Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

Imperium Britannicum (Not Updated - 1.5.2)
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tombricks  [developer] Aug 9, 2018 @ 6:08pm
The Backstory
General History:
The year is 1918, the government of the German Empire has just surrendered to the Entente/Allied Powers, officially ended the Great War. Over the next year, the Treaty of Versailles, the Treaty that discussed the effects of the war and what would happen to the nations included in the fighting, would be written. Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire would face territorial loss and minor reparations but compare to Austria-Hungary and Germany, they might as well have been in the Entente. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was divided into Austria and Hungary and then those two were further split up to form many new nations. The German Empire faced the harshest consequences with them being named the fault of the war and why they were one of the biggest aggressors and powers in the war, they did not actually start it for that was Austria-Hungary. Germany lost their colonial empire and the territory of Alsace-Lorraine to France after annexing it in the Franco-Prussian War and small pieces of territory to Belgium. Over in the east of Germany, they lost all the land and power they had gained in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to Russia, however, this would not last. The Kaiser stayed in power in Germany, however, his powers were heavily stripped and the democratic parliament and therefore the people had more power. Once the treaty was signed on the Eleventh of November 1919, directly one year after the war had started, the people of Britain were upset at the government for letting the Kaiser stay in power in Germany, feeling that the government wasn't harsh enough and that the King kept the Kaiser in power due to them being cousins. This caused the newly founded fascist party of Oswald Mosley, the British Peoples Party, later renamed to the British Union of Fascists, to start to rise in popularity in the 1920-21 period and this culminated in a years-long tension from 1921-1922, known as the Mosley Wait, to occur and this ended up with Oswald Mosley becoming the new leader of the British Empire, now renamed to the Great British Empire. Also, during the Russian Civil War in 1920, various regions of the Russian Empire/Soviet Russia declared independence but most of these would end up being invaded by Germany. A few years later in 1924, Britain and their empire pulled of a surprise invasion of Calais in France and after a few years of fighting, the French government surrendered and the British State of France was formed in the south with the North being taken and occupied by the Great British Empire. During the war, however, both Germany and Italy wanted to get in on the action but Britain didn't want anyone interfering in their plans for France so they made a deal which stated that Britain would never intervene in anything that Germany does in Eastern Europe which led to them grabbing land and puppets in the East and Italy was promised more land in Africa and by 1935, neither of these agreements has been broke. In 1929, Britain formed a secret alliance with Japan and Siam which not only made a military alliance between the three but it also carved up the Chinese warlords and from January 1930 to September 1935, the three empires jointly invaded the Chinese warlords and in the final Treaty of Beijing, the plans from the 1929 alliance were enacted.

The 1920 Collapse of the Russian Empire and German Invasions:
During the Russian Civil War in 1920, as stated previously, many regions of the former Russian Empire declared independence. In Eastern Europe, all three if the Baltic States, Ukraine, Belarus, Finland, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia all declared independence and were recognized by nearly all countries in the world other than the combatants of the Russian Civil War though they were too caught up in the fighting to intervene in their independence and when the civil war ended in 1922, they were forced to recognise their independence. In Asia, most of the 'stan' countries that made up Russia declared independence. The Caucasus nations in Eastern Europe/Western Asia unified in 1922 into the Kingdom of Transcaucasia or more commonly, Transcaucasia. From 1923-27, the Monarchial Federation of Kazakhstan invaded many of its southern neighbours and incorporated them into the kingdom as well as creating the Afghan Autonomous Kingdom. From 1926 to 1930, the German Empire invaded Poland, the Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine taking former territory and establishing puppet states in the land they had taken. The United Baltic Duchy was formed out of Estonia and Latvia, the Deutschekonireichder Byelo-Lithuania was formed out of most of Lithuania and Belarus, Deutschekonireichder Ukraine was formed out of Ukraine and Deutschekonireichder Poland was created out of most of Poland excluding the Polish corridor which was given back to Germany after being taken away in the Treaty of Versailles. In 1934, both Kazakhstan and Transcaucasia joined Germany's new military and economic alliance, Deutscheurasien.

