Would my dear readers be interested in a a peace conference and other major decisions of TTL later, if it incorporates them and their suggestions more? Either by voicing a opinion others then can vote for, or deny, or otherwise by a group (always more then one to count in for internal different opinions of said faction) of a few readers each representing one of the involved sides?
The Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Then we will do so, most likely in a seperate OOC part I would assume. Just overall major threaties or politics, or every major decision for the big players?
Nice, anyone interested in a certain faction, or should we decide that once it comes to a decision? 
Nice, anyone interested in a certain faction, or should we decide that once it comes to a decision?
The latter.
Johnston Atoll Japanese defenses in preperation and overall Allied ressource supply coming up next. ;D
Coming soon in 1943. ^^
While that would be poetic justice, but I doubt Stalin would get a chance to escape Moscow if it falsl thanks to Beria, at the same time many of his minions and military leaders might be able to escape for the backup capital of Samara for now...
Chapter 669: Allied Strategic Resources
Chapter 669: Allied Strategic Resources
The German Empire led Axis Central Power Conquest of most of Europe and even more so the Japanese Empire led Co-Prosperity Sphere conquest of South-East Asia has led to some problems in terms of strategy, tactics and partly even more important resources. Japan and the Co-Prosperity Sphere now controlled vast amounts of rubber and oil. Because of that and the Japanese led invasion of Burma and East India, the Allies had send three whole divisions to Ceylon and planned to send even more, as it was not only of major strategic importance for South India, but also a main producer of rubber. The situation in Liberia was quit similar, as it had opened up to Allied forces early in the war, when Axis Central Powers forces (mainly German and Fascist French) threatened their borders and invaded them. Afterwards it became a important transit point for troops and resources bound for West Africa were Allied forces had landed, particularly war supplies flown from Parnamirim near Natal in Brazil. Even more importantly, it served as one of the Allies' only sources of rubber during the war, after nearly all plantations of Southeast Asia had been taken over by the Japanese. The importance of this resource led to significant improvement of Liberia's transport infrastructure and a modernization of its economy, both partly thanks to American and British credits and aid. Liberia's strategic significance was emphasized when Franklin Roosevelt, after attending the Casablanca Conference, visited Liberia and met President Edwin Barclay. However despite all of this, Liberia had tried to remain neutral for most of the Second Great War, only official declaring war on Germany (as well as the other Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere) on 27 January 1944, after German the new Liberian President William Tubman had been voted into office. Besides Ceylon, Liberia and the Belgian Congo were the only Allied sources of enough rubber left, making Africa strategically more important then the Axis Central Powers realized back then. Thanks to a Defensive Agreement with the United States that also was intended to secure the world's largest rubber plantation, operated at Harbel by the Firestone Company since 1926. To better transport this Liberian resource, the Americans build roads and the international airport (Robertsfield Airport), while also transforming the capital of Montovia into a modern deep water port (the Freeport of Monrovia) with their own help. Poor Liberia even adopted the US dollar when joining the war to increase their economy. All of this would hunt the state after 1944, when America under new president Thomas Edmund Dewey ended their participation in the Second Great War, shortly after followed by Great Britain. Unable to get their debt repaid, the US started to get economic problems, hardship and mass unemployment. As the Dollar was falling and the American economy crumbling apart, just like the rest of the not very long United states too would, Liberia crumbled alongside them. Unknown to President Tubman the Axis Central Powers, mainly the German Empire and the French Empire had already agreed to conquer and split up all remaining independent nation states in the Africa Conference in Berlin in 1941, including Liberia and now all on it's own there was no chance in hell that he would hold out against them for very long when their forces would return to West Africa. Then there was Belgian Congo, where the Allies would get their main supply of Uranium.
