World War II (WITAW)

World War II, often popularlized by the New German Order as the Deutsches Weltkrieg (translated as "German World War"), was a global conflict fought from 1939 to 1948 over a 9-year-period where the fate of the world was held in the balance. The war was fought between the fascist Axis Powers and the anti-fascist Allies, with the former emerging victorious. The victory of the Axis over the Allies both redefined and reshaped the world, allowing fascist governments to rebuild the planet into a New World Order (NWO) under their total tyranny.
== Road to World War II ==
=== End of World War I ===
In November 1917, the Russian Republic under the provisional government fell apart due to the Bolshevik revolution. The United States had entered World War I early that same year. In early 1918, American troops began arriving in Europe in large numbers. The Ottoman Empire surrendered after loosing most of Arabia to the British and Arab Revolt. Bulgaria was next, as Serbian and Greek troops captured the southern half of the country. Austria-Hungary surrendered out of fear as it was attacked on all sides. The American, British, and French began pushing the Germans out of France.
On Novemeber 11, 1918, Germany was finished. Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and Germany had a revolution. An armistice was signed and World War I was over. Germany had faced a defeat.
==== German Revolution ====
In November, 1918, in starting in the final weeks of World War I, Germany had that previously mentioned revolution. Starting with a military coup overthrowing what was left of the German Empire, socialist revolutionaries began seizing power. The Weimar Republic was declared as the new official government by republicans and centrists, but communists, socialists, monarchists, and separatists held out. French troops entered the Rhineland, Bavaria declared independence as the socialist People's State of Bavaria, the Polish people under German rule revolted and seized Poznan. The Saxon Soviet Republic was declared by communists, workers, and separatists in Saxony. Silesia soon fell apart as Polish forces engaged with German monarchists and attempted to take all of the region before Entente forces entered the area. The People's State of Bavaria fell apart due to leftist infighting and communists proclaimed the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Eventually, the monarchists surrendered after losing Hamburg and Koenigsberg. The Saxon Soviet Republic fell apart due to internal issues, and was invaded by the Weimar Republic. The Bavarian Soviet Republic was invaded by the Weimar Republic and surrendered shortly afterwards. Violence would continue in Silesia, Poznan, and Danzig up until the Treaty of Versailles settled the dispute and gave most of the land to Poland.
=== Treaty of Versailles ===
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, officially ending World War I. Germany was deprived of everything; it's army, it's money, it's power, it's navy, it's airforce, it's allies, and, worst of all, it's honor. The German people felt humilated, angry, and divided.
=== Russian Civil War ===
Back in 1917, Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and exitted World War I to focus on it's civil war. With the German surrender, German puppets in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltics were freed to join the civil war. The Bolsheviks soon destroyed most of it's opposition, with the exception of Poland, the Baltics, and Finland. The Bolsheviks made peace with Poland, the Batlics, and Finland. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was founded in 1922 by Vladimir Lenin.
=== Great Depression ===
In 1929, the stock market crashed in the United States. The American economy fell, causing them to have to rely on foreign exports to survive. Instead of helping the United States recover, this only caused the economic crisis to become global. The world got really depressed, especially Germany. The already broken German economy was broken even more by this horible economic crisis. This helped fuel the rise of Fascism.
=== Rise of Fascism ===
Main article: Fascism
A new ideology became popular across Europe: Fascism. Anger brewed in Germany, Italy, and Japan who soon saw the rise of Fascism.
==== Germany ====
See also: New German Order, National Socialist German Workers' Party (WITAW)
Due to anger over the Treaty of Versailles, German Nationalism rose very quickly. In Munich, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi Party, was founded by Adolf Hitler in 1920. He made large and powerful speeches across the Bavaria region of Germany. He and his supporters stormed Munich expecting the police to join him, spolier alert: no. Hitler was arrested by the German police and sent to a "prison", though it was more of a nice hotel stay. During his time he wrote a book called Mein Kampf. The book properly layed out the idea of National Socialism (Nazism). The book became a bestseller and the Nazis became very popular.
