History TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope / TropesAToD

* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:So a nuclear war broke out despite (or [[VillainProtagonist perhaps because of?]]) your actions and the world was destroyed, was it? [[www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWtcxj_VkfE Try waiting around for a couple of minutes.]]]]

* ArtisticLicensePolitics: In the USA,[[spoiler: after RFK and Hubert Humphrey are assassinated, Strom Thurmond blackmails the speaker of the house into declining the presidency, leaving it to him.]] This chain of events assumes that Strom Thurmond is the pro tempore of the Senate. However, there are several problems with this:
** First, to be pro tempore, you traditionally have to be the longest serving member of the ''majority'' party in the Senate. The above events occur even if the States' Rights is the minority party in the Senate.

* DownerEnding: Each country has their own set of bad endings (also known as failstates) that can be reached while following specific routes.
** Britain: [[BlackShirt Colin Jordan]], [[AllForNothing Operation Sealion II/William Joyce]] (regional).
** Germany: [[PuppetKing Idiosyncratic National Socialist Speer]] (regional), [[spoiler: [[CoupDEtat June of Deceit]] (regional)]], [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans Heydrich]] ([[spoiler: regional if Heydrich wins the second civil war, worldwide if Himmler does]])
** Russia: [[TheCaligula Sergey Taboritsky]] (regional), [[HopelessWar Dmitry Yazov]] (worldwide), [[ThoseWackyNazis Aryan Brotherhood]] (regional, [[spoiler: worldwide if Schultz takes over and forms Hyperborea]])
** USA: [[DayOfTheJackboot Francis Parker Yockey]] (regional)
** Iberian Union: [[BalkanizeMe The Iberian Wars]] (regional)
** Africa: [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption The African Crisis]] and [[CrushingThePopulace The African Devastation]] (Regional)
** Guangdong: [[RapePillageAndBurn Nagano Shigeto]] (regional)

** Pavlodar is led by Kazakh nationalists who want to rebuild Kazakhstan on democratic principles and liberate it from the tyranny of local warlords, even though their opposition from both within and without is very formidable.
** Orenburg under Aleksander Burba can be reformed into a technocratic representative democracy, putting an end to political chaos in Orenburg.

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality:The setting of the mod, as with most Axis-victory fiction, takes a great number of liberties with regards to realism. The success of Operation Sea Lion and Nazi Germany getting nuclear weapons first are two such examples, given the logistical limitations of Germany during World War II. However, this can be handwaved as creating a good story. And in any case, reality hits ''hard'' going into the 1950s, with the Reich coming to a point of almost being a failed state.

** In the aftermath of the USSR's fall, the Russian SFSR (not including the parts annexed by Finland, Germany as part of RK Moskowien and Kaukasien, or Japan as part of Manchuria) was divided into four successors: the West Russian Revolutionary Front in European Russia, the West Siberian People's Republic in Western Siberia, the Central Siberian Republic in Central Siberia, and the rump USSR in the Far East. These states later succumbed to infighting and conflicts (including the West Russian War and the Sibieran War), and by 1962, Russia is divided into around 40 warlord states. Although most of the time this is a temporary state of affairs until one of these warlords can reunify Russia, it is possible for Russia to be divided for good if all four regional de-unifiers emerge victorious (resulting in the division of each region into new warlord states with no ability to expand):

*** In Kazakhstan, [[spoiler:if Nowa Polska defeats all other Kazakh factions, they will create a friendly Republic of Kazakhstan in Eastern Kazakhstan and a puppet buffer state called Republic of Aktobe between the two countries.]]

** If the Afrika-Schild totally wins the South African War, Hans Huettig of Ostafrika will try to take over the entire continent and form the Grossafrikaner Reichstaat. However, when he tries to annex the Boer Republic, General Magnus Malan launches a coup against the weak Boer government and declares that they are no longer working with Germans, and the situation soon unravels into a Second South African Civil War.

** Serbia can have a civil war between the German garrison and the nationalist Serbian resistance.

** Pavlodar is led by Kazakh nationalists who want to rebuild Kazakstan on democratic principles and liberate it from the tyranny of local warlords, even though their opposition from both within and without is very formidable.

