World War III: The American Front (2060-2065)

Decline of America
With the beginning of the 21st century, the influence of the western world began to hinder as the United States of America dramatically declined due to rising debt and trillions of dollars spent on pointless wars and interventions during the First Democratic War, a result of the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks. Many other nations came in to fill the power vacuum as America sank into a Second Great Depression. Latin American nations such as Brazil, Mexico and Argentina grew economically at its expense, finally ascending to respectable positions as world powers. Across the Pacific, in Asia, the People's Republic of China (PRC) took the US's place as the dominant power, beating the US in every way. In other parts of Asia, the Middle East fell into anarchy and formed the Holy Islamic Empire (HIE) out of the ruins, while Russia went back to its old Marxist ways and formed the Communist Federated Republics (CFR), countries which all began campaigns of rapid expansion across their continents.

In 2041, the US went to war with the HIE over the free nations of Kuwait and Iraq, quickly losing the war to its technologically superior Muslim enemies and proving a humiliation. And seeing little improvement in the economy, and finding its people turned against their government, as violent worker and food riots became commonplace, often forcing down the hand of martial law, the US and Canada, out of desperate necessity, merged together, making Canada apart of the US by 2047.

The Proxy Wars
In 2055, the US formed a coalition against Chinese expansion and for the protection of Taiwan; ships from nine nations lined up in the Taiwanese strait, while negotiations went underway. China though, in a decisive move, attack the coalition navies, destroying the entire US Pacific fleet and leaving the island for easy pickings.

China's allies were quick to join the war, and collectively the PRC, CFR and HIE formed the Hegemony. The Allies nations then began falling one by one like dominoes; first Taiwan, then Vietnam, Korea, the Philippines, Israel, Japan, and New Zealand. The only significant resistance that remained was India, the remains of the African Union and Australia, which were only barely hanging onto freedom. Meanwhile, the European Union (EU) declared neutrality in spite of its sympathies toward the US. America, with its insanely weak military and problems at home with violent anti-war protest erupting all over the country, could only watch as the Hegemony came on the cusp of victory.

Battle of the Territories
China's push across the Pacific also saw the swift and easy capture of various American territories of Guam, Samoa and Midway Island. Fiji, Tonga and Vanuatu were also conquered with the US unable to protect them from falling. Now, with most resistance in the Pacific crushed, invasion of Hawaii was not only possible but a guarantee.

Battle of Hawaii
In early 2060, China attacked American soil, launching a surprise invasion of Hawaii. America, without much of a navy and weak defense on the islands, lost one its states in a short but bloody battle. In winning, China gained a vital base for its eventual invasion of the mainland, and provided the unstable nations with quite a demoralizing, moral lowering, loss in a failing war. But, for now, America blindly saw the homelands of California and Alaska safe from the hands of the Hegemony.

The Latin Ultimatum
In preparation for attack on America, China planned to put Latin America into complete chaos as a distractionary measure; meeting up in Panama City with all the neutral nations of Latin America (all except Colombia, Chile and Peru), General Hon himself, leader of the People's Liberation Army, in an ultimatum, urged all in attendants to pick a side or suffer fierce reprisal.

Chinese allies in the form of Brazil and the recently declared Greater Argentina immediately joined the Hegemony, invading Chile and Peru. Out of fear of Hegemony conquest, Venezuela also joined, attacking Colombia and Guyana. Other nations, such as Ecuador, Cuba, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic immediately joined the Colombian lead Allied coalition. Regardless of threats from China, however, many other nations, mainly Mexico and other smaller nations, opted to keep their neutrality. This would not last.

Operation Dragon's Fire


In mid 2060, China hit the US with its "Great Cannon", a weapon that shut down America's computer networks and Internet, leaving the entire country in a digital blackout and blind to what came next. Then, the Hegemony destroyed 35 American cities through nuclear fire, including Washington DC; 100 million Americans, a fifth of the US population, were killed in the attacked. America, of course, retaliated with its own attack, but prepared, the Hegemony nations responsible (PRC and CFR) had evacuated their major cities beforehand and putting up well made defense systems in place, minimizing the damage. And correctly predicting that America wouldn't dare bomb its own land, even if under occupation of a foreign power, the Hegemony saw the islands untouched and invasion plans unhindered.

Hours after the exchange of nuclear fire, Chinese forces numbering in the tens of millions began shipping to designated landing zones in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. The next day, Chinese forces landed in the ruins of California and Washington to little resistance, while northwards, the CFR landed troops in Anchorage and Juneau, Alaska. Mexico, despite its stance of neutrality, had its mind changed when radiation from the bombs set off poured south, and killed millions of its people. China's oversight, however, would not immediately shift the war's tide. But still, America would receive much needed assistance in the form of resources and manpower from Mexico amidst its terrible crisis.

