A Song of Money and Fire
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OP: Arvenia
Co-OP 1: Vacant
Co-OP 2: Vacant
Co-OP 3: Vacant
Synopsis
Intro
Welcome to "A Song of Money and Fire", a RP where the US is split and WW2 never occured (thus WW1 is still known as the "Great War"), as well as the Great Depression being much worse here than IRL (as it came to cause a lot of armed conflicts). Starting in 1/1/1964 (January 1, 1964), you are in charge of a nation that is doing it's best to reshape the world alongside other nations at this time. It has been 31 years since FDR was assassinated, splitting the US into multiple countries. You either play as a US successor state or a non-US country. It is up to you to decide a path for your country, no matter what it takes. The world has economically recovered, yet other issues are still in place, waiting to devastate the world once again.
Rules
The year was 1929. On September 20, the London Stock Exchange crashed when British investor Clarence Hatry and his associates were jailed for fraud and forgery. This greatly weakened the optimism of American investment in overseas markets. In the days leading to this, the market was severly unstable. From October 24 to October 29, the Wall Street crashed when share prices collapsed. For 12 years, the Great Depression came to terrorize the world without mercy. Economy collapsed everywhere and poverty came knocking on every door. Rich people committed suicide and citywide riots emerged quickly. Shops were looted and banks were totally destroyed. The chaos that Wall Street caused has a huge effect on the world. Some countries struggled to fight such as Italy, who created the largest state-owned industrial sector in Europe, and the US, who tried to figure out the causes of the Great Depression by forming the Pecora Commission in 1932. The Great Depression also led to the rise of political ideologies, most notably fascism (which was already in control of Italy since 1922). Meanwhile, armed conflicts suddenly broke out, mainly in Canada (where the country gets split into the Republic of Quebec and the United Provinces of Canada), Thailand (when elements of the Thai military sought out to end absolute monarchy), Latin America (mostly between leftists and fascists) and France (when left-wing populists took up arms and targeted the government for it's "economic crime against the French population").
FDR, the new US President, came forward with a plan called the "New Deal". In 1933, he was holding an impromptu speech in Miami, Florida, when he was assassinated by an Italian-born anarchist named Giuseppe Zangara. This assassination came to split the US into multiple countries as many, just like the anarchist himself, didn't like the New Deal. Martial law was imposed in numerous parts of the country while political elements saw an opportunity to take control at the same time. While the US government struggled to implement the New Deal, it was violently opposed by various groups ranging from "business nationalists", rogue military personnel, communist politicians, rogue Democrats, Republicans, anarchists and some powerful companies to factory workers, farmers, homeless people and separatist movements. Chaos culminated later that year, when the US ceased to exist and various governments formed out of it. Alaska, meanwhile, was annexed by the USSR.
In the same year, Germany came under the rule of a far-right party, whose policies helped stabilize the country amid the Great Depression and promote the nationalist concept of "Volksgemeinschaft". This party also dreamed about avenging Germany's defeat in the Great War, even if a new Great War would be more disastrous and led to further issues once it was over.
In 1934, the USSR saw an opportunity to invade Finland, first by foot through the Russo-Finnish border before sending in it's navy to attack Finnish coasts and annex Åland. The annexation, however, triggered Sweden, who rallied both Norway and Denmark into helping it to kick the USSR off Åland and then aid Finland. After two years of fighting, the USSR withdrew it's armed forces from Finland, creating so much common nationalism among the Nordic countries with the possibility of a single Nordic country being created as a result.
To regain pride after being defeated by the Nordic countries, the USSR set it's eyes on China, whose ruling party, the Kuomintang, was badly fighting Japan in Manchuria and the Communist Party of China in it's home territory. While Germany supported the KMT, the USSR supported the CPC. Both Germany and the USSR also sent troops to China, which meant they also fought the Japanese forces up north. The Soviet intervention unnerved the Japanese as the USSR might conquer Manchuria, thus Japan was forced to seek ceasefire with Germany, China and the USSR. Both Germany and the USSR saw an opportunity to establish ceasefire between the KMT and the CPC. In 1937, a year after the USSR withdrew it's armed forces from Finland, the Treaty of Nanjing was signed between the KMT, the CPC, the USSR, the Empire of Japan and the German Reich, splitting China into two countries. The Republic of China (ROC) controlled the southern half (with Tibet as a sovereign protectorate) while the Chinese Soviet Republic (CSR) controlled the northern half (without Manchuria and Uyghuristan). The Chinese Civil War (later known as the "First Chinese Civil War") ended 10 years after it first began and Japan is still amibitious about full control over China. The ROC later democratized to allow political parties to co-exist with the ruling KMT.
