The monarchist advance south past the Don river was faced with some of the harshest resistance of the war as the Imperial forces marched south with every step being paid in blood and steel. The land-ships truly came into their own in this stage with the first and only Republican one being fielded at the battle of Kanevskaya. Though it was destroyed the Republican land-ship put up a good fight and the crew was posthumously rewarded the Star of Marx the highest medal in the Worker's Revolutionary Republic. As the men of the Russian Empire fought with bayonet point and bullets on the long march south. Baku was only one-thousand, one hundred and twenty-eight point six kilometres from the closet Imperial holding the road to Baku would be painted in blood and corpses.

As the Republicans were slowly crushed by the Imperial forces the focus of the high command shifted to Crimea. Although they had broken into the interior of the peninsula and were moving south at a quicker pace then on the mainland, it still was not fact enough for some of the more militaristic members of the Duma. Thus, the planning of Operation Armfelt began. Designed to pierce the Crimean defensive lines and initially strike at Kerch only for a second attack to be launched towards Sevastopol. The plan worked better then planned as the two newest land-ships had been secured for the assault towards Kerch.

Operation Armfelt began on the 19th of May 1922 with a barrage of epic proportions as the Imperial Russian army attacked around the town of Novohryhorivka as they pushed towards Kerch. The land-ships broke the Crimean defenders completely and the Imperial forces managed to secure the first true breakthrough on Crimea. For the first time the Crimean Campaign became a mobile war rather then a series of Urban and defensive battles and this is where the Imperial forces excelled. The entire eastern front of Crimea collapsed within a few days and Imperial forces charged towards Kerch. Then the attack towards Sevastopol began. The Crimean's were disorganized, and their morale was plummeting allowing the Russians to break through. The Crimean government ordered all of their surviving military forces to withdraw to Sevastopol the largest battle of the Crimean front had begun.

The city of Sevastopol did not truly recover from the titular battle until 1965 when St Vladimir's Cathedral was rebuilt with funds from the Russian world of Novyy Krym that is how destructive the battle was to the town. The Imperial forces managed to stop the majority of the forces holding Kerch to reach the city and would eliminate them over the next three days. When the last potential reinforcements to the last stand of Crimea were crushed the full force of the Imperial Russian Army was turned towards Sevastopol. The battle began with a joint naval and land-based bombardment which lasted for two weeks reducing the vast majority of the city to ashes and rubble. Then the infantry moved in and the slog that defined the battle of Sevastopol began the defenders had been ordered to Fight until their last dying breath and then onwards in the name of freedom and Crimea. The leadership of the Free People's State of Crimea had transitioned into a Stratocracy rule by the military and it showed in the final battle.

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The fall of Sevastopol was defined by the raising of the Russian flag atop the burnt-out ruins of the Second Malakoff Redoubt when the city fell the Russian Empire commenced the transfer of men from Crimea to the increasingly brutal War in the Peaks. Due to the brutality of the battle Michael II and Gustaf I (Mannerheim who had just been elected as King of Finland and Estonia) created a new military award specifically for the battle the Royal and Imperial Cross of the Lion and Eagle one of the most prestigious medals in Eastern Europe.

-Extract from Into the Death an IBU documentary

Following the Balkan War, the United Kingdom had annexed the region of Palestine officially to protect the religious sensitivities of the area in reality it as to show that Britain had gained from the war to the British public. Yet the religious sensitivities of the area reared its head by 1917 when a protest against increased Jewish migration by the local Arabs turned deadly after a British policeman was killed by a group of teenagers. By the end of the Johnston riots as they became known a hundred and four Arabs and three policemen had been killed alongside thirty Jews that had been in the area at the time. The riots threw the issue of Judea onto the international stage as Hussein I offered for the region to be integrated as a province of the Kingdom of the Arabs the British government refused the offer but events would soon spiral out of their hands.

The government launched a Parliamentary Inquiry into how the situation in Palestine could be resolved and it came back with five main options. The first option was to establish a Dominion in the region under the control of the United Kingdom. The second option was to grant it to the Arab Kingdom and try and secure the greatest amount of autonomy possible. The third option was to form a Jewish state in the region and transfer all power to the Jews that had moved to the region. The fourth option was to establish a Christian state in the region which would only truly appeal to Europe and the United States. The final option was to from a state with power divided three ways between a Jewish representative, an Arab/Muslim representative, and a Christian representative. The fifth option was seen as the most democratic and could possibly establish a relatively peaceful state on the region and so the British government began the preparations for the Federation of Judea on the 14th of May 1919.

The main challenge in the early establishment of the Federation of Judea was finding the representatives of each group. The Jews in the region voted reasonably closely to have an elected president as their representative and the British chose Max Nordau as the first President of Israel as the Jews chose as the name for their leaders. The Arab/Muslim population voted for King Hussein I to be the Arab representative within the federation, his first viceroy within the region was his son Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi. The Christians in the region narrowly voted for a monarch and from there voted in the House of Savoy under Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta who took on the title of Emanuele I King of Jerusalem.

The Federation was officially formed on the 10th of July 1921 when Emanuele I, Hussein I, and Max Nordau jointly lowered the Union Jack of Jerusalem and raised the Flag of the Federation of Judea. The United Kingdom would continue to operate several military base in the area and the United Kingdom would retain trade preferences from the new federation but in most other aspects the new nation was independent. The first law passed by the Israeli Government was that anyone of Jewish heritage had the right to claim Israeli citizenship and settle within the Federation of Judea a law that proved very popular to the thousands of Russian Jews that were fleeing the ruins of their nations. The Federation of Judea formed from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Palestine and the Republic of Israel had entered the world stage.

-Extract from Anne Frank's book Judea: A land of hope