100 Years: The World Changes

[Mr_ Bondoc]

And go to the Democrats that are sterilizing them? Of course. :rolleyes:

Coolidge has done some things for civil rights, and put in some pro-civil rights judges. Now Bingham, he's got plenty of time to screw things up for the Republicans. He'll be the worst president since Fillmore.

Unfortunately immigrants and African-Americans make up less than 15% of the electorate. Second, you have the President making deals with the Pope, which is certainly angering the WASP-base of voters. Third, unemployment is at least c.12%. There is no social security net and there are no jobs being created. Also, you forgot the Democrats have the "Solid South".

If you have a country wherein the author H. P. Lovecraft is considered "Man of the Year" before getting elected, especially with his anti-immigrant views, then the Republicans are certainly in trouble....

[Zacoftheaxes]

Unfortunately immigrants and African-Americans make up less than 15% of the electorate. Second, you have the President making deals with the Pope, which is certainly angering the WASP-base of voters. Third, unemployment is at least c.12%. There is no social security net and there are no jobs being created. Also, you forgot the Democrats have the "Solid South".

If you have a country wherein the author H. P. Lovecraft is considered "Man of the Year" before getting elected, especially with his anti-immigrant views, then the Republicans are certainly in trouble....

We already said 1936 is close, and both sides probably cheated. Calvin will get out of the fire with his reputation still intact. Bingham is going to burn to a crisp. We'll see a Democrat and a Nationalist in 1940, but The Republicans manage to send one last man in to screw them over completely.

Also TTL's Pope is scary and dangerous, so some deals may need to be cut.

And we've overturned that ridiculous Supreme Court decision like, three times already. How come people are still being sterilized?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

We already said 1936 is close, and both sides probably cheated. Calvin will get out of the fire with his reputation still intact. Bingham is going to burn to a crisp. We'll see a Democrat and a Nationalist in 1940, but The Republicans manage to send one last man in to screw them over completely.

Also TTL's Pope is scary and dangerous, so some deals may need to be cut.

And we've overturned that ridiculous Supreme Court decision like, three times already. How come people are still being sterilized?

Actually after 70 years, the only people who seem to be cheating are the Republicans, which is why no one is trusting them. Second, the lesson from the Coolidge Administration, every President is going to learn is that you must clutch to power "by any means necessary" (legal or illegal). Also after the shootings at Anacostia Falls, Coolidge is going to be seen as a tyrant, no matter how historians spin the matter...

As for the Pope, Republicans are going to ask "If he is so horrible, why even make deals with him? Remember that dealing with him means that you immediately feed every anti-Catholic conspiracy theory..".

As for the Supreme Court, it is a sign that no one outside of Washington D.C., seems to take the rulings of the Court seriously anymore, especially when judges die so often, and when people believe that the judicial system is rigged. For many critics, it is a sign that one-party rule has angered too many people...

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is a sign that things are getting out of control:

June 21st, 1932: Edward Young Clarke, CEO of Esskaye Inc., leads rally in Chicago, Illinois warning that the Republicans have rigged the election for a Coolidge win in November...

July 15th, 1934: Silver Legion leaders launch rally in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a former Republican stronghold...

May 24th, 1936: March on Washington; Hiram Evans leads Silver Legion in a march outside the White House in Washington D.C.,...

March 8th, 1937: Civil Rights leader Father M. J. Divine is killed by Silver Legion members in New York City, New York....

May 29th, 1937: Silver Legion members launch a rally in San Francisco, California proclaiming the end of "Republican tyranny"....

July 21st, 1937: 130 African-Americans are killed, despite protection by the "Messengers of God" in Saint Petersburg, Florida....

December 5th, 1937: Croix-de-Feu leaders meet with Howard P. Lovecraft in Los Angeles, California, sparking international attention...

August 29th, 1939: George J. Garcia launches rally for the Nationalist Party in Jacksonville, Florida proclaiming the end to "Republican tyranny"...

[jmberry]

I'm getting sick of dystopias, so here's something to lighten the mood:

March 4th, 1933: Max Gaines founds Comics on Parade.

April 12th, 1935: Mj. Wheeler-Nicholson's National Publications publishes Original Comics.

