1938-1950 (The Lusitania Lives)

The Fighting Begins
November 14th, 1938 saw the world come to an end or so many thought. After years of beating around the bush and open threats the newly formed Entente and German lead E.E.C. finally had had enough of each other.Kaiser Fredrich Wilhelm III with approval of the Reichstag and followed shortly after by his fellow head of states declared a state of war on the Entente members. German Imperial Forces would begin preparing to launch pre-emptive attacks on the nation's enemies. As Germany and its allies prepared to attack Russia would attack in a co-ordinated move with Turkey, Italy and Romania the Eastern Bloc from the South and East hitting a surprised but not unprepared E.E.C.army. Meanwhile, France would attempt to strike Western Germany in a move similar to Germany's own 1914 offensive in the previous war aimed at outflanking and taking the German Industrial heartland through Belgium (a member of the new Entente). However, their forces would swiftly bog down as Germany had been preparing to do a similar move and the German forces would prove much better prepared than France and the Entente initially, though. The Imperial Army would begin a heavy defence while sending armored divisions lead by Erwin Rommel to try to outflank the French-Belgian initiative. This would have mild success pushing the French back into Belgium. However, farther south the French would prove determined to take the Rhineland at all cost and a stalemate would quickly ensue.

The Eastern Front would prove less successful in holding back the initial Russian onslaught which was able to push Ukrainian royal forces back to past Dnipropetrov and to the outskirts of Kiev while the Baltic States fell almost at once with their armed forces retreating into eastern Prussia and western Poland, Eastern Poland faired little better then its Baltic allies. However, the joint E.E.C: forces would prove capable of holding onto the areas they still controled by the start of 1939, this wasin no small part thanks to the fact that Russia had stopped the charge west due to the start of Winter, and the Germans helping reorganize the allied defences.

Turkey and Greece would begin shooting at each other almost right off the bat with the Turkish invasion of Constantinople were the turikish populace welcomed them as liberators while the greek populace resisted with all their might the Turkish incursion, the Greek efforts would be aided a little by Bulgarian troops who came into to try to alleviate the Greek problems. However, they also had to fight a Romanian invasion from the north.

Italy and Russia would pressure Yugoslavia into joining the war by early 1939 when Italy threatened to invade them and Russia promised them a peice of Hungary and Austria for their help, though Italy had its own designs on the region. Italy would itself launch two separate invasions one into Austria which would prove harder then Mussolini had promised  and another one this time naval against Greece which held several areas Italy claimed. The Greeks currently defending Thrace from the Turkish forces wuold be unable to prevent a landing of Italian troops in Epirus, the Ionion Islands and Peloponnese.

Japan which had been fighting China since the year before was bound by a treaty they had signed with Germany to come to Germany's aid in its war with Russia, was contemplating a greater war with the enemies of its european ally, with many in the diet proposing backing out of the alliance,others in the diet and the army proposing focusing on China and also invading the Russian far east to secure their northern flank, secure much needed raw material for what they saw as a long war, and to cut off Russian aid to the Chinese nationalists. The navy and more imperialistic/less realistic members of the government proposed an attack similar to OTL Japanese war efforts to take without provocation the rich European colonies in South East Asia to fuel the Japanese war machine, though well received by many in the war department it was greatly resisted by the army and the members of the Diet who felt such a move would alienate their friendss in the U.S.A. and possibly provoke negative effects. All the factions would continue fighting over the best course of action when a border skirmish along the Manchurian-Mongolian border occured, the skirmish was largely fought by Russian and Japanese troops rather then by Manchu and mongolian soldiers. The skirmish would swiftly brin most of the previosuly neutral and pro-naval thinkers into backing the northern plan, and on February 19th 1939 Japan declared war on Russia in the defence of both its allies Manchukuo and Germany. However, it didn't declare war on Russia's allies. The declaration of war would be followed by a general mobilization and deployment of more troops from the homeland into Korea, Manchukuo and Japanese Occupied North eastern China to help fight a now broader war, thus bringing Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese war into the Second great War. Japanese troops would begin the invasion of outer Manchuria and The Japanese navy swiftly began operation against the Russian fleet in Vladivostok, the would face heavy resistence from the troops that had assembled there.

Britain was at a loss at what to do, the Chamberlain administration was in chaos with the more pro-war faction loyal to Oswald were pushing for Chamberlain's resignation and for war, with Germany. As the situation continued to deteriorate in Parliament on the streets of London it was fairing little better with extreme conservatives, reactionaries and fascists pushed for a no-confidence vote, while anit-war supporters tried to lead rallies in support of non-interference and peace. Violence continued to grow until the German fleet was seen in the Channel attempting to cut off the French and protect the sea route between Germany and the African Colonies. The presence of the German fleet so close to the British coastline was the last nail in Chamberlain's coffin. On june 4th Edward along with half the Parliament forced Chamberlain to resign, soon after an emergency parliament would be put together at the behest of Edward. Edward would give the position of Prime Minister to Oswald Mosley instead of the popular Winston Churchill who advocated a strong neutral policy wanting neither to support the dictatorial French and Russian lead forces or the German Side which Churchill along with many considered a threat to the future of British dominance, and instead focus on defending and solidifying the British Empire. Oslwad's first atino was the incarceration of all his political enemies and creating a purely pro-war parliament which would not stop any of his efforts. Among those arrested was the borther of King Edward, Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, since he was a loud advocate for peace and a personally friend of Kaiser Fredrich Wilhelm III. his family would successfully be evacuated. However, thanks to pre-emptive efforts of Churchill, His family would make it to Amsterdam were they wuold be accepted as guests by the pro-German Netherlands government. The military while weary of what was happening in parliament had swore an oath to the king and to the parliament. So at the behest of both parties involved the royal army was placed in a position to defend order throughout the capital and the nation. On September 8th Oswald's cabinet voted on declaring war on Germany and its allies (except Japan) and the royal navy began engaging the German Imperial Fleet across the Atlantic. Oswald in several impassioned speeches would try to gain popular supprot from the British people. However, this would not prove entirely successful with many still supporting the imprisoned Churchill and anti-war politicians, several protests would be held throughout Britain and its colonies against the unpopular dicision to declare war. However, the army and navy no matter how reluctant remained loyal to the crown and wanting another shot at Germany kept the tides of revotl at bay and the populace loyal. Britain would formally join the Entente along with its Domains. Though South Africa did so with little enthusiasm with atlest half the white population being anti-British, and the Quebecois fearful of the rise of Oswald's anglo-centric policies protested violently Ottawa's decision to join the war, and to put forward consribsion of non-english speakers.

Fighting in Africa and the middle east broke out just as quickly as it did in Europe with French forces invading Germany's african Colonies with Togoland falling quickly since it was small and isolated. However, a much better prepared German Central Africa would be ready for the French incursion and fighting in the Jungles of Central Africa would begin at once, and the German Colonial authorities doing all they could to protect the transport of raw materials going to the homeland and weapons from the homeland to German Africa. Unlike the rebellious French African subjects, much of the German subjects also began causing problems for the German war efforts. However, a few tribes proved loyal to the German colonial authorites and to some extent aided the war efforts. Britain's entry into the war,.however, put the German colonies in greater risk and British colonial troops would begin incursions into German East Africa and the German Congo while forces in Nigeria fought along the border with troops stationed in Kamerun.

