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 fared little better then its Baltic allies. However, the joint E.E.C: forces would prove capable of holding onto the areas they still controlled by the start of 1939, this was in 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 Turkish 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 piece 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 would 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 friends 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 occurred, 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 previously 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 resistance 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 anti-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 led forces or the German side which Churchill - along with many others - considered a threat to the future of British dominance, and instead focus on defending and solidifying the British Empire. Oswald's first Latino 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 brother 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 to declare 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 support 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 decision 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 revolt 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 at least 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 conscripsion 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 authorities 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 Aryan majority declared open revolt and actively aided Turkish forces. Same as Africa the middle eastern territories of the British provided a platform for the invasion of German Syria. However, many anti-British factions took advantage of the state of war and began open rebellion against British Rule, namely 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 resistance 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 businesses 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 which were growing restless about 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 acquiring aid from France leaving him with two options of action, attempt to push farther 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 Caribbean 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 Belgium. 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 receiving 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 Southern France in Spanish Morocco. German 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 plan that greatly 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, Gibraltar 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 monarchists 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 enticed even the most loyal of Franco'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 farther west. However, they moved forward taking 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 home front 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 usually 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 propaganda 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 come to Occupied Ukraine and Baltic. Finland was holding out better then their Southern allies putting up a strong resistance 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 tenacity 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 airplanes 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 front 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 resistance 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 many 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 on to 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 guerrilla 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 blockade 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 home front was heavily Affected 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 resistance and the efforts 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 an 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 home front 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 its 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 official 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 resistance 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 its allies was sung 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  business, 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 resistance as possible to the IJA march forward. Across the Atlantic, America remained tense surrounded 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 British 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 subsequently 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 wept 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 home front 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 would 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 shooting 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 de 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 resistance 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 Indian 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 resistance to Mexican advances meant 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. resistance 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 Gibraltar 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 Gibraltar 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 Shi'ite 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 resistance from Turkish troops and the Battle of Constantinople ended in four 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 resistance 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 Papua 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 planning a campaign into India but it was decided to 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 wary 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 home front 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 another, with increased settlement 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 to 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 territories 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 campaigns 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 combatants 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 head start 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 intelligence 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 joined 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, though 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 Government and War Cabinet's lack of interest in the project as the resources were needed in other areas such as Radar and because 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 uranium 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 individuals 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 Resistance.

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 authorities set up the Second Venetian 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 popularity for Mussolini's government had been collapsing over the past few years as he continuously 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 resistance 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 immediately 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 foothold in Northern Anatolia through the city of Truva and Gallipoli and faced major resistance from the Turkish armed forces who tried to push them into the sea.

American troops continued there push into Central 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 Brother Policy and bring Mexico inline with American interests once and for all to avoid any future expansionism or risk to American business. 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 Winnipeg 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 Jeopardy 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 Caribbean, first taking Jamaica and Turks and Caico. followed by an Island hopping 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 Tobago by the end of the Year taking 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 destruction of the French Navy outside of the Mediterranean. The Battle finally allowed the Americans and Germans to secure a connection with each other and ended all chances of the British obtaining Naval Superiority 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 British. Australia and New Zealand now becoming increasingly isolated requested a separate 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 to 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 recognized Prince Albert as their head of state. An Afrikaaner Revolt also broke out in South Africa supported by German colonists in German South West Africa.

Japanese troops continued pushing into China taking Guiyang in southern China, and pushing out from Nanjing into central China. Chiang's forces continued to resist. However, the continued wasting of resources against the Communists and the lack of a modern army impeded the Nationalist efforts to fight the war. The Japanese push into Russia was finally starting to go better with the Russian forces at their limits trying to stop both the Japanese invasion and the German invasion simultaneously.

The IJN could no longer push south since Australia and New Zealand were under the protection of the Americans. This angered greatly the Japanese but they were already involved in a major war to the west and the high command realized it would be impossible to fight a war in the Pacific against the Americans. However, Nauru would fall to the Japanese navy putting the American and Japanese navies very close to each other.

The Azad Hind was beginning to grow in size as more and more nationalists and Anti-British joined the cause they began an extensive guerrilla campaign in eastern India against British authorities using Japanese held Burma as a base of operations. Despite the difference in points of views Bose and Gandhi decided to set aside their differences and work together towards the independence of India, with Gandhi putting together social support for independence and non-co-operation while Bose's Indian National Army aimed to break the British power in the subcontinent, slowly taking control of Bengal and areas of Madras. The INA would continue to gather recruits from defecting Indian troops and from locals tired of British rule.

The German offence into Russia was now sputtering out by the end of 1943 with German and E.E.C. troops having liberated most of Ukraine and posed to push into the Caucasus mountains, along with occupying up to Kursk. German fighters began widespread bombing of Russian cities and military targets in an attempt to break the Russian will to continue the fight.

Spanish Monarchists and Republicans were pushed back from Gibraltar and Entente and Falange forces soon invaded southern Spain trying to place the Falange in power. Another invasion would be launched from France into Northern Spain though this would only have mild success, due to heavy Spanish resistance. German and American aid would be sent to the Monarchists and Republicans.

With the British navy finally contained to an extent Germany and America put forward their previously shelved plans to invade North Africa. However, the plan was held off once more until mid 1944, so that E.E.C. troops could finish invading Italy.

