Maximilian's legacy: Interwar and Post World War 2

Also, Im curious, what is the status of Portugal as of the Second Weltkrieg? We know it has gone through a state of Monarchy Restoration but so far we dont know if it remained neutral or was it joining the war on Mexico side alongside Spain to defend the Iberian Peninsula?
 
By the way, if you ever think about this idea, I suggest perhaps the Second Weltkrieg could be it, the establishment of the Second Kingdom of Italy ruled by House of Bourbon of Two Sicilies, to open up another front in fighting the UoB and Vichy France.

What if we can get another Italian Unification War in the Second Weltkrieg? But this time, Kingdom of Two Sicilies is the one who doing it, because its clear to every Italians that they really do not want the Savoy on the throne of a unified Italy again after the mishaps that is the First World War. Two Sicilies already missed their first chance at unifying Italian Peninsula back in the 19th century, but this time, with a more progressive government and a strong Entente backing the Kingdom, I think the call for a Second Unification is now.
 
The defeats at Ceylon and Formosa greatly damaged morale, but it didn't stop the Japanese advance in Burma, by August 30 the Japanese had largely taken control of the colony. But there was a new problem; Mexican aircraft carriers began bombing Bangkok and Japanese positions, while in Burma, guerilla warfare was getting to the point that the Japanese offensive into India had to postpone until the country was "pacified" and their supply lines secured. In the Raj, Lettow Vorbeck and Orozco had to change their tactics, the guerilla warfare managed to impede the Japanese long enough to build defenses at the strategic place of Imphal with 4 infantry divisions numbering 100,000 soldiers including Mexicans, Germans, Indians, Sikhs, South Africans, along with the Somali brigade and 1 armoured brigade including completely outdated Burstyn Arma de motor, as a desperate attempt, at Imphal ditches were dug, machine gun nest at every point, artillery behind concealed positions, and the Burstyn used as stationary guns. Lots of time and effort was taking into preparing the defense of Imphal. Now it was time to wait and the order from Lettow Vorbeck, Orozco, and Smuts was "No retreat and no step back, do your duty to the Vaterland. Fur Gott, Kaiser, und Reich."

In China, after the destruction of the Japanese fleet at Ceylon and Formosa the Japanese Navy were unable to help the army in continuing their offensives into China and this gave the Beiyang Army time to strengthen their defenses in Peking, Mukden, and slowly but surely began pushing back the Kuomintang back to their capital Naking. Japan realize their allies weakness and decided to take full advantage of it and immediately began attacking the Kuomintang and they seized Naking and in revenge for the Kuomintang's failures they committed the Naking massacre also known as the Rape of Naking this led to world wide condemnation, even Japan's allies were condemning them for their barbarity including the Union of Britain, much to the irony. Chiang Kai Shek was now on the backfoot retreating from both the Beiyang Army and from his former allies all the way to Wuhan.

In Spain, surprisingly the peninsula front had been largely quite; after the successful counteroffensives that managed to push back the French, the French decided to hold their ground and focus more on Germany and on Sardinia. This gave time for the Allies to try and organize a Operation to push the French back to the Pyrenees.

In the Union of Britain, something much more sinister was happening: after the conquest of Ireland, a forced mass exodus began of Irish Catholics. While the ones who refused to leave were rounded up and sent to work camps and they were worked to death. In Britain, Anti Catholic pograms began and many Catholics, including a famous author named J RR Tolkien, were forced to leave Britain and left to Canada or Mexico while they were the lucky ones, those who did remain were sent to concentration camps in the Scottish highlands never to be seen again. This was all part of Mosley's Final Solution to the Catholic Question.

