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Major Alliances: Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

The Tokyo Pact

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is the most powerful regional alliance in the world, and is considered to be one of the major alliances in the world.

Formed in 1927 following a pact by Prime Minister of Japan, and the Presidents of the Fengtien Republic and Transamur, the Tokyo Pact grew to be one of the major rivals for influence against Mitteleuropa.

Japan over the course of the thirties and fourties launched a strategy of diplomacy, finding nations wanted to be freed from Western influence. The rivalry between Germany and Japan culminated in the Pacific War that laid the foundations of the sphere's of influence between the two empires for the remainder of the decade.

The Modern Tokyo Pact consist of it's core members, Japan and it's Commonwealth states in Korea and Formosa, as well other nations in East and Southeast Asia.

Member Nations:

Leader: The Empire of Japan
Capital: Tokyo

Korean Empire
Capital: Seoul (ITTL South Korea)

Fengtien Republic
Capital: Harbin (ITTL China)

Transamur Republic
Capital: Vladivostok (ITTL Russia)

Commonwealth of the Philippines
Capital: Manila

Indonesian Confederation
Capital: Jakarta

Kingdom of Siam
Capital: Bangkok

Republic of Formosa
Capital: Taipei (ITTL Taiwan)

Mobile Suits:

MS-029 Gurenge
Armament:
1x Flamethrower, fuel tank on back, mounted on both arms

MS-037 Zekuh
Armament:
1x Machine Gun, 56-mm stored in hip, hand-carried in use
1x 3-tube Rocket Launcher, mounted on back, arm-carried in use

MS-042 Amida
Armament:
1x Ion Pulse Rifle, stored on hip, hand-carried in use

MS-042H Amida Heavy
Armament:
1x Ion Pulse Cannon, stored on back, shoulder-carried in use

MS-047 Naira
Armament:
2x 250-mm Chain Gun, fire-linked, mounted on Arm
2x Missile Launcher, fire-linked, mounted on Shoulder

MS-052 Uesugi
Armament:
1x Beam Saber, mounted on hip, hand carried in use
1x 90-mm Sub-Machine Gun, mounted on hip, hand carried in use or,
1x 150-mm Beam Cannon, mounted on hip, hand carried in use

MS-055 Kaizen
Armament:
1x 400-mm Buster Cannon, mounted on shoulder
1x Ion Pulse Cannon, stored on hip, hand carried in use

MS-057 Shinden
1x Buster Rifle, stored on back, hand carried in use
1x Beam Saber, stored on hip, hand carried in use

 

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Major Alliances: The Syndicalist Internationale

The Interntionale

The Internationale is an alliance built on ideology, founded in 1922 originally as an alliance between the Commune of France and the Socialist Republic of Italy. Although politically, it also included other Syndicalist nations, the political and military alliance between the nations did not come to join with each other until the 1950's.

The Internationale was built upon the ideals of Syndicalism and it's variants, Social Radicalism and Totalism (Totalitarian Socialism) the latter invented by Benito Mussolini in 1935. Although the alliance included nations such as the Union of Britain and the Combined Syndicates of America, it also included rebel groups, including the African National Liberation Front in Africa and the Indochinese Liberation Front in Thailand and Indochina.

Their goal is to achieve Worldwide Syndicalism, that is, the downfall of the corrupt bourgeois who rule the non-syndicalist nations, and replace them with a nation dedicated to the services of the workers and the guild unions.

Member States:

Leader: Federaton of the Communes of France
Capital: Paris

Socialist Union of Britain
Capital: London

Socialist Republic of Italy
Capital: Naples

Spanish Republic
Capital: Barcelona

Union of Central American Socialist Republics
Capital: Guatemala City (ITTL Guatemala)

United Communes of Mexico
Capital: Mexico City

Combined Syndicates of America
Capital: Detroit (ITTL Michigan, United States)

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Capital: Caracas

Socialist Federal Republic of Brazil
Capital: Brasilla

People's Republic of Nepal
Capital: Kathmandu

Socialist Republic of Norway
Capital: Oslo

Bhartiya Commune
Capital: Calcutta

People's Republic of Burma
Capital: Yangoon

Mobile Suits:

MS-04A Republique
Armament:
2x 75-mm CIWS, mounted in head
1x 105-mm Beam Rifle Carbine, stored on hip, hand carried in use
1x Shield stored on back, hand carried in use

