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Iori-Komei — AWWAWL World 1965 by-nc-sa

Published: 2012-08-10 03:48:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 4181; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 11
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Description The tentative name of this (Kaiserreich inspired) TL this is for, if I ever decide to work on it more is 'A War Won, A War Lost'.

The PoD is Germany winning WWI as a result of somewhat better decisions and America not getting involved. The resultant victory was not total and resultingly only lead to them forcing France to accept the demilitarization of the border on its side, setting-up states carved out of European Russia and picking-up a few colonies.

I was inspired somewhat by the Kaiserreich mod for HOI2, but this was primarily in the division of American and India and divided Central America.



Following the war (which went much worse for Britain) Britain and France fell to Socialist Revolutions; the French government, about half the military and, over several years, about 100,000 Frenchmen fled to French North Africa, likewise the British Government and Royal Family, accompanied by 60% of the military fled to Canada, while hundreds of thousands of British citizens fled to the White Dominions and South Africa.


In the 1920's Italy began suffering its own problems, political fallout and economic problems would lead to a Revolution and the founding of the People's Republic of Italy.


In 1931 the American Stock Exchange crashed and America, already suffering economically from reduced trade and economic problems began to suffer internal unrest, Trade Union Strikes started popping-up throughout the Industrialized regions and the Socialist Party (w/o WW1 the government could'nt take draconian measures against them) gaining in popularity.

In the 1932 Elections the Republican party (who'd become more economically rightist) won in a contested election in which the candidate won the Electoral Vote, but not the popular vote, this lead to many protests and sympathetic strikes, and after worsening economic measures and the government calling the National Guard to break-up strikes would lead to the Second American Civil War, which started out as the Federal Government against Unionists and Socialists (who themselves had support by an ever growing amount of the populace) but would end-up even more complicated by the 'America First Union' a political group with militias in the South who sought to use the chaos to further their political agenda, which was primarily Fundamentalism, and ensuring White Dominance, and the 'Pacific States of America', a collection of Western states who had been largely unscarred by earlier events declaring itself an 'Armed and Neutral' Autonomous Region of the United States.

Ultimately the Civil War would end in 1937 the with dissolution of the United States and the creation of three new states, the aforementioned PSA, the Republic of New England (backed by Canada with its now oversizedd military) and the United Syndicates of America.


Over following years the world saw many political changes, including, but not limited to, the Brazilian and Spanish Revolutions, the subsequent 'Fall of Portugal', Germany beginning to decline somewhat and the formation of the European Defence Union, comprised of France, Britain and the Iberian Federation.


By 1940 things were beginning to change, and a string of events would lead to WWII starting in early 1945 with the initial war being between Germany and her allies (which were all mostly minor states) and the EDU, however in 1946 North Italy, with the promise of aide from Germany joined the war and at the same time began an attack on Southern Italy, who they perceived to be weak at the time.

In 1947 the war would enter its turning point, the EDU came to agreement with the Russian Republic (the moderates won the Civil Wat and it's resultingly became a Democracy) and its allies; they would enter the war separately, but co-ordinate with the EDU.

In 1948 the U.S.A, seeing the EDU as its natural allies and angered at Germany blockading their trade with them would enter the war on the EDU's side.

By 1950 the war was mostly over and in October of that year the Treaty of London was signed, officially ending the war and establishing reparations and territorial changes.


After the war the world started seeing major changes.

The EDU was brought closer by the war and over the course of the 50's began a process that would lead to the formation of the European Confederation in 1962, which, while technically a single, Federal State, still allowed its members a very high amount of autonomy and some degree of separate Foreign Policy.

In Russia, with the inclusion of its new territories over the years Eurasianism (not the OTL ideology) became very popular and, in 1958 with the adoption of a new Constitution the Russian Republic and its 'Autonomous Republics' merged to form the Eurasian Federal Republic.

By 1965 the world has settled into a Cold War, with the European Confederation and its allies on one side, the Canadian Lead 'Global Treaty Organization' on another and the EFR and its allies on the other with many countries either unaligned or only weakly aligned to.

