Originally published at: http://timeghost.tv/il-duce-kicks-churchill-where-it-hurts-ww2-051-august-17-1940/
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Wll done! I like the new âinterfaceâ where you show the units involved in the battle
Sides at present:
World War Two
Allies: Albanian resistance, Australia+, Bahrain-, Belgium^+, Canada, Czechoslovakia^, Danish resistance, Estonian resistanceâ, Ethiopian Arbegnoch, Free France+ââ, Iceland~âââ, Latvian resistanceâ, Luxembourg^, Nepal, Netherlands^+, New Zealand+, Norway^+, Oman-, Poland^, South Africa, United Kingdom+
Axis: Germany+, Italy+, Slovakia~, USSRââââ, Vichy France+ââ
3rd Parties: Denmarkâââââ, Lithuanian resistanceâ
2nd Sino-Japanese War*
Sino: China**
Japanese: Japan+, Manchukuo~, Mengkukuo~, Ngolok Tibetans***, Reorganized ROC~
~puppet
^occupied with a government-in-exile & resistance movement.
+Includes the countryâs colonies, overseas territories, or reichskommissariats
-self-governing protectorate or territory
âThe official governments of the Baltic States reluctantly accepted the USSRâs ultimatums, resulting in their occupation & the installation of new Soviet friendly regimes. This led to the creation of irregular national resistance movements, though it would take time before they became formal organizations. As the Estonian & Latvian resistance forces are fighting the USSRâwho is a co-belligerent of Germany at this timeâthey are listed with the Allies. Although the exact date that Polish & Lithuanian resistance forces began fighting each other for control of the land around Vilnius/Wilno is unknown, they do so throughout the war as well as fight Germany & the USSR. For this reason, Iâm placing the Lithuanian resistance in the 3rd Parties list. SPOILER WARNING: After Operation Barbarossa, I will reassign them based on the new front between Germany & the USSR.
ââWhen newly appointed Prime Minister Philippe PĂ©taind announced his intentions to seek an armistice with the Axis powers, General Charles de Gaulle established a government-in-exile that would continue the war on the Allied side. French colonies had to decide whether to remain loyal to the Vichy Regime or join the Free French. SPOILER WARNING: Chad under Governor FĂ©lix ĂbouĂ© was the first to join De Gaulle & soon all of French Equatorial Africa was in Free French hands, with its capital Brazzaville serving as headquarters for the movement. By late 1943, all French oversea possessions except in Indochina were controlled by Free France. Although the French government in Vichy is officially neutral, I have placed them with the Axis. The main reason being that Allied forces would continue to attack & occupy the territory it claimed throughout the war. At the same time, the Vichy government collaborated with Germany by providing war materials, allowing them use of their territory for strategic operations, & in implementing the Holocaust.
âââAlthough the Icelandic government issued a formal protest, the British invasion was not contested because Iceland lacked a military to fight back with & so told its people to treat the occupiers as guests. Even to this day, the "Lovely War" is controversial. Many Icelanders view the Allied occupation very negatively for the loss of their countryâs sovereignty & for foreign troops fraternizing with local women. Others point to economic & infrastructural benefits the happened during the war. SPOILER WARNING: Icelandâs occupation is transferred to the Neutral USA on July 7th, 1941. At that point, I will take Iceland off the overview until Pearl Harbor.
ââââI have the USSR on the Axis side because both Germany & them are currently at war with Poland(The Soviets invaded on September 17, 1939), divided Poland between themselves pre-invasion, are working together to end the Polish resistance, & are trading war materials. This is all detailed in the MolotovâRibbentrop Pact, the GermanâSoviet Frontier Treaty, the GermanâSoviet Credit Agreement, & the GermanâSoviet Commercial Agreement. SPOILER WARNING: After Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, I will move them to the 3rd parties list(See my policy on country placement below) & then move them to the Allies after the signing of the SikorskiâMayski agreement in July 1941 between the Polish government-in-exile & the USSR.
âââââIn the 2nd week of April, both Germany & the United Kingdom invaded & occupied parts of Danish territory(Germany occupied Denmark proper & the United Kingdom occupied the Faroe Islands) to âguarantee their independence & neutrality.â Everyday life went on mostly as before with Local authorities in both areas cooperating with the occupiers. Hitler hoped that Denmark would be âa model protectorateâ that would aide his larger goals. Despite this, the Danish national government resisted calls by Germany for legal discrimination against Jewish Danes, the death penalty, & German military courts to have jurisdiction over Danish citizens. The Danish colony of Greenland(being de facto independent at the time) asked the neutral USA to protect them from invasion by the warring powers. Throughout this time, Denmark remained officially neutral despite having Axis & Allied forces on its soil. SPOILER WARNING: On August 29, 1943, after refusing to submit to any further German demands, the Danish government was dissolved & the German military took direct control of the country. At that point, Iâll take Denmark off the 3rd parties list & replace the Danish resistance with Denmark(with an occupied disclaimer).
