Updated Sunday 15 May, 2011 12:18 PM

History of the Grand Alliance

The Seven Years’ War

The next round of the saga that had begun with the War of Austrian Succession, started in 1754, when the governor of Virginia sent George Washington into French America to take Fort Duquesne. This conflict had been brewing for many years, as the American colonists had grown to resent the French crowding them into their thirteen colonies.

When Washington arrived at Fort Duquesne, he proceeded to bombard the fort. France, irate over the colonists’ headstrong actions, sent troops to reinforce the fort and slaughtered most of Washington's force, the remainder limping back into Virginia. Britain, determined to expel the agitating French Acadians from the Hudson Bay area, were rebuffed when the former French colonists rose up, defeated the British, and returned the territory to the French crown. This was followed by rapid, crushing American defeats concluding in late 1761-early 1762 with the bombardment and destruction of the city of Boston and the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

While this was happening in the New World, war also raged in Europe. Britain, Spain, and Prussia fought against Austria, Russia, and France. Britain and Spain were defeated by overwhelming French attacks, but Prussia was another story. Prussia under Frederick the Great held back these monstrous Russian, Austrian, and French attacks from all sides, and unlike its allies, emerged victorious. It claimed all German states save Austria east of the Rhine, Poland, and Austrian Galicia. Forming a cohesive and unified German Empire reinforced and strengthened Germany’s role in future events, replacing Britain as a world power. France gained the francophone Netherlands as well as the West Rhineland, Piedmont, and Catalonia. This established France as the ruling Great Power, inheriting Britain’s New World empire. But the control over these Britons was to prove unstable a little more than twenty years later.

After the war, Britain fell into a severe depression, Ireland declared independence, and its Indian trading posts failed, although they still existed. France’s outposts expanded and assumed control over portions of India. Spain, devastated, recovered surprisingly quickly, due to aid imported from its New World colonies. Austria too began a slow decline that would culminate in 1795.

Revolutions and Antebellum

In the New World, France built New Paris as the colonial capital, finishing it in 1781. This city became the heart of the French occupation and was hated by all English colonists. The French began a policy of subjugation and assimilation concerning the British colonists, forcing upon them bilingual signs that shoved the French language down their throats, and the settlement of new French colonists among the English. Furious and fuming, the colonists began to organize, and men such as Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton took center stage in this resistance. Their work culminated in the enlistment of aid from Russia and Germany against France, and the services of George Washington as the leader of the colonial militia.

When war broke out in 1785, these alliances proved indispensable as they pushed the French into Quebec and destroyed New Paris. In the aftermath, France was forced to recognize the independence of the American Republic, return Catalonia to Spain, and release Piedmont. But France survived the war, with Quebec and the remainder of its empire.

Americans were draconian against anything and everything French, burning the French colonists’ homes and exiling them West. Many of them ended up in Quebec and the Spanish colonies, where they told stories of harassment and persecution. President Jefferson denied these allegations, deeming them “ridiculous and absurd.” Nonetheless, France placed sanctions against the Republic, interfering with exports, imports, and diplomatic relations. Germany, however, became a leading supporter of the American Republic and continued to trade despite the French blockade. However, by 1791 these restrictions were lifted and the American Republic was formally embraced by the world powers as a rightful nation.

Within the American Republic, democracy seemed to be working well for the people of the fledgling nation. Jefferson’s Constitution enabled for a popularly elected President for one term of ten years, a bicameral legislation based on both population and equal representation, and a strong judicial system. The thirteen colonies, united in their desire to overthrow France, surrendered their governments to Philadelphia and became mere provinces of the greater Republic. The territory acquired from France was planned to be organized in much the same manner, as the population increased, the area would be declared a voting province of the American Republic. After a shaky start, the Republic began to get on its feet and begin a relatively prosperous future.

After the loss of much territory to German after the Seven Years’ War, Austria began a gradual decline. Vienna’s grip over its many ethnicalities was slipping, due to its defeat and growing unpopularity. These differences exploded in 1795 when an Austrian duke was slain by Slovak rebels in Budapest. The government in Vienna, believing only military force would impress the “nations” within Austria into submission and followed up the assassination with a rapid military response to Slovakia, after which it detached and declared war on Vienna. Bohemia, Croatia, and Hungary soon followed, ultimately warring amongst themselves.

