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An AAR or After Action Report Example, is a series of posts detailing a campaign through a grand strategy game, It's like a fan fiction. The game I will be playing is Kaiserreich what is Kaiserriech you may ask.

Kaiserriech: Legacy of the Weltkrieg is an Ahistorical Modification to Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game that asks the question: "What if the Germans had won WWI?" The scenario starts in 1936, featuring many possible events such as The Second American Civil War, the Kazahk-Turkmen War, the Spanish Civil War, The Second Arab Revolt, the Fourth Balkan War, the Second Russian Revolution and The Grand South American War to name a few.

The nations I'm considering if anybody is wanting to see an AAR are below, If you're interested say what nation you want me to play [Wall of Text below]

The United States of America
While the United States' economy grew tremendously due to the events of the Weltkrieg, where American banks and factories supplied the Entente, the 1920s were disastrous. The military and political collapse of the old French and British governments meant that any American investments or loans contracted to these nations were irrecoverably lost. German dominance over world trade ensured that America was progressively forced out of markets in Europe, Africa, Asia and even parts of South America via national embargoes. A slow yet inexorable economic decline ensued, followed by an increasingly vicious interior social and political conflict.

Until now, the two-party system that had dominated the nation since the end of the Civil War had remained in place, with the Democratic and Republican parties maintaining the support of American industry and big business, with any 'extremist' groups being fragmented and disunited. However, the inefficient second term of President Hoover has seen a significant shift in the political constellation of the United States. Two grand coalitions have formed to challenge the traditional Democratic and Republican parties - one uniting the forces of the populist and technocratic right as the America First Union Party, and the other the revolutionary left as the Combined Syndicates of America, with each mobilizing to fight for their own candidate to become the 32nd President of the United States come election time in 1936.

The Italian Federation
The unified Italy created in 1861 lasted little more than half a century. Her decision to side with the Entente powers rather than her traditional Central European allies during the Weltkrieg proved to be a mistake to the highest order. In 1919 Italy collapsed under a Central Powers' offensive, and the combination of anger at Italy's betrayal and the Austrian desire for a divided Italian peninsula led to the break-up of Italy as a nation. After three years of military occupation Austria decided to recreate several pre-Risorgimento states united in a loose, highly decentralized federation with strong regional powers. The Pope was chosen as nominal Head of State, as the glue to keep the Federation together. However, the Pope was supposed to be merely a spiritual guide and a figure head.

The Italian Federation federation was established in May 3 1922, merely three months after the election of Pius XI as the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. While in theory he had the power to appoint nobles and delegates from the various Italian regions as ministers of the Federation, in reality these positions held little power: at that time, being a minister of the Italian Federation was more an honorific position than one of true power. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was supposed to be one of the constituent entities of the Federation but in 1921 the peasantry revolted and, with the Anarcho-Syndicalist movement leading the revolution, the Socialist Republic of Italy was established and fought the strained Austrian forces to a stalemate, thereby gaining independence and recognition and dividing the Italian peninsula in two countries.

However, little by little the situation changed. The 1927 Ausgleich showed who fractured the Austro-Hungarian Empire really was and the decentralization it brought loosened the Austrian leash on the Federation. In the meantime Pope Pius XI, using the the motto Pax Christi in regno Christi ("the peace of Christ in the reign of Christ"), encouraged the Catholics to work together with the purpose of creating a christian society, where Christ and the Church would pervade every aspect of human life. He advocated a reconstruction of economic and political life on the basis of religious values and encouraged an economy based on cooperation and solidarity, based on the catholic principles of respect and assistance. Thanks to the spreading of this doctrine, the Vatican started getting more and more involved in the internal affairs of the various entities composing the federation.

In the early 1930's a group of radical cardinals gained political control of the Vatican. Aided by Pope Pius XI this group pushed for the centralization and expansion of Papal power and control over the federation. During this period Austria was distracted by internal affairs, and was reluctant to intervene in favour of the status quo and stir troubles among its own Catholic population. Playing on the massive popular support the Pope had and setting this in the context of needing a great leader to guard Italian Federation from the dangers of Syndicalism the Pope emerged as the formal leader of northern Italy in 1934.

The Russian Republic
Russia entered the Weltkrieg to protect its ally, Serbia, from Austro-Hungarian annexation in 1914 and subsequently fought a war across three fronts while isolated from its allies in the Entente for three years. Neither the people nor the Tsar wanted war but both felt that the only alternative to intervention was total domination of Europe by Germany. Although the Imperial Army was far from defeated in 1916, the already existing public distrust of the autocratic regime was deepened by the mounting casualties, war debts and accusations of corruption and treasonous acts in high places, which would lead to the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917.
The Revolutions and Civil War

A series of uprisings subsequently arose when workers and peasants throughout the country, as well as deserting soldiers (who were mainly of peasant origin), began to see through the web of lies their Tsars had spewed at them for centuries. Many of the uprisings were organized and led by democratically-elected councils called Soviets. The February Revolution overthrew the Russian Monarchy, which was replaced by a shaky coalition of political parties that declared the Provisional Government. The Provisional Government proved unable to resolve many problems which had led to the February Revolution and in November a second revolution, led by Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin, erupted in St. Petersburg (then called Petrograd) and afterwards the Russian Civil War had begun between the Bolsheviks, the revolutionary majority faction of the old Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, and the White Movement, a coalition consisting of various ideologies, but mostly anti-communists, counter-revolutionary monarchists, right-wing conservatives and, in some cases, liberal republicans. During the Civil War, the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, which ended hostilities with the Central Powers at a high cost: the collapsing Russian Provisional Government lost its Ukrainian, Polish and Baltic territories, as well as the Grand Duchy of Finland by signing the treaty.