In 1938, due to a lot of factors, such as communist insurgency in France and the dissolution of the US, the European countries were forced to accept German demands, thus preventing a new Great War from breaking out. Germany, as a result, gained Austria, Alsace-Lorraine, German Cameroon, German East Africa, Togoland, parts of Czechoslovakia, parts of Poland and the German-speaking community of Belgium in the "Treaty of Brussels", which also nullified the Treaty of Versailles. While this ended peacefully and satisfied the Germans, it led to dissatisfaction among Britishmen, Frenchmen, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Belgians. Czechoslovakia somehow lost Czech parts to the German Reich, thus leaving Slovakia as a sovereign country. Germany and the USSR, thanks to the Treaty of Nanjing, made a non-aggression pact after China was divided by the treaty. A year later, the Spanish Civil War ends with Carlist victory, thus both overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic and restoring the Kingdom of Spain.
Also in 1938, the Republic of California invaded Baja California and Baja California Sur to actualize the concept of "Greater California", starting a year-long conflict with Mexico called the "Baja War", which California was able to win and keep the two Mexican states under it's control.
In 1940, a group of French nationalists who supported French values such as liberty, democracy and equality were so angry over the Treaty of Brussels that they accused the French government of treason against French society, which helped mounting up further opposition towards the government. In the end, the government was impeached by the National Assembly, who had been persuaded into this by the exact same group of French nationalists and then held emergency election. Once a party aligned with the nationalist group won the eleciton, France was made into the Fourth Republic, which was just as revanchist as Germany itself. It seeks to nullify the Treaty of Brussels and take back Alsace-Lorraine from German control. Unlike Germany, the Fourth Republic was just as democratic as the Third Republic, albeit more nationalist.
In 1941, still obsessed with world domination, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and subsequently invaded Hawaii, which alerted the Republic of California, who responded by declaring war on Japan, starting the Pacific War (1941-1945). The two countries fought each other throughout the Pacific for 4 years. The war eventually led to strategic Californian victory and the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco, which gave California control over Hawaii, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Midway Atoll, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island and the American Samoa while also earning California geopolitical hegemony over the Pacific as evident by the Philippines having a pro-Californian government since a civil war that was possibly part of the Pacific War. Japan still opposes Californian presence, seeing it as a threat to the "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere", which Japan seeks to create.
In 1942, South Africa officially cuts all ties with the UK and declares itself an independent Afrikaner nation. This led to conflict between the ruling Afrikaners and various ethnic groups such as Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, Venda, Tsonga, Ndebele, British South Africans and Indian South Africans. On the other hand, the UK went militant on South Africa for this, leading to what the British called the "Third Boer War" (also referred to by Afrikaners as the "South African War of Independence"), which lasted from exactly 1942 to 1945. The Afrikaners put up a good fight against the British, who were aided by native South African rebels (Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Tsonga, Sotho, Ndebele, etc), as well as British South Africans and Indian South Africans, while Germany and various foreign volunteers (mostly Dutch volunteers) secretly backed the Afrikaner government. In 1945, the conflict ended with de facto Afrikaner victory and the signing of the Treaty of Johannesburg, which officially declared South Africa an independent country and also gave the UK continued control over Swaziland (including a coastal part of South Africa), Rhodesia (both Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia), Bechuanaland and South-West Africa.
In 1944, despite successful colonization of North Africa and East Africa in the 1930s, the Kingdom of Italy had a crisis regarding Benito Mussolini's paranoia over German territorial expansion since 1938. Fearing that Germany would come after Italy due to both being enemies back in the Great War, Benito became so extremely paranoid that he ordered full mobilization at the Austro-Italian border. This caused the Italian government to impeach him for his insanity, which helped bring an end to fascist rule as elections were held in 1946, resulting in the country being democratized again. Ethiopia was independent again, but Italy still retained Libya and Somalia.
In 1945, the atomic bomb was manufactured. California used it first to eradicate a whole IJN fleet on August 6, which may help end the Pacific War immediately, as California effectively threatened Japan with more atomic bombings if it didn't agree to a stalemate, which was eventually agreed to on August 9. As a result of this, California strategically won the Pacific War and later signed the Treaty of San Francisco with Japan. However, the nuclear attack on August 6 shocked the world, while other countries like the UK, the USSR, France, Germany and South Africa also began developing nuclear weapons, resulting in some nuclear tests. This would ultimately led to the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in the 1950s.
