A stronger Europe post-WWII

So, I rewrote some parts of the 1940's and put some ideas together over the next decades. Of course there are huge gaps, as I'm deciding what will happen in each theatre:

1943

- Hitler is killed in a plane crash and a military junta sizes the power in Germany. As the whole Europe is in their hands, the Nazi regime overruled, the Germans manage to get negotiated peace terms. German denazification process begins;

- Britain, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand open conversations to settle the future of the Empire on the post-war world. Out of it emerges a compromise aiming to create a federation encompassing the UK and the 4 Dominions.



1944

- The British Federation is installed. UK and the 4 Dominions retain wide powers over internal affairs. The Imperial Parliament, built nearby Westminster, has 300 members, distributed according to the population;

- Japan is defeated and the European empires on eastern Asia are restored;

- In China, the fight between nationalists and communists is resumed. The Russians massively supply the Red Chinese armies. British observers notice the balance is now tilting to the communist side and the first contacts are established (in secrecy) aiming to protect the huge British interests in China;

- By the end of the year, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are all communist states, tied very close to the USSR. Yugoslavia remains politically independent, while Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary as result of the post-war agreements, remain strictly neutral, although German economic influence is big and growing;

- Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland create the Nordic Community, a economic, political and military organization;

- UN is founded.



1945

- Nationalists flee to Taiwan. In an unexpectedly move, the British, who had been the most strident anti-communism voice in the world, recognize the new communist government in China. In return, China recognise perpetual British rights over Hong Kong’s New Territories and the integrity of Shanghai International Settlement. France follows British steps in order to protect their own interests, namely its Shanghai concession and the Catholic missions in the hinterland. The Chinese, with a pragmatic approach, assume they can deal with these matters later. As result of the recognition, the United States-British Federation relations reaches a new low;

- Discussions over India’s future inside the British Empire starts;

- In Dutch East Indies, the fight escalates. The British military involvement keep growing, as result of an intense pressure of Australian Imperial MPs;

- US start to consider shifting their policies over eastern Asia, abandoning the strong anti-imperialism in favour of an active anti-communism, although the pressure over European powers to abandon their empires keeps strong;

- First atomic bomb explodes on the New Mexico desert.



1946

- France faces growing problems in Indochina. The situation is deteriorating quickly while Russian and Chinese armament flows to the rebels hands. In Saigon, those troubles are hardly noticed, and the colonial elite continues with its life as usual;

- No satisfactory arrangement comes to accommodate India in the new British Federation. The path to the Indian independence is settled and the focus of the dicussions is to keep the country united.



1947

- European (and world) economy is fully recovered from the war and starts to grow fast. It’s the beginning of the post-war economic Golden Age.



1948

- Independence of India. The new independent country will be part of the British Commonwealth, with a status to the former White Dominions. King George VI retains the title of Emperor of India and is represented in the country by the Viceroy. British Federation and India are linked by strong economic, political and military bonds, albeit in the future, India will increasingly look forward to a more independent international policy. After the settlement, the country keeps undivided. However, tensions between Hindu and Muslim are high and clashes are not uncommon, thereat about 50,000 British troops are permanently based in the country. Despite the relatively instability, the majority of the Europeans decides to stay in India and actually will grow in number for the next decades.

- North Korea invades South Korea triggering the Korean War. The United States quickly deploy troops and plea European countries for aid. British Federation, France and Netherlands send troops, although not in big numbers as they are involved in their own problems in other parts of Asia and resent the lack of American support to their operations. Belgium, Greece, Turkey, India, Thailand, Philippines and Nationalist China also send troops to the theatre. On the communist side, China and USSR (in smaller scale) increasingly start to involve directly in the conflict.



1949

- Fight continues fiercely on the Korean Peninsula and despite the contention efforts, spreads over other areas. Communist China organizes a full scale navy operation to invade Taiwan, but is completely destroyed by an US fleet. In the Indochina, the communists and the French are involved in a full scale war which starts to disturbe the colonial economy. Small communist guerrilla units start to operate in Thailand, Malaya, Philippines, Burma and even in the already troubled Dutch East Indies;

- Unable to reach an agreement similar to the Indian for Palestine, the British decide to pull out. Israel defeats a coalition of Arab forces and consolidate its position;

- Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg sign a treaty creating the European Community.



1950

- Soviet Union and British Federation first nuclear tests;

- In Korea, Americans were able to establish a line throught the peninsula about 30 miles south of Pyongyang, but further advances are becoming increasingly harder. The European allies refuse the US plea to increase their role in the war;

- As part of the policy to forge stronger bonds with it’s western Europe neighbours, Germany starts to sell large amount of military equipment and to finance French and Dutch war efforts on Asia. British and Dutch troops, successfully push the nationalist combatants out of the main centres of Indonesia. However the continues, specially after the emergence of communist guerrillas. After series of military victories in Indochina, the French position improves substantially, but the continue flow of weapons from China to the Viet Minh prevents a decisive victory;

- In South Africa, the political struggle continues. Two views are in conflict: one advocates the instalation of comprehensive legal system to enforce race separation, also as known as apartheid; the other part strong reject any kind of institutionalized racism and defends the current system based on censitary suffrage or, alternatively, based on educational requirements. This, according to them, would secure the white predominancy over country affairs in the foreseeable future, without alienating the rest of the population. On the other parts of Federation, by that time, those clashes deserve little or no attention whatsoever;

- Burma is granted independence.


