Reverse Map Game 2019 - 1926

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.