Regardless, America founded itself pushed to the Rocky Mountains, as its richest state, California, fell to the Hegemony.

Continuation of the Latin Front
With the US completely distracted, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, which had joined the Hegemony days before the invasion, began its own crusade, invading its smaller neighbors. Argentina, in a swift move, pushed across the Andes Mountains and smashed the Chilean military in a few weeks, occupying and annexing the country.

Then, with the help of Brazil, it turned on Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia, taking those nations as well with minimal effort. They both then turned on Peru to more fierce resistance. Brazil then conquered Guyana and Suriname, enticing Venezuela, which had promised to join the war with the Hegemony, to join out of self preservation.

The Drive East
The US, in an act of desperation, begged for the European Union to intervene in the war, but they refused out of fear of the CFR and HIE. While some nations supported the idea of war, they were out voted by all the others, stupidly hoping to ride out the war.

Soon after, the Rocky Mountains defense collapse, as soldiers fell to radiation poisoning, resource shortages and attrition. The Hegemony advanced across the Great Plains, encircling Denver, which fanatically resisted as best it could, but soon fell to starvation.

Meanwhile, the Allies tried to slow down the Chinese war machine as much as possible, inflicting heavy casualties on the invasion force, while the US prepared another defensive line, this time as the Mississippi River.

China, finding itself fighting along the Mississippi River, drove south to Louisiana. The state quickly fell and forces stationed for the defense of New Orleans retreated across the Mississippi. In the process, the US military bombed every bridge connecting the land surrounding the river.

The new defense was finally put to the test at the Battle of Memphis, where the Hegemony found itself unable to cross into the city.

Battle of Texas & Vancouver
The Hegemony, instead, turned to the remains of America west of the Mississippi launched separate invasions of Texas and Vancouver. Texas fell to China to a horrendous number of fatalities in Houston. Its offensive south did not last long, soon finding itself stopped by Latin forces in Monterrey, Mexico. Millions of American refugees fled to Mexico, leaving the entire country discombobulated.

Meanwhile, Vancouver, in a shocking outcome, remained free from CFR occupation, losing the city but keeping the island, making it the only remaining US resistance west of the Mississippi River and Canadian Wilderness. The CFR then, instead of trying again, opted to blockade the island.

The Trenches
With the Allies and Hegemony completely halted at the Mississippi, the strategy for victory shifted purely toward attrition, planning to outlast each other in the war, both locked in an unwavering cycle of combat. China, which expected a victory over the US in half a year, saw its decisive campaign drag on. Peru fell to the Hegemony, making it the last major Hegemony gain in South America before being stopped along the border with Ecuador and parts of southern Colombia, soon becoming entrenched. Venezuela's invasion of Colombia resulted in a failure, as its military managed to push Venezuela out of its territory. Despite fighting a war on two flanks, a combination of overextended supply routes, and Venezuela's weaker military left both nations free from the Hegemony.

Meanwhile, the nations of Central America joined the Allied war effort, prizing the Allied countries with much needed aid, and establishing a continuous stronghold extending from Colombia to Mexico and the Caribbean.

In similar fashion to World War I, trenches started being constructed on all fronts. Despite how wide the Mississippi front was, a complex system of trenches was built along the entire Mississippi and most of the Canadian front by 2062.

Determined to hold all remains of its territory, the US began Operation North Star, the aerial supply of food and ammunition to the under blockade island of Vancouver, a costly endeavor that resulted in the destruction of many planes, but kept the island from collapsing due to starvation.

In the spring of 2062, the CFR and HIE invaded Europe, conquering most of the territory before the end of that year. The EU was pulled into the war at the complete wrong, at its most vulnerable hour, and in no position to help the collapsing US.

Free America
In the remains of the United States, drastic measures were taken to prevent starvation from impacting the soldiers on the front lines. Corpses of enemy soldiers and living ones that were captured, had there bodies turned ground up and secretly served to Allied soldiers and civilians under the guise of it being various animal meats. The scandal waiting to happen wasn't discovered until long after the war in America ended.

American Resistance
America was once known as the most gun-crazy nation in the world; it was common stereotype, and point of pride for its people. However, with the arrival of the 21st century, news media's further emphasis on gun violence birthed the Gun Control Movement. Long story short, gun control advocates won, and the US government passed laws that repealed the Second Amendment. With this, the ability of the American people to rebel against its Hegemony occupiers was crippled when World War III began. However, those barriers still failed to prevent guerrilla movements that deeply impacted the Hegemony war effort.