October 6th, 1935: Johnny Siegel and Julius Shuster, Jr., create Professor Arcane for Original Comics #6.

January 11th, 1936: National Publications publishes Investigative Sories Comics, focusing on detective stories.

June 11th, 1936: Wheeler-Nicholson rejects Shuster's and Siegel's concept for a union-suited man who fights crime with superhuman powers.

February 17th, 1938: Fawcett Comics purchases Siegel and Shuster's concept for $150, and unveils "Marvelman: The Hero from the Future" in Heroic Comics #1.

November 27th, 1938: Investigative stories Comics #27 unveils "Owlman: Protector of the Night", Bob Kane's answer to Marvelman.

[QuoProQuid]

I have to agree that the Catholic Church is scary powerful in this timeline, not that that is a bad thing. I would find the reactions of some of this world's conspiracy theorists to be hilarious.

The idea of a alt-United Nations centered in Vatican City pretty interesting. I doubt it will last long though.



Also, the United States seems to be transforming into a Presidential Dictatorship rather quickly. Someone needs to fix this. Perhaps discrediting some political parties would do it.

[Odysseus]

September 19th, 1933: President Calvin Coolidge dies of a massive brain hemorrage in the White House. Hiram Bingham III is inagurated as President of the United States at 11:53 PM.

January 2nd, 1936: President Bingham refuses to run for re-election.

November 5th, 1936: As a result of a national sympathy for the late President Coolidge, the Republican Ticket of Henry L. Stimson/John Weeks wins against the Democratic Ticket of Huey Long/David I. Walsh.

[Zacoftheaxes]

I agree we can make Bingham a terrible president who looks like a tyrant, but when it comes to our modern times, people are going to see Coolidge as the first civil rights president who refused to back down. At least one party will any ways.

Unleash all you Republihate on Bingham.

And Bondoc, people can't just ignore the Supreme Court. If they say don't sterilize people, o one sterilizes people.

[Zacoftheaxes]

September 19th, 1933: President Calvin Coolidge dies of a massive brain hemorrage in the White House. Hiram Bingham III is inagurated as President of the United States at 11:53 PM.

January 2nd, 1936: President Bingham refuses to run for re-election.

November 5th, 1936: As a result of a national sympathy for the late President Coolidge, the Republican Ticket of Henry L. Stimson/John Weeks wins against the Democratic Ticket of Huey Long/David I. Walsh.

We'd have to throw out a ton of PoDs to do that.

[Odysseus]

We'd have to throw out a ton of PoDs to do that.

They don't seem to contradict at all unless someone already did the '36 election. If some dates have mention to President Coolidge, we could change it to reference President Bingham - unless it doesn't go along with the personality and beliefs of Bingham.

[QuoProQuid]

I agree we can make Bingham a terrible president who looks like a tyrant, but when it comes to our modern times, people are going to see Coolidge as the first civil rights president who refused to back down. At least one party will any ways.

Unleash all you Republihate on Bingham.

And Bondoc, people can't just ignore the Supreme Court. If they say don't sterilize people, o one sterilizes people.

Of course, having Bingham turn into a radicalist tyrant might result in a backlash in Coolidge's reforms and policies. Then you end up with repealed civil rights legislation and Coolidge being viewed as a naive, ineffectual president with a terrible sense of judgement.



EDIT: Perhaps this is just my skewed perceptions, but it seems to me that a lot of political leaders suffer from convenient heart attacks after they accomplish something revolutionary.

[jmberry]

Why do people keep ignoring my posts? I already did the 1932 election. I already killed off Coolidge. They're in the official timeline update. See?
November 8th, 1932: The ticket of Calvin Coolidge and Hiram Bingham wins reelection against Democrats Huey Long and George White. The election is close, showing the country increasing disillusionment with the GOP.

January 5th, 1933: Calvin Coolidge dies suddenly. Hiram Bingham becomes Acting President and President-elect.

[Odysseus]

Why do people keep ignoring my posts? I already did the 1932 election. I already killed off Coolidge. They're in the official timeline update. See?

