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The Second World War or World War II, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a global war that lasted from 1941 to 1946.
The Second World War had its origins in the dismal ending of the First World War and was sparked by a French invasion of Germany with the ambition to retake Alsace-Lorraine. The region had been lost by Germany at the conclusion of the First World War, but both France and Germany erupted into civil war and the region self-declared as the Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic, which would remain independent for a few years before voluntary absorption into the new communist Germany.
The invasion of Germany by France, Italy, Poland, and Austria prompted a war declaration by the Soviet Union and Spain. The war would later spill over as France began an imperial reconquest and violated Belgium's neutrality, pulling the United Kingdom into the contest, while Japan contended in Asia in search of empire. The Commonwealth would find itself involved in the war by dispute closer to home. The United Southern States declaration of alliance with France was seen as a security blanket for the USS as well as for France. Both sides reasoned the CoA would be checked on attacking either France in support of the USSR as they were believed to be determinedly against a new war in North America in the immediate future. This would prove to be a flawed assumption and fatal. On September the 12th 1942 the Commonwealth entered the war after a formal alliance with the Soviet Union and a new front opened between the CoA and the USS, with an opening barrage and invasion into the United Southern States.
The North American Theatre ran from 12 September 1942 until 3 April 1944 with the Treaty of Memphis. The abrupt agreement to a peace treaty, with terms attached, by the Commonwealth can be viewed from the believed utmost need to save Europe, and their political allies, from total collapse. The defeat of the USS was inevitable (hence that nation's quick agreement of a treaty), but it would not have occurred in the immediate, but would have required lengthening of the war. The Commonwealth ultimately gained most of Florida, an agreement of military reduction by the USS, a large degree of material good and finances transferred over, an agreement of a prisoner exchange that included any black citizens of the USS to migrate north, the independence of a new Gullah state, a Commonwealth naval port in Corpus Christi, and the liberation of Haiti and the Bahamas.
The Commonwealth turned their gears to prepare for the conflict in Europe in the meantime. The CoA found itself in the bizarre situation of an alliance with the now named United States of Columbia, itself an ally of the United Kingdom, which was an ally of the Soviets, an ally of the Commonwealth, and thus a politically complex alliance formed in opposition to the French, Austrians, Italians, and, newly, the Japanese.
The Commonwealth focus remained solely in Europe however (while the USC remained focused merely on Japan, but signed in agreement that in the event of a USS revocation of the peace treaty and a renewal of conflict would bring about a joint Columbian-Commonwealth invasion of the USS. In any event this never occurred. By May 1944 the Commonwealth had gathered their forces in allied Spain, then on the bring of collapse but lingering on. A joint Commonwealth-British operation along North Africa took French and Italian forces over the course of 1944 while the Iberian Front slowly pushed north. This new front aided the Soviet-German forces in the east, who had already been pushing the Franco-Austrians back, and amplified this assault.
By June 19th 1946 the Quadragesimo had collapsed when Paris fell to Commonwealth and British forces nine days before. Germany had been retaken by the Soviet-German forces and Vienna was taken on the 17th of June. Italy had already been invaded from the south, via Africa, and the southern part of Austria had been occupied. The Quadragesimo, essentially, had little to no territory left and the Second World War came to its bloody conclusion in Europe. The dropping of the nuclear bomb by the the USC on Japan ended the war decidedly and peace was signed on July 21st 1946. The British-Columbian development of the bomb was made possible by resources gathered in the Belgian Congo and the exchange of ideas. Meanwhile the Commonwealth had been developing its own bomb in alliance with Germany and the Soviets, with refugee German scientists working between both the CoA and the USSR. By 1950 the Commonwealth and the Soviets had gained their own bombs, setting the stage for a new world tension.
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