Chaos TL - a world without Genghis Khan

World 1880-1900

East Asia

1880-94: Starting in the province of Anhui, a Chinese general starts to reunite the country and defeat the Society of Brotherly Love. He contacts New Rome and Germany, hoping to find allies, and finally decides for Germany, who sends advisors to build up China's industry. For this influence, he also decides to make China a republic. Lacking a strong navy, Tungning (OTL Taiwan) stays out of his reach, however; and worse, the Russians are too strong to let him take Beijing either.

1881: Cyclone in Haiphong, Vietnam. 300,000 dead.

1883: Krakatoa explosion.

Canada takes the sultanate of Melaka, storms the fortress of Fort Knox.

1887: Huang He flood. One million (possibly more) victims.

1888: Canada makes a pact with Thailand.

1890: New Rome conquers Bengal, uniting the whole Indian subcontinent for the first time in centuries.

1892: Canada conquers Champa (OTL South Vietnam).

1899: Canada forces Khmer king to accept Canadian protectorate.

India

1882: New Romans who have taken control of Puducherry decide to break down the kid gangs. Chandramoorthy is caught too, separated from his gang members, unsure about their fate; he manages to escape from prison, but has to leave the city.

1883: Chandramoorthy who went to Golkonda (near OTL Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh) finds a job as a manservant in the house of an old Italian officer. His boss was a lover of history, philosophy (esp. that of Epicure) and arts (including erotic arts). Chandramoorthy learns Italian and later teaches himself a lot about diverse topics from the library of his boss.

1887: When his boss dies, Chandramoorthy is unemployed again. He finds another job, this time at the central library which the New Romans built meanwhile. In the next years, he'll study about all possible topics he can find.

1892: His first marriage. (Until his death, he'll marry twice again [while having a lot of extramarital affairs too], and father seven kids [not counting illegitimate ones].)

1896: Chandramoorthy decides to share his new acquired knowledge with his countrymen, becomes a teacher. Knowledge about modern science, economy, administration is "smuggled" out of the library, thanks to his extraordinary memory. As he says: "By this way, they lose nothing, but we gain a lot."

Muslim world

1881-85: Anti-Seljuk War of New Rome and Russia. Cyprus, Cilicia, Greece go to New Rome, the whole North Coast (incl. Constantinople / Czargrad) to Russia. The last Muslim power has fallen.

1890s: While the ruling classes are squabbling who's fault it was that the Christians could defeat them, among their people the wish for a Mahdi (Messiah) spreads.

1895: New Roman troops pushing south from Egypt to secure the land are unable to defeat the Muslim partisans. Sudan is declared "chaos" officially.

Russian lands

1883: Novorossiya finishes first transcontinental railroad in Eurasia.

1888: Emperor Ludovico hosts the first modern Olympic Games in Athens.

1891: Gold Rush in Lena Valley.

1896: Third modern Olympic Games in Kiev.

Europe

1882: Socialist uprisings in the industrial cities of Bohemia and Hungary, which soon spread to Vienna in Austria. Germany interferes again, makes Bohemia and Hungary full satellites.

1886/87: Third French-Roman War. Basque lands, Asturia (which become two grand duchies), Occitania (which is added to the kingdom of Catalonia) go to New Rome. French military reduced to 100,000 men standing.

1886: In the Third French-Roman War, the New Romans take France's last possessions on the Iberian peninsula, Asturia and the Basque country, with the help of the local population. Afterwards, their troops are stopped by the French machine-gunners - but since this happens along France's natural borders, the Alps and Pyrenees, this isn't fully understood by the strategists.

1887: After the Imperial Navy destroys the French ships, New Rome lands a big army in Aquitaine, which is mostly undefended, progressing rapidly.

1889/90: Socialists take power in Paris and other industrial cities of the French republic. Weak French military unable to suppress them. Germany and New Rome ally against them, invade France. Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands make a military alliance that will last even after the war. Burgundy and Wallonia become a German satellite (called Lothringen, which also joins the Mitteleuropäischer Zollverein), Brittany and Aquitaine become independent grand duchies (de facto New Roman satellites), New Rome may station troops in rest-France. Paris declared Third City of New Roman Empire.

People in Germany and New Rome now hope for peace after so many wars and uprisings in the last seventy years, and emperor Ludovico and German chancellor Hornung proclaim "everlasting peace in Europe".

1880s: Scandinavian, French and German Socialists arrive in Britain, bringing them valuable knowledge about new inventions, industrial innovations, thus rekindling the wrecked British industry.

1890: In London, the "House of Tomorrow" is founded. Essentially a technical university (although this old-fashioned term is avoided in Socialist Britain), it forms the center (in fact, the only place of importance) of British research. The Round decides that the HoT should research "how things can be done the best way", which is then to be implemented in the factories and on the acres of the country.

1892: Second modern Olympic Games in Rome.

Atlantis

1881-84: "The Northern War" ("La Gera d'Nor"): After having consolidated his rule, Lui Filip has the northern cities of Braseal attacked.

1884: Stefor (old Stafford City, OTL Recife) falls.

1885: New Rome and royal Braseal (now pronounced French: Bruh-SAY-uhl) make a contract about their common border after the end of Northern War.

1886: Earthquake in Charlesbourg (OTL Charleston).

1886-88: "The Southern War" ("La Gera d'Su"): Southern Braseal conquered by Lui Filip; the country is unified.

1894: Gold Rush in Braseal. Many people from Roman-controlled France and Iberia flee to the country. Many Germans immigrate, help create the new industry in the southern part of the country.

1897: Lui Filip of Braseal dies. Not having made a law of succession, people are disunited about who should become next monarch: His eldest child, princess Mari Isabel, or his eldest son Migel?

1897-1900: Civil War in Braseal (more often called "Slavery War"). The Southern provinces under Princess Mari Isabel, more German-influenced and industrialized, fight for an end of slavery, the northern provinces under prince Migel for keeping it. (German newspapers use to depict prince Migel as a human monster, describing him as icecold-hearted and merciless.)

1890s: New Roman linguists study the development of Braseal French (which has influences from many different languages and is very simplified - many claim that it could be called a distant variant of Occitan, Catalan, Italian or Spanish as well). The Empire uses their new insights to play out one Gaulish (the Empire proclaims that since the French are descended from the Gauls, there's no reason why they should name themselves after a German tribe) group against the other, creating many different, mutually unintelligible dialects in the place of the republic's unified French language.

Africa

1882: Germans make the Bafata kingdom (OTL W Guinea) a German protectorate. Until the end of the century, the same will happen to the other coastal West African states. The Germans introduce some new crops, fight slavery, spread christianity and start trade - industrial products for exotic goods.

1884: Gold Rush in Australia (OTL South Africa). Many Germans, Swiss and Dutch come to the country, definitely changing the ethnic makeup of the country's white population, which was until then Swedish-dominated.

1887: Atlantean Germans who conquered Guinea, proclaim the country "Liberia" (or German: Liberien), start to invite liberated slaves to go there.

1889: First successful expedition from the African west to the East coast via the Congo jungle.

1891-94: War against the Temne, who fight back aggressively.

1892-99: Germans take control of the Congo kingdoms.

1896: Gold Rush in Antipodia / Tir Tairngire (OTL Australia). The pope decides that the money donated to the church (10% of all founds, plus additional givings by the government and other sources of income) is to be used to adorn the country's churches (like the famous Golden Cathedral of New Dublin, OTL Sydney) and missionarizing in Africa, Asia and later even other parts of the world. The "time of humbleness" certainly has ended.

Germans bring the fortress of Igbira under control, with the help of some bribe-influenced treachery.