The invasion of Italy was going better then anyone had expected it to despite the long campaign it was receiving less supplies and troops then other fronts but war still largely succeeding with the Italian Army at the verge of collapse and Mussolini was facing greater resistance from the population who were tired of the dictator now. German troops continued to push south taking Tuscany and securing the rest of Northern Italy. Umberto II was allowed to re-enter Italy along with the rest of the house of Savoy after 20 years in exile. With a provisional capital being set up in new Milan. Mussolini and the Fascist Government was forced to head farther south to Bari and try to rule the country from there. By late 1943 German led troops entered Rome and They allowed a provisional government declared the restoration of the Kingdom of Italy, Umberto would move further south to Rome. Mussolini and the Entente refused to recognize the government. Soon after the November campaign began with German and anti-Fascist Italians marched on Bari taking it and capturing Mussolini as he attempted to escape to Libya. he would be charged with treason against the crown of Italy and was executed without trial. With this, the entire Italian Empire collapsed. However, most of the remaining Italian armed forces declared loyalty to the restored Kingdom of Italy, to avoid disorder. The new government requested the return of Veneto to Italy which Berlin accepted only if Italy accepted to aiding end the War in Europe and provide material support in the upcoming Africa campaign and allow German troops to use Libya as a base of operations. Umberto accepted since he was in no position to refuse and Italy officially withdrew from the Entente.

Canadian defences were slowly breaking down at the end of the year as their numbers couldn't hold back the Americans and the industrial output of the Americans dwarfed Canada's capacity. Britain was unable to supply the Canadian defence like it had before due to the growing  presence of American and German navies in the Pacific. However, the British continued to try and secure access to Canada due to the importance of its natural resources, largely its uranium deposits which were the only ones in Entente hands (that they knew of at the time) Meanwhile, Americans advanced on Toronto from the West and Montreal finally fell, with that The Republic of Quebec was declared and it claimed all of the Province of Quebec, but only held the southern part of the province.

Mexican defences continued to fail as the Americans marched south towards Mexico City. Despite Jose's efforts to secure the region it became impossible for the Mexican armed forces to turn back the American advances. Mexican forces were also hard pressed as American Marines pushed north from Nicaragua and Guatemala supported by local militia tired of Mexican occupation.

With these advances across the world it seemed if the fate of the Entente was sealed, but the leaders of Germany and U.S.A: worried how much the war would cost them to win with the death counts already staggeringly high, The German advance into Russia alone had cost both sides a lot, and the Balkan campaigns had left many dead, not to mention the costs of the push into Anatolia. Greater efforts into the nuclear program were made by both governments. The Russian and British-French program lacked sufficient materials to continue at the pace of the Americans and Germans and soon fell behind.

1944-1946
The start of 1944 was one of both hope and dread. The allied forces had finally established a solid advantage over the Entente. However, the costs had been staggering and despite breakthroughs, it looked like the war would only end with the complete defeat of the Entente, and how many lives would that cost the Germans and Americans. With France and Britain still holding onto a piece  of Germany and the Russians clinging onto their major cities causing massive casualties to both E.E.C. and Russian troops.

The Invasion of Anatolia was moving forward slowly and painfully with the Turkish troops putting all of their efforts into pushing the Greeks and Bulgarians into the sea, but they couldn't push them back as the E.E.C. was lead by aided by German and Hungarian troops who proved much tougher then their Balkan counterparts. Troops were withdrawn from the Syrian campaign to help but this only eased the situation for German colonial troops who took the breather to begin retaking the protectorate and to force the Sunni into submission. Alawite and Maronite troops were increasingly brutal towards the Sunni militia in many cases executing large amounts to avoid taking prisoners. the German authorities looked the other way in these cases. Jewish volunteer units also begin coming into Syria to help the war effort there and to help with the planned invasion of the Middle East. In return for their services, the German government promised the Jews a state of their own.

The Americans began sending aid to the other side of the Atlantic as the war in the Americas was going well now. American Marines in February launched the invasion of the Guyanas taking Georgetown and Cayenne quickly and the rest falling by the end of Spring though some guerrilla activity would persist the American occupation of Entente Colonies was going forward without major resistance, except in occupied Canada which attempted to hurt the Yankees as much as they could. The only British territories still in the Commonwealth in the Americas were Newfoundland, Belize and The Falkland Islands, while Canada lay partially occupied by American troops. As the American marched along the Great Lakes town after town fell to with the Americans treating the occupied territories with the utmost respect, violence against the locals was strictly prohibited, unless authorized, this worked for the most part but there were a few cases of pillaging and rape, which were rewarded with court-martials. Toronto finally fell in march 1944 and Ottawa was open to an invasion either from the east or west. The Canadian government on its hands and knees unable ot fight off the inevitable finally requested a cease-fire on the Canadian front which was accepted by Roosevelt's administrtion. All Canadian units were ordered to no longer engage the enemy and requested that all British forces withdraw from Canada as per instructions from Washington. Mosley demanded that the British forces retake Canada at all costs, which was no longer viable for the British to do, its dominions were signing ceasefires cutting it off from important areas, and the Afrikaaner revolt was in full swing and gaining momentum. Many in the armed forces considered launching a coup but they didn't know who to trust or what the effects of such a move would have, they still held the isles and didn't want the enemy to gain an advantage over them and possibly land in the isles, no amry had successfully landed in the British homeland since the normans centuries and the British didn't want that to happen either, so the armed forces grudingly continued the war effort, though efforts were being made to end it on favorable terms for the British. The navy began reorganizing their military assets focusing on maintaing the Suez and The Rock under British control whie the tried to secure the resources they needed from south America. The military tried to reason with Oswald stating that the war effort was no longer sustainable and that a peace effort was necesary, oswald refused to listen stating that the nuclear program and the glorious royal navy could keep them in the war, he was increasingly irrational hoping to Restore the Pax Britannia. These efforts were unfortunately for not as the Uranuim project was now relying on minor deposits recently discovered in some of French West Africa and lacked the resources and intellectual manpower to compete with the German, American or even the Russian and Japanese programs which weregoing slower their own but had much better sources for the project. Though the British jet program finally bore fruits and British jet planes were added to the British arsenal

