RED DAWN: The Next World War, An Alt History of WW2 (OPEN)

[Maldurich]

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Territory: (Same as RL? If not, please specify, and consult with OP) The pink bit

[Democratic East-Asia]

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That area is owned by the British.

[Orostan]

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Name of country reserved: Yemen/Oman (whatever the pink bit in that area is called)
Territory: (Same as RL? If not, please specify, and consult with OP) The pink bit

That area is owned by the British.

He may be reserving it for a rebel group.

[Democratic East-Asia]

That area is owned by the British.

He may be reserving it for a rebel group.

Oh, in that case it is ok.

You joining our discord or not? We could always use more people.

[Shadow Guard]

so what did I miss?

[Democratic East-Asia]

so what did I miss?

Not to much honestly.

[The Isles of Lux]

tag

[The Grene Knyght]

Full Nation Name : The Second Spanish Republic
Short Nation Name : Spain
Flag / National Symbols: Flag, Coat of Arms

Government Type : Semi-presidential Republic
Official Political Ideology : Liberal Democracy
Head of State : Niceto Alcalá-Zamora [deceased]
Head of Government : Juan Negrín y López
Government Description : A weak coalition of the liberal, republican and socialist parties.

Territory : Spain (except Gibraltar), Spanish Sahara, Guinea, the Protectorate of Morocco and the International Zone of Tangier
Territorial Ambitions : Differs between factions.
Capital City : Madrid - one of the largest cities in western Europe and located directly in the centre of the peninsula, all major factions on the mainland have roughly equal numbers of supporters here.
Population : 25.5 million.

Majority/Official Culture : Spanish

Majority/State Religion : Catholic

Major Industries / Economic sectors:
Amount of Industrialization : Catalonia and the Basque countries are the only two places where the value of manufacturing output exceeds the value of agriculture by 1938.
Economic Description : Spain is dominated by its agricultural sector, whose output is small in comparison to other European countries due to the low quality of the land and the poorly suited weather, with most of the country dominated by mountains and drought a frequent occurrence. The economy experienced a widescale revitalisation in the 1920s, with the land reform being instituted and an influx of foreign investment. In the aftermath of the Great Depression, however, economic growth was halted, and by 1938 there is little industrialisation outside the major cities and agricultural output remains poor.

Military Description

Army: 750,000 Infantry, with a further 250,000 in paramilitary groups. 490 tanks. 1500 artillery pieces. 310 armoured vehicles.

Navy: 1 España-class dreadnoughts, 4 cruisers, 17 destroyers, 6 B-Class, 6 C-Class and 3 D-Class submarines.

Air Force: 950 aircraft.


National Goals : Spain is divided into factions, each hoping to establish a new Spanish society adhering to their specific ideology.


History : In this timeline, General Miguel Primo de Rivera’s 1923 coup fails, resulting in a more stable, long lived Second Republic, lasting from 1923 up to the start of this RP, but Spain is far more polarised, too, setting the stage for a Spanish civil war more divisive and brutal than before.
In 1923 General Rivera, with the aid of King Alfonso XIII, attempted to take control of the Spanish government. He was, however, thwarted. This lead to the king’s abdication, although, crucially, not his exile. The Second Spanish Republic is founded in place of a monarch, with Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas, at its head. Things were going well for the new republic in its first few years, enacting a largely liberal, social democratic agenda to little opposition. However, the great depression threw the republic into disarray. A slew of weakened coalition governments drive the Republic further into recession, with far-left and right movements on the rise everywhere, and the military at all times moments from taking control. In late 1937, while strikes ravage the country, President Niceto Alcalá-Zamora holds a rally on Christmas day in order to ask the workers to return to their jobs. The routine speech goes awry, when Alcalá-Zamora is shot dead. 1938 dawns on a Spain in the midst of a succession crisis, with those on the far left and right seeing this as a chance to gain power. On the left, the moderate centre to centre-left republicans find themselves in a faction with the UESR-aligned Socialist Party, as well as the radical syndicalist CNT-FAI, operating out of Catalonia. The right consists of paramilitary groups operating under the leadership of the fascist Francisco Franco. Franco, a supporter of the Monarchists and the Prince Alfonso, is seen by his young patron as a radical extremist, useful for achieving his goals but useless once the monarchy is reinstated. Even among the aristocrats, typically a bastion of monarchist support, their is a divide, for some plot to restore Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma to the throne, a man of a differing line of descent in the Bourbon tree to the prince Alfonso, but popular among the Carlist movement. No matter which monarch takes control, there are those who recall the days of the Spanish Empire, and look overseas to the vast areas of central and south America that they once control, hoping to once again rule the Atlantic. While the left and right stand ready in their fractured factions, there are other movements in Spanish society. The military stand ready to take control independent of either faction, although to do so would surely spark war. In Galicia, and in the Basque country, people who never really felt integrated into the Spanish nation-state see this as a chance for greater autonomy, while the Aragonese aristocracy look west, to the Mediterranean they once controlled and remember when they were a major force in Europe in their own right. In Morocco, the Sultan Mohammed V has his own plans for independence, although doing so threatens to draw both Britain and France into the conflict in order to protect their own interests in the Tangier International Zone. Others perhaps will look with greedy eyes to Spain’s colony in Guinea, or hope to establish a friendly communist country on the Atlantic, or perhaps to keep the nation capitalist, no matter who controls it. No matter what happens, Spain in 1938 is a country that stands on the brink of anarchy.


