The Dawn of a New World Order--KR AAR(Mostly Handsoff)

Milites said:

Interesting. I mostly do hands off games to test new events, it'll be nice to see another AAR in this style.

My wishlist:

1) Commune of France goes Travailleur and beats Germany. Forms German Union with border on the Rhine
2) Socialist Italy unifies the peninsular all the way to Venice.
3) Republic of China arises, gloriously.
4) Restored Romanovs in Russia embrace constitutialism and joins the Entente Cordiale.

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1) Germany is gonna lose this time
2) Due to #1, #2 also happens
3) Hopefully they do, there might be a brief alliance with Qing to fight Japan through.
4) Not sure. I have different plans.......

Also WW2 will be more global. There will be fronts in South America, Africa and Asia, along with Europe and possibly Americas as well assuming Canada goes to war with USA, AUS or CSA(whoever wins the civil war) when they attack California or New England.

And here's your first update

Prologue Part 1: The World As it Was​

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Serbian terrorist group Black Hand set off a power keg that has been building in the Balkans and the rest of Europe for decades since the formation of Germany and the Age of Imperialism, In a reaction Austria-Hungary sends an ultimatum to Serbia, whose contents are deliberately made unacceptable to the Serbs. Austria-Hungary declare war on Serbia shortly after receiving German backing. Russia in turn declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany, dragging its ally France, waiting for an opportunity to reclaim Alsace-Lorraine, into the war too. Everyone expected the war, later known as the Weltkrieg to last for a month or two and settled by one or two large battles. However, what they got was a horrible war which will greet mankind with a seven year lasting grin of death and destruction.

When Germany invaded neutral Belgium to execute the Schlieffen plan, which would have let them capture France easily in theory the British Empire declares war on Germany. The German advance to Paris was halted at the Marne and a series of flanking attempts, known as the Race to the Sea, prove unsuccesful. The war in the West grinded down to a halt as both sides dug in bitter trench warfare. However, the Germans are much more succesful in the East, repulsing the Russian invasion of East Prussia and defeating the Russians at the battles of the Mazurian Lakes and at Tannenberg. The opposite happens in Africa, where almost all German colonies are occupied before the end of the year, besides German East Africa.



Against all expectations of a quick war, by 1915, the war the West the lines remain static, but the fighting increases in brutality, with chemical weapons and Mustard Gas being first used during the Second battle of Ypres on April 22nd, 1915. In the East Russia is being pushed back by the Germans, but manages to hold on to Galicia. As the conflict raged, the nations of Europe were torn between the Entente and the Central Powers, the Ottomans joins the Central Powers later in the year, after a dispute with Britain about the confiscation of ships being built for the Empire, and Bulgaria joins the war on the side of the Central Powers with the fall of Serbia in 1915. Meanwhile Italy joins the war on the allied side, hoping to claim the Austro-Hungarian Illyrian provinces. The campaign bogs down to trench warfare.



To strangle Britain into submission, Germany led a campain of unrestricted submarine warfare. However, the sinking of the Lusitania caused severe backlash in the United States leads to Germany abandoning its unrestricted submarine warfare. Many had speculated that a continuation of the unrestricted submarine warfare could have led to the entry of the United States into the war on the side of the Entente, and it continues to be a popular subject of alternate history to this day.



The stalemate continued in 1916, with the failed breakthroughs of the battle of Verdun and the Somme, as well as the failed Brusilov offensive, which while very succesful initially, the offensive doesn’t manage to either knock the Austro-Hungarians out of the war, or drive Germany from Russian Poland. In the midst of this chaos Romania tried to profit from Austrian setbacks with the invasion Transsylvania, but German assistance led to a quick collapse of Romania, with Bucarest being taken by August von Mackensen within the year. Further south the allies have taken positions around Salonica.



The various defeats suffered by the Russian Army led to the collapse of Russia in anarchy, with the Czar abdicating early 1917. A provisional government is formed under Alexander Kerensky, but this government was overthrown by Lenin's Bolsheviks in November 1917 because it wanted to continue the war, creating the perfect catalyst for the October revolution, starting the Russian Civil War.



