By the end of 1938, the world was becoming more and more turbulent.

The war in the Far East continued, and China and Japan had become an endless deadlock, and after withstanding the initial offensive of the Japanese army, the Beiyang government announced that it would not only recover Mongolia, Northeast China, and the Outer Northeast region, but also Taiwan, Korea, and Ryukyu, which had been ceded by Japan during the First Sino-Japanese War. This war simply cannot end unless one side loses completely.

With the rapid growth of Soviet Russia's military power, anti-government guerrillas supported by the Social Workers Party (SWO) have grown rapidly in the Don republics, eastern Ukraine, and the Caucasus, and the situation in these countries has gradually spiraled out of control due to the large number of Soviet "volunteers". In the name of the "revolution", Zhuashvili's ambitions gradually swelled.

After the great economic crisis in France, the totalitarian "Popular Front" came to power, and the Bruno government formed a strategic alliance with Soviet Russia, which may have pulled the British into the water, in order to curb the expansion of Germany and Austria, Britain and France continued to sign the "Treaty of Alliance" after the war, and itself has maintained a political and military alliance.

The far-sighted British feared that France would drag Britain into the war, and the sensitive politicians had sensed the dangerous atmosphere of a new global war. Since the European War, the British have always regarded Germany and Austria-Hungary as their mortal enemies, although Britain did not lose many colonies in the "Madrid Peace Treaty", but the control of the main transportation routes, including the island of Malta and the Suez Canal, was obtained by Germany and Austria, "What has always made the British haunted is that the loss of Malta Island is equivalent to the loss of Britain's control of the Mediterranean region, and although after several negotiations after the war, Austria-Hungary would rather break out a war with Britain again than return the island of Malta."

Due to the gradual collapse of the Ottoman Empire, in order to compete for the Middle East. In particular, the control of the oil-rich Persian Gulf region is fiercely contested by Germany, Britain, Austria, France, and Italy, and almost every year it leads to new military conflicts.

In the Far East, Germany and Austria gradually took control of China's politics and economy through economic aid, and at the same time relied on the geographical location of the Jiaodong Peninsula and the colony of Annam. Squeeze the British sphere of influence in the Far East. In China, Britain has been squeezed from the number one trading country to the fourth place after Güdger, and has gradually lost its dominance in the Far East.

In order to drive out Germany and Austria, the British followed behind the United States, instigating and supporting Japanese aggression against China.

Since the end of the European War, the United States has always regarded Germany as its number one competitor, and the United States has always harbored the ambition of world hegemony, advocating that all colonies have equal opportunities and equal interests. "The U.S. has always been committed to opposing the world's most powerful country, and was hostile to Britain before World War I. In Europe, they found that the newly rising Second German Reich was even more formidable than Britain, and they turned to Britain and France.

However, since France was finished before the United States was ready for war, the British, fearing to lose more, eventually made peace with Germany and Austria.

As the world's largest industrial power, Americans are concerned to find that their share of the world economy has been declining, especially in the aftermath of the Great Crisis. This phenomenon is becoming more and more obvious. The United States' share of global industrial production fell from 38 percent to 31 percent, and Britain's share of global industrial output fell from 18 percent to 7.9 percent. However, German industry rose from 13.6 to 21 in 1913. Austria-Hungary rose from 4.2 to 12 percent. The Soviet Union, another rapidly developing Soviet Russia, rose from 3.6 percent of global industrial production to 13 percent.

The Americans, fearing the loss of their status as the world's number one industrial nation, fundamentally wanted to completely weaken Germany, and of course, they also wanted to further weaken Britain through a war, so as to gain control of Britain's colonies around the world. Because of the tariff barriers of the colonial system, the Americans were kept out. The Americans, who lacked colonies, wanted to smash the old colonial system and establish a "new global order" led by the United States.

Therefore, the United States has been supporting the expansion and aggression of Japan and Soviet Russia behind the scenes, because these regions are under the sphere of influence of Germany and Austria, and such a challenge is likely to lead to a full-scale war.

The United States, with its natural barrier of two oceans, certainly wants to provoke an all-out war in Europe and Asia, and only through guò is an all-out war. Only then will it be possible to completely bring down Germany and Austria and remove their threat to the United States.

Of course, these deeds will certainly not be known to ordinary people, and a group of imperialist countries always put on a sanctimonious face and promote themselves as "standing on the side of justice and being forced to get involved in this war in order to maintain world peace".

In Europe, the situation has become increasingly complicated.

The Anglo-French alliance had extremely bad relations with the "Entente bloc" that dominated Europe, and in fact the two blocs had been in a state of hostility since the European war, and the British were no longer able to contain the expansion of Germany and Austria. In the North Atlantic, the Royal Navy, which had long pursued a "two-power strategy", had lost its supremacy at sea and was able to maintain a balance of power with the German Navy only by virtue of the Washington Naval Treaty. The German Navy, after building five battleships of the "Deutschland" class with a displacement of 47000 tons, announced the start of construction of five battleships of the "Scharnhorst" class with a displacement of 55000 tons in the 1939 year. To this end, the British announced their readiness to build two Lion-class battleships with a displacement of 36000 tons, after starting the construction of two battleships of the "Avantgarde" class with a displacement of 41000 tons. The decline of national strength led to the complete decline of the Royal Navy, and the huge psychological gap also led to the great hatred of the British towards Germany, and it seemed that the Germans had robbed them of their cake.

In the North Sea and the North Atlantic, the German Navy was beginning to gain superiority, and Britain, without sea superiority, was nothing, and the British looked at the development of the German Navy with fear. In order to weaken Germany, Britain and France were trying their best to help the rise of Soviet Russia, and at the same time hoped to "divert the troubles to the east", instigated and supported Soviet Russia to "restore the territory of Tsarist Russia", and hoped to achieve the goal of weakening Germany through the guò war.

Although there were quite a few far-sighted Britons who wanted to accept the current reality, they would cooperate with Germany and Austria in order to integrate into European affairs and improve relations with Germany and Austria. However, the British ruling class still hoped to use various means to weaken Germany and Austria and regain its "leadership" over the European continent. Moreover, they have the support of the United States behind them, but they have no fear, and they do not think that they will be at risk of losing their country.

Expansion and containment, as well as competition for resources and markets, have caused fierce conflicts and confrontations between the "Entente bloc" headed by Germany and Austria and the "Allied bloc" headed by the United States and Britain.

In Vienna, Helton watched the changes in the world with great concern, and the situation gradually became clear, and Soviet Russia finally turned to the United States and Britain, and at the end of the year, formally signed a treaty of alliance with Britain and France, becoming a member of the "Allied bloc". At the instigation of the United States, Britain, France, and other countries, Soviet Russia put forward territorial claims to Finland, Ukraine, the Don River and the Caucasus Federation, and in order to prepare for a war of aggression in Europe, Soviet Russia and Japan signed the "Japan-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact", and Soviet troops began to gather in Europe. (To be continued......) R1292