The Russian war effort was in as much of a mess as that of Britain. However, the sheer manpower russia could muster was helping hold it together. However, Kornilov, now in ailing health, was growing increasingly unable to hold together the State he had put together and began transferring his power as grand marshal to his long time political ally and borther in arms Anton Denikin who had lead the successful defence of Petrograd. The Pogroms were slowly eased up as the Russian government began realizing that to amny resources were being wasted on the genocide against the Jewish and Caucasians and instead decided to work the minorities to death to produce more for the war effort with only enough rations to keep away starvation. many were put to work on the Russian nuclear program as well doing the dangerious work the russian scientists prefered to avoid.

German projects were starting to bear fruit with the Nuclear program advancing far ahead of all the other warring powers, and their Jet powered aircrafts finally ready for the war effort, The German Me 262 was already in the sky by mid 1944 engaging their British counterparts and the Arado Ar 234 (jet bomber) was doing bomber raids over russian and French cities taking few casualties. THe German war machine was outproducing all major powers except Russia and the U.S.A. at this point which helped the effort. With the German Imperial Airforces gaining absolute dominance with in German airspace and slowly taking it away from the Entente.

The German forces began slowly pushing West Again launching their second attempt to retake the Western nank of the Rhine launching a pincer assault from Northern Holland and from Southern Germany, this attack would prove much more success then the previous and the Imperial German army began making advancesinto Belguim and France forcing te Franco-Belgian forces to withdraw from the occupied territories to protect their own homeland.

In North Africa the Germans and Americans launched Operation Scipio with the Germans invading Africa from Greece and Italy in mid September, and the Americans stationing troops in Pais de Oro and Southern Spain pushing out the Falange and Entente forces and marching north into Morocco, and the Germans lanidng in Italian Libya pushing East into Egypt to secure the Suez and finally cut off the British from the middl east and the rest defended to the West against French Algeria and Tunisia. The British begaan moving more troops south to protect Egypt allowing German troops to put more pressure on Turkey and Palestine. The Americans received stiff resistence from French and Colonial troops but continued to push North. And the Germans faced less resistence from the Egyptins who welcomed them as liberators form British occupation.

Mexican troops continued to lose ground and with more troops coming from the North and South. Mexico City fell and Jose Antonio Uruiza was captured by Anti-facsist Para-military groups aiding the Americans at the behest of  Juan Andreu Almazan who established a provisional government in the capital. American troops captured the remaining troops in Guetemala and El Salvador were they were welcomed as saviors. Mexico was forced to sign the treaty of Vera Cruz which forced them to disarm the Mexican armed forces and create only local militias and to begin disarming theri heavy industry to avoid further production of weapons, to allow American Occupation of Northern Mexico up to Chihuahua Pacific Railway and The Yucatan were American troops moved into to keep a tight control on the region. Despite Protests from Juan Andreu Almazan and leaders of the new governement the Americans gave them two choices occupation or loss of land to the U.S.A., Mexico reluctantly excepted the former. With this Belize was taken as well. cutting at the British even more. With this all fighting on the American continent ceased.

Afrikaneer rebels succeeded in taking cotrol of much of the Colony of South Africa with the Pro-British whites finalyl giving in seeing as the war was not going well for the British, and Cape Town fell near the end of 1944 the Afrikaneers declared the Republic of South Afrika, and swiftly aligned themselves with the Germans, though they still faced resistence from many pro-british and from black africns the new Afrikaneer Republic was recognised by most of the Allies except the U.S.A. The Afirkaneers began fighting against the British Colonists in Rhodesia, and aganist black nationalists carrying out widespread massacres against th blacks, despite widespread outrage from the Several members of the December Pact Germany turned a blind eye as it needed them as an ally and the Afrikaneer practises were similar to those carried out by German trained minorities in Syria aimed at keeping the un-cooperative majority in line. The war in  Central Africa was turning around as well as German Colonial troops began pushing into Nigeria and French Africa, While others defended against the Egyptian rebels took positions away from British troops and Americans and Americans.

Japanese troops continued to fight in China, the IJN, the Nationalist and the Communist forces all began brutally murdering all those they thought were collaborating with the side, the death toll in China was far exceeding that of any other theatre of the war with the Japanese focusing most of their resources on smashing China. However, the constant loss of Japanese lives was starting to make many in the Diet uncomfortable ,and demanded that the Military end the war soon before Japan started running into dept and bleeding dry. The nationalists now receiving even less resources form Russia now was on its last legs as Communists continued to gain more support and the Japanese continued to take valuable and populated areas of China for the Reorganized Government. Chiang was becoming increasingly Irrational, was becoming more and more prone to bursts of rage of giving orders that the forces simply couldn't do, eventually he was betrayed in November by his own military and was handed over to the Communists, from there most of the Chinese nationalist forces defected to the Communists seeing that the Chinese best chance of defeating the Japanese was united, while some troops who couldn't see past ideological differences defected to Wang Jingwei's Regime back in Nanjing, from here on the war finally stabilized a bit with the Japanese and Chinese collaborators holding on to eastern China and the entire coastline while the Communist-led forces swiftly reorganized themselves and took control of Western China, (not including Sinking and Tibet) Both sides continued to retaliate against one another with increasing brutality, leading to even more deaths of Chinese civilians. The Rise of Communist troops in China lead to Trotsky's decision to return to Russia and organize the second Communist uprising.

