America: My Third TL
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Closing the Gap
On July 4,1948 Japan entered the war against Russia as its navy & aircraft began bombing Vladivostok & Sakhalin. Three divisions of Japanese forces would land on the island of Sakhalin the next day & would role up Russian defenses over the next three weeks & gaining total control of the island by August. Japans plans were to invade Outer Manchuria by late August & move on into China however, with Russia's surrender on August 15 an invasion was no longer needed. With Russia out of the war Japanese & American forces moved unimpeded into Far Eastern Russia for occupation.
At 0930 on August 9,1948 the Chinese city of Hangchow was engulfed in atomic fire as the 21 kiloton bomb Babylon was detonated over the city center. From the blast & firestorm that followed over 185,000 people would by killed. President Garner gave China's president an ultimatum to surrender unconditionally or more Chinese cities would fall to atomic explosions. Unlike in Russia however China would not yield. The Chinese had called Garner's bluff as the US had no more atomic bombs at the time & the war in Asia would go on.
Even before the atomic bombing occurred the Allies had been planning an invasion of mainland China. Operation Unthinkable as it was called was to be one of the largest invasions in history. As soon as the war ended in Europe preparation began. The US began to divert men to Taiwan & Outer Manchuria to bring its troops level to over 4 million in Asia. The British Empire, excluding India who was already fully engaged in the war against China, pledged to bring their levels in Burma & Central Asia up by an additional 3 million. France & Spain would declare war on China on September 2 & began making an expeditionary force of a million men of which most were planned to be shipped via Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway to lead an invasion into Mongolia. And finally Germany & Italy began preparing 1.5 million men to be sent to Borneo where they'd take place in landings in Indochina.
Such a mass movement of troops however would take some time & Operation Unthinkable wasn't set to begin until February 15,1949 and so the war would go on. With Russia collapsed Allied forces entered Central Asia both as occupation forces & to move on China's flank. Nearly all of the remainder of Afghanistan would fall to Anglo-Indian forces by the end of September & on October 10 the British Empire would be the first of the Allies to take the ground war into mainland China. By the end of the year Allied British forces had managed to push over a hundred miles into China & out of all of India west of Nepal.
The Battle of Monwya raged from July 19 to, coincidentally, August 6. Chinese & Indian forces had fought each other ferociously for control of the city but ultimately India would gain the upper hand. India's goal before the end of the war was Mandalay. While they hoped to spare the city from the bitter fighting that had occurred there during the Great War after the fall of Monwya Allied bomber began targeting Chinese depots & positions within the city. The Battle of Mandalay began on September 5 & bitter fighting would see much of the city leveled once more before the battle ended on October 1. Indian forces continued forward throughout the rest of the year. By January forces in the north were near the Kachin border & in the south a successful flanking maneuver cut over 200,000 Thai & Chinese soldiers off from retreat in the city of Rangoon.
Continuing their war against China Japan continued liberating the Ryuku Islands from the Chinese with the last island returning to imperial control on November 8. After Okinawa however, the rest of the Ryuku Campaign was a sideshow for Japan. Their main focus was on the Korean island of Jejudo. Jejudo was to be vital for any counter offensive into Korea by the Japanese Army as well as made for an excellent airfield location for American & Japanese bombers. At 0300 on October 25 Chinese positions on the island began being bombarded by Japanese aircraft & naval guns. At dawn over 75,000 Japanese soldiers began making landfall to take on the depleted Chinese division guarding the island. For 37 days the Battle of Jejudo raged as the two sides fought ferociously for its control. It wouldn't be until December 2 that the guns would finally fall silent & the battle for Jejudo would be over.
A thousand miles south of Jejudo another major battle was taking place. At 2400 on October 18 Chinese soldiers & civilians on Hainan were thrown from their beds by American naval & aerial bombings. After two days the bombardment stopped & as the new day dawned thousands of Marines began towards the beaches in hundreds of landing craft. The Battle of Hainan was bitter & would last nearly three months as 60,000 Chinese soldiers & 90,000 armed civilians fought desperately against a total of over 210,000 American soldiers & Marines. By the time the battle concluded on January 11,1949 nearly 250,000 Chinese soldiers & civilians had been killed at the cost of nearly 100,000 American dead & wounded.