*SPOILER WARNING: The 2nd Sino-Japanese War remain unconnected to World War II until September 1940 (When Japan invades French Indochina & joins the Tripartite Pact). After this point, Iâll roll it into World War II.
**The Kuomintang & Communist Parties have signed a truce to fight the Japanese as part of the Second United Front lead by Chiang Kai-shek, but coordination is minimal & both deeply mistrust the other.
***The Ngolok rebellions were a brutal ethnic conflict fought in Qinghai/Amdo between Ngolok Tibetans & the Hui dominated Ma clique who were loyal to the Kuomintang government of China. Despite having a common enemy in the Kuomintang, the Ngolok Tibetans & Japan were only co-belligerents as they didnât have a formal alliance & didnât coordinate in military planning.
MY POLICY ON COUNTRY PLACEMENT: If a country declares war on or attacks another country & at least one of them is already involved in World War II, Iâll list the other as a part of the opposing faction. That is why the events of the Winter War are included in the main World War II list & the events of the War of â41(Ecuador vs. Peru) will not be. The countries listed in the factions above are comprised of both official members & co-belligerents. The terms âAlliesâ & âAxisâ are used for both kinds of belligerents as a convenient way to distill the world war & itâs adjoining conflicts, with disclaimers used to elaborate on some of the more complicated situations. If a country or resistance movement is at war with at least one country form both factions, Iâll add them to the 3rd parties list with a disclaimer. The 3rd Parties list is not a faction, but a collection of warring parties who act independently of one another. I have to consolidate factions along co-belligerency or else the number of factions will balloon out of control. Finally, each post only represents the factions as they were 79 years ago to the day. Many countries will join, leave, or switch sides before the war ends for various reasons & I strongly encourage you to look into the situation of each country for yourself.
I posted the improved version of the Willkie Nomination Ceremony photo in the Dropbox.
Update (Aug. 16): I made a few adjustments here and there, but Iâm finally done.
I know itâs really juvenile, but I constantly read Mussoliniâs title as âIl Douche.â Please tell me Iâm not alone in this
I think that these posts should be shared on youtube, donât you think? Theyâre too good and well detailed to be kept private
Thank you for the complement! Iâve actually been posting them on YouTube from about Week 3 or 4 & I have an overview for every weekly video. You can find them under my real name Marcus Bierman.
Oh man, youtubeâs hiding comments from me. Problem is, Iâm sure not just from me
Were you not able to it? It shows up when I looked at it
Iâm afraid not. Wouldnât be surprising if youtube shows comments differently to different users. Gonna try finding it somewhere and clicking like, perhaps that will raise youtubeâs evaluation of it and improve the chances of being shown (?)
Weird, Its shown as the 2nd comment on my screen & I know the Time Ghost Team can see them because I almost always get a heart from them on YouTubeâwhich by the way thank you team! For a while I was getting a decent number of likes, but for the past few months I have been getting only a couple & rarely get replies. The one for this week has two likes & a heart. I donât know how YouTube orders the comments, but since I canât tell when my comments get disliked, do you think its possible a bunch of them might be a factor? Anyway, Iâm just happy that I get to do them & that you & others enjoy them, no matter how many likes I get!
For organisational purposes, we might have to start breaking down the resistance movements into a separate category or putting them elsewhereâŠ
Also alignments get really weird when something happens in Yugoslavia. And even more so in '44 as the war is coming to an end (in Greece, etc).
Regarding the YouTube comments by the way, as well as your running tally here (which would be cool to see published at the end), it would be good if you could include some formatting in it. YouTube doesnât use Markdown like Discourse (this forum software) does, but it does support asterisks (*) for bold and underscores (_) for italics. You could use a single one of either symbol here to make italics and then copy-paste into YouTube to have a more nicely formatted text.
At the end, if youâre so inclined - and it is sadly beyond my technical skill - you could compile it all into some kind of interactive website with nice design/typography and all. Since youâre consistent with the symbols it would at least be parseable. Itâs a wild thought but we have a few years left so if you want to learn some frontend webdev, the best time to start is now!
Not gonna lie, I started this kinda on a whim without any real experience in formatting. My 1st post looked like thisâŠ
Sides at present:
Allies-Poland
Axis-Germany, Slovakia
& as the weeks went by, Iâve experimented with the format & taken some constructive criticism to make the overview better. A website would probably be a long ways away, but Iâll start implementing some of your suggestions for tomorrowâs post. Thank you for your imput!