MS-05A Paris
Armament:
4x 75-mm CIWS, mounted in head
2x Beam Saber, stored on hip, hand carried in use
2x Missile Launcher, mounted on shoulder

MS-06A Guyenne
Armament:
2x 300-mm Gatling Gun, mounted on arm
2x 300-mm Chain Gun, mounted on back

MS-07 Toulouse
Armament:
1x Beam Rifle, stored on back, hand carried in use
1x Beam Pistol, stored on hip, hand carried in use or
1x Sub-Machine Gun, stored on hip, hand carried in use

 

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Minor Alliance: THe Belgrade Pact

The Belgrade Pact

The Belgrade Pact was formed in 1937 by Miluten Nedic, at the time head of the military junta which ruled Serbia before the return of the King. It was formed as a military alliance between Serbia, the Kingdom of Greece and the Romanian Iron Guard regime.

The Pact was created to sate thir jingoistic needs, with their goal being to regain territory lost to Bulgaria in the Weltkrieg, as well as the destruction the Bulgarian state. Many of their members have other jingoistic ideals they wish to achieve individually (Greeks in Thrace and Western Anatolia, Romanians in Transylvania, Serbs in Dalmatia, Croatia and Bosnia) and are thus seen as an adversary to Mitteleuropa.

Member States:

Leader: Kingdom of Serbia
Capital: Belgrade

Kingdom of Greece
Capital: Athens

Iron Guard Romania
Capital: Bucharest

Mobile Suits:

M-88 Pegaz
Armament:
1x 55-mm Machine Gun, stored on hip, hand carried in use or,
1x 400-mm Bazooka, stored on back, hand carried in use

M-90 Jednorog
Armament:
1x Beam Lance, stored on back, hand carried in use
1x 100-mm Magnum, stored on hip, hand carried in use

IAR-175 Vultur
Armament:
1x Beam Saber, stored on hip, hand carried in use
1x Beam Shotgun, stored on back, hand carried in use
1x 300-mm Chain Gun, mounted on back

IAR-191 Balaur
Armament:
1x Rail Gun, mounted on back

 

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Minor Alliance: Eastern Coalition

The ECON

The Eastern Coalition is the unification of two Islamic alliances, the Cairo Pact between the Kingdom of Egypt and the Hashemite Kingdom of Arabia and the Saadabad Pact between Persia, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.

The purpose of this grand alliance was twofold, first it was a defensive treaty against aggression from both Russia, Turkestan and the Delhi Republic (the precursor to modern India), and second it was to curtail the power of the resurging Ottoman Empire. The addition of Turkestan into the alliance, curtailed one such threat, while the mutual agreements between individual countries within the Belgrade Pact, ECON and the Entente was beneficial to this alliance in it's quest to end Turkish dominance.

Member States:

Leading Member: Islamic State of Persia
Capital: Tehran

Kingdom of Egypt
Capital: Cairo

Hashemite Kingdom of Arabia
Capital: Riyadh

Republic of Azerbaijan
Capital: Baku

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Capital: Kabul

Islamic Federal Republic of Turkestan
Capital: Samarkand

Mobile Suits:
CR-MS077 Knight
Armament:
1x Beam Rifle, 60-mm, Stored on hip, hand carried in use
1x Missile Launcher, Stored on and launched from Shoulder or,
1x Rocket Launcher, 300-mm, Stored on shoulder, hand carried in use

CR-MS083 Lancelot
Armament:
1x Sniper Rifle, 127-mm Stored on Back, hand carried in use
1x Electronic Countermeasure Pod Dispenser, built in frame's torso.

CR-MS098 Prercival
Armament:
1x Grenade Launcher, 400-mm Mounted on Shoulder or,
1x Napalm Howitzer, 81-mm Mounted on Shoulder

AOI-99 Kader
Armament:
1x Shotgun, stored on hip, hand carried in use
1x Linear Gun, mounted on right arm

AOI-03 Dorna
Armament:
2x 12-pod Missile Launchers, mounted on shoulders
2x 4-pod Missile Launchers, mounted on arms

 

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Minor Alliances: Platinean Pact

The Platinean Pact

The Platinean Pact, also known as the Buenos Aires-Lima Axis, is an alliance between the two nations established to curtail the power of Brazil. Both nations, despite having differing foreign policies, (La Plata in support of Mitteleuropa, Peru-Bolivia in support of the Entente) their common wishes to establish themselves as the dominant power in South America and to weaken or overthrow Brazil keeps this alliance together.

