Second World War

The  was a that took place from 1940 to 1943. It followed the Summer War.

Background
The war was the result of widespread dissatisfaction with the Concert of Nations and its perceived heavy-handed approaches to enforcing international law and disarmament. This led to an aviation arms race. Growing opposition to colonialism and a rise of nationalism also played a role in attitudes. The actual sparking incident was Ta’aroha invading Riyude in what became known as the Summer War.

Vatupaya
The Vatupic Theater of WWII, also known as the Summer War, was a series of regional conflicts initiated primarily by Ta'aroha, which had in the interwar years transformed into a dictatorship founded on an irredentist ideology inspired by national revisionism but not necessarily copying it. They were pushed by a desire to unite all culturally "Kanasan" peoples and reestablish the borders of ancient Aunaye. By 1940, Ta'aroha had already invaded and annexed some minor powers in its vicinity, including the Teleri Republic. In the summer of 1940, Ta'aroha commenced their invasion of Riyude and the TBD!BENELUX, and occupied the entirety of continental Riyude by 1941. Coranelle (and, by extension, Gladomyr and its Alutran allies) were dragged into the war when Ta'aroha declared war on that country in response to hosting the Riyudic government-in-exile.



In the opening stages of the Summer War, Riyude invaded and occupied Nanmaunaktuk. The invasion, which was largely bloodless, was considered important to the war effort because Salia had, for several years at that point, been providing financial and material support to Ta'aroha through the !NORTHERN-PASSAGE, using Nanmaunaktuk as a waypoint. Although the invading force was not large, only consisting of a small navy task force, it was able to remain operational in the region for the entire duration of the war, even following the Fall of Riyude.

Bansemonia
In Huenarno, tensions had been rising since the end of the First World War. In response, Gillean mac an tSaoi, the last Salian governor of Huenarno, began to impose harsher punishments on dissenters, which only made matters worse. Ever since his "coronation" [will find a better name for it] in 1932, Emperor Mainri Higari had been trying to coalesce an organized resistance against the Salians. This would prove difficult, as a plethora of resistance groups emerged during this period, varying in ideological and ethnic makeups. Higari was famous for his persuasiveness, however, and slowly managed to open communications with and between different disparate factions, playing both mediator and negotiator. By 1941, he and representatives of all allied factions (such as the Jinali Freedom Party, the secretive Silver Society, and the smaller factions that would eventually coalesce into the modern Liberty Front Party) signed the Horgani Pact and officially sent their ultimatum of independence to the governor and the Salian government.

Eastern front
In Alutra, Salia’s Prime Minister Gillean mac Sá, a former general in the Salian military, swiftly took power in Salia after a nationalist campaign. He claimed the island of Akerland from Gladomyr, and invaded and conquered it. Salian forces continued into Gladomyr, and south into Ordrey as mac Sá claimed lands along the Aarnieu delta. This prompted a series of alliances, where Lathadu, Gladomyr, and Ordrey stepped up to stop Salia’s imperialistic advance.

Mac Sá’s philosophy of Ath-Ghlacadh (Retaking) justified Salia as the seat of Alutra, claiming the Sedic soul “and all land on which a Sede has e’r trodden” (“gach uile tír a gcuir Cídh riamh cosa uirthi.” Ár Neart, 1941) as belonging to Salia, attempting to convince Tretuish minorities in those countries to journey to Salia and join the war effort.

Ecoralia joined the war when Salia launched a propaganda campaign among Tretuish/Fendish/Sedes ethnic groups using a "claim your birthright to Alutra" propaganda. Salia wanted to get the Ecoralian Tretus and Ordrish Fends worked up against Ecoralia and "the treasonous Ordrons,” who had historically oppressed many Sedic minority groups in Alutra

Ordrey tried its best to maintain the international system established through the Concert of Nations and attempted to rally the remaining members to invoke the mutual defense protocols against Salian and Ta’arohan aggression towards member states. Ordrey saw to constructing the “Continental Wall” against Salia, a series of coastal fortifications which largely dissuaded a naval invasion. The majority of manufacturing in the country was relocated from Noters to inland zones mostly surrounding Vernon, Prenalgren and Calla. Air warfare over the East Alutran coast became a major factor in the war in its early phases.

Because of the prioritization of the coasts and favorable relations with Ecoralia, resources were not present in nearly enough numbers to completely contain Tretu and Fend nationalist militias from causing massive havoc in the borderlands, which caused significant damage to strategic reserves of grain and other vital foodstuffs in the Penguinnes and Aarnieu Glen country.

Renesia joined in 1941 after sending a telegram to Salia stating in exchange for Renesian Military support Renesia will get some of Ecoralian land. Although it was highly unpopular amongst the eastern side of Renesia which plunged the country into a civil war; the loyalist consisting mostly of the western side of Renesia alongside Salian naval and Ventoran expeditionary forces were defeated by the "Eastern Forces" alongside Velorenkan and Ecoralian support. The Prince was forced to join the Allies after the loyalist's defeat in 1942.

Central front
In 1940, fear of Velorenkan interference in a contested election in Esharat led to an attempted coup by the pro-Velorenkan faction. Though the coup failed, Velorenkya intervened under the pretense of enforcing the rightful results of the election. Not wishing to see Esharat brought into the Velorenkan sphere, Haksarad intervened as well. With war on its western frontier, Ventora joined Haksarad to halt the perceived Velorenkan aggression which was seen as a direct threat to Ventora as well.

Ventora also provided naval patrols and shipping escorts throughout the Abayadi Sea. This helped protect supply routes along what became known as the axis between Haksarad and Salia, the major Axis powers. While the bulk of the Ventoran armed forces were engaged in the central front, some expeditionary army forces saw combat elsewhere. A number of Ventoran air force pilots were trained in Salia and some flew missions using Salian aircraft in the eastern front before bringing their skills back to the air battles of the central front.

Southern front
Since their defeat during the Fury war in 1842-1845, Salia held control of three cities on the coast of the Ornyenka strait – Nagnenwan, Pujetthin, and Sywetatum – as stipulated in the Treaty of Ornypat. These cities remained a common point of aggression between Salia and Gemurtrak over the legitimacy of Salian sovereignty over them. Attempts at peaceful negotiations for these cities would plague the Gemurtrakian political field for it's entire pre-revolutionary period. only grew over the decades and threats of an all out war loomed following the Blood winter revolution and the foundation of the Osamian Federation. The federations attention was on the development of a Pan-Osamian nation under the Federation umbrealla of states, an action that would slowly come to fruition during the interwar period. Becoming aware of the military mobilization in eastern Alutra in 1940, The Osamian Federation declared war against Salia in an attempt to regain control of the three cities. The short campaign proved successful, the Federation maintained control of the three cities for the duration of the war, moving attention towards blockading Salia and it's allies from the Ornyenka strait, supporting the allied nations in their conflict in a limited capacity. The bulk of interest was placed into the eastern Osamian nations and the southern Tákjaana confederation who was under protection of Gladomyr and Ordrey.

The bulk of Ordrish combat at the start of the war was a naval campaign supporting Gemurtrak’s blockades, as well as a handful of land battles on Fieloani itself.