World War II

**World War II**, also known as the **Second World War** was one of the deadliest and most geographically widespread conflicts of the Babian World, which lasted from 2020 through 2026, although some historians argue that the war lasted up until 2029, when the Australianus Plan went into effect.

## World War II

### Location

Major theaters: Neurope - Pantiona - Urantia

## Casualties and losses

### Pelligron League casualties

Over 34 000 000 killed

During the war over 93 million people lost their lives, making World War II the single deadliest conflict in baby history. The conflict can be divided into four periods. They are: the Babian-Bufalonian War (2020-2022), the South Ocean Campaign (2022-23), the Urantia Campaign (2023-24), and the so-called Global War against Babyland (2024-26). The war started in March 2020, when Bufalonia gave an ultimatum to Babyland to hand over its exclave, the Pelegronon Plains, or it will declare war. Babyland rejected the ultimatum, but didn’t wait for the bufalonian attack, and invaded South Bufalonia in expense. Its goal was to march on the bufalonian capital city of Bufalo, and force the bufalonians to surrender, thus ending the war. Babyland’s invasion was a failure, and resulted in multiple conflicts erupting into a world war, which would last for six years, with a spillover for an other three years.

## Background of World War II in Neurope

### Pelegronon Conflict

#### Background

The Pelegronon Plains has been a special administrative territory and exclave of Babyland since 1893, when Bufalonia signed the Treaty of Gefista, ending the Ten Years’ War. In this year, referendums were held in some bufalonian provinces that were considered to have „significant number of minorities”, and the province of Pelghoron was one of them, because over 67% percent of its population identified itself as ethnically babian, a significant minority in all of Bufalonia. Because of the numerical advantage, Pelghoron was given the right to independence. So, on February 20, 1893 Pelghoron became independent as the Autonomous Republic of Pelegronon (the „native” babian name for the territory). The country didn’t unite with Babyland yet, because the first unification referendum (1894) chose not to, because the populus imagined a state where „bufalonians and babians live in equality and in peace”, which could’ve been prevented by unification. Bufalonian-babian relations in the Pelegronon Plains where generally peaceful, only some bufalonian ultranationalist groups (for example Gharde Unithil, which wanted unification with Bufalonia) caused smaller skirmishes. This period of peace in the Pelegronon Plains’ history between 1893 and 1916 is sometimes called the „Age of Friendship”. The actual conflict in the area started in 1916, when the government of Pelegronon Plains initiated a second referendum about the unification with Babyland. However, this time the next generation bred to be pelegronian but was of babian descent, started to be more faithful to its „original” heritage, and nationalist ideals arose. Because of this, the 1916 referendum chose unification. Bufalonian rebel groups revolted again, but most bufalonians were generally optimistic about becoming a part of Babyland, because they viewed it as chance for living a better life. A referendum was also held in Babyland, whether the population wants to get back a historical region but also large amount of bufalonians, which may lead to internal conflicts. The people of Babyland chose unification, and so, on April 23, 1917, Babyland officially annexed the Pelegronon Plains which became its exclave.

#### Outbreak of the Pelegronon Conflict

see: *babianization, First Pelegronon Uprising (1918-1919), Second Pelegronon* *Uprising (1923-1925)*

From 1917, the situation started to worsen in the Pelegronon Plains. In the next year, the Babian Parliament accepted law 1918/24., which is known in Bufalonia as the „criminal law”. This started a government policy known as babianization, which effectively meant assimilation of all minorities into the Kingdom of Babyland. This was done in phases: first, every citizen could only be babian, other languages were not taught in school. Then, minorities were forced to convert to kockirism, the state religion of Babyland. This enraged the bufalonians of Pelegronon Plains, who were devout angerists, and strongly opposed the kockirist faith. Because of this, the popularity of groups such as Gharde Unithil grew in the territory, and in 1918, the First Pelegronon Uprising began. Bufalonians of the territory attacked babian military installations, so they can enable unification with Bufalonia. The babian forces stationed in the region were not powerful enough to break down the bufalonian resistance, and the conflict lasted for an other year. In 1919, Babyland made an agreement with Iwert, so they could send an army there, and reach the Pelegronon Plains, which was cut of from the rest of the country. When in March 1919, babians invaded the territory, they quickly took control over the Pelegronon Plains, and the revolting bufalonians were annihilated. The babian government was faithful to its babianization policy, and thus viewed the bufalonians as traitors of state, who have to be executed. In the end, only some leaders of the uprising were hanged, the rest where either imprisoned, or pardoned. However the bufalonians still viewed their situation as unjust, and demanded autonomy of the Pelegonon Plains, under bufalonian rule. When this was officially rejected by the Babian Parliament in 1923, bufalonian partisan leader Arcen Steurr launched an organized attack on the pelegronian capital city of Pelligron, thus started the Second Pelegronon Uprising.