For this very same reasons that Africa was important to the Allies, South America was too, even more so as the economics heavily dominated the politics of the continent. However this massive South American economic power came at a cost as most of them were mono-cultures. This means they neglect other products and productions in favor if a single product, or the promotion of a few single line of production. This also means that should this single production someday be disrupted or badly damaged, that nearly all of their national economy would be shattered by it. But the chance to turn this mono-production into a monopoly production, tempted the nations of South America. Brazil specialized on Coffee, Argentine on corn and wheat, Chile on chopper and saltpeter, Bolivia on tin and Venezuela in Oil and Petroleum. This mono-cultures brought a massive conjuncture for this nations, but also some very hard economic problems. During the Great Depression, this mono-cultures were hit with immense power. Chile had before learned thanks to the invention of the synthetic Nitrogenium production that they could not live from Saltpeter forever, it's production crumbled from 57% in 1913 to 23% in 1929. But South America did not fear to learn from this mistakes and tried it's best to increase it's national economies to free itself from the global market. They tried to widen their production bases to not solely rely on single products or resources anymore and started to increase the search for new resources and riches in their own nation states. At the same time they increased the internal transportation and infrastructure to transport and deliver said resources in plans for economic and industrial growth over a certain amount of years. Autocracy thanks to industrialization was their plan, but before that they still remained highly depending on the import of finished products, like machines, tools or train-materials. With two third of the south-American imported goods coming from the Untied States, Germany, Great Britain and France, the continent was economically split during the Second Great War, especially as German imports even dominated Brazil and Chile (were even a strong German military corporation and tradition was alive since the Prussian formation of the German Empire). Overall18% of all Chopper, 13,3% of all Tin, 13% of all Oil and Petroleum, 9% Cotton, 15% wool, 10% of all corn, 7% of all wheat and 22% of all coffee came from the continent. Most of it produced by Brazil (corn, cotton, cacao and coffee), Argentine (wool, corn and wheat), the two nations who rivaled for dominance in this south American hemisphere for themselves, while Bolivia (Tin), Chile (Chopper) and Venezuela (oil) came close behind them.
Because of this the immense economic area of the Ibero-american, or Latin-American have strong economic ties to the United States as the economical and industrial strongest nation in the Americas, and even for European countries. The south-American economies heavily relied on the exports of their resources, completing itself with the north-American and European high industry products they get in return. But much stronger then Europe ever has, the United States of America are involved in the South American trade and economies, seeing the southern American continent as a natural field of their trade-political expansion politics, called the Yankee-Imperialism by many. But the United States could not prevent the increase of European countries own trade expansion into south-America. The United States answer to that is a dollar crusade, as the ibero-american and latin-american nation states are quit hungry for fresh investment. Wall Street keeps the dollar rolling, to regain some of the lost economic influence that had gone to the Europeans. All of this could be followed back to the so called Monroe-Doctrine of 1823, when Monroe called for a “America for Americans”, that had changed it's meaning and ideal quit some over time. In the hands of the north-American capital-expansion, the Monroe-Doctrine became a powerful instrument and became more and more a Dollar-Doctrine. But unlike the Big-Stick policy of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt called for a policy of good neighborhood to replace it. To do so America started a role of a police officer for the region, a nice uniform and coat were the real power political goals of Wall-street could hide behind, to transform this good neighborhood into dollar. All of the sudden, Panamericanism was born as a unification of political and commerce interests. North American trusts owned the chopper of Chile (Anaconda and Kennecott), the rubber (Ford) and Mangane of Brasil, the oil of Venezuela and Columbia and the Chopper, Silver and vanadium of Peru. The United States trust-capital is holding south America in a tight grip, to break this monopoly became important for the economic and political independence of South-America. Something the Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere would rival for after the Second Great War, as American economic power and influence diminished. Until then the United States had invested 1,000,000,000 $ in the Caribbean and Argentine, 500,000,000 to 600,000,000 $ in Mexico, Chiel and Brazil, as well as around 100 Million in Bolivia, Columbia, Peru and Venezuela.
The German Empire led Axis Central Power Conquest of most of Europe and even more so the Japanese Empire led Co-Prosperity Sphere conquest of South-East Asia has led to some problems in terms of strategy, tactics and partly even more important resources. Japan and the Co-Prosperity Sphere now controlled vast amounts of rubber and oil. Because of that and the Japanese led invasion of Burma and East India, the Allies had send three whole divisions to Ceylon and planned to send even more, as it was not only of major strategic importance for South India, but also a main producer of rubber. The situation in Liberia was quit similar, as it had opened up to Allied forces early in the war, when Axis Central Powers forces (mainly German and Fascist French) threatened their borders and invaded them. Afterwards it became a important transit point for troops and resources bound for West Africa were Allied forces had landed, particularly war supplies flown from Parnamirim near Natal in Brazil. Even more importantly, it served as one of the Allies' only sources of rubber during the war, after nearly all plantations of Southeast Asia had been taken over by the Japanese. The importance of this resource led to significant improvement of Liberia's transport infrastructure and a modernization of its economy, both partly thanks to American and British credits and aid. Liberia's strategic significance was emphasized when Franklin Roosevelt, after attending the Casablanca Conference, visited Liberia and met President Edwin Barclay. However despite all of this, Liberia had tried to remain neutral for most of the Second Great War, only official declaring war on Germany (as well as the other Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere) on 27 January 1944, after German the new Liberian President William Tubman had been voted into office. Besides Ceylon, Liberia and the Belgian Congo were the only Allied sources of enough rubber left, making Africa strategically more important then the Axis Central Powers realized back then. Thanks to a Defensive Agreement with the United States that also was intended to secure the world's largest rubber plantation, operated at Harbel by the Firestone Company since 1926. To better transport this Liberian resource, the Americans build roads and the international airport (Robertsfield Airport), while also transforming the capital of Montovia into a modern deep water port (the Freeport of Monrovia) with their own help. Poor Liberia even adopted the US dollar when joining the war to increase their economy. All of this would hunt the state after 1944, when America under new president Thomas Edmund Dewey ended their participation in the Second Great War, shortly after followed by Great Britain. Unable to get their debt repaid, the US started to get economic problems, hardship and mass unemployment. As the Dollar was falling and the American economy crumbling apart, just like the rest of the not very long United states too would, Liberia crumbled alongside them. Unknown to President Tubman the Axis Central Powers, mainly the German Empire and the French Empire had already agreed to conquer and split up all remaining independent nation states in the Africa Conference in Berlin in 1941, including Liberia and now all on it's own there was no chance in hell that he would hold out against them for very long when their forces would return to West Africa. Then there was Belgian Congo, where the Allies would get their main supply of Uranium.
