"The World War saw the Entente and Quadruple Alliance far too closely matched for either side to win, with too long of fronts. After 8 years of combat communist revolutions broke out across Russia, with Germany and France to soon follow. The remaining powers were stretched even thinner trying to put down revolutions in allied territory while still trying to fight the enemy, and soon experienced revolutions of their own. In Canada the military managed to take control as communism was less popular amongst its people. They then moved to put down rebellions across the nation, resulting in nearl 40 000 casualties amongst civilian rioters. By 1923 they had managed to stabilise and moved in to help the US as they saw it's slave oriented government as less dangerous than a communist one. Soon afterwards they moved in and secured most of Britain's empire along with the British Isles themselves, placing this new territory under martial law.
"With so much territory occupied they were beginning to run low on troops so they got American and Japanese support to save the Netherlands and Spain from the communists. In the end they still had a great deal of trouble but managed to develope nukes by 1931 and successfully forced the Commintern to accept peace.
"This lead to a viscious cold war, between the Stalinist Comintern and the alliance of the slavery based US, Imperial Japan (with YTL WWII nastiness), rather ruthless fascists in Europe and Fascists Imperialist Canada which treated non-provincials horribly and their only chance to gain provincial status was four years of active combat duty, usually border control keeping refugees on the right side of the border."