Second World War

The , sometimes World War Two or World War II and occassionaly abbreviated WWII, was a that took place from 1940 to 1945. It followed the start of the Summer War, which then became part of the larger conflict.

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 Vatupaya, Riyude's main strategy for the war was to limit Ta'arohan access to the global ocean. They had successfully done so during WWI, and the resulting economic and logistical burden on Ta'aroha during that war had been a serious contributing factor to Riyude's victory. To this end, 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.

Even after the occupation of Continental Riyude by Ta'aroha in early 1941, they were able to enforce a blockade of the entire Bay of Guasu (Tupic Sea) by controlling the !GIUK gap. Combined with their occupation of Nanmaunaktuk in the !NorthernPassage, this effectively completely severed the Ta'arohan Navy's ability to exit the Guasu, except for some submarines. Throughout the length of the war, the primary objective of the Ta'arohan Navy was to break out into the !AtlanticOcean, and the primary objective of the Concert Powers was to prevent that. After a series of three serious breakout attempts that occurred from 1942-1943, the final attempt was successful when Ta'aroha managed to sink two Riyudic battleships and severely damage several more. Ta'aroha's newly achieved naval superiority allowed them to stage a land invasion of Coranelle in late 1943; however, Concert forces were able to repel the invasion after several months of fighting. Despite having achieved their primary strategic goal, the Ta'arohan naval victory came too late to change the tide of war. In mid 1944, the Concert Powers staged a series of successful naval landings on the continent, beginning the Liberation of Riyude and spelling the end of the Ta'arohan regime.

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 general in the Salian military and veteran of the First World War, swiftly took power in Salia through both electoral and other means, thanks to the rise of Sedic Ultranationalism in Salia. He claimed the island of Akerland from Gladomyr which was invaded and conquered in a shockingly brief campaign, from which they proceeded onto the Alutran mainland. Mac Sá’s philosophy of Ath-Ghlacadh (Retaking) justified Salia's ambitions, 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. The rapid advance of the Salian Empire prompted Ordrey's invocation of the Grana Accords' Mutual Defense Protocols, coordinating an alliance with its neighbors in Lathadu and Edury to defend Gladomyr.

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, formally combining the two ongoing conflicts. Ordrey saw to constructing the “Continental Wall” on the East Alutran coastline, a series of coastal fortifications extending from the mouth of the Aarnieu in Lathadu up to the Grau Valley, which largely succeeded in dissuading a naval invasion of the continent akin to what was accomplished in Akerland. This coincided with the majority of manufacturing in the country was relocated from Noters to inland zones mostly surrounding Vernon, Prenalgren and Calla. Thanks to the rapid establishment of defense infrastructure on the coasts, air warfare would become the primary feature of the conflict in East Alutra at the outset of hostilities.

Ecoraland joined the war in response to ongoing propaganda campaigns among the Tretuish populations of Ecoraland. Because of the prioritization of the coasts and favorable relations with Ecoraland, resources were not present in nearly enough numbers to completely contain Tretu and Fend nationalist militias from proclaiming the Tretuish State in 1941 and causing massive havoc in the borderlands, resulting significant damage to strategic reserves of grain and other vital foodstuffs in the Penguinnes and Aarnieu Glen country and destabilizing the position of the Concert Powers in East Alutra.

Renesia joined in 1941 after sending a telegram to Salia stating in exchange for Renesian Military support Renesia will get some of Ecoralander 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 Ecoralander support. Prince [NAME] was forced to join the Concert Powers after the loyalist 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 umbrella of states, an action that would slowly come to fruition during the interwar period. While the world war is attributed to the Vatupic summer war, the Osamian theatre had been in varying states of military conflict since the early 1930's due to the expansionist policies of the Osamian Federation towards the [!Eastern territories]. With the onset of confilct within eastern Alutra in 1940, the Osamian Federation expanded their already concurrent conflicts with a declaration of war against Salia over control of the three port cities. The initial land conflict was resolved shortly following the declaration, remaining in the hands of the Osamian Federation for the duration of the war, however the Federation navy remained in open conflict against the Salian navy over the access of the Ornyenka strait until the resolution of the war. Land based support in the war remained limited with the Osamian international intervention force being active for only two years in the Alutran theatre with a maximum participation of 2 small divisions participating. 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 federation would begin hostile advances in the final months of 1942 which strained relations between the Federation and their mutual allies in Alutra. The Second Great Southern War would begin in the winter of 1943 and extend the wartime conditions of the continent for another 2 years until the Pyrrhic victory of the Federation in 1945.

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.

Aftermath
In Vatupaya, Riyude and Ta'aroha resolved a major historical point of contention and came to an agreement to establish Tiepu as an independent state.