The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a kingdom that covered the British Isles in Northern Europe. Established in 1801 with the passage of the Act of Union (1801) between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland. Known as the United Kingdom and Great Britain, it was dismantled in the aftermath of the Third Global War when the National Socialist dictatorship of John Beckett and his British Imperial Party was defeated by the combined forces of France, the United States of America and other countries. Three nations were established in the aftermath: Ireland, Scotland and England.