WWI Alt Hist Turn Thread

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Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Miltary: We start invading the Celebes we send 10.000 men over to help the people inavde the island.




Our machine gun testing is going good. We start equiping the army with new guns. These new guns are being tested at in the Middle of Frysland and some in Indonesia.

Naval : Our new dreadnots are being testes with in the North Sea. We now have 5 dreadnots. We also start training into a invasion via Sea. 

Political: Our new members in court of Dutch Indionesia are Indonesian. People in Indionesia start learning Dutch more and start using it at home. Most people in Batavia do that. We also start showing interest in buying African Lands. 


USA and Austria-Hungary conflicts : We decide to stay neutral. Seeing as we cant fight any of these nations. The Austrain Hungary population is in favor of us supporting the Austrains while the normal people rather choose USA over Austria.

Qing Empire, 1903

"Our land is so wealthy and prosperous that we possess all things. Therefore, there is no need to exchange the produce of foreign barbarians for our own."
-the Qianlong Emperor

For almost two centuries, the world in China ruled by the Manchu Qing dynasty had only consisted of China. It was the Middle Kingdom, the center of the world, living in splendid isolation. Yet in the 19th and 20th Centuries, the Qing Empire was hit with a great realization: the world has no more Middle Kingdoms. Many kingdoms rose, all vying for power. The Qing was aloof to this reality, and paid the price: heavy defeats and unequal treaties.

The disease was not cured by the Self-Strenghening Movement. Its objective was mainly military and it only gave the warlords even more power to tear China apart. The ill-informed Hundred Days Reform failed and the Boxers led China into a humiliating defeat where Beijing itself was besieged.

In these days of discontent, the foreign office, newly created by the Boxer Protocols, has given a glimmer of hope; perhaps revenge would be more fitting. Kang Youwei and his student Liang Qichao, extradited from Japan, are to be executed. The main leaders of the failed Hundred Days Reform, opponent of the rightful rule of the Son of Heaven. To signify a new era, they shall not be beheaded or cut. They shall be shot by firing squad, in public.

The shots ring, its echo forever in the ears of the Chinese.

The Grand Council establishes its first priority: paying the Boxer Indemnities ASAP, taking the Qing economy back in control. Two programs are passed by the Grand Council and approved by the Emperor. First, the Land for Silver initiative, where land leases are exchanged for debt forgiveness. The program begins in its earnest, with Qing diplomats scurrying into foreign nations and starting correspondence with the respective nations' foreign offices. Second, a reform on the tax collection system is planned. Tax collection would be done by the central government, with taxation districts regulated under a new Bureau of Taxation in the Ministry of Revenue. A new tax plan is unveiled, planning to abolish the likin (goods transport) tax. Commercial tax is reduced to a flat rate of 1%, and land tax (not property tax) is raised to the Song levels of 10%. This tax plan should bring development because:

1) Lowering commercial tax incentivizes trade (abolishing goods transport tax too).
2) Pure land tax incentivizes development of land, because land is taxed the same way regardless of income generated from land. Thus the land that generates more income profits more.

This tax plan is not expected to be fully implemented in rural regions until 1905, while regions directly under Imperial control are to use this plan immediately.

On industrialization and infrastructure development, the Qing relies mainly on foreign investments, particularly Japanese in Manchuria. While the Qing government has no capital as of yet to sponsor industrialization, preparations are made. In rural areas, guilds of people with a certain skill in a certain village or area are made, where from these guilds factories would be made. Second sons and further of landowners as well as some children of tenant farmers are marked to lead these state-sponsored enterprises. On infrastructure, the Qing government is hesitant to build more, but orders a series of inspections on existing ones, to better get a grasp on further development plans.

However, the Grand Council realizes that no true economic development can occur without curbing the power of landowners. In secret, a campaign is done to turn public opinion into creating communal rule in villages, ensuring proportional representation. To reduce corruption, middlemen are to be cut - low level officials now, but the plan has some grand ambitions; namely, the abolition of the position of viceroy.

Western model schools begin to spring up all across the nation, with Confucian thought sidelined for the hard sciences. In due time, the Grand Council plans a new curricula; hard sciences being mandatory, foreign language and philosophy being electives.

Empress Dowager Cixi begins a rehabilition of the Guangxu Emperor, involving him more in day-to-day rule. Cixi tries to impart some political tact into him for future rule, with the Guangxu Emperor appearing more frequently in public events.

On the military itself, China finds itself in the same political and economic disunity. The Grand Council understands the need to create a standing army instead of many provincial ones, and forms a 10,000 man corps, armed from leftovers of Boxer armies and trained in semi-western methods as a cadre army. In due time, the numbers for this Imperial Army will grow, and all provincial armies will be merged together into one Chinese military.