In 1933, Hitler marched on Berlin and demanded the German government make him Chancellor. Eventually, the government gave in, and Hitler was now in charge of Germany. Suddenly, someone set the Reichstag on fire. Hitler blamed the Jews and Communists, and passes an act to give him the power to arrest all Jews and Communists. The German president soon died and Hitler made himself an autocratic dictator. Germany was now the Third Reich.
==== Italy ====
See also: Neo-Roman Empire
After World War I, Italy had felt cheated. It hadn't gotten all the territories from Austria-Hungary it was promised by the Entente. Hate began to develop against Britain, France, and the Soviets. Eventually, the National Fascist Party was founded by Benito Mussolini. He became very popular and soon managed to force the king to make him prime minister. Mussolini quickly made himself the new dictator of Italy.
===== Italian Agression =====
In 1935, Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. They Italians annexed Albania in 1939.
==== Japan ====
Back in the 1850s, the British and Americans had impossed a bunch of unequal trade treaties on Japan. Japan was soon deprived of resources and went out to get some, going to war with China and taking Korea. In 1904, they went to war with Russia over Manchuria, and won.
Japan was on the winning side of World War I, but, like Italy, felt cheated. The post-war economy of Japan collapsed and the Japanese people thought the world was conspiring against them. Emperor Hirohito soon became a sort of Monarcho-Fascist and invaded Manchuria in 1932. A few years later, Japan went to war with China.
==== Spain ====
In 1936, Spain began a civil war between the semi-fascist Nationalists, supported by Germany and Italy, and the semi-communist Republicans, supported by the British and Soviets. After three years, the Republics surrendered and Spain became fascist.
The Spanish Nationists ruled over Spain with an iron fist, imposing strict laws and persecuting former Republicans.
==== Hungary ====
In 1939, Hungary had a fascist coup, and the king became the puppet of a fascist dictator.
==== Turkey ====
After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish people fought the League of Nations to obtain independence. In the end, Anatolia was given to the Republic of Turkey. A semi-fascist movement called the Neo-Ottomans became pretty popular.
==== Britain ====
Similar to other countries, a Fascist movement began to gain popularity in Britain. The Union of British Fascists led by Oswald Mosely intially became popular, before he was arrested by the British government in 1939. The Union of British Fascists had it's roots in "British Fascism", a variation of Fascism from the United Kingdom.
==== Romania ====
Shortly after World War II started, Romania had a fascist coup and joined the Axis.
==== Yugoslavia ====
Many Croat separatists in Yugoslavia saw Fascism as a good way to get independent, later joining the Axis as the Independent State of Croatia.
=== German Expansion ===
Upon Hitler coming to power in 1933, he immediantly violated the Treaty of Versailles, rebuilding the German military. In 1935, Germany annexed the Saarland. In 1936, the Rhineland was remilitarized. In 1938, Germany annexed Austria and demanded the Sudenetland from Czechoslovakia. Britain agreed to let Germany take it as long as they didn't invade the rest of Czechoslovakia. So, like any logical thinker, Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia. Britain and France then guaranteed the independence of Poland.
== World War II ==
=== European Theatre ===
==== Invasion of Poland ====
On September 1, 1939, the German army blasted into Poland, taking Poznan and Danzig in just a few days. France and Britain responded by declaring war on Germany. The German army advanced quickly, threatening both Warsaw and Krakow in just a few weeks. In September 15, the USSR invaded eastern Poland, taking Lviv and Vilnus. The Germans eventually captured Warsaw, and Poland collapsed. The Germans and Soviets split Poland in half, west to Germany and east to the USSR. The Polish spirit continued to live up until 1944 when the Warsaw Uprising was crushed and Poland was put under a strict military governor.