For this very same reasons that Africa was important to the Allies, South America was too, even more so as the economics heavily dominated the politics of the continent. However this massive South American economic power came at a cost as most of them were mono-cultures. This means they neglect other products and productions in favor if a single product, or the promotion of a few single line of production. This also means that should this single production someday be disrupted or badly damaged, that nearly all of their national economy would be shattered by it. But the chance to turn this mono-production into a monopoly production, tempted the nations of South America. Brazil specialized on Coffee, Argentine on corn and wheat, Chile on chopper and saltpeter, Bolivia on tin and Venezuela in Oil and Petroleum. This mono-cultures brought a massive conjuncture for this nations, but also some very hard economic problems. During the Great Depression, this mono-cultures were hit with immense power. Chile had before learned thanks to the invention of the synthetic Nitrogenium production that they could not live from Saltpeter forever, it's production crumbled from 57% in 1913 to 23% in 1929. But South America did not fear to learn from this mistakes and tried it's best to increase it's national economies to free itself from the global market. They tried to widen their production bases to not solely rely on single products or resources anymore and started to increase the search for new resources and riches in their own nation states. At the same time they increased the internal transportation and infrastructure to transport and deliver said resources in plans for economic and industrial growth over a certain amount of years. Autocracy thanks to industrialization was their plan, but before that they still remained highly depending on the import of finished products, like machines, tools or train-materials. With two third of the south-American imported goods coming from the Untied States, Germany, Great Britain and France, the continent was economically split during the Second Great War, especially as German imports even dominated Brazil and Chile (were even a strong German military corporation and tradition was alive since the Prussian formation of the German Empire). Overall18% of all Chopper, 13,3% of all Tin, 13% of all Oil and Petroleum, 9% Cotton, 15% wool, 10% of all corn, 7% of all wheat and 22% of all coffee came from the continent. Most of it produced by Brazil (corn, cotton, cacao and coffee), Argentine (wool, corn and wheat), the two nations who rivaled for dominance in this south American hemisphere for themselves, while Bolivia (Tin), Chile (Chopper) and Venezuela (oil) came close behind them.
Because of this the immense economic area of the Ibero-american, or Latin-American have strong economic ties to the United States as the economical and industrial strongest nation in the Americas, and even for European countries. The south-American economies heavily relied on the exports of their resources, completing itself with the north-American and European high industry products they get in return. But much stronger then Europe ever has, the United States of America are involved in the South American trade and economies, seeing the southern American continent as a natural field of their trade-political expansion politics, called the Yankee-Imperialism by many. But the United States could not prevent the increase of European countries own trade expansion into south-America. The United States answer to that is a dollar crusade, as the ibero-american and latin-american nation states are quit hungry for fresh investment. Wall Street keeps the dollar rolling, to regain some of the lost economic influence that had gone to the Europeans. All of this could be followed back to the so called Monroe-Doctrine of 1823, when Monroe called for a “America for Americans”, that had changed it's meaning and ideal quit some over time. In the hands of the north-American capital-expansion, the Monroe-Doctrine became a powerful instrument and became more and more a Dollar-Doctrine. But unlike the Big-Stick policy of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt called for a policy of good neighborhood to replace it. To do so America started a role of a police officer for the region, a nice uniform and coat were the real power political goals of Wall-street could hide behind, to transform this good neighborhood into dollar. All of the sudden, Panamericanism was born as a unification of political and commerce interests. North American trusts owned the chopper of Chile (Anaconda and Kennecott), the rubber (Ford) and Mangane of Brasil, the oil of Venezuela and Columbia and the Chopper, Silver and vanadium of Peru. The United States trust-capital is holding south America in a tight grip, to break this monopoly became important for the economic and political independence of South-America. Something the Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere would rival for after the Second Great War, as American economic power and influence diminished. Until then the United States had invested 1,000,000,000 $ in the Caribbean and Argentine, 500,000,000 to 600,000,000 $ in Mexico, Chiel and Brazil, as well as around 100 Million in Bolivia, Columbia, Peru and Venezuela.
