World War Two (Alexander II Survives Assassination Attempt)

Overview
World War Two was probably the most destructive conflict in the history of humanity. It resulted from the instability of the world democracies and its failured and slided into totalitarianism. By the end of World War Two, Fascism is discredited as unappealing and a ideological pariah. The Axis powers were Great Britain and its colonies, Germany, and Japan. Italy stayed neutral until the late stages of the war. On the Allied side were Russia, France, China, Iran, Kurdistan, and Turkey. Yugoslavia(plus Bulgaria), Hungary and Romania joined the Allied side in the mid stages of the war, having been invaded by Germany.

Beginning
In September 1, 1939, German forces plunged into Poland with a blitzkrieg attack against that country. Polish forces fought back, but their sacrifices were in vain as the Germans quickly overran large parts of Poland. Some Polish units escaped from Poland and refitted their armies in France and Russia. As a result, the Allied Powers(minus the USA) declared war on Germany and possibly its alles. Great Britain resumes its conflict against Russia from British India, invading Russian Central Asia and Russian South Pacific. Though the BUF-dominated British forces succeed in taking some parts of the Russian lands(particularly Malaya), they were hampered by guerrilla attacks from all over the countryside.

Russia launched its attack against German-held Poland in an attempt to dissuade the Germans from launcing their attack into Russian territory, but failed to do so in a series of defeats.(However, the strings of defeats were minor and not much of a problem, compared to the losses during WWI). The Baltics were kept in Russian hands, though there are some Lithuanians that wished to break away and sought German help. Lithuania actually hosted the Polish guests for the duration of the war.

For a couple of months, no nation launched attacks against each other in Europe. In Central Asia, the British kept on pouring their troops into that area so they could invade the Russian heartland and at the same time, gain control of South East Asia to secure Australia's safety. This potentially backfires as some units accidentally invaded Afghanistan, resulting in a gruesome conflict with the Afghan guerrillas.