The world's situation in 1910

After the Anti-Seljuk War and the defeat and dismemberment of Socialist France in 1890, people hoped for a more peaceful time after the turbulent 19th century. However, tensions between the powers still existed, and they didn't become better:

* The Russias had never forgotten their defeat in the anti-Russian War. South Russia had become a friend and ally of New Rome, thanks to the winning personality of the great emperor Ludovico, and even Novorossiya had come closer, but OTOH, both Russias wished for revenge against the Germans and Canadians.
* New Rome wasn't very fond when Germany invaded Hungary in 1882, since it had belonged to New Rome's sphere of influence since it was liberated in the anti-Russian War.
* OTOH, the Germans had decided that they definitely got the shorter end of the stick when France was divided - the protectorate of Lothringen they won paled compared to the new kingdom of Gaul, which had rounded out the New Roman empire.
* The Germans also envied Novorossiya and New Rome for their rich conquests of North China and India respectively. Which didn't stop those two powers from becoming suspicious when the Germans claimed all of sub-Saharan Africa for themselves.
* After slavery was abolished in Braseal, the anti-slavery groups in German Atlantis and Canada criticized New Rome louder and louder for keeping slavery.
* Re-united China wasn't willing to tolerate Russian presence in Beijing and the rest of North China. And though it sounds unbelievable, the radical Catholic Nipponese even surpassed them in their hate for Russia.
* The events of Kalifornien and Alyeska.

Population statistics: North Atlantis (Canada and both Northern and Southern US) is more populated than OTL North America, for being settled earlier, as are the Russian lands, where the population is 50% higher (in Siberia even more). Sub-saharan Africa (for the new crops being introduced centuries later) and South Atlantis have a lower population, however. Everything else is similar to OTL.

Development of science: Compared to OTL, the Chaos TL is ahead especially in astronomy (they already discovered Pluto and many other celestial bodies earlier than OTL, and only the lack of a relativity theory prevents them from advancing further), electricity, communication, and codebreaking. The last world-changing invention so far was the car - with a twist: While New Rome already prefers gasoline as a fuel, the Germans prefer coal and experiment with grain alcohol, and the Russians have built cars running on electricity.

World War I

This decade was overshadowed by the first World War, which went from June 14th of 1911 to July 29th of 1916. Except for a few small nations, almost every country on Earth participated in it.

First six weeks

June 14th: Novorossiya declares war on Canada.

June 15th: First skirmishes between Russian and Canadian soldiers in the Yukon valley. In the gold mining cities of Alyeska, Russians lynch Canadians and Germans - and vice versa.

June 18th: Atlantean Germany declares war on Novorossiya, together with its satellite North California (now more often called Kalifornien); Old Germany follows suit. The two Germanies and Canada form the Bündnis (German for alliance).

June 19th: German-Canadian armies unite to attack Russians in OTL Whatcom county, Washington state. Russians start shipping troops there, hoping not to come too late. Many civilians flee via the Pacific from the Germans.

German army attacks Novorossiya in Estonia.

June 20th: South Russia declares war on Old Germany; Poland, Greater Bohemia and Hungary also mobilize troops against the Russians.

June 22th-27th: Balcan states allied to South Russia (Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Vlachia, Moldavia, Transsylvania) declare war on the Bündnis.

June 24th: Bündnis attack against Serbia throws them back behind the Danube, except for Belgrade.

June 25th: German-Polish attack starts in Galicia. They conquer the SW corner of South Russia, but then the big armies clash and freeze along the line Daugavpils-Chernovcy (Bukovina).

June 26th: One Hungarian and one German army cross the Transsylvanian border, going around the Apuseni mountains to unite. Serbia is left alone for the moment.

June 27th: First Transsylvanian city Cluj conquered by Hungarians.

June 28th: Argentinien declares war on the Russias - for the beginning, only symbolically.

June 29th: Most of Russian Cascadia in German hands, except for OTL Cape Flattery and some fortresses at the coast.

June 30th: After Canada uses some diplomacy, China declares war on Novorossiya, as does Nippon.

July 1911: Chinese uprisings against Russians in Beijing and other occupied cities start.

July 2nd: Germans defeat Russians in the battle of Kohtla-Järve, Estonia. Except for the capital Tallinn and the islands, the whole province is under German control.

July 3rd: First sea battle between Nippon and Novorossiya. Despite of severe losses, the Nipponese can open a way to Ezo (Hokkaido).

July 5th: Germans and Hungarians control the whole Mures valley in Transsylvania, approach the Carpathians, besiege Hermannstadt / Sibiu.

July 6th: After heated discussions behind the scenes, New Rome decides to declare war on the Bündnis. The two Russias and New Rome now form the Imperial Pact (the name is incorrect, since Novorossiya is still a republic, but it sticks).

Nipponese land on Ezo, manage to establish a bridgehead after hard fighting.

July 7th: German satellite Lothringen declares war on New Rome.

July 8th: Sea battle of Saaremaa. German-Scandinavian navies defeat Russian Baltic fleet, land on the Estonian islands.

July 9th-20th: German Atlantis pushes the New Romans behind the Ohio, conquer OTL south tip of Illinois.

July 10th: New Rome starts a short raid into Argentinien from Peru. Although not unsuccessful, they have to retreat after the Argentinian army is fully mobilized.

July 11th: Netherlands and Switzerland declare war on New Rome.

July 12th (Tammuz 17th 5671): Judea solidarizes with New Rome, declares war on the Bündnis.

July 14th: Braseal declares war on New Rome.

July 17th: Tallinn capitulates.

July 18th: Siam declares war on the Pact, also moved by Canada to do this step. Canada starts rising two native armies from their colonies and protectorates in SE Asia.

July 26th: Ethiopia declares war on the Bündnis.

The only states now still staying neutral are Socialist Britain, the small native state of Aymaria (south tip of Atlantis), the Muslim states (Persia, the rump Seljuk state, Hejaz, Oman, Arabia and Mahdi Sudan), the central Asian states of Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Tibet, finally Tir Tairngire and New Albion.

Relative strengths of the powers

The situation at the beginning of the war, for each continent:

North Atlantis: Novorossiya has a presence in Alyeska and OTL Cascadia, but these areas are hopelessly outnumbered even by Canada alone. Otherwise, the northern half of the continent belongs to Canada and German Atlantis, while the South is New Roman, as is the whole Caribbean.

South Atlantis: The north and the Andes are New Roman, while the rest is divided between German Argentinien and Braseal.

Europe: The center and the north are under control of Germany or its satellites, while the west and south belong to New Rome, and the east and south-east to the Russias.

Africa: The Maghreb is New Roman, the sub-saharan areas German. The Sahara desert, Mahdi Sudan and independent Ethiopia separate the powers.

Asia: The North belongs to Novorossiya, the Indian subcontinent to New Rome, the south-west to independent Muslim states (except for Judea), the east and south-east to Canada or independent Asian states which are allied with the Bündnis.

Oceania: Almost exclusively controlled by the Canadians, except for the neutral states in the south.

And in the oceans:

Atlantic: The north and the south more under control of the Bündnis, the center under control of New Rome.

Indian Ocean: The west under German, the east (incl. the Malacca Straits) under Canadian, the rest under New Roman control.

Pacific: Strong pact powers in the east and the northwest; rest mostly under comparably weak Canadian control (their forces are scattered).

North Sea: A German lake.

The Channel: Under New Roman control, although the Germans and Dutch can blockade the east.

Baltic: German-Scandinavian superiority.

Mediterranean: A New Roman lake.

Black Sea: A Russian lake.

Red Sea: Both ends controlled by New Romans.

Yellow Sea: Domain of the Chinese and Nipponese.

The fronts

After the declarations of war and the mobilizing of the armies, these fronts form:

North Atlantis:

Alyeska front (Novorossiya vs Canada)
for short time: Cascadian front (Novorossiya vs. German Atlantis)
Californian front (Kalifornien + German Atlantis vs New Rome)
Desert front (German Atlantis vs New Rome)
Missouri front (German Atlantis vs New Rome)
Ohion front (German Atlantis vs New Rome)
Appalachian front (German Atlantis vs New Rome)

South Atlantis:

Guayanan front (Braseal vs New Rome)
Amazonas front (Braseal vs New Rome)
Andes front (Argentinien vs New Rome)

Europe:

France front
Alps front
Balcan front
Eastern front
Finland front

Africa:

Senegalese front
Ethiopian front

Asia:

Siamese (later Bengali) front
Steppe front
Chinese front
Corea front
Ezo front

The strategies

The German general staff is quite shocked. A war against the Russias is one thing; but a war against the Russias AND the superpower New Rome, which is undefeated in war yet, if you don't count the guerrilla war of Braseal? Especially European Germany seems to be hopelessly outnumbered. The governments in Martinsburg (OTL Philadelphia) and Neu-Hamburg (OTL Buenos Aires) are contacted. Both are somewhat hesitating to send their men over the Atlantic, which is to a good part controlled by the Imperial Navy; finally, Argentinian promises to send some troops to German Africa, and Atlantis promises help for the time after they win in Russian Cascadia. An invasion of the Russian Pacific coast that was considered before New Rome entered the war is cancelled, since the Russian and Imperial navies control most of the Pacific, and the Germans and Canadians have to take care not to be invaded themselves.

