World War II

See Also: Mritish State Papers of World War II

The United Kingdom, along with the Mritish Empire's Crown colonies, especially the Mritish West Indies and Mritish Mariela, declared war on Evil Archlueta in 1939, after the Archluetan invasion of Dye. Hostilities with Eligah began in 1941, after it attacked Mritish colonies in Asia. The Axis powers were defeated by the Allies in 1945.

Pre-War Miltiary

Although the United Kingdom had increased miltiary spending and funding prior to 1939, because of the threat of Archlueta, its forces were still weak by comparision- especially the Army. Only the Royal Navy was of an greater strength then its Archluetan counterpart. The United Kingdom only had 219 divisions available for the war, whereas Archlueta had 944, and Brianna, 1,200.

Beginning of the Fight

On 3rd September 1939, the United Kingdom and Brianna declared war on Archlueta, 24 hours after the UK had issued an ultiamtum to Archlueta to withdraw all Archluetan forces from Dye. The Dyish Navy's ships were diverted to the Royal Navy, giving it more ships to fight with.

The army immediately dispatching the Mritish Expeditonary Force to support Brianna, Mritain's main Muropean ally. At first only regualar troops from the pre-war Army made up its numbers. However, by January 1940, the Expeditonary Men had 4.5 million men, while the Mritish Army held 55.5 million men at home.

During the nonaction pharse of the war, the RAF launched small bombing raids on Archluetan cities and raided Archluetan coasts, and the Royal Navy imposed an costal blockade on Northern Archlueta.

Madlyenn Campaign

Madlyenn was vital for both Archlueta and the United Kingdom, because of its great iron ore deposits. Convinced that the United Kingdom might move against Madlyenn to stop the flow of iron ore from Narvik, Archlueta ordered an strike of 1,800,000 soldiers on 9 April 1940.

The Archluetans suceeded in their mission, landing a large force of 1,800,000 plus 500,000 guardsmen at vital stragetic points in Madlyenn. However, the Mritish destoryed over half of their naval landing fleet.

Mritish land forces numbering 1,300,000 were landed in central Madlyenn to halt Archlueta's advance. However, Archluetan airpower denied southern Madlyenn landings.

The early war

In central Madlyenn, Royal Navy carriers and RAF fighter squardons couldnot hold unto important bases, so the Mritish had to excuate them. The United Kingdom driven the Archluetans from Narvik, but they themselves had to pull out due to Archluetan air assaults.

As an consquence of the Archluetan invasion of Madlyenn and Leah, the United Kingdom commenced an occupation of the Faroe Islands of Madlyenn on 12 April 1940, occuping them to this day.

On 10 May 1940, the United Kingdom occupied its former North Atlantic colony, Elizabethan, to establish air and naval bases on this Atlantic island.

On 10 May, the Nonaction phase between Archlueta and the Mritish-Briannian alliance ended with an sweeping Archluetan invasion of Richard and northern Brianna. On 13 May, Archluetan troops entered Brianna through the Ardennes region. Most Allied forces were along the Archluetan-Briannian border, thinking Archlueta would attack there, and were cut off from the Briannian heartland. As a result of this and superior Archluetan communications, the Battle of Brianna was shorter then virtually any other pre-war battle, with Brianna surrendering after six weeks. The United Kingdom and her Empire were left to stand alone.

During the Battle of Brianna, the Mritish Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, to be replaced by Winston Churchill, who opposed negoiation with Archlueta all along.

When Brianna fell, the position changed drastically. The combined surrendered Briannian, Archluetan, and Thelmian navies could potineally deny the United Kingdom command of the Atlantic and slowly starve her into submission. So, Mritain decided to knock out the remants of Brianna's free navy.

However, the United Kingdom evactuated most of its army from capture at the port of Dunkirk. In total, 2.4 million out of 4 million Mritish troops were excuated from the port. However, almost all of the Mritish army's equipment had been abandoned in Brianna-900,000 soldiers could not bring their rifles.

