Thunder over the Mekong: an Indochinese AAR
Hello everybody,
My first AAR will be played with the French mod 33, well-known if you already read the AARs of General Grant, if you are French or if you like alternate history. It’s an attempt to change Asia with a newly independent country: Empire of Indochina. I hope you will enjoy reading, despite my poor English.
P.S.: The foreign events are made by the AI. I will stay in my dear Indochina. The only non-Hearts of Iron point of divergence is the failure of the assassination of French president Paul Doumer in 1932.
Chapter One: The second Great Depression
The month of february 1933 was very hard for the world. Meanwhile German new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, was applicating the national-socialist program, the United States of America had their first president killed before taking office: on February, 15 1933, president-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt was shot at Miami by Italian anarchist Giuseppe Zangara. The Chicago mayor, Anton Cermak, sitted next to Roosevelt, said to the wounded president: “I’m sad it was you and not me, Mr. President”. Roosevelt died from his wounds February, 19.
President-elect Franklin Roosevelt and Chicago mayor Anton Cermak a few moments before the shot, February, 15 1933
His vice-president, John Nance Garner, proved in his inaugaration speech on March, 4 that he was not the man who was waiting the weakened America, weakened by the 1929 Krach. Facing the new crisis which was coming, Louisiana Senator Huey Long begun to campaign for a withdrawal of the southern states from the weak and poor Washington’s administration…The secession fever was near to destroy the country a new time.
John Nance Garner (1868-1967), 32nd President of the United States of America
The second Krach of Wall Street occurred on March, 12 1933. To avoid a second Civil War, the Congress removed all his powers to president Garner to give them to the Trust, a newly formed commission of high-ranking militars and powerful CEOs: their first decrees were proclaiming the martial law and suspending for an unknown period the Constitution.
Visit of General Dwight Eisenhower, member of the military wing of the Trust, to American soldiers
Through the world, thousands of companies came to bankrupt, still suffering of the Black Tuesday. Stalin’s USSR was protected from the misery wave with her autotarcic economy, and fascist and nazi governments taked advantage of this to turn their economies into more self-sufficient ones. But for the western democracies, the risk of popular uprisings was at hand. Great-Britain turned more isolationist, but France saw another way…
A family ruined at London
The French president, Paul Doumer, was a old man who built his carreer in colonial administration, named governor of French Indochina during five years. Very popular after his assassination attempt by a mad Russian emigré, Paul Gorguloff, the past year, he propose to the National Assembly a new recovery plan: as former colonial governor, he was believeing that maintain the colonial empire was taking too much of French economy’s effort. The plan was to release the most faraway and unstrategical colonies and let them working. Getting rid of these useless wastelands, France would be able to bail out her economy.
Paul Doumer (1857-1935), 14th President of the French Republic
To his great surprise, his proposition was accepted. When a deputy call out to him, asking what would be the first colony to be released, President Doumer replied:
-“The most useless of them. Because, when I was young, I take care of it.”
Hello everybody,
My first AAR will be played with the French mod 33, well-known if you already read the AARs of General Grant, if you are French or if you like alternate history. It’s an attempt to change Asia with a newly independent country: Empire of Indochina. I hope you will enjoy reading, despite my poor English.
P.S.: The foreign events are made by the AI. I will stay in my dear Indochina. The only non-Hearts of Iron point of divergence is the failure of the assassination of French president Paul Doumer in 1932.
Chapter One: The second Great Depression
The month of february 1933 was very hard for the world. Meanwhile German new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, was applicating the national-socialist program, the United States of America had their first president killed before taking office: on February, 15 1933, president-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt was shot at Miami by Italian anarchist Giuseppe Zangara. The Chicago mayor, Anton Cermak, sitted next to Roosevelt, said to the wounded president: “I’m sad it was you and not me, Mr. President”. Roosevelt died from his wounds February, 19.
President-elect Franklin Roosevelt and Chicago mayor Anton Cermak a few moments before the shot, February, 15 1933
His vice-president, John Nance Garner, proved in his inaugaration speech on March, 4 that he was not the man who was waiting the weakened America, weakened by the 1929 Krach. Facing the new crisis which was coming, Louisiana Senator Huey Long begun to campaign for a withdrawal of the southern states from the weak and poor Washington’s administration…The secession fever was near to destroy the country a new time.
John Nance Garner (1868-1967), 32nd President of the United States of America
The second Krach of Wall Street occurred on March, 12 1933. To avoid a second Civil War, the Congress removed all his powers to president Garner to give them to the Trust, a newly formed commission of high-ranking militars and powerful CEOs: their first decrees were proclaiming the martial law and suspending for an unknown period the Constitution.
Visit of General Dwight Eisenhower, member of the military wing of the Trust, to American soldiers
Through the world, thousands of companies came to bankrupt, still suffering of the Black Tuesday. Stalin’s USSR was protected from the misery wave with her autotarcic economy, and fascist and nazi governments taked advantage of this to turn their economies into more self-sufficient ones. But for the western democracies, the risk of popular uprisings was at hand. Great-Britain turned more isolationist, but France saw another way…
A family ruined at London
The French president, Paul Doumer, was a old man who built his carreer in colonial administration, named governor of French Indochina during five years. Very popular after his assassination attempt by a mad Russian emigré, Paul Gorguloff, the past year, he propose to the National Assembly a new recovery plan: as former colonial governor, he was believeing that maintain the colonial empire was taking too much of French economy’s effort. The plan was to release the most faraway and unstrategical colonies and let them working. Getting rid of these useless wastelands, France would be able to bail out her economy.
Paul Doumer (1857-1935), 14th President of the French Republic
To his great surprise, his proposition was accepted. When a deputy call out to him, asking what would be the first colony to be released, President Doumer replied:
-“The most useless of them. Because, when I was young, I take care of it.”
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