The 3 Conferences

Dear Diary,

Been busy! Well we do have an angry Nazi to deal with. 3 major conferences in the space of 2 years! Not much is it? But enough.

The Tehran Conference: They code named it "Eureka"! What are they, six? I sent our new chap, Mr Winston Churchill. A competent lad, might even win us the war. He was with Joseph Stalin, Germany upset him in 1941 with the whole invasion thing, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. This meant the 2 greatest superpowers in the world! And us... Ah. We worked on setting up a second front in France and began to concoct strategies to put Germany back in it's place. Not gonna be easy.

The Yalta Conference: Codenamed "Argonaut Conference". Much cooler, well as far as a political conference can be. Same three lads, Stalin, Roosevelt and the good old very very British Winston Churchill. Not much excitement overall but they all had a nice chat and discussed "Europe's post-war reorganisation". Sounds fun doesn't it... We established UN and split the American/ Soviet Spheres of influence to East and West. This should boost relations but I couldn't help but notice some tension between Staling and Roosevelt but as far as I'm concerned, if I'm getting what I want... They can argue all they like.

Potsdam Conference: Didn't get a code name this time but maybe it would be best to forget it.This time 2 new faces. Truman, the new US President, and Atlee, the new British Prime minister. We finally defeated Germany! And we gathered to decide on a fate but sadly it seems that Truman and Stalin can't get along... I think I worked out what was wrong though, here I go: The Soviet Union had gained lots of land and, despite claiming it was "defensive", seemed very aggressive. Britain and America had new leaders, a new slate should be present... But instead all the good relations had gone but communist and capitalist views clashed. Those damn Americans with their freedom freedom freedom, so annoying. Despite these problems many things were established at this conference including:

• Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals.
• War Reparations... AGAIN.
• German military and industrial strength crippled.
• Poland given it's independence back.

Anyhow back to being England and all. Maybe it's all over now, but the judging from the hatred between Truman and Stalin... I fear not.

England

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The Rhineland... Oh and now bloody Poland.

Dear Diary,

That Adolf has buggered everything up. The Treaty? The set of rules dictated by the other countries? Well that's gone down the toilet. He has introduced conscription and marched into the Rhineland! We told him not to! To top it all off, The Saar voted to become German! Why can't things just go to plan? But what can we do? We can't do anything. I don't want war and neither do the French. Better just appease him.

I am getting a bit worried though for poor Poland. In August of this year, 1939, they signed the Nazi soviet pact. We don't need 2 superpowers like that joining together.

Oh, I bloody well give up. Germany has invaded Poland, and the Soviets are soon to follow. Off to war it is then!

England

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Abyssinia Crisis

Dear Diary,

Oh for goodness sake. Not again. Another crisis! We do not need this at all. The League Of Nations is weak enough as it is! Now Italy. All over some silly little bit of land called "Walwal". Silly name anyhow. Italy was all upset about it all. So upset they invaded Abyssinia. How stupid. Abyssinia could never be able to outfight the Italians, large army but poor equipment.

They know this though, that's why they came to us. Their emperor even came to see us in the League Of Nations simply to ask for help. What do they want us to do?! I, and France, need the allies if the tensions with the German Chancellor "Adolf Hitler" rise up. We tried to impose economic sanctions but not oil of course! Can't afford to lose our hold on the market for that. Or block the Suez Canal, far too much effort! So I sent out our foreign secretary Hoare and the french secretary Laval to have some secret negotiations. We agreed with Mussolini, the leader of Italy, that we would allow them some of Abyssinia and the rest later on. But then DISASTER! The press found out about this, so cleverly called "The Hoare-Laval Pact", and the public were in outrage.

As with it seems everything nowadays, the League Of Nations is becoming less respected and consequently less power.

England

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Mukden incident

Dear Diary,


Those Japanese! Those damn Japanese! A bomb exploded on a railway in Manchuria and suddenly they think they can invade! I bet they did it themselves.

Japan always wanted to invade China. After the wall street crash 2 years ago they need the money and I think a lot is about the pride. So we, we being the league of nations, decided we were gonna step in. Problem being... We don't have an army... But the biggest problem being the rising problem of that chap in Germany... Adof... No... Adolf! But we did ask them to stop. We sent a slightly ineffective "Lytton commission"  because we are in no rush to upset anyone or start a war. So what did they do? Left the league of nations! Bloody atrocious.

I bet they did it themselves. Planned it just so they can invade. I don't know... One thing I can say for certain, international relations, and indeed the League Of Nation's power and reputation levels are sure not getting better.

England.

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The Treaty Of Versailles

 Dear Diary,

Dear Diary, A spiffing day today! With the Germans beaten and the allies still united I think we finally managed to stop any attempt at another world war! Fantastic! We all met to sign the "Treaty Of Versailles". Shame it's so french, but hey ho. We invited the Germans so they could sign it, but could they have any say about it? Of course not! They started the war after all. They just sat there and stayed quiet.

 It's odd though, the treaty had so many different aims for different people. The French want to weaken Germany due to their close proximity. But most importantly they were jolly adamant for the reparations. Funny coming from the French! They never do anything in wars.

 The Americans kept going on about freedom again. Free trade, free this and free that. But most importantly Wilson wanted peace. He didn't want to be harsh on Germany but we showed him different!

 We wanted to punish Germany for the pain and economic loss they caused us but personally I am not that bothered about the whole paying back. I'd rather have a stronger self repaired Germany to add to Europe. I and the French both want secret treaties. Let's hope this is the end of the Germans aggression now!

 England.



 

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