Member States:

Leading Member: The Federation of La Plata
Capital: Buenos Aires

Peru-Bolivian Confederation
Capital: Lima

Mobile Suits:
MEMS-109E Rakete Eulen
Armament:
1x 65-mm Assault Rifle Carbine, stored on hip, hand carried in use
1x 2-barrel Rocket Launcher, mounted on shoulder
1x Electronic Counter Measure Pod, built in torso

MEMS-110 Schlaeger
Armament:
1x Ion Pulse Rifle, stored on hip, hand carried in use
1x Missile Launcher, mounted on shoulder or,
1x Beam Cannon, mounted on shoulder

MEMS-111 Sternenlicht
Armament:
1x Railgun, mounted on arm

CR-MS085P Gawain Delta
Armament:
1x Ion Beam Pistol, 50-mm, Stored on Hip, hand carried in use
1x Bazooka, 250-mm, Stored on back, shoulder-carried in use

CR-MS083 Lancelot
Armament:
1x Sniper Rifle, 127-mm Stored on Back, hand carried in use
1x Electronic Countermeasure Pod Dispenser, built in frame's torso.

ARA-MS-207 Aquila
Armament:
2x 300-mm Gatling Gun, mounted on arm
2x 300-mm Chain Gun, mounted on back

 

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Minor Alliances: Shanghai Cooperation Organization

The SCO

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a pan-Chinese alliance created to overthrow all foreign-supported powers (Mitteleuropa's Qing Empire and Kuomintang Republic of China, Tokyo Pact's Fengtian Republic) and unite China for the Chinese. Of all the major alliances, this one is the most fragile, only united in the goal of removing foreign influence across China. Yet will be easy to turn against each other for the purpose of uniting China under their rule.

Member States:

Leading Member: Republic of China
Capital: Shanghai

Mongolian Empire
Capital: Ulan Bator

Shanqing Heavenly Kingdom
Capital: Urumqi

 

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Neutral Nations: The Russian Empire

The Russian Empire

The Russian Empire, known to few as the Romanov Restoration or the Second Russian Empire, is the largest and most powerful non-aligned nation in the world. The history of the Russian Empire traces back to the 1930's when Peter Wrangel, the then President of the Russian Federation, voted along with the majority to install the next in line, Cyril Vladimirovich, the Grand Duke of Russia and the Grandson of Emperor Alexander II, as the head of a new Constitutional Monarchy, using a modified variant of the 1918 Constitution.

Since then, Russia has played itself as an independent, the head of a de-facto Non-Aligned movement, which included Panama and Tibet. They also took part in a variety of conflicts, including the Kazakh War alongside the Islamic Republic of Turkestan against Alash Orda and against Finland in the Winter War. Their intended goal is to restore the Empire to some form of its pre-Weltkrieg strength.

Mobile Suits:

(to be added)

 

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Neutral Nations: Other

American United State
Capital: Miami

The American United State is an single-party unitarian corporate state, led solely by the America First Party. However, unlike the fascist Iron Guard Party in Romania, this party is more of a reactionary populist party. Originally created by Huey Long, the American United State leads a purely isolationist position. Rapid industrialization of the South, largely after the Dixiecrat revolution, led to a nation with a high standard of living, supported by big businesses and trust funds.

The corporate system allowed good cooperation between all social classes for a long time, but later it became very corrupted on local levels. Officials of the America First-Union Party use their privileges to gain many benefits and didn't care for moral traditional life that is promoted by the AUS government. The capital was moved from Atlanta to Miami in the 70's. Despite other parts of the country live in respect of traditional values and Christianity having great influence on society, Miami became vice city that is very attractive for wealthy officials of the regime and the people close to them. Mafia men who came from the Socialist Republic of Italy to fight for the AUS during the war and start new life in America have established strong Mafia families in Miami that are still very influential in Florida. Even some important TV preachers love to visit Miami for business or to enjoy in pleasant life. This angers the government, but the leadership can't afford to throw so many important people from the party.
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Pacific States of America
Capital: Tacoma

The Pacific States of America was one of the separatist states from the United States. Although it followed the same democratic philosophies as it's neighbor, the PSA was more centered towards the Pacific coast in general, and California in particular. Despite neighbors with Entente alliance members Canada and the U.S, as well as Syndicalist Mexico, the PSA is aligned towards the Tokyo Pact, mainly due to the American's claims on the Pacific.

