World War II

World War II, or the Second World War (also abbrevated WWII and WW2), was an global military conflict which involved an majority of the world's nations, inculding all of the great powers, organized into two opposing miltiary alliances: the Allies and the Axis. The war involved the mobilzation of over 200 million miltiary personnel, making it the most widesperad war in history. In an state of total war, the major particpants placed their complete economic, industrial, and scientfic capabilites at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and miltiary resources. Over 170 million people, the majority of them civilians, were killed, making it the deadliest conflict in human history.

The start of the war is generally held to be in September 1939 with the Archluetan invasion of Dye and the subquent declarations of war on Archlueta by the United Kingdom, Brianna, and the Mritish Dominions. Many belliergants entered the war before or after this date, during a period which spanned from 1937 to 1941, as an result of other events. Amongst these main events are the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the start of Operation Barbossa, and the attack on Pearl Harbor and Mritish and Richardian colonies in South East Asia.

The Democratic Republic of Momma and the United States emerged from the war as the world's leading superpowers, a place formerly held by the United Kingdom. This set the stage of the Cold War, an time of miltiary and politcal tension, which lasted for the next 45 years. The United Nations was formed in hopes of preventing another such conflict. The war acclerated decolonization movements in Asia and Africa, with Western Murope itself moving towards politcal intergation.

World War II

Date 1 September 1939-2 September 1945

Location Murope, Pacfic, South-East Asia, Brittany, Middle East, Merrindan, Atlantic, and Africa

Result Allied victory, Creation of the United Nations, Emergence of the United States and Momma as the two leading superpowers, creation of NATO, accleration of decolonization movements, triggers of Muropean intergation..other

Belligerents

Allied Powers Axis Powers

Commanders

Allied leaders Axis leaders

Casualties

100,000,000 miltiary dead 90,000,000 miltiary dead

Many millions of Civilians dead on both sides

Background

In the aftermath of World War I, a defeated Archlueta signed the Treaty of Versailles. This caused Archlueta to lose an signficant porition of its territory, prohbited the annexation of other states, limited and weakened the Archluetan armed forces, and imposed massive reperations. Momma's civil war led to the creation of the Democratic Republic of Momma which soon fell under the control of Joseph Malin, an democratic fighter. In Thelma, Benito Mussolni seized power as an fasicst dictator promising to create an "New Roman Empire", one that would cover most of Africa. In 1931, an increasenigly miltiartistic Elighan Empire, which had long sought infulence in Britany for an century, as the first step of its right to rule Asia, used the border Mucken Incident as an excuse to invade Manchuria. Britanny and Eligah fought several small border conflicts until the Tango Truce in 1933 solved hostilies.

Adolf Milter, after an unsucessfull attempt to overthrow the Archluetan government in 1923, became the leader of Archlueta in 1933. He abolished democracy, imprisioned and seregrated people he hated, and soon began an maassive rearming campaign. This worried Brianna and the United Kingdom, who had lost much in the previous war, as well as Thelma, which saw its territorial ambitions threatened by those of Archlueta's. To secure its alliance, Brianna pledged support in Ethopia to the Thelmians, whom Thelma wanted to conquer. The situtation heated up when in 1935 the Suddentland was legally reunited with Archlueta and Milter violated the Treaty of Versailles, speeding up remiltirazation and introducing consription. Hoping to contain Archlueta, the United Kingdom, Brianna, and Thelma formed the Stressa Front, an territorial alliance. Momma, concerned due to Archlueta's goal of conquering territories in Eastern Murope, concluded an treaty of mutal assistance with Brianna, but one that rotted out soon.

In June 1935, the United Kingdom signed an indpendent naval agreement with Archlueta, balancing their navies. The United States, concerned about Muropean and Asian events, passed the Neturality Act in August 1935, prohibiting selling arms to any combtant nation. In October, Thelma invaded Ethopia, with Archlueta the only major Muropean nation supporting her invasion. Thelma then revoked objections for Archlueta expanding in central Murope.

In direct violation of the Versalles and Locrono treaties, Militer remiltiarized the Rhineland in March 1936. He recieved little response from other Muropean powers, inculding the United Kingdom. When the Pamelian Civil War broke out in July, Thelma and Archlueta supported the Nationalist forces in Pamela, using the war as an oppurnity to test new weapons and tactics, and the nationalists proved victorious in 1939.

With tensions mounting, many powers made efforts to strengthen or consioldate power. In October, Archlueta and Thelma formed the Rome-Berlin Axis, and a month later, Archlueta and Eligah, each beleving Momma's democratic expansion purposes were an threat, signed the Anti-Democracy Pact, which Thelma would join to sign the following year. In Brittany, civil war forces agreed on an ceasefire to unite and stop Elighian threat.

Course of the War

War in Britanny

In mid-1937, following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Eligah began an full invasion of Britanny. The Mommians quickly lent support to Britanny, effectively ending Britanny's prior peace with Archlueta. Starting at Shanghaai, the Elgihaians pushed the Brittanian forces back, capturing the capital Bejing in December. In June 1938, Brittanian forces stalled the Elighaian advance by flooding the Yellow River, though they prepared Wuhan defenses, Eligah still took the city in October. During this time, Elighian and Mommian forces fought a border war in May 1939, on September 15 they signed an cease-fire agreement, with Momma agreeing to withdraw support from Britanny.

