There will be a BrettonWoods-like agreements after this war or the rivalry between Brasil and USA will stop it?
Maybe the Bancor option is more succesfull?
Maybe the Bancor option is more succesfull?
A New World with New Ideas - A Brazilian Timeline
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I was actually thinking about a BrettonWoods kind of agreement however with Brazil and Germany being able to balance American domination, but your idea actually seems better than mine
Chapter LXVII - Fate… here I come
Chapter LXVII - Fate… here I come
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Although often remembered as this grand example of the good Western Allies beginning their righteous crusade against the evils of fascism, it is necessary to first look on how the operation came to be. The beginnings of operation Hannibal lies on the capitulation of fascist Italy, after the fall of Florence and the Conference of Vienna, the Allied Supreme Council (made up of Brazil, the US and the Commonwealth) decided to open a second front by invading the south of France, more specifically the areas chosen would be around the departments of Aude and Hérault as despite these areas having poorer port facilities than Marseille and Toulon, we’re also less defended than the latter thus making an invasion easier to pull of, to further prepare for the operation the Allies also created the “Allied Strategic Bomb Command”, a command designed specifically to coordinate allied strategic-bombing efforts over France and Britain, such command would carry on many raids against French cities, industrial complexes and military bases, one such raid over the city of Bordeaux carried on the by the Brazilian Air-Force left up to 5k dead and completely annihilated the cities harbor as well as a lot of the cities industrial capabilities.
However, all of this preparation would pay of when the Allies managed to land over 100,000 soldiers across the southern French coast, despite the French’s best attempts at fortifying the area the combined pressure from the troops, aircraft and warships proved too much and the defenses collapsed, as such the Allies were able to achieve all of their major objectives and from there began to march out of the landing zones and into objectives in the French south, in the following days hundreds of thousands of Brazilian, American and Commonwealth troops began landing on French soil and now with new reinforcements, the Supreme Allied Command launched Operation Mayhem with the aim of capturing the French cities of Toulouse, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulon and Nice. The Operation began on the 10th of January with the Brazilians and the Commonwealth in charge of taking Toulouse and Bordeaux while the Americans would aim for the cities of Marseille and Toulon, it would be in Toulouse however where the Brazilians would meet with heavy French resistance as the Brazilian 4th and 2nd armies wrestled with the French for control over the city which was defended by 6 tank divisions, the attack however was ultimately successful due to the Brazilian army’s abundance of quality anti-tank weapons whilst the French tanks lacked ammunition and fuel, so it was no surprise that the Brazilian captured the city by the 21st, simultaneously the Americans managed to successfully connect with Danubian and Brazilian forces in Italy as they captured the cities of Marseille, Toulon and Nice, thus bringing much of the Southern France into allied hands.
The Germans meanwhile, were not just sitting quietly all this time but instead, where planning a crossing of the Rhine to liberated their occupied territories, the operation which consisted of some 1,6 million German soldiers was dubbed Operation Die Wacht am Rhein and consisted in crossing the Rhine at the intersection of land between the Dutch city of Nijmegen and the German city of Cologne, the operation began on the 9th of January and the Germans now outnumbering and outgunning the Entente forces crossed the Rhine river after an intense shelling and bombing of French and British troops in the area, the subsequent crossing although pretty costly was nonetheless successful and from there German units began to breakout of their newly secured beachhead and advanced towards the (now) Dutch cities of Brussels and Antwerp, whilst other units began moving south towards Cologne and Aachen, the Entente forces thus commenced a fighting retreated trying to make the Germans pay for every inch of land, on the 15th however German soldiers were at the gates of Cologne and the French began to retreat from there however before that they ordered the local commanders to blow up the city, the commanding officer in charge of the town thought that the city was simply to beautiful be blown and instead surrendered to the German forces.
This period of the war is generally called the downfall as the French armies began to melt away due to intense pressures from the North and the South, whilst the French leadership began to deteriorate in term of health and sanity as they began to order mindless instructions coupled with unproductive measures, this we can safely assume that the end is near
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Chapter LXVIII - The City of Light
Chapter LXVIII - The City of Light
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As the UN continued advancing into French territory the Entente forces there put up stiff resistance, as the frontlines tough moving did so at a sluggish pace, French civilian resistance was particularly severe as many paramilitary units struck behind enemy lines hitting supply depots or even assassinating soldiers, thereby the battle for France would be dominated by gruesome urban warfare as French cities were transformed into fortresses maned by tanks and machine guns, however the abundance of supplies as well as the complete domination of the allied air-forces meant that more often than not the UN managed to win decisive engagements whilst also losing less men than the enemy, the Germans for instance managed to reach Bruges by the 3rd of February, tough not before paying dearly for the city as the British units there defended the city ferociously against the barbaric Huns, ultimately the Germans began drafting plans to dislodged the Entente from their doorstep once and for all.