==== Western Front ====
At the beginning of the war, France attacked into the Saarland, though retreated shortly after out of fear of a German retaliation. After Poland fell, Germany sent more forces to the French, Belgian, Dutch, and Luxembourgian borders. After winning on the Nordic Front, Germany pushed millions of soldiers into the Benelux and France using the blitzkrieg tactic. Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg fell pretty quickly. The German army launched into the "naturally impenterable" Ardenes Forest, catching the French and British forces off guard. The French and British soldiers got trapped at Dunkirk, and the British desperatly escapes. With the best French forces gone, Paris was quickly captured. By 1941, the French surrendered. France was then divided into a German occupation zone and Vichy France.
In 1944, the Allies attempted to land at Normandy to revive the Western Front, but the plans were successfully infiltrated by the German spy network and D-Day failed. With the failure of D-Day, Spain joined the Axis and invaded Portugal. The Invasion of Portugal lasted for a year when the Portugese surrendered due to the fall of Lisbon.
The Germans finished developing their nuke in December, 1947, and tested it on London. The United Kingdom surrendered the following day.
Continuing past the British and even American surrenders, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, and Northern Irish rebellions plauged Britain. Even when Oswald Mosely took power, Scotland declared secession and Northern Ireland was thrown into chaos between the Royal Army and the Irish Republican Army. It took the British two more years to put down these uprisings, costing the British more losses in what later became known as the 1948 Anglo-Celtic War.
"Almost a year has passed since I came down here at your Head Master's kind invitation in order to cheer myself and cheer the hearts of a few of my friends by singing some of our own songs.
The ten months that have passed have seen very terrible catastrophic events in the world--ups and downs, misfortunes-- but can anyone sitting here this afternoon, this October afternoon, not feel deeply thankful for what has happened in the time that has passed and for the very great improvement in the position of our country and of our home?
Why, when I was here last time we were quite alone, desperately alone, and we had been so for five or six months. We were poorly armed. We are not so poorly armed today; but then we were very poorly armed. We had the unmeasured menace of the enemy and their air attack still beating upon us, and you yourselves had had experience of this attack; and I expect you are beginning to feel impatient that there has been this long lull with nothing particular turning up!
But we must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough. It is generally said that the British are often better at the last. They do not expect to move from crisis to crisis; they do not always expect that each day will bring up some noble chance of war; but when they very slowly make up their minds that the thing has to be done and the job put through and finished, then, even if it takes months - if it takes years - they do it.
Another lesson I think we may take, just throwing our minds back to our meeting here ten months ago and now, is that appearances are often very deceptive, and as Kipling well says, we must "...meet with Triumph and Disaster. And treat those two impostors just the same."
You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination.
But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period--I am addressing myself to the School--surely from this period of ten months, this is the lesson:
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished. All this tradition of ours, our songs, our School history, this part of the history of this country, were gone and finished and liquidated.
Very different is the mood today. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. But instead our country stood in the gap. There was no flinching and no thought of giving in; and by what seemed almost a miracle to those outside these Islands, though we ourselves never doubted it, we now find ourselves in a position where I say that we can be sure that we have only to persevere to conquer.
You sang here a verse of a School Song: you sang that extra verse written in my honour, which I was very greatly complimented by and which you have repeated today. But there is one word in it I want to alter - I wanted to do so last year, but I did not venture to. It is the line: "Not less we praise in darker days."
I have obtained the Head Master's permission to alter darker to sterner. "Not less we praise in sterner days."
Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days--the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race."