On December 5 the final Allied offensive of the year would begin as Australian, British, South African, & New Zealand troops invaded Thailand's Malay Peninsula & began moving into Malaya with the goal of liberating Singapore. By the end of the year Allied troops were threatening to break out of the peninsula in the north & were in artillery range of Singapore in the south.
US Marine in Hainan
On July 4,1948 Japan entered the war against Russia as its navy & aircraft began bombing Vladivostok & Sakhalin. Three divisions of Japanese forces would land on the island of Sakhalin the next day & would role up Russian defenses over the next three weeks & gaining total control of the island by August. Japans plans were to invade Outer Manchuria by late August & move on into China however, with Russia's surrender on August 15 an invasion was no longer needed. With Russia out of the war Japanese & American forces moved unimpeded into Far Eastern Russia for occupation.
At 0930 on August 9,1948 the Chinese city of Hangchow was engulfed in atomic fire as the 21 kiloton bomb Babylon was detonated over the city center. From the blast & firestorm that followed over 185,000 people would by killed. President Garner gave China's president an ultimatum to surrender unconditionally or more Chinese cities would fall to atomic explosions. Unlike in Russia however China would not yield. The Chinese had called Garner's bluff as the US had no more atomic bombs at the time & the war in Asia would go on.
Even before the atomic bombing occurred the Allies had been planning an invasion of mainland China. Operation Unthinkable as it was called was to be one of the largest invasions in history. As soon as the war ended in Europe preparation began. The US began to divert men to Taiwan & Outer Manchuria to bring its troops level to over 4 million in Asia. The British Empire, excluding India who was already fully engaged in the war against China, pledged to bring their levels in Burma & Central Asia up by an additional 3 million. France & Spain would declare war on China on September 2 & began making an expeditionary force of a million men of which most were planned to be shipped via Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway to lead an invasion into Mongolia. And finally Germany & Italy began preparing 1.5 million men to be sent to Borneo where they'd take place in landings in Indochina.
Such a mass movement of troops however would take some time & Operation Unthinkable wasn't set to begin until February 15,1949 and so the war would go on. With Russia collapsed Allied forces entered Central Asia both as occupation forces & to move on China's flank. Nearly all of the remainder of Afghanistan would fall to Anglo-Indian forces by the end of September & on October 10 the British Empire would be the first of the Allies to take the ground war into mainland China. By the end of the year Allied British forces had managed to push over a hundred miles into China & out of all of India west of Nepal.
The Battle of Monwya raged from July 19 to, coincidentally, August 6. Chinese & Indian forces had fought each other ferociously for control of the city but ultimately India would gain the upper hand. India's goal before the end of the war was Mandalay. While they hoped to spare the city from the bitter fighting that had occurred there during the Great War after the fall of Monwya Allied bomber began targeting Chinese depots & positions within the city. The Battle of Mandalay began on September 5 & bitter fighting would see much of the city leveled once more before the battle ended on October 1. Indian forces continued forward throughout the rest of the year. By January forces in the north were near the Kachin border & in the south a successful flanking maneuver cut over 200,000 Thai & Chinese soldiers off from retreat in the city of Rangoon.
Continuing their war against China Japan continued liberating the Ryuku Islands from the Chinese with the last island returning to imperial control on November 8. After Okinawa however, the rest of the Ryuku Campaign was a sideshow for Japan. Their main focus was on the Korean island of Jejudo. Jejudo was to be vital for any counter offensive into Korea by the Japanese Army as well as made for an excellent airfield location for American & Japanese bombers. At 0300 on October 25 Chinese positions on the island began being bombarded by Japanese aircraft & naval guns. At dawn over 75,000 Japanese soldiers began making landfall to take on the depleted Chinese division guarding the island. For 37 days the Battle of Jejudo raged as the two sides fought ferociously for its control. It wouldn't be until December 2 that the guns would finally fall silent & the battle for Jejudo would be over.
A thousand miles south of Jejudo another major battle was taking place. At 2400 on October 18 Chinese soldiers & civilians on Hainan were thrown from their beds by American naval & aerial bombings. After two days the bombardment stopped & as the new day dawned thousands of Marines began towards the beaches in hundreds of landing craft. The Battle of Hainan was bitter & would last nearly three months as 60,000 Chinese soldiers & 90,000 armed civilians fought desperately against a total of over 210,000 American soldiers & Marines. By the time the battle concluded on January 11,1949 nearly 250,000 Chinese soldiers & civilians had been killed at the cost of nearly 100,000 American dead & wounded.
