on july 4th 1945 the war was lost in an instant a flash of light over hawaii destroyed pearl harbor the very next day the president announced that the united states would be seeking a conditional surrender with japan and germany ending the second world war what would happen if the axis won world war ii said scenario has been explored in shows books first person shooters etc so let's talk about an incredibly niche mod for the strategy game hearts of iron 4 that does this the new order the last days of europe makes two main points of divergence from our timeline first herbert hoover gets a second term in office allowing him to keep doing absolutely nothing about the great depression and joseph p kennedy senior who succeeds him in 1936 while wanting to begin an economic stimulus gets stonewalled by both congress and the supreme court so he can't do much about it really so when the war started america didn't have near the caliber production ability that it had in our timeline to match the japanese secondly in europe bukharin not stalin had succeeded london but bukharan differs greatly from stalin as that he continues with lenin's new economic plan or neb which is basically a system of more or less state capitalism this failed spectacularly ending in famine and widespread revolts the soviet union is only really able to start industrializing in the late 1930s which was too little too late when germany invaded in 1941 the war only took six months before the soviets collapsed the italians are also magically competent in this timeline and are able to blitz to the suez canal and with help from german falsehooders take gibraltar trapping the british navy in the mediterranean because german technology is apparently the best in the world germany also gains air superiority in britain allowing for a successful operation sea lion which eventually sees the capitulation of the british and the end of the war in europe there still was hope in the pacific as by 1945 america was finally beginning to gain the upper hand on the japanese but a german plane taking off from a japanese carrier drops a nuclear warhead right over pearl harbor dashing any of america's remaining willpower to continue the war so now the war is over and hitler high on victory and meth is free to set off on all his ambitious projects germany rebuilds berlin as germania and starts an endless carpet bombing campaign in both africa and russia but their biggest goal is to down the mediterranean to create a new landmass called atlantropa after the gibraltar dam is built and a good portion of the mediterranean has dried up it is revealed that seabed is in fact not fertile farmland suited for aryan settlers and instead it just creates inhospitable salted desert oops not like scientists could have predicted that one sure this current economic boom needed to sustain these projects has been fueled by the ever-growing expansion of the war industry and looting of conquered territory but it's not like that's gonna end right well in 1950 things come crashing down when the german economy finally collapses under its own weight beginning a decade of chaos which led to separate camps on the right forming on the lines of how to solve the crisis albert spear and his reformists want to reform the reich and liberalize himmler and the ss believe the opposite in that national socialism has not gone far enough goring and his militants recognized the root cause was that the economy was just fueled by conquest and that the reich just needed to start conquering again to fix the economy because that is a great long-term solution foreman's conservatives just stated that some minimal reforms were needed meanwhile in russia several of the most powerful warlord states seeing the poor state germany was in decided to join together and form the west russian revolutionary front and attack the germans along the archangel astrakhan line now with germania and chaos seeing this as his chance heinrich himmler begins to master ss for a coup only for han spidel to get wind of this and disperse the ss in germania still though while hitler would like to have started a purge that would have made the knight of long knives look soft the hare was busy in russia and hitler could not risk starting a civil war so he offers them a deal himmler can have belgium and northern france as his own little personal fiefdom as long as he promises not to interfere again with the reich spidel after this was able to rally the warmock and eventually defeat the russians after the war which would be known as the west russian war the economy stabilized somewhat fueled by massive amounts of slavery which is very sustainable and will never lead to any future slave revolts but hey at least in 1962 germany lands a guy on the moon which is good for them i guess so yeah the giant dam that germany built turned out to be a terrible idea with port facilities cut off from the sea and needing to be relocated to the new coastline the economies of the mediterranean took massive blows there's also the problem of now exposed seabed being non-arable and basically creating a giant desert whatever goodwill was left between germany and italy evaporated just like the mediterranean with italy creating the triumvirate with the newly formed iberian union and turkey as a way of surviving the fallout as the final middle finger to germany mussolini even repealed the 1938 racial laws and even went as far as to welcome tens of thousands of jewish refugees into the