so I went bit over board with the History here. But oh well. Nothing in full detail but context and then some. REMEMBER DO NOT! flame me for what I put. The bottom line is History is different where ever you live. Canada you would here more about the battles and heroics the Canadians did in WW2. Britain you'd get more history about what they did then others. I have done my best with trying to keep this simple and fair for everyone. but remember don't flame or anything automatically, History may be general but its always different depending where you live.
And for the sake of getting this out of the way. No battle scenes yet. Truth be told I'm not good with them, BUT I WILL HAVE THEM! I WILL NOT COWER FROM IT! hold out just a little longer My wonder readers. PLEASE!
Enjoy
Bold letters represent History and stuff
While light letters represent the here and now if the story.
History talk
Normal talk
Sidi Bu Zid had fallen to the combined forces of the allied armies. With casualties low for a change, Though the Americans and Canadians lost personal in the fight as well. But thanks to American and Canadian Tech lives were saved thanks to the knowledge and Witches helped play a large part in the offensive. Though a new tactic was found that day. Modern day firearms were were almost as ineffective as TEMP Firearms. ALMOST. Thanks to under barrel attachments GL's did a good work at hurting them. What's important about this is that one group of Canadians and Americans were pinned down with a few wounded. Two witches came to the aid, and when one of the Witches was forced to use an America SCAR it seemed like the power of the witches which already augments the firepower of what ever weapon they use seems to make the SCAR'S power triple. This was reported to American and Canadian command and more experiments and study would be required. But Modern Armor and Air craft did the most damage.
With Sidi Bu zid secure Tripoli was all that remind of the Neuroi west of the Nile. Allied forces are already staging an attack force to push east of the Nile and into the Middle East. It was decided that a Total Witch offensive would be used to take Tripoli.
News about the future Queen of the U.K. and Canada's decision to recognize her as the *Ruling Monarch* Elizabeth was running rampant in the areas of the Britannian Empire was running rampant. King George was proud of his daughter but he worried that what this could do to the line of succession, However knowing his brother and Heir apparent would abdicate the Thrown and Elizabeth would rule. The whole Knowing the future really brought a huge headache to the king, All he really worried about right know was what would happen to her in the here and now. And the potential danger this may bring.
Speaking of the *Now*/Future Queen she was back with her Unit though temporally, the 511Th JFW the Titan Witches. (You all had have seen this coming yes?) which comprised of seven Witches.
"I Still can't believe it, I'm talking to the "Queen of the Brittanian Empire." The leader of the Titan Witches said. to the Further Queen. While her other friends just looked at her in awe. Sure they kew she was the daughter of the king but they didn't think she would become the queen.
"Well it's complicated, From what iv'e been told. Canada and others are part of whats known as the Commonwealth realm which still do recognize the authority of the Crown. While they are no doubt independent and Sovereign Nations they still recognize the monarchy as the head of state. Though they recognize the Crown the PM of Canada has said they will view me as the ruling Monarch as they have since the 1950's which is still ten years away." Elizabeth said to her friends in a bit of a confused tone.
America and Canada with the relented agreement of the World leaders agreed to hold off all military actions sans Orussia. (American and Canadian forces would fill that gap) until they saw what America and Canada wanted to show.
Underwood along with Collins agreed that now was the best time to get this thing over with. They just hoped that this would not cause to much problems in the long run. Though America had finally made contact with the Orussian Empire five days ago they would hold off a few weeks, since Prussia was facing Neuroi worst right now.
The allied forces and witches where all put in separate areas and groups. (Allies and Axis groups) even the world leaders including the tsar where placed away from each other. Of course part of the agreement was there would be a large amount of American and Canadian MP's stationed around the areas where the History lesson would take place.
Around the world witches and TEMP forces waited, And they each we're given Papers with Information. Mainly just the names of their Country counterparts.
Shirley couldn't help but ask Perrine, Lynnette, and Sanya what was going on. MP's had to escort Ellia away from Sanya and to the rest of the 501st.