Well that was intresting i love hearing about how the factions get their rescources in the war after all trade stopes. With the South leaving the union if i remeber right and the Monroe doctrin can no longer function South and central america could see economic and later war between each other.
During the Second American Civil War, and the War of British Humiliation, I hope that France will launch an intervention in Canada, forcing it to give independence to Quebec (with a ACP-friendly constitutional monarchy and French basing rights). And that France, Spain and Germany will carve up the Caribbean among themselves (including Cuba and Hispaniola). As well as put Panama Canal under joint ACP control.
Chapter 670: Johnston Atoll Preparations - Japan
Chapter 670: Johnston Atoll Preparations - Japan
On the Johnston Atoll, the Japanese under Command of Nishizō Tsukahara began their occupation of the island and build first defenses, in chase the Americans would try to reconquer this position so close to Hawaii that endangered and prolonged the supply lines from America to Australia and New Guinea. While the Imperial Japanese Navy Carrier Hosho and the Japanese Airship Aircraft Carrier (AAC) Tatsu (or Tatso) had helped during the initial Operation Ma had long been redirected to other areas and only few transports from Chūkan (Midway) delivered fresh forces, engineers, Marines, Imperial Armored Samurai and some equipment the Empire of Japan could spare. As a important point in the cut-off plan for Australia and Papua from American supplies, reinforcements and help, the Johnston Atoll was located quit central as a part of the operational Central Pacific Area Fleet (中部 太平洋方面 Chūbu Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Central Pacific Area Fleet (中部 太平洋方面艦隊 Chūbu Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai), right below the operational zone of the Northeast Area (北東太平洋 方面 Hokutō Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Northeast Area Fleet (北東太平洋 方面艦隊 Hokutō Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai) and above the Southeast Pacific Area (南東太平洋 方面 Nantō Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Southeast Pacific Area Fleet (南東太平洋 方面艦隊 Nantō Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai). While the Japanese tried their best to redirect a number to support and transport ships with a few destroyers to the Johnston Atoll (Yosuton Kanshō) to help with new workers from Chosen and Yankoku, but they could not spare much because of much bigger major operations planned and other, much more important frontlines and supply regions. Admiral Tsukahara knew that the western reef prevented the Allies from directly assaulting his island garrison from the west, therefore he concentrated much of his forces on the south and east, to protect the Yosuton/ Johnston airfield were Japanese fighters and bombers were by now stationed. Because he know that he would receive no further reinforcements, heavy weapons and supplies of all kind Admiral Tsukahara ordered the garrison of Yosuton to be self-sufficient. The Japanese managed to do so (partly) because they started to grow vegetables and other plants to supply themselves the best they could. Still the average daily rations were small and below the needed minimum for any civilian, let alone a soldier.
The rice, meat, fish and vegetables they had were not enough and so some Japanese soldiers on the island started to fish for their own food on command of their officer, as their original supplies only lasted for twenty days and even those later arriving lasted only for two more months. Because of that the Japanese used the captured American food, even if they first believed it to be poisoned. Some soldiers starved, others died of diseases brought with them from Papua or other island garrisons, or from a lack of vitamins. To distract his forces from this problem, the Japanese Commander ordered them to build a airfield, that partly helped them to get supplies via transport planes from Chūkan (Midway). Most fortified positions, machine-gun, gun, artillery and anti-air emplacements. Most of them were placed on the south and east as the Japanese believed the Americans would come from this directions, away from the western coral reef, where no American invasion was believed to be possible. A radar was installed on Yosuton and searchlights, guns, machine-guns and anti-air there and on the northeastern Sand Island. A part of the Japanese forces were send there to cover each other from island to island. The two parts of Sand Island itself were connected by a trench to give the forces there some cover. Because of the small reef south of Sand Island, the Japanese mainly fortified the eastern and northern part of that island against a invasion, while their forces on the west were sparsely and in the south, were a small pier was, the main purpose of the Japanese defenses was to assist the forces on Yosuton itself. The Japanese positions there on Yosuton itself were focused on the east and south, the main targets of a possible American landing invasion. The Japanese defenses on the north of Yosuton were not as many, but supported by entrenched and partly even cement buildings and fortifications at the main hangars and barracks of the Japanese Garrison there. The western part of the island, similar to Sand Island hat a wooden supply pier, two exactly were transport and supply ships or seaplanes could dock at for unloading. The few defensive positions in the west were meant to cover this area and each other, while one also targeted the so called Munsen's Gap a small area of the submerged western coral reef were landing transports and vehicles could pass trought.
