The Great Disaster lore:
The mod passes in a different 1936, where a more violent World War 1 made Europe collapse into revolutions and civil wars.
Prologue 🇷🇺 Russian-Japanese War🇯🇵:
Everything started in 1905, in the Russian-Japanese War, unlike OTL, the Russian Empire managed to get a better result after the 1st Battle of the Port Arthur, which made the Imperial Japanese Navy retire, giving more time to the Baltic and Far Eastern Fleet to be ready for the Siege of Port Arthur and then win over the IJN again. In 1905, Russia and Japan finally ceased the aggressions with Korea being a Japanese protectorate and Northern Manchuria being under russian military occupation called General-Commission in Zheltorrossiya, while the Chinese regions below Harbin are under chinese control.
After the Russian-Japanese War, both sides developed quickly in economic and social camps. Russia managed to peacefully disband the Russian Revolution of 1905 and less turbulently managed to transition into a Constitutional Monarchy in 1906. Stolypin's structural reforms in Russia created a more powerful army, a better social state for the common folk and a more stable Russian Empire.
The Beginning of the End 🇷🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 WW1 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇹🇷:
In 1913, after the Balkan League won against the Ottomans, the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Serbia disputed the region of Macedonia, with Serbia annexing the region, the tensions between Bulgaria and Serbia, which was the worst possible, exploded into a war between the two countries. Russia, protector of the serbians, made an Ultimatum to Bulgaria to cease the aggression and began mobilization. Romania, seeing the coming conflict and the possibility of Russia invading them, Romania sought an alliance with Germany, that accepted it, with that, the Austria-Hungary also entered the war in the Bulgarian-Romanian side. France, ally of Russia, was forced to declare war on Germany, initiating World War One.
As the war progressed, in 1915, Austria and Bulgaria managed to divide Serbia and Montenegro into two occupied regions and initiate to invade Ukraine to help Germany in the war. On the western front, Germany surpassed Belgium and invaded France, which gradually became a trench war, with Frenchs and Germans dying at thousands and dozens of thousands months after months. Even Germany won battles against Russia and managed to reach Riga and Minsk in december 1915, Germany suffered to win it due to the high russian resistance within the battles.
In the wear of 1916, the Battle of Verdun began, unlikely in OTL, that France won the german army into a decisive battle. Here, France still won the german army, but at a high cost for both sides, especially France, that lost the general Adolphe Guillaumat, a loved general for the french soldiers. His death was a blow to the French army, which was now under pressure from its own population and its own army. After the Battle of Verdun, the surviving French soldiers began a mutiny against the French government and mass desertions ensued, largely due to discouragement from fighting, and Guillaumat's death was a trigger for this. This ultimately facilitated the work of the German army, which was able to march on Paris again as in 1871. In 1917, France and the United Kingdom were forced to sign a peace treaty, which resulted in the loss of the Lorraine region, the return of all colonies occupied by the Entente, and the handover of the French Indochina colony to Germany.
Revolutions in Europe 🇷🇺🇩🇪 1917-1922 🇭🇺🇦🇹
Even after winning the Western Front in World War I, Germany struggled greatly to reach Kiev, at the cost of many lives and economic and political instability. Both sides were suffering from food shortages and the growth of communist parties. In 1918, Russia suffered the February Revolution, which overthrew the Russian Empire. A few months later, Alexander Kolchak overthrew the Russian Provisional Government, and the revolutionaries fled to Zheltorrossiya, where they created a rebel government. Even with Russia under a military dictatorship, this did not prevent the Bolsheviks from invading and blowing up the Winter Palace and carrying out the Bolshevik Revolution in August 1918, thus beginning the Russian Civil War. Kolchak quickly established a government in Omsk and advanced against the Red Army. On the German side, although they managed to defeat Russia, the economic effects were a blow to the German people, and in May 1918, the KPD initiated a revolution that became the Spartacist Revolution of 1918, where southern Germany rebelled against the imperial government. With most of their generals fighting in the war, the socialists managed to march to Berlin, and Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to Prussia. The German Council Republic was declared for a period, until Paul von Hindenburg and the generals who returned from the victory in France and the Freikorps initiated a counter-revolution against the fragile Spartacist government, which succeeded due to the weakness of the KPD. Thus, in September 1918, the German Republic was declared, with Paul von Hindenburg as its interim president until the 1922 elections.
1923: Aftermath of the Great War:
The 1920s were a period of radical change. In 1920, Gabriele D'Annunzio overthrew the struggling Austrian government and formed the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the Austrian-occupied region of Fiume. Little was done to overthrow D'Annunzio's government, especially since Austria was dealing with the Hungarian-Transylvanian communists. This allowed Fiume to establish itself, although it remained in conflict with the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (an Austrian puppet state created after its victory over Italy). In 1920, the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento migrated to the Kingdom of Italy, and in 1922 the March on Rome took place, which made Benito Mussolini Il Duce d'Italia. This created a schism within Italian fascism, with D'Annunzio's followers considering Mussolini a traitor and Mussolini's followers viewing Fiume as a decadent state that needed to be more radical. This led to Fiume and Italy developing their own ideologies, and in Fiume new ideologies emerged: Accelerationism, Futurism, and d'Annunzism.
In 1925, the unstable French government was overthrown by Action Française, which sought a restoration of Orleans; however, this failed, and in 1928, France returned to democracy when the Action Française government was overthrown by democratic juntas. This did not last long, however, as in 1931, Jacques Doriot, along with the French Popular Party, Croix-de-Feu, Republican Syndicalist Party, the Francist Movement, and the Front National of Avant-Garde, overthrew the French democratic government and established a Fascist state in France under the iron fist of Doriot and Marcel Bucard.
In 1936 is when the game scenario begins, Germany continues to be a democracy, France is trying to structure its government under Jacques Doriot, Russia collapses in 6 warlords, China collapses into a warlord period, the United Kingdom, Japan and the US stand still over the chaos; Brazil had been couped in 1935 due for the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932, which it gained more allies (Santa Catarina, Paraná, Mato Grosso, Maracaju and Goiás) and marched over the Rio de Janeiro and removed Getúlio Vargas form the presidency, putting Julio Prestes on power.