This time line begins with an alternate colonization. More countries in the Old World were able to pursue interests in the New World.
France got tied up in a war with the powerful native nations in Mesoamerique (OTL Mesoamerica). Because of this, France’s colonial prospects were reduced, but it retained solid control over much of central and southern Mesoamerique.
Spain colonized more in the northern part of Americk, in northern Canada. They acquired land quickly, and linked up with other Spanish colonies established on the west coast of North Americk.
Italy focused on southern North Americk and the Gulf Coast. The lands were fertile for farming, and the seas were stocked for fishing.
Germany colonized mainly in OTL northern USA and southern Canada, where its economy was based on trade and industry/manufacturing in the east and farming in the west, on the northern Great Plains
Britain was one of the largest powers in South Americk.
Russia gained a foothold in Aleyska, but met with competition from Spain. The region was split between the two.
One of the main alliances after the colonial era was the Rome Pact, comprised of Italy, Spain, and France. It was originally formed as an alliance of Catholic nations, but over time became more secular and political-based. A more recent alliance formed to counter the Rome Pact was the London Pact, comprised of Britain, Germany (which had grown to envelop most of OTL Austria-Hungary), and Russia.
In Americk, the colonies had grown and changed, but most remained loyal to their parent nations. A new type of colony, called a supercolony, was popular, merging most/all of a country’s colonies into one. Nuovo Italia and Zapoteque were supercolonies allied with the Rome pact. The Spanish Republics, while separate, functioned as a supercolony. They too were allies in the Rome Pact. British South Americk and Neu Germania were both supercolonies allied with the London Pact. British Hesperia (OTL Lesser Antilles) was not large enough to be considered a supercolony, but in most cases is counted as a supercolony under British South Americk.
The war began with a severe global recession beginning in 1919. A fascist party gained power in Italy, led by a charismatic leader, Francisco Gallipoli. Gallipoli began a campaign of economic recovery and racial cleansing – ‘inferior races’ were arrested as enemies of the state and blamed for the recession – mostly targeting Jews, Slavs, Poles, and other Eastern Europeans. Gallipoli played on the public’s fear of these races. They believed that these races took jobs that belonged to native Italians and that the Jewish and Orthodox faiths were inferior and subversive to Catholicism. Gallipoli was obsessed with the idea that the Mediterranean race was superior to all others. Similar (though less radical) fascist regimes were set up in France and Spain. All three nations engaged in secret exterminations of ‘enemies of the state’, including Jews, Slavs, Poles, Orthodox Christians, leftists, and political opponents and dissidents.
When the war began, a web of political alliances quickly dragged in the other major powers in a matter of months. Italy began by attacking Hungary. Germany, who was allied with Hungary, in turn, declared war on Italy. France then declared war on Germany. Britain declared war on France and Italy in defense of Germany. Spain, the last member of its pact not to declare war, finally declared war on Britain and Germany. Russia was the last major power to declare war. It declared war on all three Rome Pact nations.
In the Americkan Theater, battle lines were quickly drawn. Spain and Russia faced off in southern Aleyska. Spain was also fighting on its southern border with Neu Germanica, which was fighting with Nuova Italia on its southern border. Zapoteque and British South Americk engaged each other in southern Mesoamerique/Mesoamericka. British Hesperia and British South Americk fought a fierce naval war in the Gulf of Americk and the Hesperian Sea against Zapoteque and Nuova Italia. Trench warfare allowed for little progress of most of the fronts.
The Spanish Republics and Zapoteque faced rebellions from leftists who disagreed with the government’s ideals and policies. Uprisings occurred in California and Southern Mesoamerique, where strong pockets of rebels were able to overthrow the local governments and establish safe havens for individuals persecuted by the government.
The war was drawing to a close in the other theaters around the world. The Mesoamerickan Theater, however, still remained defiantly at war. Britain made the decision to use their ultimate weapon – the nuclear bomb, which had first been developed by Jewish and Polish scientists who fled Italy to British South Americk. Two bombs were detonated – one on the Nuova Italian port city of Nouve Napoli, the other on the Zapoteque capital of Tenochtitlan. The nuclear attack on its capital forced the reluctant surrender of Zapoteque, whose government was in shambles because most of its officials were in Tenochtitlan when it was destroyed. Nuova Italia later followed and surrendered.
After the war concluded, reparations were made to the races and peoples persecuted by the Gallipolian Regimes. The Poles and Slavs returned to their homelands. Though the biggest wish of the Jewish survivors was to return to their ancestral homeland, uprisings and political turmoil in Middle East prevented this. Instead, the Jews were granted land won in the war. The Jewish nation, known as New Israel, was given control over important ports and cities in the Gulf of Americk and the Hesperian Sea. Nuova Sicilia, the most important port city in the Gulf, was renamed Shiloh, after the Jewish capital prior to Jerusalem. Saint-Pierre became Sinai, and Baia Agosto became New Jerusalem, the capital of the new nation. Twelve states were created from the new land, each named after one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
State Name – OTL Location
Dan – Louisiana
Asher – Western Florida
Naphtali – Southern Florida
Benjamin – Western Cuba
Joseph – Central Cuba
Levi – Eastern Cuba
Issachar – Northeastern Cuba/Inagua Islands
Zebulun – Southeastern Cuba
Gad – Cayman Islands
Simeon – Western Jamaica
Reuben – Eastern Jamaica
Judah – Hispaniola
Other land swaps in the Mesoamerickan Theater included British Hesperia obtaining OTL Puerto Rico and Eastern Hispaniola, as well as land in southern Mesoamerique. As part of decolonization, Britain recognized British South Americk as the United States of South Americk, a parliamentary democracy within the British Commonwealth. The regions that rebelled in California and southern Mesoamerique were made into new nations, California and Cote Riche, respectively. Cimarron was also carved out of Spanish and Nuova Italian land, to create a native-controlled buffer between the two powers. Cimarron was heavily influenced by Neu Germanica. In North Americk, Russia gained much of Aleyska and OTL Cascadia.