In the Eastern front, the Soviet Union made a incredible comeback.​
 
Also, Im curious, what is the status of Portugal as of the Second Weltkrieg? We know it has gone through a state of Monarchy Restoration but so far we dont know if it remained neutral or was it joining the war on Mexico side alongside Spain to defend the Iberian Peninsula?
By the way, if you ever think about this idea, I suggest perhaps the Second Weltkrieg could be it, the establishment of the Second Kingdom of Italy ruled by House of Bourbon of Two Sicilies, to open up another front in fighting the UoB and Vichy France.

What if we can get another Italian Unification War in the Second Weltkrieg? But this time, Kingdom of Two Sicilies is the one who doing it, because its clear to every Italians that they really do not want the Savoy on the throne of a unified Italy again after the mishaps that is the First World War. Two Sicilies already missed their first chance at unifying Italian Peninsula back in the 19th century, but this time, with a more progressive government and a strong Entente backing the Kingdom, I think the call for a Second Unification is now.

Portugal was greatly neutral and not only was it because it was not their war, it was also because the people didn't like Mexico, the pain of the First Weltkrieg was still fresh in people's mind and many saw this as karma coming to bite Mexico in the ass. Not only that the King and government knew that if they entered the war, mass riots and even another revolution could overthrow the monarchy.

I have already thought of the second Italian Reunification in great detail and we are almost at that point and yes I'm pretty sure that the Bourbons had learned their lesson after the expedition of the thousand.
 
Portugal was greatly neutral and not only was it because it was not their war, it was also because the people didn't like Mexico, the pain of the First Weltkrieg was still fresh in people's mind and many saw this as karma coming to bite Mexico in the ass. Not only that the King and government knew that if they entered the war, mass riots and even another revolution could overthrow the monarchy.

I have already thought of the second Italian Reunification in great detail and we are almost at that point and yes I'm pretty sure that the Bourbons had learned their lesson after the expedition of the thousand.
If the Italian Reunification War under the Kingdom of Two Sicilies is successful, Perhaps Spain will got another Bourbon allies in the camp to hold off a bit longer before the US enter the war.
 
Also, for Spain, the UoB and France could jointly create another Spanish Republic as a puppet state in the conquered regions, it would basically the same as the Second Spanish Republic OTL with discords between liberals, communists and anarchists and radical republicans who cant seems to agree on the unified idea of how to run the nation. The Second Spanish Republic of course would received a lot of British, Russian and French equipments to fight the Kingdom of Spain on the Iberian Front.

Of course, Francisco Franco ITTL is still an ardent monarchist, however since the coup OTL is made by three generals, if the other two survive, he would just be another General. Although alternatively, if the other two died while fighting the French and British troops, you can still have Franco taking powers and desperately trying to keep the Kingdom together to continue the fighting by making a rousing speech to rally all the conservatives under the banner of the King.

Other than that, the airlift from Morocco would still happened to gave Spanish mainland more troops to fight their defensive war
 
Also, for Spain, the UoB and France could jointly create another Spanish Republic as a puppet state in the conquered regions, it would basically the same as the Second Spanish Republic OTL with discords between liberals, communists and anarchists and radical republicans who cant seems to agree on the unified idea of how to run the nation. The Second Spanish Republic of course would received a lot of British, Russian and French equipments to fight the Kingdom of Spain on the Iberian Front.

Of course, Francisco Franco ITTL is still an ardent monarchist, however since the coup OTL is made by three generals, if the other two survive, he would just be another General. Although alternatively, if the other two died while fighting the French and British troops, you can still have Franco taking powers and desperately trying to keep the Kingdom together to continue the fighting by making a rousing speech to rally all the conservatives under the banner of the King.

Other than that, the airlift from Morocco would still happened to gave Spanish mainland more troops to fight their defensive war

That could be after the New White Army is revealed and the Axis in retaliation starts to use puppet regimes in Spain, the Hesshamites in Arabia, and like Japan the INA and National Burma.
 
