Melasian Crisis

Melasian Crisis
Part of the Great Game
Clockwise from top left: Mascyllary soldiers in Melasia during the Battle of X Mascyllary infantry retreat from Kingsworth, January 1943 Cuthish artillery in action against Mascyllary forces near Wathfield Melasian guerilla fighters enter Jürgenshafen, August 1943 Mascyllary battleship MSS Orkan burns following the Battle of the White Sea Cuthish troops guard Mascyllary prisoners of war following the Battle of Alderport
Date 10 May 1941 (1941-05-10) – 5 September 1943 (1943-09-05) (2 years, 3 months and 26 days) Location Cuthland, Mascylla, Temaria, White Sea, Melasia, Sea of Banat Result Cutho-Melasian victory Melasia gains complete independence Gradual begin of decolonization Cuthish–Mascyllary enmity reemerges as the primary geopolitical issue in Berea Establishment of the Berean Defence Treaty Association and Mageiros League Beginning of the Great Game
Belligerents
Cuthland Melasia Supported by: Dulebia Erytheria Rovina	Mascylla Supported by: Albeinland Lavaria
Commanders and leaders
Wilfred Newbury Elfric Mendenhall Wybert Melling Boaty McBoatface	Maximilian I Ernest Rähner Albrecht von Marburg Georg Hernach Karl von Clasewitz
Strength
1,882,000 1,882,000 X	1,135,400 1,135,400 X X

The Melasian Crisis (Hesurian: Melasien-Krise, Cuthish: X), also known as the Great Crisis or Mid-Century Crisis, was a major military conflict that lasted from 1941 until 1943. The conflict was initially a guerilla war in Mascyllary Melasia between Mascyllary colonial forces and pro-independence Melasian insurgents, later spreading to the Telmerian Peninsula and igniting a large-scale conventional war between Mascylla and Cuthland. The crisis was the first major great power confrontation since the Great War, and is widely considered by historians and international relations experts to be the closest that the world has come to the outbreak of a Second Great War.

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The Melasian Crisis had wide reaching effects that led to a major realignment of the international system for the first time since the Great War. Cuthland reemerged as a great power, leveraging its newly minted alliance with Melasia to establish the Mageiros League as a counterbalance to Mascyllary influence. Mascylla and its allies subsequently founded the Berean Defence Treaty Association, laying the groundwork for the Great Game as these two alliances, along with the not!COMINTERN, emerged as the primary geopolitical blocs during the second half of the 20th century. The effectiveness of the Assembly of Nations in deescalating and ending the crisis was widely praised by world leaders, firmly establishing the organization's credibility as a fixture in the geopolitical landscape and a major force for international peace and cooperation.