But even the pact isn't in such a rosy situation. The New Roman empire, especially in Europe, suffers under the language problem: Every non-Italian speaking soldier is only taught 200 words Italian, which leads to difficulties in communication. The Russians face similar problems with their Balcan allies, of whom only the officers speak Russian fluently. And more important: There are no experiences in leading a comparable war - even the anti-Russian and anti-British wars were more local in comparison.

Of course the Italians and Russians would make jokes about the "wurst/kraut-eating surrender monkeys", but in the summer of 1911, these jokes almost became reality. No one in European Germany had really wanted a war with both the Russias and the New Roman superpower. The German ministry of Exterior continually contacted its counterpart in Rome, frantically trying to make a separate peace. They offered Lothringen and Hungary for a peace, and some members of the government even thought about European Germany leaving the war completely, sacrificing Poland if necessary. But the pact powers declined, sure they could get an even better peace in a few weeks anyway.

So, born out of necessity, the German military leadership decided to make a victory as costly as possible for the pact. "Die Front muss gehalten werden, auf Biegen und Brechen!" ("You've got to hold the line, that it neither bends nor breaks!") The cavalry troops are unmounted, and the soldiers dug trenches all along the borders. Then they waited for the New Romans and Russians to attack, praying that their German brothers and their allies at the other fronts might save the day.

And to everyone's surprise, it worked. The proud Russian steppe riders and the New Roman cavalry, even the New Roman motorized corps (the New Romans had twice as many cars available than all other European powers taken together!), attacked the German trenches in vain. The new weapon, the machine gun, much improved since the last war, simply favored the defender too much. July, August and September went by, but at the end, the fronts had barely moved if at all, and the cavalrists and the drivers joined their comrades in the trenches.

After the first months of the war it becomes apparent that the war will take longer - and New Rome faces the first problem, because their material is running low. Before the war, they received lots of steel and coal (not to mention finished products) from Germany, especially the Krafft corporation from the Ruhrgebiet; now, their own reserves of iron and coal aren't sufficient, and they have to import their stuff from South Russia or the Urals instead - the latter being four times as far from Italy than the Ruhr, and transport takes six times longer, at best. The fact that the Germans can easily replace their lost ships, while the Imperial navy can't, is another problem. Until a solution is found, the New Romans have to use up the stockpiles of Castille and North Africa, which aren't threatened.

Both sides also start to use submarines. This part of the war is even costlier than IOTL, since the Germans don't have to fear another great power entering the war. OTOH, it's also less one-sided, and thus, the Germans and Canadians suffer under New Roman and Russian subs as well.

The World, 1920-30:

Germany:
The strongest power on Earth, with the mainland on three continents (Europe, North and South Atlantis) and vast areas of colonies, protectorates and satellites (most important: India, East/SE Europe and sub-Saharan Africa). In practice, however, Germany's power is heavily strained, and especially the defeat in the (Civil) War against the Socialists has shown the world that the biggest beast can still bleed. The relations to its neighbors in Europe (Russia, Italy and the Socialist Block) are as bad, and the Nassauer people (refugees from Socialist Germany, mostly from Westphalia which belonged to Nassau, loudly wishing for revenge) don't make it easier. Instead of having satellites to the north and the west, as was envisioned before and during the war, the powerful Socialist Block looms over remaining Germany, and Italy and Russia stay vengeful too. Still, the German government hopes that Old Germany is guarded enough by its eastern and SE European allies and satellites.
On the inside, German politicians don't really seem ready governing a superpower; in fact, they seem to spend most of their time just to hold the government together. This may be caused by the political system, which is a compromise between the three pre-war Germanies: Old Germany had a proportional representation, Atlantis had first-past-the-post, leading to a two-party system (Freedom Party and Equality Party, as mentioned earlier), and relatively newly settled Argentinien was just developing a party system. The united Germany has two parliamentary houses, the Vereinigter Reichstag (each land - there are 12 in Europe, 60 in Atlantis and 17 in Argentinien - gets one representative for 250,000 people [578 in the election of 1920]; seats are distributed proportionally in every land) and the Länderkammer (each continent votes with the majority of its lands; decisions concerning the whole empire have to be made in unison between the three groups). Now in the 1920s, the traditional parties have often split and reformed. Multi-party coalition governments are standard, and often don't survive longer than a few months. People have the impression that after more than 100 years of democracy, the real power is in the hands of the parties' organizations instead of the people, special interest parties have a lot of influence, and corruption even within the cabinet is at high levels.

Elections of 1920:
223 seats in Europe
296 seats in Atlantis
59 seats in Argentinien

Nationalist Imperial Party (Europe, conservative-expansionist) - 29 seats
German State Party (Europe, centrist) - 57 seats
Christian Republican Party (Europe) - 28 seats
Farmer parties (Europe, regional) - 34 seats
Liberal Party (Europe; liberal in both ways) - 65 seats
Socialist Party (forbidden in Europe) - 0 seats
Freedom Party (Atlantis, center-right; economically liberal, socially moderate conservative) - 114 seats
Expansionist Party (Atlantis, populist-right) - 36 seats
Equality Party (Atlantis, populist-left) - 102 seats
Small Farmers Party (Atlantis, special interest party, split off from Equality Party) - 33 seats
Argentinian Freedom Party (equivalent right there, more technocratic) - 9 seats
Argentinian Rancher Party (special interest party) - 14 seats
Argentinian Farmer Party (special interest party) - 17 seats
Smaller parties and Independents - 41 seats

A new center-right government is formed after the election.

1921: The old Equality Party is forbidden (for fear of Socialism) after strikes in the industrial area around the Great Lakes. In its place, the Justice party forms.

1922: Parts of the right spectrum parties in Europe form the radical anti-Socialist Economy Party, which demands an immediate strike against the Socialist Block. The government falls, a coalition is impossible, new elections are held. Again, a center-right government is formed.

1923: At the electronics firm Werstand, developers presents their new idea: Computers with an outside connection, so it's possible to a) operate them from somewhere else or b) send the results immediately to where they're needed. (This system doesn't work like e-mail, you can just send something to hardwired machines.)

(If anyone thinks a computer network comes way too early: Remember that the Chinese ITTL used electricity centuries ago, that the Russians invented the telegraph in the 18th century, and that cryptography is more advanced too. We also aren't talking about modern computers here, but about computers based on relays.)

1924: Imperial Chancellor Bohn falls over a sex scandal; the New Christian Party splits off his Freedom Party. Again, the empire is paralyzed for months until a new government is made.

1925: The Progress Party is founded in Martinsburg. They advocate a radical reorganization of the German Empire.

1926: Stock Crash and subsequent fall of government. After the new elections, a more centrist government (including the Christian parties) is formed.

1927: The Christian parties manage to push through the prohibition of tobacco and hard liquor, although beer and wine stay legal.

1928: Josef F. Krause (high-ranking member of the Justice Party) suggests a new strategy: Since the depression has cost many people their savings, but the common anti-left propaganda keeps them from voting for the Justice Party, he proclaims the founding of a new party, to catch their votes. "Walk separately, strike together." In the same year, said founding will happen.
Olympic Games in Neu-Hamburg (OTL Buenos Aires).

1920-30: The population of Argentinien grows from 15 to over 20 million.