The Battle of Imphal began in June 23 when the Japanese army led by General Renya Mutaguchi attacked in certain points at Imphal at Tamu-Shenam, Tiddim-Bishenpur, and Sangshak-Litan, all the attacks were beaten back because of two catastrophic mistakes: before the battle the Japanese overestimated their armies capabilities of both being able to take on the Raj's armies and because of that and also their thinking that since the Allies couldn't use tanks in the densely forested jungles they decided to leave their artillery behind in Burma. The second problem was the Japanese's racist idea that the Mexican, Indian, and European armies were inferior to their own, however what they failed to take in consideration was the fact that after the multiple defeats the Allies had changed their doctrines and studied Japanese tactics and now have better themselves and were now ready. It also didn't help that the Japanese were outnumbered with only 3 divisions totaling 75,000 soldiers along with brigades of Azad Hind.

140px-Mutaguchi_Renya.jpg Kohima.jpg General Renya and Japanese invasion of India
300px-Imphalradio.jpg German and Indian soldiers operating radio

The attacks began with waves of Japanese soldiers running at the entrenched, well positioned, and prepared German line in Bishenpur, with no artillery support, so it would come to no one's surprise that the attacks were absolutely torn to shreds by machine gun fire, artillery pieces, and stationary tanks. After 30 minutes the Japanese fell back with 2,550 dead or wounded.

300px-Imphalradio.jpg Battle of Bishenpur

The attack in Chin Hills were almost successful, when Japanese soldiers supported with ten Type 97 Chi Ha medium tanks managed to make a break through in the Mexican held Chin Hills, what went wrong was the failure in communications and the Allied artillery support that destroyed 6 Chi Has. The pessimistic General Masafumi Yamauchi, ordered a retreat and it was up to Azad Hind to help protect the Japanese retreat. They fought with incredible valiance and were able to hold the Allies back until they were finally overwhelmed and 300 were captured.

Type_97_Chi-Ha_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_Museum_5-jun-2014 (1).jpg Type 97 Chi Ha tank

The Indian prisoners were treated honorably by the Germans while the Mexicans were absolutely harsh, because they took this as a betrayal by the Indians. Orozco berated them: "Did we not treat you with respect? Did we not help your people when famines hit? Did we not treat you as brothers?" For the fate of the prisoners; the Germans gave them two options: 1. Publicly apologize and accept the German offer of amnesty and promise to never again join the enemy. Option 2. Be tried as a traitor and executed. It wasn't a tough choice.
The Mexicans were more brutal: the Indians were given a mock trial and were inevitably found guilty and were then publicly executed by firing squad to show their Indian soldiers there will be no mercy for traitors.

Surrendered_Indian_National_Army_troops_at_Mount_Popa.jpg Indian prisoners waiting trial

The Battle of Imphal was soon devolving into a stalemate that would last for another five months.​
 
For a long time Finland had been a tough nut to crack and with the defeats from multiple fronts, this forced the Soviet Union to ignore Finland and focus more on the Ottomans, Persians, Austrians, Polish, and Ukrainians.

The tide finally changed when on August 18, the Ottomans were decisively defeated at the Battle of Gagra and the Persians were soundly trounced at the Battle of Jvari forcing both of them to abandon Georgia and regroup at Azerbaijan. Meanwhile the Ukrainian army, on their own, decided to push into Mother Russia herself and make "Greater Ukraine" happen. The Ukrainian offensive dubbed "Barbarossa" launched in September 12 and the operation went swimmingly at first and they even managed to reach all they way to Stalin's very own fortress: Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad raged for up to 10 weeks and the Ukrainian army was running out of food, ammunition, and morale; while on the Soviet side this, along with the Ottoman and Persian invasions, and the Romanov marriage into the Mexican Empire proved to be a propaganda victory showing the war as a Great Patriotic War against the burgeoisie and imperalistic capitalists. With renewed morale the Soviet Red Army completely enveloped the Ukrainian army and they were forced to surrender, up to 280,000 Ukrainians were taken prisoner and this forever crippled the Ukrainian army to the point that they were now relying heavily on the Austrians, Prime Minister of Canada, Winston Churchill, remarked that the battle was "The most catastrophic blows in military history."

