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The Second Great War, also known as Great War Two or simply GW2, was a global conflict that lasted from 1941 to 1944, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved most of the world's nations-including all of the great powers-eventually creating two opposed alliances: the Allies and the Axis, and was the most widespread war in history. In a state of total war, the combatants threw all of their industrial, economic and scientific resources behind the war effort. The war was also marked by mass bombings of industrial and population centers.
Although Japan was at war with China since 1937, the war generally began on June 22,1941, with the invasion of the Confederate States by the U.S.A.S, and subsequent declarations of war by Britain and Germany.
Background[]
North America, 1941-1943[]
Operation: Gustavus[]
The outbreak of war in North America took many Americans by surprise, as there was no formal declaration of war. After bombing raids, the U.S.A.S. Army in Ohio crossed the border into Kentucky.
Gustavus, the invasion of the South by the North, named after the "modern" Swedish king who marched south to liberate peoples there in the Thirty Years' War, was the brainchild of Gen. Darien MacArthur and Maj. Gen. Irving Morrell.
They realized that the main error committed by the North in the Great War was to concentrate the bulk of their efforts in the East toward the Confederate capitals of Washington and Richmond, instead of the industrial heartland of Kentucky and Tennessee.
They planned to use combined arms tactics to occupy Kentucky and Tennessee, attacking in ways to force the Confederates back, so that, while the Federals may take in casualties, they would take these important regions and demoralize the South. The Reds would then push through Georgia, take the economic center of Atlanta and split the Confederacy in half.
These were the USAS's objectives as Operation:Gustavus was launched. CID operatives were lined behind the Union armies, following Capone's infamous order that any troops or generals making an unauthorized retreat would be shot.
Kentucky[]
