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| date = 29 March 1934 – 19 May 1943 <br><small>({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=03|day1 =29| year1= | | date = 29 March 1934 – 19 May 1943 <br><small>({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=03|day1 =29| year1=1934|month2=05|day2=19|year2 =1943}})</small> | ||
| place = [[Sarpedon]], [[Levantia]], [[Audonia]], [[Crona]] | | place = [[Sarpedon]], [[Levantia]], [[Audonia]], [[Crona]] | ||
| image = Infobox collage for WWII.PNG | | image = Infobox collage for WWII.PNG | ||
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| result = | | result = Allied victory; [[Treaty of Kartika]] | ||
*Beginning of the [[Occidental Cold War]] | *Beginning of the [[Occidental Cold War]] | ||
*Formation of the [[League of Nations]] | *Formation of the [[League of Nations]] | ||
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| casualties2 = '''Military dead:'''<br />over 20,000,000<br />'''Civilian dead:'''<br />over 28,000,000<br />'''Total dead:'''<br />over 48,000,000 | | casualties2 = '''Military dead:'''<br />over 20,000,000<br />'''Civilian dead:'''<br />over 28,000,000<br />'''Total dead:'''<br />over 48,000,000 | ||
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The '''Second Great War''', also sometimes called the '''World War''', was a global war that lasted from 1934 to 1943. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the Great Powers of the time - were involved. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people and resulting in over 64 million deaths. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. It is marked by massive strategic bombing campaigns of industrial and civilian centers, trench warfare, the rise of mechanized warfare, and the only use of nuclear arms in war. It remains the deadliest conflict in human history. | The '''Second Great War''', also sometimes called the '''World War''', was a global war that lasted from 1934 to 1943. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the Great Powers of the time - were involved. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people and resulting in over 64 million deaths. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. It is marked by massive strategic bombing campaigns of industrial and civilian centers, trench warfare, the rise of mechanized warfare, and the only use of nuclear arms in war prior to the [[Final War of the Deluge]]. It remains the deadliest conflict in human history. | ||
=Background= | =Background= | ||
==Caphirian Expansionism== | ==Caphirian Expansionism== | ||
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The independence of [[Veltorina]] was considered a grave affront to the prestige and independence of [[Caphiria]], but with guarantees on its independence from members of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]], Caphiria was unwilling to take on the Empire by itself. Throughout the 19th century, Caphiria made contact with agitators and rebels throughout the Empire and especially within [[Dericania]]. Famously, 1848 revolutionaries in [[Dericania]] following the [[Second Caroline War]] refused to accept Caphirian assistance, hoping to curry favor with the [[Emperor of the Levantines]], a strategy that failed. Caphirian concerns with [[Veltorina]] were escalated dramatically with the [[Tyrian Revolution]] in 1864, which turned its eastern neighbor into a socialist state. Despite this development, the Levantines refused to abandon Veltorina. Caphirian policymakers began to develop a long-term plan on how to proceed, and would spend the next several decades waiting for an opening. | The independence of [[Veltorina]] was considered a grave affront to the prestige and independence of [[Caphiria]], but with guarantees on its independence from members of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]], Caphiria was unwilling to take on the Empire by itself. Throughout the 19th century, Caphiria made contact with agitators and rebels throughout the Empire and especially within [[Dericania]]. Famously, 1848 revolutionaries in [[Dericania]] following the [[Second Caroline War]] refused to accept Caphirian assistance, hoping to curry favor with the [[Emperor of the Levantines]], a strategy that failed. Caphirian concerns with [[Veltorina]] were escalated dramatically with the [[Tyrian Revolution]] in 1864, which turned its eastern neighbor into a socialist state. Despite this development, the Levantines refused to abandon Veltorina. Caphirian policymakers began to develop a long-term plan on how to proceed, and would spend the next several decades waiting for an opening. | ||