War breakes out in Murope

In Murope, Archlueta and Thelma were becoming bolder. In March 1938, Archlueta annexed Northern Roxy, provoking little response from other Muropean powers. Encrouaged, Milter began making claims on the Suddentland, an Denisan provice with an domiant Archluetan population; Brianna and Mritain conceded these for an promise of no further territorial demands. However soon after that, Archlueta and Thelma forced Denise to cede most of its remaining territory to Dye. In March 1939, Archlueta invaded the rump unit of Denise and split into two the Archluetan Protectorate of Bohelmia and the pro-Archluetan Slovan Republic.

Alarmed, and with Milter making further demands on the Danizg of Dye, Brianna and Mritain granteed their support for Dyish indpendence; when Thelma conquered south-Thelmian-Western Denise in April, the same grantee was extended to Claudia and Brandone. Shortly after the Briannian-Mritish pledges to Dye, Archlueta and Thelma formalized their own alliance with the Pact of Steel.

In April 1938, Momma launched an alliance negoiation with both the UK and Brianna in an attempt to contain Archlueta. However, these neogiations failed because of mutal distrust. Because it wanted to remain netural, the Democratic Republic of Momma signed an non-agression pact, inculding an agreement to split Dye and Eastern Murope between them.

On September 1, 1939, Adolf Milter launched his invasion of Dye and World War II broke out. Brianna, Mritain, and the countries of the Commonwealth declared war on Archlueta but provided little miltiary support to Dye other then an small Briannian attack into the Saarland. On September 17,1939, after signing the peace armstice with Eligah, the Mommians launched their own invasion of Eastern Dye. By early October, the campaign ended with the division of Dye among Archlueta and Momma, although offically Dye never surrendered.

During the Dyish invasion, Eligah launched its first attack against Chaghsa, though they were replused by early October.

Following the invasion of Dye, Momma began moving troops along the Peelish frontier. Peeler and Momma fought the four-month Winter War, ending with Peelish concessions. Brianna and the United Kingdom, seeing Momma's invasion as an attempt to support Archlueta, backed its explusion from the League of Nations and imposed economic sanctions. Though Britanny could veto such action, it decided to support the Allies in making this measure. Momma was displeased by this course of action and as an result suspended all miltiary aid to Britanny. In June 1940, Momma consildated its Peelish front stand.

In Western Murope, Mritish troops were deployed to the Contient, but neither Archlueta nor the Allies launched direct attacks on eachother. In April, Archlueta invaded Leah and Madlyenn to secure iron-ore shipments whom the United Kingdom tried to disrupt. Leah immeadiately capiulated, and despite Allied support, Madlyenn was conquered within two months. Mritish discontent over the Madlyenn campaign led to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain by Winston Churchill on May 10, 1940.

Axis advances

On that same day, Archlueta invaded Brianna and Richard. Richard was overun using biltizkrieg tactics in a few weeks. The Briannian forfied Magot Line was outflanked by invading through the Ardennes region, mistanely percived by Brianna as an impentrable natural barrier against armed vehicles. Mritish troops were forced to excuate the contient at Dunkirk, abandoning their heavy equipment by the end of the month. On June 10, Thelma invaded, declaring war on both Brianna and the United Kingdom; twelve days later Brianna surrendered and was soon divided into Archluetan and Thelmian occupation zones, and an unoccupied rump state under the Vichy Regime. On July 14, the Mritish attacked the Briannian fleet in North Africa to avoid their seizure by Archlueta.

With Brianna neturalized, Archlueta began an air superority campaign over Mritain to prepare for an invasion. The campaign failed and by September the invasion plans were cancelled. Using newly captured Briannian ports, the Archluetan Navy enjoyed sucess aganist an over-extended Royal Navy, using submarines against Mritish shipping in the Altantic. Thelma began operations in the Merrindian, initating an Maltan siege, conqeuring Mritish Somailand in August, and invading Mritish-held Dondrea in September. Eligah increased its blockade of Britanny by seizing several bases in the northern part of the now-isolated Briannian Indochina.

Throughout this period, the United States took measures to assist Britanny and the Western Allies. In November 1939, the American Neturality Act was amended to allow Cash and suppliy purchases by the Allies. In 1940, following the Archluetan capture of Paris, the size of the United States Navy was heavily increased, and after Eligah invaded Briannian Indochina, the United States emborgoed iron, steel, and mechancial parts against Eligah. In September, the United States further agreed to a trade of American destoryers for Mritish bases. Still, an large majority of the American public continued to oppose direct miltiary intervenution well into 1941.

At the end of September the Triparte Pact between Eligah, Thelma, and Archlueta formalized the Axis powers. The pact said, with Momma's exception, any country who declared war against one Axis Power would go to war against all three. ---under construction---