The Great War: Difference between revisions

| place = Europe, Atlantic ocean, Indian ocean, Pacific ocean, Asia, Africa, Oceania

| result = Cordial League victory, and the subsequent Congress of Amsterdam (1939)

| territory = • Formation of new nations in Central Europe and the Near East<br/>• Dissolution of the Austrian Empire<br/>• Occupation of France<br/>• Independence of several French protectorates and colonies<br/>• Territorial changes in [[China]] and [[Corea]]<br/>• The subsequent Indian Revolution<br/>

The '''Great War''' (French: ''La Grande Guerre''; Dutch: ''de Groote Oorlog''; Russian: ''Европейское кровопролитие''; [[Corean]]: 대거세함낙; German: ''Der Kontinentalkrieg''; Ottoman Turkish: بزرگ روسیه چنگ, ''Bozorg Rosja Tšeng''; Arabic: الحرب الأوروبية الكبرى; Portuguese: ''O Grande Choque Europeu''), also known as the '''Great European War''' and often abbreviated as '''GW,''' was a global war originating in Europe that started in 1935. It was fought between the [[The Great War#Tripartite Coalition|Tripartite Coalition]] - led by [[France]], the [[Ottoman Empire]], and the [[Austria|Austrian Empire]] - and the [[The Great War#Cordial League|Cordial League]], led by the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Russia]]. Consequential atrocities and humanitarian crises of this war caused an estimated 100 million deaths worldwide.

==== Faramundism in Austria and the German realm ====

[[File:Emmerich Stefanov.jpg|thumb|200x200px|Emmerich Stefanov, Austrian Chancellor]]

[[File:RTLCamille Laframboise.jpg|left|thumb|198x198px|French Grand Marshal Camille Laframboise]]

In Austria, the authoritarian conservative Neostabilist faction rose as the dominant political force in Austria, after its leader, Emmerich Stefanov, became Austrian chancellor in 1914. At the threat of being diplomatic pariahs, Stefanov rekindled Austria's diplomatic relationship with the Ottoman Emprire. In the Ottoman Empire, the rule of the Orkhonists meant a heavy hand on political and diplomatic policies.

Later combined with the socio-economic pressures of the [[European Economic Crisis]] in 1922-1928, the three nations eventually signed the Treaty of Agreement in 1929 in Vienna, Austria, forming a military and economic alliance. This alliance would be known as the Tripartite Coalition.

The Tripartite pact was composed of polities of widely different political orientations. France was a Communard Republic, Austria was a neo-autocratic multi-national empire, and the Ottoman state was an empire led by a military government promoting Orkhonism (or Pan-Turkism), with a sultan who served as a figurehead. What allowed these nations to exist harmoniously as allies was the threat of Anglo-Russian domination of Europe and these nations' rejection of the growing economic world order based upon liberal-democratic capitalism in the west. Additionally, the ideology of National-republicanism championed by Russia posed an extensional threat to the Austrian & Ottoman empires.

== The War ==

=== Early War ===

==== French Communard intervention and invasion of Savoy-Piedmont (July-August 1935) ====

==== The War in 1935 ====

=== The War in Asia ===

In Asia, the Russo-Corean War melded itself into the larger Great War. The war initially started as a localized conflict between Corea and Russia, contesting over Corea's control over the provinces of Chihlih and Shantung, originally part of the Qing state. Shortly after the Corean Empire's traditional ally, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, backed out of the Russo-Corean war in September 1935, a memorandum of understanding was signed by Corean Minister of Foreign Affairs Ri Mjang and French diplomat Jacques-Yves Lavigne, recognizing both nations' shared interest and goals in terms of security in Asia. This led to Corea's decision to join the war in October 1935, after Lavigne promised that the French would aid them against Russia, Japan, and the Wahhah Republic (China).