New Rome / Greater Italy:
As said in the last post, the government stepped back, and since there was no emperor to appoint a new one and no elections were held, so people continued without government - people worked, priests preached and gave sacraments, bureaucrats administrated and judges convicted following the old laws. Behind the curtains, the famiglia run things necessary to run - which included holding down the Socialists and liberated slaves (many of whom preferred to flee), integrating Italian-descended refugees into society, and reminding people to take venganza on the Germans, once the time was right. They even received parts of the taxes collected, or told the bureaucrats what to do. For outsiders, this system was completely incomprehensible. (For OTLers: The famiglia is a mixture of Mafia, KKK and fascists, but the latter without the organized party thing. Their leaders are mostly former lower nobles and ranchers, they command gangs of thugs - the fascisti - , and they have the backing of the old Imperial-Catholic church.) Although their outlook on things was similar throughout the four parts of the country (Italy, North Africa, Italia Nuova in North Atlantis, and the Italian Andes), at the beginning they had only local power. But when the years pass, they expand by using a combination of negotiations, "diplomatic" pressure, assassinations and small wars.

1920: Giuseppe Puccio becomes padrone of Tripoli (OTL Libya).

1921: For several months, the padrones of Roma Nuova fight for dominance of the city. The victor is a Salvatore Marchese.

1922: Giuseppe Puccio brings Bengasi province under his control, starts "business" in New Rome's former province Egypt.

1923: After long struggles, Santino Neri becomes padrone of Rome.
Fights in the North Italian plain after the Germans retreat. Padrone Vito Badalamenti takes over in the area.

1924-27: Salvatore Marchese brings the Tenesi area (Italia Nuova between Mississippi and Appalachians) under his control.

1925: The padrones of Cuzco (Gaetano Riccobono) and Potosi (Nicola Greco) make a "peace treaty", dividing the Italian Andes between them; the line goes from OTL's Peruvian-Chilean border further inwards.
Santino Neri has control over all of Central Italy.

1926: Giuseppe Puccio brings OTL Tunisia under his control.

1927: Starting with the prohibition of tobacco in Germany, Italian gangs smuggle lots of cigars and cigarettes to Germany and sell them for a good price.

1928: Giuseppe Puccio extends his influence on Sicily.

1929: By working together with the Montana Men (refugees from German-occupied Montana, which is roughly OTL East Colorado and West Kansas), Salvatore Marchese can attack his opponent in central Italia Nuova, Bernardo Buscetta, from both sides, and defeats him. Now he has the full control over the Atlantean part of the country.
Tensions between Giuseppe Puccio and Santino Neri.


Russia:
The country is in trouble, to say the least. Germany has occupied the most valuable areas (OTL Ukraine) and isn't willing to let them go, for fear that Russia might rise its head again. Despite of the Southern Russians smuggling lots of wheat back to Russia, when the Germans aren't looking, everyone knows that this can't take forever.
All Russian parties - the Russian Worker's Party, the Conservative "House Russia" party, the new Reconstruction Party and the liberal Democratic People's Party - are in unison that revenge is the primary goal of the nation, and a new war isn't an "if", but a "when". Theoretically, the peace treaty of Warsaw forbids them bigger rearmament, but in practice, the country is too big to be controlled completely. Only the Russian navy can be restricted. And smaller South Russia, of course. But in the vast taigas of the north, millions of soldiers get trained; even tanks and airplanes are built, and if German controllers manage to visit a place, everything suspicious can be removed in advantage, thanks to the sheer size of the country.
But the revenge won't be as easy as envisioned: After the defeat, the first rage turned against the Jews of the country. Many of them were killed (estimates go as high as six figures), and those who weren't left for Judea. This drain of people doesn't make reconstruction easier for Russia. People feel everything goes too slow and too disorganized.

1920: War veteran Gridenkov founds the "Unionist Party" in Voronezh, aiming at a unification of the two Russias, which the Germans have forbidden, but everyone in Russia sees as unavoidable, since dismembered South Russia alone isn't strong enough to survive alone.

1921: Unionist Party gets 30 % in the province elections.

1923: Unionist Party gets 15 % in national elections, Gridenkov becomes their speaker in the Duma.

1924: German diplomats warn their government about Gridenkov and the Unionists. Germany decides to interfere, forces the South Russian government to forbid the Unionist Party and Gridenkov to leave politics.

1926: Gridenkov goes into "exile" in Novorossiya. Many of his unionists follow him (as many Southern Russians already have done in the years before). He decides to join the Reconstruction Party, starts to make propaganda especially among his fellow South Russians.

1928: "The coup of Tobolsk": Gridenkov and his followers manage a take-over of the Reconstruction Party committee.

1929: Russian spies in German Kalifornien bring the idea of a computer network to Russia.


Socialist Block:

1920: Breton farmers and fishermen rise up against some of the new decisions made by the French government. The uprising is suppressed, and it doesn't even help that the Bretons protest in Brussels, although the Irish take their side. This is a definite sign that the Socialist (French!) government wants to centralize France.

1921: At the conference of Versailles, the French Socialist parties (Christian Socialist party, Socialist party and Radical Socialist party) unite to form the United Socialist party, which becomes France's "eternal" government party. Tightly organized, they run the economy (other than in Britain, where the workers have more direct control) and also manage to take disproportional influence in Brussels.

1926: The Socialist armies cross the Pyrenees, to support the Catalans and Basques against the tyranny of Juan III. The little republic of Andorra is annexed on the march. Germany sends financial support and arms to Castille, but Juan III declines, hating the Germans.

1927: After Catalonia and the Basque country are conquered, volunteers from Germany and Britain join the Socialist armies. They successfully conquer areas in the north and south (Murcia).

1928: After the Socialists advance further, Portugal decides to enter the war, to conquer Galicia back. Now Castille has to fight an unwinnable two-front war.

1929: Socialists conquer Toledo, the resistance breaks together, the royal family flees to Morocco. Now however, the Socialists clash with Portugal. War begins again, and a few months later Portugal is also conquered. Except for Andalusia which has German support, the Iberian peninsula is reorganized by the Socialists.


China:
The adoptive Empire is still going through the process of industrialization. The northern half of it suffered much under the war and the former Russian occupation and has to be rebuilt.

Date 1920: Gansu earthquake in China. More than 200,000 dead people.

1921: China and Nippon clash over Korea; war breaks out again.

Date 1922: Typhoon in China kills 75,000 people.

1923: China has lost a lot of its new pilots. The emperor is unhappy about this. So he decides to command his scientists invent something new, to prevent such losses. Chinese scientists start to work, and thanks to their number and the money thrown on them, they will make two important inventions: The cruise missile, and the modern rocket.
On September 1st, the Kanto plain earthquake strikes Nippon, making the war much harder for them.

1924: The Chinese manage to reconquer all of Korea from the Nipponese. The Orthodox Koreans actually prefer the Confucian Chinese to the Catholic Nipponese. The Nipponese however, who managed to evacuate almost their whole army to the islands, swear to continue the war - with naval strikes against China's coasts, and bombing raids on Chinese cities.

1927: First rocket strikes on Nipponese cities. Since the houses are still built mostly from wood, bamboo and paper, the result is horrible, and much worse than in OTL WW2 Europe.

Date 1927: Xining earthquake in China. More than 200,000 dead people.

1928: The emperor dies, not without having appointed the third adoptive emperor (the second one actually adopted, but the former general who re-united China is counted as the first one). The war with Nippon goes on.

Date 1929: Great Yellow River flood in China. Almost one million of dead.


Canada and Pacifics:
1920: Canadians introduce prohibition - not only alcohol, but cigarettes are forbidden, and coffee, tea and chocolate are heavily taxed.

1921: Canada reforms its colonial empire into the Commonwealth, with the capital at Honolulu. By this way, the Indies and SE Asia are still close to Canada, while at the same time having more independence (at least internal).

1922: Italian prospectors discover the iron ore reserves of Pilbara in western Tir Tairngire. By claiming it and making sure that they can exploit it, they give the Italian lands a great source of iron (which until then was a problem for their industry).

1924: Olympic Games in Kingsburgh (OTL Montreal).

1929: Tir na nOg (OTL Western Australia) becomes independent with Italian help. Of course, the Irish-Catholic pope Patricius VII and the taoiseach (minister president) condemn the Imperial-Catholic schismatics for this deed.


