Hungarian Romanian Massacres
The former National Guard Divisions of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma are reformed into the US Army 45th Infantry Division to defend the area against the incursion of Mexican Rebels and Gangs coming from Mexico in the South. In the Pacific-Atlantic Treaty to the Americans, or the Atlantic-Pacific Treaty to the British, the Americans and British divide their zones of influence, with the East Pacific and the West Atlantic, with their bases and fleets going to the Americans, while the West Pacific and the East Atlantic with the bases and fleets there going to the British. The agreement for the most part is at first limited to a 49-year lease. Inside of Germany the so called Winterschutz is a means of arming and defending the nation states of Eastern Europe against the ambitions of the Soviet Union and at the same time spread the German influence across the overall region. Inside the Pacific the former Nazi German auxiliary cruiser Sonne, unwilling to listen to the new German government becomes independent and acts as a pirate after he could no longer be reached in the last couple of days and weeks. In Romania King Michael ascends the throne following the abdication of his father King Carol II. In Paraguay president Jose Felix Estigarribia dies in a plane crash, while the Treaty of Craiova sees Bulgaria/ Yugoslavia gain Southern Dobruja from Romania. In Egypt the Italian Libyan backed Fascist movements is supported in their independence movement and struggle against Britain.
During the so called Treznea Massacre, Hungarian Army and local Hungarian militia kill 93 ethnic Romanians in a village of Transylvania in an ethnic cleansing campaign. While in the United States, George Stibitz remote operates the first computer, a Stone Age Cave Painting of around 17,000 years old is discovered in Lascaux France, depicting animals. The same day in New Jersey the hercules Munitions Plant of Succasunna-Kenvil explodes and kills 55 people. Further operations by the Hungarian Army and local Hungarians against Romanians in Ip Salaj village in Transylvania kill another 158 Romanians to ethnically cleans the region. During the German planning of operation Anglo-Saxon a hypothetical invasion of the British Isles during the next conflict is planned. During the Australian Federal Election of 1940 it is the United Australia Party Country Coalition Government that manages to re-elect Robert Menzies and very closely defeat the Labor Party under John Curtin. In French Indochina, the various Chinese Factions, as well as the Japanese back the buildup of the Viet Minh (National Independence Coalition) and the Viet Cong (National Liberation Front) who would fight in Tonking with 25,000 forces soon, 6,000 of those being foreign auxiliary and volunteers which would fight the French Colonial administration and troops. They are led by Chinese and Japanese officers as commanders of their anti-French, anti-Colonial guerrilla war in Tonking. Within the first months around 40 Franco-Vietnamese auxiliary colonial troops are killed and around 1,000 desert to join the Viet Cong in the fight against the French, soon spreading their Vietnamese Independence War against the French across all of Indochina.