In 1798, finding an opportunity to expand the empire, Germany annexed Bohemia and occupied the now much smaller Austria. The warring nations, stunned, realized that they were doomed to be a part of an expanding German Empire if they did not unite against it. Hungary gathered Slovakia and Croatia under its wing and assumed a defensive stance against Germany. Germany, sensing that war would be a regrettable choice, backed down and recognized the Hungarian Empire.

Hungary, relieved of pressure from the north, peered south towards the teetering Ottoman Empire. An alliance with Russia secured the grounds for such an action, which took place in 1799. The Turks did not stand a chance; Hungary and Russia defeated them within nine months. Russia gained the eastern Balkans and the whole of the Caucasus and Armenia, while Hungary gained the west coast of the Balkans; Serbia and Greece declared independence.

Increasing nationalism due to the oppression of the common people, and the American example, led to the revolutions of 1800. In 1780, a British ideologist, William Harrenton, had written a book detailing his ideology of Centralism. It provided for a very strong central government headed by a dictator, the people working for the betterment of the State, which would better their lives. In Spain, Britain, and the Italian states, conditions became severe, and Centralism became immensely popular. In 1800, the monarchies were overthrown in favor of a centralist pseudo-democracy. Dictators assumed control, and conditions were not much different, only with the nobles deposed and the lower class glorified. Italy, however, under the dictators, was unified and attained Great Power status. France and Germany, the two rival main powers, managed to stifle these revolutions, without much trouble. But, shocked, they instituted reforms that provided for people’s voice in the government without drafting a constitution.

Britain’s dictator, William Kent, after retaking the war-torn Ireland, turned a greedy eye towards Spain’s colonial empire. In 1805, Britain besieged Caracas and conquered the northern tier of Spanish South America. Spain, reeling, lost control over the rest of its colonies. Mexico, Peru, and Argentina declared independence in 1808; Spain could not, and did not, try to stop them. The Spanish government collapsed, and Spain fell into disarray. Britain revived its Indian outposts and covertly organized a coup that overthrew the Mughals, bringing nearly the entirety of India under British control, save Bengal, which was held by the French. Britain had reemerged as a Great Power.

China, cut off from the events in the western world, seemed unconcerned when Russia declared her intentions to acquire much of the northern Chinese territory. In 1826, Russian troops crossed into Mongolia and into the heart of China. After a long seven-year war, Russia emerged victorious and claimed swathes of northern China, and annexed northern Afghanistan, Britain laying claim to the south. Sensing an opportunity to catch the Russians off guard, the Ottomans attacked immediately thereafter; however, the Russians were half-expecting this. Another year of war destroyed the Ottoman Empire. Its African territories were claimed by Spain, France, Germany, and Italy. Persia gained a substantial amount of territory, and Anatolia itself was absorbed into the Russian Empire.

In one of the major turning points of the early nineteenth century, the Great Powers addressed the issue of slavery in the historic 1828 Congress of Marseille. In the end, the Proclamation of Freedom was ratified by the Great Powers, and copies were sent to the slaveholding minor powers of the world, including the American Republic. This caused the first political fallout in the history of the young nation. The debate of the Proclamation culminated in its ratification, with the government paying compensation to the former slaveholders.

Republican expansion reached its height in 1830, the American Republic now stretching from sea to sea. America adopted a policy of neutrality, citing Russians to the north, French to the east, and Spaniards to the south: three major rival powers. Russia claimed the remainder of North America, which was made up of the Arctic Circle.

The Great European War

After the wars of 1826-1834, Russia was alienated by its former ally, Germany, for its behavior in Asia and the Balkans. France, too, would not have anything to do with Russia. So, Russia returned to its Hungarian regent and established puppet regimes in Serbia and Greece. Britain, propping up a dictator in Spain, formed a defensive, and control, alliance with Spain and Italy. Through Britain’s influence, they became extensions of the British Empire. Germany, France, and Portugal then wizened up and signed a defensive pact against these rising powers, which came to be called the “Grand Alliance.”

In 1853, unrest in Finland and the Baltic states led to their declaration of independence from Russia. They formed a Baltic Confederation, which was promptly attacked by Russia, who wasted no time in subduing the fledgling confederation. After Russian troops invaded the rebellious countries and occupying the capitals, it was reintegrated into the Empire in 1854. After warming up its military, Russia turned to look at the Scandinavian nations, Sweden and Norway, with a hungry eye. Sweden and Norway, which were protégés of Germany and Britain, respectively, were invaded in 1855. The Grand Alliance and the British alliance retaliated with vicious precision.