Muslim World:
Divided between the medium powers of the Seljuk jumhuriya and the shahdoms of Persia and Choresm. Plus, there are some smaller lands at the Arabian peninsula, and some new created states (Kurdistan, Azerbaijan). And some non-Muslim states (Greater Judea, Georgia, Armenia, Trapezunt) which future is unclear.

1920: Cyprus (which became Seljuk after the war again) wins its independence with the help of Greek and Italian volunteers (everyone in Italy knows that the Germans have supported the Seljuks, so they side with the Greeks).

1923: Oil fields of the gulf discovered. Mostly under Persian control.

1924: Sarkis Nakkashian, an Armenian millionaire, buys his government and that of Georgia to make a war against Azerbaijan, for the oil there. The war (1924/25) is successful.

1927/28: Kurdistan fights off a Seljuk attack.


Balcans:
Once the backyard of Russia and New Rome, the area now became the sphere of influence of Germany and its ally Hungary (since the war, they enjoy more independence from Germany, concerning internal politics). Since the Socialist Block cuts off Germany's access to the oceans, the German government has the Balcan infrastructure (railroads, harbors) improved.

1920: German firms start to invest in oil fields in Vlachia and Moldavia.

1922: Balcan states forced to agree to treaties that bind their currencies on the German thaler, removes custom barriers against German, Polish, Bohemian and Hungarian products, and many more one-sided conditions.

1924: Railway Vienna-Varna finished.

1925: Railway Vienna-Saloniki finished. As Varna, it's become an important "indirect harbor" for Germany.


Mediterranean:
Formerly united under the New Roman Empire, the new states emerged here suffer under "childhood diseases", like the tensions between republicans and monarchists (some of the states are still monarchies), or socialists and monetarists (capitalists). In North Africa, there are in addition tensions between Muslims and Christians.

1920: Castille approaches Morocco for a unification. The German government isn't sure whether to allow it (to make Castille a counterweight against Italy and the Socialists) or not, but since the Moroccan cortes republic doesn't want the king back, the problem solves itself.

1920-22: King Juan III of Castille invades the Basque country. Many atrocities are committed to defeat them.

1921: Socialist party in Israel wins in a landslide, thanks to the millions of new immigrants from Europe. War hero Ariel Ben-David is elected new minister president of Judea.

1923: After the death of Andalusian king, Juan III thinks this is an opportunity to retake this land. However, the new king Benedicto II is able to make Germany take his side again, and the invasion has to be cancelled.

1926: Castille invades Catalonia. Soon, the whole country south of Ebro is in their hands.


Sub-saharan Africa:
1920: Uprisings against Germans in former Songhay start. Former soldiers of New Rome who became mercenaries support them.

1921: Uprisings in Ethiopia start.

1922: Herero rise - not only against the Germans, but all whites (which has to do with nearby Australia - OTL South Africa - with its many Scandinavian-descended settlers, the Söderlinger).

1925: At the university of Zanzibar, a manifesto for the independence of the African East Coast is produced.

1927: Germany officially gives Ethiopia independence.


India:
1920: Olympic Games in Delhi.

1921: The Germans start to become suspicious about Chandramoorthy and his circle of followers. Chandramoorthy leaves the city to teach as a guru in the wilderness, leaving his followers claiming him to be dead. Until his death, he stays the "grey eminence" for the growing network of his students, who start to make careers in economy, politics, military and science.

1922: Various Indian factions demand independence from Germany. The government declines.

1923: The great discussion about how to achieve independence among his followers. The guru tells his students to slowly collect power over the years until they're strong enough, and otherwise stay peaceful if possible.

1925: First great-scale uprisings against the Germans, mostly in Kashmir and the Sikh-settled areas (yes, there are Sikhs. The word just means "disciple" in Punjabi, and the idea of an egalitarian religion, which breaks with the caste system, could've happened in any TL).

1929: Unable to cope with the "Indian Chaos", the German government decides to contain the situation: The Sikhs are surrounded by German troops in their region, cut off from the rest of India.


Rest of Atlantis:

1923: Socialist pirates contact the little country Aymaria at the southern tip of Atlantis. The poor country agrees to help them, as a hideout during their raids.

1924-26: Mexico and California make war. The area around OTL Arizona is devastated and depopulated.

1927: Mari Isabel of Braseal dies, leaving the crown to her son Filip.

1928: Caroline, until now pro-German, suffers because they can't export tobacco to Germany anymore. The pro-Italian factions in the country become stronger again.

May - September 1940: The last of over one million Russian soldiers (disguised as civilians) are transported to Italia Nuova. At the same time, women, children and various institutions (research centers) are moved away from Russian and Italian border areas to safer ones.

October 1940: Un-occupied South Russia unites with Novorossiya forming the union of "Veliky y Novy Rossiya" (Old and New Russia). Gridenkov also has troops moving in. The German technocracy protests, gives Russia an ultimatum to leave the area.

November 1940: After the ultimatum ran out, Germany starts mobilizing, as do its allies. More troops from Atlantis and Argentinien are transported to Europe for the expected war, the troops along the Henrichlinie are put on alert. Due to the WW1 doctrine, no one in Germany wants to start an attack, however; besides, the winter prevents an attack into Russia anyway. Neither side formally declares war.
In the occupied areas of South Russia, a partisan war starts.

December 1940: Russia forces Armenia (which has Baku occupied) to deliver oil to them.

February 16th, 1941: After three months of a "Fauler Krieg" (lazy / foul war), the Germans decide to take the initiative after Russian recon planes have crossed the border. Germany declares war. Greater Italy stays neutral. So does China, since the pact with Germany only says they have to help Germany in case of a Russian attack (and vice versa).


Situation at the beginning of the war:

Germany:
Europe: 60 millions
Allies in Europe (Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, Finland-Estonia): 55 millions
Atlantis: 95 millions
Argentinien: 30 millions
(240 millions)
African colonies: 20 millions
Indian colonies: 100 millions
(360 millions)
Plus the other Balcan states (55 millions), which aren't that reliable allies though.

Italy:
Core Italy: 50 millions
North Africa: 15 millions
North Atlantis: 45 millions - a good part are refugees from the former parts of the New Roman Empire, which are independent now, and from the German-occupied west.
South Atlantis: 25 millions
(135 millions)

Russia:
Novorossiya: 150 millions
South Russia, occupied by Germany: 50 millions
South Russia, free: 40 millions
(190/240 million)


February 23th, 1941: Russian short-range rockets hail down on Riga, Dorpat (Tartu) and other parts of NE Germany. Germans are shocked, although the psychological damage is worse than the physical one. The Germans will strike back with bomb attacks on Pskov, Smolensk, Kursk and other Russian cities.

April 4th, 1941: Russian partisans manage to kill the German general Uhrlau, who was responsible for the defense of the front north of Kiev.

April 8th, 1941: Completely unexpected, Russian tanks break through the German lines - not in the industrial area further east, as was expected, but west of the Dniepr, aiming towards Kiev. The new commander Wolfgang Henrich (son of the WW1 general and technocrat Wieland Henrich, who also thought up the Henrichlinie) is totally overburdened with the situation, has his troops move towards the little city of Chornobyl, to prevent the Russians taking Kiev.

April 15th, 1941: The situation at the East Front is still confused. The Russian tanks have taken Zhytomyr and reached the outskirts of Vinnytsia.

April 16th, 1941: Greater Italy declares war on Germany, starts with an attack into German-occupied Slovenia. Troops which are already moving eastwards have to be redirected to the new southern front.
Italian rockets from the Chibcha province (OTL west Colombia) strike the Nicaragua canal, making it useless for the Germans.

April (Second half) 1941: The "Atlantean Vespers": Italians attack German troops and settlers in Montana (OTL East Colorado and West Kansas, Italian-settled but German-occupied). The number of German victims will exceed 100,000.