Codenamed Operation Star Lance the plan consisted in launching a concentrated offensive from Brabant and towards Paris itself, the plan was highly ambitious and would take some time to prepare and execute, in the meanwhile the Germans also launched Operation Otto the Great which consisted in liberating the last bits of Entente power in Germany proper, the operation was launched on the 10th of February as the Germans began marching in order to capture the city of Luxembourg, held by the Entente since the beginning of the war, the subsequent 2nd battle for Luxembourg in which over 400k men participated was a decisive German victory with most of France’s units there either being captured or destroyed, the British forces meanwhile began retreating from Flanders and took defensive positions along the Somme river, the Germans seeing this launched operation Star Lance earlier than anticipated with tremendous results, beginning on the 16th of February in only 4 days the Germans were able to recapture or capture all lands between the Somme and Flanders, however, their lack of preparations also meant that they were unable to properly cross the Somme which in the end proved a massive blunder for Germany as they lost 80k men in the subsequent battle, luckily for them Operation Otto the Great was still in full swing and by the 20th they read recaptured Saarbrücken, thus leaving A,space-Lorraine as the last bits of Germany occupied by France.
Meanwhile in the south the allied advance remained slow but constant, that is until the reached the Loire river on the 23rd, a barrier which proved way to big to be crossed immediately and thus the march northwards was halted as the Brazilians failed to cross the Loire, all the while the Americans were fairing better as they reached the gates of Lyon by the 25th, the subsequent battle for Lyon would be bloody as the French defended the city with tooth and nail sending even woman, children and the elderly in order to defend the motherland. Sadly for the French they would not be able to hold for much longer, on the 2nd of March the Germans finally finished the preparations for their big operation, on the 3rd the order was finally given.
Immediately did the British fell this as the Germans began a ceaseless shelling and bombing of their positions, then as morning began Germans units managed to cross the river as they were supported by tanks and armored cars, the British caught by surprise tried to put up a fight but to no avail, soon the entire section of the northern front was in a rout as British units began retreating from the Somme and into Normandy, this however opened up Paris for an attack, thus the Germans began to encircle Paris by the 7th of March, Entente units forum Normandy and Alsace-Lorraine tried to help relieve the city however both attempts failed as the Germans in the north managed to defeat the British once again in the battle of Rouen whilst German units in the east managed to pin down the French in the east, now truly unopposed the Germans finished encircling Paris by the 6th as German soldiers even manage to reach to Loire river and great Brazilian soldiers at Orleans.
The final assault towards Paris would take place on the 8th of March as the Germans tried to take the city by force, tough the French tried to defend the city with all their might there were simply too few of them, the Germans thus managed to break trough the outer layers of defense and began to battle French units in the streets of Paris itself, soon the Germans had made their way to the Île de la Cité where the 1st Counsel lived, tough by the time they reached the building it had already been turned to ruble by the constant bombing and fighting, it was then discovered that Pierre Tanttinger, the man who started it all had chosen the easy way out. Thus making 2 out and 3 more to go.
German soldiers passing over destroyed British Tanks (1943)
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Chapter LXIX - Disorder
Chapter LXIX - Disorder
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Meanwhile in the East, the Russians once again tried to renew their fortunes by starting yet another major offensive, this time they focused their efforts in the south and towards Ukraine, this of course signaled that the troops trapped in Bialystok were basically abandoned and so they decided to surrender to the Germans, thus ending perhaps the largest battle in the war (so far). Their initial advance went well as they managed to defeat Ukrainian troops holding the far south of the Dnieper river, which allowed for the city of Kherson to be captured by Russian forces by the 10th of March, from there other Russian units followed suit and by the 12th of March some other breaches happened across the Ukrainian front, the situation however became even direr when the Russians encircled Kiev and subsequently routed Ukrainian forces trying to relieve the city, the Danubians thus moved quickly to contain the Russian threat and fought the Russians to a stalemate at the battle of Kmenytysk where some 300k Danubians fought 400k Russians for control over the city, the Germans however where not as concerned about the Ukrainian situation because now they are planning something big, something that will finally expel the Russians from their doorstep.
