Tani Coyote
Son of Huehuecoyotl
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Europe had always been a fairly strife-ridden place after the Great War, where Germany and it's allies - Bulgaria, the Turks, Austria-Hungary and the United States - managed to take over much of the continent. As time went by, Germany solidified it's rule over it's former Allies, even using black ops to weaken them. Austria received the worst beating, having been partitioned so the northern sections joined Germany while the South became Yugoslavia. The Turks maintained a great deal of territory - having rebuilt much of their empire outside Europe - but they lagged behind Germany in sheer economic and technological prowess, not to mention military might. The Russian Civil War had resulted in the creation of the USSR, which was too weak to pose a threat.
But maintaining such a large empire of coercion would backfire on the Germans. Their established European Union - comprising all European states sans Russia - served as a means for the Germans to rule Europe by proxy through a "democratic" system. The Kaisers believed it was Germany's destiny to rule the world, having risen from a collection of small states to the supreme power of Europe. Accordingly, what states had not been directly involved in World War I peacefully fell into the Second Reich's arms.
Before the ink of the Great War's treaty had even dried, the USA and Germany plotted against eachother. They, as the pre-eminent powers, both pursued great overseas empires, checking eachother's advances. While the USA administered what it took from the British and gobbled up more of the Americas, Germany was focused on using gunboat diplomacy and the European Union to build an informal empire across several continents.
It was no surprise that World War II broke out in the 1950s, with the United States finally using allies and insurgents it had cultivated in the German sphere of influence - such as the Free Arab Republic, Spain, England, and Ireland. America's agents quickly usurped several garrisons, delivering key locations to the American forces, such as the Straits of Gibraltar(which had been under German administration since the end of World War I), the Straits of Dover, and the middle of the Mediterranean. As the Germans and Americans battled it out, Josef Stalin, not wanting to risk a new Brest-Litovsk - and wanting to see the two superpowers weaken eachother, allowing him to empower the USSR - stayed neutral in the conflict.
As Europe was engulfed in flames by a highly-mobile(rather than stationary) world war, the Soviets kept a careful eye out in Europe, planning their next move...
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Based on a general Blue Alert timeline.
Blue: USA
Dark Blue: States allied with the USA
Stripes of Blue: Occupied by the USA
Black: Germany
Gray: European Union and other German satellites
Red: The Soviet Union
