Timeline 31 - North American Front of WWI By Mobiyuz Watch

23 Favourites 10 Comments 1K Views

At the time of the war's start, the term "Great War" was used to refer to the war so long as it remained confined to Europe for its first few months. After several more months had passed, though, the war spread to African colonies and the Middle East, followed by Japan's entry bringing out a front in the Pacific, and finalized by the war in North America leading to some calling it the "World War" - or more ominously by some contemporary sources, the "First World War".



In North America specifically, the lines of allegiance were simple: Freedonia was sympathetic to Germany, all others were sympathetic to the Entente. It was in 1915 when the German government appealed to Maximilian III of Mexico, himself of German blood through his Hapsburg background, suggested that he open a front in North America to distract them, as the mood was starting to trend towards supporting the Entente outright. In his eagerness to appeal to Germany, Mexico launched a surprise invasion of both California and Texas, setting off a chain of declarations of war once it was revealed Germany had been behind the appeal.



The war was brutal, to say the very least. Freedonia, built up into an "army with a country" operating off of what was loosely described as a "military-industrial complex" in a frighteningly similar vein to Prussia, launched offensives in all directions, attacking the Plains Federation, Canada, New England, New York, and especially the CSA, who they hated above all else. Their attacks were swift and brutal, occupying New York and St. Louis while pressing through Connecticut and Vermont while also going after Canada's centers of population and crossing the Ohio River to charge on Richmond. Not long after this, however, with the Entente nations finally getting things organized, the defensive stalemate came into being.



Mexico, meanwhile, was a much less concerning foe. As the Mexican armies had overextended themselves and not properly prepared in light of the Emperor's eagerness to please Germany, their lines were smashed and crumbled by 1916, with Texas and California working together to push back across the Rio Grande and occupy vast parts of Northern Mexico before the collapse of the Mexican Imperial government in 1918, although peace was not formally made until 1919 along with Freedonia.



And on that front, Freedonia had fought with the intent of a short, quick, decisive war. As it dragged out for years, however, the people grew frustrated as resources were continually fed into the war machine and shortages began to plague the home front. Frustration grew into anger. Anger turned into riots. And riots became a full-blown rebellion against the Freedonian government. It became especially apparent as the eastern states, those making up what had once been called the "Midwest", seceded into the "New American Alliance", while the eastern states had their government crumble just days after a peace was signed with the Entente.



Perhaps the greatest tragedy, however, was the outbreak of the Confederate Civil War. After years of oppression and only recent manumission, the African-Americans of the Confederate States of America had begun to use the creeds of men such as Marx, Douglass, and Lincoln to declare an open rebellion against the whites who had oppressed them for so many years and who they pledged to take up arms against. Horrors and atrocities committed by both sides became the name of the game, horrors too grisly and disturbing to name. But even after the CSA desperately pushed for and succeeded in making peace, the war would continue for months more until their success years later.



The war was fought in the name of glory and honor. All that was left were ashes.

IMAGE DETAILS Image size 316x1222px 170.07 KB Show More

Published : Aug 9, 2017