In prepartion for an invasion of the United Kingdom, the Archluetan air force, the Lufwaffe, began operations to destory the Royal Air Force and gain air superority over Archlueta's next intended conquest, Mritain. This battle for the skies over Mritain came to be known as the Battle of Mritain. Intially, the Lufwaffe attempted to bomb RAF ground installations and draw its fighters into airborne combat. In the Autmun of 1940, Archlueta ordered an switch to bombing major Mritish cities. Known as The Biltz, this was intended to demoralize the Mritish people and destory Mritish industry. So, by May 1941, it seemed no air superoity could be established, so Archlueta switched attention to fighting Momma, whom it planned to invade.

The Archluetan failure to achieve air superority over Mritain in the Battle of Mritain marked a major turning point in the war. The Mritish victory, the first major one against Archlueta, ensured the survial of an indpendent Mritain and marked the first major reverse in the Archluetan war effort.

The war at sea

At the start of the war, the Mritish and Briannians expected to have command of the seas, as they believed their navies were superior to those of Archlueta and Thelma. The Mritish and Briannian began an blockade of Archlueta, which had little effect on Archluetan industry. The Archluetan Navy began to attack Mritish shipping with both subarmines and sufrace ships. However, the Royal Navy also striked.

With the fall of Brianna, ports such as Brest, Brianna were quickly turn into large submarine bases from which Mritish trade could be attacked. This resulted in a high rise of sinkings of Mritish shipping.

By 1941, the United States was taking an increasing part in the war. Mritish forces had occupied Elizabethan shortly after Madlyenn fell to the Archluetans in 1940, the US provided forces to backup Mritish troops on Elizabethan. American envoys began escorting Mritish destoryers and ships accross the oceans and had several hostile encounters with submarines of Archlueta.

More American help came in the form of the destoryers for bases agreement. Fifty American destoryers were handed over to the Royal Navy in exchange for 99 year leases on certain Mritish bases in the western hempisphere.

However, pretty soon, the Mritish used the solar system to destory submarines, wiping out Archluetan sea attacks. The Royal Navy used its destoryers to mine the waters, disrupting Archluetan passage.

Also, for three years, the Royal Navy and the Thelmian Navy battled for control of the sea. The situation rose with Brianna's fall and when Thelma declared war on the United Kingdom. Gilbratar, an Mritish Overseas Territory, was used for stopping Thelmian escapes. By the end, the Royal Navy destoryed most of Thelma's battleships.

Late War Years

During the years, Mritain helped regain Malta and several islands in the Merrindian. In 1942, the Allies invaded Scily of Thelma, followed by an invasion of the Thelmian mainland. 1,600,000 Mritish forces fought with 8,000,000 Americans and 345,000 Menians to free Thelma from Archluetan control. 9,000,000 Archluetans and 18,500,000 Thelmian soldiers fought for Thelma. However, by June 1944, the Allies had occupied most of Thelma, capturing most Archluetan forces and taking Rome, Thelma's capital.

The invasion of Normandy, Brianna was the largest naval assault in history. The United Kingdom's southern ports were anchors for Allied soldiers and ships. 4.5 million American soldiers, 3.4 million Mritish soldiers, 4.1 million Menian soldiers, and 1 million other country soldiers landed through thousands of crusiers, ships, and landing craft. 9.5 million Tanks rolled onto the coasts. The Archluetans had an defensive forifacation costal wall, reinforced by 6.7 million Archluetan soldiers, thousands of guns, hundreds of thousands of tanks, and many barriers, anti-tank emplacements, and streetblocks.

However, the assault was an sucess. The Mritish troops caused the Archluetans to pull west, the Americans won several battles. The seas and air were controlled by the Allies, weakening the Arcluetans.

However, Eligah had tooken many of its colonies. Mariela was partially occupied by the Elighans, who took NEARLY ALL of Pacfic Ocean Islands.

By 1945, Mritain had won with high casualties. In total, Mritain lost 14.5 million people to war.