Relations of the PSA with Canada are very complex. Canada and PSA are good trading partners and PSA often purchases weaponry in Canada, but many people in PSA including some influential politicians think that British Columbia, the western part of the Northwest Territories and Alaska should be part of PSA. Most weapons for Pacific States army are purchased in Russia and Japan (mostly vehicles like tanks, APCs, IFVs and Mobile Suits), a part of the weaponry is bought in Canada
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Southern Commonwealth
Capital: Dallas

The Southern Commonwealth is considered to be the successor to the Confederate States of America which was crushed during the First American Civil War. Created in 1951 after the Dixiecrat revolution, the Commonwealth holds on to the former U.S. state of Texas.

Southern Commonwealth is one of most democratic nations in North America. It maintains good relations with the Entente and normal relations with USA. The America Union State is still a great threat for the Southern Commonwealth and the Commune of Mexico is also seen as a great danger. The Commonwealth's weapons are imported from Canada and it's army is highly professional.
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Republic of Haiti
Capital: Port-au-Prince

The Republic of Haiti is known as the first independent Black Republic, having been made independent from the First French Empire in 1804, at the time of the Weltkrieg, Haiti had ben wracked by Presidential Dictators and coups, some of which culminated in the Parsley war against the Dominican Republic, ended by Caribbean force of arms.

The Haitian nation is one of the poorest in the world, and as a result is one of the few countries that do not operate mobile suits.
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Dominican Republic
Capital: Santo Domingo

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Swiss Confederation
Capital: Bern

Holy State of Tibet
Capital: Lhasa

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Spaceports

Spaceports

Since the latter half of the twentieth century the desire for space colonization overrode the thought for space exploration. As a result, the various nations began constructing Spaceports, be it Rocket facilities such as the AUS Cape Canveral and the Russian's Cosmodrome, or Space Elevators, as is on Germany's Hanseatic Space Elevator in Luebek Germany, Germany.

Such Spaceports were established for the purpose of making contact with the space colonies sponsored by the various alliances. These colonies are spread across the various Lagrange points on Earth as well as orbiting Earth, the moon (known as Luna) and on the Lunar surface itself (the largest being Roa, a Space Colony owned and operated by Japan of the Tokyo Pact.

List of Spaceports:

-American United State:
Cape Canaveral AFB and Spaceport, Cape Canaveral, Florida

-Brazil:
Barreira do Inferno Launch Center, Parnamirim, Rio Grande do Norte

-Canada:
Fort Churchill Complex, Churchill, Manitoba

-Colombia:
Quito Space Tether, Quito, Ecuador

-Cuba:
Havana Space Elevator, Havana

-Caribbean Federation:
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, East (French) Guiana Province

-Commune of France:
Marselle Space Tether, Marselle, Languedoc Commune

-German Empire:
Hanseatic Space Elevator, Luebeck, Schleswig-Holstein Province, Kingdom of Prussia

-German Southeast Asia Company:
Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, Wenchang, Heinan Province

-Hashemite Arabia:
Ras Al Khaimah Spaceport, Ras Al Khaimah Province

-India:
Sonmiani Space Facility, Sonmiani, Balochistan District

-Japan:
Tanegashima Space Center, Tanegashima, Kagoshima Province

-Korea:
Naro Space Center, Goheung, South Jeolla

-Mittelafrika:
Mombassa Space Elevator, Mombassa, Mai-Mai Province

-Ottoman Empire:
Bayezid Spaceport, Tall Abib, Palestine Elyat

-Pacific States of America:
Vandenberg AFB and Space Center, Lompoc, California

-Persia:
Semnan Spaceport, Semnan

-Princely Federation:
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Andra Pradesh

-Qing Empire:
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Kelan County, Xinzhou Prefecture, Shanxi Province

-Republican China:
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Xichang City, Liangshan Yi Prefecture, Sichuan Province