The world is however nowhere near as stable as the OTL Cold War, the Netherlands faces growing calls for 'Full Independence' in its Indonesian Dominions and growing discontent at home while the Kingdom of Hindustan is barely managing to suppress the growing amount of 'dissidents' and the Kingdom of China (Fujian) is very near collapse as a result of economic embargoes and spending so much on maintaining its military along its Northern border.
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Comments: 10

grisador [2015-12-31 20:37:06 +0000 UTC]

Amazing

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Todyo1798 [2012-08-12 11:27:50 +0000 UTC]

What always annoyed me in Kaiserreich was that the White Dominions never tried to "pacify" any of the colonies.

As far as I recall no colonies declared for the revolutionary government, or had a revolution as bad as what occurred in Britain (bar India of course). So why didn't South Africaa try ti exert it's dominance over it's neighbouring colonies? Why didn't Australia grab Hong Kong. I mean it would be pretty awesome to have Australian troops coming to pacify East Africa, right? Not to mention Canadians in Nigeria

And also, what's going in French North Africa?

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Iori-Komei In reply to Todyo1798 [2012-08-12 21:00:24 +0000 UTC]

Well, to be blunt because that was one of the few areas of realism the makers of the mod used; it's pretty much ASB for Canada to get anything outside of the America's or Australia to get anything not bordering it.

That said it did have South Africa annexing the colonies near it, namely Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana and Zimbabwe/Rhodesia.


As to the the last question, it's not French North Africa, like I said, only India, America and Central America were inspired by KR.

Now, as to what's happening, well their's essentially a French successor state in Algeria (running 30% European and about 25% of France's pre-revolution military),which initially controlled Niger, Mali and Mauritania as well, but very quickly realized it was beyond their capabilities to do so more than a decade or two, so they made them independent as a way of both saving their own resources and manpower and ensuring they had allies by making them independent before any major Nationalist movements started.

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mdc01957 [2012-08-10 06:55:27 +0000 UTC]

Hmm. So what role do the Dutch, Scanfinavians and British Imperial remnants play in the new order?

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Iori-Komei In reply to mdc01957 [2012-08-10 18:30:03 +0000 UTC]

The Dutch try to be Neutral and generally concern themselves with Indonesia, however problems there and an increasingly paranoid government at home don't dwell well for it.

Scandinavia is split; Iceland and Norway are both Socialist and allies of Britain and subsequently the EC, Sweden is completely Neutral, Denmark is one of the EFR's closest allies and Finland is a case of alternating between being mildly suspicious of the EFR (something that's declining as the older generations die off) to allying with it on occasion, though for the most part they tend to be neutralish.

In the case of the British Imperial remnants, well as I said, the government, Royal Family and 60% of the military feld to Canada with many Brits leaving for there, the other White Dominions, Ireland or South Africa.
Their was until the early 40's a popular notion of 'building-up and taking back Britain form the Socialist and Republican scum!' but this gradually died off pretty quickly, as while the British made-up a substantial minority of Canada's population, the Canadians made it pretty clear they were'nt going to spend all their resources on a military build-up to fight a war that could'nt be won, which incidentally saw some of the more hardline people immigrate to the Kingdom of Delhi, which they saw as one of the last 'True and Loyal' bits of the fomer Empire.

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mdc01957 In reply to Iori-Komei [2012-08-11 02:30:54 +0000 UTC]

That definitely makes a lot more sense. Though wouldn't the Imperial Remnants have some sort of Commonwealth going for each other?

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Iori-Komei In reply to mdc01957 [2012-08-11 03:43:30 +0000 UTC]

Their was initially an idea for Canada, Australia and New Zealand to form a new Imperial Federation right after the Revolution (the original having gotten some support right before), but this never gained traction.

Australia and New Zealand have very different geopolitical realities, concerns and political issues, so aside from having good relations with Canada, and in NZ's case, having OK relations with Britain, their's no real feeling of unity.

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mdc01957 In reply to Iori-Komei [2012-08-11 17:03:56 +0000 UTC]

Lost opportunities, I suppose.

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Iori-Komei In reply to mdc01957 [2012-08-11 18:01:49 +0000 UTC]

Perhaps, though at the same time this had lead to other things.

Australia, New Zealand and Pacifica are all part of the Pacific Alliance, which is a cross between NATO and an economic agreement that will eventually lead to an Economic Union by the ATL Present day while Britain will eventually join the EC. It's really Canada that's left out; bordered by a major Socialist power with most of it allies in Central and Southern America and only three in the rest of the world

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mdc01957 In reply to Iori-Komei [2012-08-12 03:10:31 +0000 UTC]

I see. Thanks for the info!

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