The Interwar Period

After what was believed to be the biggest war of the century, the countries began the rebuilding process but the failure of the democratic powers in the war lead many to believe they were a sub-par form of government causing many to be replaced in the following years. In Germany, famine and destruction of road networks crippled the nation and it would not fully recover until 1937 when the new monarch Willhelm the 3rd was inaugurated. The British, after the conflict, were a shell of what they used to be and this caused them to seek alliances with their former colonies of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand,thus becoming the foundation of the United Democratic Nations (U.D.N), which would later be fully formed when the United States becomes an official member-state. In France and Italy, the cost and humiliation of the war caused many to revert to religious teachings and symbols to supplement what they have lost. This would eventually lead to religious leaders taking power and becoming a sudeo-dictatorship. France would fall in 1933 and Italy would follow in 1938. In Russia, the communist reds would be triumphant in their civil war against the whites and lead to the formation of the Sovet Union in 1922 the new found state would quickly retake its lost land from the undefended nations the German Empire had freed as a result of their peace treaty in 1917. In Japan, a rising democratic party was able to gain power through a military coup which overthrew the shogunate with few casualties.Those loyal to the shogun quickly surrendered, and as a result the shogun and his followers were banished from Japan and dispersed into the asian countries.