The new Communist government signed the peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk between the Germans and the Bolsheviks, freeing thouzands of German and Austrian troops. The Bolsheviks turn over Finland, the Baltics, Belarus and Ukraine to the Germans. In the West the tide then began to turn with the heavy French casualties at Chemin des Dames lead to a strike among the French soldiers. This would paralyze the French Army until the end of the year, giving Germany a chance to recover from the Brusilov Offensive. This was followed by the defeat of a great Entente spring offensive, designed at breaking the Germans before their reinforcements arrive at a great cost of life. Operation Teutoberg was then launced, attempting to kick Greece out of the war. Instaed of assaulting the Salonica stronghold head on, the Central Powers make extensive use of specialized stormtroopers and so called infiltration tactics. The defenders at Salonica are pinned down while the rest of the Central forces sweep through Greece. Athens falls on july 3rd, causing the Greek government to surrender. The forces at Salonica are evacuated soon afterwards.

However, General Allenby manages to pull off the last great Entente victory of the war against the Ottomans, who were losing battle after battle up to that point, encircling and destroying large parts of the Ottoman Army and conquering Damascus. Only the last minute arrival of two German divisions in Asia Minor prevent an invasion of Anatolia. The succesful allied tactics against the German u-boats and the blockade of Germany itself leads to a desperate sally of the Hochseeflotte, now led by admiral Hipper. The Second Battle of Jutland ended in a tie, but the shock of being assaulted forces the Royal Navy to break their blockade. The end of the blockade and the influx of Ukrainian grain ends all fears of Germany being starved into submission.


With the Central Powers now having the upper hand, on the second of march the Germans launched their Great Offensive at St. Mihiel, south of Verdun. The infiltration tactics prove to be successful, with Nancy falling on the 16th. The French organize an ad hoc defense, leaving their flank exposed. An attack on Rheims on the 26th splits the allied forces in two. An attack on Chateau-Thierry meant the French couldn’t retreat back to the Marne. In effect the entire French army was forced to retreat south and Paris was now under siege.

The various defeats of France pushed the nation into the brink....and there, history is about to be changed forever.......

At this point the French army, battered, war-weary and with little hope of victory was in open rebellion. With a second mutiny, a general uprising of the working classes imminent....the Socialist Confédération Générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labour) called for an General Strike in the spring of 1919, hot on the heels of a second outbreak of mutiny in the French Army (the mutineers were protesting the Conservative call for a last-ditch counter-offensive following a string of severe French defeats during the German offensives of 1918).


The CGT wanted to paralyse the nation, force the ruling Conservatives to step down and hand over power to the CGT's executive; the Comité de Salut Public, or CSP - led by the anarcho-Syndicalist Emile Pouget. The strike was initially peaceful, but with the fall of Paris to German hands, the General Stike turned violent, as frustrated Unionists became desperate to end the war before the Germans occupied the whole country. Skirmishes with police and army loyalists turned into riots across much of the country as citizens once again took to the barricades. Meanwhile Jacobin radicals, inspired by the events in Russia and start a series of attacks on government officials and public buildings, ending achance of the CGT and Provisional Goverbnment reaching an agreement. An attempt of the government to use demobilized soldiers to restore order ended in many deflections to the revolutionaries. France in engulfed in a short but bloody war, ending in a victory for the revolutionaries. Emile Pouget starts with the difficult task of changring the French Republic into the Commune of France. The remnants of the French government flee to Algiers, setting up a government-in-exile, led by Maréchal Foch.

The New Government concluded a formal peace with Germany was poised to secede the French Congo, Madagascar and the French Pacific colonies, in addition tot the occupation of parts of French Lorraine. The revolution prevented the ratification of the treaty, causing Germany to simply occupy these colonies. Belgium was changed into the Kingdom of Flander-Wallonia, with the Kaiser installing his son as it's new monarch. The Belgian Congo was given to Germany and Wallonia east of the Meuse, the location of most Belgian industry would be occupied as long as the German government deemed neccesary. The Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg would become a constituent state of the German Empire. In the east the Baltic and former Russian territories were organized into vassal states for Germany and under the control of German Monarchs.

However, the the war itself dragged on in 1920 and 1921, with the Royal Navy and Hochseeflotte occasionally butting heads and Central troops trying to break through the British lines at the Suez channel. With no chance of either side breaking the stalemate, and with Russia, France and Southern Italy engulfed by revolution, general Ludendorff proposed a ‘Peace with Honour’ to the Entente. The remaining Entente members would acknowledge the peace treaties between Germany and the former Entente members and return German colonies in exchange a status-quo peace, the German Colonies, along with it's new African acquisitions were to be formed into the Puppet state of MittleAfrika. The peace itself was signed on November 11th 1921, ending the Weltkrieg after seven long years.