And whilst the Mitteleuropans and the Russians were tearing each other apart the Allies were planning for their next move, the combined allied command of the Pacific finally unleashed the plan that they had been working for ages, a two fronted attack made up of Americans, Brazilians and Commonwealth forces to retake the Philippines and the Mariana Islands, this attack would be carried up on the 14th of March when Brazilian and American marines and soldier landed on the island of Spain beginning a 24 day long battle with the Japanese for control over the small island, simultaneously a combined effort of American and Commonwealth forces landed on the Philippines by the 15th and began its liberation with General Douglas McArthur famously saying “I have returned”, the Japanese tried to react to this by blockading both landing sites with their navy, unfortunately for them since their messages were now decrypted the Allies knew of their every movement, this was why on the 20th of March when a Japanese fleet approached the landing sites in the south of Philippines, it was intercepted by a gigantic fleet of American, Brazilian and Commonwealth battleships in the Dinagat Sound, which resulted in the Battle of Dinagat Sound and was a crushing defeat which the Japanese never managed to recover as they lost all their remaining aircraft carriers as well as most of their battleships at the cost of some allied ships which could be easily replaced.
At the same time the allies decided to lay the groundwork for a future invasion of Britain, to this end an American force of 1,500 marines landed in Iceland and quickly took over the island which was defended by a force of 250 British Marines, control of this island meant that the allies would be able to project power both northwards and southwards, and as the situation became more and more dire for the British war-effort the almighty leader Mosley began to grow more and more paranoid, he grew so paranoid in fact that he turned Britain into a de-facto prison with as fascist paramilitaries became even more authoritarian and violent than before. This however, would not change the Entente’s fortunes as the allies also successfully occupied the Faroe Islands (which they put under Icelandic administration) and started making plans for something even greater, these plans however would prove to be pretty useless when on the 19th of June an uprising happened in Ireland against British rule, the uprising which was located primarily on the western side of the island proved to be ideal for the allied war-effort thus on the 23rd, American, Commonwealth and Brazilian units landed in Galway and Westport to support the Irish rebels and, although outnumbered in the field the allies possessed uncontested supremacy in the sky as the previous campaign in France had all but destroyed the RAF as well as a logistical advantage, so it’s no shock that the invading forces dealt a crushing defeat to British units that tried to expel them, the subsequent rush for Dublin meant that many British units were overrun in process and thus by the time the allies reached Dublin by the 30th, British force in the island had vanished as the allies made 300k British personnel POWs, thus the British decided to abandon the Emerald Island and fortify Great Britain awaiting the worst
Finally on the 3rd of July the Germans began their big offensive, their main army stationed at Lithuania began to make a drive towards the city of Riga which was being sieges since the beginning of the war, they also began to move towards the Belarusian city of Minsk as they were supported by German units attacking Russian forces in Belarus via the central front as well as Danubian forces which began to liberate northern Ukraine from Russian occupation, it would be in this offensive that the Germans finally obtained a major success in the east as they easily broke the Russian’s defensive lines and kept moving ever forward, it would also be during this offensive however that the world would learn a dark secret. One thing you need to understand about Russian society and the Russian Fascist Party was that they were very anti-Semitic and blamed the jews as one of the minorities that helped the Germans win before, thus once they entered much of Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine they began a campaign of persecution of Jews in their occupied lands and began a New Pogrom with the aim of exterminating the Jewish people, this was quickly discovered by the Mitteleuropans however as the Germans entered Riga by the 12th of July and Minsk by the 21st of August, it was truly a monstrous that made everyone question to just how inhuman can people really be.
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Tbh while it’s fun doing war chapters, I really want to return to peace times so I can continue to explore the social-economical changes Brazil is going to face in the second half of the 20th century
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Chapter LXX - There will be Bloodshed
Chapter LXX - There will be Bloodshed
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However even more important for the post-war world would be the Salvador agreements in which, it would be created an international monetary system for value based upon the Bancor proposal of John M. Keynes, this proposal was mainly pushed by Brazil, Danubia and Germany as the USA wished for the American Dollar to become the singular currency for international trade, something which the 3 powers just couldn’t tolerate. This meeting would also be important however because of how the Brazilians defied American policy something done in opposition to what had been happening for the past years, the reasons for this were pretty simple, Brazil didn’t wish to follow the Americans into their international engagements or have their foreign policy dictated by Washington, thus Brazil hoped to become more neutral in the new post-war world to follow.
However back again to the war effort, the allies were getting closer and closer to the big A-bomb something which the Allied War Council thought would be of unparalleled importance in ending the war quicker, the Brazilian-American program however was more advanced than the German one who couldn’t provide as many funds and resources for the new toy than the Brazilian-Americans could.