- Winston Churchill, October 29, 1941, Never Give In Speech
==== Eastern Front ====
After the French surrender, Germany broke the Molotov-Ribbentropt Pact and sent millions of troops into Soviet territory. Finland joined the Axis and helped invade. The Axis quickly steamrolled Ukraine, Belarus, and the Batlics. The Battle of Kiev lasted for two months before Kiev surrendered. The Siege of Leningrad lasted two years before the Axis forces finally took the city. The Axis forces pushed all the way to Moscow. The Battle of Moscow lasted for months with millions dying, but the Germans lost the battle and were pushed back 100 miles from the city. The Germans and Turks decided to launch a southern offensive into the Caucasus to seize Soviet oil. The offensive was successful, and the Axis forces pushed all the way up to Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad was a strategic Axis victory, absolutely ruining the Red Army. Stalin was successfully assasinated by the Gestapo and a military government let by Zhukov and Trotsky (who hadn't been successfully assasinated and managed to sneak back to Russia). The German army went full blitzkrieg mode against the new government, finally capturing Moscow in 1946. The Red Army kept fighting, but no new offensives happened after this. The Red Army essentially just retreated into Siberia and the Eastern Front just kinda stopped.
===== My Last Day at Stalingrad: First Hand Account of a Brutal Battle (By Evgenii Turgenev, Soldier in the Red Army) =====
"I looked out across town of Stalingrad from above a rooftop... if the Soviet intellegence is right, which it sadly is, German and Turkish forces were moving towards this city. I could see the Axis armies in the distance, maybe a mile-or-so away. The German artillery had started firing about an hour ago. I got off the rooftop and met up with the main Red Army camp. Some of it was actual soldiers, some civilians who had armed themselves to fight for their homes, and some Germans who had swapped sides. I thought about my wife and kids. Was this really it? I wondered. Deep down, I knew the city was lost. We had barely stopped the Germans from taking Moscow, the Soviet capital, how could we stop a combination of Germans and Turks. Not to mention the Soviet intellegence suggested they probally outnumber us 3 to 1. I pray Stalingrad will hold, despite knowing it won't. If this is really my last day, I just hope this journal is returned to my family. If it is, I'd like them to know, I still dearly care about them.
Sincerely, Evgenii Turgenev"
==== Balkans ====
Just before the surrender of France, Italy declared war on the Allies. Italy invaded Greece via Albania, but failed pretty badly. Italy called on Germany to help them defeat Greece. Germany, not really having any major front to focus on, requested Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Yugoslavia join the Axis. Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria accepted, declaring war on the Allies. Yugoslavia intially accepted but had a pro-British coup and got invaded by the Axis. Greece was next with the Axis capturing the northern half of the country. Turkey, hoping to restart the Ottoman Empire, joined the Axis and helped finish Greece.
In the aftermath, Greek and Yugoslav communist movements became popular and started capturing small territory.
==== Nordic Front ====
To hurt Germany's supply of steel, the French and British placed mines off the Norwegian coast. The Germans saw what was happening, and invaded Denmark in 1940. Denmark surrendered after six hours. With Denmark secured, the Germans landed troops in Norway and quickly rushed through and captured the whole country.
The USSR attempted to get involved on the Nordic Front in 1939, fighting with Finland in the Winter War. The Soviets failed pretty badly and signed a white peace with Finland. Fighting later resumed between the two in the Continuation War when Finland joined the Axis.
=== Asian Theatre ===
==== Chinese Front ====
In 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War began with the Marco-Polo Bridge Incident. Japanese forces attacked China from Manchuria and used the Imperial Navy to land at Shanghai. In northern China, the Japanese quicklty took Beijing and killed 100,000 civilians in the city. The Japanese soldiers fought at Shanghai, outnumbering the Chinese 5 to 1. The Chinese fought bravely only for the Imperial Navy to shell the city from the coast alongside the army destroying it from the inside. Shanghai fell on May 6, 1939, and the Japanese burned the city to the ground. The Japanaese joined the Axis the following year. In 1941, the Japanese army launched Operation Suguremashita, marching at full speed into Nanking. The Japanese took the city in just a few days as the Chinese either surrendered, hid, or fled. The Japanese committed major attorcities in the city, killed 500,000 people. In 1944, China announced it's surrender due to an Jihadist insurgency in Xijiang and constant Japanese air raids.