Germany moved south into Hungary and east into Russia, meeting strong resistance in both areas. Italy attacked into the western Balkans, and Britain held the Russian invaders back in Scandinavia. German and Italian forces met at Belgrade in 1857, then proceeded to move east into Russian territory, to Bucharest. Bucharest fell after a two week siege and the coalition forces moved north into Russia itself, leveling Kiev and approaching St. Petersburg, the heart of Russian power.

French and British forces pushed into Finland, and, in 1857, laid siege to St. Petersburg. After a few weeks, German and Italian forces arrived from the south and destroyed the Russian capital city. The Russian tsar begged the enemy nations for peace, but peace came with a steep price. Russia lost vast amounts of territory, which divided up and formed their own governments. This was all authorized in the Treaty of London, which was signed in the late months of 1857. The Great European War had ended, with more than two million dead, and Eastern Europe in ruins.

Intermission

After Russia’s crushing defeat in 1857, rebels flying the doctrine of Karl Marx’s 1848 The Communist Manifesto attempted to take power in the relocated capital of the fragmented Russian Empire, Moscow. The Russian military, although badly beaten, managed to stifle the rebels and ensure Imperial rule in Russia.

After this defeat, the socialist rebels decided to bide their time. In 1872, the Russian government finally collapsed under social and economic strain, but the straw that broke the camel’s back was the assassination of the tsar by an opposition party. Responding to this the people formed a parliament; but the paranoid Duma was unable to function when the communist forces struck. Moving swiftly through Moscow, they completely demolished the Duma hall and killed the parliament. This initiated civil war between the tsarists, supported by the Grand Alliance, and the communists, which would last well into 1874, killing around half a million Russians in the process. Ultimately, the communist forces emerged victorious, and the communist leader, Oleg Nadishev, proceeded to declare the establishment of the United Socialist Russian Empire, bullying the fragmented independent states into reunion with Russia. Those who resisted were trampled by the Russian military. Soon the USRE covered much of what was once the Russian Empire. However, Turkey and the new Balkan states refused to be absorbed by the expanding USRE. Petitioning Germany and Italy, they gained a level of protection even Nadishev would not violate. Still, the Russian Empire had been resurrected, and resumed its spotlight in world events.

In the 1880’s, European leaders met to discuss grounds for colonizing Africa. During this Congress of Paris they agreed that if a stable government is set up then a country has a legitimate claim to an area. The nations of Europe began a colony-scramble and by 1894 the whole of Africa had been colonized. Germany took eastern Africa, Portugal taking southwest Africa, Italy taking the southeast, Britain taking the south, Hungary colonizing the middle, and Britain and France splitting the west.

By 1890, Britain held only small possessions in the south of Australia. Soon, they began full-scale colonization- but so did the French. The continent was soon divided into French and British sections, much like India.

Austria’s failing government made one final bid for stability in 1892. It proposed reunification with Hungary, providing for a confederatory structure. Hungary accepted, and the nation of Austria-Hungary was born.

Four years later, in 1896, France covertly initiated civil war in Spain by arming the Spanish Bourbonistes against Britain’s puppets in Madrid. In 1898, the infighting spilled over into Portugal, devastating the restive nation. The king fled to Brasil, and renegotiated colonial relations there. The capital was moved into Brasil and the Empire of Brasilia-Portugal came into being in 1899. Spain’s dictator was overthrown and the Spanish Bourbons reinstated into power that same year.

In 1900, Russia initiated war with Japan, hoping to add it to her empire. But, in 1858, after the Great European War, French ships had sailed into the ports of the isolated, agrarian Japan and forced it to trade. The Emperor Meiji began an intensive modernization program that built up the Japanese state into a power rivaling the Great Powers of Europe. So, when Russia declared war, Japan unleashed its forces, swarming across Korea and Siberia. Russia withdrew, reeling, in 1902 and granted Japan Korea and parts of Manchuria.

Japan, proved in the Russo- Japanese War, turned on China next. A series of crushing defeats from 1903 to 1907 caused China, for all intents and purposes, to collapse as a viable state. Japan claimed massive amounts of territory, and the shattered China became a semi-independent nation administered by both Britain and France. The Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang, formerly fighting against the Manchu empress, turned its full focus on the Japanese occupation and began an intense guerilla war. The Second Russo-Japanese War came in late 1909. Russia, wishing to reclaim the stolen city of Vladivostok, attacked Japan and reconquered the city. A 1911 treaty ended the war, transferring this territory back to the USRE.