Evan the 510th were pretty much confined to quarters on the Ford (Which was still in the Mediterranean) with several MP's outside.
Since this was Hitlers daughter and since two of the Axis later allied leader(s) were in there, the MP's where put on extra alert
Then the dark history began. The North American Sisters hoping this would not completely strain Allied Relations.
"One must regard these 30 years of strife,
Turmoil and suffering in Europe as part of one story...
One story of a 30 Years war"
Winston Churchill.
'Yeah.' Churchill thought, but how wrong he would want to be with agreeing.
Next the TEMP'S see a scene of what appears to be Britannian Soldiers in column shooting rifles and getting killed.
They next see German Soldiers firing in the trench when they hear one shout Gas
As they watched them put on Gas Masks and some failing to in time, the Camera focus's on one German in particular. He was having trouble getting his mask on because of his mustache. So he holds his breath until the gas clears.
The scene then skips to that Solider as they watch him began to cut his mustache off a bit as he waters it down Adolphine finally recognizes that person as she wonders why are they making it seems so ominous.
'Dad?'
'Hitler?' Karlslanders thought as they saw their most famous painter.
"In the next 30 years over 60 Million people will die, in the two bloodiest wars History has ever seen."
A shared look of mute horror was evident in all who were watching. Some of them Churchill Especially remembered the first Neuroi war. And they in their unkowleged wisdom wonders if it would be bloody with the Neuroi.
"But it all began in Sarajevo."
"Ujedinjenje ili smrt.
Unification or Death"
" I (...), by entering into the society, do hereby swear by the Sun which shineth upon me, by the Earth which feedeth me, by God, by the blood of my forefathers, by my honour and by my life, that from this moment onward and until my death, I shall faithfully serve the task of this organization and that I shall at all times be prepared to bear for it any sacrifice. I further swear by God, by my honour and by my life, that I shall unconditionally carry into effect all its orders and commands. I further swear by my God, by my honour and by my life, that I shall keep within myself all the secrets of this organisation and carry them with me into my grave. May God and my brothers in this organisation be my judges if at any time I should wittingly fail or break this oath."
Oath to the Black Hand.
(AN: They NEVER get as much mention as they should.!)
"Heck of an oath." Shirley said to her two squad mates.
The Black Hand was a secret military society formed on May 9th 1911 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia, originating in the conspiracy group that assassinated the Serbian royal couple (1903), led by captain Dragutin Dimitrijević "Apis".
"I remember my dad saying something about that." Greta M gollob said, being from Ostmark and the CO for the 505TH JFW "Mirage Witches"
It was formed with the aim of uniting all of the territories with a South Slavic majority not ruled by either Serbia or Montenegro. Its inspiration was primarily the unification of Italy in 1859–70, but also that of Germany in 1871.
June 28 1914
Archduke Of Austria, Franz Ferdinand and the apparent heir to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire is assassinated. With the Black Hand having played a key role.
"Isn't His son the current ruler of Ostmark?" A Liberion Temp asked an Ostmark Soldier.
"Yeah, we're not even five minutes in and this is already messed up. How do we even know if what they are shou g us summits true?!" The Ostmarkian yelled, only to get shush sounds from others.
Austria-Hungary authorized military mobilization and declared war against Serbia on the 28 of July 1914. The Secret Treaty of 1892 required both Russia and France to mobilize immediately against Austria-Hungary followed by a commencement of action against the Triple Alliance, soon all the Great Powers of Europe were at war except Italy. Italy cited a clause in the Triple Alliance treaty which only bound it to enter in case of aggression against one of the treaty members, and so remained neutral for the time being. Although the Russian Empire mobilized its army, Tsar Nicholas the II also saw it along the lines as an obligation to the Slavs in Serbia and the surrounding areas.
With the Austrian-Hungarian declaration of war on Serbia, the chain reaction of established alliances plunges the world into war, the First World War.
"Mein Gott!" Was all Galland could say
Two alliances are formed.