==== Pacific Front ====
In 1941, the Japanaese annexed French Indochina from Vichy France. Japan used it to force Thailand/Siam to join them and then strike south into British Malaya. The Japanese reaches the gates of Singapore, but couldn't capture the fortress due to a thin supply line. To be able to invade the Philipines and secure a strong supply line, the Japanese attacked Pearl Habour and several other American naval bases. The United States Navy was wrecked, and the Japanese swept through the western Pacific, British Malaya, the Philipines, the Dutch East Indies and began threatening Australia.
"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:
Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.
It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya.
Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.
Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.
Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.
Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.
And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island.
Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.
As Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. But always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.
No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.
I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.
With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help us God.
I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States, December 8, 1941, Infamy Speech
==== Oceanian Front ====
In May, 1943, the Japanese landed in Queensland, Australia and began capturing most of the coast. Though, due to the rough climate, the Japanese stopped advancing by July. It wasn't until the surrender of the United Kingdom in 1947 that Australia and New Zealand surrendered.
==== Middle Eastern Front ====
Early into World War II, Iraq joined the Axis. The British responded by invading and annexing Iraq, along with liberating Syria from Vichy France. When Turkey joined the Axis, they invaded Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestina, and the Sinai Peninsula. Turkish troops even captured the Seuz Canal, destroying the British supply line to Africa. The British launched a counteroffensive in 1943, retaking the canal and Sinai Peninsula. The Turkish once again pushed to the canal after the British surrender in 1947.
=== African Theatre ===
==== North African Front ====
With the surrender of France in Europe, French military general Charles de Gaul formed Free France in Africa and fought alongside the British to liberate Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. This was with the help of American forces in 1943 during Operation Torch. They used Egyt to take most of Libya and surround Rommel's forces in Tunisia. The Germans sent reinforcements to Rommel in 1946, after the de facto fall of the Red Army. With new and fresh troops, Rommel steamrolled through the ever weakening Free France and liberated Italian Libya from British occupation. Eventually, the Italians sent an extra million soldiers to Africa and managed to take Cairo, Egypt.
==== East African Front ====
Back in 1935, Italy had taken Ethiopia, making it Italian East Africa. In 1941, Italian forces steamrolled British and French Somaliland.
==== South African Front ====
In 1946, the Germans sent a bunch of guns, food, money, and supplies to Boer rebels in South Africa. With these new allies, the Boers took the majority of the Union of South Africa in just a year.
=== American Thearte ===
==== North American Front ====
On February 8, 1944, the Japanese finished total preperations and invaded Hawaii. Hawaii fell in two months, followed by Guam. The Japanese then landed at Las Angelas (LA) on May 23, 1944. The Japanese seized about half the city before the Americans entrenched themselves. The Japanese then began a bombing campaign on Alaska.
On January 6, 1948, the Germans dropped an atomic bomb on New York City, New York, United States. Germany demanded the United States surrender or lose Houston, Texas. The United States refused to give up. On January 10, 1948, Houston, Texas, was blown into oblivion. The United States announced it's surrender two days later. The war was over.
"It has come to my attention that six days ago, on January 6, 1948, the German Luftwaffe dropped an explosive weapon of mass destruction on New York. The same happened two days ago, on January 10, 1948, to Houston. Adolf Hitler has sent an ultimimatum to us here in D.C., they say if we don't surrender, Atlanta will be next. Followed by Washington D.C. In order to protect the freedom of individuals in both cities, we have decided to concede this war. I wish the best of luck to my fellow Americans."
- Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the United States, January 12, 1948
== Surrender Meanings ==
=== British Surrender ===
When the British surrendered at the end of 1947, it brought the entire British Commonwealth with it. Meaning the war in Africa, Oceania, and India would've instantly ended.
=== American Surrender ===
The United States was the real still fighting power after the British surrender, so their surrender effectively ended the war.
== Aftermath ==
In the end, the Treaty of Edinburgh was signed officially ending the war. The USSR was thrown into shambles and became the Siberian Commune. All the Axis powers gained new land and became great powers. Germany established the New Order and the "age of the west" came to an end.
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