#RedDawn1938

Finished my app.

[Democratic East-Asia]

So, how's everyone doing today?

[The Philippiniada]

Is this still open for new nations?

[Democratic East-Asia]

Is this still open for new nations?

Yeah, always open. Italy just opened up, and Latin America remains mostly empty. You can also RP as a colonial government if you like, just be sure to notify the player who controls the colonial empire.

[Orostan]

THE WORKER'S TIMES

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TECHNOLOGY | WORLD EVENTS | POLITICS | THE SCIENCES

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NEW TANK DESIGN IN WORKS, AIRCRAFT MODIFIED

The German Bureau of Military Technology announced today the development of a new tank known as the T-34 based on a Russian design not yet placed into production. The Bureau's hard working designers met with other weapons makers from Eurasia at a meeting in Danzig, high quality PFRG weapons and parts were agreed to be incorporated into the design. The T-34 prototype is currently being constructed in a facility near Warsaw, where Polish workers and weapon designers work to bring forth a metal beast to protect the land and ideals we hold dear. After the meeting discussing the possibility of the T-34, airmen and aircraft makers met to help determine the future of the People's Air Force. They meet to discuss plans relating to modifying the almost outdated Polikarpov I-16, which is presently phased out in most if not all Eurasian SSRs in favor of the LA-5. The I-16's blue print modification was drawn out, which featured a closed cockpit pressurized design among maneuverability upgrades and weapons changes. A prototype of this new variant is planned to be built in Dresden, from an I-16.



DIPLOMACY WITH THE CAPITALISTS

Rosa Luxembourg, the Premier of the PFRG, has met with the West German ambassador and requested that the two nations resume talks relating to border disputes and renegotiation. This comes after two men, one West German and the other a citizen of the PFRG both claimed ownership to a house that was split along the border, and similar occurrences in towns split along the border. The haphazard drawing of the border following the Revolution that brought the PFRG into existence split many families and close knit communities. Premier Luxembourg has stated she hopes that her counter part in West Germany will see this issue the same way, and seek a peaceful resolution.


NEW FACTORIES OPENED IN THE EASTERN PFRG


Factories in East Prussia and Danzig have had their ribbons cut, and their operation begin. This comes after a deadly fire killed 10 and burnt down two factories. Thanks to strict building and fire codes most of the workers were able to escape in time. The funerals for those who died will be held in the following weeks. The burnt down factories had been producing Tanks for the military, which still suffers from an under supply of tanks and aircraft. The finished KL-1 Model tanks, based off of the KV-1, that were in the factories during the fire were not destroyed, and took the heat and debris surprisingly well. They were literally driven out from the debris by a team sent to salvage them.