Great Britain
The French Republic
the Russian Empire
Japan
Italy
the United States
(And others)
Form the Allies
While the
German Empire
Austria-Hungary
And the Ottoman Empire
Form the Central Powers.
Born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. Hitler was of Austrian origin.
He was an Austrian citizen until the 7th of April 1925 then became a German citizen after February 25 1932.
At age Twenty Five Adolf Hitler is a poor Loner. He was an aspiring artist Struggling to survive. Both his Parents were dead.
He was a lost soul, he wanted to become an artist but he couldn't get into the art school; The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna rejected him in 1907 and again in 1908, citing "unfitness for painting". The director recommended that Hitler study architecture, which was also an interest to Hitler but he lacked academic credentials as he had not finished secondary school. He ended up living in a flop house and Men's Hostels. He was forced to sell his paintings for next to nothing just to survive. (Ironically he also lived off the help of Jewish charities)
Karlslanders and Adolphine were extremely shocked by this. Here's this "History" of America and Canada and they say Karlsland's greatest Painter and most famous person (Sans the Kaiser) never even got into the art school he went to.
Adolphine was just as shocked. Hearing that her Father never got into the place and doing the thing he loved was heart breaking. Not only that, but her Father met her Mother there. Hitler Never got into the school then that ment she was never born.
it was already stressful just by that alone. She was happy that her friends were there for her, though she wonders why her best friend Stalin was in the other room.
Hitler didn't have any other plan, when he was rejected by the art school he didn't know what to do so he became a lost drifting soul.
Hitler at first managed to avoid getting Drafted into the Austrian army, holding antisemitic views in which he had no desire to fight for the multicultural Austria.
He was a passionate German Patriot even though he was Austrian, and as an Austrian he's considers as a pan-German.
The Austrian Army eventually forces Hitler into conscription but he was rejected.
He tried out for the Austrian Army but he fails the physical, he's not seen as being strong enough to carry a rifle. So Hitler turns to the German Army who accepts almost any one.
Being part of the German Army was something Hitler deeply Loved during his time in the German Army. There was a flood of Patriotism and Hitler was swept away by it.
(Insert Churchill's Shame at Gallipoli)
Italy who sided with the Allies was given the offer to switch sides by Germany and join the Central powers, of which Italy refused. Italy sent over ten thousand men to fortify the border on it's eastern border Of theAlps In case of an attack.
One of these Soldiers is a sharpshooter named
Benito Mussolini.
Now this got the 510TH's attention.
"Girls, i-is it just me or does that seem creepy?" Benita asked her friends.
"Extreamly creepy." One of the Princesses said.
Before WW1 Mussolini was an anti war activist and a journalist, he's pretty much a pacifist. But two years on the front has turned the one time Socialist into a radical Nationalist. The time on the Italian front has turned Mussolini into a man who will do anything to see Italy return to greatness; and it is that kind of belief that he will take back to Rome and eventually use to take control over all of Italy.
"I...It CANT BE?" Benita now said in extreme shock.
"Just breath Benita." Adolphine said trying to calm her friend down.
"Isn't that the person in the 510TH?" Nikka asked her friends.
"I- I guess." Was the dump struck shock she got from her wing mates.
Desperate to gain ground and with minimal loss
Germany in secret created a huge stockpile of lethal Gases, Chemical warfare was now industrialized for the first time in history.
Germany quickly uses these gases on the Canadians and the rest of the Allies, gases like Chlorine and Fostgine tens of thousands of Allied soldiers suffocate in the trenches by the gases
Not only was it a horrible and in later cases with later gases, an extremely painful way to die, even though it was a largely mixed success weapon it was still an effective terror weapon. The first WMD in modern warfare and modern history.
By 1916 the death toll was catastrophic for both sides. But it was clear that the Allies where the ones who were suffering the worst.
The Allies, in desperate need for more man power begin looking to a country that could give them a hope to change the course of the war in the allies favor. They look to the United States and soon they would get the chance they needed.