When American rebels successfully assassinated a high ranking Chinese general in mid 2062. China began a massive crack down on potential "enemies of the state", building various labor and death camps for all living in Occupied America.

Latin Front: Battle of the Colonies
At the onset of the joint CFR-HIE invasion of Europe, Brazil and Argentina swiped the colonies of French Guiana and the British Falklands. Both territory were taken with little resistance as both were isolated and an exodus had begun. Argentina annexed the Falklands and Brazil occupied French Guiana.

Fall of New York
In an attempt to end war with the United States, China executed its plans for Operation Roach's Nest, a risky gamble to attack the new US capital of New York City, taking advantage of frail defenses in its rear. Using captured Allied ships, Hegemony Special Forces, snuck past Allied presence in the Atlantic, and touched down on New York, stealing it from America within a few days in a shocking surprise attack.

Despite the ships' appearance in New York clearly being unscheduled, the US government blew off the idea of enemy attack as unlikely, because of the city's relative isolation from the rest of the war at hand. They were, of course, wrong.

The Hegemony suddenly attacked, killing much of the US government and Allied leadership. What was meant to serve as a simple suicide raid would turn into an occupation in seeing how startlingly successful the operation was.

The US capital was forced to move for a third time, now in Philadelphia. Yet another defense was formed along the Hudson River, leaving the US even closer to crumbling. And the president through this entire ordeal, US President Sloan, was becoming increasingly unpopular within the people, and more importantly, the military...

The Philly Incident
With the Occupation of New York in November of 2062, tensions within the US government boiled over the following year in June. But instead of a Second Civil War erupting, the US military marched on Philadelphia to down President Sloan. The president's increasing unpopularity with the people caused the coup d'etat to be bloodless.

Sloan was arrested along with many of his government loyalists and executed on charges of incompetence.

The US provisional government was replaced by a military one, lead by General De-Tierra, who immediately began his reign by rounding up all accused Sloan sympathizers and possible supporters of the Hegemony, killing them on mass to preserve the collapsing war effort, considering it to be a necessary evil essential to preventing a potential Second American Civil War from occurring.

Immediately after the coup's success, the American Army began planning for Operation Hostile Hollow, the eventual liberation of New York City and Operation Angel's Fire, the final push against Chinese forces on American soil west of the Mississippi River.

Caribbean Campaign
China, still infuriated at the Latin Hegemony and their complete lack of progress in the war, demanded that Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina do more for the Hegemony. In response, they launched an invasion of the Caribbean islands, neutralizing everything south of the Virgin Island without much resistance, until the Battle of Navidad, where Latin navies battled for a day and decimated each other to a stalemate. Both sides claimed victory in the end. Seeing the Caribbean Campaign on the verge of being a failure, the Chinese air force intervened with a firebombing campaign. It aimed most of its attacks on the US state of Florida, almost ignoring Cuba, the DR, and Puerto Rico.

Florida was filled with millions of disjointed refugees from the western US, making it a prime target for the Hegemony. Miami, Orlando and Tampa suffer heavy damage to infrastructure and population. Havana in Cuba, San Juan in Puerto Rico and Nassau in the Bahamas were bombed heavily, but to a lesser extent.

O-Town Firestorm
The city of Orlando was reduced to a flaming pile of rubble, 350,000 people were killed in the attack, and the PLA air force was devastated. It was the deadliest of the firebombings, and the campaign was entirely indecisive for both the Allies and Hegemony.

Brazilian Civil War
Not long after failure in the Caribbean, Brazil, plagued by years of instability from its controversial decision to join the Hegemony, as well as the blatant corruption of the Communist Party, found itself flooded by violent protesters in every major city. In April of that year, Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, finally exploded into straight up conflict. The country collapsed into outright civil war between the Pro-Hegemony communists and Allied backed rebels.

The Latin Hegemony member states were unable to provide full assistance to the communists, as they were preoccupied with holding together the front in South America, something Venezuela and Argentina alone were both struggling to do.

The war in Brazil would, like the many other fronts of the war, inevitably fall into a bitter deadlock for the next years. It wouldn't be for another 2 years that the war would rage, until in late 2065, the Allies would become victorious.

Liberation of New York
The US, in the midst of its darkest hour, desperately in search for some kind of victory over the Hegemony, launched rapid suicide attacks on the fortress of broken glass that was New York. After two years and seven bloody assaults, America finally broke through in October of 2064, launching Operation Hostile Hollow, and landing hundreds of thousands of troops on the five boroughs of the city. After a few days of brutal street fighting, the city finally fell back into American hands.

American morale was greatly improved by the win, now seeing the liberation of the rest of America as a realistic possibility. Meanwhile, the HIE noticed this sign of weakness on the Hegemony's part, renewing their confidence in the betrayal to come, their planned holy war on infidelity.