Trostky returned to Siberia Via Mongolia with his most loyal followers and actively began a Guerilla campaign against the Ultra-nationalist Regime. The returning strength alarmed both the Entente and the Allies as it showed them that someting needed to be done about the war quickly. The Russian Government signed aggreed to an unofficial cease fire with Japanese forces this allowed the Russians to focus on the Germans aand the Communists in Siberia, While it allowed the Japanese a breather and freed up unites to fight farther south against Chinese and rebels in occupied territories.

The Indian National Army continued to gain land as the British forces lost strength and supplies facing increasingly harmful blockades by Allied forces, and largely due to large scale defections of Indian nationals in the British Raj. Madras and Bengal lay completely in INA hands and the Azad Hind declared the Republic of India on the 10th of December 1944 receiving Recognition by all Allied nations, the Japanese hoped to control the new nation in the post war. However, American and German interests contradicted the Japanese as they wanted a nation strong enough to counter Japanese interests in Asia, the Capital of the new Republic wa declared in Madras and troops began moving out of the liberated areas with the intent of Reaching Kashmir and Liberating the whole Subcontinent, Cyclon soon feel as well followed by southern India.

German advances into Russia continued in the south while the north remained firmly divided between Russian and E.E.C. forces. E.E.C. troops pushed out of Ukraine and into the Caucasian region aiming at capturing the Oil Fields and cutting off the Turkish and Russian from one aonther once and for all. The battle of the Volgo River (much alrger in comparison to OTL Battle of Stalingrad)) started in November 1944 and proved to be the focus point of both Russian and German forces, who ever won the battle would take control of the region definatively, Large casualties began at once as both sides pounded the other to nothing with the city of Tsaritsyn (stalingrad or Volgograd nowadays) being reduced to ruins within 2 months of the start of engagements.

On November 5th 1944 the three major powers met in NewYork, with German Chancellor Fredrich Hielscher representing Germany, President Roosevelt the U.S.A. and Prime Minister Matajiro Koizome who met to discuss the post war Politics, it was decided that Germany would go ahead with forming an expanded European Community and would be charged with dealing with the post war Europe and parts of the middle east. The U.S.A. would be granted its sphere of the Americas along with influence over the British Isles and Oceania. Japan's presence across East Asia would be tolerated by the U.S.A. ad Germany as long as they didn't try and expand their influence into India, Oceania and the Philippines. Also it was agreed that all three powers would atempt to create a new organization dedicated to maintaining order and peace in the world, in the face of the League's failure. Finally it discussed the importance of containing and eradicating a newly resurgent Communism and ending Entente Militarism. The outlines of the New York Conference laid down the foundations for the post war, and is seen today as the beginning of the Tri-Power Era which stands to this day, the War on Communism, and the Japanese-American Cold War, the German-Japanese schism, along with the American-German economic and scientific rivalry (friendly one).

Germany's Bomb program was still advancing and many thought a bomb would be ready b the end of 1945 while the American program was slightly behind and American scientists calculated that the U.S.A. would have their first bomb by mid to late 1946.

The Start of 1945 saw the start of the end of the war the Germans now marching on Paris having taking Antwerp and most Belguim by now, and fighting on the brutal Caucasian Front against Russian forces, and the Americans pouring more troops into North Africa and Spain to take pressure the Entente more. With The British rapidly pulling out of several of their colonies around the globe to help defend the homeland,  the Suez, Gibraltar and France, much of the British colonies were either falling to Allied forces or Independence groups interested in finally achieving emancipation from the British. The Germans would finally begin pushing into Palestine where they faced heavy resistance form the Sunni-Srab majority and the Jewish volunteers began organizing their state under German protection while they helped fight the war in the Middle East. Iraq was in complete chaos with the Shi'ite majority fighting against the Sunni with German support. Turkey was rapidly losing ground now as it was starting to bleed dry while more and more E.E.C. re-inforcements came in from Hungary.

The British military finally decided that it was time to cut their losses or suffer a defeat unabarable for the U.K. when they attempted to get Oswald and Edward to realize this they were simply rebuted. Finally deciding itt was time to do something the military launched a coup against the Govenment backed by popular support a tired population, and released Prince Albert and Churchill, Oswald and his crownies were locked in the Tower of London while Edward was forced to abdicate, which he did unwillingly he and his family were subsequently sent into exile by the military he went to Portugal which still remained a neutral state, Albert was quickly declared King George VI, and Churchill was declared the new prime minister. Churchill seeing how dire the war had become requested a cease fire with the Allies and promised to not enter the conflcit further. The Americans and Germans accepted while the Japanese also reluctantly agreed only the INA wanted to continue fighting to finish the liberation but did agree eventually to cease pushing towards Dehli. However, the Americans demanded the complete withdrawal of British troops from Ireland and Newfoundland which the British agreed to. After the ceasefire with Britain was declared the British forces in most fronts simply did one of two things, ignore the orders and joni up with the French forces or they put down their arms and surrendered to German or American troops who saw to it that they left the conflict. The French and Russians declared the British withdrawal from the war a betrayal of unfathomable proportions while the new government in Britain portrayed the war one of madmen and dreamers who had cost the British their Empire. Churchill, though a stout nationalist and Imperialist, was also a realist and saw that the loss of the British Empire was irreversible and blamed it all on Mosley and Edward who couldn't see the bigger picture. Australia and New Zealand declared their return to the British fold with the rise of their sovereign King George.