Colonial troops stationed in the protectorate of Syria would face invasions from Turkey bent on retaking the area or at least, creating a loyal puppet state. The minorities in the colony took up arms in support of the German authorities. However, the Sunni Arian majority declared open revolt and actively aided Turkish forces. Same as Africa the middle eastern territories of the British provided a paltform for the invasion of German Syria. However, many anti-British faction took advantage of the state of war and began open rebellion against British Rule, nmaely Iraq, and violent nationalists in the subcontinent, though the majority of the population would prove much more pacifist, either way Oswald's government attempted to crush resistence which only added fuel to the flames.

Mexico separated from the European war saw its occupation of Guatemala go unchallenged decided it would attempt another push south moving troops into El Salvador and Honduras, This time the States would not tolerate another annexation despite the strong neutrality tendency of many Americans, the increasingly aggressive stance of Mexico's strong man Jose and the risk his enterprises caused to American buisnesses put a quick end to Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy and the start of the nicknamed Big Brother Policy which Roosevelt's government would begin promoting which would prove quite popular amongst capitalists and the southern states wich were growing restless abut growing mexican aggression. At the "request" of Nicaragua and Panama troops would be stationed to protect against Mexican expansion, and a trade embargo on Mexico, followed by Germany who thought it wise to co-operate with the U.S.A. to bring them over to the German field. The Embargo would, however, face major protests from France and Britain who were major trading partners of Mexico. Jose Antonio Urquiza would use this as propaganda to fuel the growing resentment of many mexicans, though with an embargo on his administration Jose realized that it would hard to do much in terms of aquiring aid from France leaving him with two options of action, attempt to push further south and fight the Americans in south leaving the northern border open or striking at the oil rich southern U.S.A: in the hopes of taking enough land to bring the Yankees to negotiate with him, either choice he decided to sit tight for now and control his recent gains while building up for what he saw as an inevitable conflict with the states. Luckily for Jose there were ways to avoid the embargo largely thanks to British and French colonies in the carribean which eased Mexico's situation a little. But it looked like war would come to the North American continent at some point. Despite all the wishes of the American people.

The Fighting Intensifies
The fighting in Western Europe continued to grow bloodier with the French throwing everything they had at the German imperial forces which continued to drive the French out of Western Germany and into Belguim. However, with the British entry into the war British troops began entering Northern France and Belgium with the intentions of driving the German back and taking the lands up to the west bank of the Rhine. However, that wouldn't be enough to knock Germany out of the War, and plans were drawn up by the French and British generals to put greater pressure on the Germans by cutting off their colonies and attacking from Scandinavia and the Lowlands. However, these plans would break the neutrality of Norway, Denmark and Netherlands which were already growing pro-German with each passing day, and on the capability of the Royal Navy to neutralize the German imperial fleet which had grown in size over the past two decades. The plans would be launched in 1940 with the expectations that the eastern front would keep sufficient German forces occupied for the western allies to get the Germans in a weakened state.

The Allied war effort did not keep in calculation the Spanish civil war which still raged on with the falange forces recieving less and less aid each passing month with the French and Italians pouring all their resources into the war effort, this weakening aid and the growing support for the monarchists and republicans lead to a series of Falange defeats in Northern Spain kicking the falange forces out of the area. However, Franco's Forces still had a strong position in Souther France in Spanish Morocco. Geramn support though slowed did not cease altogether like French and Italian did. The German ambassador to Spain would meet with the Spanish loyalist and republicans with a paln that greaty interested the monarchist and brought nothing but contempt from the Republicans, should Spain join the German war effort after dealing with Franco's Rebellion it was promised in the case of a victory over France and its allies, Roussillon lost in the Treaty of the Pyrenees, Gilbratar a region Spain had wanted back for years, French Morocco and Oran. The Republicans after much negotiations agreed to the idea since it would give their side greater support from the population, under the condition that German support continued to both the Monatchists and the Republican banners and not try to get involved further in Spanish affairs after the war. anti-falange forces would continue pushing south with great difficulty, reached Andalucia and Seville by the end of 1939. When Franco realized he was losing the war without further allied support requested further support. France offered only some minor funds since it was focusing East, but did hint that should their be greater success on the German front it would invade and aid the falange forces. At this point, however, the loyalty of many was wavering and defections began to appear which further weakened Franco's position, also the deal with the Germans had already began circulating throughout Spain and the idea of backing the side that proposed restoring lands long lost to France and Britain not to mention the prospect of gaining a colony inticed even the most loyal of Fraco's backers.

Russian forces continued to push into E.E.C. territory starting in the spring of 1939 with mild success finally taking all of Eastern Ukraine cutting into the E.E.C. oil supply and putting the German war machine at risk, soon more divisions would start heading east to try to aid the recapture of lost territories, and plans to push into Romania as well to cut into the region's oil fields. A deal would also be worked out with the States and Netherlands to get oil from their countries to help sponsor the war effort. Poland also lost Warsaw as the Russian troops began pushing father west. However, they moved forward taknig massive casualties, Something Kornilov cared little about, his main objective was to crush Germany at any cost, even if he had to pay in the blood of millions of Russians. On the homefront Kornilov extended the efforts to rid Russia of all unloyal elements to his regime and all undesirables. Thousands of Caucasians and Jewish were rounded up daily and put to work in forced labour ussually in factories or in the exploitation of natural resources with poor working conditions and extremely long hours the began dying pretty quickly. He stepped up the propoganda campaign promoting Pan-Slavic sentiment in the occupied territories claiming that they are part of the father land, and calling the Germans everything short of devils and claiming they wanted only to enslave the Slavics. Meanwhile the pogroms and labour camps would cme to Occupied Ukraine and Baltic. Finland was holding out better then their Southern allies putting up a strong resistence to the Russian push. The Russian forces that began entering Eastern Prussia at the end of 1939 were able to secure a foothold on German soil. However, German tenancity and raw firepower kept them from pushing deeper into German land.

Italy had even less luck then  their Russian and French Allies as the fighting in Austrian Alps was leading to massive casualties, the Austrian forces backed some German Forces kept making even the smallest gain painful. The fighting in the Mountains remained similar to that of the Great war only difference was that both sides used better airpalnes and artillery these days. the campaign in Western Greece was going better due to Yugoslavian and Turkish forces also pushing into te Kingdom of Greece. Bulgaria was faring better then its ally moving the royal army north from one fornt to another to defend against the minor members of the Entente. Romania was once again ill-prepared for the war, if it hadn't been for their Russian allies Romania would have collapsed under the pressure of the war and the strain it was inflicting on the Romanian economy. It failed to make any gains on the Ukraine which was now defended by joint E.E.C. forces and Hungary which was its main adversary was better prepared for combat making pushes into Western Wallachia and and pushing towards Pitesti. Hungary was also aiding in the Defence of Austria against Yugoslavia and Italy, helping keep the Austrian defences up, this in turn allowed Germany to Focus on the major powers of the Entente.

Fierce resistence to Japanese pushes into Russia continued to halt the IJA from taking all of Outer Manchuria. However, the IJN had already done away with the Russian Pacific Fleet at the battle of Vladivostok, this allowed the Japanese Navy to pound away at Russian positions in Outer Manchuria, This would lead to the capture of Vladivostok and Nakhodka. The push south into China was going much better largely thanks to the civil war going on. Due to Kornilov's extensive influence in China, Chiang refused Mao's extensive requests for a truce so that there could bea  united stand against Japan. Japan occupied already much of North Eastern China and was pushing south towards Shanghai and Nanjing. (Due to greater Japanese civility in this TL, the Japanese military was not allowed to do as its pleased leading to not so amny cases of crimes against the chinese and hence forth a slower push south.) Several local puppet regimes were being set up in taking territories to help organize the  occupation and free up some Japanese troops greatly needed on the front lines, the majority of the occupying troops were Manchurian and Japanese reserves who kept order while the main forces of the IJN pushed Deeper ontp the continent. An attack on Hainan would bring the island under the occupation of imperial marines, and this would be used as a forward base to launch an invasion of Southern China.