However, no aid from the French came, and Russian and Chinese forces continued to march in [[Poeja]] (a puppet kingdom in Corean Manchuria). In November 1935, Russia and China forces captured the Poejan capital of Kirim and continued to march south towards peninsular Corea, but was stalled by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changbai_Mountains Tsjangbek Mountains], well defended by the Coreans.

In December 1935, Russian forces were able to land in the formerly Dutch-controlled port of Poesjan located in the south of Corea. During this time, reports of defection within the Corean army was rampant, and morale was low. As Russian and Chinese troops continue to march within Corea, Corean strategy shifted from active fighting to stalling their enemies and hoping that their alliance with France and the rest of the Tripartite Coalition would pay off. Corea had hoped of French reinforcements, but was very unlikely due to the blockade of the Corean Sea by joint Sino-Japanese ships. By the summer of 1936, with morale & supplies running low, the Corean royal family fled the country in the dead of night during a storm (in a hope to run the blockade). They are successful and eventually end up in Viet-Nam using their connections to the Nguyen dynasty to seek refuge. The Corean royal family was smuggled out of Corea by a group of Viet-Namese sympathizers which posed as a humanitarian organization providing relief and aid.

==== The Treaty of Hansjang ====

[[File:Aftermath of the russo corean war innismaps.jpg|thumb|316x316px|Aftermath of the Russo-Corean War (1936)]]The Coreans finally surrendered on April 1936 with the publication of the Treaty of Hansjang. Under the treaty, Corea ceded [[Poeja]] to Russia and Haboek to China. Corea was reduced to its core territories, and a nominally independent National Republican government was established. The monarchy of Corea was abolished and its royal family expelled. Poeja was integrated into Russia as an Autonomous National Republic.

=== Tripartite Coalition Gains (1936-1937) ===

Despite the Coreans out of the war, the Tripartite Coalition was steadily making gains throughout late 1936 to early 1937.

==== 1936 Great War Timeline ====

==== Map of July 1937 ====

[[File:Tripartite Gains 1937.jpg|center|thumb|1132x1132px|The Peak of the Tripartite Coalition's territorial gains in July 1937. Art by u/JVFreitas. Full resolution on [https://www.reddit.com/r/RosesTulipsAndLiberty/comments/tz9lzr/the_great_war_conflict_by_the_end_of_july_1937/ Reddit].]]

=== Fall of the Tripartite Coalition (late 1937-1938) ===

==== French delegation to New Netherland & Mexico ====

==== Further Tripartite Coalition Losses ====

===== Liberation in Arabia =====

===== Ottoman Defeat =====

By December 1937, Britain regained control of the Suez Canal with the help of the Rashids and forces from British India, Although successful, the offensives in the Ottomans had an adverse effect in the predominantly Muslim parts of British India, who were sympathetic to the Ottoman Empire. Muslim Indian nationalists allied with Hindu nationalists and started plotting for their independence, which was at first downplayed by Britain. Nationalism in India soon swelled by mid-1938, with Balochis starting their own independence movement, and with the Hindu and Muslim Indian nationalists meeting in Delhi and formed a single front. This caused Britain to withdraw some of their forces from the Ottoman front to quell the situation in India.

At the same time, the Russians also launched a grand offensive towards Constantinople, known as Operation Big Bear (''Operacii Bolʹšaja Medvedica'') in January 1938. The operation was a huge success for the Russian military. By April 1938, they captured the city of Constantinople. These string of defeats forced the Ottoman Sultan and Grand Vizier to immediately surrender to the Cordial League, in exchange for lighter terms in the peace treaty.

===== Austrian Defeat =====

[[File:RTL Claudia Maddalena.png|thumb|217x217px|Claudia Magdalena, last monarch of Austria]]

===== French Defeat =====

[[File:Typical French soldier 1935.jpg|thumb|Model of a French soldier during the Great war. The French army was one of the best-trained in Europe at the time |281x281px]]

*Republic of Kirignaga-Loloue (formerly the French colony of Kirignaga and Loloue, French East Africa)

=== Political ===

=== Technological ===