These are my thoughts on the treaty that ended the Second Great War in Europe. This is loosely based on the treaty that was described in Timeline-191: After the End, but with a number of changes and rewording.
The Treaty of Aachen
The day was Friday, August 11th, 1944. The Second Great War, the most deadly and terrible war in all of human history, was finally over after three long years. The Confederate States of America, Great Britain, France and Russia, the four main Entente Powers of the Second Great War, were all but defeated. It was on this date that delegates from the victorious and mostly European Central Powers/Quadruple Alliance, the United States of America, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Finland, Lithuania, Lativa, Estonia and Livonia, meet with the delegates of the defeated European Entente Powers, Great Britain, France [1] and Russia, in the ancient German spa town of Aachen (traditionally known in English and French as Aix-la-Chapelle), a town right on the border with the Netherlands. The Treaty of Aachen, not to be confused with the treaty that ended the War of Devolution in 1668 or the treaty that ended the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748, would formally mark the surrender of the European Entente Powers to the Central Powers/Quadruple Alliance.
The terms of the Treaty of Aachen were as follows:
• The Entente Powers are to recognize of the United States of America's occupation of the erstwhile Confederate States of America and the erstwhile Dominion of Canada.
• The Entente Powers are to recognize Germany’s occupation of Belgium, with King Leopold III still on the Belgian throne [2].
• Germany is to occupy northwestern France for a period of no less than twenty years, an occupation to be over by Tuesday, August 11, 1964.
• France hands over French West Africa, French Equatorial Africa and Madagascar to Germany.
• France hands over territory disputed with the Dutch in French Guiana to Dutch Surinam.
• France hands over French Saint-Martin to Dutch Sint Maarten.
• France hands over its colonies in the West Indies, French Guiana, French Polynesia and Clipperton Island to the United States of America.
• France is forced to grant independence to Morocco.
• Great Britain hands over the Bechuanaland Protectorate, the Nyasaland Protectorate, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and Gambia to Germany.
• Great Britain hands over British Somaliland to neutral Italy.
• Great Britain hands over the Sinai Peninsula to the Ottoman Empire.
• Great Britain hands over territory disputed with the Dutch in British Guyana to Dutch Surinam.
• Great Britain hands over Gibraltar to neutral Spain.
• Great Britain hands over Malta to Austria-Hungary.
• Great Britain is forced to hand over the Suez Canal to Germany and an international occupation force of the Central Powers nations of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire and the neutral European powers of Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece.
• Great Britain hands over its colonies in the West Indies, British Honduras, British Guyana, the Gilbert Islands and the Pitcairn Islands to the United States of America.
• Great Britain is forced to peacefully and gradually abandon the Indian subcontinent by January 1, 1950.
• Great Britain is forced to end its suzerainty over the Kingdom of Egypt and the the Sultanate of Oman.
• Great Britain is forced to agree to the holding of referendums in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa over the dominion status of these nations on Wednesday, November 1, 1944 [3].
• Great Britain is forced to recognize the independence of the Republic of Ireland.
• Russia loses some of its territory to the German puppet state of Belarus.
• Russia loses the Petsamo region to the German puppet state of Finland.
• Russia is forced to recognize the independence of the German puppet states of Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Livonia.
• Great Britain, France and Russia are all forced to admit to war guilt for the Second Great War and are to pay a huge level of restitution for the damages caused in the Second Great War.
• Britain and Russia are forbidden from maintaining large armies or navies, or from possessing any weapons of mass destruction.
• France is temporarily demilitarized and forbidden from possessing any weapons of mass destruction.
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[1] Under a provisional Republican government led by General Philippe Pétain and Admiral François Darlan. The French Fourth Republic was established on February 1, 1946.
[2] King Albert I abdicated in the autumn of 1917 after the end of the First Great War. His sixteen year-old son Leopold became King Leopold III and was under a regency. The former king Albert I moved to London and lived in exile for the rest of his life. He died in 1960 at the age of 85.
[3] On this date, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa all voted to become republics. All of these nations then established the office of President to replace the British monarch as head of state.