The Entente efforts to take German Africa continued to show little results, despite the collapse of Togoland, German Central Africa held tight and German forces continued to use guerilla tactics aided by the German colonial subjects to fight the French and British invasion. Also German forces worked hard to turn every km of the colony into a death trap for Entente Forces, this for the most part worked with the French taking horrible casualties and the British growing ever more reluctant to enter the region, resigning to trying to cut off the colony from the homeland. This would be only partly accomplished due to the German efforts to keep the shipping lines open, extensive war at sea would be seen between the high sea fleet and the royal navy all of which general ended inconclusively. However, the British still had the upper hand at sea though they couldn't enforce a blokade like they had in the previous war.

The Middle East continued to get more chaotic as it continued to devolve into a staate of anarchy, the Sunni population of the region supporting Turkish and British efforts while Germany retained the support of the Shiite population and minorities oppressed by the Sunni for generations. The Syrian native colonial forces would prove very efficient against the Turkish helping Germans defend the the region. The Syrian forces were largely made up of Maronite Christians and Alawites Muslims. The minorities which the Germans favored over the Sunni majority were giving firearms to hellp them fight the Turkish and Sunni militia which ended up in a series of bloody massacres carried out by both sides, against unarmed civilians.

The German homefront was heavily effected by the war effort with troops closing in on both sides the feared dual frontier from the previous war was back. However, the solid efforts of the imperial government kept panic at a low and loyalty high, since many considered this as a war of French and Russian Aggression, the growng number of refugees from the East also provided a strain on society. bombing carried out by French and British forces lead to tighter security and efforts to protect the common Germans along wth extensive retaliatory bombing of French cities War time production continued to go up as German forces demanded greater supplies and weapons, this lead to greater amounts of women working in the factories as more and more men got conscripted into the German Imperial forces and sent off to either the eastern or Western front. Tales of Russian brutalities in the east helped the war effort as well as it provided a strong propaganda campaign carried out by the German government. Propaganda provided by the government also included stories of stiff German resistence and theefforts of Germany's allies to defend against the Tyrants of the east and west. Another boost to German morale was that the Kaiser and his family remained in Berin at all times and gave many speeches in support of the war effort. The  two eldest sons were taking an active part in the government's efforts, Crown Prince Wilhelm was in the war on the  Eastern front though behind the frontlines as a Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel), and his second son Louis Ferdinand was a member of the ministry of finance, while the other children actively supported the war effort through charity contributions and appearances on the front lines to help raise morale.

The homefront in France and Britain was similar to that of Germany with the governments trying to show the virtues in their war effort against the Hun Menace as the media referred to the Germans as (picked up from the first great war). However, France continued to live under a military regime which was trying to keep the population loyal to the state of total war which was straining the French economy and French society as it pushed harder and harder to produce enough for the war and more men were conscripted, leading many to fear a similar loss of youths to that as the First Great War. Oswald and his government continued to try to get full support from the population which was often met with half hearted applause. Though the population aided the war effort, at least half of the population was not doing it out of patriotism but rather out of a simple necesity to live and work, the popularity for Edward's rule was at an all time low and support for Oswald and the current parliament was nowhere near what the government wanted. With there being active protests every now and then for the release of Churchill and Prince Albert. The Navy was stretching thinner as well as it had to fight the German Imperial Navy across the Atlantic, watch over the U.S.A. and protect Britain's colonies in the East should Japan decide to go to war in defence of it's German allies. The Entente colonies were also not as stable as London and Paris would have liked with French Indochina in open revolt again, and British central asian colonies rocking on the verge of revolution, mainly India.

Italian war efforts while still strong were beginning to crack. Mussolini had promised the republic an easy victory and a new Roman empire, what did he have to show for it, parts of western Greece under restive occupation and a blood bath in the Alps against Austrian and Hungarian troops. Some protests began to appear in northern Italy for the restoration of the Kingdom of Italy. These protests would all end in bloody suppression. Italy had started out as one of the major signatures of the Entente and now it was considered a minor member of the alliance by both its allies and its enemies.

Japanese society remained largely stable once the war expanded neither Russia nor China had been able to anything to the home islands and advances were being slowly made into the mainland. despite the expansion of conscription, the Japanese population remained supportive of the efforts to become one of the great powers. An idea began appearing during this period, the idea of Pan-Asianism and the expulsion of European powers from Asia and replacing the previous colonial system with an economic and military bloc lead by Japan though this ideal would be largely twisted by Japan's nationalistic and racist beliefs. Pan-Asianism soon caught on with the imperial diet and military cabinet and offical support for nationalist movements in Entente controlled colonies began along with unofficial support for the indonesian nationalists. Industrial output increased a lot. Japanese opinion of its own colonies began to change as well, with the government believing it was time to begin incorporating Taihoku and Formosa into the home islands as prefectures, while Korean resistence to Japanese rule lead many in the diet to begin supporting an increased repression of Korean culture and expand the Japanization of the peninsula, increasing the settlement of Japanese.

Americans were beginning to take notice of the war abroad largely since its southern neighbor had gotten so aggresive in recent years, the plight of Germany and it's allies was sang by the media that was largely anti-British and anti-French, using the repression of the opposition in both countries as publicity for the media. Treaties of aid were granted by the American government to Imperial Germany ,and exportation of brute oil and minerals to Japan increase massively. Military build up began slowly in the states as well. American aid for the German war effort brought mass protest from the Entente who demanded America mind its own  buisness, this only further angered the American public.

With fighting intensifying by the start of 1940 the biggest war the world had ever seen was only just beginning, and the atrocities and horrors it would show the world were only starting to unfold. Humanity had only recently began to see the darkest depths of its own capacity.

The Second Great War: The Old World Bathed in Blood and America Joins the Fray (1940-1942)
The war which had started in 1938 was now in its second year and already the casualties were through the roof with the fall of Kiev and Warsaw to the Russian push west and the brutal defence of the rest of the E.E.C. lead by Germany and the remaining allied forces in Europe, and with growing atrocities in the middle east and africa as colonial forces fought each other. In the east the Japanese campaign against China and Russia progressed slowly with large casualties on both sides with the Chinese and Russians putting up as large a resistence as possible to the IJA march forward. Cross the Atlantic America remained tense surronded by the conflict and facing a possible war with Mexico and the Entente.

The Entente was planning several offensives aimed at breaking Germany once and for all since it had become clear that should Germany fall the rest of the E.E.C. would fall as well. The British and French had palnned the invasion of Norway, and Netherlands to completely cut Germany off from the Atlantic and allow them to attack Germany from further north, while Russia planned another large offensive in the East to break the strong defences established by German and E.E.C. forces and to finally break Finland so that more troops could  bbe relocated to take on the Germans.