 

Sweden-Norway

1900-1903:

Sweden:
Capital: Stockholm

Population: 5.1 million

Resources: timber, iron ore, arms exports, high export focus

Military: 50,000

Norway:
Capital: Oslo

Population: 2.25 Mil

Natural Resources: limestone, building stone, nepheline syenite, olivine, iron, titanium, nickel, fish, largest merchant fleet in the world

Military: 20,000<

Swedish-Norway Union: 
Tl;dr: Norway wants freedom from Sweden. Sweden refuses. War!

Year 1900-1902-
Tensions rise between the Norwegian “government” and Sweden. Sweden declares an ultimatum and raises her army to march on Norway.
The 50,000 stron force marches directly towards Oslo. Norway is prepared and her border forts are manned. There are approximately 20,000 troops.

First Battle:
Swedish forces begin the attack. A 10,000 strong force marches north under the command of Gustav Stanislaw(some random guy). Remaining 40,000 arrange themselves into 3 flanks and begin attack.

Since enemy is prepared, 11-12: Complete Victory, 8-10: Victory. Enemy pushed back to Oslo, 6-7: Victory. Enemy falls back but prepares a counterattack, Anything below 6 is an automatic defeat.
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A 7. Sweden seizes the forts and prepares for next stage of battle.
Since I’m feeling lucky, if we roll a 11 or higher, Norwegian forces surrender and we regain control.

Damn! 

Norway retreats a few miles outside Oslo and digs in. They’re awaiting reinforcements. Sweden wastes no time and makes another push to break them. Since they’re already demoralized, an 8 or higher will break them.

Norways retreats yet again. They fall back to Oslo and remain unbroken. They have received a 5,000 strong militia. Their army numbers: 21,000(5,000 KIA). Our army numbers: 44,000(6,000 KIA).

An attack on Oslo. Anyone who surrenders will be given mercy. The rest shall hang! With this proclamation, the Norwegians surrdender. 

Modifier: Will roll dice for unrest each year

Economy: Lots of Infrasturcture. All industries improved. Special focus on Arms Manufacturing and Minerals. Five new factories built in Stockholm. Better harbors built in Stockholm, Oslo, and Trondheim. 

Military:
Strength:
70,000 Standing Army +Military exercises held every month. Core of Army. Focus on defensive and entrenchment warfare. Trained as heavy troops.
+400,000 Reserves trained and equipped. Ready to raised during war.
+30,000 Coast Guard trained. Patrols begin along coast. 

Navy: 
Battleships: 1 prototype by 1903
Crusiers: 7 +1 by 1902
Destroyers: 13 
Frigates: 14 +4 by 1903
Patrol Craft: 45

Airforce:
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We claim the provinces successfully. That's the end of our military turn.

1904




Political:  Joshua Valeta Proposed that of there is more than 4-6 parties and there will be a majority of no less then 20 as the victor that the election be postponed and be  re-decided what party is best. It passed and he stated it was not an attack on democracy like we are seeing in A-H but a way to flush out indeciveness. Two dice rolls would be made to determine the poverty control laws current affects.

Mixing Classes:zX8cuW5n               Poverty Control:    Medium gains. The laws had surpassed Joshua's expectation about 50 percent of the nation's poorest were pulled out of the worst poverty imaginable, along with the poor.



Economy: The famine was somewhat passing. An emphasis  on making more children was made by  running a campaign. In 2 years the current result would be made. The industrial project would continue as more factories wouldbe built. The port was finished and ships for the french would be built.


Naval Doctrine: The prototype was finished, It was a more cost effective version of the dreadnought. Other modern ships were built as to bring the navy larger. 2 newer ships and 2 submarines were built. The marines numbered about 6.5K. Training continued and better equipment was continued as every year the Greeks would modernize more and more. the military port was near complete.

Land Doctrine: Varies returned and oversaw that the forts were finished and the trenches were set up. A couple of force groups were set up. 2 partisan groups were made, One was a long range in the case of enemies attempting to march from the border, They would pepper them along certain areas to make sure no march was without casualties. Another was a short range in forest areas and cities to make sure guerrilla warfare was maintained at every battle. Volunteers who would take small-ish pay were pulled  from the reserve system. 


Diplomacy: With Greece entering alliances they make not much attempt at offering alliances.



Foreign Policy: Trade is requested with allies. Refugees from all war zones and political figures not welcomed into their nations are allowed into Greece. 

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