Cities_and_towns_in_Georgia.svg.png Battles of Gagra and Jvari
300px-Фонтан_«Детский_хоровод».jpg Battle of Stalingrad

For the Soviet Union this gave them the new boost of morale in fighting Poland and by November 10, the Soviets were at the gates of Warsaw.

As for Finland, Stalin was now fully confident in the Red Army and with the new strategy developed by Timoshenko, the Red Army invaded through the northern border in the Karelo Soviet Oblast, north of the Leningrad Oblast, completely bypassing the Mannerheim Line and the Finns were desperately trying to redeploy divisions to the Eastern border but they were being overwhelmed and to make matters worse the lack of soldiers at the Mannerheim Line left the border practically exposed and the Red Army used this to their benefit and attacked. By the 9 December the Soviets had captured Helsinki and declared the Kingdom of Finland abolished and the new Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic along with the Lithuanian, Estonian, and Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic.

220px-Karelian_Isthmus_13_March_1940.png Breakthrough of the Mannerheim Line

Stalin was now so close at defeating both Poland and Ukraine that he was now preparing to puppet them. Stalin was so confident of victory that he bragged to Georgy Zhukov that by Christmas he'll be at the gates of Vienna, Berlin, Tehran, and Istanbul; and by next year Mexico City. Oh how wrong he was.

In November 2, three brigades of the New White Army numbering 16,000 soldiers, armed with carbines and handguns meant to be concealed, arrived at Bombay there they were briefed on their mission and they were loaded up onto trains and were sent to the Kingdom of Nepal, there to Tibet and finally they arrived in the Beiyang control Wuyuan and there they received Mondragón rifles, MG08s, Saint Charmond Mondragón canons and MP18s. After that they marched to the Mongolian's People's Republic.

The Mongolian army was exclusively cavalry and with the Soviet peace with Japan, the fractured state of China, and the distant threat of the German Mexican Raj there was no need to help prop up the Mongolian army (add that with Stalinist repression) the size of the army was a laughable 20,000 soldiers.

250px-Монгол_Ардын_Хувьсгалт_Цэрэг.png Mongolian army

It turned out to be a gigantic mistake.

The New White Army, led by veterans of the First Russian Civil War: Anton Deniken and Grigory Semyonov, marched into Mongolia and that's when they realize there was no turning back and by December 4 the New White Army came across a Mongolian scouting party of 10 horsemen and shots were fired and 6 were killed but 4 escaped and warned the Mongolian Prime Minister and General: Khorloogiin Choibalsan, of the advancing army, so he gathered up his small army and went to confront the White Army at Khalkhin Gol.

220px-Anton_Denikin_1938,_Paris.png 220px-Ataman_semenov.jpg Deniken and Semyonov

Kh._Choibalsan_around_1925.jpg Khorloogiin Choibalsan

In December 10, the two armies encountered each other on the Khalkh River and the battle began, the Mongolian plan was to attack three pronged with infantry in the middle and cavalry on the left and right charging into the enemy.
The White Army was on the side of the river and they waited for the Mongols to cross and soon as they completed the crossing and began to charge, the White Army opened fire and a storm of shells landed on the Mongolian cavalry causing the right side to absolutely panic and buckle, while the left was surprisingly continuing the assault. As for the infantry: they were being mowed down by superior machine gun and rifle fire and heavily causalities were being taken. On the left flank disaster finally struck when a shell landed on Choibalsan's horse killing both the horse and Choibalsan. That's when morale finally collapsed and the Mongolian army retreated, well I say retreated when in reality it quickly became a disorganized rout and the retreating army tried to cross the river, while still under fire, and in the chaos many drowned.

The Battle of Khalkhin Gol was a decisive victory for the New White Army, the Mongols suffered over 16,000 casualties including the Prime Minister and anarchy in Ulaanbaatar erupted until in December 20 the New White Army entered and declared the new Russian Empire under Alexei II.

