On a knife edge part 2
Hi again everyone! This is the sequel to my last map, On a knife edge, depicting the world after The Great War.
The year is 1906. Five years ago war broke out following a series of complicated diplomatic events. The chain of events began when, in 1901, the British government refused The North American Autonomy Act, which would have granted full fiscal and only semi restricted military powers to the government of British North America. Angry at their failure to acquire autonomy, North American terrorists began an assassination campaign in the Metropole.
When it was discovered that the royal family, who were hugely popular and held far more powers in British North America, had played a role in the terror campaign, the King was seized, placed behind bars and forced to abdicate. He was quickly broken out by loyalists from the colonies, and spirited to North America, from which he declared the independence of "The Empire of North America" from Britain, and began a war of conquest against Britain's other American colonies.
The British quickly reciprocated with their own declaration of war against their colony, and began to mobilise troops. This series of events may have just been a localised British civil war and not a global conflict, were it not for the French. Seeing a chance to one up Britain, the French supported the American secession from the Empire. This kicked the old alliances into action, and began a war of epic proportion.
France, her puppets, the Ottoman Empire and Arabia faced down against the entirety of the coalition, dragging the bloody conflict out for four years before, in 1905, the Coalition broke he "Rhenish Line", and blitzed through France. The next year saw more and more French territory fall, and the Ottoman Empire capitulate under the weight of a joint Anglo-Austro-Russo-Italian invasion. The Coalition were joined in the East by the Asian Powers, who successfully liberated Japan from French control, but failed to prevent Russia from taking (almost) all of Korea for their own sphere of influence.
Both powers were finished by April 1906, and Arabia surrendered in order to avoid damage. It took another five months for the North American campaign to see significant progress but, with the defeat of the FSA by the USA, the US entered the campaign in BNA. The Royalists were defeated swiftly, and in September 1906 surrendered the King to coalition forces.
The October 1906 Paris Peace Accords (which would become highly controversial for their intense punishments of all fallen participants) drew up the following map;
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