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The Land of God
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    The Land of God​

    Having snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, the Ottoman Empire went on the offensive. Their biggest goal was to crush the Arab revolt and punish the Hashemites that lead that said revolt. Fortunately, most Arabs simply surrendered and begged for mercy while the Hashemites laid down their arms, hoping to be spared. Contrary to what they expected, those that had to lead the revolt were executed along with the Sharif of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali.

    Arabia
    Another group that had also supported the revolt was the house of Saud, one of the 2 major factions vying for control of Arabia. In this struggle, the Ottomans had an ally in the Emirate of Jabal Shammar. Together, the two forces fought a campaign in the desert until the Sultanate of Nejd surrendered to the Ottomans and the Rashidi's in 1921. With the Saudis gone, the Rashidis became the undisputed rulers of Arabia. In 1932, the Kingdom of Rashidi Arabia would be proclaimed.

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    Saud bin Abdulaziz, the first King of Rashidi Arabia

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    Flag of Rashidi Arabia​

    Persia
    The fighting between different factions continued on, with a massive famine ravaging the country. This continued until the peace was restored following a treaty with the Ottomans was signed. In 1921, the Qajar dynasty was forced out of power in a coup by the Pahlavis. Thus, the Pahlavis became the new dynasty of Persia. In 1925, Persia took advantage of the collapsing British influence by nationalizing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and retaking lost territories in India and Afghanistan.

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    Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Shah of Persia
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    The Ottomans
    The war had saved the empire but didn't save its regime. Blaming the Young Turks for the near catastrophe, a military coup was pulled off by Mustafa Kemal Pasha. He would be named as the new Grand Vizier, ushering a series of reforms that were badly needed. Answering the calls of the First Arab Congress in 1913, the Arabic language was recognized as the second language of the Empire.

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    Mustafa Kemal Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier​

    One project was able to complete, which was the Berlin Baghdad Railway. In a grand ceremony in 1922, the railway was inaugurated and the first trains began their journey. The railway line stretched from Baghdad all the way across Anatolia and the Balkans towards Germany. This meant that a German businessman could reach Baghdad, ready to invest within a week.

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    The rail route of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway
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    There was one more thing that would rebuild the Ottoman state. It was black liquid hidden deep under the sand, but that very liquid was worth a lot of money. That liquid was oil and the first oil drilling machines were being built in Mesopotamia and the Levant. This black gold would soon fill up the government's coffers in order to invest in other things.
     
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    • Lalli

    OE seems being becoming "health man" again. And good thing that Sauds are now gone. Probably we see not much more stable Middle East.
     

    Prince Daemon Targaryen

    Reza Shah was a German sympathizer, so they would likely be in the German bloc - especially due to the presence of the USSR on their northern border.

    So the Germans have their oil sources locked up. For the US, they'll probably double down on domestic and South American oil... After the defeat in Mexico, did they create their own version of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company for their southern neighbor?
     
    ReconGuy02

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    @Joriz Castillo

    I got a spicy idea regarding Russia after it's loss in GW2.

    Make it collapse into a TNO-style warlordism with Ukraine, Belarus and Finland taking maximalist extent of their irredentist claims. It would be less clichey than Russia becoming puppet.
     

    Joriz Castillo

    The Congressman said:
    Reza Shah was a German sympathizer, so they would likely be in the German bloc - especially due to the presence of the USSR on their northern border.

    So the Germans have their oil sources locked up. For the US, they'll probably double down on domestic and South American oil... After the defeat in Mexico, did they create their own version of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company for their southern neighbor?
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    No, they haven't. The oil companies maintain their oil fields in the north.

    StealthyMarat said:
    @Joriz Castillo

    I got a spicy idea regarding Russia after it's loss in GW2.

    Make it collapse into a TNO-style warlordism with Ukraine, Belarus and Finland taking maximalist extent of their irredentist claims. It would be less clichey than Russia becoming puppet.
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    If Russia collapses into warlordism, who are the Germans gonna negotiate with then?
     
    ReconGuy02

    ReconGuy02

    Joriz Castillo said:
    If Russia collapses into warlordism, who are the Germans gonna negotiate with then?
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    Nobody. And that's the point. Germans take Moscow, Russia collapses, Germans let their allies take whatever they want from Russia, and support a few local cliques to keep Russia balkanized.