At the Congress of Omsk in April 1919, the White Generals agreed to form a united political front behind Alexander Kerensky and the remaining forces of the Provisional Government. The united White forces, colloquially called the White Army, joined by the new Kingdom of Finland, made considerable gains, yet the Red Army was still strong and well entrenched in the industrial heartlands and transportation networks of Russia. However, soon the German Empire, fearing the success of a dangerous ideology based on anti-imperialism and equality, decided to intervene on behalf of the Whites in exchange for total recognition of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

By September of 1921, both Moscow and St. Petersburg had fallen to the White forces and a new Russian Republic was established in Moscow on October 12, with Kerensky as its first President.

Although the new Russian Republic had to face many threats after its establishment, it managed to survive. Thanks to German mediation, the East Karelian national revolt was quelled with the signing of the Treaty of Tartu, which awarded the region of Petsamo to the Kingdom of Finland, but prevented a full-scale war and kept East Karelia under Russian rule. Thanks to Kerensky's diplomatic efforts, Russia managed to establish good relations with most of the new countries that emerged from the Civil War, including the Japanese-backed Transamur puppet state in 1922.

In 1924, the shadows of another civil war threatened the country when the Minister of Defence Alexandr Kolchak tried to overthrow the government and seize power. However, the coup failed and the majority of conspirators were either killed or arrested, although a few plotters (Kolchak among them) managed to escape. Since then, the government has enforced its grip on the country and struggled to improve the economy, devastated by the Civil War. For the past fifteen years the leading parties, the Socialist Revolutionaries and Kadets, have governed in an uneasy coalition under Kerensky, maintaining their power through electoral manipulation and a lack of serious political opposition or awareness from the populace. However, the worsening of the global economy has yet again eroded the trust of the people and, in the case of a resuming of internal conflict, unknown forces could attempt to remove Kerensky from power and seize control of Russia.

The Princely Federation
With the revolution of 1925 going on in Britain, the Empire collapsed and India entered a power vacuum which various factions raced to fill. The creation of a federal state in the south was more an attempt by the local rulers to protect their lands and riches from the chaos that a pre-planned act of rebellion, but nevertheless it proved a successful means of doing so. Over the course of the 1920's the Federation managed to emerge as a stable nation, and one in which each of the local princes and rajahs had a say in government.Unsurprisingly however, tensions have arisen amongst the lowers classes of society about their exclusion from the political process in the Federation, and the rajahs increasingly believe that Bengalese syndicalist influences are behind these cries of unrest. By 1936 Princely Federation has asserted control peacefully and by force across the entire southern part of the subcontinent, but further expansion is limited by the other two major regional powers to emerge from the vacuum - Bengal and Delhi.However, the current balance of power suits the ruling princes of the Federation for the moment, as it prevents aggressive behaviour lest the status quo collapse like a house of cards. Perhaps the one exception to the deadlock however is the island of Ceylon, which is currently in German hands. Many of the rajahs feel that the island could all too easily act as a base for a new wave of Germanic colonial aggression into India, and this fear is not eased by the fact that Germany has already refused two offers by the Federation to by the island. In 1936 then the Princely Federation is for the most part an isolationist burgher republic, focused on promoting stability and trade in a time of Great Depression.

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The Greater Japanese Empire
While the Peace with Honour guaranteed Japan's rule of her overseas territories, most importantly Korea, the situation in Japan was already critical well before the end of Weltkrieg. Japan's once booming economy had turned to ashes immediately after the collapse of France and the gap between social classes continued to widen. Starting with the Rice Riot of 1918, the later period of the Taisho Era (1912-1926) witnessed severe economic crises and social conflict. Also one of the greatest natural disasters in human history happened, the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, which was then followed by an anarchist rebellion influenced by France's syndicalist revolution. After a failed attempt on Regent Hirohito's life by a lonely anarchist, martial law was declared for the first time in Japanese history. General Tanaka Giichi (1864-1936) formed a cabinet with support from the Genro and Seiyuhonto (splinter groups of the Seiyukai), and then introduced the Peace Preservation Law which symbolized the Draconian rule of Tanaka. However, with collapse of the British Empire and with the economic depression in America, Japan's export-led economy continued free fall with no end in sight. 1926 saw a series of massive bank closures at home and German military intervention in China. As Tanaka was incapable to protect Japan's interest in China or stabilise financial system, the weakness of his rule was exposed. By April of that year, the two main opposition parties, Seiyukai and Kenseikai, formed a coalition and and started so-called 'the 2nd Movement to Protect the Constitution'. With popular support for the opposition and Prince Regent's indirect intervention, Tanaka was forced to resign. The coalition cabinet was formed, marking the beginning of democratic governance, universal suffrage and party-based cabinet. The coalition however, collapsed over the issue of intervention in Manchuria. Prime minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, and his Seiyukai cabinet, was determined to support Zhang Zuelin, the Warlord of Manchuria in an attempt to alleviate or resolve a number of economic difficulties, and prevent a complete German domination of China. On June 4 Japanese troops crossed the Manchurian border and quickly occupied all of Manchuria. Further advances were halted however due to diplomatic pressure emanating from Berlin. Nevertheless the success of the campaign helped to solidify the strong position of the military, most of whom felt the way forwards was to seek further conquests elsewhere. The chaotic year of 1926 ended with the death of Emperor Taisho and his son Hirohito assumed the throne. The next nine years saw mild economic recovery and peaceful political developments. Japan in 1936 is poised to extend her empire, with Germany's dominance of the world appearing to be in decline the Japanese look greedily at both the remaining Qing Chinese territories and the German pacific possessions

American Troops in the Commune of France for revenge during the civil war.

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Japan or Russia.

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