The Great World War

Immediately after the Second Russo-Japanese War had ended, Imperial Japan petitioned the Grand Alliance (France, Germany, and Brasilia-Portugal) to join. The Grand Alliance admitted Japan in 1913. Britain, after losing Spain in 1899, began to reconstruct its alliance sphere of influence. Moving south from British Colombia, Britain gained Peru, Argentina, and Mexico as allies. In Asia, Persia was friendly towards Britain, and an alliance treaty was soon signed. Fearing for their independence, the Balkan states huddled under the wing of the Grand Alliance; so also did Turkey.

In 1921, Britain sent a force of over 50,000 strong into Spain to reinstall a British puppet government. The Grand Alliance immediately condemned this action and called for the withdrawal of the troops. Britain refused, and, along with its allies, was declared war on by the Grand Alliance on 12 May 1921. The USRE, shrewd and calculating, also declared war on Britain less than two weeks later. The Grand Alliance turned to the American Republic, who agreed to join and declare war on Britain, but only on “certain conditions.” It declared war on 15 September 1921, and sent its troops deep into Mexico. Japan and France engaged British forces in China, India, Indonesia, and Australia, meeting strong British presences in all areas. Fierce fighting ensued, and these former jungles were torched, gassed, and shelled to the ground.

The turning point came in 1923. Grand Alliance forces pushed British forces out of Spain, and penetrated deep into Italy. Persia had lost its footing and slipped under the steamroller of the Russian Empire. Premier Vladimir Lenin, in Tehran, declared the region of Persia annexed to the USRE. French troops captured New Delhi and laid waste to British South Australia. American troops destroyed Mexico City, Brasilan-Portugese forces overran the South American continent, and Japan wiped out British outposts in China. The final phase of Britain’s downfall came in early 1924. Grand Alliance troops marched into London, and occupied the city. Britain sued for peace, and the Treaty of London was signed on 24 February 1924.

The American Republic’s stipulations come into play immediately after peace. It required that Britain, Italy, and the defeated Latin American nations would be restructured as a democratic system. Soon, cautious republics were taking their first steps. But they had much to clean up. Brasilia-Portugal had claimed Upper Peru, the Uruguay and Paraguay provinces of Argentina, and a sliver of Colombia. The American Republic had claimed a large slice of Mexico. Italy was stripped of its colonies, and Britain also was stripped of everything but the Isle of Britain itself.

With this war seemingly over, the countries of the world sighed and hoped that peace will again reign for a while. But they were wrong. On 12 April 1924, USRE forces spilled into German Poland, occupying it and slaughtering as many Poles as they could. Germany was caught off-guard, and soon the USRE occupied the eastern half of the continental German Empire. While this happened in eastern Europe, Russian forces swarmed into Korea and practiced the same formula as in Poland, killing everything in sight. The shocked Japanese military was unable to respond, and Tokyo was occupied in little over a month; however, the Japanese navy continued to fight on, attacking into Siberia.

With Germany preoccupied, Russia then set upon the Balkan nations. Russian troops went straight through Austria-Hungary, tearing apart the landscape as they passed. Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia each fell under the regime of Russia by early 1925.

In May of 1926, Russian troops passed through Alaska and entered the American Republic, ripping their way through California to cut off aid to Japan. But worst of all was what happened in occupied Poland and Japan. USRE forces there constructed internment camps in which German, Poles, Japanese, and Koreans alike were sent, and, during the course of the war, millions died inside these structures.

In Mongolia, the cautious neutral of Asia, a man claiming to be the descendant of Genghis Khan seized power. He called upon the people of Mongolia to reclaim their glorious past, and was immensely popular within the country. Mongolia entered the war on the side of the Grand Alliance, and attacked into Russia, on 5 June 1927.

The real problem was finding a weakness in the USRE’s fortified lines. An opportunity was found in late 1927. Persian separatists were agitating, and the Grand Alliance covertly armed them and sent them into Tehran. Lenin responded violently, drawing troops from the Polish front to crush the insurrection. But this depletion of troops was all German troops needed to break through. By January 1928, Germany had reclaimed most of Poland and discovered the horrendous camps, in which the few survivors told harrowing stories of torture, execution, and starvation. Wary of the Russian winter, German troops dug in and began to wait it out.

What the Russians didn’t count on was the intense nationalism burning within the Balkans. After hundreds of years under the Turks, they were not about to let Russia annex them, again for some. Armed revolts took place in all major cities, and Russian troops were hunted down and killed before they could regroup. At the beginning of March 1928, the Balkan nations had declared their sovereignty from the USRE.