Operation Angel's Fire
On December 1, 2064, the Hegemony broke apart, as the Holy Islamic Empire suddenly betrayed the Hegemony, declaring a holy jihad against the godless CFR and China. The US finally found the perfect opportunity for the long awaited liberation of North America. Before the end of December, 30 million US troops crossed the Mississippi River, suffering 450,000 casualties only days into the offensive. America, however, pushed through, recapturing many cities west of the Mississippi and forcing the Hegemony into a full retreat across the entire front.

In the chaos, three Hegemony armies were encircled in what was called "The Great Plains Trap", and swiftly destroyed, killing an astonishingly huge 500k soldiers.

Seeing the war quickly turn out of their favor, the retreating Chinese began destroying all they could, adopting scorched Earth policy, and rounding up nearly everyone being held in their labor camps for execution. On December 31, 2064, 15 million Americans being held in PLA Labor Camps were killed, an act that somehow put the Holocaust to shame in terms of both brutality and efficiency.

Battle of Corpus Christi
In March of 2065, Mexico had its time to finally shine in the war, launching an offensive north to retake Texas and reestablish its border with the United States. China, already struggling to hold the front in the US, was taken aback by the attack, until only central Texas remained under its occupation, and the city of Corpus Christi remained as the PRC's only access to the Atlantic Ocean.

Together, Mexico and the US liberated the city, forcing the PLA to flee Texas and move to the Rockies. In May of 2065, the CFR abandoned all its territorial gains in North America to redistribute its manpower toward defense of the homeland from HIE invasion.

Battle of the Ruins
In one last attempt to turn the tide of the American Front, Chinese forces occupying Denver attempted to make an offensive along the Rocky Mountains. With a force of four million soldiers, the bulk of the Chinese forces attempted to collapse American Front. To extensive casualties on both sides, the Americans managed to decimate the Hegemony, ending all dreams of a new offensive or any victory. The US, in the process, recaptured the city of Denver.

Battle of the Pockets (LA and Seattle)
The Chinese Rockies defense fell apart immediately and a few months later, the last pockets were held in Seattle and Los Angeles. After two bloody struggles, LA was the final city to fall back into Allied hands. The war was far from over, but mainland was free.

The Drive South
Upon driving the Chinese out of the mainland US, plans to take back the state of Hawaii and territory of Guam were pushed back in favor of liberating South America. Immediately, 300,000 Allied marines were landed in the Hegemony nation of Venezuela, securing a surrender within a few weeks. From there, Allied troops reigned down on the warring Brazil, ending the conflict, and pushing the Communist Party out of Brazil, into Argentina. The new Brazilian government switched the nation's alliances, declaring war on the Hegemony, and entering into a war with Argentina.The North American Allies then turned their attention to Europe, which was enthralled into a three-way cycle of complete anarchy, and where the EU was struggling to get by.

Brazil vs. Argentina
With the American Hegemony on its last legs, as all that remained was China's hold on Hawaii, and Argentina's continual resistance, final victory was expected to be a walk in the park. However, seeing how Argentina refused to surrender, and Brazil still racked after the civil war, that it was made clear that the war in America was to drag on again. In early 2066, as the Allies prepared for Operation Charlemagne in Europe, Argentina attacked the province of Sao Paulo, with intent of stealing the city baring that same name. Smashing through the Brazilian defenses, Argentine forces reached Sao Paulo, only to the accompaniment of bloody urban warfare in the city, which bogged down the offensive completely, leaving attrition to judge the victor.

As Brazil found itself under much pressure, and suffering copious, unnecessary casualties, everything south of the province was abandoned, yielding a great victory to the Argentinians, as well as the Brazilian Communists, which sought to retake control of the government. Despite this early victory, however, the Allies saw an opportunity to undo the Hegemony's success through the liberation of Peru. Because of weak defenses on the western flank, the Allies swept through it, before they were suddenly halted in the mountainous regions of Bolivia. From there, the war devolved into a stalemate.

By the arrival of the 2070's, Argentina, being isolated from the rest of the Hegemony, and having no real reason to stay in the war, exited from it, signing a treaty with Brazil and the rest of the Allies. The Allies agreed to it because they sought to focus all attention on destroying the remainder of the HIE, CFR and Chinese Hegemony.

Second Battle of Hawaii
China, which had been occupying Hawaii for the past twelve-years, finally found itself fighting the US for the second time over the state. American forces swooped in and reconquered the islands with minimal effort, as China turned its attention to protecting more important targets, like the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia, which had come under threat by other Allied offensives in the Pacific; the war in America had finally ended.