1926
North
America
Here as elsewhere, the end of World War II is greeted with a sense of
relief. The most destructive war so far in history is over.
Canada
A separate peace is reached with Denmark, Great Lakes and Cascadia.
Large tracts of territory are signed over in the treaty. Nordamerika
is expanded north-eastwards. The province of Minnesota-Wisconsin is
annexed to Great Lakes as East Minnesota. The province of South
Columbia is annexed to Cascadia as Columbia.
Cascadia
The victory over the United Kingdom and Japan emboldens those in the
Elite who are of a militaristic bent...
Dakota
Despite having only engaged in skirmishes along the border, the end
of the war is welcomed.
Great
Lakes
The success of the Great Lakes armies only emboldens the Council (and
a certain Charles Coughlin) in the perceived superiority... The
annexation of East Minnesota will prove to be problem in the next
several years.
United
States
The peace treaty is signed with Japan and the United Kingdom by early
March. (See below.)
The Midterms are particularly tumultous, as the economic
repercussions of the end of the war play out.
Virginia, Chihuahua, Jefferson and California gain statehood by the
end of the year.
Despite British responsibility for the peace treaty (see below), it
is the Virginian Government that votes to join the United States.
Florida
The Venetians annex the former Spanish, Portuguese and British
colonies into Florida.
Mexico
Sinaloa and West Durango become states by the end of the year.
South
America
The repercussions of Spain's defeat begin to be felt immediately...
Africa
War has hit the various colonial territories hard. It would take
decades for recovery to take place. Despite the fact that the peace
treaty allows Germany to annex Katanga, the United Kingdom maintains
a claim on it.
Spain looses most of Somalia.
The Netherlands loose Kenya.
Europe
United
Kingdom
With it obvious that the Imperial League is losing, Parliament
instigates a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Oswald Mosley.
Even the backbenchers in the Imperial Party vote against him. The
main reason is the Irish Rebellion. The Rebellion had come as a great
shock. Ireland was one of the oldest parts of the United Kingdom, as
much a part of Greater Britannia as Pictland, Scotland, Wales, or any
part of England.
The next reason is the terms of the peace treaty with Denmark.
Referenda in Norway, Norrland, Greenland, Iceland, The Faroes and
Shetland, to remain as part of the United Kingdom, or to be annexed
to Denmark.
The results were unexpected. Especially in Greenland, Iceland, the
Faroes and Norrland, where the electorates voted to join Denmark.
70% DEN – Greenland.
53% DEN – Iceland.
55% DEN – Faroes.
75% GRB – Norway.
72% DEN – Norrland.
80% GRB – Shetland.
There Motion of No Confidence passes. Mosley tries to remain as Prime
Minister, but the Imperial Party backbenchers vote overwhelmingly to
remove him as Party Leader, and therefore as Prime Minister. However,
they vote in the hapless Samuel Beckett IV as Prime Minister. He
mishandles the recovery from the war, including the peace treaty with
the United States and Venice. Both Virginia and British Florida are
ceded as a result.
An election is called later in the year, and the Liberal Democrats
trounce the Imperial Party, leading to David Lloyd George becoming
the next Prime Minister. It is the Lloyd George Government that
maintains the claim upon Iceland and the Faroes (and Katanga see
above) given the near parity of the referenda.
Denmark
The Danes had grown war weary over the years of war. They may have
been winning, but their victory would be pyrrhic. With the other
Allies ready for peace, the government agrees to stop the fighting.
In pursuing the peace treaty with the United Kingdom, the government
decides upon the plebiscites, figuring that just taking the Nordic
countries would be a recipe for disaster, given that they would then
be governing resentful populations.
With the UK Government maintaining claims upon Iceland and the
Faroes, they retaliate by claiming a portion of Norway (which had
voted more than 50% DEM), Bermuda and Queensland.
Ireland
Independence from the United Kingdom is achieved, but without
Northern Ireland, where there was a large Loyalist Protestant
propulation (as opposed to the primarily Catholic population
elsewhere).
Netherlands
Forced to cede some border regions and some colonies to Germany.
France
Forced to cede the Saarland and Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.
Spain
Forced to pay reparations to Italy, Mexico and the United States.
Germany
The European power that comes out the best of the war.
Italy
Hasn't been hit that hard by the war. There have been only skirmishes
over the border with France.
Russia
Allows the Sami and the Finnish to have independence. Also cedes from
territories to the Intermarium.
Asia
Iran annexes the Indus Valley from the Raj.
The Taungoo retake some of the concessions from the defeated French,
and annex some territories from the Raj.
China
The warlord era continues. The PRC gains more territory.
Japan
The government surrender comes as a shock. The American victory had
come as a massive surprise. There are massive protests in Tokyo from
the moment the surrender occurs. The Prime Minister resigns, but that
isn't enough. Reforms are demanded. An election is called, followed
by a constitutional convention...
Oceania
Australia hadn't escaped the war. The remnants of New England are
absorbed into Queensland. Denmark annexes the conquered territories,
including the British Northern Tasmania, into their colonial
confederation.
The Indo Kingdom annexes West Papua.
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