When spring dawned, the Germans mobilized and marched through Byelorussia, approaching Moscow, where unrest had reached its height. The unfortunate turn of the war, the Socialist Party’s policies in occupied territory, coupled with general disgust with the regime had led the oppressed people to stage another coup to unseat the Party, thus beginning the March Uprising. By the time the Germans arrived in late April, the people had taken control of the government and had executed the top leaders of the Party, except Lenin. He had escaped, and had eluded search parties sent by the provisional government.

The Grand Alliance brought the United Socialist Russian Empire, which was no longer united, socialist, or an empire, to the peace conference in June 1928. The collapsed Russia signed a peace treaty that recognized the new nations of Asia, the Caucasus, and Europe that were carved from the USRE; and Byelorussia became a demilitarized zone. Also, Russia was forced to give up huge amounts of territory to Mongolia. In the end, thirteen million people, civilian and military, were killed in this war.

Aftermath

Japan annexed China, Mongolia taking small sections. These empires formed an alliance separate of the Grand Alliance in 1929, gaining Republic of Australia support, the nation that sprang from the British Empire’s Australian colony.

The Asian countries that were formed out of the ruins of the Russian and British empires formed a coalition, the Commonwealth of Central Asian Nations. The CCAN refused to join the Grand Alliance, citing possible violation of their sovereignty.

Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and the Ukraine, the new European nations, received massive amounts of aid flowing in from the Grand Alliance. Eternally grateful, they entered the Alliance as minor members. Even Italy, once a puppet of Britain, received aid and was admitted into the Grand Alliance in 1931.

Worst off were Britain and Russia. Even though Britain was receiving humanitarian and governmental aid from the American Republic, it still was coasting along a path to gradual collapse. Russia, too even with help in restructure from the Grand Alliance, fell into that same path of decline.

However, the rest of the world had entered a time of great prosperity unparalleled by even the 1860-1900 era. Economies boomed and the Grand Alliance kept on as the controlling power on the world stage. Germany granted full independence to Egypt and Abyssinia in Africa. In Central America, Britain’s aborted Panama Canal was completed, with Grand Alliance assistance. It was formally opened on 17 February 1929.

But the Pacific Alliance was also building up support. The oppressed peoples of the French colonies became increasingly supportive of the Japanese cause and small revolts began to occur throughout France’s South Pacific colonies.

At the beginning of 1940, the world is no longer anything like it had been twenty years earlier, before the start of the Great World War. Totalitarianism and Communism have been stomped flat, and the disintegration of the USRE and the British Empire, and not to mention the consequential collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Confederation, provided for new, independent countries with Grand Alliance backing. The middle ranking power of the American Republic had become a major power belonging to the Grand Alliance. This nation, with minor damage done to its western coast during the war, had emerged strong, funneling money into its quest of democratizing the globe. Japan and Mongolia had emerged as world-class empires, and their actions in the Far East was stirring up Grand Alliance interest. So, by the turn of the 1950’s, war became inevitable.

The Second Great World War

In 1952, the simultaneous attack of French colonies in the South Pacific, and the bombing of San Francisco in the American Republic led to the Grand Alliance declaration of war the same day, 24 March. Immediately, Japan and Mongolia stepped up their offensives, occupying Indonesia, Siberia, and parts of California. By the end of 1952, Japanese and Mongolian forces have secured the occupation of Siberia, the whole of France’s overseas colonies, and the occupation of the American west coast. Australia conquered the northern French territory and proclaimed a unified Australia in December.

With Asia locked down by Mongol-Japanese conquests, Mongolian forces, from Siberia, landed in Alaska and subdued Juneau with almost no effort. Soon Mongolian forces met up with Japanese forces beginning to strike into the heart of America. Brasilia-Portugal sent its new Pacific navy up to defend America, but it was no match for the superior Japanese navy.

While all this happened in Asia and America, the European nations looked on almost helplessly. Their removed location cut them off from the heart of the war. But, in July 1954, after months of massing troops in Quebec, sent them across the Republic to combat the occupying forces. The Mongols, land fighters, put up a good fight, but the Grand Alliance forced them back to the coast.

The massed navies of the European powers crossed through the Panama Canal in late 1954. They proceeded up the American coast and destroyed the Japanese armada, cutting off the mainland from Japanese attacks. On the mainland, Grand Alliance troops defeated the occupying armies and took them as prisoners of war. With the American continent rid of the Japanese, the Grand Alliance Navy began trekking towards Asia.