Meanwhile in the East, the Brazilian forces alongside American units after finishing the capture of Saipan began to make their way to the other islands of the Mariana archipelago, their first stop was the island of Guam which was defended by a slightly smaller garrison than the one in Saipan and thus proved easier to be taken as the battle raged on from the 21st of July until the 10th of August when the island was cleared (and I mean cleared) of Japanese troops, then the next one to fall was Titian which was held by a measly 8,000 Japanese troops and thus presented no challenge to the veteran American and Brazilian marines, however as they went from island to island the civilian opposition to the invaders increased exponentially as the Japanese people living there did suicidal bombings of enemy soldiers as well as mass-suicides to prevent their capture, sadly for the allies the biggest battle was yet to come, the battle of Palau that is.
Brazilian Marine during the Pacific Campaign
The battle of Palau began on the 15th of September when Brazilian soldiers under Major General Gustavo Gonçalves Rupert landed some 40,000 soldiers at the island of Peleliu just across the main island of Palau, the island however was fiercely defended by over 28,000 Japanese troops and they made the Brazilian pay for every inch of land taken, the civilian population itself however would be the ,aim enemy for the invading forces as they regularly carried out attacks against Brazilian on the island with many women even luring Brazilian soldiers into bed with them only to kill them later in their sleep. The Americans meanwhile weren’t fairing any better as they landed in the island of Angaun with a force of 10,000 men against an intrenched force of 5,000 Japanese soldiers which ambushed GIs as they left their landing crafts, the American were recking up so many casualties trying to break out of the beaches that the navy had to carry out a bombardment of island which result in many civilian and military loses for the Japanese, all in all however both islands were eventually taken with the main island of Koror and Babeldaob being taken as well, in total however the civilian population of the islands were decimated as well as the Japanese military in the island as most preferred to die than surrender.
In the Eastern Front however things weren’t much better, the Germans under Operation Frederick the Great began their massive counter-attack in Eastern Europe as they battled with Russians for every square meter of land, notably brutal battles would be the battle of Minsk and the battle of Kiev as the opposing sides lost thousands of men for very few land gains, however despite all of this the Mitteleuropans were gaining the edge in most of those engagements as proven by their victory at Minsk on the 21st of August and Kiev on the 5th of September, and the Russians, despite having huge reserves of manpower were having difficulty replacing loses at the current rate and with this opposition to the fascist regime began to flare up, the only option possible for this was clear enough for them, KILL ALL OF THEM, and as a result hundreds of political opponents were killed in the course of a few months, generals were also purged left and right for suspected treason, minorities like the Volga Tatars were deported en mass to the northernmost fringes of Siberia whereby a majority of them died either of cold, disease or hunger. This however did little to change the nation’s luck as the Germans kept inching ever closer to Moscow.
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Chapter LXXI - Through the depts of hell
Chapter LXXI - Through the depts of hell
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The government in London soon began to panic as Oswald’s sanity deteriorated even further, in order to calm the Supreme Leader the British General staff elaborated a plan to drive the Judeo-Capitalist pigs out of Britain’s shores, thus they launched Operation Edward Longshank with the intent of splitting the invading armies and driving them back to the sea, unfortunately for them however their plans were discovered by German intelligence and then relailed back to the Allies whom, responded to this with a massive bombing run of the bases where men and material were being gathered, the resulting bombing of Bristol (where the British units were being assembled) killed well over 100,000 people with a majority of who, being civilians and only really killing some 40,000 servicemen, however the allies did managed to destroy most equipment thereby assembled and with momentum by their side in only 10 days they managed to occupy all of Wales, thus on the 1st of October of 1943 the monarch-in-exile, King Albert I, arrived on Cardiff and proclaimed that the end of Mosley’s regime was nigh and that democracy would never again be threatened in Britain.
And whilst all of this was happening the Germans finally managed to win the Siege of Kiev against the Russian army, this victory was also followed by the Battle for Livonia as the German advanced towards the city of Reval (Tallinn) and defeated a Russian force of 100,000 men with theirs smaller force of 85,000 resulting in the Russians abandoning the lands of United Baltic Duchies, simultaneously the German nuclear program nicknamed “Black Sun” was nearing completion was many German scientists worked tirelessly on the project, as they were supplied with uranium by Danubia and Heavy Water by Norway and since both nations were untouched by the horrors of war, the German nuclear project also advanced much faster that it was predicted and that would eventually be Germany’s trump card.
