Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Asia to the east, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia.
Europe is the primary battleground during the events of Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance: Retribution. Many countries in Europe were part of the United European Defence and the European Trade Organization. Despite Europe's military unity, the continent quickly fell to the Chimera during the outbreak of the Chimeran War.
History[]
Following the end of the Great War, when Germany declared a ceasefire and was reestablished as a parliamentary democracy under the Weimar Republic and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, the European Trade Organization was formed with the purpose to encourage all European nations to cooperate to establish peace, thus avoiding future devastating conflicts similar to the Great War.[1] In the following decades, the ETO accepted new membership from European countries. The organization also helped to restore war-torn Germany into becoming an ETO member, allowing the Weimar Republic to triumph over the National Socialist Party.[1] This in turn stabilized the continent and allowed further economic development and progress.
Russia, having been a member of the Allies during the Great War, did not join the ETO on the belief that Europe and its organization was anti-imperialistic and posed a threat to the Russian autocracy ruled by Tsar Michael. As a result, Western European-Russian relations gradually deteriorated that culminated in the Russian execution of twelve French agents without trial for allegedly encouraging insurrection against the Russian government in 1921.[1] Thereafter, Russia completely withdrawn from the outside world by closing out all outside communications and constructing a massive barrier along the Russian/European border.[1][2][3] A tense cold war was developed between Western Europe and Russia.
Despite Russia's isolation, Europe enjoyed lasting peace through the 1920s and 1930s, with Germany hosting the Olympic Games in August 1936.[1] By the late 1930s and 1940s, the European public noticed strange and unexplained occurrences from Russia, such as unnaturally cold weather that caused 138 people and many animals to freeze to death in Sweden; a mysterious slick containing exaggerating quantities of radon coming from Russia's Volga River that flowed into the Sea of Azov, causing the deaths of all the sea's marine life and several villagers; and Russian towns and cities along the Russian border that were completely depopulated with no signs of violence, which led European intelligence to believe that chemical and biological weapons had been involved.[1] Due to the latter, the United European Defence feared the possibility of an inevitable war with Russia and made preparations along the Russian borders.
Between the 1920s and 1940s, the relationship between Europe and the United States of America was fairly cooperative in its cross Atlantic trade, despite being strongly opposed by American isolationist elements. However, in November 1940, following the American presidential election of Noah Grace, he firmly reestablished America's isolationism and cut off "political and military endeavors" with Europe.[1]
Ultimately in December 1949, the Chimera breached the Red Curtain and invaded Europe, leading to millions of people being either killed or infected within three months time. Britain became the last European nation to fell in October 1950.[1]
It was not until the liberation of Britain in Operation Morning Star that the European continent was freed from Chimeran control during Operation Overstrike, as joint British and Maquis forces succeeded in destroying the Chimeran hub tower in Paris, France, causing the en mass deaths of nearly all Chimeran forces in Western Europe.[4] By 1952 European allied forces had been fighting on multiple fronts in Europe including the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and Spain. In 1953, European forces had steadily retaken control of the continent and were planning a dangerous assault into Russia.[5]
However, following the fall of the United States in 1953, the Chimera regained the momentum, pushing the Maquis and British back, and by 1957 the front line had moved to Glamorgan, Wales.[6]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Timeline retrieved from the official Resistance website.
- ^ Official Resistance Series Timeline on Gameinformer.com
- ^ Tunguska
- ^ Resistance: Retribution
- ^ Resistance 2, Intel 7
- ^ Resistance 3