The factories to replace those burnt down will employ the surviving workers from those that were destroyed. One worker said that "In the West German economy, I'd be out of job!" It should also be noted that the working conditions and machinery in the burnt down factory were of frequent complaint by the workers committee there, despite the best efforts of the management. The police have determined that the fire was an accident, and that the factories age was the most likely cause of the deaths of 10 workers. The Premier has submitted a bill to the Parliament which would procure funding to renovate the existing factory systems, especially military factories, to make them more modern and more efficient.

[Asturial]

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[The Isles of Lux]

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[Orostan]

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I think we already have a Spain.

[Orostan]

All details filled out now.

Full Nation Name : The Second Spanish Republic
Short Nation Name : Spain
Flag / National Symbols: Flag, Coat of Arms

Government Type : Semi-presidential Republic
Official Political Ideology : Liberal Democracy
Head of State : Niceto Alcalá-Zamora [deceased]
Head of Government : Juan Negrín y López
Government Description : A weak coalition of the liberal, republican and socialist parties.

Territory : Spain (except Gibraltar), Spanish Sahara, Guinea, the Protectorate of Morocco and the International Zone of Tangier
Territorial Ambitions : Differs between factions.
Capital City : Madrid - one of the largest cities in western Europe and located directly in the centre of the peninsula, all major factions on the mainland have roughly equal numbers of supporters here.
Population : 25.5 million.

Majority/Official Culture : Spanish

Majority/State Religion : Catholic

Major Industries / Economic sectors:
Amount of Industrialization : Catalonia and the Basque countries are the only two places where the value of manufacturing output exceeds the value of agriculture by 1938.
Economic Description : Spain is dominated by its agricultural sector, whose output is small in comparison to other European countries due to the low quality of the land and the poorly suited weather, with most of the country dominated by mountains and drought a frequent occurrence. The economy experienced a widescale revitalisation in the 1920s, with the land reform being instituted and an influx of foreign investment. In the aftermath of the Great Depression, however, economic growth was halted, and by 1938 there is little industrialisation outside the major cities and agricultural output remains poor.

Military Description

Army: 750,000 Infantry, with a further 250,000 in paramilitary groups. 490 tanks. 1500 artillery pieces. 310 armoured vehicles.

Navy: 1 España-class dreadnoughts, 4 cruisers, 17 destroyers, 6 B-Class, 6 C-Class and 3 D-Class submarines.

Air Force: 950 aircraft.


National Goals : Spain is divided into factions, each hoping to establish a new Spanish society adhering to their specific ideology.


History : In this timeline, General Miguel Primo de Rivera’s 1923 coup fails, resulting in a more stable, long lived Second Republic, lasting from 1923 up to the start of this RP, but Spain is far more polarised, too, setting the stage for a Spanish civil war more divisive and brutal than before.
In 1923 General Rivera, with the aid of King Alfonso XIII, attempted to take control of the Spanish government. He was, however, thwarted. This lead to the king’s abdication, although, crucially, not his exile. The Second Spanish Republic is founded in place of a monarch, with Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas, at its head. Things were going well for the new republic in its first few years, enacting a largely liberal, social democratic agenda to little opposition. However, the great depression threw the republic into disarray. A slew of weakened coalition governments drive the Republic further into recession, with far-left and right movements on the rise everywhere, and the military at all times moments from taking control. In late 1937, while strikes ravage the country, President Niceto Alcalá-Zamora holds a rally on Christmas day in order to ask the workers to return to their jobs. The routine speech goes awry, when Alcalá-Zamora is shot dead. 1938 dawns on a Spain in the midst of a succession crisis, with those on the far left and right seeing this as a chance to gain power. On the left, the moderate centre to centre-left republicans find themselves in a faction with the UESR-aligned Socialist Party, as well as the radical syndicalist CNT-FAI, operating out of Catalonia. The right consists of paramilitary groups operating under the leadership of the fascist Francisco Franco. Franco, a supporter of the Monarchists and the Prince Alfonso, is seen by his young patron as a radical extremist, useful for achieving his goals but useless once the monarchy is reinstated. Even among the aristocrats, typically a bastion of monarchist support, their is a divide, for some plot to restore Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma to the throne, a man of a differing line of descent in the Bourbon tree to the prince Alfonso, but popular among the Carlist movement. No matter which monarch takes control, there are those who recall the days of the Spanish Empire, and look overseas to the vast areas of central and south America that they once control, hoping to once again rule the Atlantic. While the left and right stand ready in their fractured factions, there are other movements in Spanish society. The military stand ready to take control independent of either faction, although to do so would surely spark war. In Galicia, and in the Basque country, people who never really felt integrated into the Spanish nation-state see this as a chance for greater autonomy, while the Aragonese aristocracy look west, to the Mediterranean they once controlled and remember when they were a major force in Europe in their own right. In Morocco, the Sultan Mohammed V has his own plans for independence, although doing so threatens to draw both Britain and France into the conflict in order to protect their own interests in the Tangier International Zone. Others perhaps will look with greedy eyes to Spain’s colony in Guinea, or hope to establish a friendly communist country on the Atlantic, or perhaps to keep the nation capitalist, no matter who controls it. No matter what happens, Spain in 1938 is a country that stands on the brink of anarchy.