** Creator/GeorgeOrwell (living in exile in Canada) wrote a series of AlternateHistory novels titled ''Legacy of the Weltkrieg'', based on ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg'' and with its [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/i02898/huh_seems_kinda_familiar/ latest volume]], ''The Red Twilight'', set in the Sixties. It's premises centers around a Central Powers victory in World War 1, resulting in the British Empire and France undergoing a socialist revolution, while Russia turns into a fascist dictatorship by Boris Savinkov. Together, they invade and defeat the German Empire and the Entente remnants before their alliance inevitably falls apart and creates a CrapsackWorld more akin to ''TNO''. The syndicalist Commune of Franco and Mosleyite Union of Britain turn on each other and engage in an apocalyptic nuclear war, while Russia and Japan engage in a similarly destructive conflict. By 1962, most of the world is devastated by nuclear fallout and the four sides are in a tense armistic that could end civilization through a second nuclear war. By the end of "The Red Twilight", the American Commonwealth falls into a Third American Civil War from a white supremacist revolt in the South. Upon release, the novel is beloved by most for its complex parallels to TNOTL conflicts, though some deride it as implausible, something that Orwell responds by claiming that their own universe is no less strange than his story.

*** "The Man in the Iron Fortress" delves into a ''Third''-Blind What-If called "The Beast Among the Reeds", which centers around the downfall of both Nazism and communism when Dzerzhinsky is succeeded by the even crueler Lavrentiy Beria, leading to a decay of Sino-Soviet relations and putting the world in danger of nuclear war. According to the news event, this novel is central to the plot "The Man in the Iron Fortress".

* DoWellButNotPerfect: While both the OFN and Afrika Schild can, respectively, totally conquer the Reichkommisarts or South Africa in the South African War, the best outcome for both sides is to merely extend their territory without fully defeating the other side, as controlling the entire turf of the former enemy will be very difficult and fraught with unforeseen consequences.

** Britain: [[BlackShirt Colin Jordan]], [[AllForNothing Operation Sealion II]] (regional).

** Guandong: [[RapePillageAndBurn Nagano Shigeto]] (regional)

** Bormann wears a brown NSDAP uniform, showing his committment to conservatives in the Nazi Party.

* DueToTheDead: Lenin's mummified remains are held in a city in the Urals. Capturing the place unlocks a decision about out to treat his mummy, depending on the player's nation or ruling idelogy (socialists are able to give Lenin a ceremonious burial, while non-socialists can choose to desecrate his corpse).

** Followers of the Burgundian System, described by one of the developers as the people who want more gas chambers than houses, believe that the Reich grew too soft and tolerant, and as such seek to rebuild society on total state control of power, extreme racial oppression, and enforcement of militarism, [[OneDropRule purism]], and [[TheSpartanWay spartanism]] on all aspects of civilian life. Even the ''Aryans'' in the Burgundian System live like prisoners and work like slaves.

** The teased rework info screens for the United Kingdom mention that Britain and America conducted a joint invasion of Morocco, which developed into a new campaign in the Maghreb region in North Africa in 1944. This campaign parallels the IRL Operation Torch but here takes the name of Operation Market Garden, which in OTL was a separate campaign conducted in the Netherlands. The campaign proved to be a HopeSpot for the Allied forces as it offered the first glimpse of victory after years of successive defeat, but the forces used for the campaign left Britain itself vulnerable, which was exploited for a successful Operation Sea Lion in March 1945. Once Britain fell, the Allies would be subsequently pushed out of North Africa for the second time by the Italians and Germans, sealing the Allies' defeat.

** Music/TheBeatles exist as a band in occupied Britain, and many believe they secretly have anti-government messages in their songs.

** Free Britain, the resistance in the UK, starts a Second English Civil War against the collaborationist regime.

* {{Dystopia}}: While Nazi states and Ultranationalists states can still have some sensibility amidst their rampant oppression, the states under Esoteric Nazism, especially the ones following Burgundy and the SS's line of Spartanism, embrace openly insane all-oppressive governmental policies. %%the closest substitute for Burgundian System is Nazism and Germany's eastern policy during WW2

** Britain: [[BlackShirt Colin Jordan]] (regional).

** Britain: [[BlackShirt A.K. Chesterton]] (regional).

** In the 50s, Germany suffers a ''massive'' economic crash. The Axis disbands, the remnants of the Soviets almost recapture Moscow in the West Russian War, and Himmler attempts a failed coup and is [[ReassignedToAntarctica made leader of Burgundy]]. In the United States, the Democratic Party collapses, and its remnants unite with the Republicans to form the Republican-Democratic Party. Two new post-war parties, the left-wing National Progressive Front, and the right-wing Patriotic Party, merge to form the National Progressive Party after [=R-D=] President Dwight D. Eisenhower achieves a massive majority.