newly established governortaro del levante supporting a policy of zionism there [Music] the kingdom of england is something of a black sheep among the countries of the german unity pact due to its status as a former world power the kingdom did not become a fully integrated rights commission instead it maintained a democratically elected government based on the pre-war system with the only substantial difference in the fact that the government was completely chosen by king edward who pinky sweared to the germans to not oppose them in any way though the reich does directly control the cornwall region where a large garrison is placed just in case the brits get any ideas though cracks are beginning to form in that structure with the populace realizing the decrepit state of the reich resistance activities have intensified not to mention non-collaborationists have even begun to make their way into the government there's also the matter of scotland and wales who were able to seize their independence after the war though for now they try to stay neutral and in ireland well come on it's ireland so terrorism happens of course so you thought regular nazism is bad well now we have an entire nation run by the ss who thought hitler was soft life in burgundy is basically pure hell think orals 1984 blended with esoteric nazism yet also contradicted in its quest for racial purity as the regime must lean on volunteer belgian and french ss regiments to prop it up one of hitler's motives for giving him more burgundy was so he would have all his resources tied down subduing the territory so he would not be a threat well that doesn't totally work and hiller pursues his global plans which are basically covert operation designed to bring about global instability with the end goal of causing a nuclear war where everyone but pure aryans would be wiped out russia's speed round so as we know western russia is annexed by the reich and is split into several right commissions but what about the rest well after the collapse of the soviet union everything the germans did not annex fell into a bunch of warlord states there are some really wacky ones like the aryan brotherhood who think slavs can become aryans or then they're the siberian black league who basically want holocaust 2 electric boogaloo just where instead it's them killing the germans or cheetah who literally kidnap a guy and make him their emperor [Music] the war bequeathed japan a massive colonial empire stretching from china to indonesia now a world superpower japan is finding itself at odds with the united states and germany but the cracks are beginning to show the government is increasingly divided between various factions and corruption has run rampant not to mention in the colonies independence movements have begun to take root the economy is in an equally precarious situation with japan extremely reliant on cheap material imports from their colonies basically at the start of the game japan is a ticking economic time bomb after being forced to see hawaii and the ports of la and san francisco to the japanese post-war politics were a mess the 1948 presidential elections saw five different candidates carrying states and no single candidate won an outright majority when the vote went to the house thomas dewey defeated president harry truman becoming the 34th president of the united states following the 1948 elections support for the democratic party plummeted seen as a loser to the second world war their candidates were shunned at the polls facing increasing irrelevance and the real possibility of disillusion in 1951 the democrats approached the republicans with an offer merged the two parties together they could form a coalition and bring much needed stability to the nation after a nationwide vote the republicans agreed by the narrowest of margins and then the republican democratic party or the rd's was formed of course this was not the only new party in post-war america henry a wallace and glenn taylor had formed the national progressive front in 1947 and george s patton formed the patriotic party in 1951 both managed to carry states in 1952 but the clear victory of the election was former general dwight d eisenhower eisenhower managed to increase his majority in 1956 much to the target of the patriotic party in the national progressive front as such they decided on a merge in 1957 the national progressive party formed vote npp for segregation forever and overthrowing the bourgeoisie we're also going to [ __ ] glass tokyo in the 1960 elections fielded strom thurmond and claude pepper against the republican democrats however the artie's had an ace up their sleeve president eisenhower torbs akagi accords symbolically overseeing hawaii's entry into the union president richard nixon and vice president john f kennedy yes you heard that right were sworn in in 1961 following the most one-sided vote in american history it was clear that if the npp wanted to become an equal to the rds something major would need to happen to complicate things in january 1962 the hawaiian missile crisis is in full swing japanese missiles have been placed on hawaii threatening the west coast of the us however after tense negotiations between vice president kennedy and japanese prime minister ino the conflict has defused so what happens next well the game starts in 1962. go download it on the steam workshop to find out thanks for patrons andy luke emerson saw mario 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