The Peace terms were harsh to the members of the Entente, Serbia was to secede Macedonia to Bulgaria and accept Austria-Hungary as its nominal overlord, with Montenegro was annexed by Austria outright. Meanwhile, Greece had to give Greek Macedonia and Salonica to Bulgaria, while it had to accept a German lease on Crete for as long as the Kaiser deemed necessary. Romania had to secede Oltenia to Hungary and the port of Constanza to Bulgaria. The oilfields of Ploesti where leased to Germany. Romania was allowed to annex Moldova however. The unification of Italy was reversed, and Tuscany, the Papal States and the Kingdom of the Sicilies returning on the map of Europe. In the north the Italian states would reorganize themselves into the Theocratic Italian Federation under the control of the Vatican, while the Kingdom of Sicilies was to fall to revolution as workers seized control of the factories and the peasants took over the land. becoming the Socialist republic of Italy, vowing to "liberate" the Northern Italian Federation. The spread of Socialism was not just limited to Italy and France, but to Mexico as well--the US has failed to contain the situation in Mexico to its favor leading to the victory of the Zapatista rebels and the proclamation of a Socialist republic of Mexico.

However, the rise of Communist and Socialist states caused, in part, the failure of the Russian revolution. The threat of Europe engulfed in revolution, es well as the presence of Nestor Makhno’s Ukrainian "Black Army" forces Germany intervene in the Russian Civil War. General Wilhelm Groener lead an expeditionary force to support the White generals in their fight, driving Makhno out of Ukraine, but fails to rally much of the factions in Russia in support of the Kerensky government. The Cossacks would soon form their own state, just as Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Alash Orda and Turkestan would secede. Georgia quickly fell to the so called Bolshevik remnants in the Caucasus. However, with the support of Germany, the tide turned in favor of the Whites, who were able to defeat the Communists at the battle of Tsaritsyn on February 21st. With the road to Moscow open, Baron Wrangel takes the city in September, and civil war is at an end with Lenin's subsequent execution. The defeat of Russia has led to the failure of Communism as a political movement, as Socialist states embrace Syndicalism and Communism gradually fell into irreverence. In the midst of all this chaos, Baron Ungern von Sternberg and his renergade ‘Wild division’ take the Mongolian capital of Urga, with Sternberg declaring himself Mongolia's supreme ruler, a reincarnation of Genghis Khan himself.

The Red Army in retreat​

However, the new Russia government was unstable on many levels, a mess. It was a anarchic 'democracy,' and any and every minority could form its own nation if Moscow insulted it. Seeing the weakness of Kerensky to address these deteriorating conditions, the White Admiral Kolchak attempts to coup the Russian government but fails to secure the vital support of Denikin and Wrangel. He quickly flees to Vladivostock, where the Japanese set him up as president of Transamur.

With Germany victorious and Socialism triumphant in France and Italy, Britain's fortunes took a turn for the worse. In 1925, a coal strike in Wales quickly escalates into a riot when the government threatens to send in the army. The strike was quickly followed by a mutiny of parts of the navy and ended with the king and the government fleeing to Canada. A coalition of syndicalists, Labour, Welsh and Scottish nationalists and suffragettes take over the government, forming the Union of Britain. From London to Paris to Naples to Bengak, the Song of the Internationale was heard.

The aftershocks of the British revolution causes repercussions around the world to it's remaining Colonies--India, once the pearl in the British crown breaks down into three new states. The Princes of Kashmir and the Punjab unite with the remaints of the Raj to create British friendly Delhi while a revolution in Bengal leads to the establishment of a Socialist state there. The Princes of the South form their own, independent Princely Federation. Birma becomes an independent kingdom once again. The fall of Britain also lead to a massive landgrab by many of its longtime enemies. Gibraltar finally fell into Spanish hands once again, while Argentina quickly seized the Falklands, Egypt gained sole authority over the Sudan and the Ottoman Empire, whose downfall was prevented by Germany regained control over Cyprus. The German Empire managed to secure most of the British African Empire as well as the strategic colonies of Malta, Suez, Aden, Ceylon, the Strait Colonies, Brunei and Sarawak. The revolution the collapse of British hegemony, dominant in the 19th century has also affected it's allies as well, Australia and New Zealand seize the British part of New Guinea and Fiji. Later in the year both nations would form the Australasian Confederation for mutual protection. South Africa manages to secure the Bechuana Protectorate and Nyassaland, and unites with South Rhodesia to ward off potential German expansionism in Africa.

