Pacific War

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The Pacific War is seen as the escalation of the Second Sino-Japanese War that took place once the Soviet Union entered the conflict on January 10, 1941. The Pacific War was fought over a vast area that included the East Asia, Central Asia, the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, China and Eastern Siberia.

## Participants

**Communist Faction:**

* Soviet Union: Mikhail Kalinin
* Socialist Republic of China: Wang Ming
* People's Republic of Mongolia: Khorloogiin Choibalsan
* Korean Partisans: Pak Hon-yong

**Nationalist Faction:**

* Empire of Japan: Sadao Araki
* United States of America: Charles Lindbergh
* Chinese Republican Army: Chiang Kai-shek

**Nationalist Client States:**

* Manchukuo: Zhang Jinghui
* Mengjiang: Demchugdongrub
* Chinese Imperial Army: Wang Jingwei

## Pre-War Events

The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China had been in progress since July 7th, 1937 with a short hiatus during the Soviet-Japanese conflict which lasted from May 11th, 1939 to October 30th, 1939 before resuming October 31st, 1939 following the Ceasefire between the Soviets and Japanese due to the Russian recapture of Vladivostok and death of General Hideki Tojo of Japan. Hostilities between China and Japan date back as far as September 19th, 1931 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. It is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself began on January 10th, 1941 when the Soviet Union declared war on Japan ending their 1939 ceasefire.

## January 1941

-January
10th, 1941: The USSR declare war on the Empire of Japan and denounce
Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists as traitors entering the Pacific
War. Wang follows suit with a condemnation of Chiang thus annulling the Second
United Front. In response Chiang sends a messenger to Sadao Araki, the Prime
Minister of Japan requesting an alliance. While the Japanese hated the Chinese,
they’d be willing to work together to combat communism and Chiang would be
willing to accept Japanese in northern China if he retained southern China.
Araki agrees to this alliance. While Chiang loathed the Japanese, he hated the communists
more and realized that he could not face both the Japanese, the USSR and the
Chinese communists and found it necessary to make concessions to the Japanese
to avoid losing all of China to communism.

-January
15th, 1941: A coup breaks out among the Chinese nationalists who
disagreed with Chiang’s decision to side with the Japanese. Wang Jingwei who
while at odds with Chiang supported a fascist China and collaboration with Axis
would return from Hanoi to meet up with nationalist forces in China. He would
go on to form the Imperial Chinese Army, a far-right wing fascist Chinese
paramilitary force that advocated for the restoration of a Han Chinese absolute
monarchy. They wanted to put Kung Te-cheng, the 77th generation
descendent of Confucius and Duke Yansheng on the throne. Others advocated for
putting Zhu Yuxun, the Marquis of Extended Grace on the Throne as the
descendent of the first Ming Emperor. Wang Jingwei renames the Reorganized
National Government of the Republic of China to the Kingdom of China. Many
among the Nationalist army would also defect to the Chinese communists seeing
Chiang as a betraying their cause (and assuming a Chinese communist state would
quickly collapse). Chiang commanded the Chinese Republican Army a more moderate
(relative to Jingwei’s Chinese Monarchists) faction that consisted of the
Chinese soldiers who were unwilling to side with the communists but didn’t want
another monarchy. Tensions would remain extremely high between Chiang’s Chinese
Republican Army and Jingwei’s Chinese Imperial Army.

-January
20th, 1941: Charles Lindbergh is inaugurated as the 33rd
President of the United States. Gerald L. K. Smith is sworn in as his Vice
President.

-January
30th, 1941: Prime Minister Sadao Araki sends an ambassador to the
new American President Lindbergh in regard to the Pacific War. Araki realized
that if they went to war with the US they would quickly be depleted of oil.
Araki offered an alliance with Lindbergh to establish a trans-pacific trade and
anti-communist alliance. They also offered to help expand American dominance
over the Pacific. Lindbergh who had been opposed to the war feared American
trade routes being disrupted by a communist control over the Pacific agrees to
this secret agreement. This would become known as the Trans-Pacific
Agreement. Araki and Lindbergh spoke secretly without Chiang and discussed
giving the US concessions in China and control over the Philippines and Dutch
East Indies. However, Lindbergh had run his campaign on isolationism and could
not just jump into a war without aggression and so he began to concoct a
false-flag plan to get the US to enter the war.