On the Johnston Atoll, the Japanese under Command of Nishizō Tsukahara began their occupation of the island and build first defenses, in chase the Americans would try to reconquer this position so close to Hawaii that endangered and prolonged the supply lines from America to Australia and New Guinea. While the Imperial Japanese Navy Carrier Hosho and the Japanese Airship Aircraft Carrier (AAC) Tatsu (or Tatso) had helped during the initial Operation Ma had long been redirected to other areas and only few transports from Chūkan (Midway) delivered fresh forces, engineers, Marines, Imperial Armored Samurai and some equipment the Empire of Japan could spare. As a important point in the cut-off plan for Australia and Papua from American supplies, reinforcements and help, the Johnston Atoll was located quit central as a part of the operational Central Pacific Area Fleet (中部 太平洋方面 Chūbu Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Central Pacific Area Fleet (中部 太平洋方面艦隊 Chūbu Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai), right below the operational zone of the Northeast Area (北東太平洋 方面 Hokutō Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Northeast Area Fleet (北東太平洋 方面艦隊 Hokutō Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai) and above the Southeast Pacific Area (南東太平洋 方面 Nantō Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Southeast Pacific Area Fleet (南東太平洋 方面艦隊 Nantō Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai). While the Japanese tried their best to redirect a number to support and transport ships with a few destroyers to the Johnston Atoll (Yosuton Kanshō) to help with new workers from Chosen and Yankoku, but they could not spare much because of much bigger major operations planned and other, much more important frontlines and supply regions. Admiral Tsukahara knew that the western reef prevented the Allies from directly assaulting his island garrison from the west, therefore he concentrated much of his forces on the south and east, to protect the Yosuton/ Johnston airfield were Japanese fighters and bombers were by now stationed. Because he know that he would receive no further reinforcements, heavy weapons and supplies of all kind Admiral Tsukahara ordered the garrison of Yosuton to be self-sufficient. The Japanese managed to do so (partly) because they started to grow vegetables and other plants to supply themselves the best they could. Still the average daily rations were small and below the needed minimum for any civilian, let alone a soldier.
The rice, meat, fish and vegetables they had were not enough and so some Japanese soldiers on the island started to fish for their own food on command of their officer, as their original supplies only lasted for twenty days and even those later arriving lasted only for two more months. Because of that the Japanese used the captured American food, even if they first believed it to be poisoned. Some soldiers starved, others died of diseases brought with them from Papua or other island garrisons, or from a lack of vitamins. To distract his forces from this problem, the Japanese Commander ordered them to build a airfield, that partly helped them to get supplies via transport planes from Chūkan (Midway). Most fortified positions, machine-gun, gun, artillery and anti-air emplacements. Most of them were placed on the south and east as the Japanese believed the Americans would come from this directions, away from the western coral reef, where no American invasion was believed to be possible. A radar was installed on Yosuton and searchlights, guns, machine-guns and anti-air there and on the northeastern Sand Island. A part of the Japanese forces were send there to cover each other from island to island. The two parts of Sand Island itself were connected by a trench to give the forces there some cover. Because of the small reef south of Sand Island, the Japanese mainly fortified the eastern and northern part of that island against a invasion, while their forces on the west were sparsely and in the south, were a small pier was, the main purpose of the Japanese defenses was to assist the forces on Yosuton itself. The Japanese positions there on Yosuton itself were focused on the east and south, the main targets of a possible American landing invasion. The Japanese defenses on the north of Yosuton were not as many, but supported by entrenched and partly even cement buildings and fortifications at the main hangars and barracks of the Japanese Garrison there. The western part of the island, similar to Sand Island hat a wooden supply pier, two exactly were transport and supply ships or seaplanes could dock at for unloading. The few defensive positions in the west were meant to cover this area and each other, while one also targeted the so called Munsen's Gap a small area of the submerged western coral reef were landing transports and vehicles could pass trought.
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A little map, as OTL the Japanese never conquered the island and never fortified it, will do so for all upcoming battles on such places OTL, american planning for reconquest is coming too.
Sure, the Americans have had a few more losses then OTL, while overall the Japanese had a bigger build up wiht the Co-Prosperity Sphere.