On December 5 the final Allied offensive of the year would begin as Australian, British, South African, & New Zealand troops invaded Thailand's Malay Peninsula & began moving into Malaya with the goal of liberating Singapore. By the end of the year Allied troops were threatening to break out of the peninsula in the north & were in artillery range of Singapore in the south.
US Marine in Hainan
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Gregory
The severe carnage that had occurred during the Battle of Hainan showed the Allies that invading mainland China would be no simple task. Allied officials estimated that casualties in the invasion of China could reach as high as 40-50% of the entire Allied invasion force. But with China refusing to concede defeat it seemed the only option.
While preparations for Unthinkable continued the war itself moved on. In southeast Asia Indian forces crossed into northern Thailand on January 10 assaulting the city of Chiang Mai a week later. The moral of the Thai Army was almost nonexistent & their soldiers would surrender in droves. Australian forces in the Malay Peninsula continued their drive north & on January 24 Indian & Australian forces would meet at Kanchanaburi with Bangkok threatened Thailand would surrender to the Allies on February 1.
Elsewhere in southeast Asia the war went on. After several weeks of intense fighting Rangoon fell to the Allies. The heaviest fighting however occurred from January 19 to February 20 in the Battle of Singapore. Singapore was garrisoned by the Chinese & with nothing to lose & nowhere to go they fought ferociously. By the time Singapore came under Allied control over 75,000 people had been killed.
As February 15 neared it was clear that all of the Allies were not ready to invade. So Operation Unthinkable was postponed until April 15 for the troops to be fully prepared as well as let the weather get better in Manchuria. Along the border in Manchuria however heavy fighting had already begun. On February 1 Chinese forces crossed the border assaulting the American occupation force at Belogorsk. The American commander in the area was General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. Who had commanded the Americans in the Shandong Province at the start of the war. Buckner would vindicate himself of his earlier loses at during the Battle of Belogorsk & on February 12 the Chinese were forced back. Eleven days later Buckner became the first American general to invade mainland China when he assaulted Heihe in a counter offensive, taking the city eight days after. With the Americans attacking Japan would follow suit on March 5 & attack Mudanjiang. The Battle of Mudanjiang would last for 41 days before it surrendered to Japanese control but not just because of Japan's military might.
Between 0720 & 0735 on April 10 the American Air Force executed Operation Gregory. Seven atomic bombs ranging from 20-23 kilotons in magnitude named Luxuria, Gula, Avaritia, Acedia, Ira, Invidia, & Superbia all but wiped the Chinese cities of Nanning, Canton, Foochow, Shanghai, Peking, Mukden, & Harbin. From 875,000-1,050,000 Chinese were killed in the blast & following firestorm including nearly all of China's leadership. In the following weeks another estimated 300,000-500,000 would die as well. Again President Garner, who had been reelected to a fourth term in November, gave what remained of China's leadership the ultimatum to surrender unconditionally or face further atomic attacks & this time Garner wasn't bluffing. For three weeks nothing came out of China. No fighting no talking nothing. On May 8 China was warned that if it didn't surrender by noon he next day then the US would drop an atomic bomb on a Chinese city each day until they did. At 1115 on May 9,1949 China surrendered to the Allies ending nearly 6 years of war.
Asian Theater at the time of China's surrender
The severe carnage that had occurred during the Battle of Hainan showed the Allies that invading mainland China would be no simple task. Allied officials estimated that casualties in the invasion of China could reach as high as 40-50% of the entire Allied invasion force. But with China refusing to concede defeat it seemed the only option.
While preparations for Unthinkable continued the war itself moved on. In southeast Asia Indian forces crossed into northern Thailand on January 10 assaulting the city of Chiang Mai a week later. The moral of the Thai Army was almost nonexistent & their soldiers would surrender in droves. Australian forces in the Malay Peninsula continued their drive north & on January 24 Indian & Australian forces would meet at Kanchanaburi with Bangkok threatened Thailand would surrender to the Allies on February 1.