Simultaneously in the East, now that the Allie’s had secured most of the big islands close to Japan as well as most of the Philippines, the Allied Command in the Pacific decided to commence as high-intensity bombing campaign of the Japanese Home-Islands, the first of these runs happened on the 20th of October when a Brazilian Bomber squadron from occupied Spain launched a raid on the port city of Nagasaki hitting its port, the subsequent damage was catastrophic for Japan as many ships were lost as well as most of the port was either destroyed or set ablaze by the Brazilian Bombers who also used incendiary bombs which consumed everything they came across, this was also accompanied by other bombing runs made by American bombers in the area and would all contribute in the next allied plan in the pacific, that being the occupation of the island of Iwo Jima.
Back in West, the British army had managed to stall the allied advance on the island but unable to expel them from Wales, thus General Eisenhower began to lay the groundwork for Operation Roundheads which consisted in a massive breakthrough from Wales and the subsequent capture of major cities such as Liverpool, Birmingham, Oxford and hopefully London, the Operation was however continuesly delayed due to immediate material shortages at the front, this solved a month later and by the 9th of November the offensive was finally launched, the combination of air and land power brought by the allies shocked the British and as such their lines eventually broke as the Brazilian in the North and the Americans/Commonwealth in the south broke-trough in their respective sectors.
From the North the Brazilian fought against the British at Liverpool in a grueling urban fighting which would take a full month to win, in the east however the Brazilians found more success as they defeated a British army in the battle of Manchester and managed to capture the city relatively easily by the 14th and from there moved on to Lancaster in the hopes of cutting off British units defending Liverpool, in the south meanwhile, the Americans and Commonwealth managed to capture Bristol without any major trouble as the city was just a pile of rubble by this point, there real problem however would be at Birmingham where the Brits had massively fortified and made it into a fortress whereby the only way for the Allie’s to advance forward would be by taking the stronghold. The battle was long and bloody with horrific casualty rates for both sides as the British could hide in the buildings and ambush American columns along the way, the battle would go for a whole 1,5 months from the 18th of November until the 3rd of January and result in an American victory, a victory which subsequently, paved the way for the allies to take London. However, to do this the Americans would need to fight yet another stronghold in the city of Oxford, this one however would be easier as the city was attacked in both sides by the American army and the Brazilian army which in the meanwhile had taken York on the 10th of November, Derby on the 14th and Leeds on the 21st. All of this meant that the army holding Oxford could barely stand up and thus took only 3 weeks to be taken by the combined allied army, after such victory the Americans moved in and capture Portsmouth whilst the Brazilian advanced and captured all of East Anglia, thus leaving only London to be taken.
American troops at Birmingham (December, 1943)
London however was the mightiest of fortress as Mosley had placed the strongest and most well equipped units in the city, whilst simultaneously expelling a lot of the civilian population thus turning London into an arena where he was sure the allies could be defeated, the battle began on the 10th of February of 1943 as the Brazilians moved from the North and the Americans from the West and as expected the British kept a,bushing Americans and Brazilians who traversed the streets of London, however as the allies were simply to many (1,5 million Allied soldiers against 750k British soldiers) for the British to take, this was worsened when the allies discovered much of the civilian population had left and began a massive bombing campaign over London as the city was burned to ashes, the incoming days also saw a decreased in British morale and supplies as they were no longer able to fight, this all played well for the Americans who after 2 weeks of battle did a final push towards the British General Headquarters in Westminster, there after 2 days of fighting they reached the area that housed the Supreme Leader himself, however as they entered the area they soon discovered that just like his French counterpart Mosley preferred to end his life himself than to be captured, thus after only 2 more days the remnants of the fascist government surrendered to allies and thus the war in the west was over
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Chapter LXXII - The Flames of Death
Chapter LXXII - The Flames of Death
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At the same the time the battle was being fought the Japanese Navy moved for a desperate operation to relieve the small island however, they were soon intercepted by a Naval Task Force of Brazilian and American ships which soon proceeded to pummel the floor ergh… sea with the Japanese ships, the last bastion of an actual navy was sunk on that day and with it the last hopes for the Japanese garrison there to be saved, even so they cintinued fighting and the brutal battle would last a whole month, until ultimately the last of the Japanese forces had been dealt with and the island had been secured.
