The European Trade Organization (ETO) was a regional trade organization created by the Treaty of Versailles in July 1919, aiming to usher peace and economic stability in Europe.[1] The goals of the ETO was to encourage political and economic cooperation between the European nations, and preventing wars. The ETO consisted of every European state except for Russia, which rejected the ETO's "anti-imperialist" agenda and completely isolated itself from the world.
History[]
Following Germany's surrender in the Great War, the Treaty of Versailles called for the creation of the European Trade Organization, which was to encourage that all European nations work together to establish lasting peace and to avoid potential future conflicts that would be even more devastating than the Great War.
The ETO became one of the key aspects of the Treaty of Versailles, allowing for absolute cooperation between the European nations, even among former enemies of the Great War. As a result the ETO provided economic aid to the defeated nations to rebuild and rejoin the international community. This humanitarian outcome allowed countries such as Germany in 1930 to establish democratic institutions and prevent fascistic elements, such as the National Socialists from coming into power. In the decades following its foundation, the ETO consisted of every European nation as official members and ushered a new era of prosperity for the continent that would last until December 1949, when the Chimera broke through the Red Curtain.
The ETO also established the United European Defense and the Military Defense Commission to better research the Chimera and to protect Europe.
Member states[]
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
Possible member states[]
- Albania
- Belarus
- Ukraine
- Yugoslavia
Trivia[]
- The ETO seems to be modeled after the real-life European Union.