Then just retcon my Calvin Coolidge dying post and keep the posts pertaining to the 1936 election.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

They don't seem to contradict at all unless someone already did the '36 election. If some dates have mention to President Coolidge, we could change it to reference President Bingham - unless it doesn't go along with the personality and beliefs of Bingham. Actually the 1936 election was already filled out. There are even references about the Nationalist Party making electoral gains.

And for the record, 70 years of one-party rule has worn out its welcome throughout the country, especially with an economic depression taking place...

[Mr_ Bondoc]

January 1, 1930: The Empire of Japan annexes Manchuria into the state of Manchukuo, they also begin "The Great Wall of Manchukuo" Fortifications on the Chinese-Machukuo Border, including Railroad howitzers sold to Japan from France. The Dragon Wing of Japan, Japan's First Air Legion is now stationed in Nagasaki. All zeppelins are outfitted with chemical weapons platforms. Also on this day, Another Papal Conclave is called in 1930, in the hopes of healing the schism between Catholics and Merovingan Catholics, the Conclave elects Sylvester IV a bishop of Lyon which attended seminary with Cardinal Tridault, but in correspondence with Celestine VI, conveyed his worries about France, and how far his friend had fallen.

January 2nd 1930: 12,000 Communist arrested by General Verdez, 329 executed. The regime begins to arrest dissidents. Buenos Aries riots quelled with Brutal Force.

January 3rd, 1930: The Americans caught in Cuba cause a riot in an attempt to get back out to sea, killing 21 Cubans. There ships however, are destroyed by mines planted by anarchists, but many find a way to blame the Cubans.

January 30th 1930: The First Commonwealth Conference is held in London to discuss the future of the British Empire/Commonwealth. As a result, the 5 Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland and South Africa all gain more autonomy within the Commonwealth.

February 12 1930: Future Socialist Revolutionary and Irish Republican Sylvia Tynan is born in Dublin.

March 12, 1930: William Randolph Hearst publishes interviews with Sava Kosanović, explaining how he was "desperate for a Sterilization Exception Card" and US Citizenship, and how he would have said almost anything to get around that law.

March 18 1930: The Alliance pour la Monarchie, a political Coalition led by the far Right and Monarchist Action Fransaise is founded in France.

March 25th 1930: the Swedish Sterilization Act extended to the "racially unfit" despite protests by the left.

April 11, 1930: In response to recent questions about the deregulation of the banking industries, President Coolidge creates the BSEC, the Banking Securities and Exchange Commission, a department of the FBI that specifically is in charge of tracking and enforcing federal banking laws. Coolidge remarks, "The Business of America, is Good Business." Former President William McAdoo is asked by President Coolidge to be the new President of the Central Bank of the United States. Keynes is now Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

April 17th 1930: The Argentine National Peoples Front is the only political party left legal. It adopts a growing Authortarian Ideology, known as Facism. The Military Junta bans all trade unions, and arrest and execute 21 leading Union leaders, including Juan Peron. The Regime announces a new constitution.

May 1, 1930: Oil is struck in Alaska, prompting a huge wave of construction and speculation in Alaska.

May 24th, 1930: Socialist win elections in Chile.

June 1, 1930: The Case of Anthony Parks v. Memphis Municipal Trolley is heard by the Supreme Court. The court finds in favor of Anthony Parks that it is illegal to charge different fares based on race. Also Plessy v. Ferguson is overturned as a result of this decision.

July 19th, 1930: Socialist take power by coup in Paraguay, with Chilean Support. The Argentine Junta convenes a emergency meeting in Buenos Aires.

August 1st, 1930: Operation Libertad: Argentine Military forces cross the Chilean border, dividing the country in half. Troops also invade Paraguay, and Uruguay (to prevent a Socialist regime).

August 5th 1930: The Münchener Post publishes an article by young journalist Bertolt Brecht about Finland. In the light of recent political developments in Scandinavia, Brecht says that Finland, despite its obvious faults, might well be more democratic than any of its neighbours. He calls for the German left to support the Finnish government. To Brecht's surprise, his piece prompts discussion in the Reichstag and leads to the creation of a minor Finland-lobby among the Social Democrats.

August 6th, 1930: The Replacement for Big Ben is installed in the Clocktower of the Palace of Westminster, since the original bell was heavily damaged. THe Tower has painstackingly been repaired according to the original plans. Present are the British and Irish PMs, the King, and curiously enough, the German Ambassador.