The Britsh and French Invasion of the Lowands began on the 6th of April swiftly taking Amsterdam and forcing the dutch royal family along with Prince Albert's family to seek refuge in Germany were they were welcomed along with all dutch who could escape the invasion. Plans to take Suriname and the East Indies were also planned. The invasion of Netherlands was met with outrage from the U.S.A. and other neutral countries and led to the U.S.A. declaring an embargo on France and Britain. The conquered lowlands were subsequantly occupied by largely Belgian and French troops while the rest of the invasion force began an offensive into Western Germany, caught off guard the Germans were forced to move troops defending further south to help defend against the new attack leaving the imperial forces defending further south weaker and leading to the second Rhine Offensive which would successfully push the Germans back to the River Rhine. However, secondary lines of defence stopped the French from successfully crossing and suffering large casualties in the attempt. However, Entente troops where now on German soil north of the rhine and began attempting to break the German defences in the area with little success. French brutality in the occupied territory carried out largely by Moroccan and Algerian colonial troops were shouted to the skies by E.E.C. and American papers, and Empress Cecilie was said to have weeped in public upon hearing of what was happening in Occupied Germany. The outrage felt by Germans at the constant disrespect to the Fatherland by both Russian and French troops raised the morale and nationalist sentiment and an increased support on the homefront for the war effort as many knew what would happen should Germany loss the war. Free Dutch forces began fighting along side German forces aiding in the defence of Western Germany outside the city of Munster.

The Russian offence would happen shortly after the British-French one in April. The attack would successfully push into Hungary relieving a struggling Romania and taking much more of the Ukraine However, extensive guerrilla warfare carried out by ukrainian and baltic partisans wwould become a growing problem for the Russian forces and increased brutality would be used to keep occupied under control, bringing more over to the E.E.C. side. including many pan-slavics. However, it would fall short of its mark when trying to knock out the Germans in eastern Prussia who fought desperately to protect their homeland, and the campaign caused even greater casualties then the previous ones had. Kornilov could not send omre troops West other then those that were already there since Japan was fighting in the East.

The fall of Amsterdam left the dutch state in disarray and Suriname would be taken within days of the invasion of the Lowlands. However, the Japanese fearful of the British and French gaining control over the Dutch East Indies,and hoping to gain direct control over the oil fields and rubber plantations for the war effort. Japan on April 11th invaded the Dutch East Indies under the guise of protecting dutch interests in the East while it remained under foriegn occupation. This would be accepted by the German government which saw it as an aid keeping the region out of Entente hands, while the U.S.A. gave only mild protest to the invasion of the Colony. France and Britain protested the capture and British forces entered Dutch Borneo to contest the seizure of the East Indies, Japan declared a state of war with Britain and France, and launched the Invasion of French Indochina, Malaya and Hong Kong sparking the beginning of the Pacific War. The locals welcomed the Japanese as liberators (as they had OTL in the beginning) and actively supported the Japanese invasion of South east Asia. French Indochina fell relatively quickly with the Japanese counting on the support of the Vietnamese who had been resisting the French for decades now, While Hong Kong fell within a few weeks of the assault. And the Japanee navy began engaging in battles throughout the West Pacific and South East Asia to destroy the British fleet. Thailand would join in the campaign at the request of the Japanese with the promise of the return of pre-1890's territory taking by the French and British. Malaya would prove a harder job with the British resisting as much as possible. However, North Borneo would fall just the same as the other colonies, while the Malay Peninsula would hold out for a few more weeks with the British fighting hard to protect the stronghold of Singapore. However, Japanese forces were now fighting along a much larger frontier against several countries at once.

Stunned at the Japanese move Britain and France could only try to reinforce their colonies in the east by removing troops from other fronts which would weaken their war efforts. Oswald was cussing and shoting upon hearing of the Japanese Treason as he called it and papers across the British isles screamed of the treachery carried out by the Japanese Monkeys as they called the Japanese. The biggest affect of the attack on the Japanese invasion was the fact the British navy now had to send more forces east to deal with the Japanese fleet and it gave the German Imperial Navy a much freer movement in the Atlantic.

With the French and British position even more strained Petain was forced to resign by the government and Maurice Gamelin who would declared grand Marshall of France. Petain would be placed under house arrest and stripped of all military honors and rank. The French command was re-accomodated with several new faces including rising star Charles ae Gaulle  and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny who advocated a stronger war effort and steps to deal with the growing threat of the U.S.A. to counter any possible intervention in the European campaign, French weapons and tanks were supplied to the Mexicans to build up, and in the words of De Gaulle " a nice little distraction for the Yankees." Oslwad supported completely the decision in the hopes that it would allow the Entente to breath easier.

With greater supplies coming in from France and Britain, Jose continued his military build up, and began preparing for the southern expansion as well as a preemptive attack on the U.S.A. in the following year. He retained large support from the majority of the populace since he tried to bring about Mexican glory and had brought stability to a nation which had suffered over 20 years of internal strife since the fall of Porforio Diaz. However, many began to fear that his expansionism and strong anti-Amerian stance would led to greater hardships in the future, the leader of this group was Juan Andreu Almazan, one of the few revolutionaries left from the 1910 Revolution, though they didn't attempt to take up arms against Urquiza they remained vocal critics of his policies. Protected by his status as a national hero, Urquiza couldn't do away with him but he did keep the veteran under a tight watch.

The United States continued it material support for Germany and its war against the Entente, and increased the selling of raw materials to a more aggressive Japan. Roosevelt in September 1940 gave his famous Stand Against Tyranny speech where he denounced the militaristic and dictatorial regimes that were wagging a war of Subgegation against the "Free World", and how it was necesary for the United States, to stand resolute in the times of darkness along those tired of the Totalitarian ways of the new Entente. This speech would go hand in hand with his later speech Arsenal of Democracy were he promised to support the efforts of the Allies (Germany, the E.E.C. and Japan) against the Entente with weapons and raw materials for the war effort. These speeches marked the beginning of American intervention in the Second Great War and caused loud uproars in  Paris and London which feared American entry into the war while it emboldened the anti-war factions in the Entente, and propaganda for Japan and Germany who began actively courting an alliance with the U.S.A. in May 1941 the New York Conference would take place between Roosevelt and German Ambassador Helmuth James Graf von Moltke ended with the American promise of Aerican support and possible intervention should the Entente prove a direct threat to American interests. The conference was applauded by anti-entente leading members of American society while it was brutally criticized by isolationists and anti-roosevelt groups who called it a step towards American imperialism and direct violation of long standing policy of not getting entangled in international alliance. Supporters of the new direction stated that had the U.S.A. intervened in the First Great War the current conflict and military regimes wouldn't have happened.

The British command and Oswald's government now almost sure of American intervention launched the invasion of Ireland to secure the British Isles and prevent American troops form using it as base of operations against Britain. The Invasion was applauded by the media and military since Oswald had long promised the return of British unity. With the fall of one of its largest trading partners, much of the populace was starting to fall in line with Roosevelt's policies to hinder Entente war efforts. However, society wasn't quite ready yet for war and Roosevelt waited patiently for the final key to American entry to war.