With the fall of it's enemies and the rise of Germany as the world's sole superpower, Germany had greater say in world affairs, Germany creates the Freistaat Mittelafrika after the model of the British Raj. Field marshall Von Lettow-Vorbeck becomes its first Stadthalter. They managed to secure their newfound hedgemony not only in Africa but in Asia as well--at the request of Xu Shichang, president of the Republic of China, Germany moved in to stabilize the country, in exchange for the restoration of emperor Pu Yi to the Chinese throne as Qing Emperor, leading to war in china against the Guominjun Within six months Germany manages to defeat the Guominjun and secure most major centers of industry and population. The opponents of the government retreat to the remote west, Yunnan or Manchuria Pu Yi is restored as Emperor, but has to accept a coglomerate of German enterprises, known as the AOG (Algemeiner Ostasien GmbH) taking economic control of the industrial south. Governor von Seeckt of German Indochina was to become its first governor-general. In order to safeguard the economic interests of other major powers all the port cities are united as the Legation Cities and are put under joint control.


It is now 1936, and Europe is divided between the Socialist powers of the Internationale and the Monarchist powers of Mittleuropa in a bitter cold war. The question remains: "What will be the power keg that will light the new war?" And how long will tensions escalate?

NOTE: Yes that song came from Les Miserables(watched the movie on New Year's day)

@Deus Eversor

It didn't imply 1832 was a failure, it was about the failed 1832 uprising against the July monarchy that preceded the 1848 revolution. And as far as France is concerned, I'll use the event cheats to boost their IC and manpower to give them a chance against Germany

Also expect a three-way WWII between the Entente vs International vs MittleEuropa if tensions run high enough. That or France loses, and the rest of the world rallies against the remaining Socialist nations and Soviet Russia's "bloc" followed by a Entente vs Mittleuropa Cold War and Syndicalism still existing in Latin America and South America. If I do a epilogue, I'm thinking of gesturing towards a different future for the New Left movements of the 1960s that had OTL collapsed under the weight of neoliberalism, backlash, as well as their own contradictions if they ever appear(probably driven by the legacy of Syndicalism?).

@Gukpa
Yes, Russia either becomes an Absolute Monarchy or the USSR through civil war I'm thinking. And when the second civil war starts, expect Russia to descend into Somalia-style chaos as everyone grabs a piece of it. Think of a "Russian World War" To the victor goes the spoils!


Russia, January 2nd, 1936

It was a cold winter morning in the nation of Russia in the start of the year of 1936. The years before were harsh to Russia. The government barely controls the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg, let alone much of the rest of the country. It will be some time before even a proactive regime can realistically claim the lands of old Tsarist Empire. And the military, inefficient, demoralised, and top-heavy with officers, needs radical reform if it is to be a credible fighting force. Things look bad. However, unseen forces are waiting in the wings, ready to make their move.

On that day President Alexander Kerensky was in St. Petersburg to deliver a speech concerning the future of Russia. While traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg by train he wondered, in many ways about the fate of his nation, and what he will deliver in his speech. He wondered, could he have avoided all this? Was the collapse of Russia necessary? Could something have been done to restore Russian pride and stability, while maintaining a "democracy"? Could Kolchak's coup and the infighting of the white generals be averted and Russia unified?

Either way that was an answer he will never know. On the day of the speech, as he walked up to the podium, a lone sniper waited in the shadows for his kill...............no one knows who sent him or why, but the goal was clear:

Kerensky must die.

(BANG!)

On the moment that Kerensky went up to deliver his speech, the sound of gunfire erupted, causing disorder among the crowd and forcing them to disperse. When it was all over, Kerensky was lying on the podium, dead, a pool of blood on the floor.

The assassination of Kerensky caused the SR and Kadet coalition to collapse. And at that moment,with the President gone, unseen forces look ready to seize control of the broken nation.................

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Moscow, Jan 3, 1936



An old general of much prestige was working at his desk in the military base at Moscow, when he just recived an urgent call from a soldier stationed in St. Petersburg.

Soldier: Commander Denikin, we have a problem

Denikin: What?