May 1941: After heavy fights with the German Gebirgstruppen, the Italians have taken Slovenia and are advancing into Croatia.
Concentrated Italian attacks in the Great Plains have pushed the Germans back into OTL South Dakota. Since the most experienced German troops are in Europe, or defending the capital Martinsburg (OTL Philadelphia), the Italians still advance.
Montana is liberated, the German troops there have fled into Texas.
The Russians have marched along the southern Bug river and now reach the Black Sea. The German occupation troops in the OTL East Ukraine are caught and also have the partisans in their back. They can only be supported via the sea.

June 1941: Although the Germans have stabilized the new East front and try some counter-attacks, they can't break through to the troops caught in the East. Wolfgang Henrich commits suicide on June 16th. (Insert joke here along the line of "at least he got THAT right" or "probably he needed some help for that too".) In fact, the pocket is shrinking, and Kiev, Charkov and the Donetz area have been liberated by the Russians.
At the southern front, the Italians have conquered Zagreb and march through Slavonia (east Croatia). While the Balcan states officially have joined the war on Germany's side, they don't bother much to support Germany, being fed up with the Technocracy constantly interfering in their affairs.
The Italians in Atlantis have reached the Canadian border, splitting German Atlantis in two. The German government in fact advises Canada to stay neutral, since they fear a Russian invasion, and Canada is more useful if they stay neutral.
Caroline agrees to become a protectorate of Greater Italy.

July 1941: Croatia has capitulated and was occupied by the Italians, although the German navy still tries attacks on Dalmatia and Istria. The Hungarians battle the Italians in Voyvodina.
The German pocket has further shrunk, now along the line of (OTL) Nikolayev-Kirovograd-Dniepropetrovsk-Berdyansk.
The Russians now have mobilized many new troops in the former German-occupied areas and start to attack in Volhynia, steadily advancing.
In Atlantis, the Germans have stabilized the front along the Rockies (in the west) and the Red river (in the east). However, on July 19th, a coup topples the pro-German government of Louisiane, which switches to Greater Italy's side now, giving them access to the dockyards of Nouveau Orleans.

Germany tries to contact its old allies, but Braseal has to fight with inner problems, the Muslim states and new states in Atlantis don't want to risk the wrath of Russia and Italy, and China also doesn't want another war after defeating Nippon.

August 1941: Serbia and Bosnia join the allies, start to fight against Germany. The Italians make first incursions onto Hungarian ground, take Pecs and Szeged.
The Russians crush the Germans in the pocket west of the Dniepr, leaving them only Crimea and Taurida.
At the east front, the Russians have taken Odessa, threatening the Dacian states (OTL Romania).
In Atlantis, the Italians move south into Texas, where German troops are still around, and advance even faster.
Further South, Italian troops start marching from the Andes into Central Atlantis, aiming at the Nicaragua canal.

September 1941: Italy fights in the Hungarian Plain.
The Russians have taken Taurida, enclosing the Germans on Crimea, where they put up hell of a fight at Perekop. Further west, Russian troops have reached the Polish SE border.
In Atlantis, the Italians threaten to crush the German troops in Texas, after they've pushed through to the coast and destroyed the harbors.

October 1941: Increasing Russian attacks coming from Kerch and the fact that Italian ships have managed to block the Bosphorus make the situation of the Germans on Crimea look even more bleak. Now however, the Germans get unexpected support: The Judeans claim they can save their troops.
The Italians have taken Debrecen, and the Russians have crossed the Carpathians. And now the full horror becomes visible for everyone in Germany: The threat that the Russians and Italians might come together and enclose all of Old Germany...
Further north, the Russians are advancing in Livonia and Littauen.
Although the situation in Texas doesn't look good, the German occupation troops can flee along the Rio Grande, led by a young officer who knows the area, going towards Kalifornien. Although this will cause some diplomatic trouble with Mexico, the troops are saved.
Central Atlantis has capitulated to the Italians.

November 1941: Despite fighting hard, the united German-Polish-Czech-Hungarian armies can't prevent the Russians and Italians to close the ring around Germany. Now the people there can only be supported via the Baltic - which entries are controlled by the Socialist Block, so practically, they're shut out from the world. And the winter is coming. Gridenkov states very confidently: "Now we've got Germany at the balls!"
Russia in the north has pushed the Germans behind the Memel/Nyemen, and also threatens Poland. In the south, the Balcan states have made armistices with Russia and Italy or even joined them. German soldiers and advisors in these countries try to flee; some are saved by the German navy.
"The Help from the Holy Land": Judean diplomats bribe the right officials of the government of Trapezunt, so the latter agree to transfer the surviving German soldiers from Crimea through their land to Kurdistan, from where the Germans can go to Mesopotamia and their bases at the Persian Gulf. Although they have to give up their full equipment, the cadres of the German army are saved.
Italy forces Florida to accept their protectorate, occupy their harbors to build more ships. The Germans answer by landing on the keys.

Meanwhile, the Socialist Block declares war against the kingdom of Andalusia, last remaining free state on the Iberian peninsula.

December 1941: Crimea is evacuated, and afterwards occupied by Russia. After the German Black Sea fleet has brought the last soldiers to safe harbors, it's scuttled so the Russians can't use it.
United Russian and Italian armies have occupied all of Hungary and southern Slovakian lands. Further north, the Russians have pushed the Germans and Poles behind the Vistula. They start to shoot rockets on the industrial areas of Upper Silesia and Bohemia.
In Atlantis, the Germans have recovered from the first shock and collect their troops to start a coordinated attack in the Great Plains. In Florida, they reach the Miami river.

Other events in 1941: Germany (and to some extent Canada too) let millions of men from the "Chaos" (the many new states in Atlantis, Africa and India) immigrate, to work in the arms industry, instead of the Germans who have to fight.
Along what will be later called the "forgotten front" in Argentinien, the Germans sometimes try to attack the Italians, who can easily defeat those attacks, having the Andes for defense. Sometimes the Italians try to invade the Argentinian plains, but are defeated either.


January 1942: Near the sleepy little city of Auschwitz, the Germans, Czechs and Poles deliver a last big battle against the advancing Russians. When the battle is over, more than 300,000 soldiers will have died. One horrified German officer speaks out in this situation: "Certainly this place has never seen such a massacre on any world, in any time."
After the battle of Auschwitz, the Russian overrun the rest of Poland and Silesia, threatening the core of Germany. The capital of Dresden is hit by rockets and bombs.
Italian troops are fighting in Austria and Bohemia, at the same time also pushing into Tyrol.
In Atlantis, the Germans start to push back the Italians in OTL Minnesota and Montana/Wyoming.

February 1942: The Italians have reached the Inn and make Bohemia capitulate.
Russia conquers all of Germany east of the rivers Oder and Neiße.

March 1942: When the situation of Germany is hopeless, being outnumbered worse than 3:1 and lacking tanks and planes, the Russians standing at the doors of the capital and with the population exhausted by the hunger, the armies in European Germany capitulate on March 13th. Some units, however, keep on fighting. Most of them will be destroyed during the year, but some units can hold out in the Alps, the Black Forest and the Sudeten mountains.
Switzerland (which never was happy in the German technocracy) splits off again, but declares to fight on.
Germany is occupied: Southern Hesse, Bavaria, Franconia and Austria, plus Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia are occupied by the Italians, while the Russians take the big rest.

The Russians and Italians celebrate their victory, contact the German government in Martinsburg and ask for their capitulation. Their price: Germany has to agree that the two old empires of Russia and New Rome are restored, in the "full borders" (which means Russia including Poland, Bohemia and Prussia). To their surprise, the Germans refuse. The reason: Their winter offensive in Atlantis was successful, and they're driving the Italians back. In the long run, this could become dangerous for Italia Nuova, since German Atlantis has twice its population, despite their initial losses.

European Germany is lying on the ground, but the Germans in Atlantis and Argentinien are obviously alive and kicking. There's no easy solution visible for the allies: The Russians know too good from their defeats in the anti-Russian War and the first World War that an invasion crossing the ocean won't be that easy. Especially since the German navy is still standing strong and prevents any crossing. Gridenkov orders "the biggest fleet the Earth has ever seen" to be built, promising to "conquer Atlantis with our Floating Fortresses". At the moment, however, even the German Mediterranean fleet is still active and sometimes even can attack Italian harbors.