## February 1941

-February
20th, 1941: Chiang Kai-Shek dispatches a Chinese nationalist soldier
who under civilian garb sneaks into the United States. That soldier once in the
United States travels to San Francisco where the Governor of California,
Culbert Olson was giving a speech about the importance of peace. The soldier
enters the crowd dressed as a Chinese Communist soldier and shouts, “From
Beijing to America, the Revolution shall spread” before shooting Culbert Olson
3 times in the chest. Before the soldier could even be arrested he had taken a
cyanide capsule and killed himself. This had been Araki, Lindbergh and Chiang’s
idea to get the US to enter the war on the side of the Japanese.

## March 1941

-March
10th, 1941: Protests break out across the US as citizens cry out for
revenge for the murder of Culbert Olson by Chinese Communists. That night
Lindbergh would address the nation in a speech and declare the US will have its
revenge and restore democracy and freedom to the East.

-March
15th, 1941: The United States declares war on the Communist Faction
(USSR and Chinese Communists) and allies with the Nationalist Faction (Japan
and Chinese Nationalists) thus entering the Pacific War.

-March
20th, 1941: The Soviet Union begins working on the Zvezda Project,
their nuclear weapons department.

-March
30th, 1941: The United States begins Operation Fortune Cookie, they
begin the mass internment of Chinese Americans and Chinese Immigrants in the
United States specifically along the West Coast.

## April 1941

-April
1st, 1941: President Lindbergh signs the National Unity Bill into
law rapidly reorganizing the civilian workforce into massive industrial
companies to begin rapidly producing weapons for the war.

-April
20th, 1941: President Lindbergh signs the Olson Bill into law. The
Olson Bill named after the deceased governor of California, Culbert Olson,
declared communism illegal in the United States and communists as “enemies of
the state”. It specifically defined communism as an “alien element” and
“critical threat to American democracy” as such it would be treated as an
illegal and treasonous ideology. It also formed the Federal
Bureau of Democratic Security or FBDS for short. Robert Rice Reynolds,
North Carolina Governor, staunch anti-communist and fascist sympathizer is
appointed as the Chairman of the Bureau and begins setting up spy networks to
discover “anti-American” elements within the American public.

-April
21st, 1941: General Aleksandr Vasilevsky of the Soviet Union who was
stationed in the East calls a meeting of Chinese Communist Wang Ming, Mongolian
Communist Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Korean Communist Pak Hon-yong and Japanese
Communist Sanzō Nosaka. Pak would organize anti-Japanese partisan movements in
Japanese occupied Korea with arms from the Soviets while Nosaka would begin an
operation of espionage against the Japanese government and sabotage against
Imperial Japanese ports. Choibalsan who was already the leader of the Mongolian
People’s Republic began entrenching troops along the border with Manchukuo and Mengjiang.

## May 1941

-May
5th, 1941: Supported by Soviets, Mongolians and Chinese communists,
the Chinese provinces of Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai and
Ningxia rebel against the Chinese Republican soldiers stationed there.
Xinjiang is led by Ehmetjan Qasimi and the Hui Ma forces are led by Ma Bufang.
Chinese Republican forces are pulled far-west to put down these rebellions.
Qasimi, Ma and Wang Ming sign the Xīníng Pact aligning
Xinjiang and the Hui Ma with the Socialist Republic of China.

-May
10th, 1941: With Republican forces distracted by the uprisings in
the west, Communist forces stationed in Mongolia began a rapid-fire invasion of
the Japanese puppet of Mengjiang, this was to reconnect the USSR and Mongolia
to communist Chinese forces Shaanxi Province.

-May
11th, 1941: The Japanese attempt to launch their battleship, the
Yamamoto, to siege the city of Vladivostok in response to the Soviet invasion
of their territories. However, the ship violently explodes after Japanese
saboteurs had snuck aboard and planted bombs in the engine. This kills around
2,000 Japanese on board.

## June 1941

-June
5th, 1941: US ships reach Japan and US bomber planes begin a
bombardment of Vladivostok, Ulaanbaatar and Yan’an.

-June
10th, 1941: Soviet and Chinese Communist forces manage to push back
Republican forces in Xinjiang and Hui Ma. The Chinese provinces of Xinjiang,
Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia unify with the Socialist Republic of China.

-June
15th, 1941: Soviet and Mongolia forces manage to take Kalgan and
capture Mengjiang. Mongolian forces capture Demchugdongrub and return him to
Ulaanbaatar where Khorloogiin Choibalsan personally kills him citing him as a
traitor to the Mongolian people of the highest degree. Mongols living in China
would be renewed with nationalist pride due to the capture of Kalgan and as
such thousands of Mongols living in Chinese Inner Mongolia would “return to
their homeland” by emigrating to the People’s Republic of Mongolia over the
following years.