Elsewhere in southeast Asia the war went on. After several weeks of intense fighting Rangoon fell to the Allies. The heaviest fighting however occurred from January 19 to February 20 in the Battle of Singapore. Singapore was garrisoned by the Chinese & with nothing to lose & nowhere to go they fought ferociously. By the time Singapore came under Allied control over 75,000 people had been killed.
As February 15 neared it was clear that all of the Allies were not ready to invade. So Operation Unthinkable was postponed until April 15 for the troops to be fully prepared as well as let the weather get better in Manchuria. Along the border in Manchuria however heavy fighting had already begun. On February 1 Chinese forces crossed the border assaulting the American occupation force at Belogorsk. The American commander in the area was General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. Who had commanded the Americans in the Shandong Province at the start of the war. Buckner would vindicate himself of his earlier loses at during the Battle of Belogorsk & on February 12 the Chinese were forced back. Eleven days later Buckner became the first American general to invade mainland China when he assaulted Heihe in a counter offensive, taking the city eight days after. With the Americans attacking Japan would follow suit on March 5 & attack Mudanjiang. The Battle of Mudanjiang would last for 41 days before it surrendered to Japanese control but not just because of Japan's military might.
Between 0720 & 0735 on April 10 the American Air Force executed Operation Gregory. Seven atomic bombs ranging from 20-23 kilotons in magnitude named Luxuria, Gula, Avaritia, Acedia, Ira, Invidia, & Superbia all but wiped the Chinese cities of Nanning, Canton, Foochow, Shanghai, Peking, Mukden, & Harbin. From 875,000-1,050,000 Chinese were killed in the blast & following firestorm including nearly all of China's leadership. In the following weeks another estimated 300,000-500,000 would die as well. Again President Garner, who had been reelected to a fourth term in November, gave what remained of China's leadership the ultimatum to surrender unconditionally or face further atomic attacks & this time Garner wasn't bluffing. For three weeks nothing came out of China. No fighting no talking nothing. On May 8 China was warned that if it didn't surrender by noon he next day then the US would drop an atomic bomb on a Chinese city each day until they did. At 1115 on May 9,1949 China surrendered to the Allies ending nearly 6 years of war.
Asian Theater at the time of China's surrender
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Postmortem
The war was over. Over 130 million had been killed during the fighting, nearly 5% of the worlds prewar population. In war crime trials held in Helsinki & Manila dozens of Russian & Chinese war criminals would be sentenced to death. In Europe the Allies took their pounds of flesh & more. Hungary & Bulgaria were significantly shrinked as their neighbors took territory. For its betrayal Slovakia ceased to exist with the nation being divided between Bohemia & Poland. Due to Germany's significant loss in strength Poland, Bohemia, & the Baltic achieved total independence as well. While they retained Lapland & the Kola Peninsula Sweden lost southern Finland who had already declared their independence & were in the process of forming a functioning government. As for Armenia it returned to Ottoman control.
Both Poland & the Baltic grew to the east as well taking territory from Russia. Out of Russia the republics of Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, & Azerbaijan (which was heavily influenced by the Ottoman Empire). Along with the newly formed nations nearly all of European Russia was occupied by the Allies.
Not everything was all good in the Allied camp however. While Germany had agreed to return the territory to France it had taken during the Great War after the wars end Communist troops remained in Belgian Luxembourg, Luxembourg, & Alsace-Lorraine. For a while Germany threatened war with France if they didn't withdraw, however the French Army alone more than doubled Germany's now not counting Spain's. Though Germany wouldn't officially recognize French control over these territories they would back down by 1950.
In Asia the territory that China had still occupied at wars end was returned to its owners. All of China's Great War acquisitions had were returned to their previous owners. German Indochina regained its northern territory that had been granted to China at the end of the Great War. Both Korea & Mongolia's independence was returned. Thailand lost the territory that it had been given at the end of the Great War from Burma & Malaya. Nearly all of eastern China, Manchuria, & Tibet were occupied by the Allies. For its participation the Allies recognized Japanese control over Sakhalin & as the Americans moved into their occupation zones of China & the Russian Far East the US relinquished control of Formosa & Hainan to Japan though the US kept Penghu.