===First Great War=== | |||
{{Main|First Great War}} | {{Main|First Great War}} | ||
During the First Great War, Urcea's ruling regent, [[Gréagóir FitzRex]], found it prudent to secretly promise cession of [[Talionia]] to [[Caphiria]] in exchange for continued military support of his regime. Once FitzRex was removed from power in [[1902]], Caphiria began to prepare an invasion of the territory, but the final Legitimist victory in Urcea combined with the end of fighting abroad canceled the campaign. The broken promise had the effect of significantly agitating notions of [[Levantine Creep]] and general anti-Levantine sentiment among Caphiria's ruling class. Although it ended the war having successfully conquered Veltorina, Talionia remained a threat that Caphiria would spend decades attempting to address. | |||
===The Ten Year Plan=== | |||
{{Main|Ten Year Plan (Caphiria)}} | {{Main|Ten Year Plan (Caphiria)}} | ||
In [[1911]], [[Magasevetus]] became [[Imperator]] of Caphiria. The 1910s were a period of significant domestic reform in Caphiria, temporarily halting its foreign ambition. The decade specifically focused on the integration of Caphiria's new territories, as Magasevetus and his advisors deemed it prudent to develop what it already had. Caphiria had also felt the effects of the [[Great Depression]], and although many hawks sought a second confrontation with the Levantines, Magasevetus sought to avoid conflict for the time being. In the 1920s, however, Caphiria was once again ready to begin agitating towards unifying [[Imperial_Diplomacy_(Sarpedon)#Imperial_space|Greater Caphiria]]. In the late 1920s, it began to spend significant funds on rearmament in preparation for military conflict within the next decade. Caphirian leaders knew the parameters of the next war would be greatly different than the first one, as Urcea was unified and possessed a modern, capable military. Accordingly, keeping Urcea distracted once again as it went to war in Sarpedon was the greatest foreign policy priority of Caphiria. In [[1928]], the "Ten Year Plan" was adopted, envisioning a strategy of engagement with [[Derian identity|Deric nationalists]] to terminally undermine the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] and distract [[Urcea]] to the extent that Caphirian annexation of [[Talionia]] would have to be accepted as a ''fait accompli''. It was necessarily assumed in the Ten Year Plan that Caphiria would also be waging a defensive war against Cartadania and Pelaxia, as Caphirian leaders correctly assumed that both were chafing under post-First Great War Caphiric hegemony. The initial Ten Year Plan presumed that neither nation were a military threat to Caphiria, a decision many historians have referred to as a "grave afterthought". | |||
====Levantine engagement==== | |||
A key portion of the initial Ten Year Plan involved engaging geopolitically in Levantia, specifically with the [[Derian identity|Deric nationalists]] in [[Dericania]]. Urcea's obligations to the Empire would require it to suppress any rebellion against the integrity of the Empire in Dericania, and the region was a hotbed of existing nationalist agitation and ethnic strife. Caphirian leaders had previously tested the concept with support for a socialist uprising in the small Deric principality of Anivania in [[1925]]. Although the uprising was a failure, the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] was deployed in force. | |||
===Reactions to Caphiric hegemony=== | |||
After the [[First Great War]], Caphiria was functionally unrivaled on [[Sarpedon]], and accordingly [[Cartadania]] and [[Pelaxia]] specifically were required to give significant [[Continental Obligations|continental obligations]] to the Imperator. This situation was viewed by leaders in both countries to be chafing, but both countries were largely devestated by the first conflict and unable to contemplate military action against Caphiria until the 1920s. At that time, both countries learned of Caphirian rearmament and agreed to a mutual defense pact in [[1927]]. In [[1929]], [[Burgundie]] signed on to the defensive agreement to the surprise and contempt of Caphiria, necessitating an expansion of the Ten Year Plan. | |||
====Plan expansion and Alshar engagement==== | |||
