World War III: Brazil at War

## Brazilian Hegemony (Early 21st Century)

With the beginning of the 21st century, the traditionally impoverished Latin American nation of Brazil shifted from that state as an underdeveloped backwater to the status of world superpower, as many other Latin American nations did in the wake of the sudden decline of the United States.

In the vacuum, Brazil and Mexico road the economic storm of the Second Great Depression, becoming the two most significant powers in Latin America, and naturally, both became rivals. Both nations became heavily involved in world politics, and space exploration.

Even when they were both allied with the EU in space exploration, Brazil and Mexico often found themselves sabotaging each others efforts. Seeing this rivalry grow, China sought to align itself with Brazil, seeing how Mexico still had close relations to its northern US neighbor.

Over the next decades, Brazil and China would develop close diplomatic relations, in turn, causing the Communist Party of Brazil to experience a heavy surge of influence across the nation, and ultimately lean more toward the Hegemony politically. In the election of 2048, the Brazilian Communist Party got its first president into office.

### Brazilian Neutrality (2055-2060)

China set off the Spark that began World War III with the Battle of Taiwan, a move that destroyed the entire US Pacific fleet. But despite Brazil's alignment with China, it stayed neutral for the first five years, instead opting to produce millions of tons of war material for the Hegemony.

## Entry Into the War (2060)

### Latin Ultimatum

In mid-2060, China approached the neutral nations of Latin America with an ultimatum, giving them 24 hours to pick a side or suffer greatly. Brazil, already sympathetic the Hegemony, joined them, launching a joint invasion of neutral Bolivia with the assistance of Argentina.

### South American Front

Together, Brazil and Argentina wiped out their border states. Brazil occupied the northern portion of Bolivia as well as Guyana and Suriname. They also invaded and occupied Peru, a member of the Allies, but were stopped at Ecuador and Colombia. Venezuela joined the Hegemony as well, but it was also bogged down trying to take Colombia.

## The Long Attrition (2060-2063)

The war along the Latin quickly devolved into an intense stalemate, with the Hegemony unable to crush Colombia and Ecuador, the last bastions of Allied resistance in South America. It didn't take long for the front to become entrenched.

The only only real progress made by Brazil was when they seized the isolated French Guiana from European Union at the onset of the invasion in mid 2062.

### Caribbean Campaign (2063)

In early 2063, China, infuriated at their lack of progress, demanded that the Latin Hegemony do more in the war. In response, Venezuela and Brazil began a full scale invasion of the Caribbean, an Allied stronghold. At first, they swept past the southern islands with little effort. That was the case until the Battle of Navidad, in the US Virgin Islands, where Latin Allied and Hegemony navies battled for a day and decimated each other, wrecking hundreds of ships and resulting in a draw; both sides claimed victory. And despite China's later intervention in the Caribbean Campaign, the Hegemony's gamble proved completely indecisive.

Along with the war itself proving to be a strain on Brazil, but also internal forces, such as its rebelling occupied territories in in Bolivia and Peru. That same year, the Hegemony officially passed Safety Order 2063, an agreement the entire Hegemony, with exception of the Communist Federated Republics (CFR), secretly adopted with open arms, one that pledged on the 10% reduction in population of their occupied territories, until by 2073, the populations should have been reduced completely.

Brazil, in agreeing with this, created descent within its own original territory by causing many people to openly opposing the pro-Hegemony Communist Party. Brazil's rich history of slavery and totalitarianism seemed to be returning, as the corrupt Communist Party crushed opposition through slave labor and genocide.

## Brazilian Civil War (2063-2065)

In April of 2063, riots and protests in Brasilia exploded into a full on civil war, where a pro-Allied rebellion began violently revolting. With Argentina and Venezuela barely holding the line against the Allies, the Hegemony was unable to give the Brazilian government much assistance in ending the rebellion, so the war dragged on.

In 2064, the Holy Islamic Empire (HIE) suddenly betrayed the Hegemony, declaring war on the godless CFR and China. With this extreme turn of events, the US and Latin American Allies took full advantage and successfully crossed the Mississippi River. Over the course of 11 months, the US pushed out the Chinese. Immediately after, Venezuela surrendered to the Allies, and millions of Allied troops were sent to Brazil.

The Communist Party was forced out, and fled to Argentina, the only remaining Hegemony nation in the Americas.

The new Brazilian government switched sides, and declared war on the Hegemony.

## Brazil vs. Argentina (2065-2077)

Luckily enough for the Hegemony, Argentina was spared from the Allied onslaught of the Americas, being one of its only bastions of Hegemony enclave, with the only other one being China's continuing occupation of Hawaii. Regardless, Argentina still held strong, holding onto all of their previous gains, plus ones stolen from Brazil during its civil war.

Brazil and the other South American allies formed a coalition to crush Argentina, because the bulk of the American Allied armies were desperately needed for the eventual liberation of Europe, and could only provide limited assistance. Argentina took full advantage of the situation and made an offensive against Brazil, planning to the capture the vulnerable, strategic city of Sao Paulo.

### Battle of Sao Paulo (2066)

In the spring of 2066, the Argentine army smashed through Brazilian defenses around the city, but were bogged down fighting a fanatically resistant Brazilian Army in the streets.

Argentina was forced to abandon the city; however, they still were able to seize small chunks of Brazilian territory, making their campaign a minor a victory.

In the process of their failed capture, Argentina left Occupied Peru open to Allied lattack, though.

### Battle of Peru (2066)

Not long after discovering this, Brazil moved to liberate Peru from Argentine control. Taken by surprise, and leading an under-supplied, undermanned force, Argentina was forced to flee Peru, setting up defenses in the mountainous region of Bolivia and Northern Chile. For the remainder of the war, the Latin theater rarely moved, as the Allies poured most of their resources into defeating the HIE, CFR, and finally, China.

By the 2070's, Argentina exited the war, signing a peace agreement with Brazil and the rest of the Allies, ending their war. The Allies didn't abstain from the terms, believing they're resources would be better put toward war with the remaining Hegemony and the HIE.