With the support of the British Navy and Gibraltar closing its doors to the Falange and French Spanish troops supported by Americans swiftly retook most lands captured in the previous year and began the invasion of Southern France. The German advances into Egypt halted and were redirected West along with Ameriicans pushing from the East Tunisia and Algeria soon fell to allied guns, with most of the forces surrendering too the allies. The German Iimperial Army and the U.S. Army meet up in Algiers were they launched the joint invasion of Southern France from the Spain and Northern Italy in April 1945. Facing the joint invasion from both Belgium and from the south the French had no choice but to surrender by late 1945. The French and British Nuclear program was dismantled by the German and American forces and the data sent back to either Berlin or the States.

Unfortunately, Roosevelt was in increasingly declining health and suffered from a stroke on the 12th of April, just barely surviving, he would soon after resign as president leaving his vice-president Harry S. Truman became president being sworn in, he swore he would continue the war effort against the Entente who had disturbed world peace. Despite his survival Roosevelt was not his old self, while still very capable mentally he was very restricted in his movements from then on, and signs of menta deterioration in the years to come would be seen. However, he anxiously looked forward to the end of the war and the beginning of a new era.

The battle of the Volgo finally ended in mid-September after months of brutal fighting with the German forces barely defeating the Russians and moving into the Caucasian Mountains. The battle showed the Allies that Russia would not fall without massive losses of life and could probably survive for at least another year if it withdraw from western Russia costing the Germans even more loss of life. Thankfully, the German Nuclear program had finally brought about success with Germany detonating the world's first nuclear bomb on the 14th of October in secret in the North Atlantic with the Americans as witness to it. Then Germany issued a warning to Russia to ether surrender or face absolute distruction,.However, Denikin refused to surrender and tried to organize an assault on German lines. On the first of January 1946 German forces withdrew from the vecinity of Petrograd and an Arado Jet Bomber dropped the German Hydrogen Bomb nicknamed "Napoleon Ranche" Napoleon's Revenge which completely whipped the Russian Capital off the face of the Earth another was dropped two days later over Vologda, killing nearly a million people between the two and killing most of the government only some minor politicians survived along with Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich and his family. Vladimir was swiftly pronounced The new Tsar by a new Duma filled with lightweights and imcompetents, His sister was married to Louis Ferdinand the second Prince of Germany and Vladimir had along with his father Cyril always been against the war with Germany and hand generally been on friendly terms with them unlike his weak and gullible cousin who now lay dead in the ruins of the Country's once glorious cultural centre, Vladimir while hurt at the losses his country had suffered from the war, he demanded the Duma prepare an unconditional surrender which was broadcast across the Russian Empire. This further fueled the Communist ambitions as they grew in numbers taking parts of Siberia and some White generals defecting simply to avoid having to surender to the Germans. The Capital was moved to Moscow and German Imperial Forces began disarming the Russian forces offically ending the War in Europe. Days after the defeat of Russia, Turkey the last member of the Entente apart from China asked for a ceasefire hoping to avoid the same fate as Russia.

The destruction caused by the nuclear bomb shocked the world and Japan now realizing just how distructive it could be began rushing their program, the Rest of the defeated Entente realized just how close the had been to suffering a similar fate, and the Frankfurt Conference started on the 4th of March 1946 to put and end an official end to the conflict, the only warring parties still left were Japan and Communist China (which none of the signature nations recognized.)

The Peace Negotiations decided the following: For Further details see The Frankfurt Conference
 * Japanese Dominance in the Orient
 * The concession of all European colonies in the Americas to the U.S.A. with the exception of Belize which was ceded to Guatemala, the Falkland Islands and NewFoundland which were allowed to remain a part of the British empire. (The Netherlands were pressured to sell their colonies to the U.S.). And the formation of the Republic of Quebec and the Canadian Federation.
 * The Independence of Egypt, South Africa, India, and Ethiopia along with a few other former Entente Colonies.
 * Formation of the State of Israel.
 * Some minor concessions of Colonies to Germany in Africa.
 * The Creation of the United Kingdoms of Oceania.
 * The Partial occupation of France and the complete disbanding of its armed forces.
 * The Occupation of Western Russia, and the creation of the Caucasian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. Minor concessions to Ukraine and Finland. End of the Russian Empire and the beginning of the second Tsardom of Russia, The Russian Far East under Japanese Occupation.
 * The concession of Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.
 * The occupation of Belguim under German and Dutch forces.
 * hand over of various territories in Europe from Entente countries to the Allies.

The Beginning of the Tri-Power Era, The War on Communism Begins
The end of the Second Great War as it was called now saw the death of over 70,000,000 people with the number climbing in the Orient with the Second Sino-Japanese war still going on, and with the complete distruction of a whole Generation in many of the former belligrants with France suffering the greatest loss of life which put the numbers lost in the first great war to shame. Germany was left as the top dog in Europe once and for all, but the damage done to Germany and the E.E.C. was beyond belief and the scars left on Central Europe from the atrocities commited by Russia and France would not be forgotten or forgiven. Germany made sure it would keep France and Russia docile at any cost and never allow either to threaten the Fatherland ever again. Japan was left as the master of East Asia as it had always dreamed to be. However, its hegemony was challenged by American interests, The threat of Communism and the possible rise of an Indian regional power it had helped create. The U.S.A. came off the war vast new power and as the undisputed leader of the English speaking world and of the Americas. It now possessed territories in both Americas, and had suffered very little damage during the conflict. The U.S.A. and Germany would be recognized as the leading powers in the demise of the traditional great powers and Japan was there as well but many still looked down on the Empire of the Rising Sun as it was a great power but not a white one and was behind the U.S.A. and Germany in terms of industrial capacity and technology, though it was catching up and now had an unofficial empire to help it achieve its goals. The British Navy while still a formidable force had been depleted rapidly by the Allied Powers and the match was now smaller in comparison to the German and American Navies and was slowly falling behind the Japanese empire which hoped to achieve a massive fleet to maintain its power. The war had also brought the German Empire and Austria closer then ever before and talks about a possible unification of the two Germn states had become a major issue in political circles in both countries.