China starts to become suspicious at the Russians, so the latter have to station more troops along the Chinese border.

On March 23rd, Andalusia capitulates too and is incorporated into the Socialist Block. The king flees to Morocco.

April 1942: Russia declares war on the Finnish-Estonian republic, invades. They occupy the only Arctic harbor of the country Petsamo, overrun Estonia (except for the capital Tallinn), and also advance into Finland proper.
The Caucasus alliance of Georgia, Armenia and Trapezunt is forced to "invite" Russian occupation. When the Germans get news about this, they bombard Baku from their bases in Kurdistan. Gridenkov swears revenge.
The leaders of Italy discuss the next step. Since the Germans still control the two ends of the Med, they decide an attack into Algeria and Egypt. Meanwhile, they cross the Lech to invade Lower Switzerland.
In Atlantis, the Germans are battling the Italians for the Dakota lands. They also have conquered half of the Florida peninsula.

May 1942: The Finnish-Estonian republic has to capitulate and is annexed by Russia. Now the whole continent is divided between Russia, Greater Italy and the Socialist Block (and the first two's satellites on the Balcan).
Italian troops invade Algeria and Egypt. The latter is supported by German troops, but to no avail. At the end of the attacks, the Italians have reached the last defense line before Alexandria.
Germany contacts Mexico, one of the biggest states in Atlantis, to recruit Native Atlantean troops to fight the Italians.

June 1942: Battles in the Nile delta. Germany hastily starts to train the Egyptian army, and the Judeans even help.
Gridenkov has troops transported south, invades Kurdistan.
Italians take Stuttgart.
After winning the sea battle of Svalbard, Russian ships can break through the German lines, transport ~100,000 men to Italia Nuova.

July 1942: Algerian government capitulates. Alexandria has fallen, and Cairo is threatened.
Russian troops have reached Lake Van in Kurdistan. Gridenkov is envious about the new successes of the Italians. So he decides to attack Choresm, which was a Russian protectorate before the war.
Germany has taken control of its old territory in Atlantis. Now they start the counter-attack.

August 1942: Russian troops cross the Choresmian border.
In Kurdistan, Diyarbakir falls, and Mosul and Kirkuk are bombed.
After the conquest of Cairo, the Egyptian government gives up; now the Germans promise the Egyptians full political freedom for after the war and a lot more, collect the remaining troops again.
German troops in Gibraltar capitulate; the Socialist Block now rules the whole peninsula.
Italians control most of Lower Switzerland.
In Atlantis, the Italians manage to surprise the Germans again when they send troops through the "empty circle" (OTL Utah, Nevada) and harass the Germans in Kalifornien. It stays a minor diversion, though.

September 1942: Russian troops have reached the Judean border. The diplomatic relations of the Judeans with both Russia and Greater Italy are bad since they kicked out the Jews after lost WW1, but they stay neutral, and since the Judean army is well equipped and organized, both nations consider an attack on them as too costly.
Instead, the Russians conquer all of Kurdistan, and the Italians reach the Suez canal. The German navy has to retreat to the western Med. Now Italy invades Morocco too.
In Choresm, the Russians have overrun the northern steppes and reached Lake Balkhash.
Germans start to advance in OTL Missouri, Kansas, Colorado; in the long run, this could turn out dangerous for the Italians, since they get most of their grain from there. The Germans control the full Florida peninsula and threaten Virginia (OTL Georgia).
Coming from Vorarlberg, the Italians cross the young Rhine, advance through the Swiss plains.
A Russian fleet crosses the Pacific and battles the Germans before the Kalifornian coast.

October 1942: Choresmians fight the Russians in the Karakal valley. Gridenkov order the troops in Kurdistan to prepare an attack on Baghdad.
In the Nile valley, the German and Egyptian loyalists have to retreat further.
The Italians have taken Oran, bomb Fes. Germany sends advisors to Morocco to organize resistance.
In Central Atlantis, the Germans land troops and attack the Italians holding the Nicaragua canal.
Basel conquered by the Italians.

November 1942: Italian Alpini cross the Atlas mountains, besiege Fes.
German-Egyptian troops in the Nile valley march to the coast, where they're shipped and sent to Mesopotamia, where the Russians are attacking Baghdad. The Italians occupy Aswan.
The Russians are bombarding the fertile areas of Choresm along river Syrdarja.
After hard fights, the Germans now control Italia Nuova west of the Mississippi (although the Italians keep Texas, Louisiane).

December 1942: An Italian thrust in northern Morocco threatens Ceuta; German troops leave the Balearic Islands, which are occupied by the Italians instead.
Russians have reached Lake Aral, encircled Baghdad.
In Atlantis, the Germans have taken the Italian part of OTL Illinois (the southern tip).

Other events in 1942: All three powers frantically work to develop rockets and bombers with wider ranges (5000 km and upwards). Neither is successful.
The Germans attack the harbors controlled by the Italians from their aircraft carriers, preventing the Italians from building a strong fleet.
The Russians start to dismantle German factories to rebuild them in Russia, as a revenge for the lost WW1. In the German and Polish cities at the Baltic, their citizens are forced to build ships for Russia. Since the Suez canal is destroyed, the Russian Black Sea fleet can't break through to the Atlantic or Red Sea.


January 1943: After the Italians took Meknès, Fes also capitulates. In Ceuta and Tangiers, the Germans hold out.
Russians have reached river Syrdarja. Their rockets hit Samarkand and Bukhara. Baghdad capitulates.
The Germans have strengthened their army in Atlantis by allowing sixteen-year-olds join the army and building up an army of black and Arab (ex-)slaves, who have some reasons to hate the Italians. They now control the coast of Virginia (OTL Georgia), so the state of Florida is mostly liberated again.

February 1943: Italians thrust through Morocco, reach the Atlantic at Kenitra.
Russians cross Syrdarja. They also move further south in Mesopotamia, aiming at Basra.
Germans start to attack in Texas.
Zürich, besieged by the Italians, capitulates.

March 1943: Ceuta capitulates, and Tangiers is close to. Germans prepare to give up the north of the country.
Russians have reached river Amudarja. Now the situation of Choresm is hopeless, they capitulate, and the whole country is occupied.
At Al-Amarah, German-Arab troops fight a last big battle successful against the Russians.
The Nicaragua canal is under German control again. The Italian troops north of it have to capitulate, being cut off.

April 1943: German head quarter in Anfa (OTL Casablanca) starts reorganizing the resistance of southern Morocco. They also start a propaganda sender in the city, calling Arabs to fight against the Italians. The Germans even start to recruit Africans from their former colonies.
The Russians in Mesopotamia start advancing again. Choresm is occupied, comes under a military government.
German troops in Texas have reached the Rio Grande in the west. They also cross the border from Florida to Caroline, Louisiane. Italia Nuova is now threatened from the north, south, west and the sea.

May 1943: Italians try to attack the German Azores, unsuccessful; however, they can transport many troops to Atlantis.
Basra is besieged by the Russians. News about some cruelties committed by the Russians in Mesopotamia reach the shahdom of Persia, which protests.
Italians fight Germans and Moroccans in Rabat.
After long fights, the Germans have reconquered the SE corner of Louisiane, but now face heavy resistance in Tenesi (OTL northern Alabama / Mississippi, Italian-settled).
Swiss government in Bern officially capitulates (while some Swiss still fight the Italians in the mountains).

June 1943: The Russians have taken Basra and Kuwait. The Germans do a "scorched earth" strategy, which includes destroying the oil wells. The Russians have to do a lot of work restoring them.
Russia and Greater Italy force the Seljuks to accept occupation of their biggest cities (Constantinople, Angora, Smyrna and all other harbors). The Russians take those cities in the north, the Italians those in the south.
Gridenkov attacks Persia, aiming at a restoration of the Russian rule in the south.
Rabat is under German control again. The first free African units arrive in Morocco.
Germans besiege Charlesbourg (OTL Charleston), the capital of Caroline.

July 1943: Russians take Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan and Abadan in Persia. At the Gulf, they advance towards Awal (OTL Bahrain).
Germans in Morocco have some disagreements with the Spaniards there (who form the majority of the population).
Texas is controlled by the Germans again.