    Divide and conquer.

    Germany would be better off with balkanized Russia, strong Ukraine, Baltic State, Finland and Belarus.

    More so, balkanized Russia would automatically assure 100% German political, economical and military dominance of Europe.

    I propose Russia to collapse into a warlordism, partially unite by 1980's through endless wars, and be a backwater like AANW Russia.
     
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    The Good Times
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    For most of the world, the 1920s would be called the ‘Restless 20s’. But in America, people saw things differently. The economy was booming and society was changing. The nation’s wealth doubled, sweeping many Americans into an affluent but unfamiliar “consumer society”. For many Americans, this was the Roaring 20s.

    Haves & Have Nots

    During the 1920s, new freedoms were gained while some were lost. On one hand, women gained the right to vote. But on the other hand, Prohibition was introduced. This meant that all taverns, bars, and saloons across the United States were closed. From then on, it was illegal to sell any “intoxication beverages” with more than 0.5% alcohol. This drove the liquor trade underground–now, people simply went to nominally illegal speakeasies instead of ordinary bars–where it was controlled by bootleggers, racketeers, and other organized-crime figures such as the infamous Al Capone.

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    Illegal booze being poured down the drainage, 1920​

    Jazz music became wildly popular in the “Roaring Twenties,” a decade that witnessed unprecedented economic growth and prosperity in the United States. Consumer culture flourished, with ever greater numbers of Americans purchasing automobiles, electrical appliances, and other widely available consumer products.

    Land of Limited Opportunity

    To “preserve the ideal of American homogeneity”, the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 introduced numerical limits on European immigration for the first time in US history. These limits were based on a quota system that restricted annual immigration from any given country to 5% of the residents from that same country as counted in the 1910 census. Both labor unions and the Ku Klux Klan supported the bill. When President Cox signed it into law, he declared, “America must be kept American.”

    Better Customers

    In the first half of the decade, US trade competed with the British Empire as it was spread out all across the globe. When Britain collapsed into a revolution in 1925, the economy took a slight slump but soon rebounded as trade with Germany filled the economic void. With the booming economy, James Cox easily won reelection in 1924. This pattern of Democratic control continued with the election of VP Franklin D Roosevelt in 1928.

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    Franklin D Roosevelt, US President (1929-1933)
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    Over the years, manufacturing and economic activity soar leading to overproduction and the overdose of the market with common goods partially. This bubble kept on inflating until it finally busted in the fall of 1929. The stock market went into a financial meltdown, causing some investors to jump out of their windows in an act of despair. It was the worst financial crash in US history and would have ripple effects across the entire world. Another country to also suffer from the crash was Germany, whose European network helped brought down the economies of other European countries.

    As the economy got worse, FDR sprang into action. He immediately cut taxes and introduced a counter-cyclical program of public works spending, the first of its kind, to stimulate employment and recovery. He bullied the nation’s largest employers into holding off on layoffs to stabilize the economy and aid recovery, and to continue investing in new plants and equipment.

    Thus, the 1920s came to an end at the beginning of an economic disaster. Despite everything that FDR did to save the country, the people would still blame him for the mess they were in as they languished in impoverished slums called ‘Roosevilles’. Meanwhile, the Republicans were watching like vultures waiting for the time to strike. All they need is a candidate that would roll the floor with the Democrats and save the country. Luckily, there was one man who had organized charity programs to feed the starving peoples of Europe. It was soon going to be his time to feed the starving people of America.
     
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    The Congressman said:
    That seems kinda dumb for the US... but honestly how else would Mexico be able to pay the reparations demanded in the treaty that ended the Second-Mexican American war. Most of its oil is probably being sent North, as well as copper in Sonoroa
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    I don't know much about oil companies in Mexico at that time as this was before PEMEX was created.
     

    Joriz Castillo

    The Congressman said:
    Did some digging into it. The oil companies at the time before Pemex were Anglo-Dutch owned and American-owned respectively. So the US already had their version of Anglo-Iranian
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    Well then, that settles it. America would later in the 20's feel a bit of remorse and try to lower the reparations and help Mexico pay for it.
     
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