A major affect of the war on the world was it brought about a sense of nationalism through the world, many groups looked at the independence of countries like India and Egypt, hoping to gain independence themselves, largely in the remaining Entente Colonies and but also in German Central Afrika, Syria, and Korea. The German Empire wanted to maintain control of their African empire no matter what but saw that some form of autonomy would be necesary to sustain its control there along with easing on its methods of rule. German South West Afrika was while a colony of the Empire it provided little for the Fatherland and was costly to maintain. It was decided that the colony would be ceded to South Africa in exchange for mining rights in the White man's country and for a treaty of friendship and mutual cooperation, while plans were set by the Reichstag and the colonial department to little by little grant autonomy to the Colonies that made up Central German Afrika and the newly formed German Gold Coast (Togoland, British Gold Coast, Burkino Faso, and Benin). However, it was considered important to establish stable governments that would prove pro-German and retain close ties with the Fatherland, these plans along with the alliance with South Afrika is considered the start of White Africa (a series of states lead by White minority governments in most of Central and South Africa which have close ties to Germany) by modern historians.

The Situation in the middle east was a mess the British were forced to withdraw from their territories in the area and this left a very unstable situation in the region, with the Iraqi internal turmoil expanding and the fighting between the Shi'ite and Sunni intensifying, and the Germans were planning to withdraw from Syria but were setting things up so that the Maronites and Alawites were left in power. They also supported the creation of the State of Israel which included OTL Israel plus the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, This left the region in deep instabilty as more and more Jews from Eastern Europe poured into the new state. The neighboring Sunni states were greatly displeased by this but couldn't do much about it with the Germans still supporting the state and with a strong alliane being formed between the jews and the minorities in Syria which also had poor relations with the Sunni.

Europe was in absolute ruins. The Russian and German campaigns had left Eastern Europe in a state never before felt, and the E.E.C. set about at once trying to fix their destroyed homeland. Germany began lending extensive funds through various programs to help try and rebuild its broken allies, These funds went along way to helping fuel the Eastern reconstruction.

Many German and Austrian politicians had began talking about possible unification as they both were German states and the Austrian government ws lagging behind economically and had suffered greatly from the strain the war had brought upon it. The idea of joining the German Empire, however, didn't sit well with the Italian and Slovanian minorities in southern Austria and began protesting continued Austrian rule without proper representation in the overnment and without the right to vote on their future. At the pressure of Germany and the U.S.A. the Austrian government held two referendums ,in 1948, one in Slovania and the other in Trieste on their future. Trieste to join a recently reunited Kingdom of Italy, while Slovania voted for independence. Within months plans to formally unite Germany and Austria were started with a five year program aimed at progressively integrate the Austrian economy and military into the German Empire. These plans came as a shock to Europe and the world, but was recognized by the Americans as the common will of the German people while it was protested by several other countries including France, Poland and a few others, who feared even more German expansion, but these protests came about nothing as Poland was incapable of standing up to its ally which had crushed both Russia and France, While France had been absolutely defeated by the allies and currently lay at the mercy of Germany. Many Germans on both sides of the border cheered for the final move towards Greater Germany. However, there were those in Austria who feared the loss of their independence and the subordination to Prussia within the German Reich and there were those in Germany who feared being tied down by their southern brothers. However, the vast majority supported the unification of Germany under the current constitutional monarchy (for details read the reforms in 1924 in the previous part of the Timeline) under Wilhelm III, who had seen his country through a victory even greater and far more decisive then his father the deceased Wilhelm II. The German Imperial forces were slowly demobolized with only 2,100,000 about a sixth of the wartime size which had reached 12,000,000 troops by the end, and began returning to their homes were they tried to return to normal society with difficulty. German troops remaining were maintaining order throughout occupied territories or protecting the homeland. Technology had advanced a great deal over the past few years with Germany well ahead of most of the other nations except the United States which was catching up having detonated their own nuclear bomb in 1947 becoming the second country to do so. Germany was slowly phasing out the weaponry and vehicules it had since 1935 and had used throughout the war, with the Stg 43 also being planned to be replaced as soon as possible by a new assault rifle (the G3) in development by Mauser, though it was likely to be ready in 1953 or 54. The research into rocket technology finally began taking greater importance in German projects with the direct threat of its enemies effectively over, and with the growing dream of someday going to space, the Americans and Japanese finally caught  onto the German intentions, and began following German steps towards rocket technology but were far behind their European counterpart. While German society tried to piece itself together it was in the midst of the greatest of all its victories and the feeling of finally being on top was enjoyed by everyone in the Empire despite the massive costs it had taken to achieve this goal, and amidst the surging nationalism, people's spirits were at a high and willing to rebuild and restore, and a will to let loose and live life to the fullest, many cultural ideas which had began to take form in the pre-war like Jazz, swing, less conservative clothing and other things began to gain popularity in the new era.