America didn't care about the war in Europe. American President Woodrow Wilson won re-election with the moniker "He kept us out of the war"
Wilson saw that the American people did not want to be involved in a war that was far away in which there were people and causes that the American people had nothing to do with. And frankly the American people did not see anything about the war that could put them at immediate risk.
However that would began to change. Germany authorized unrestricted torpedo strikes on ships, to Deny supplies to the Allies, but in a couple of cases Americans were killed in those strikes. Now at first America demanded Germany halt the Unrestricted Strikes to which Germany agreed to. But later on in the war they backed out of that agreement and then that's where the lusitania comes. In the spring of 1915 the British liner the Lusitania is sunk, and over one hundred Americans were lost. This outraged the American people. Here's a war far away in which Americans had nothing to do with but now Americans are dying in this war. And American resentment grows against Germany.
And on February 16 1917 the Zimmerman Telegram is revealed.
The Zimmerman telegram was one of the stupidest things the German Government ever did. The Zimmerman telegram states that the German Government is offering to fund a Mexican Invasion of the United States that would allow Mexico to reclaim the border states of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.
This came as a shock for Liberion and Karlsland.
Germany's bid for this was they knew France and Brittan were going to need American forces to replenish their decimated army's so they hoped that if they could start a war between Mexico and America America would be too occupied with their war and it would give the Central Powers the time they needed to finish off the allies and win the war.
No surprise that this infuriated a lot of Americans, even the German Kaiser confessed to the plot. In April 1917 President Wilson signs the Declaration of war against Germany and the Central Powers.
With America now in the war the Central Powers were now in a desperate race against time to try and win the war. America may have entered the war, but it's not ready to fight the war. However the European Allies are desperate for the fresh numbers of Soldiers to fill in the lines. And Germany still has over a million troops on the eastern front.
So they decided to try a gambol even more daring then the Zimmerman telegram. They send Vladimir Lenin back to Russia to take them out of the fight.
This Got Sanya, Alexsandra and Stalin, to gasp in pure horror. They remember him form some History books, He failed to gain any power due to a lack of momentum during the First Neuroi war which Tsar Nicholas backed out of due to the demands of the Orussian people.
Lenin was In exile in Switzerland, leader of the Communist revolution he's put on a train and given over Ten million dolors to remove the provisional Government who had already ousted the Tsar and dissolved the Russian Empire in the February revolution.
(Insert extreme shock for Oruusian Witches and Other people)
Linin is met by one of his closest supports and and eventually his successor. Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; but the world will soon know him as Stalin.
(Pure dead horror silence for the 510TH)
(Insert the rest of all that mess Including the UNFAIR treaty imposed on Germany.)
Everyone was shocked. And that's a understatement. Oh sure there was unbelief and not believing that this was the history of America and Canada. All WW1 did for the world was modernize warfare, See the removal of the Three major European Empires and so forth.
(Insert Hitlers rise to power)
With the knowledge of how Hitler became the leader of Germany it's an understatement to say that everyone was shocked yet again. None more so then the Karlslanders. And his daughter. She couldn't believe it, she stopped listening half way about her Father's rise. she broke down crying about the Nazi policy that her alternate father signed and made. she nearly suffered a nervous brake down nut she told her self she had to endure.
Now just some extreme lazy context on the war because i'd never be able to post this. you know how History goes.
(Fall of France.)
(Battle of Britain)
After the battle of Britain hitler is forced to cease all attempts at an invasion of the British Isle and begin to amass his forces to invade the Soviet Union.
(Stalin and his policy's and purges go here, along with horror at what the few Orussians see what their country has become.)
The Soviet Union was probably on equal par with the Jews on hate. Hitler saw it as the nexus of Communism which he absolutely despised and and Judaism and if it were not destroyed ultimately the Soviet Union would destroy Germany and the idea of a pure and perfect Aryan race.
BUT you have to realize that there was just sheer pragmatism in play with the Soviet Union and Germany. The Soviet Union was the Grossraumvirtscahft (might have spelled that wrong.) the great economic space and it was also going to be the place for Lebensraum.
