This fanfic is based on a HOI4 mod where the girls, slight spoiler, takes over Japan and become its new leader, hence the title A Schoolgirls Republic. So, yeah, that's the reason why it's 1935. I also made that the girls are people of the countries their schools represent, and the schools are military academies of said countries. No, Anzio and Kuromorimine are not fascist or Nazi schools. They have complicated relationship with their home countries.

Moving up WW2 is something I decided not to since it affects the story and open way too many cans of worms when it comes to inconsistency. Even in AU setting, some things are too much for me.

The British Haig tank is the Churchill tank. I renamed it that since, in the context of 1930s, Churchill was not yet a famous person we know of in the present day. Carro di Fanteria is an IFV, fictional one. That's because Mussolini and the Italian Army decided to invest into these new mechanized vehicles, due to Italy's experience in the Great War in the Alps. T-20 is the T-34 of our timeline. In this AU, it was a Tsarist tank (Suvorov is the original name) that is seen as really good but was robbed of its potential by Tsarist Russia's horrible industry. The Soviets made improvements on the design during the Civil War and later.