Italian Proper was finally united again with the return of Veneto to Italy as promised by German government. However, in turn the region must be demilitarized and German forces were allowed to occupy the region though the occupation force was much smller then the ones in Western Russia or in France. Italians were at a general low feeling as they had gone into the war with the expectations of recreating the Foman Empire, and they came out barely standing at the mercy of Germany, and having lost Ethiopia and Eritrea, The Italians blamed Mussolini for the disaster and they lost all faith in republicanism with many voting for the continuation of the monarchy under Umberto, since the royal family had been political enemies of the Fascists since their exile. The Colonies of Kibya and Somalia were growing increasingly restless as they saw the weakness of both the Italians and their former allies, and independence movements began to grow. Italian industry had never been strong in comparison to other countries in Europe and soon fell behind as the war ended.

Russia was hit hardest by the war. The amount of lives lost in the conflcit was atrocious and the dropping of the nuclear bomb of Petrograd, along with the absolute defeat and humiliating defeat crushed the Russian spirits more then anything else, and left the population with a distrust in the monarchy and right wing politicians that would be very hard to restore. Russia lost over 11,000,000 lives in the bloody campaigns and in the dropping of nuclear bomb, not including the lives taken by the Russian government. It had lost the Caucasus region which became the Caucasian Federation an independent state under the protection of Germany and the E.E.C., also Belarus had been carved out of Western Russia cutting into Russian lands further, not to mention the areas ceded to Ukraine and Finland.Many began joining the Red revolution which was well under way in Siberia taking control of vast areas of the Russian wasteland. Germany allowed the Russian government to preserve their armed forces to fight the Communists and even provided them with weapons once more, this only created greater hatred towards the government which was seen as collaborators. The Russian government began attempting to duplicate the same sort of weapon as the German STG which was accepted as a marvel by all countries and considere the next step forward in rifles as they greatly outfired semi-automatics, let alone bolt action, but had little success at first. The fighting east of the Urals was picking up as the Tsarist Army engaged Communist rebels, but the fighting was a stalemate despite German support.

Britain had lost its place as the primary world power by the end of the Second Great War and had been reduced to a shadow of its former glory, having lost Gibraltar, India, Egypt, the Middle East, its dominions, and its American colonies as well as its Asian ones. It had accepted Indonesian annexation of Northern Borneo while it ceded Singapore and Hong Kong to Japan and northern Malaya along with the Shan States to Siam, and finally had to grant Independence to Malaya, stripping. Plus what was left of its colonial empire was on the border of revolution. However, the Ilses hadn't suffered that much damage which was more then could be said for their allies, and still held onto a few key points across the globe. The British considered themselves lucky for not suffering the same fate as their former allies who faced extreme internal instability and foriegn occupation though the Americans were permited to enter Britain at will as agreed by the Frankfurt conference. The British held a deep resentment towards the German Empire for coming out of two world wars with major gains in terms of international standing and for having taking a pivotal role in the end of the British days of Glory, but the British equally resented their allies for starting the senseless war which cost them so much and they blamed the the authoritorian reign of Edward and Oswald which was the ultimate cause of the Briitsh fall from power. The faith in the monarchy was at an all time low as it had been at the urges of King Edward that Oswald had come to power and entered the Second Great War. Protests against the crown were strong throughout England and Scotland while Oceania remained largely loyal out of wish for stability and fear of the Japanese to the north. Despite the revolts King George would put a large effort to work together with Churchill to restore properity and strength to the U.K. gaining large aid from the U.S.A. who saw it fit to pump up the British economy again to improve trade and create a strategic ally in Europe in case relations with Germany soured. The fact that the Americans also spoke English and shared a common heritage allowed the tensions between the two countries to dissipate, and through many meetings between leaders of the anglophone world, closer relations and cooperation was being established. Though the Commonwealth was effectively dead it was supplemented by the English Heritage assosiation. Somehow the Monarchy in the U.K. largely thanks to the reasoning that should the monarchy go the U.K. would fall apart and neither Scotland nor England alone could hope to compete in the everchanging world against the Eagle  and the Falcon.

East Asia was starting its reconstruction like the rest of the world but the Japanese were still engaged in a bloody war against the Chinese Communists who were still holding strong and trying  to gain ground without much success and with large casualties on both sides. The Chinese government in Nanjing was forced to sign the treaty of Shanghai, legalizing permanent stationing of Japanese troops on Chinese soil and Recognizing the Independence of Manchukou along with Japanese annexation of Hong Kong and Hainan. Wang Jingwei had passed away in 1945 (a year later then OTL) due to old wounds from an assasination attempt and was succeded by Chen Gongbo. Chen tried to carry in the shoes of his predecessor but also proved to be less cooperative then Wang had been and often spoke out against Japanese brutalities against his countrymen, he was eventually desposed of in 1947 by the Kempeitai who had him assasinated during the evening. He was replaced by Wang's brother in law Chu Minyi as the President of China. His position was looked over closer now as to keep him and subsequently China in line with Japanese interests. The War against the Communists was neither going poorly nor was it advancing the death of Japanese and East Asians fighting the Communists was appalling and starting to bring the  attention of Japanese society and Medias which weren't as well controlled as OTL (since Japan remained a democracy and hadn't become a military dictatorship) and of the International community who were pushing for Japan to end its violence in the Orient.