-June
17th, 1941: American and Japanese forces capture Vladivostok and the
Soviet Primorsky Krai.

-June
20th, 1941: Wang Jingwei, leader of the Imperial Chinese Army and of
the Kingdom of China, fearing a Soviet invasion of Manchukuo, has Kung Te-cheng and Zhu Yuxun, the two potential
heirs to the Chinese throne, moved from Manchukuo to the Kingdom of China.
Puyi, the Manchu Qing leader of Manchukuo denounces this as cowardice.

-June
25th, 1941: Puyi, the King of Manchukuo is found dead in his room,
seemingly assassinated by a supporter of Jingwei and the Kingdom of China.
Japanese General Yoshijirō Umezu assumes control over Manchukuo.

-June
30th, 1941: With the death of Puyi causing uprisings in Japanese
controlled Manchukuo between the Ethnic Manchus and Han Chinese, the Soviets
decide to focus on defeating the Chinese Republicans first before taking on the
Japanese.

## August 1941

-August
10th, 1941: Chinese Communist forces begin pushing east while
Soviets and Mongolians begin pushing south hoping to pin the Chinese Republican
forces against the coast.

-August
23th, 1941: American forces capture the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
and Kamchatka Krai from the Soviet Union. President Lindbergh immediately calls
for the removal of all communists in the regions. This turns into full on
ethnic cleansing as American soldiers force Russians to swim in the frigid
waters executing them by hypothermia. Lindbergh calls for the full annexation
of these regions as the new US State of Beringia (Chukotka) and New Alaska
(Kamchatka).

-August
30th, 1941: With the Soviets and Japanese concentrated in the north
and the Netherlands still struggling to rebuild almost a year after the
Versailles War, Tan Malaka stages a communist revolution in the Dutch East
Indies (Indonesia).

## September 1941

-September 1st, 1941: Under the
pretense of installing democracy, the US declares war on the Indonesian
Communists and invades the Dutch East Indies. The US had hoped to gain the vast
natural resources of Indonesia to fuel its conflict with the communists. This
ironically weakens the American forces up north as they were now spread out.

-September 15th, 1941: Japanese
forces capture the island of Sakhalin from the Soviets.

## October 1941

-October
17th, 1941: Soviet forces meet up with the Chinese Communist forces
holding the main Chinese Republican army in the city of Shanghai.

-October
20th, 1941: American soldiers defeat the Communist Indonesians and
capture Jakarta (Batavia) and proclaim Indonesia as a US Protectorate of the
American Southeast Indies.

-October
25th, 1941: Chiang Kai-shek begins to plan an evacuation of Chinese
Republican forces from mainland China to Taiwan to continue fighting the
communists, but Japanese Prime Minister Sadao Araki refuses to aid them seeing
surrender of any kind as dishonorable.

-October
30th, 1941: Chiang Kai-shek sends an ambassador to France, Britain
and Portugal warning of the imminent capture of British Hong Kong, Portuguese
Macau and French Zhanjiang by communist forces if Shanghai fell.

## November 1941

-November
5th, 1941: While the British, Portugal and French were unable and
unwilling to get involved in another war they both desired to protect their
interests in Southeastern China and as such sent an ultimatum to Wang Ming
ordering them to cede all claims to Hong Kong, Macau and Zhanjiang in exchange
for recognizing the Socialist Republic of China as the legitimate Chinese
government. This would later become known as the British Betrayal. Wang Ming
was ready to refuse this but Kalinin did not want to risk another war so
quickly after the Versailles War and ordered Wang Ming to stand down.

-November
15th, 1941: The Massacre of Shanghai takes place with Chinese
Republican forces being slaughtered in the city of Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek
surrenders to Wang Ming.

-November
16th, 1941: Chiang Kai-shek commits suicide.

-November
30th, 1941: Wang Jingwei fearing a massacre in the Kingdom of China
similar to that of the Shanghai Massacre by Communist forces ironically appeals
to Wang Ming offering surrender in exchange for supplying free passage of the
Chinese Imperial Army and its subjects from the Kingdom of China to Taiwan.
Wang Ming, having expended much of his forces agrees to this knowing that he
will invade Taiwan after the war had ended. Wang Ming and communist soldiers
walk freely in Nanjing.

## December 1941

-December
10th, 1941: Wang Jingwei leads a massive evacuation of Anti-Communist
Chinese, Chinese fascists and the Chinese Imperial Army from the Kingdom of
China to Taiwan.

