Dunwich Timeline 2.0
Following the victory of the American Union State in the 2nd American Civil War, the battered nation was in dire straits. Much of the country was war torn and despondent, without a stomach to fight in the foreign wars of Asia and Europe. A surprise offensive from the German Reich shattered the French defenses in the early weeks of the conflict, and the German army, coupled with its allies eager to bring a swift end to the Internationalé’s increasingly violent tendencies, made a push for Paris. Securing a tenuous agreement of alliance with the Entente and it’s forces, a three pronged assault into Central Europe was devised and executed, even as America was putting the final nails in the coffin of the Federalist and Syndicalist factions. in 1942, during the American Spring Offensive, German troops assaulted Eastern France, with the intent of securing ideal grounds and defeating the Syndicalist armies in detail. Meanwhile, French Republic troops in North Africa were mobilizing, pushing into southern France after much of the enemy had been called to fight the steadily encroaching Germans. Summoned to the aid of their allies in France, the Union of Britain deployed their the bulk of their forces into France to defeat the virtually unopposed French Republicans.
By summer of 1942 however, with the AUS’s own victories in Seattle and Los Angeles, the British Commonwealth conducted the largest amphibious landing in history, hurling dozens of divisions into their old homeland in an attempt to take back what was lost. It was remarked that the 2nd Weltkrieg could and would have been the bloodiest war in the history of mankind, where it not for the simple effectiveness of the three pronged assault employed. The war in Europe was ended by early winter, 1942. French Republic forces stormed much of France, retaking their lands while encircling what Syndicalist divisions remaining. The British Commonwealth regained their old lands, and the British King was able to return and declare victory on Christmas Day, 1942. The Germans, for their part, where content to return to their own country, the steady predations and expansion of a battle hardened Russian Republic already on the minds of the German General Staff.
A tenuous peace lasted in Europe and the Americas, with the remaining conflicts being fought by the expanding Russian state, which slowly consumed western lands in a tide of bodies and lend lease American weapons and equipment. Asia was a particularly brutal hotspot, with the former European colonies, Chinese breakaway states, Imperial Japanese invasions, and constant fighting between each. Lastly, following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, nationalist forces in Egypt succeeded in a coup and began a campaign of gradual expansion. Billed as a new Caliphate to replace the failure of the last, the Egyptian began to slowly modernize, helped largely by Entente and AUS sales of outdated equipment. By 1943, The Egyptian State spanned from Tripoli to Baghdad, Istanbul to Ethiopia. It remains to be seen if they possess the mettle or will to conquer the reformed Saudi Arabian state, or a splintered Persia.
Pictured below: A battle standard of the American Union State, carried by the 8th Infantry Division into Seattle as PSA troops fled south.
Egyptian nationalist troops celebrating a captured anti tank gun during the Palestinian offensives.