Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>On 04/05/2007, Joseph Nebus wrote in message <nebusj.1178258826@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>86.server.rpi.edu>:
>
>> April 4, 1939: unaligned nation Italy declares war on Albania
>> for some reason.
>Hysterical. Keep us informed.
Here goes. The War on Italy goes through 1939 fitfully. While
neither the Allies nor Italy can get much of anywhere in Europe, the
United Kingdom and France made a neat sweep of Ethiopia. Italy charges
daringly in North Africa, though, briefly seizing coastal Egypt and
Tunisia, but is pushed back from ****t Said on the east and from a neat
attack from the south by France. By the end of the year Italy's African
empire is, apart from a bit of interior Ethiopia, is in Allied hands.
Over the course of the summer I make treaties for military
access with France (also have the United Kingdom), and anticipating some
fun, I have a naval division steam into Calais for mid-August, when,
in response to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the German demands over
Danzig, a Poland already at war in the Mediterranean ... folds, giving in
to the territory demands. (In consequence, we soon stop hearing from the
Poles in Italy, a there's really no way to get more troops out there.)
I ****ft over to building more heavily in aircraft, and start
putting in for some ground forces to hold my Pacific islands when, I'm
sure, trouble starts there. (Japan has conquered the eastern half of
China at this point; National and Communist China aren't fighting one
another that hard, but aren't making any progress holding Japan back.)
But so far neither Germany, Japan, nor Italy are allied with the other;
the Axis consists of Germany and Slovakia.
Along the way, the Soviet Union demands territory from
Lithuania several times, until finally annexing all the territory. It's
not clear to me if there's a government in exile.
January 8, 1940: Germany declares war on the Allies. It's not
allied with Italy or anyone who was previously at war, and there's not
in the events log any re****t of particular disputes.
--
Joseph Nebus
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