Far across the Pacific the United States becomes isolationistic once more. The Youth begin mobilizing, and the Chinese Communist Party begins, nationalism grows stronger. In China after WWI there is disillusionment with west, who gave into demands of Japan at Versailles forcing the government not to sign Treaty of Versailles which favored Japanese interests. The Asian continent is controlled mainly by Thailand, Mongolia, the Soviet Union, and China. Meanwhile the rest of the Pacific is controlled by the Netherlands, British and the United States. Viewing these islands as unsinkable aircraft carriers, Japan began fortifying them. Most of which became possessions of the Empire of Japan under a mandate from the League of Nations following Germany's defeat in World War I.This gave Japan the ability to control important islands in Micronesia, such as the Marianas, Carolines, Marshall Islands and Palau groups. The Great War is over and Germany has lost all of her Pacific colonies.
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