The Mosley Wait (the British Revolution):
In 1919, After the official signing of the Treaty of Versailles by the German, French, American and British governments, there was lots of outrage and upset in the British public. They thought that the government of the United Kingdom wasn't harsh enough on the German Government and that apparently, the King kept the Kaiser in power in Germany because they are cousins and he does not want to upset his cousin. This lasted until 1921 when a man called Oswald Mosley with his newly founded fascist party of Britain known as the British People's Party to surge in popularity. Many of the people of the United Kingdom had wanted a referendum to get Oswald Mosley and his party and these requests were largely ignored by the British government until it became too much of an annoyance and a flash-election was held in August of 1921. Most of the British government underestimated the popularity of the British Peoples Party, now renamed to the British Union of Fascists, so when the results came in and they had won the election, they called for the King to step in and intervene. The King vetoed this election, stating it was never official in the first place despite a few conferences and the fact that everyone was taking it seriously so when the British public found out about this, they were even more furious at the government than before and this ended up in the monarchy being abolished and on the 1st of January, 1922, Oswald Mosley became the new Leader of United Republic of Britain, now renamed once more to the Great British Empire. During this time of British turmoil, Oswald Mosley knew that if and when he became leader of Britain, the empire would surely rebel against British rule so he travelled to nearly every single nation that made up the British Empire to become more popular and because of this, when the monarchy was abolished in August 1921 and when the Great British Empire was formed on New Years Day 1922, no colonies had broken away.

The Great Franco-British War (The war of 1924):
On the 28th July 1924, at 12:11, around ten years after the start of the Great War, around 2 million started to arrive on French ports all across the French border with the English channel. 49 minutes later, at 13:00 BST, Oswald Mosley told a speech in London where he officially declared war on the French Republic. The Great Franco-British War had just begun. Within the first few days, the Northern French border with the channel was completely under control of the British. Within the next few months, much of the northern half of France had been occupied. It was once the city of Paris had been captured on 12th December when the fighting started to get out of hand. The capital of France was moved to Lyon and the French government started putting the entire focus of the country into the war. The South was started to be heavily industrialised pushing out tanks, bombs and guns. This ended up being their downfall as their decision making was that the South would be the last place to be occupied so rather than producing supplies where they were more likely to be captured, you should build them in the south and transport them to the frontlines. After a week of moving forward, the British realised what the French were doing and started a new operation. This was known as Operation Southattack. They would send hundreds of planes from the British African State to fly over the Mediterranean and bomb the French south, ruining their infrastructure. They started to appear in late January of 1925 and the French were not expecting this so when they started appearing, the weak French airforce was not able to withstand the British and the French planes and bombers were all decimated in only three days. One British bombing run would occur every few hours and they would drop around 500 bombs each run. About halfway between each bombing run, thousands of tanks and men would be dropped down into the South of France, opening up a second front and with the bombing, it was flattened which allows the tanks to go even faster. By April of 1925, Lyon had been captured and the French officially surrendered. Before and during the war, the Final treaty was already been wrote up so when the time came, the treaty would be able to instantly sign the treaty. This was known as the Treaty of Pas de Calais and the main feature of this was the divide of the mainland of France between becoming a subdivision of the Great British Empire alongside England, Scotland, Wales etc with this subdivision being known as Greater Normandy because of the English Norman ancestry and the rest of mainland France became a puppet state of Britain known as the British State of France. Nearly all of the military is situated in the British half so that if they were ever to break away from Britain, most of the French Soldiers would be trapped.
Last edited by tombricks; Aug 12, 2018 @ 1:57pm
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Oretan  [developer] Aug 10, 2018 @ 8:36am 
Oh, now i understand :b
tombricks  [developer] Aug 10, 2018 @ 8:37am 
@Canada OK
Alex Jones Sep 8, 2018 @ 2:57pm 
lit
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