The final straw came when in late August 1941 French ships carrying supplies to Veracruz was caught by the U.S. Navy. With this Roosevelt and anti-entente politicians shooted to thee roofs the violation of the Monroe Doctrine and the United States arms embargos. In an emergency joint session of Congress a vote of 57% in favor, Roosevelt declared that the United States of  America was now in a state of war with all members of the Entente and  With the United Mexican States. Mobilization began soon after. Hoping to avoid being on the defensive, British and Canadian forces invaded the Northern U.S.A. in an attempt to take New England and the Great Lake States,while Mexican forces invaded both Nicaragua and the states of California and Texas. American troops would begin immediate efforts to push back the invading forces, with relative success dealing with the Commonwealth and Mexican forces holding them back. However, Commonwealth troops managed to get a foothold in Chicago and Detriot urban warfare quickly set in. The Mexican invasion of Nicaragua would much better with the U.S. forces stationed there being expelled by superior numbers and falling back into Costa Rica, were guerilla warfare began with Mexican troops taking large casualties as they pushed south. The U.S. Navy began attacking British holdings in the Caribbean and in the Atlantic, laying seige to the Bahamas and Bermuda, along with agreeing to help Japanese forces take the Pacific Islands.

Following the entry of the U.S.A. into the war, Germany began a planned counter-offensive to push the Entente powers off German soil. With a reshuffling of generals to differnt fronts to help the war effort, notably Erwin Rommel and Heinz Guderian would be relocated to the Eastern front to take command of the armored divisions there, while artillery specialist Marshall Walther von Brauchitsch to lead the plans to retake the western bank of the Rhine, and finally Pual Ludwig Ewald von Kleist who was charged with leading the counter-offensive in the Balkans to help relieve Hungarian and Austrian troops hard pressed by Entente forces. The fall campaigns would start late September when Rommel and Guderian attacked Russian troops occupying much of Poland using strong armored divisions in the so-called blitzkrieg tactics, shattering most of the Russian formaations and forcing them to withdraw from Eastern Prussia or face encirclement, from there the push into Eastern Poland and the Baltics would follow.

Walther von Brauchitsch would start his campaign shortly after the collapse of the Russian forces in Western Poland, and Eastern Prussia. Starting with large scale artillery and bombardment campaigns against Franco-British troops preparing to cross the Rhine in the following year. The attack caught the allied forces by surprise, and following the attack German forces would cross the southern point of the Rhine in Germany aimed at attacking the southern flank of French forces occupying the region breaking the flank and then turning north to retake the area under entente occupation. This attack would be only mildly successful and would soon be repelled by French and Belgian forces intent on holding the region, Walther's troops would soon withdraw across the Rhine after failing to dislodge French forces and fearing encirclement themselves. Walther von Brauchitsch would be forced to resign after this failure and he would replaced by Field Marshall Walter Model who saw it fit to hold a strong defence until a new plan could be made, he would also persuade the German high command to instead push the entente out of northern Germany, which was accepted and lead by Field Marshall Gerd Rundstedt who successfully implemented the same tactics used by Erwin and Gurderian in the east to push the British and French in the north back across the border with the Netherlands and liberating Northern Holland up to the city of Zwolle.

The Alps and Balkans campaign would finally break the stalemate that had existed in the Area for well over  year pushing the Italians out southern Southern Tirol and the Austrian Alps and into Italian Veneto, putting the Italians on the defensive like in the previous war, and began pushing into Yugoslavian Croatia, the offence liberated Hungarian troops needed for the Eastern front against Romanian and Russian troops which held parts of Transylvania and most of the Ukraine.Inspired by the victories of the northern allies Greek and Bulgarian forces began trying to expell Turkish and and Italian forces occupying their lands and would successfully push the Italians out of western Greece but Turkey held onto Thrace with all ita might and would not be dislodged.

Japan would continue its push into Asian Proper having set up several puppet states in former European colonies, largely the Dutch East Indies which was now under the National Provisional Government lead by Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta who accepted Japanese occupation until the end of the Pacific war out of fear for British conquest and helped mobilize the indonesian populace to support the Japanese war effort. In exchange Japanese authorites allowed the NPG to retain internal affairs over the East Indies as long as they provided troops, laborers and resources for the Japanese war efforts. occupied British Borneo would be incorporated into the Indonesian administration. Another major puppet state created would be The Empire of Vietnam lead by Bao Dai who accepted a similar deal as Indonesian nationalists, Siam would be returned all lands taking by the French while the rest of Laos and Cambodia remained under Japanese administration and occupation.

Nanjing would fall in early 1941 due to Japanese forces being far more widespread then OTL and a new government headed by Wang Jingwei would be established in Nanjing known as the Reorganied National Government of China. Chiang would retreat to Chongqing and remained the rival regime claiming to be the government of China. The Communists had been trying  to resist the Japanese advances inland but having to fight the nationalists as well as the Japanese to head farther into the interior and continue a major guerrilla war against the Japanese. The Japanese also launched another attack in the south from Hainan and former French Indochina which was aimed at taking Kounming, Nanning and Wuzhou. This assault would prove only mildly successful with Southern Yunnan and most of Guangdong falling to advancing IJA forces. However, they would prove unable to push farther north for the time being and set around establishing a puppet administration loyal to Wang Jingwei's administration.

Fighting in south east asia was getting harder as Japanese lead forces finally took the rest of the British holdouts in Malaya but faced high resistence when entering the British Raj (the Burmese part - not the Indian part) were British troops had reorganized and put up a solid defence. The battke at sea in South East Asia wasn't much better as the IJN and the Royal Navy battled it out for control of South West Pacific and the Eastern Indian Ocean, despite being overstretched the British fleet was still able to hold onto the areas of ocean it still controlled relying on Indian ports and the support of Australian ports to refuel and repair. But the continued victories of the Japanese, and the promise of Independence to european colonies was creating much dissent amongst an already rebellious Indian population. From indian POW's the Japanese created and funded the Azad Hind group lead by Subhas Chandra Bose with the intention of getting the Indians to revolt and aid the war effort against the Entente. The Azad hind continued to demand British withdrawal from India and pledged military support for the Japanese in exchange for Japanese support for the Indian cause. Many indian troops captured in the fighting with Britain would soon join the Indain National Army, the military wing of the Azad Hind. With their support pushes into Burma would begin in earnest.

Outer Mongolia finally fell to Japanese and manchurian forces in late 1941 and would be declared a part of Manchukuo which would help the Japanese efforts to gain support from the citizens of the puppet state, though only mildly. Increased training of the Manchurian forces would begi to bring them up to better standards so that the Japanese could rely on them for support efforts in the campaigns againts the Entente. Similar efforts to train national forces in Indonesia and Vietnam would occur, though these forces would remain under Japanese command until the end of the war.

Despite extensive Japanese influence over the newly regimes in occupied territories Japanese behavior with locals went downhill swiftly after the initial months of fighting. The nationalistic and xenophobic tendencies of the Japanese mixed with their beliefs that they were supirior to the rest of Asia for having avoided European colonialism and creating a powerful state of their own lead to the swift miss treatment (though not OTL levels) of the occupied regions bringing the hate of many and the fear of others. Japanese efforts to create the idealized New Order for East Asia began with Japan as the protector of East Asia and the rest being submissive to Tokyo.

The U.S.A. was still fighting back the invasions of its territory by the start of February 1942 with greater  success now, having evicted the British from Northern U.S.A. and planning a push into Canada. In the South stiff resistence to Mexican advances ment that the Mexican troops had to withdraw with massive casualties leaving them open to a counter offensive. However, the Mexican push into Central America continued with the intention of taking the Panama Canal to cut off any possible American movements through the canal. Still believing he could win against the Americans with Entente support Urquiza began planning his second offensive into the U.S.A. and began discussing with members of his government the occupation of the southern U.S.A.