Something that left the Allies surprised occurred in their own camp the same day as China's surrender. Upon learning of the surrender the majority of India would declare itself independent. A great power in its own right with the Allies largest standing army, or most of it anyway, behind it none of the Allies could really argue against it & on July 15,1949 Britain would recognize all but the northwestern portion of it & Burma as the Republic of India as an independent nation with the process of decolonization of the Indian subcontinent ending in 1951.
While German & Italian influence & dominance of the world had significantly declined the US & France would emerge from the war as superpowers & the British Empire had reemerged as a superpower. On October 25,1949 the Allies would head the creation of an intergovernmental organization called the United Nations which was set in place to ensure that something like that would never happen again.
World following the war
The war was over. Over 130 million had been killed during the fighting, nearly 5% of the worlds prewar population. In war crime trials held in Helsinki & Manila dozens of Russian & Chinese war criminals would be sentenced to death. In Europe the Allies took their pounds of flesh & more. Hungary & Bulgaria were significantly shrinked as their neighbors took territory. For its betrayal Slovakia ceased to exist with the nation being divided between Bohemia & Poland. Due to Germany's significant loss in strength Poland, Bohemia, & the Baltic achieved total independence as well. While they retained Lapland & the Kola Peninsula Sweden lost southern Finland who had already declared their independence & were in the process of forming a functioning government. As for Armenia it returned to Ottoman control.
Both Poland & the Baltic grew to the east as well taking territory from Russia. Out of Russia the republics of Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, & Azerbaijan (which was heavily influenced by the Ottoman Empire). Along with the newly formed nations nearly all of European Russia was occupied by the Allies.
Not everything was all good in the Allied camp however. While Germany had agreed to return the territory to France it had taken during the Great War after the wars end Communist troops remained in Belgian Luxembourg, Luxembourg, & Alsace-Lorraine. For a while Germany threatened war with France if they didn't withdraw, however the French Army alone more than doubled Germany's now not counting Spain's. Though Germany wouldn't officially recognize French control over these territories they would back down by 1950.
In Asia the territory that China had still occupied at wars end was returned to its owners. All of China's Great War acquisitions had were returned to their previous owners. German Indochina regained its northern territory that had been granted to China at the end of the Great War. Both Korea & Mongolia's independence was returned. Thailand lost the territory that it had been given at the end of the Great War from Burma & Malaya. Nearly all of eastern China, Manchuria, & Tibet were occupied by the Allies. For its participation the Allies recognized Japanese control over Sakhalin & as the Americans moved into their occupation zones of China & the Russian Far East the US relinquished control of Formosa & Hainan to Japan though the US kept Penghu.
Something that left the Allies surprised occurred in their own camp the same day as China's surrender. Upon learning of the surrender the majority of India would declare itself independent. A great power in its own right with the Allies largest standing army, or most of it anyway, behind it none of the Allies could really argue against it & on July 15,1949 Britain would recognize all but the northwestern portion of it & Burma as the Republic of India as an independent nation with the process of decolonization of the Indian subcontinent ending in 1951.
While German & Italian influence & dominance of the world had significantly declined the US & France would emerge from the war as superpowers & the British Empire had reemerged as a superpower. On October 25,1949 the Allies would head the creation of an intergovernmental organization called the United Nations which was set in place to ensure that something like that would never happen again.
World following the war
Admiral Halsey
Banned
And thus ends WW2 the deadliest war so far. Now just a waiting game to see if WW3 happens. Also I predict a President Patton soon!
Epilogue Part 1
While Germany remained a significant power in the world after the World War it was no longer the dominating power. While their country would rebuild & becoming he third nation to become a nuclear power on May 1,1950, Britain was the second nation to become a nuclear power having detonated its own bomb on November 7,1949. Nearly being conquered & with nearly all of its garrisoning forces pulled out to fight in Europe Germany, like the rest of the colonial powers, was facing nationalism in its colonies. The Philippines would be the first to pull itself from German control. On April 11,1952 after two years of preparing the country for self rule Berlin recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines. Throughout the rest of its empire many more colonies would be able to peacefully become independent. From 1965 to 1980 all of its mainland African territory & the island of Madagascar would be decolonized & given independence except for Namibia. Namibia had revolted in 1950 & for eight years Germany & after 1954 the newly declared Republic of South Africa would battle the Namibian revolutionaries. In 1958 Germany would give ownership of Namibia to South Africa for its assistance. South Africa would continue to battle the Namibians for two more decades before they would finally surrender on 1977 & become semi-peaceful.
