@Asalto: Greece is a neutral country in Europe, one of only a few neutral European states left actually, along with Denmark and Switzerland. Greece left the Belgrade pact a long time ago, sometime in the early 1940's I think.
@Xesan: Africa has been deeply split between the Allies and Mitteleuropa. Germany has colonies in Morocco, Madagascar, and northern Somalia along the gulf of Aden. Libya is allied with Germany through the Ottoman Empire, and Germany also controls the huge central African colony of Mittelafrika, still ruled by a now very old Hermann Goring. In the allied camp is little Liberia, as well as South Africa. France also still controls all of northwestern Africa as far south as Cote d ivore and as far east as Chad. Egypt and Ethiopia are the only neutral countries left in Africa.
@Leviathan07: A very good and well thought out analysis of the nuclear strategic situation. Germany and Russia both have absolutely huge air forces, so your theory about having dense air defenses is definitely reality. Also, both states have SAM technology as well as radar, so I think you could say they are definitely ready for any air threats I could throw at them. As for Sweden and Norway: both states are full members of Mitteleuropa, and give German and Russian aircraft full access to their military airfields and bases. Also, I should probably mention that both Germany and Russia are beginning to manufacture ICBM's.
@Metroid17: to be honest, I have had thoughts of ending the AAR and maybe continuing it in MDS or something, but I decided that I want to see this thing until the very end with a full scale global war between the Allies and Mitteleuropa.
@everyone else: thanks for the comments!
With Serbia now gone, Hungarian and other Mitteleuropan troops shift east to finish off the regime of Iron Guard Romania. Like Belgrade, Bucharest is now surrounded and under heavy air and artillery attack, in an effort to soften up the estimated 600,000 Romanian troops that are now trapped in the city, making their final stand.
On August 15th, 1955, Romanian forces, almost out of ammunition and food, surrender en masse to Hungarian and Russian troops. This brings about the complete surrender of the Romanian government to the governments of Mitteleuropa.
Romania is now partitioned among the victorious states. Bulgaria annexes southern Dobruja, while Russia gains control of Bessarabia. The rest of Romania is given to Hungary, which now gains access to the Black Sea. Although declared by Hungary and other belligerents to be a total victory, word arrives to the outside world of massive guerrilla resistance taking place in both Romania and Serbia, with the aid of huge weapons stashes that were left behind by Serbian and Romanian forces in their retreat.
Meanwhile, back in the United States, construction begins on brand new light aircraft carriers and destroyers armed with anti-submarine weapons. These ships will be tasked with combating German or Russian submarines in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans using weapons such as Anti-Submarine rockets, depth charges, and helicopters armed with sonar buoys and torpedoes.
Winter, 1955. Top German officials, including the Kaiser himself, meet with the leaders of Germany's allies to discuss the global geopolitical situation. To the Germans, the situation is not very good. Mitteleuropa failed to somehow stop the Allies from gaining control of huge swaths of places such as Asia and Europe, with the once war torn and broken United States of the 1930's now undoubtedly one of the most powerful countries on the face of the earth. To try and combat the might of the United States, Germany decides to look for new places to gain a political or military advantage. It does not take long for Germany and its Allies to decide that Latin America is the perfect place for such an undertaking.
In this effort, they soon find a leader more than willing to accept German protection in exchange for military base agreements on his nations soil. This leader is Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, the military dictator of the Dominican Republic. In recent years, the United States has begun to clamp down on his dictatorial regime, issuing travel bans and economic sanctions on his government for numerous human rights violations committed in recent years within the country. In light of these threats from the United States, Generalissimo Trujillo jumps at the chance of gaining protection under Germany's shield, believing that this will forever protect his regime from American power.
On January 6th, 1956, an agreement is signed between Germany and the Dominican Republic, formally accepting the DR as a full member of the Mitteleuropa alliance.
When word arrives to the White House of this development, President Eisenhower becomes outraged. By promising protection for the Dominican Republic, Germany has blatantly violated the Monroe Doctrine, which declared any acts by European states to gain influence or colonies in the America's as an act of aggression towards the United States itself. In response, President Eisenhower orders the upgrading of America's defense condition to level 3, putting US forces around the globe in a heightened state of readiness for conflict.