At the beginning of 1941 allied offensives against the Entente had brouht about a string of Victories which began the process of reverting Entente gains. However, much work was still needed and it wasn't likely that any decisive victory would be achieved yet. On December 21st 1941 Germany, Japan, the E.E.C. and the U.S.A. declared the December Pact which established a formal alliance tying together all the allies. Also German and E.E.C. scientists lead by Albert Einstein began in secrecy a nuclear program unknown to their allies and enemies alike, though the U.S.A. had began a similar project in Nevada and the Japanese had begun toying with the idea of a program but were busy with other projects they deemed more important.

1942-1944
1942 began with a poor situation for the entente with Allied offensives driving them back, The U.S.A. had began preparing for advances into Mexico and Canada, while the navy continued to try to wrestle the Bahamas Bermuda away from the British. In Europe German forces had broken the Entente initiative and was regaining land in its late 1941 offensives with much of Poland and East Prussia back in E.E.C. hands and German lead forces posed to retake the rest of Poland and the Baltics. Meanwhile, Italy was on the defences as was the rest of the South Entente, all of Northern Germany and a nice part of the Netherlands were also free. Japan had much of the resource-rich South East Asia under its control, and pushing deeper into Russia and China.

Russian forces had been taking by surprise by the German counteroffensive led by Field Marshals Rommel and Gurderian and would attempt to reorganize. However, with the Liberation of Western Poland, Rommel would follow up the push with another assault on Russian lines in Eastern Poland breaking the right flank of the Russian troops and encircling many Russian troops Berzesc while Gurderian would plunge his troops into the weakened Baltics liberating Lithuania and Latvia relatively quickly, and pushing forward into Estonia. Following the retreat of the imperial Russian forces from Lithuania and most of Poland, and plans were drawn up to drive east into Western Russia and relieve the struggling Ukrainian royal forces. The Russian retreat destabilized their control over the Ukraine where pro-German partisans caused extensive havoc for them. The retreat also gave evidence to German forces of massacres, population reductions and labour camps carried out by the Russian authorities on Jews, the locals who proved unloyal to the Kornilov's Regime. Tthe information gathered was handed over to the press of both E.E.C. and neutral countries which greatly damaged Russian attempts to gain the aid of locals and of neutral countries. Kornilov claimed that the evidence lies and propaganda made up by the Germans, and began concealing Russia's programs better, and moving them farther east.

The offense lead Pual Ludwig Ewald von Kleist successfully lead to the collapse of of the Yugoslavian war efforts without suffiecient resources or troops to keep  the German and Hungarian troops at bay Belgrade surrendered to E.E.C. forces on the 12th June. German leaders forced the break up of Yugoslavia with Croatia and Bosnia gaining independence as new members of the E.E.C. while Serbia and Montenegro fell under occupation. From there troops were sent to help ease Bulgarian and Greek troops fighting against Turkish forces. The German War Department began drawing up plans to deal with both the main members of the Entente and three separate plans were drawn up to deal Russia, Britain and France. However, all plans remained largely abstract as it was unknown how the war would go and the nuclear project which had started in the previous year.

The British war effort was strained greatly at this point trying to deal with the various threats to their empire. The Americans now threatened their presence in the Americas while German and Japanese naval assets pressured the Royal navy across the globe. Mosley and Edward's government was rocking on the edge as many began speaking out against the war. Many of the dominions were on edge as well, Australia and New Zealand were scared of a Japanese invasion while Quebecois openly protested the war effort and many began advocating separation from the Anglo-centric dominion with some of the leading members of this group entering negotiations for independence. Ottawa's response would be martial law and requesting troops from Britain to help hold the area. South Africa also was on the verge of revolt with the anti-British Afrikaaners advocating separation from the British Empire. India was now in revolt in certain areas of the country influenced by the rise of the Azad Hind while other groups advocated passive non-co-operation lead by Gandhi.

The Entente's relation with Jews steeply took a dive as well with the German propaganda campaign showing Russian atrocities carried out upon the Jews of Europe. Lots of Zionists began talks with Germany about setting up a Jewish state in the post-war requesting the area of Palestine, the Reichstag saw no problem with this and helped create several Jewish volunteer units to aid the E.E.C. war efforts. However, most Jewish-Germans remaineed within the imperial army as they felt just as German as their fellow countrymen.

French forces were struggling to hold onto the areas of Western Europe they occupied, with German and Dutch forces aiming to retake all occupied territories and with troops trying to deal with Africa and internal strife that growing with each passing day. Anti-war protests were brutally supressed as were pro-republican groups. resistence to French rule in Africa began to grow and was met with increasingly bloody reprisals.

The fighting in Africa was just like it had been three years before with the Germans holding onto the Central African Colony, while South West Africa would fall to British forces but the colonists formed alliances with anti-British Afrikaaners. Efforts to keep Central German Africa under control lead to the German campaign into Gabon and the French Congo to secure the Colony, this was aided by volunteer German colonists and some colonial troops from tribes loyal to Berlin. While the invasion of the French Congo proved a failure with German retreats into their German Africa, Gabon woud fall and placed under Military rule, leading  to a tense control over the region.

Te Spanish civil war was finally nearing its end with the last Falange stronghold in southern Spain falling to the republican-royalist coalition and Franco withdrawing to Spanish Morocco, at this point it had become clear that the Spanish government was aligning with Germany and to counter this, they attempted to get Spain into joining the Entente offering them a piece of German Africa and the return of regions taking by the Americans earlier on. However, the Spanish government and republicans angry over French and Italian aid to Franco's cause and seeing the slow turning of the war in favor of the allies the coliation refused France and Britain's offer. In turn the Entente recognized Franco as the only government of Spain and sent colonial reinforcements to Spanish Morocco and threatening Spain with an embargo unless the royalists handed power over to the Falange forces. This only pushed the Spanish to back Germany more openly with propaganda flying throughout the country reminding them of Napoleon's invasion and of continued French interference in Spanish internal affairs during the 19th century, these efforts mixed with the growing wish to restore Spanish banners to Gilbratar lead to the Spanish declaration of war on France, Britain and Italy and their joining the December Pact, Spanish troops would be set up for two groups one to take Gibraltar and another to defend the Pyrenees against Spansh incursions, French troops didn't invade Northern Spain. Instead, they sent troops to help protect the British stronghold at the mouth of the Mediterranean and began engaging the small Spanish fleet and blockading her ports. While Continental Spain got ready for their offences Falange forces got ready to aid the French in defending Gilbratar and eventually in taking southern Spain once more. German colonial troops helped take secure Spanish Guinea for Royalist Spain.

The war in the Middle East was still a mess with all sides only putting minor efforts in the area with the war in Europe taking priority. However, German forces began taking a greater interest in the Middle Eastern Theatre since it was full of oil which Germany was trying to secure, and also to take the strategic Suez Canal since it would hurt the british unlike anything the Germans had tried yet, and soon German officials began courting American forces for a possible joint war effort in Africa and the Middle East to cut off the Entente form their colonies, these plans were shelved, however, until the Americans could spare troops and equipment since they were focusing largely on the war at home. The Middle East continued to be a blood bath with the Sunni paramilitary groups fought against German backed Shiite's and minorities in the region. The German-trained Maronites and Alawites continued to prove themselves as the most efficient fighting force in the region fighting a guerrila and anti-insurgency war against enemy troops and Militia and hanging onto the Coastline while abandoning certain areas of the interior deemed un-sustainable by German Authorities. Funding for the Shiite rebels in Iraq was causing endless grief for the British troops and Sunni groups. However, Turkish troops had control of a large part of German Syria in the North and East with a firm grip and support from the Sunni. However Turkish troops couldn't dedicate to much resources to the Syrian campaign with the Germans starting to turn the tides in Eastern Europe and the re-arrangement of Allied troops and vehicules to the Balkans to clear it of Entente forces. Turkish leaders sought Russian troops to help them  but the German Offensive into Eastern Europe forced them to divert troops that might have been spared.

