Argentina

Flag of Argentina

**Argentina** Officially the **Republic of Argentina,** is one of the two regional powers of South America. Argentina is officially a Federal Represental Republic however since the Christmas of 1935 it has been underneath a military junta, its current leader is Juan Perón. Argentina fought in one of the largest and by far the deadliest war in Latin American history, the Patagonian War witch saw Argentina and Bolivia fight against Paraguay, Chile, and Socialist Patagonia. Argentina has continuously existed since the 9th of July 1816 after the Latin American Wars of Independence. Argentina did not fight in the Weltkrieg but was a place where many Russians fled to avoid conscription, as well as many Welsh fleeing the wars in Europe. Argentina is the leader of its own small block in south America with its puppet in Paraguay, and the dictatorships in Bolivia and Peru. Argentina due to being a military dictatorship aligns with the Reichspakt politically.

## History

Argentina in 1936 was still reeling from the events of the Christmas coup of 1935. Manuel Carlés was trying to assume full control of the state and despite hopes that a countercoup would quickly remove him from power he was able to assume enough control over the state to avoid such an event from occurring. Argentina would end up passing legislation to try and rapidly industrialize the state beginning several five year plans in order to try and recover the economy after the event of the Black Monday Crisis. Argentina would also use some of this industry to continue the production of weapons to arm up and modernize its military in case of conflict with the Patagonians to the south. However before war was declared there was an attempt at negotiation in Montevideo in the now Argentine province of Uruguay. However this failed utterly and war would be declared in late 1939. However Paraguay would take the opportunity of Argentina being distracted to declare war on it but this would only give cause for Bolivia to intervene and attack Paraguay. Argentina would quickly capitulate Patagonia given the lack of manpower that far down south. However Chile would prove to be more of an issue given the Andean mountain range prevented large scale offensive operations into Chile during the Summer due to the harsh winds. However the winds would pass and in conjunction with Bolivian troops Argentina would cut Chile into several pieces quickly liquidating several pockets of Chilean troops until they surrendered. The treaty would see Patagonia re-integrated into Argentina and the southern portions of Chile ceded to Argentina. Argentina would also force the removal of the socialist government but decided against puppeting Chile. Paraguay would be defeated soon afterwards and it would be forced to cede Chaco to Bolivia and become an Argentine puppet. Argentina after this would lick its wounds before demanding the annexation of Uruguay. With Brazil still in a civil war the Uruguayans had little option but to accept their fate to become the next puppet of Argentina. Argentina would then demand from Brazil a small border strip of land while Brazil was still in their civil war. Brazil had little choice but to accept and its civil war would continue into the later part of 1945. Then began the Ecuadorian-Peruvian war in witch Argentina would support Peru but Mexico and other latin american countries would support Ecuador. Ecuador would miraculously win the war humiliating Peru. In Argentina after this event came the flood of people fleeing from the end of the war in Russia as the economic situation would drive many to flee to Argentina. Then the military general that had done all of this died in 1946, however he had appointed another leader to take control over the nation after him. The widely popular Juan Perón. Perón is quite peculiar with a political ideology that does not cleanly fit in a box however it seems to fit with that of the German empire. Thus Perón has been given a nickname by the rest of the world "The Argentine Huey Long".

## Military

Argentina holds the strongest military force in the entirety of the South American continent. The Argentine military is well acclimated to the plains regions of Argentina, however it is capably of crossing the Andes mountain range. Argentina also has a naval force, however this is a bit outdated given its lack of use in recent conflicts. Argentina has a small mostly inconsequential air force.