#RedDawn1938

Here is the Spain.

[Savojarna]

So I will be a UEAS republic! Other Soviet players (and OP), which of the following would you prefer:
- Yugoslavia, might also take control of Greece until someone else plays it (to present an opponent to rebels)
- Czechoslovakia
- Finland and/or Baltics

I am quite neutral on which of those three I'd want so I thought I'd ask our other Soviets to coordinate a bit.

[Hothnia]

So I will be a UEAS republic! Other Soviet players (and OP), which of the following would you prefer:
- Yugoslavia, might also take control of Greece until someone else plays it (to present an opponent to rebels)
- Czechoslovakia
- Finland and/or Baltics

I am quite neutral on which of those three I'd want so I thought I'd ask our other Soviets to coordinate a bit.

Be the Yugos

[Orostan]

So I will be a UEAS republic! Other Soviet players (and OP), which of the following would you prefer:
- Yugoslavia, might also take control of Greece until someone else plays it (to present an opponent to rebels)
- Czechoslovakia
- Finland and/or Baltics

I am quite neutral on which of those three I'd want so I thought I'd ask our other Soviets to coordinate a bit.

Be the Yugos

Yugoslavia is a good choice, I agree.

[Democratic East-Asia]

So I will be a UEAS republic! Other Soviet players (and OP), which of the following would you prefer:
- Yugoslavia, might also take control of Greece until someone else plays it (to present an opponent to rebels)
- Czechoslovakia
- Finland and/or Baltics

I am quite neutral on which of those three I'd want so I thought I'd ask our other Soviets to coordinate a bit.

Yugoslavia is definitely a choice, but I called it the Trans-Balkan SSR and added Albania to it. You can change that name if you like.

[Castriarta]

I'm quite late, aren't I? Do I have still have claim on the Western UESR?

[Orostan]

I'm quite late, aren't I? Do I have still have claim on the Western UESR?

I don't know, but please join the discord.

[Democratic East-Asia]

I'm quite late, aren't I? Do I have still have claim on the Western UESR?

Hmm, a few individual republics have been taken at this point, but I don't mind if you act as one of the "general" players of the UESR. That is, takes care of politics and developments on an overall level. You can take what remains in the west if you like (Everything minus Germany and possibly Yugoslavia. Finland may also be included).

[Orostan]

I'm quite late, aren't I? Do I have still have claim on the Western UESR?

Hmm, a few individual republics have been taken at this point, but I don't mind if you act as one of the "general" players of the UESR. That is, takes care of politics and developments on an overall level. You can take what remains in the west if you like (Everything minus Germany and possibly Yugoslavia. Finland may also be included).

We need someone for the East, right?

[Democratic East-Asia]

Hmm, a few individual republics have been taken at this point, but I don't mind if you act as one of the "general" players of the UESR. That is, takes care of politics and developments on an overall level. You can take what remains in the west if you like (Everything minus Germany and possibly Yugoslavia. Finland may also be included).

We need someone for the East, right?

I'm taking the Eastern front for now, but we always need someone to manage interior workings / developments. We should discuss things more.