"Without consideration of traditions and prejudices, Germany must find the courage to gather our people, and their strength, for an advance along the road that will lead this people from its present, restricted living-space to new land and soil; and hence also free it from the danger of vanishing from the earth or of serving others as a slave nation. The National Socialist Movement must strive to eliminate the disproportion between our population and our area — viewing this latter as a source of food as well as a basis for power politics — between our historical past and the hopelessness of our present impotence"
excerpt from Mein Kompf towards Labensraum.
The Soviet Union would be the bread basket and new livening spaces for "Pure Germans" once the Nazi's were successful in creating the thousand year Riech. Obviously it fails.
But theMore pressing reason for the Invasion was they needed Russia's natural resources such as the coal and food but most importantly the Oil. If they could annex the Soviet Union they would be self sufficient in Oil and fend off the British and American attacks and force a trues with the Allies. It was extremely important for Germany to get Oil which they had no means of acquiring, which is why they used a lot of synthetic fuels.
June 22 1941 Germany and its allies launch Operation Barbarossa; the invasion of Russia. Across an eighteen hundred mile long front Germany and her Allies total over four million solider. This is the largest invasion force in the history of the world, and for a while their the German's showed superior tactics and operational Mastery that the Soviets could not match.
(Brest Fortress)
(Operation Typhoon)
Stalingrade was an important city for Hitler, he knew that it was named after Stalin himself, so if he could take the city he would force Stalin to try and take it back and he could wear down the Red Army, but it was more important because that was where they could move south into the caucasus oil fields. (Side note, They did make it. But Hitler ever the "Wise and masterful strategist he was" ordered the forces their to head back to Stalingrad, then he ordered the BACK to the Oil fields then BACk again.) Stalingrad was without a doubt one of the fiercest if not the most fiercest battle in the History of war. (Kursk was the largest Tank battle in History but it was extremely brutal as well.) Over two and a half Million troops clash.
The Eastern front is vital to the Western allies because it absorbs the bulk of Germany's fighting power, to put it bluntly the Soviets do most of the fight and most of the dying on land.
(Kursk)
Russia manages to hold off Nazi invasion and can now begin a counter offensive after Kursk, but at a cost of over nine million casualties both soldiers and Civilians. In contrast to this the Western Allies have not stepped foot on europe since Dunkirk and America has not put one Solider onto the European mainland.
Stalin was deeply frustrated with the western Allies. He assumed that it was a conspiracy, that Churchill and Roosevelt were going to fight to the last Russian, then the British and Americans would cross the channel and take all the spoils of war when the Russians had fought for it with their own blood and treasure.
December 7th 1941 World war two is in its twenty seventh month, Japanese forces storm Shanghai, German forces are closing in near Moscow and Nazi Germany has almost all of continental Europe under its control. Britain remains one of the last free countries from Germany. Across the Atlantic the United States remains neutral. But at 7:55 AM Japanese forces launch a surprise attack on the United States bringing them in to the war.
(Insert Pearl Harbor)
"December 7th 1941 A date which will live in infamy The United States was deliberately and suddenly attacked by forces of the Empire of Japan." It's important to know that Japan had no choice but to attack the United States and thus involve America in the war.
Japan invaded China (Insert the horrible crimes of Nanjing AKA Nanking; to this day some Japanese "Historians say that all the mass muder and Mass rape the Japanese did to the Chinese their was all fake and staged) and began building its own empire by the late 1920' When France fell to Germany Japan annexed Indochina Modern-day Vietnam. The US imposed a Oil Embargo. Japan was totally reliant on Oil imports and they got virtually all their Oil for the united States so the US imposes in Oil embargo and sending the Japanese Economy near total collapse. So the Japanese were forced to attack in an attempt at self preservation through conquest.
Roosevelt knew the US would need to enter the war at some point. Whether the Embargo on the Japanese was deliberate to get the US into the war still remains in debate.
I'm just going to stop here. You can add your own stuff while you read this. Hope you enjoyed it none the less. I'll continue it next chapter but I'm taking a break form this to work on my RWBY stories.