August 7th, 1930: Chile Surrenders

August 12th, 1930: Uruguay surrenders

August 22nd, 1930: Paraguay Surenders

September 14th, 1930: The Treaty of Buenos Aries: Paraguay and Chile are annexed into Argentina, Uruguay is put under a 20 year Argentine Occupation. The Uruguayan National Front, a puppet party, is in power in Uruguay.

September 25th 1930: A German parliamentary delegation visits Helsinki. According to all accounts, the visit is a success: in the following months, the People's Republic is to receive much positive attention in German Socialist circles.

December 15th, 1930: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

December 20th, 1930: Economists Waddill Catchings and William Trufant Foster meet with President Calvin Coolidge, reporting that deregulation of the commodities trade and foreign exchanges is necessary to create economic growth in Washington D.C.,...

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January 5, 1931: The Royal Air Force launch the HMS Leviathan, a flying Aircraft Carrier.

February 2, 1931: France's Third Republic Collapses, Prime Minister Leveque calls for a new Constitutional Convention. Christophe Blanchard, the last of the Merovingans drafts the Constitution. President Gaston Doumergue is tried at the Holy Court of the Merovingian Church in Toulouse, and is found guilty of high treason. He is to be executed by guillotine in the Bastille. The Holy French Empire is Created. The Toulouse National Party now controls 58% of the Assembly, and the electorate votes on the new "President" of France to his 5 year term, Christophe Blanchard. Prime Minister Leveque himself applauds the inauguration of Blanchard.

February 9th, 1931: Battle of Shanghai; Japanese forces launch a major offensive against Chinese nationalists in Shanghai, China...

February 21st, 1931: King Zog I is assassinated at the State Opera House, during a performance of Pagliacci in Vienna, Austria-Hungary...

February 25th, 1931: Ottoman Empire officials in Jidda, the cessation of the Ottoman Oil Agreement, saying that "The Ottoman Empire must determine its own fate, with its own resources..."

March 15th 1931: The Husqvarna Massacre. The Swedish military opens fire on a group of striking factory workers. 9 people killed. In parliament, von Rosen applauds the army for "firm action againts Socialist rabble". The strikes, however, only intensify.

April 27, 1931: Following Senate hearings before Congress, Tesla Dynamic must break into several smaller companies. Sierra Electric covers all Tesla Towers from the Rockies West. Central Electric covers the Great Plains and the states North of the Ohio River to Ohio. Tesla Electric manages the Broadcast Power Stations of: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and All of New England. Tesla Dynamic will retain control over R&D, Tesla Broadcasting Company and RWA (formerly Tesla Radio Wavesets of America)

May 15th, 1931: HP Lovecraft publishes The Call of Cthulu a book about a murderous being that is worshiped by poor immigrants, who comes to destroy the great nations of the world. It is an immediate success.

June 5th, 1931: French Gold Crisis; Ministry of Finance officials in Paris report the sale of 10% of the national gold reserves in an effort to pay war reparations, sparking an economic crisis...

June 20th, 1931: President Calvin Coolidge tries to reassure French, German, and British leaders that principle and interest payments on foreign loans will be suspended, sparking devaluation in the currencies on Wall Street...

June 25th, 1931: Minister of Finance Robert Lacour-Gayet announces a "bank holiday" due to a shortage of real funds, due to withdrawals nationwide...

August 22nd 1931: During a National Coalition rally, Communist extremist Set Persson approaches von Rosen and shoots him twice in the chest, shouting "This is for Husqvarna, and for Swedish democracy!" before being gunned down by the police.

August 23rd 1931: Eskil Magnusson becomes Acting Prime Minister of Sweden. He wows to "root out the vile Communist conspiracy" that led to the death of Count von Rosen. Magnusson's anxiety attacks, due to paranoia, begin.

August 24th, 1931: Minister of Finance Adolph Muller announces a massive devaluation in French currencies and bonds in Berlin...

October 2nd 1931: Beginning of the Red Scare in Sweden. Police hunts down and arrests scores of Communists and even moderate Social Democrats. The Blue Brigades given official status as special police troops, with Arvi Kalsta as their chief.