From the time Germany began to reassert its control over Indochina it began to run into problems with revolutionaries. On December 19,1952 the entire region would explode in revolt as Communist revolutionaries supported by France & Spain attempted to gain independence as Communist states. For the next five & a half years German; & after 1955; American, Japanese, & Korean forces fought the Communist rebels to retain colonial control over the colony. On August 1,1958 the war would finally come to an end with Germany retaining control of Indochina, however a low level insurgency would continue on in the northern portion of Indochina.
Wikibox of the First Indochina War
The peace in Indochina would be short lived however as on November 1,1962 the Viet Minh, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge, & Pathet Lao would come back with a vengeance. While Korea, Poland, Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Bohemia, & Thailand would send troops to assist Germany in its war Germany's strongest ally the United State would refuse any support. This would come after Germany not only denied any support for stopping Communist rebels in the Yucatan but also recognized the new government when it assumed power. This along with giving control over Namibia to South Africa, who's apartheid government the US did not recognize, had caused a rift between the two old allies & so the US turned a blind eye to Indochina. For eight & a half years the Second Indochina War would rage before on April 30,1971 Germany had had enough & made peace. The peace would give independence to two Communist states, Vietnam & Laos, & give Cambodia autonomy within the German Empire.
Wikibox for the Second Indochina War
Germany's Kingdom of Cambodia would remain safe for only 6 more years though. On April 30, 1977 Vietnamese & Laotian would invade Cambodia. While they received non-combatant support from the US, Britain, & Italy Germany fought the Third Indochina War alone & on October 23,1979 would withdraw completely from Indochina & allow Communists to take over in Cambodia.
Wikibox of Third Indochina War
The sixties & seventies had been a dark time for Germany. On March 10, 1982 Germany finally became a constitutional monarchy & the light began to shine again. By the 21st century Germany had reasserted itself as one of the dominate powers of the world.
While Germany remained a significant power in the world after the World War it was no longer the dominating power. While their country would rebuild & becoming he third nation to become a nuclear power on May 1,1950, Britain was the second nation to become a nuclear power having detonated its own bomb on November 7,1949. Nearly being conquered & with nearly all of its garrisoning forces pulled out to fight in Europe Germany, like the rest of the colonial powers, was facing nationalism in its colonies. The Philippines would be the first to pull itself from German control. On April 11,1952 after two years of preparing the country for self rule Berlin recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines. Throughout the rest of its empire many more colonies would be able to peacefully become independent. From 1965 to 1980 all of its mainland African territory & the island of Madagascar would be decolonized & given independence except for Namibia. Namibia had revolted in 1950 & for eight years Germany & after 1954 the newly declared Republic of South Africa would battle the Namibian revolutionaries. In 1958 Germany would give ownership of Namibia to South Africa for its assistance. South Africa would continue to battle the Namibians for two more decades before they would finally surrender on 1977 & become semi-peaceful.
From the time Germany began to reassert its control over Indochina it began to run into problems with revolutionaries. On December 19,1952 the entire region would explode in revolt as Communist revolutionaries supported by France & Spain attempted to gain independence as Communist states. For the next five & a half years German; & after 1955; American, Japanese, & Korean forces fought the Communist rebels to retain colonial control over the colony. On August 1,1958 the war would finally come to an end with Germany retaining control of Indochina, however a low level insurgency would continue on in the northern portion of Indochina.
Wikibox of the First Indochina War
The peace in Indochina would be short lived however as on November 1,1962 the Viet Minh, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge, & Pathet Lao would come back with a vengeance. While Korea, Poland, Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Bohemia, & Thailand would send troops to assist Germany in its war Germany's strongest ally the United State would refuse any support. This would come after Germany not only denied any support for stopping Communist rebels in the Yucatan but also recognized the new government when it assumed power. This along with giving control over Namibia to South Africa, who's apartheid government the US did not recognize, had caused a rift between the two old allies & so the US turned a blind eye to Indochina. For eight & a half years the Second Indochina War would rage before on April 30,1971 Germany had had enough & made peace. The peace would give independence to two Communist states, Vietnam & Laos, & give Cambodia autonomy within the German Empire.
