The Aviation Era (Early World War I)

With World War One now over, world peace could ensue. However with millions of soldiers & civilians dead (total number estimated at around 100 million dead) and lots of changes to international borders, a new world order was established with the loss of the Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire as major world powers. Britain, Germany, Japan, USA, and the USSR were the major world powers now, after the French over-sea's empire was severely weakened and shrunk. Spain, Italy, Ethiopia, and the Chinese Empire were also beginning a new period of modernization and where becoming major world players. These countries as well as the new emerging nations began a series of talks to try and establish a way to ensure a global war on the same scale never happened again. Britain put forward the idea of a large council of world leaders which would talk and negotiate any problems which may occur, and resolve them by voting. Some other countries agreed to this, but some other countries saw this as a way for Britain and her allies to bully other countries into their demands, as they would have the majority of the countries on their side.

Many independent inquiries were carried out to to discover some of the many war crimes of the war also begun, and as a result many ex-generals and such, were put on war crimes trials. These trails were known as the Hague trails, they lasted for many years and resulted in some generals, especially the warlords of Russia, Arabia and China being put on trail and executed.

The years after the war would be tough ones, full of re-stabilization of territories and the global economy. The world was split between five different political ideologies, these being: Democracy, Communism, Anarchy, Monarchy, and Fascism. The new Imperial-Nationalist regime in China was already beginning "ethic cleansing" operations, however these weren't as brutal as Serbian or German attempts in Our Time Line (OTL); they mainly were deporting Manchu Chinese to Manchuria, Tibetans to Tibet, Japanese to Japan, etc. The Emperor Yuan wanted to keep his China pure and proper, and in order to do so, he was intending to make China for the Han Chinese not anybody else. In the early years of his reign his efforts were more to convince people to leave of their own will, then financial incentives, then forced deportation...

This time period is known as the Aviation Era as aeroplanes were becoming more advanced, an increasing number of blimps and Zeppelins being used as transport, more research into blimps and creating safer blimps, establishment of several air-forces and air travel being established as a means of transport, albeit only for the rich... =1915= The War officially ended in August with the Saudi clan finishing their expansion with the surrender of the last fighting Arabian clan, and the modern day state of Saudi Arabia is established on August 1st as they also leave the war in a lavish ceremony. Abdul Aziz Al Saud, King (Malik) of the Saudi clan is declared King and absolute ruler over his Arabian Kingdom. King Ibn Saud wished his kingdom to be internationally recognized and began to help Britain to create its world council, however they wanted a more democratic, suggesting and observing council, rather than getting involved in other nation's affairs unless they so requested. The Saudi king begins various nation building processes such as building infrastructure including hospitals, roads, housing, and imposing law and order across Arabia, a notoriously unlawful region.

Other countries which were increasing in importance after a good performance in the war, were enforcing there control in their newly acquired territories by either rebuilding ruins, sending in settlers, expanding armies and navies, etc. Notably Italy was expanding its army and trying to become a major European power like France or Germany; it was doing this by researching and creating experimental armoured car units based on Leonardo da Vinci’s designs for an armoured car by creating a cone shaped vehicle like De Vinci's but with a motor engine on a rotating axis so the wheels could spin around at any time and direction could be changed quickly. Their would be a gun turret on top would also rotate which would have a machine gun on top. The armoured vehicle was designed for quick movement, agility and scouting attacks. The Japanese were also expanding by creating an aircraft carrier so planes could be launched from sea to attack ships, hand-in-hand with this the Japanese were creating attack planes so they could attack ships from a distance, as well as to be used in land combat. Also the Japanese navy were being expanded so that they would be the major sea power in the Asia-Pacific region; only the USA in Hawaii and Alaska, and the British in Australia and Malaysia would rival Japanese supremacy.

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