-Russian Empire:
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakh Voivodship

-Shangqing Tianguo:
Jiquan Satellite Launch Center, Ejin Banner, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia

-Southern Commonwealth:
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, Texas

-Sweden:
Esrange Space Center, Kiruna, Lappland Province

-United States of America:
Oklahoma Spaceport, Burns Flat, Oklahoma

 

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World News Tonight: January 2003

Live from ABC World News Headquarters in Pheonix, Arizona, this ABC World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer

"Good evening, this is Diane Sawyer, and welcome to World News tonight, our top story is the recent terrorist attacks against space colonies over the past two years. We cannot forget the Malta disaster when the orbiting space colony was sent plummeting to earth due to a reprogramming of the thruster, leading to the death of 15,000 people on board.

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Recently, Chancellor Schroeder has announced plans on sending their mobile suits to support the Mitteleuropan space corps in combating the terrorists. This move has also been supported by the Entente Secretary General, the Lord Robertson of Newfoundland and Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi, who are also sending mobile suits to combat this threat.

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In other news, there has been talks between the Lithuanian Prime Minister Arturas Elsenschuch and Polish Prime Minister Aleksander Kwaśniewski about the current sucession crisis going on in Poland after the death of King Maria Emmanuel of Poland last month. Currently, the situation is being stipulated that Mindaugas IV, the King of Lithuania would be crowned King of Poland as well, which would serve to recreate the old personal union between Poland and Lithuania. We will bring you more details as soon as this develops.

Finally, the Australian Confederation has successfully unveiled their railway link that successfully connects Adelaide to Darwin. The project, started at the start Prime Minister John Howard's administration in 1996, had been set back by security concerns involving pro-Syndicalist terrorists, including a spectacular attack in 2001 which involved the use of mobile suits against the Australian government.

This is Diane Sawyer with ABC World News tonight, thank you and have a good evening."
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Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen Nachrichten: January 2003

Guten Tag, this is Karl-Heinz Steuben, with ZDF Breaking News, Terrorists have recently struck at the Athens, a Greek Space Colony in geo-synchronous orbit over Athens, Greece. The terrorists occupied the facility, and then proceeded to quickly knock it out of orbit. The terrorist attack killed 1500 people, many more casualties being averted as it landed in the Aegean Sea. The terrorist group, calling themselves "Imminent Storm" has issued the following demand:

"Humanity has no right to escape to the far reaches of space, and we will not stop until every human being returns to their holy homeland of Earth and never reach out to space again."

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Despite the rivalries between the respective alliances, the Entente, Mitteleutopa, Tokyo Pact, and just recently, the Belgrade Pact, Eastern Coalition and the American United State has sent in a combined total of 75,000 soldiers, including space marines and mobile suit pilots into space to deal with what Chancellor Schroeder has called, "A Top Priority Insurgency."

We will follow with more details when it is available.
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Télévision Française 1 News: February 2003

This is TF1 World News, with Reynard Benoit Bourgogne, bringing you the worlds news to the free workers of France!

Bonjour, comrades, and welcome to TF1 World news, our top story is the capture of Colombian soldiers encroaching in Venezuelan territory. This has sparked outrage with the Internationale community, who are calling for the nations of the world to support sanctions against Colombia.

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The Colombian government had been accused of various atrocities fighting the rebel group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and has repeatedly undermined the sovereignty of both Venezuela and Brazil in recent months. Gran Colombian president Uribe has denounced these protests, saying that "Both Venezuela and Brazil has been illegally supported these rebels in creating a Syndicalist Greater Colombia."

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In other news, an insurgent attack in San Juan by the Puerto Rican Gendarme Corp led to the deaths of 6 innocent civilians, a move that has sparked outrage not just by the people of Puerto Rico, but also by the international community. Prime Minister Rafael Hipolito Dominiguez of the Caribbean Federation slammed Puerto Rico and their carelessness in their insurgency.

French Communard General Secretary Bertrand Dreyfus extended his support to both the FARC and the Puerto Rican Syndicalist Movement, calling on them "...to overthrow their respective governments, destroy their capitalist and imperialist masters and create a state where the workers and trade unions are respected and free from tyranny."

With the news, this TF1 News, I'm Reynard Bourgogne, have a good evening workers of France.
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