Soldier: It's Kerensky

Denikin: Yes, I know, Kerensky. He has been ruling the country with too light a hand, not asserting his power over the breakaways.

Soldier: Uh...Hes dead.

Denikin: What?

Soldier: He was assassinated, a lone anarchist gunman did it. Without him, the ruling SR-Liberal coalition has collapsed. The Mensheviks are moving to secure the coalition's seats in the Duma, and word is that Baron Wrangel is mobilizing his ultranationalist coalition against whomever the new government is. Across the east it seems that both Sternburg and Kolchak are mobilizing their forces to the Mongolian and Far East borders take advantage of the chaos and to strike

Denikin: The Mensheviks will resurrect the Bolshevik ideal and my rival Wrangel and his hardliners will not make a suitable leader of the motherland. I have the support of the army and the Orthodox Church. Time I put that support to good use. I must mobilize my forces and save Russia.

Soldier: May God and the true faith be with you, commander.

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St. Petersburg, Jan 3 1936


(At Baron Wrangel's Palace, an ultranationalist officer, Andrei Vlasov, Baron Wrangel's second in command was approaching Wrangel).

Vlasov: My Vozhd, we have grave news

Wrangel: What is it?

Vlasov: It's Kerensky, he's dead, a lone anarchist killed him and words are that Denikin and the Menshiviks are planning to take over the government.

Wrangel: Then let us mobilize our forces, Kerensky was weak, he was a fool, he had the chance to restore our empire and he threw it away. The Mensheviks are just as weak and there are intelligence pointed to Bolshevik agents infiltrating the Left-SR government. Denekin is unsuited to lead the motherland through the ways of old men who have plunged us into chaos. I will be the new future. My secret cabal and with the support of the Black Hundreds, I will seize control and lead Russia to a new future.

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In a secret Bolshevik base in Russia, undisclosed location....


Maxim Litvinov: Comrade Burakhin, an Anarchist killed President Kerensky! Russia is in chaos!

Nikolai Bukharin: I did not order the assassination...but I must say the anarchist did a pretty good job delivering the "people's justice" to that bourgeoisie scum!

Lazer Kaganovich: There is no time to celebrate Comrade, the damned capitalists, religious fundamentalists, aristocrats and reactionaries on all sides are moving in to take power, we cannot miss our only chance to take power since the October revolution! It is time for Socialism to return to Russia!

Bukharin: I see, our agents infiltrating the SRs will ensure I am elected Prime minister. We must achieve a majority in the Duma.

Maxim Litvinov: Comrade, Comrade Mosley of the Union of Britain is almost done ratifying the Totalist Charter. It will be announced to the world in the next few days. Beria of Georgia, Valois of the France Commune and Mussolini of Socialist Italy have already endorsed this charter. It is now your turn.

Bukharin: Excellent....

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....in Mongolia, the tent of Khan Sternburg

Ferdynand Ossendowski(Mongolian Foreign Minister): Great Khan, The president of Russia is dead and Russia is in internal chaos!

Von Sternburg: We will use this opportunity to claim all Mongol lands in Xibei, and Once we've finished with the Mas we will exploit the situation of Russia to our advantage, the legacy of Genghis Khan embodied in me will be restored and Mogolia will soon take it's place as the rightful ruler of the world! BLOOD FOR THE WAR GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! HAHAHAHA!

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In Far East siberia in the domain of Transmaur and it's capital city Vladivostok

(Admiral Kolchak was looking at a map of Eurasia in his Palace in Vladivostok when his officers disturbed him)

Officers: Sir, Kerensky is--

Kolchak: I know, and Russia will fall into greater chaos. It won't be long before Siberia secedes in the chaos. We must use this to our advantage and claim the lands of Siberia and return to the motherland, where I will lead it to a golden era as Tsar. The Japanese must not know of this, they think we only want Siberian lands.

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With the death of Kerensky, three factions fought against each other for power:

-The leftist Mensheviks, secretly controlled by agents of the remnant Bolsheviks
-The Ultranationalist far rightist Baron Wrangel
-The Minister of Defence, Anton Ivanovich Denikin, with the support of the army and the Orthodox Church

Given Denikin's support, it was expected he would seize power. However that was not to be, a conservative faction mobilized and, lead by the the old nobility, placed their puppet leader Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich on the throne. And his reign will see history changed forever....


NOTE: This is not a Russian AAR, but this is the first major event in Kaiserreich so I wanted to get into more detail about it.