Wikibox for the Second Indochina War
Germany's Kingdom of Cambodia would remain safe for only 6 more years though. On April 30, 1977 Vietnamese & Laotian would invade Cambodia. While they received non-combatant support from the US, Britain, & Italy Germany fought the Third Indochina War alone & on October 23,1979 would withdraw completely from Indochina & allow Communists to take over in Cambodia.
Wikibox of Third Indochina War
The sixties & seventies had been a dark time for Germany. On March 10, 1982 Germany finally became a constitutional monarchy & the light began to shine again. By the 21st century Germany had reasserted itself as one of the dominate powers of the world.
Epilogue Part 2
The United States had emerged the worlds foremost economic & military power. When the Alliance with Communist France Spain faltered in 1951 the US would lead its Allies Germany, Britain, Italy, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Poland, Bohemia, & Sweden would create the Pan-Atlantic Coalition a military Alliance to counter the threat of Communist expansion.
Being the strongest didn't come without problems. The high loss of life during the First Indochina War directly after the World War had caused non-interventionist sentiment to rise. This sentiment made the US not intervene militarily in the Yucatan when a communist revolution broke out there. Though troops from both Mexico & Cuba would help to intervene the democratic government would eventually fall & a Communist state would rise right in Americas back yard. It wouldn't be until October 1966 when Americas non-interventionist policy changed again when an intense military standoff occurred between the US & France after France placed nuclear missiles, France had become the worlds fourth nuclear power in September 1953, in the Yucatan. It wasn't until the US secretly agreed to pull its aging nuclear missiles from Ireland that the French removed their missiles & nuclear war was averted.
Throughout the seventies the US focused on two major fronts. One was the space race with France where although France put the first satellite (1965) & man (1968) in space the US landed on the moon first in July 1975. After that France would lose interest in the costly race thought Americas allies Germany & Britain would make their own journeys to the moon in 1983 & 1991. The other was in the proxy war fighting with France. While France succeeded in creating Communist state in Bulgaria, the Ukraine, & Indonesia the US stopped them in their tracks in Hispaniola, Venezuela, Angola, Nigeria, & Cameroon.
By the 21st century the Cold War between the US & France had came to an end. Now instead of Communists the US had to worry about extremists threatened by its power.
The United States had emerged the worlds foremost economic & military power. When the Alliance with Communist France Spain faltered in 1951 the US would lead its Allies Germany, Britain, Italy, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Poland, Bohemia, & Sweden would create the Pan-Atlantic Coalition a military Alliance to counter the threat of Communist expansion.
Being the strongest didn't come without problems. The high loss of life during the First Indochina War directly after the World War had caused non-interventionist sentiment to rise. This sentiment made the US not intervene militarily in the Yucatan when a communist revolution broke out there. Though troops from both Mexico & Cuba would help to intervene the democratic government would eventually fall & a Communist state would rise right in Americas back yard. It wouldn't be until October 1966 when Americas non-interventionist policy changed again when an intense military standoff occurred between the US & France after France placed nuclear missiles, France had become the worlds fourth nuclear power in September 1953, in the Yucatan. It wasn't until the US secretly agreed to pull its aging nuclear missiles from Ireland that the French removed their missiles & nuclear war was averted.
Throughout the seventies the US focused on two major fronts. One was the space race with France where although France put the first satellite (1965) & man (1968) in space the US landed on the moon first in July 1975. After that France would lose interest in the costly race thought Americas allies Germany & Britain would make their own journeys to the moon in 1983 & 1991. The other was in the proxy war fighting with France. While France succeeded in creating Communist state in Bulgaria, the Ukraine, & Indonesia the US stopped them in their tracks in Hispaniola, Venezuela, Angola, Nigeria, & Cameroon.
By the 21st century the Cold War between the US & France had came to an end. Now instead of Communists the US had to worry about extremists threatened by its power.
just too much death and destruction happened to it to throw is weight around like it used to
Admiral Halsey
Banned
True. Also when you finish up will we get a final world map of what TTLs present day looks like? I'd imagine Canada and Alaska are US states by then.