August 1943: Russians take Herat, advance in Persian Kurdistan. They have reached Qatar in the south, but have to stop because their support lines are in danger.
Germans in Morocco push north again towards Tangiers.

September 1943: Russians take Kabul, complete conquest of the Persian border areas in the north and west.
Tangiers is German again, which prevents the Italians from breaking out from the Med.
Charlesbourg conquered by the Germans.
Winter begins unusually early in the northern hemisphere. Later, scientists will find out that the Germans setting fire to the oil wells of the Gulf are to be blamed for that.

October 1943: Russians take Ghazni in Afghanistan and Mashhad in Persia. They also start to attack in the south again, advancing towards Abu Dhabi.
Germans and Moroccans take Fes back.

November 1943: Russians take Kandahar and the small city of Tehran. They also take Abu Dhabi, and the Germans defending Awal islands have to capitulate.
Uprisings of the Tamazint Berbs in the Atlas Mountains, who form a "third party" in the local war.

December 1943: Russians take Masqat, concluding their conquest of the Gulf.
Germans reconquer Melilla.
In Atlantis, the Italians now only hold the delta, having lost all the land west of the Mississippi. And the Germans east of it are coming closer too.

Other events in 1943: Gridenkov decides to build a new capital (which will be named simply Rossiya) at the Urals, the European-Asian border, to represent both parts of Russia equally.
The war is still undecided: Persia and Morocco still resist in the Old World, and in Atlantis, the Germans have the upper hand now.

   Ah well that was a dramatic collapse of the Russian and Italian forces but a very long and bloody war.  Now comes the possibly even more difficult bit of sorting out the peace.  Also will the German technocrats seek to maintain a nuclear monopoly and what will happen when other nations launch their own programmes?  Also it sounds like socialism is acting as TTL's version of communism with a spread into Italy and possibly elsewhere in the aftermath of the devastation of the war.  A hell of a lot going on here.

The world until 1950 - and what happened since 1940 in the countries not in WW2:

Germany:
Winter 1946/47: Due to the ten dropped nukes, this winter is the coldest since decades. Germany with its wheat fields in North Atlantis and Argentinien makes big profits and can force many countries to become satellites. Still, the nuclear winter also frightens many Germans, despite censorship. The technocratic government uses the situation to proclaim that they'll stay in power, until the major problems are solved.

April 1947: German general and technocrat Pistor states in the famous "Chaos speech" that most of the world has fallen into, well, chaos. Most of Atlantis outside Germany, India, Russia and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and especially Africa are officially considered Chaos - areas with unclear power structure, where the borders change every few years and the governments every few months, except for some stable islands. The German policy for these areas decided is: Only interfere to secure German economical interests, or to fight states which governments have become Socialist or otherwise anti-German. This decision shows Germany's greatest problem after the won war: Being the only superpower (outside China) on a planet they can't fully control.

1947: One of Chandramoorthy's followers manages to become professor at the German university of Franzensburg - the first non-white to do so.

October 1948: Under pressure from the victorious WW2 generals, the technocracy makes a new law that forces all technocrats to abdicate at the age of 70 - preventing the system from becoming sclerotic, as scientists will later find out.

May 1949: Sophie Stein starts writing for "Das Reich", one of the biggest serious newspapers of Germany. Soon she becomes one of the most engaged voices for the technocracy and against Socialism. Her articles are even used by the German propaganda senders.

July 1950: Sophie Stein publishes her first book about her radical-monetarist (=Capitalist) philosophy, called Veritism (TTL equivalent of Objectivism - there are some differences, Sophie Stein is more technocracy-friendly than Ayn Rand, and puts the emphasis a bit more on honesty, instead of pure truth).


Canada and Pacifics:
August 1942: In the uranium-rich area in OTL Saskatchewan, Germans start (with the knowledge of the Canadian technocratic government) to research the weapon that will help them win the war: The Atomic Bomb.

March 1944: Germans test the first nuke at OTL Banks island.

July 1945: Germany makes Tir na nOg its satellite, thus securing the iron ore sources of OTL Pilbara.

1949: Canada renews its alliance with Germany; in addition, Germany guarantees the Canadian commonwealth (its colonies in the Pacific).


China:
1942: The crown prince who was visiting Nippon is killed by a Nipponese assassin. The occupation of the islands is worsened; again, many Nipponese flee.

1947: China makes an alliance with Choresm, which is liberated but feels threatened by the Russians.

1948: Olympic Games in Shanghai.

February 1949: Germany decides to share their nuclear secrets with China, to make them agree that no other nation may get nuclear arms. Together, the two superpowers will exercise the necessary control in the next decades, relatively successful.


Socialist Block:
June 1946: Italy becomes part of the Socialist Block. Germans are still occupied in Russia and can't interfere, only tell the remains of the famiglia "to help themselves". In the Apennin mountains, anti-Socialist resistance will last until the 1950s.

August 1946: All Italian officials are forced to become members of the Socialist party of Italy.

April 1947: To the shock of the German technocracy, the Socialists test their first nuke in Lapland. The German plans to "roll back", or even destroy, the Socialist Block are scrapped. In Germany, the police starts looking for the Socialist sympathizers who told the Block the secret.

1948: Bad harvests cause scarcity of food in the Socialist Block. The Germans are blamed. The pirates help a bit by smuggling food in.


Atlantean Chaos:
1941: Germans who fled from the technocratic dictatorship to other Atlantean countries like California, Florida, Caroline or Louisiane now have to flee again from the Italian conquerors; they mostly go to Mexico, where they recollect at the university of Tenochtitlan (OTL Mexico City).

1944: After the defeat of the Italians in Atlantis, the technocracy became aware that German emigrants got some influence in Tenochtitlan. They contact the Mexican government and force them to return the emigrants; however, they're warned, and many of them can flee (mostly ending up in Braseal) or disappear.
Louisiane, Caroline are reconstituted. The French minorities have the political power in both, despite that the Italians are more numerous.

1945: Nicaragua canal completely repaired; stays under German control.

1947: Braseal forced to accept the German brand of Christianity as a "respected religion" (before, there only were Braseal's Catholicism, and various kinds of Islam and Hinduism).


Russian / Eastern European Chaos:
June 1945: In the liberated / re-conquered Balcan republics, Germany re-installs the economic union of said states with Germany.

1946-49: German occupation troops force the Russians to demontage most of their factories, effectively crippling their economy.

1947: One of the coldest winters since long kills more than a million Russians.

1949: When the Germans are sure that Gridenkov's system is destroyed, they leave Russia after putting new rulers in charge. The old Russia is broken into about a dozen independent states, ruled mostly by former officials who were willing to collaborate with the Germans. Some of them are lucky enough to be able to export resources like oil to Germany and China; others aren't.


Indian Chaos:
1946: Germany and its allies "mop up" the Russian allies in the Indus area. The lands are divided among Germany's allies.

1947: After many of the Indian veterans returned home, the voices for independence of the remaining German colonies become louder again. The technocratic government hesitates.

1948: In the Ganges valley, uprisings against German rule start again.

May 1949: Germany gives the area of (roughly) OTL Bihar independence, splitting the independence movements.


African Chaos:
1946: Many African veterans who fought for the Germans return home, bringing knowledge from the more advanced world.

1947-50: The Congo War. Several small states along the river engage in war.

1948: A WW2 veteran from the Tonga people makes himself king of the new "Zambezi kingdom".

1949: In OTL Liberia, a firm-like organization is founded that acts as an agent for African veterans who settled in Atlantis and want to marry women from their home.


Middle Eastern Chaos:
November 1944: Berb uprising in Morocco finally put down.

1945: Germany starts to rebuild the reconquered oil wells at the Persian Gulf.

1946: Many Italian refugees arrive in Italian North Africa.

1948: The Socialist party of Greater Judea surprisingly loses its majority in the election. The main reason: Many Jews could earn some money during the rebuilding of the Middle East, or during the war, and aren't that much interested in Socialism anymore.

1948: Nisa earthquake destroys said city in Choresm. More than 200,000 dead people.