In early 1955, the CCAN declared war on the Mongol-Japanese alliance, stemming from Mongolian advances to acquire many of its member nations, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kashmir. Their collective armies smashed into the western “arm” of the Mongolian Empire, and into Japanese occupied territory, on 19 March.

In early June, the underground Kuomintang, who had been receiving Grand Alliance aid since 1930, rose up in open insurrection and occupied Beijing. Coupled with the Allied occupation of Tokyo, the Japanese Empire began to fall apart, piece by piece. The Southeast Asian territories declared independence and joined the CCAN, while China shook off its Japanese overlords.

Seeing the overturn of the Japanese hold in Asia, and the imminent destruction of the Mongolian Empire, Australia negotiated a peace with the Alliance in May 1956. The Treaty of Sydney was signed, and Australia assumed neutrality in the final year of the conflict.

Mongolia, although it was the last surviving power, kept fighting well into 1957, still holding onto Siberia and many border regions of China. But the Grand Alliance had one last, dreaded weapon to use. Successfully tested in 1948, under careful security, on one of the French islands, the atomic bomb was brought into full service on 2 July 1957. An Alliance bomb raid party flew over Ulan Bator, the Mongolian capital, and dropped the bomb. The blast completely destroyed the city, killing millions. Decapitated, the Mongolian Empire capitulated and its ranking general surrendered on 12 July. The Second Great World War had ended, taking with it 15 million lives.

Reconstruction, Revolution, and a New Millennium

The immediate repercussions of the war completely restructured Asia. China and Russia split the fallen Mongolia in two, annexing their respective halves. Korea became independent of Japan, which was under Alliance occupation. After the Japanese occupation ended in 1973, it, along with Turkey, Palestine, Arabia, Oman, and China, entered the CCAN, as it dropped the “Central” from its name.

The first test of the new world peace came in 1977 with the Third Russian Civil War. The area of Byelorussia, the only non-Russian territory retained by Russia after the First Great World War, had become heavily industrialized and prosperous, contrasting heavily with the struggling of Russia proper. The government in Moscow had imposed heavy restrictions on the territory, restricting imports to passing through Russian ports or cities before exiting the country, to recover the shards of the Russian economy. The Byelorussian provincial government protested this action, and threatened to secede. The Russian military was sent into Byelorussia, a demilitarized zone since 1928, to stifle this rebellious province.

This sparked full civil war, as the “democratic” government, dominated by a strongman premier-for-life, engaged in full genocide against Byelorussia. Anything and everything Byelorussian was pillaged and destroyed. Byelorussians were not the only people to suffer; non-Russians throughout the sprawling country were rounded up, detained, and shot. Military grade chemical and biological weapons were used when whole cities rose up against Moscow. The Grand Alliance, after listening to the horrifying stories that were filtering west, intervened. The Russian military then opened up warfare against Grand Alliance cities, and completely overran the Baltic states. The CAN then interfered, and attacked from the south, with their final destination being Moscow. When Grand Alliance and CAN troops arrived in Moscow, the collapsing government used their last weapon: the nuclear bomb. Their fifteen or so devices were deployed within their range, which was Eastern Europe, destroying much of the region’s major cities. And finally, on 17 February 1978, the last bomb, under Moscow, was detonated, killing five million along with the occupying army. As many as seventeen million had died during this war; shocked, the Grand Alliance placed a ban on nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, the CAN following closely.

After this harrowing conflict, what was left of Eastern Europe was confederated into the Eastern European Union in 1980. As for Russia, at least its economy, military, government, and infrastructure, it had simply ceased to exist. Democracy building commenced, but socialists and centralists each try to gain the upper hand in the ruins of their nation, which had been restructured into a Confederation of its regions. In 1986, the Centralist and Socialists had finally been eradicated, and the Russian Confederation took its first cautious steps toward reconciliation.

With this conflict aside, and relief now pouring into Russia, the world is again entering an era of prosperity. Even Britain has begun to prosper once again. Britain took its first steps toward recovery, when, on 12 March 1992, reorganized its entire government into a Federation of England, Scotland, and Wales, the British Federation, and reestablished diplomatic relations with the mainland, the first time since its defeat in 1924.

As the new millennium dawned, however, things looked grim as relations between the Grand Alliance and the CAN sour. The world holds its breath, and hopes the new millennium will be better than the last. But, things don’t seem so bright. After all, a military alliance is still active after one hundred and fifty years.

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