Turkish troops still held onto Thrace but Bulgarian and Greek troops had began building for a large offence to dislodge the Turkish, The Bulgarians agreed to cede their part of the Thrace to Greece in exchange monetary compensation. In May 1942 the Bulgarian-Greek offence began without any major difficulties, supported by German forces most of Thrace fell after a few years of stubborn resistence form Turkish troops and the Battle of Constantinople ended in 4 months after the start with the surrender of 6,000 troops and over 60,000 casualties between E.E.C. and Turkish Forces. The defeat was followed by the Turkey's forces crossing the straights back into Anatolia. After this defeat Turkey began preparing for the defence of Anatolia as a build up was well under way by E.E.C. However, the offence was put on hold until German and Hungarian troops could support the campaign - in other words once Romania was under allied guns. The strike at Romania came soon after the retaking of Constantinople with Bulgarian, Hungarian and German troops plowing through the ill-prepared Romanian-Russian troops leading to the capture of most of Romania by the end of the year.

American troops had began the almost simultanious invasions of Canada and Mexico in late June 1942 following a large build up, the American troops invaded both south Quebec and Manitoba while the Navy moved to smash the Canadian and British naval forces along the Eastern Coast the invasion of Quebec was welcomed by pro-independence Quebecois who organized several paramilitary groups aimed at supporting American forces, while the push into Manitoba proved very swift with the area proving perfect for tanks which pushed up to Winnepeg by the beginning of September despite the major resistence from British and Canadian forces. However, the Commonwealth forces intent on defending their homeland put up a tough resistance in Winnepeg forcing the Americans to fight in urban areas causing large casualties and diverting the Americans from pushing either East or West until the city fell. The Quebec Campaign would prove just as difficult once the Americans took the Southern bank of the St. Lawrence with the Canadian and British setting up a decent defence line along the river. At sea the American Navy cut off the parts of the Canadian Coast but it could not deal any decisive blow against the Royal Navy and supplies still got through to the Commonwealth forces along with those produced locally which was a lot more than the Americans liked. Bermuda and the Bahamas finally fell to American marines in July after more efforts were put by American forces to take them away. And the U.S. Navy began greater efforts to disrupt British supplying operations working with the Germans to accomplish this goal. And plans were drawn up to begin taking the Caribbean Islands from France and Britain and the Guyanas as well.

The U.S. Invasion of Mexico went even better then anyone expected, despite Jose's militarization of the past few years. It was nothing in comparison to the American forces it was now fighting and American tanks made nice headway into Northern Mexico. The leader of the American push into Mexico was General Patton who vigorously studied  Rommel's tactics. The push would leave much of northern Mexico under American control. They only started facing major resistance from the re-organized Mexican forces in Monterrey and Alamos, where Mexican nationalists fought violently to protect the country. Guerrilla warfare quickly followed the fall of northern Mexico and American forces had to leave a large number of troops behind to keep the situation under control. More troops would be sent to Costa Rica and Panama as well and a campaign to begin pushing back into Mexican troops. Mexican troops would prove incapable of dealing with the growing pressure placed by American troops and several rifts within the government began to appear. However, the regime remained strong to a point with no one wanting to destabilize the government anymore.

American Operations in the Pacific began in late 1942 with the Pacific Fleet taking some of the Entente colonies in the East while the Japanese did the same in the West. American troops began landing in the Gilbert Islands and other East Pacific British colonies trying to take them away from the overstretched commonwealth forces. While the Japanese Invaded the Solomon Islands and Papau New Guinea alarming the Australians who were now even more frightened of Japanese closing in on the islands.

East Asia remained largely the same as the previous year with Japanese forces continuing to push into China and Eastern Russia, though at increasingly heavy costs, despite casualties the Japanese considered the costs worth it with most of coastal China under Japanese occupation and with all of Inner Mongolia as well. Russia was a harder situation with the Russian troops fighting relentlessly to protect the area at all costs and prevent the Japanese from taking anymore land then they already had taken.

Japanese troops now occupied all of Burma and were plannning a campaign into India but it was decided ot postpone these plans for a while as the troops were needed elsewhere and instead the subcontinent was left to the Azad Hind to deal with, which they did. However, the leaders of the movement began feeling wearly of Japanese objectives seeing their growing subordination of the regimes in former European colonies. Due to these beliefs the Azad Hind began to move more towards the Americans and the Germans who willingly supplied them, in the hopes of making the British war efforts intolerable.

The Japanese homefront continued to remain stable as victory after victory splashed across the papers while downsizing the casualties. Japanese society supported the war effort and hoped to create their own sphere in the post war, the grip on Japan's territories increased as Japan continued to prepared to integrate them into the home islands one way or aonther, with increased settement by Japanese in Korea and Micronesia and Formosa was entering the final stages of being turned into a prefecture (Japan actually had plans to make Formosa a prefecture in OTL, and had decent success in their efforts). While collaborators in Korea went along with Japanese efforts, resentment towards the Japanese continued ot grow. The Japanese control over their puppet states also was becoming more and more obvious though not as brutal as it could have been. The Japanese nationalistic and supremacist tendencies made all of their puppets tense and the Japanese openly treated those in occupied teritories as inferior races that needed Japanese guidance. The Japanese industrial output increased greatly with the  new resources coming in, which favored the idea of strictly controlling the Regimes.

Japanese forces were slowly acting more and more brutal in their campiagns against the Chinese and Russians often not taking prisoners, and while they didn't pillage and murder in occupied territories like OTL due to stricter control over the armed forces, they treated locals like dirt and often used forced labour for projects and puppet regimes were growing concerned about the growing use of pleasure camps were locals were rounded to serve  Japanese troops. Americans were starting to take notice of the growing brutality in Japanese occupied areas and made several lukewarm requests for the Japanese to take it down a notch but didn't push the subject as they were more interested in the Americas and in dealing with the British and French over worrying about East Asia.

All of the major combatents had began in the war were at this point involved in several secret projects in an attempt to gain an upper hand in the war, including jet propulsion which all the major powers were near completing the test flight phase though the German models were considered greater in quality (based on OTL models) and the Russian design severely behind and using a mixed engine (based on the M-GI-250).

