174, Peace (Final Chapter)
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No one could have predicted that in September 1943, a cease-fire agreement between Soviet Russia and the Axis powers would suddenly come to an abrupt end to the war on land in Europe. Please search (product % book ¥¥ net) to see the most complete! With the suspension of the war against the Soviet Union, the Axis powers were able to devote more troops to the battlefields against Japan and Australia.
With the deployment of more than 2,000 heavy bombers from the 1st and 3rd Austro-Hungarian strategic bomber units to western France, and the concentration of all 6,000 or so Dornier DO-26, Messerschmitt Me-162 and Heinkel He-179 heavy bombers by the German strategic bomber forces, the British nightmare began.
In 1944, the Axis forces occupied the entire New Guinea, but suffered a heavy setback against the U.S. Pacific Fleet in the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the momentum of the offensive was stifled.
But as Austria-Hungary and Germany put "secret weapons" such as A-4 and V-2 rockets into the battlefield, the English Channel was no longer a moat capable of defending the British, and the entire southern part of England was within the attack range of German-Austrian rockets, and industrial cities in southern England, including London, became targets of these rockets, and many urban buildings and factories were destroyed.
Nearly all of Japan's cities had been razed to the ground in the bombing, Japan had effectively lost the ability to wage a modern war, Axis warplanes were wreaking havoc over the Japanese archipelago, the navy was no longer there, and the total number of planes left in the entire army air force was just over 1,000.
In May 1944, after two years of siege, 650,000 Japanese troops from East China surrendered, and then 190,000 Taiwanese garrisons surrendered.
In the autumn of 1944, new A-5 and V-6 rocket launchers were installed on ocean-going submarines, and the cities of the east coast of the Americas and the northwest of England were no longer safe, and the German-Austrian submarine forces began to launch rockets at night to carry out large-scale raids on these cities. Under the massive bombardment of strategic bomber forces and rocket forces, Britain's industrial capacity was quickly destroyed. The whole British Isles was in a desperate situation.
The neutral Irish government began to lean towards the Axis bloc, and the U.S. Navy began to withdraw from the British Isles in the face of the enormous superiority of the Axis naval and air forces. In the winter of 1944, with the tacit consent of the Irish government, the Axis forces suddenly landed in the west of Ireland, and after more than two months of fierce fighting, the whole of Northern Ireland was declared lost. The British Empire lost its last barrier.
The Churchill government collapsed and a new British cabinet was inaugurated in January 1945. As soon as the new Prime Minister Allison took office, he immediately announced that Britain was ready to withdraw from the war, and informed Germany, Austria, and Italy through the neutral Portuguese government that the British government was ready to negotiate peace.
The preliminary peace talks were held in Madrid, the neutral capital of Spain, and were attended by important representatives from Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Britain, and the United States. During the talks, the Axis powers proposed a temporary ceasefire along the current Line of Actual Military Control and a demarcation of the colonies based on the current areas of actual occupation. Britain and the United States put forward three conditions for the conclusion of an armistice treaty, namely, the abrogation of the German-Austrian-Italian Triple Alliance Treaty; withdrawal of troops from all currently occupied territories in Europe, Australia and Asia; All Asian and African colonies, including the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar, were administered condominantly.
Of course, such terms for peace talks could not be accepted by the Axis bloc. The first talks broke down.
In order to win more interests at the negotiating table, the two sides vigorously fought and took offensive actions in unison. In early March 1945, the United States and Australia launched a full-front counterattack in Australia, but the Axis powers marched on India from Iran and Central Asia, and the British bombardment, which had been dormant for two months, continued.
In January 1945, the Axis powers dropped the only two atomic bombs on Japan in quick succession. Its destructive power shocked the world, and after that, Japan announced its unconditional surrender.
The flames of war burned again, and the Americans gained a little, and only the British Empire suffered. Under the huge threat of atomic bombs and having suffered heavy losses, the British side ignored the strong opposition of the United States. Unilateral declaration of withdrawal from the war.
Germany and Austria temporarily stopped bombing Britain and concentrated most of their naval forces in the Pacific to fight the American army, and now the Atlantic theater has no meaning.
In July 1945, the Axis powers gathered 26 aircraft carriers and 16 battleships to launch an all-out offensive in the Central Pacific, while the U.S. Pacific Fleet concentrated 18 aircraft carriers, 12 auxiliary carriers, and 15 battleships within the main warship.
The largest naval and air war in human history began.
The war lasted for more than three months, and the Axis forces lost six aircraft carriers and four battleships, while the United States lost ten aircraft carriers and seven battleships. U.S. troops withdraw from the Central Pacific. Defending Australian waters with all their might, the Axis forces canceled their plans to march into Hawaii after occupying Wake Island.
With Roosevelt's death and the dominance of peace voices in the United States, President Truman had to choose to resume peace talks.
The Axis powers announced the first condition for peace talks: a cease-fire in the areas currently actually occupied, and second, the British and French colonies occupied by the Axis bloc would be "co-administered" by the Axis bloc and the spheres of influence of the countries would be redivided. Third, the Axis bloc had the right to station troops in the areas currently under occupation and promised to gradually reduce the number of troops over the next decade.
The representative of the United States accepted in principle the main preconditions for the armistice talks, and the two sides jointly announced that the armistice talks would be held in Madrid, the Spanish capital, in a week's time.
After 5 years and 8 months, the sunshine of peace has finally returned to this world.
The main controversy of the Madrid peace talks focused on the ownership of the Philippines, the partition of Australia, and the future status of France, and the loss of interests on the part of the British and Soviet Russia seemed to have been "forgotten" by the negotiators.
The main interests of the Americans were concentrated in places like Australia, the Philippines and South Africa, and now the Americans became the representatives of the interests of the Anglo-Saxons. With regard to Australia, an agreement was reached between the two sides to take the current de facto occupation zone as the boundary, and the Axis coalition forces made a slight concession and withdrew from the Cape York Peninsula and entered into a partition of Australia. On the question of the Philippines, the Axis side said that Guam and the Philippines had been handed over to the Spanish side, and anyway, this was something that the Americans took from the Spaniards, so they had to spit it out.
The United States insisted on granting the Philippines independent status, and the dispute was resolved after Spain said it would hold a referendum on Philippine status in five years' time.
With regard to South Africa, the Axis powers insisted on the restoration of the Boer states that had been occupied by the British, and at the insistence of the United States, Cape Town and Elizabeth Province were placed under British administration, while the original Boer regions were established as a new state.
On December 12, 1945, with the signing of the Madrid Armistice Treaty by representatives of the Axis and Anglo-American allies, the war that spread throughout the world was finally extinguished. Under the new strategic pattern, Britain and the United States only used the British Isles and Iceland as a foothold to influence Europe, and almost the entire Eurasian continent was included in the hands of the Axis group headed by Germany and Austria, and the confrontation between the entire Axis group and the British and American interest groups was still ongoing.
However, Soviet Russia was able to continue to be retained, and because of its great threat, its neighboring Finland, the three Baltic states, Ukraine, Belarus, the Don River, the Caucasus Federation, the Kazakh Federation, and the Siberian Republic joined the ranks of the Vienna Convention countries, and the German-Austrian bloc provided them with military and security asylum.
The confrontation in the whole world continued, and there was also open and covert struggle within the Axis bloc, and it was another history for the United States and Britain to join forces and profit from it...... (To be continued.) )
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