Korea was on the verge of a revolution with the Koreans tired of Japanese suppression of their culture and the brutality towards their people. many Koreans were throwing their support behind rising nationalist and Communist Kim Il-sung who was a vocal anti-Japanese and had evaded capture by fighting alongside the Communists in China against the Japanese, he successfully made contact with several anti-Japanese politicians in Korea through various connections and soon became a close ally of Kim Tu-bong and Choi Yong-kun who were leading a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria alongside Communists Chinese trapped behind Japanese lines. Other important contacts he made were Kim Won-bong, Kim Kyu-sik, Kim Gu, among others, through the connections these nationalists made and due to the large connection they had with the Communist Regime in Western China, and with Trostky's Communist revolt in Siberia the Korean Independence movement became very close with the Communist struggle against Imperialism and Right Wing politics creating a very leftist revolutionary movement. The Korean strugge for independence and the Chinese war against Imperial Japan, started to influence many other nationalist groups in East Asia bringing out similar anti-imperialist movements which became close to the Communist fight, leaders such as indonesian Sukarno became close friends with the other revolutionaries throughout east asia, and swiftly drifted apart from former allies who were deemed collaborators with the Japanese and the nationalist causes in East Asia swiftly divided between left-wing anti-imperialists and right wing nationalists who co-operated with the Japanese.

The INA or Azad Hind had successfully gained the independence of India by supporting the Allied war effort and at the Frankfurt conference Britain was forced to cede the rest of British India to the newly founded Republic of India, it created a single party system as Bose and his colleges didn't believe that India was ready for a mutli-party system. However, it was made of all the major independence leaders. However, the new state had several problems that had alway been present. The Muslim minority and Hindu majority which had been united in fight for independence soon began drifting apart as they both tried assert their supremacy over the other. Bose and other leaders of the National Congress tried to hold together the country and make concessions to the muslims. However, this was largely in vain as the muslims wanted to take power, guerilla warfare soon began in the Bengal region and in the North West (OTL Pakistan) the fighting would soon blow up into a full scale civil war. Japan closed off Burma's borders after the government in Madras refused its offer to support their war effort and instead turned to the Germans and Americans which was sent in the form of firearms, and advisors to train the Indian army, The Indian National Army proved much more capable of fighting then the Muslim rebels since they were largely made up of former Raj forces or of thoe who had fought under the Azad Hind banner. However, the Muslims were proving tough and often feel to commiting atrocities towards Hindu minorities in areas they controlled to avoid collaboration with the national government. The government began trying to stabalize the country showing all non-combatents the brutality that the muslim rebels used against them, though some units of the national military also commited retaliotory violence against rebels and towns captured. The world media watched closely the war as it progressed despite the fighting in the North the south remained largely peaceful and the revolutionary government made out of a coliation of both right wing and left wing nationalists tried to form a solid and stable country, promoting to mix socialism with indian nationalism to try and build up both the economy and society. though the task was deemed a hard one to accomplish, the Indian National Congress set about trying to build a single prosperious indian state, and unite all citizens of the sub-continent under its banner and forge a united entity under the natino's diversity. as time passed the war became brutaler as neither side ot do away with the other though the Muslims lost most of their control in the Bengal region, they still held onto various parts of the Nortwest.

The U.S.A.came out of the war with the most benifits of all the winning factions, it had decisively beat all challangers in North America and establsihed itself as one of the three post war powers, alongside the nuclear power Germany, and the Asian Empire of Japan. It had gained a large area of land at little cost of life, and had become the leader of the english speaking world, and the sole leader of the Western Hemisphere. In late 1947 The U.S. detonaated it's first nuclear weapon in Alaska, making it the second power to achieve nuclear status. This scared Japan even further as it's largest rival was now in possesion of a nuclear weapon, the explosion was publicized across the world, and American medias enthusiatically welcomed it claiming the Kaiser is no longer alone. However, the occupation of Mexico was becoming unpopular amongst Americans who wanted to see their loved ones return home while it was considered by many politicians and newspapers who cliamed Mexico could no longer resist American might, despite this growing tension the government refused to withdraw since it wanted to ensure Mexican loyalty to D.C. and as the first step to the new plan to combat Communism in America thorugh the new interpretation of the pre-war Big Brother Policy by creating a military and economic bloc under absolute American influence, Quebec was already in line with this as was Caracas, Bogota and the nations of Central America (despite the start of the violencia both major parties were pro-American). the government in Mexico was in line with American interests unless it wanted to suffer worse then it already was. Cuba fell in line quickly with the American foreign policy. However, there was a growing Communist presence in "America's backyard" as the Caribbean, Central and North, South America was now called as anti-American groups were growing. The Military began undergoing modernization efforts as the Americans raced to recreate the German assault rifle and other German inventions, accumulating to the future M14. The U.S.A. looked across both the oceans and saw political and economic rivals, while it looked poorly towards Japan, a mutual respect and mild trust had been establsihed between Imperial Germany and America, leading to increased diplomatic relations, increased trade, and a division of power with neither wanting to disturb the other giant.

South America was adjusting to the new world situation harshly, the Americans swiftly began substituting the old British market in Argentina and Chile, and it tried to increase its influence over the continent to avoid it falling into the hands of communist governments, through buisness and covert operations. turmiol was growing in the Cono sur as the liberal and conservative governments became increasingly aligned with American interests while the distribution of wealth was very unequal and caused large tension between the lower classes on the traditional aristocracy. In the Violencia which was rocking Colombia many rural communities began puttin together militias to protect themsselves froom either the conservative or the liberal forces, often aligning themselves with Marxist or leninist ideals.