News of victory also sprung from the west as the Danubians crossed the Dnieper river in the south, whilst German and Belarusian units managed to expel the last Russian forces from the land by the 25th of February, what is more was that as the purges happened in Russia the troops on the frontline kept loosing morale until they either broke and deserted or surrendered to the Germans, that isn’t to say that there wasn’t arduous resistance for example when the Danubians tried to retake Crimea they were pushed back by the Russian garrison there which inflicted severe losses to the invaders, however this was not enough to stop the tide and soon the regrouped Germans and Danubians crosses the Dnieper river in multiple fronts and by the 3rd of March had basically driven the Russians out of most of Ukraine, the Russians couldn’t allow this and so hoped to crush the German units in Kursk and then move south to crush the Danubians as well, unfortunately for them the German intelligence ahead already discovered the operation due to Russian defectors and proceeded to absolutely crush the Russians at the battle of Kursk and send them packing.
By the 15th of June the Mitteleuropans commenced Operation Terrible with the aim of taking the major Russian cities of Petrograd, Tsaritsyn and the most important of all Moscow, with a combined strengh of 3,000,000 from all over Mitteleuropa the Germans made fast progress and by the
1st of July they had taken Petrograd, after battling against the Russians in Crimea yet again and finally capturing the peninsula, the Danubians marched eastwards in order to take Tsaritsyn, the battle was pretty bloody but eventually after 2 weeks of grueling street fighting they were able to fully capture the city by the 29th of July, in the center however where the best Russian units were the fighting was much more difficult as the Germans had to grind trough the most well defended part of Russia, thankfully for them now that Petrograd and Tsaritsyn had fallen they could simply outmaneuver the Russians as reinforcements from the North and South began making their way to the sector and then finally after years and years of war Moscow the center of the Russian government finally fell by the 21st of August of 1944, however as they entered the city the Russian government was nowhere to be found, after a while the news came that the Russian government fled eastwards and now resides in the city of Nizhny Novgorod and just as soon as their eyes filled with joy they learned that they once again would need to march on… or did they?
… German Southwest Africa (Namibia), 11th of August 1944…
As the scientists ready themselves for the project they have waited for so long the mood of the time seemed uncertain, some felt joy, others uncertainty towards the functionality of the device or its use, nevertheless they carried on and by 9:00AM local time the devise was set of as they hid behind a concrete reinforced bunker a couple of kilometers away from the blast and soon nothing but white, after a while their visions are cleared and they see the result of their work, a massive yellow and red mushroom in the distance capable of annihilating an entire city in just one go, their super weapon was finally ready.
Photo taken of the first
… Nizhny Novgorod, 10th of October 1944…
The city by this point had already devolved into chaos as the Great Leader refused to surrender against the Germans and proclaimed that the master Russian race was to triumph over the inferior Germanic race, however all of this was silenced by 10:00AM (local time) when a massive blast engulfed the city killing or destroying as it went by, the bomb was dropped just a few hundreds meters from the new Russian parliament and the ensuing blast killed most of the government including Konstantyn himself, the panic begins immediately as Russian commanders on the front stop receiving orders from the capture and soon afterwards they understood what had just happened and saw the destruction that had consumed .
Now that everything laid in ruins any felt that there was no sense in fighting on, thereby General Pavel Batov the next in the line of succession (at least the next that wasn’t dead) assumed control of what remained of the Russian State and formally issued a capitulation to the Germans, finally after years and years of bloodshed and genocide, Mother Russia finally yielded
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Chapter LXXIII - It’s finally over
Chapter LXXIII - It’s finally over
Now that the war in Europe was over and the Allies were preparing to bring their full might on Japan the nations ability to win was basically hopeless, after the combined Brazilian/American expedition successful took the island of Iwo Jima the Allied Command moved on to their next objective, Okinawa, by the 25th of March the allied command had already drafted the plans for Operation Deception which consisted in the landing of over 300k allied troops across the island which was defended by a garrison suspected to be around 120k strong, the plan would not be easy as was previously experienced in previous battles for islands in the pacific, however since this island was so close to Japan proper and presented suitable infrastructure to create more airbases to which use for the bombing of the Home Islands or even, if it was necessary, to be a staging point for a future invasion of the Sunrise Land.
The Operation was finally launched on the 1st of April and soon much like in other times the landings were uncontested, however knowing from experience that they would simply be ambushed if they tried to penetrate into the interior the allied forces opted for a new plan, using specialized elite units to infiltrate the bunkers the allies were able to open gaps on the defensive only upon which more groups could enter and hit the defenses from behind, this strategy of carefully taking each group of bunkers at a time might have prolonged the battle by a few weeks by in the end reduced casualties by a lot, the Japanese on the other hand were suffering insane numbers of casualties as the allied method of careful attacks played against the Japanese troops’ lack of supplies as well as their anxiety, thereby units frequently did suicidal banzai charges when out of supplies only to be picked off in drove by machine gun fire, in the end after 2 months of fighting the so called “hell island” would be taken and be brought under allied control.