Also all major powers except Italy had began a nuclear program at this point, with the German and E.E.C. program by the far the most advanced and having successfully accomplished artificially self sustained chain reaction and well its way to the next step. The German Nuclear program called upon the talents of Leo Szilard Albert Einstein, Eugene Wignar and the rest of the German Physical Society amongst others. The American Project was slightly behind the German project due to it calling upon less talent then their European ally. However, it still had a nice headstart to the other major powers, while it had no knowledge of Germany's Project due to extreme secrecy, Roosevelt and the U.S. guessed the Germans were working on the project as well. The British and French near the end of 1942 realized through intellegence that the Germans and Americans were working on something big that was taking large industrial and financial assets and soon realized their enemies were working thanks largely to the guesses of British physicists and jonied with French specialists to start their own project in French Algeria, the project was the latest to start but had several prominent figures from both the French and British scientific community and sought to quickly catch up, thugh they didn't have nearly as many Germany but a few more then the U.S.A. Japan began its project around the same time as the Germans. However, it lacked the amount of physicists the west had and suffered from the Governmeent and War Cabinet's lack of interest in the project as the resources were needed in other areas such as Radar and becasue Japan saw no way the other major powers would attempt to attack them with such a weapon. However, the project progressed under Doctor Yoshio Nishina but at a very slow pace. The Russian Project was started the latest of all the major powers at the beginning of 1943 when Kornilov and several Russian Physicists discovered that Germany, America and Britain had ceased publishing a few years back on Nuclear physics and soon realized something big was going on, Korilov began at once efforts to to put together a program in Siberia, He also began expanding efforts to uncover uranuim deposits in russia and resorted to forced labour to try to advance the project. At the time their were four known major uranium deposits, In Colorado, In Northern Canada, in Jachymov Germany (the area had been ceded to Germany in the post East European Crisis and the collapse of Austro-Hungary) and in the German Congo,of the three only Northern Canada was in British and French hands while the other three lay in Allied hands, but all the powers were searching for more deposits with some success.

Germany had also began researching several other projects including assault rifles, anti, tank missiles both of which were nearing completion with the German panzerfaust, panzerchreck and the StG 43 (44 OTL) nearly ready for production and distribution. However, the Americans were nearly finished with the bazooka as well, Another project was the rocket program which was the only one of its kind in the world. However, it was not as advanced as OTL Nazi Germany program because Imperial Germany was dedicating greater resources to its nuclear program, but German military leaders had a vision for the future a rocket that could hit its enemies without endangering its mean, and maybe in the future transport a nuclear weapon or chemical weapons, This was considered secondary, however, in comparison to other projects.

As the entered 1943 the Allied forces continued turning around the Entente gains from years before, Germany was upping its campaigns in Eastern Europe and focusing less on the Western Front leaving a strong defensive force to protect Western Germany as the troops pushed East, Romania had now falling to E.E.C. forces and was under occupation,  Carol II and Ion Autonescu were forced from power with Ion Autonescu being arrested and killed by firing squad while Carol II was giving the choice of either abdicating in favor of his son Michael and going into exile or die by firing squad as a King. Carol decided to go into exile leaving the throne of Romania to Michael who became Michael I of Romania, the new government was headed by pro-German individuales and accepted to E.E.C. occupation. With Romania under occupation Germany set about exploiting the Oil in the region to fuel the war effort. also the plans to push into the Ukraine and restore power of Kiev to Hetman (king of Ukraine) Danylo Skoropadskyi, and regaining the ukrainian oil fields. E.E.C. and imperial forces began concentrating their forces in the East along the Border with Russia and in free Ukraine, and in late april launched their invasion of the Russian Empire driving the Russian forces back from modern day Belarus and aiming at taking Petrograd, Moscow and Kiev. the push into Ukraine was largely successful with German and Ukrainian troops entering Kiev in late August while the drive to Petrograd and Moscow bogged down quickly due to major Russian Resisitence.

The E.E.C. forces under Pual Ludwig Ewald von Kleist now turned west to deal with Italy, more troops were concentrated to push the Italian troops out of Veneto, the Italian army was proving even less capable then previously expected as they couldn't produce sufficient armor or planes to compete with E.E.C. forces and soon enough Venice fell to German lead forces, and began pushing onto Milan and the Rest of Northern Italy. Occupation authories set up the Second Venitian Republic out of Veneto. Mussolini refused to accept the lose of Veneto and sent as much forces as he could muster to try to block the German advance into Italy. The popularrity for Mussolini's government had been collapsing over the past few years as he continiously proved unpopular and with the loss of Venice a major revolt in both the army and the populace began demanding the restoration of the Kingdom of Italy, the revolt was put down in central and southern Italy. However, in the north it was growing stronger and it took French troops to put down the revolt creating even greater resistence and discontent. Taking advantage of this Germany allowed the Italian royal family to create a government in exile with Umberto Savoy assuming the title of King of Italy, the rival government was immidiately recognized by the E.E.C. and the United States as the legitimate government of Italy.

Greek and Bulgarian forces began preparing for the invasion of Anatolia now that Romania had falling they counted on mild support from Hungarian and German units, the Invasion happened close to the same time that German forces invaded Russia, the allies managed to gain a foot hold in northern anatolia through the city of Truva and Gallipoli and faced major resistence from the turkish armed forces who tried to push them into the sea.

American troops continued there push into Centraal Mexico finally defeating the the mexican troops in Monterrey and began pushing further south towards Mexico city, Despite efforts by the mexican armed forces they couldn't turn back the american troops, the anti Urquiza group lead by Juan Andreu Almazan requested an audience with American forces and tried to gain a promise from the americans that ensured Mexican independence, the americans didn't promise anything but said they would push for a peace everyone could live with once Mexico City lay in american hands. American plans were actually to enforce the new Big Borther Policy and bring Mexico inline with American interests once and for all to avoid any future expansionism or risk to american buisness. American troops also began pushing the Mexican troops out of Nicaragua and into Guatemala.

The fighting in Canada was going similarly well for American troops as the finally took Winnepeg and from there headed east to take Ontario, in Quebec the British and Canadian position was growing increasingly unstable as more Quebecois demanded an end to conscription and Anglo-centrism in Dominion, the Independence Banner continued to grow and the Americans finally crossed the St.Lawrence and took Quebec City in early July 1943 and began the push towards Montreal and a Provisional government headed by Quebecois Patriots was created in Quebec City. The government in Ottawa was in Jeoperdy as the Americans enclosed the Province of Ontario and were approaching the Canadian core. Despite the brave attempts by commonwealth forces and fellow canadian patriots to turn them back the sheer size of American forces was to much for them to Handle. Eastern Manitoba fell quickly as the Americans approached Ontario.

The American Navy and Marines began taking Entente Colonies in the Carribean, first taking Jamaica and Turks and Caico. followed by an Island hoping Campaign the Entente couldn't resist. With their position in the  Americas at risk the British and French tried to send more naval units to the area, only to be intercepted by the U.S. Navy outside Bermuda. U.S. Marines soon pushed down to the Tabago by the end of the Year takiing only minor casualties.

The navies of the major powers were becoming far more active then they had been in the previous yeas, with the American and German navies trying to cut off the British and French from their empires,this brought about the Battle of the North Atlantic on October 7th 1943 ending with a minor defeat for the royal navy and the absolute distruction of the French Navy outside of the Medditerranean, The Battle finally allowed the Americansand Germans to secure a connection with each other and ended all chances of the Britsh obtaining Naval Supiriority in the Atlantic, and put at risk their colonies as well.

The continued eroding situation of the British Empire brought even more discontent in the Dominions and amongst the common britsh. Australia and New Zealand now becoming increasingly isolated requested a seperate peace with the Americans and Germans fearful of Japanese advances, the Americans accepted the offer and Australia and New Zealand official left the war on the 20th of November 1943 with the Australian armed forces taking the British stationed there as POW's following that Australia and New Zealand promised ot allow Americans access through their territories if the Americans made sure Japan didn't try and invade them, this was met with outrage from Britain and Japan, since Japan had designs on the region, and the British refused to accept this. The governments of Australia and New Zealand reconized Prince Albert as their head of state. An Afrikaneer Revolt also broke out in South Africa supported by German colonists in German South West Africa.