November 9th 1931: Magnusson pushes through legislation classifying Communism a form of "mental infirmity". Several Communists committed to mental institutions, first work camp for detainees built in northern Sweden.

December 6th 1931: In a radio speech, Magnusson defends the crackdown on the left. "The Socialists want us to be reasonable", he says, "Reasonable! You can not reason with wild animals and vermin. You hunt them down and destroy their nests. It is the only way to prevent them from spreading their plague: the one way to maintain the health of the Nordic race."

December 15th 1931: The French press reprints Magnusson's speech. Leveque calls the Scandinavian leader "a protector of European civilization." Also on this day, TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to author HP Lovecraft.

December 25, 1931: President Coolidge, on the advice of McAdoo and his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon; and Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover; calls Pope Sylvester IV and asks to be able to use the Vatican to convene a "conference of all the World". The Second Vatican conference is called.

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January 1, 1932: The Second Vatican Conference which was not attended by France, or the Ottomans. Sets forth the following

* The Formation of a World Bank and Global Monetary Group
* All members currency must be pegged, and should they ever be changed a meeting of the ministers of finance will take place among the bank's Board of Directors.
* The establishment of the World Bank and Global Monetary Group's headquarters in Rome, and officially part of Vatican City (as close as you can get to International non-partisan territory in this world)

January 18th, 1932: Roman Catholic veteran Sgt. James Renshaw Cox leads "Cox's Army" (c. 50,000 people) on Washington D.C., protesting that the Vatican Treaty only benefits the world's richest 10%...

January 26th, 1932: As if to spite the French and the Swedes, in a special election after the death of the Chancellor, Germany once again elects a majority Social-Democrat Reichstag.

February 2nd 1932: Major riots occur in Paris between members of the Alliance pour la Monarchie and large amounts of Socialists and Communist's against the backdrop of the deepening economic crisis. The riots leave 32 dead.

March 3rd 1932: The Royal Navy Launches HMS King Alfred, the second flying aircraft carrier. Slightly larger than her prototype, she is equipped to carry 15 Fairy Flycatcher Fighters as well as 10 Blackburn Skua Dive Bombers and 3 Fairy Rippon Reconnaissance aircraft.

March 9th, 1932: Citizen's militias seize control of the First National Bank brank in Mill Creek, Oklahoma, after it is reported that the bank has become insolevent due to foreign currency investments and commodities trade, forcing the foreclosure of farms throughout the Midwest...

June 5, 1932: Henry Ford announces that he plans to run for President in 1932 against Calvin Coolidge. He eventually loses to Huey Long

June 17th, 1932: Battle of Anacostia Falls; General Smedley Darlington Butler leads c.17,000 protesters demanding pay for soldiers, many who have been unemployed due to the bank crisis and the end of the Baja War; General Douglas Macarthur and General George S. Patton are ordered to fire on civilians, killing c. 1,017 people. The largest number of civilian deaths since the Civil War...

June 21st, 1932: Edward Young Clarke, CEO of Esskaye Inc., leads rally in Chicago, Illinois warning that the Republicans have rigged the election for a Coolidge win in November...

September 1st, 1932: Senators Newton W. Gilbert (R-IN), John R. Rathom (R-RI), and William Dudley Pelley (R-PA) launch opposition to the planned Vatican World Bank Treaty as "Papist trash", citing their support for Mexico during the Baja War...

November 8th, 1932: The ticket of Calvin Coolidge and Hiram Bingham wins reelection against Democrats Huey Long and George White. The election is close, showing the country increasing disillusionment with the GOP.

November 16th, 1932: Shah Reza Pahlavi, inspired by the Ottoman Empire, announces in Tehran, the cessation of the Anglo-Persian Petroleum Agreement...

November 18th, 1932: 3 Republican senators are implicated in a stock manipulation action, promptly covered up by the Hearst media and the Coolidge administration....

December 15th, 1932: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to President Calvin Coolidge for a second time.

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January 5th, 1933: Calvin Coolidge dies suddenly. Hiram Bingham becomes Acting President and President-elect.

January 8th, 1933: American Christian missionaries John and Betty Stam are killed by Japanese forces outside of Nanking, China, sparking international tensions between the United States and Japan...