From there the allies began to make preparations for a last push against Japan, codenamed Operation Hellfire, the allies launched their single largest bombing campaign in the entire war against the island nation, the results of such operation were catastrophic for Japan as many of it’s cities were reduced to ruble as the bombers dropped thousands of tons of bombs (often incendiary) which just consumed everything in their path, the Japanese Air Force meanwhile was unable to respond as the new allied bombers actually flew way above their height limit and thus they could do nothing as their country went up in flames repeatedly, one such incident would the fire-bombing of Tokyo carried by the USAF in which some 250k civilians were killed and a lot of Tokyo’s residential areas (made of wood) were completely destroyed, however even this could not bring Japan to its knees and they refused to surrender so something else needed to be done.
The firebombing of Tokyo (1944)
The SACP (Supreme Allied Command of the Pacific) began to devise plans for an eventual invasion of the home islands, codenamed Operation Sunset it would involve the invasion of Japan beginning with Kyushu and then moving to Shikoku and then finally the big apple of Honshu, the plan was massive and it was ambitious as it would require men and material that would make any naval invasion dine previously to look like a joke, the plans were being drawn as early as March of 1944 and it was planned that by September of that same year their plans would be ready, simultaneously the American-Brazilian nuclear program was also bringing quick results and it was expected that by late November a devise could be finally produced, this became even more clear after the Germans not only detonated their first bomb in Namibia but also dropped one in Russia thus ending the war in Europe.
So in order to not fall behind more men and material were allocated in order to finish the project, some espionage was also used in order to get the last components of the equation from the Germans, all of which helped the allied endeavor to shorten its time to early October, this came particularly handy when on the 15th of September of 1944 the allied command finally launched the operation and soon by the 17th of September the first allied units hit the beach, the task was massive and counted with over 600k troops just in the initial wave with more than 1,2 million soldiers being able to be deployed in just the first week, as the islands landed on the island they were immediately met with an overwhelming Japanese force which defended the beaches of Kyushu until the last man but were eventually overwhelmed by the invaders who ten tried to move inlsnad only to be faced with even starcher resistance forum not only the military but also the civilian population who battled against the Allie’s with all their might, thus the advance inland was sluggish at best and stalling at worst.
The push forward however didn’t stop and only 2 weeks later the allied forces managed to encircle the city of Nagasaki and take it by the 3rd of October, however after this things didn’t get much easier as more and more Japanese troops were arriving at the island and the allied advanced all but stalled with some sectors even being pushed back by the Japanese, thereby the allies entrenched themselves and awaited another grilling island campaign, thankfully for them they wouldn't need to fight much longer. On the 21st of October of 1944 the American plane Home Run dropped an special load over the city of Hiroshima and turned it to ashes, then the US government asked for Japan to surrender but the Japanese refused thinking that it was a single use trick, they were however wrong and only 2 days later another bomb was dropped over the city of Kyoto and it also got vaporized instantly thus the Japanese was caught in a panic as the Americans warned that the next one would be aimed at Tokyo itself, thus with on other option the Emperor and the pro-surrender faction staged a coup against the anti-surrender faction and took control of the government.
Thus on the 30th of October of 1944 the Japanese formally surrendered to the Allies and thus, finally brought the war to an end
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Chapter LXXIV - A New Hope
Chapter LXXIV - A New Hope
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As far as occupation went the United Nations proceeded to redraw the European map, for instance Russia was to give up all of its military gains and return to pre-1930 borders, however they also had to make territorial concessions to Finland and the UBS, they also had to demilitarize and not have a force over 500,000 men in active and they were also forbidden from having reserves or nuclear weapons. For Western Europe things weren’t that different, France for instance had to give up land to Germany, the Netherlands, Wallonia, Spain and Switzerland and give independence to Brittany, they country was also divided into 4 occupation zones with an American, Brazilian, German and Danubian sector and the capital of Paris was divided amongst the 4 power as well, Italy meanwhile whilst not loosing any territory was also divided into 4 occupation zones with the capital of Rome however being entirely in the Brazilian zone, Britain however as per agreement was not occupied and instead was only forced to give up Northern Ireland to the Irish Republic, this kinda also generated a refugee crisis as Protestant Irish fearing for their safety started emigrating towards either Britain, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Japan in contrast, was occupied only by Brazil and the US but was forced to give Korea independence as well as give Taiwan to China.