-December
20th, 1941: The city of Beijing had not surrendered as per the
treaty and were supported by Japanese troops. As such Wang Ming begins an
invasion of the city.

-December
24th, 1941: Soviet forces take advantage of the harsh winter which American
troops had not prepared for and manage to retake the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
and Kamchatka Krai from the Americans.

-December
31st, 1941: Wang Jingwei declares Taiwan as the Kingdom of Taiwan
and Zhu Yuxun, the Marquis of Extended Grace and descendent of the first Ming
Emperor, ascends to the throne of Taiwan. He is crowned King Zhu the First of
Taiwan with Wang Jingwei as his Prime Minister. Kung Te-cheng the other royal
candidate had surrendered to the communists as he had personally held great
disdain for Wang and did not want to be king.

## February 1942

-February
2nd, 1942: Communist forces finally capture the city of Beijing.

-February
20th, 1942: Soviets retake the city of Vladivostok and the Primorsky
Krai.

## March 1942

-March
10th, 1942: Soviets and Chinese begin the invasion of Manchukuo.

## April 1942

-April
5th, 1942: Communist forces take the Manchukuo capital of Changchun.

-April
15th, 1942: Communist forces begin an invasion of the Korean
peninsula, they are greatly boosted by the numerous Korean partisans.

## June 1942

-June
25th, 1942: Communist forces manage to recapture the entire Korean
peninsula successfully pushing the Japanese Empire out of mainland China.

## July 1942

-July
4th, 1942: The Americans seeing that the Soviets were preparing for
an amphibious invasion of Japan and not wanting Japan to fall into communist
hands decides to use its untested secret weapon, the atomic bomb. One American
Bomber plane drops an experimental Atomic Bomb nicknamed, “American Eagle” on
the Chinese city of Nanjing. Around 200,000 are killed in the initial blast.

-July
11th, 1942: The Soviets retaliate to the atomic bombing of Nanjing
by dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Tokyo. An estimate of
150,000 people are killed in the initial blast. Japanese Prime Minister Sadao
Araki is killed during this bombing. Americans take this as an opportunity to
establish control over Japan and lead a massive coup having American forces
kill the entire royal family and Emperor Hirohito as well as purge the Japanese
government. The Japanese surrender to the American forces and Fumimaro Konoe is
appointed as the first President of the Japanese Republic. Many pro-emperor
forces go into hiding and/or flee to Taiwan to begin a campaign of terror and
guerilla warfare against the Americans.

-July
25th, 1942: American General Douglas MacArthur meets with Soviet
General Georgy Zhukov, Chairman Wang Ming and the newly appointed Japanese
President Fumimaro Konoe on the Korean island of Jeju to discuss a peace treaty
as both sides did not want this war to escalate into a full nuclear war. They
sign the Jeju Pact ending the Pacific War. Japan would retain Sakhalin and the
Kuril Islands and some of its Pacific Island Territories while the US would
retain the Philippines, Indonesia (known as the American Southeast Indies) as
well as much of Japan’s Pacific Island Territories and Okinawa. The Socialist
Republic of China would annex Manchukuo while creating socialist puppet
governments in the Korean Peninsula and Indochina. Parts of Inner Mongolia and
the Tuvan People’s Republic is ceded to the Mongolian People’s Republic. All
countries recognize the Kingdom of Taiwan as independent (yet both Japan and
China claim it as rightfully theirs). The Japanese Republic is essentially an
American puppet due to sheer number of American soldiers stationed in Japan and
has a Totalist government.

## Aftermath

Following the signing of the Jeju Pact, French Indochina is rebuilt as a multiethnic federation under the protectorate of China and the Soviet Union. It is renamed the Socialist Federation of the Mekong and as multiple autonomous ethnic states within its borders (Viet, Khmer, Lao, Tay, Hmong and Cham) with Saigon as its capital. The Korean Peninsula is likewise granted independence as the Socialist Republic of Korea and remains as a protectorate of China and the Soviet Union.

As per the agreement between Britain, France,
Portugal and the Socialist Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macau and Zhanjiang
are designated the Confederation of Asiatic States and are considered a protectorate of both the Democratic Alliance (due to its British and French ties) and the Roman Bloc (due to its Portuguese ties). Those possessing the necessary paperwork and an Asiatic States Passport could pass
freely through the Socialist Republic of China to other parts of the Confederation of Asiatic States.

Many historians cite the Jeju Pact as the beginning of the United States descent into fascist authoritarianism as the American Patriot's Party turns public opinion against the ethnic and racial minorities of the US.