Stalin had not been briefed on the defeat at Khalkhin Gol, but when he found out of the Proclamation, all hell broke loose and Stalin went ballistic. Almost immediately a whole new set of Purges, worse then the pass ones, began called the Great Purge. Thousands of officers, soldiers, intellectuals, workers, generals, and Party members were rounded up, tortured, and executed. This caused much more damage to Stalin as hundreds were now convinced that Stalin was a paranoid psychopath and begun deflecting to the New White Army because while Nicholas II was inept and absolute monarch, he was a hella alot better than Stalin.

The Great Patriotic War had now morphed into the Second Russian Civil War.​
 
Hey guys I hope you're all enjoying this. I have a announcement I'm taking a break from writing, lately I've been feeling burned out and I want relax. Don't worry I won't abandon the timeline I'll be back to finish this but I need to a break. Thank you.
 
PicsArt_07-27-11.41.18.png The Mexican Colonial Empire almost at it's Zenith

Flags of colonies

PicsArt_07-27-12.02.39.png Mexican Indochina
PicsArt_07-27-12.07.38.jpg Mexican Raj
PicsArt_07-27-12.16.53.jpg Mexican Somaliland
PicsArt_07-27-12.18.10.jpg Mexican Gold CoastPicsArt_07-27-12.17.36.jpg Mexican Nyasaland
PicsArt_07-27-12.22.21.jpg Mexican Jamaica
PicsArt_07-27-12.21.50.jpg Mexican Rhodesia
images.png Mexican Formosa (before Japanese takeover)
 
What the Mexican colonial policy with locals?
It depends on where they are:

In South Africa and Rhodesia, The Mexican governor-general let the white minority rule over the African majority with apartheid. After the Zulu rebellion in 1918 that's when the Mexican governor-general had to step in and force the Boers to lift back some of the apartheid.

In Mexican Sahara and Southwest Africa it's completely under the control of the governor-general because after two wars against the Arabs there's no way they going to let them keep their religion or language.

In Mexican Somaliland it's more a laissez faire attitude by letting the local sultans keep control but have to answer to the governor-general

In The Raj and former Formosa it was different with Formosa being the first Mexican colony the locals had privileges that not many in most Asian colonies had: the locals were given wages to work, allowed to keep their language, culture, and religion as Spanish and Catholicism was not enforced. The Formosans were given a education and they were treated equally with other Mexicans. While it wasn't perfect it was definitely better than the Japanese style. As for the Mexican parts of the Raj it was a major improvement over the British the princes were able to attain their autonomy, Indian culture resurged and better when famines strike India Mexico fully helped in delivering food aid.
 
It depends on where they are:

In South Africa and Rhodesia, The Mexican governor-general let the white minority rule over the African majority with apartheid. After the Zulu rebellion in 1918 that's when the Mexican governor-general had to step in and force the Boers to lift back some of the apartheid.

In Mexican Sahara and Southwest Africa it's completely under the control of the governor-general because after two wars against the Arabs there's no way they going to let them keep their religion or language.

In Mexican Somaliland it's more a laissez faire attitude by letting the local sultans keep control but have to answer to the governor-general

In The Raj and former Formosa it was different with Formosa being the first Mexican colony the locals had privileges that not many in most Asian colonies had: the locals were given wages to work, allowed to keep their language, culture, and religion as Spanish and Catholicism was not enforced. The Formosans were given a education and they were treated equally with other Mexicans. While it wasn't perfect it was definitely better than the Japanese style. As for the Mexican parts of the Raj it was a major improvement over the British the princes were able to attain their autonomy, Indian culture resurged and better when famines strike India Mexico fully helped in delivering food aid.

With this, when it comes to post war decolonization movements, perhaps Mexico can choose the Commonwealth alternative like its British counterpart OTL.
 
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