The next question in mind however was what to do with the Entente’s colonies in Africa, this was however quickly answered when the Brazilians proposed creating UN mandates to serve as a transition government for future independence, thus some 6 mandates were established in order to prepare the local leadership for eventual freedom, borders however would need to be redrawn in order to be more representative of the social-linguistic realities of the continent, however this was to be done later and for now the current mandate borders would suffice. Another region that was decolonized was the Middle-East, however unlike Africa this process was far quicker for instance Iraq was given Kuwait in May if 1944 and full independence in June of 1944, similarly both Syria and Lebanon were granted independence on July of 1944 and Transjordan was freed on November of 1944, however one region of content would be the region of Palestine because you see the Germans and Danubian were pushing for the creation of a Jewish state in the region, arguing that the Jews affected by the horrific Russian pogroms (which killed 2 million Ashkenazi Jews) should be given a state of their own to better protect their language, culture and religion, the truth tough was that both Berlin and Vienna desired a friendly state in the region as the Arab nations were pretty much guaranteed to become friends with the USA and Brazil whose influence in the region was vast, thus on March of 1945 a very controversial decision was made to split Palestine into an Arab State and a Jewish state with the change being implemented by 1947.
This issue with the Jews however helps to show us that the friendship between the Western Allies and Mitteleuropa was quickly falling apart as the Allies disliked the Germans expanding their influence so much to the point that they truly became the uncontested masters of Europe, whilst simultaneously the Germans disliked that their only potential rivals had acquired vast territories right next to their doorstep, this mistrust however went way back to the Berlin trials when the Germans blocked the Americans and Brazilian from participating as they feared that both nations would acquit many Russian defendants in order to create as West-Russian alliance in order to encircle the Germans, this opinion was not all baseless as both president Olsen was not a big supporter of Germany and its authoritarian government, thus stage was set for the most defining events of the second half of the 20th century.
Tensions then began to rise even further when in November of 1944 the western Allies decided to unite their occupation zones of France, Italy and Japan in order to create Transitional Military Governments to prepare the occupied regions for an eventual return to civilian leadership after a period of 5 years of “defascisfication” in order to rid all three country’s society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of the fascist ideology, such action however was not liked by both Berlin and Vienna and on January of 1945 both nations also United their occupation zones in order to create their respective military governments in France and Italy; furthermore when the question of an eventually French and Italian reunification showed up all the German Kaiser Willhelm III (Willhelm II died in 1941) had this to say “I love France so much I’d rather see two of them”, thus making it clear that he did not care about the previous agreements made between the United Nations.
The ultimate conclusion to all of this however came in April of 1945 when the ex-Vice-President and now President Henry A. Wallace announced a Containment Policy which stated that in order to contain Germany’s dangerous authoritarian and exploitative policies from the free world, it’s influence needed to be contained, he also further called the Kaiser “A Tyrannical Todler” and Germany in general “An Empire of Evil” further expressed by Germany’s policies of Germanization of its eastern provinces as well as the expulsion of many minorities from its country. The German Government’s response was not light as they responded by accepting America’s proposal for a “Cold War” between both nations and their respective allies.
American President, Henry A. Wallace (1945)
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1st - What can I say expect you’re welcome🎵
2nd - In TTL the Armenians instead of being deported to the Syrian Desert, were instead deported to central Anatolia whereby instead of some 1,5 million of them dying the here is closer to 300-500k and after the 1st War ended most Armenians then migrated to the newly founded Republic of Armenia who immediately went on to invade the dying Ottomans in order to acquire their eastern claims, simultaneously the Greeks invade from the west and the new Turkish government is forced into a deal with the devil and in exchange for recognition of Armenia’s new borders as well as a population exchange (similar to the OTL’s Greco-Turkish one) the Armenians would ratify a cease-fire, this allowed the Turks to concentrate against the Greeks and expel them from their territory and eventually perform another population exchange with the Greeks, thereby the Turks may have lost the east but kept the more valuable west
3rd - Not yet this the Mandate for Palestine which eventually is supposed to be divided into Israel and an Arab state, this proposal as I meant ironed in the previous post was a German plan to create an ally in the otherwise American-friendly Middle-East
I no longer like Portuguese people ;( !
Still the areas must be somewhat depopulated considering there was way more than a million non Armenians there. As for the Greeks well atleast they got Cyprus. I suspect Cypriot Turks were included in the exchange?
I quite like that plump Bulgaria but the fact Austria Hungary still exists 🤢 . What about Bulgarians in Eastern Thrace?