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    26: African Theater
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    The African Theater of the Great War was a bloody affair, fought mostly by colonial troops with allegiances to almost every major participant in the conflict. The terrain that most the battles were fought in was harsh, with both the dry deserts of the North African campaign, which contrasted with the jungle of the West and Central African campaigns. The African theater had a special significance in that it was a conflict which began in Africa that started the war. Almost immediately after war had been declared, American troops stationed in the Washington Territory found themselves under attack by German soldiers. While Germany had planned to quickly seize this territory and eventually incorporate it into their colony of Kamerun, they found themselves getting bogged down in the jungle, and subject to fierce defense from their American counterparts.

    In North Africa, Italy pushed into Tunisia, a colony they had long desired, and saw arguably one of the more successful offensives of the theater. They managed to capture the colony with great speed, only becoming bogged down as they pushed into Algeria, an “integral” part of France. With the stalemate in Algeria showing no signs of ending, Portuguese marines took part in a landing at the coastal city of Rabat, and successfully secured the port. The Portuguese advanced a bit into the countryside, but ran out of men to continue assaulting French positions. This prompted Germany to begin an assault of their own, directed at the city of Agadir. They managed to take more territory than the Portuguese, mostly in Southern Morocco, but still failed to break through deeper into French territory.

    More minor engagements happened throughout the continent, American troops invaded British Sierra Leone, and British and German forces invaded French Dahomey. British troops pushed into French Equatorial Africa, and took most the territory while encountering minor resistance. Anglo-Portuguese troops invaded Southern Madagascar, and the Brits pushed into the Sinai. While thousands of lives were lost, the African theater mirrored Europe and remained a stalemate.
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    State of the frontline in Africa.​
     
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    • AcaciaSgt

    I'm a little surprised Ethiopia is not in color. Considering France did tried to invade them, they would be up in arms and participating as well. Or since part of Djibouti is white as well means something...?
     

    Deleted member 67076

    Im surprised the Gambia and Portuguese Guinea are holding out. They had utterly tiny populations and even less infrastructure to defend those places.

    Although looking at how Ghana is going, I suspect it'll fall soon and the stalemate will switch to Nigeria. Invading the French Sahel will be harsh on enemy troop logistics, and the Sahel has a vast manpower/weapons advantage over anywhere else in West Africa (I think something like 10-15 million people in 1900, alongside being able could produce its own rifles as early as the 1880s; ex: Samouri Toure)
     

    theman7777

    AcaciaSgt said:
    I'm a little surprised Ethiopia is not in color. Considering France did tried to invade them, they would be up in arms and participating as well. Or since part of Djibouti is white as well means something...?
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    Ethiopia is invading Djibouti which is why it's white.
    Soverihn said:
    Im surprised the Gambia and Portuguese Guinea are holding out. They had utterly tiny populations and even less infrastructure to defend those places.

    Although looking at how Ghana is going, I suspect it'll fall soon and the stalemate will switch to Nigeria. Invading the French Sahel will be harsh on enemy troop logistics, and the Sahel has a vast manpower/weapons advantage over anywhere else in West Africa (I think something like 10-15 million people in 1900, alongside being able could produce its own rifles as early as the 1880s; ex: Samouri Toure)
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    Less holding out than not useful enough for either side to dedicate troops to that region.
     

    Avalon

    theman79777 said:
    Less holding out than not useful enough for either side to dedicate troops to that region.
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    Luckily/Unluckily oil hasn't been discovered in southern Nigeria yet, so a tiny bit less of a drive to take it, should be a good fight in there though especially if the Brits decide to mobilize the Nigerian population(wooo national pride).
     
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    • theman7777

    27: Confederate Collapse
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    The Confederate States of America were already wracked with problems prior to the outbreak of the Great War. The country by the early 1900s had become a semi-feudal society, with many of the “freed” slaves operating as serfs on the lands of wealthy plantation owners. Wealth had become increasingly concentrated among the white population as it shrank. This shrink was caused by a lack of immigration from Europe, as well as the poverty and lack of education that accelerated the growth of the black population. Ultimately, this brewed a recipe for disaster.