The sudden alignment of Burgundie with its First Great War allies caused alarm among Caphirian leadership, requiring the [[Ten Year Plan (Caphiria)|Ten Year Plan]] to be expanded dramatically to account for the possibility of global, rather than Occidental, war. Like with its ongoing and planned engagement with nationalists in Dericania, the expanded Ten Year Plan opened relationships between Caphiria and nationalists in [[Alshar]] and [[Audonia]], the heartland of Burgundie's overseas empire. Caphirian leaders reasoned that, if sufficiently supported, a general uprising in Alshar and Audonia could take years for Burgundie to put down, and that Burgundie would first act to preserve its empire rather than the territorial integrity of [[Cartadania]] and [[Pelaxia]]. Accordingly, Caphiria began to provide clandestine arms and funds to Alshar and Audonia beginning in [[1930]] in addition to [[Dericania]]. | |||
Caphirian leaders felt blindsided by Burgundie's alignment in Sarpedon, requiring further corollaries to be added to the plan. Although [[Fiannria]] had not engaged with Sarpedonic geopolitics in a meaningful way, its position as the third major power within the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] merited attention in the plan. Accordingly, Caphiria began to open secret negotiations with [[Faneria]] regarding a military alliance in the event of a general war in the Occident. Faneria, who had been badly beaten in the [[Fourth Kin War]] in the 1880s, sought to regain lost territory and defeat its long time nemesis. Caphiria began to provide some funds and materials to Faneria, but by [[1931]] its resources were limited as it had obligations in Dericania, Alshar, and to its own military in rearmament. | |||
==Decline of the Holy Levantine Empire== | |||
Starting late in the 18th Century (in some scholarly opinions, as early as the mid-18th century), the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] entered a period of terminal decline in terms of influence over its members and the working of its core institutions. Despite the best efforts of the Imperial Court in [[Corcra (City)|Corcra]], members of the Empire were rapidly liberalizing and eschewing centralized power in favor of various levels of devolution outside of the Imperial power structure. This process had started with the [[War of the Caroline Succession]], after which the power of many Electors in the Empire had been stripped, particularly the Derians. The events of the subsequent [[Second Caroline War]] did little to improve the divide between the Urcean and Derian states, which later spiraled into a decline in earnest beginning with the [[Recess of the Julii]], during which the the [[Urcea|Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea]] began to act autonomously of the Empire's institutions in light of its inefficiency in maintaining order in central [[Levantia]]. These and other events served to dramatically reduce the manpower, funds, and political capital available to the Empire throughout the 19th Century. Urcea's conquest of Carolina and defeat of most of the [[Kingdom of Dericania]] in the [[Third Caroline War]] proved another body blow to the authority of the Empire along with long-running political upheavel in [[Fiannria]]. The Third Caroline War's aftermath culminated in the establishment of [[Burgundie]] as part of the [[First Fratricide]], creating genuine ethnic and cultural animosity within Dericania that would persist through the end of the Empire. Events further concerning [[Anglei]] and [[Hollona and Diorisia]] in the 19th century undermined the previous authority of the Empire by the time of the [[First Great War]]. | |||
===Urcean reorientation=== | |||
After the First Great War, Urcea reoriented its outlook vis a vis the Holy Levantine Empire. This happened in part due to Imperial support for the cause of [[Patrick III of Urcea|Patrick III]] during the war but also due to a general need for stability on its eastern border in order to focus its efforts on protecting against Caphiria. Patrick, and his son Niall VI both participated in the [[Collegial Electorate]] and were supportive of the efforts of [[List_of_Emperors_of_the_Levantines#Marius_Dynasty|Emperor August I]]. His failure as [[Emperor of the Levantines]] precipitated a political crisis in the Empire that was solved only by the election of Niall VI as Emperor Niall II in [[1920]] - an unimaginable event just two decades prior. His election completed Urcea's reorientation toward the Empire and put it largely responsible for preserving its integrity and institutions. | |||
====Military reform in Urcea==== | |||
=Levantine Theater= | =Levantine Theater= | ||