The World War was in full swing, dwarfing the Great War [WWI to us] forty years earlier to a mere skirmish. Battles raged across Europe, Asia, and Africa. The worst of it was along the Russio-German border, where great swathes of the landscape had been rendered desolate and unusable. Australia and the Americas were as yet untouched.
But that was soon to change. The USSR was already at war with the United States and it would only be a matter of time before American troops were on their soil. So they decided to enact a preemptive strike against them. The Red Navy was rather short on anything not covered in guns, but a quick overhaul of a few of their battleships turned them into quite excellent troop carriers.
The hammer fell in January of 1959. Red Army amphibious attack units arrived near-simultaneously in California and Alaska, catching the US almost completely off-guard. Germany and the Axis had been pressuring Latin American nations, Mexico in particular, to attack the US to keep them out of the European war. With this bold move by the Soviets, the Mexican government was suddenly much more open to this and accepted a financial contribution from Germany. Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru assisted Mexico with troops and ships and on February 19th they entered the war, catching the Americans off-guard again.
In North Africa and the Middle East, Arab countries rallied to support Turkey against Bulgaria, which had attempted to seize parts of Turkish territory. Shortly thereafter, an incident along their border with the Soviets led them to declare war on the USSR. In Scandinavia, Norway switched sides to the Allies when German subs sank Norwegian merchant ships that had strayed into captured Danish waters. Finland received assistance from the Fascist bloc as they rebelled against Russian rule.
In the Americas, Australia and Canada had sided with the US against the belligerent Latin American nations. Large gains were made by the Soviets into Alaska and Canada, while the Latin troops marched up through Texas and into the Great Plains. However, the United States was soon able to put a stop to their advance and the American front gradually settled into attrition.
With the entire world aflame with war, the future looks quite bleak...
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