    When the Great War broke out, the vast majority of the adult white male population was caused to serve on the frontlines against the United States, as blacks were ineligible to serve in the Armed Forces. This caused a massive migration of blacks to the cities to work in factory jobs, producing munitions for the Confederate Army. It was here that many became radicalized, as the works of Karl Marx were spread amongst the ranks of factory workers, and eventually made their way to those still working in the plantations. Rebellions against the oppressive system started out small, making defective weapons, taking more time than necessary to finish a job, all minor things to slow down the Confederate war machine. Ultimately though these acts became more brazen, as strikers battled police and military units in the streets of major cities throughout the south.

    By late 1916 the war had dragged on for nearly 3 years, and its impacts were felt everywhere. Food was beginning to be rationed, and the police became increasingly oppressive. It was this environment that the Confederate Revolution begun. The Communist rebels in the south had been waiting for a sign to begin their revolution, and it came in early December of 1916. While giving a speech in Richmond, the nation’s capital, Confederate President Woodrow Wilson was assassinated by a Communist. This signal set off armed insurrection across the nation, a series of attacks that targeted a police force not ready to handle such threats.
    The rebellion quickly spread through the country, as the military, who would normally quickly crush such an uprising, was occupied trying to keep the US from breaking through their lines. City after city fell to the revolutionaries, as chaos swept the nation. Martial law was quickly declared, and thousands of soldiers moved from the front line into the country to end the uprising, but that simply allowed a new offensive by the CSA’s enemies. Mexico had now joined the war, and joined the USA in a major offensive all across the Confederate border, driving the last Confederates out of Missouri.

    In the months that followed, Richmond and many other major cities fell to the Communist Rebels. In Hispaniola, rebels had seized most of the country, but Confederates held on to some coastal areas. In Cuba, rebels were brutally crushed, a surprising victory for Confederate forces. However, back in the homeland, things were falling apart. With the capitol in their hands, the Communist rebels signed a humiliating peace with the United States, agreeing to cede Virginia and pay massive yearly war reparations. While the original goal of the Americans were to conquer the Confederacy, it became clear to President Roosevelt that it was not desirable to have to integrate the same hostile population that the Confederacy was fighting. This, combined with the need for more troops on the Canadian front, convinced the US government to agree to peace.
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    Frontlines in the months prior to the end of the USA-CSA war​
    While the conflict with the US ended, civil war between Communists and Loyalists continued in the south. In Hispaniola Communist rebels declared the birth of the “Haitian Socialist Republic”, a puppet state of the Communist rebel regime based out of New Orleans. This declaration was naturally disregarded by the Loyalist government based out of Charlotte. Meanwhile the rest of the world looked on in horror, fearing the birth of the first Communist nation.
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    Flag initially used by the Communist rebels, adapted from the Confederate flag, except it is totally filled in with red, and the stars have been changed to yellow​
     
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    • Noblesse Oblige

    You know, we all knew the CSA was going to fall...

    I did not expect however, that the CSA was going to flip to communism though. Hey at least Hispaniola is free again, right?
     

    AcaciaSgt

    Admitedly, didn't expect a Communist uprising in the CSA. At least it's not in a shape to really be spreading it if they do win.
    I'm surprised Mexico didn't got something out of the war like the USA did. Like Cuba, or Puerto Rico, or Oklahoma (or whatever name it has in TTL), or something. On the other hand, this is all sequences of a World War. So I'm guessing the full extent of punishments/rewards is all reserved for thier version of Versailles once the whole war ends?
     

    Dave Howery

    wow, that was... unexpected. In hindsight, I suppose it's not surprising that Marxism told hold in the south, when you have a big chunk of the population essentially held in serfdom...
     
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