In 1948, the Kingdom of Israel was granted independence from the UK. The country was a Jewish monarchy represented by a King and controlled by a Prime Minister. This creation led to conflict with Arab states. Meanwhile, the Dominion of India was struck by clashes between opposing ideologies, most notably Hindutva, Islamism and communism. The country split up into the Republic of India, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Kingdom of Khalistan, the Maratha Empire, the Tamil Republic and the Naxal Commune.
In 1950, a series of border clashes led to a full-scale war between the CSR and the ROC, starting the "Second Chinese Civil War". The war lasted until 1954 when the Treaty of Macau is signed and the borders further militarized as a result. Throughout the war, the CSR was supported by the USSR, Mongolia, Uyghuristan (Xinjiang), Burma and Naxal, while the ROC was supported by Japan, Germany, France, Portugal, Canada, the UK, the Philippines, the Republic of India and the Republic of California. It was in this conflict that the CSR captured Nanjing, the capital of the ROC, forcing the ROC to choose a new capital down south.
Amid the Second Chinese Civil War, the USSR began orchestrating and supporting revolutions across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East in a bid for world communism. European colonies in Africa were fragile as anti-colonialist groups (Gaddafists, Mau Mau, Nasserists, Bourguibists, FLN, MNA, Pan-Somalists, Sankarists, etc) attacked them and sought out their independence from Europe. In Latin America, left-wing politics took control of Cuba (1959) and Venezuela (1958), while fierce combat between government forces and insurgent groups raged on in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Colombia and Brazil. In the Middle East, the Arabic ideology of Ba'athism pledged allegiance to the USSR and gained political control of Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Kuwait, alerting Turkey, Israel and other Arab countries down south. In Iran, as a result of people being afraid of communist takeover, the Tudeh Party was jointly removed from power by both the Pahlavi family and the UK. In Southeast Asia, communist insurgents, supported by the USSR, the CSR, Burma and Naxal, were clashing with government forces in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Meanwhile, the Space Race began in 1955 and countries are struggling with reaching the outer space.
In 1960, both the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi jointly declares independence from Belgium as Congo, mainly thanks to Soviet support. This leads to the Congo Crisis, when the European powers began orchestrating rebellion within the new country as a response to the USSR orchestrating rebellion across the world. Violent clashes between various political factions became rampant within Congo as a result of Soviet-European rivalry.
In 1961, a series of border clashes occurs between Mexico and the former US (mostly Tex, mostly due to the result of trying to stop illegal immigration with violent force.
In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis occured and Algeria seceded from France after eight years of separatist violence.
In 1963, Jeremy Carlton, the President of California, was on a state visit in the Republic of Texas. While riding a car through Dallas on November 22, he was assassinated by a sniper. This led to brief diplomatic tensions between Texas and California while Japan and the USSR were also blamed for the assassination. Meanwhile, an acting President was appointed to rule California until the presidential elections are held the following year.
It is now January 1, 1964. The Republic of California is still mourning the assassination of it's former President, the USSR is dealing with issues within the CPSU leadership, Europe is on the brink of war between two of it's great powers, Japan is seeking profit and alliance among it's neighbours, the former US is still facing various issues, the British Empire has ceased to exist, there are high tensions between India and it's neighbours, the Non-Proliferation Treaty is still in effect, the Space Race is accompanied by technological progress and the communist revolts in Africa, Asia and Latin America are still ongoing. Most important, the effects of the Great Depression are still present. Whatever happens afterwards is everyone's guess.
Intro
Welcome to "A Song of Money and Fire", a RP where the US is split and WW2 never occured (thus WW1 is still known as the "Great War"), as well as the Great Depression being much worse here than IRL (as it came to cause a lot of armed conflicts). Starting in 1/1/1964 (January 1, 1964), you are in charge of a nation that is doing it's best to reshape the world alongside other nations at this time. It has been 31 years since FDR was assassinated, splitting the US into multiple countries. You either play as a US successor state or a non-US country. It is up to you to decide a path for your country, no matter what it takes. The world has economically recovered, yet other issues are still in place, waiting to devastate the world once again.
Rules
[*]No godmodding or metagaming
[*]No flaming
[*]Listen to OP and Co-OPs
[*]Be realistic
[*]Respect the timeline (as well as including some events in your applications)
[*]Don't just post about war, you have a country to manage
[*]Bad grammar isn't nice
[*]No toxicity
[*]Reservations lasts for a week
[*]Posts must be longer than one paragraph
[*]Inactive nations are removed after two weeks while players can revive them within a month
[*]No WMD
[*]No country can be bigger than the USSR or the British Empire
[*]Time skips are determined by OP and his Co-OPs
[*]OP is in charge of NPCs
[*]Have fun!