** At the same time, democracy only works when its participants see those who disagree with them as "loyal opposition" to be worked with rather than enemies to be shunned at best and purged at worst. Every American president who embraces this logic can succeed or fail on their own merits; those who reject it are doomed to failure. The potential downfall of South African democracy and the Komi Republic begins each time with extremists participating in the democratic political order entirely to undermine and destroy it driving wedges between those acting in good faith. And the perpetual danger to Brazilian democracy is leaders deciding that their enemies are simply too dangerous to be allowed to participate in the democratic system, leading the country down the dark road to military coups and the disintegration of democratic government itself.

** Attempting to appease fascists and other extremists will never work in the long run, as they will never be satisfied with anything other than fully achieving their goals. This is particularly seen in South Africa, where attempting to appease the pro-Nazi, pro-Apartheid hardliners will only make things worse when they try to seize power anyway.

** While the most brutal of regimes are self-destructive, great sacrifices must be made and great risks must be taken to achieve the dream of liberty - the temptations of authoritarianism constantly hang over the heads of Buryatia, Tomsk, and Komi in particular - and tyranny isn’t always doomed to failure. An "effective" Fascist empire under a pragmatic leader of the likes of Speer and Balbo remains harsh and repressive, and may be even more insidious than openly insane dictators because they have the ability to survive for the long term and thus potentially legitimatize very toxic ideologies and worldviews associated with Fascism and Nazism. Political reforms started by Fascist dictators will never create real liberation, as dictatorships are fundamentally self-serving and interested in keeping their own power rather than bringing power to the people.

* BalkanizeMe: After several German invasions, the United Kingdom capitulated and partially collapsed. Scotland and Wales both went independent, Ulster became autonomous under Ireland, and Plymouth was placed under a German garrison.

** HMMLR, the English resistance, starts a Second English Civil War against the collaborationist regime.

** Similarly, if Wales defeats England in a war, which is unlikely given how outmatched Wales is by England, you get [[https://i.redd.it/imsv8guqh5h51.png another joke event]].

** Music/TheBeatles exist as a band in occupied England, and many believe they secretly have anti-government messages in their songs.

** The teased rework info screens for the United Kingdom mention that Britain and America conducted a joint invasion of Morocco, which developed into a new campaign in the Magreb region in North Africa in 1944. This campaign parallels the IRL Operation Torch but here takes the name of Operation Market Garden, which in OTL was a separate campaign conducted in the Netherlands. The campaign proved to be a HopeSpot for the Allied forces as it offered the first glimpse of victory after years of successive defeat, but the forces used for the campaign left Britain itself vulnerable, which was exploited for a successful Operation Sea Lion in March 1945. Once Britain fell, the Allies would be subsequently pushed out of North Africa for the second time by the Italians and Germans, sealing the Allies' defeat.

** Second, Strom Thurmond isn't even the longest serving NPP senator, and so he almost certainly would not be Pro Tempore even if the NPP holds the Senate. [[note]] The NPP senators at game start that served before Thurmond, assuming their Senate careers were the same as in OTL, are Richard Russell Jr. (1933), John Sparkman (1937), James Eastland (1943), Margaret Chase Smith (1949), and Henry M. Jackson (1953). Thurmond ascended to the Senate in 1954. [[/note]]

%%** Instead of the Red Scare, there was an anti-Fascist Grey Scare, which was as [[WitchHunt inquisitorial]] as [=McCarthyism=] was in real life, although ultimately more cursory and less intense -- if not for that if the Yockey wing of the NPP employs the Southern Strategy, Nixon can propose restarting the Grey Scare...
%%-->"Are you or have ever you been a member of the German-American Bund?"

%%** ''Film/ANewHope'' can still be released in 1977, with some major differences from the OTL movie, depending on political (for example, the Death Star can become an allusion to Göring's Sun Gun) and practical (like if Creator/GeorgeLucas isn't allowed to go to Tunisia, he will go to Guatemala and make Yavin 4 the home planet of Luke Skywalker instead of Tatooine) circumstances.