1951

- Korean war keeps going. After fierce combats and heavy losses, Americans and allies capture Pyongyang;

- In Malaya, the communist guerrilla activity increases sharply. The British starts to realocate troops from Indonesia to Malaya;

- In Thailand and in Philippines, the governments faces trouble to contain the communist guerrilla. Americans, albeit still involved in Korea, starts to send military advisers to Thailand and increase their presence in Philippines. For the Indians concern, the Soviet and Chinese influence over Burma’s government increases. Although, a communist Burma would open the Indian Ocean thitherto an Anglo-Indian lake to Soviet and Chinese activities, the British decide to stay out of it, as they are military overstreched. India, still facing internal turmoils, don’t get involved either.

- The war is virtually over on Dutch East Indies. The Dutch starts the arrangements to grant indepedence in a way to preserve their old and large interests in the country.



1952

- Germany lauches Humboldt 1, the first artificial satellite in Earth orbit. It’s the start of the Space Race.



1953

- Germany gets its own nuclear device, although no test explosion is conducted;

- Indonesia is granted independence. As result of the Anglo-Dutch military victory, Netherlands and British Federation influence in the country remains very strong, thus the majority of Dutch colonists decide to stay. In the opposite directions, tens of thousands of Indonesians will migrate to Netherlands for the next decades.



1954

- Uprising in Latvia is brutally repressed by Soviet troops. Thousands are dead.



1955

- The Socialist Republic of Turkey is proclaimed. The Soviet have now full access to the Mediterranean Sea. American and British doubled their garrisons in Greece and carries an huge joint-naval exercise in eastern Mediterranean. Turkey, although, as Yugoslavia, remains quite independent as the internal factors were far more relevant than Soviet aid;



1956

- Wolfgang von Haas, is the first man in space;

- Attritions between the new nationalist Egyptian government and British Federation over the strong British military presence on the country. The British make clear they have no intention to leave the area which is regarded as primordial to the Federation and Empire communication lines.



1957

- War breaks between Israel and a coalition of Arab countries. The 50,000 British troops stationed in Egypt are trapped in the crossfire, but are orientated not engage, unless under attack. Few days after the beginning of the hostilities, a skirmish between British and Israeli forces left 20 dead, worsen the already bad Anglo-Israeli relations. The cease-fire is proclaimed 3 weeks later, without major changes in the positions.



1958

- Anti-French riots outbreak in Algeria;

- France tests its first nuclear weapon.



1970

- West Indies (formed in 1964 by all British colonies in America, aside Bermuda, British Guiana and Fakland Islands), after a referendum, are accepted as part of the British Federation.



1995

- The communism falls in the Soviet Union, which is replaced by the new Russian Confederation, with strong slavic-nationalist tones.



2000

- Main countries population: India (1.305 billion); China (1.285 billion); Russian Confederation (303.2 million); United States (296.4 million); British Federation (174.4 million); Japan (134.9 million); Germany (114.2 million); France (66.5 million); Italy (64.5 million).


So, what do you think?
 
Uhhhh...

Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary were fierce German allies in 1943. There is no reason at all for the Germans to hand them over-in addittion to being a militarily suicidal move (the Soviets, formerly fighting for Stalingrad, now have a dagger pointed at Berlin), but it also gives away the Ploetisi fields, one of Germany's main oil suppliers. Yugoslavia, Czechoslovalkia, and Poland didn't exist in 1943. The former two have a nicely set up system of puppets and German/Italian territory that is working perfectly well, and the latter, if it exists at all, will be in the form of the General-Government, which truly defined the meaning of the word "puppet".
 
Ok, but we need to find a middle ground here: some colleagues said I gave to much to Germany, while others argued it's impossible the Germany to get away so easily.

I suppose each part had their own agenda during the peace negotiations and in the end, that was what emerged out of them.
 

Eurofed

Banned
In 1943 in Germany Hitler is really popular and no matter what you say he has a lot of support in Wehrmacht, if an attempt at killing Hitler succeed you can be sure the peopes will see him as a martyr. And won't support the new anti nazi leadership. In short a German civil war or another coup take place just after putting nazi back in power.

Not if the coupers blame Nazi extremists or the Allies for the death of Hitler, and take the gradual approach I described to the dismantling of the Nazi regime. In the March 13, 1943 assassination attempt, the bomb on Hitler's plane had been set to explode when it would have been plausible for the Soviets to bring it down. If Hitler was still popular, the rest of the Nazi ruling elite was not. They can bring it down by blaming Nazi "extremists" for all the shortcomings of the regime. Likewise, invented takeover attempts by Nazi radicals, or even real ones, what a countercoup attampt would be, are a great excuse to justify disbanding the SS, the Nazi party, and purging awowed Nazi in the administration.
 
Last edited:
Ok, but we need to find a middle ground here: some colleagues said I gave to much to Germany, while others argued it's impossible the Germany to get away so easily.

I suppose each part had their own agenda during the peace negotiations and in the end, that was what emerged out of them.

The "giving too much to Germany" idea stems from the Allies and Soviets abandoning their "Unconditional Surrender" mantra. If you're going to have a negotiated peace, don't have Germany abandon hundreds of miles of strategicly and economically vital territory that they won with the blood of countless Wermacht soldiers for no reason at all.
 
Top