January 20th, 1933: French stocks collapse as Andre Tardieu reports that Oustric Bank is financially insolevent in Paris, France...

January 30th, 1933: The German Emporer signs the new German constitution into law, making the German Government system into a close copy of that of Britain, barring several adjustments for German sensibilities. Also on this day, Senator William Dudley Pelley (R-PA) establishes the "Silver Legion" as a means to defend the Administration through youth rallies nationwide....

March 1, 1933: Emperor Hirohito enforces a policy of the purity of Japan. No full blooded Japanese can marry a non-Japanese, along with a rigid racial structure.

March 4th, 1933: Max Gaines founds Comics on Parade.

March 5th, 1933: President Hiram Bingham orders a national bank holiday in an effort to prevent a massive withdrawal of funds from banks nationwide, as financial instability increases nationwide from Washington D.C.,...

March 16th, 1933: Kiangsi Retreat; Yank Shangkun and Lin Biao evacuate Chinese forces from Kiangsi after attack by Japanese forces...

July 1st, 1933: General Smedley Darlington Butler meets with John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan, warning of the dictatorial powers of the President....

July 4th, 1933: General Smedley Darlington Butler is named "National Commander" of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) during their national convention in Washington D.C.,....

August 3rd, 1933: The German army creates the first modern "Special forces" unit, the Sondergruppe 9

October 1, 1933: Blanchard moves into the Palace of Versailles, now going by the name Christophe the Blessed. His honor guard, the Merovingian Inquisators are given presidental decree to enforce the Eugenics policy of Holy France.

November 5th 1933: French Prime Minister Leveque announces that France intends to re-militralize, flying in the face of arms restrictions placed on France by Germany.

December 3rd, 1933: Uighurs establish the Eastern Turkestan Republic, taking advantage of the civil unrest and warfare taking place...

December 15th, 1933: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to "All the Brave Men of Sondergruppe 9".

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February 3rd, 1934: Senator Wlliam Dudley Pelley (R-PA) praises President Hiram Bingham for his efforts to "defend the Christian America from barbarism..."

March 6th, 1934: Robert Sterling Clark meets with French representatives of Croix-de-Feu in New York City, New York....

April 15th, 1934: Henri Rouchette, CEO of Oustric Bank, is proclaimed as a "national traitor" for his financial dealings prior to his execution in Paris, France....

April 25th, 1934: Chinese government officials announce a "united front offensive" in Nanking....

May 19th, 1934: Minister of Finance Hideo Kuroda commits ritual suicide in Tokyo, after reports that the massive fluctuations in French, German and British currencies have caused the World Bank to cause a devaluation of the yen on the international market...

June 30th, 1934: Anarchist group "German Red Army" set off a bomb outside the Reichstag, 12 dead, 30 injured.

July 2nd, 1934: German "Special forces" task group Sondergruppe 9 receives it's first mission, the covert assassination of the leadership of the Anarchist group Karl-Heinz Schrader

July 15th, 1934: Silver Legion leaders launch rally in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a former Republican stronghold...

August 14th, 1934: Author HP Lovecraft announces his intentions to run for senate, with his newly formed Nationalist Party.

September 13th, 1934: Members of the Veteran of Foreign Wars (VFW) condemn the White House for its failure to address the needs of veterans during its convention in New York City, New York...

October 2nd, 1934: William Randolph Hearst, through America Todaylaunches "Operation Freedom" in an effort to boost support for the administration....

November 5, 1934: For the first time since 1916, the Democrats once more command the House of Representatives. 213 Democrats, 202 Republicans, 20 socialists. The Republicans also lost control of the Senate losing about 22 seats. The current totals 50 Republicans, 46 Democrats. In particular Michigan, almost as a direct result of "Tesla Tyranny" in 1928 is a democrat stronghold. However the issue of Eugenics remains strongly divisive one for the Democrats which the Republicans usually exploit. The Republicans are also starting to show signs of division particular between the Big business and trust-buster factions. The election of 1936 should be interesting. Senate Minority Leader Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) has shown a keen political mind with his capability to forge coalitions.

November 8th, 1934: HP Lovecraft defeats Felix Hebert and becomes a United Senator for Rhode Island. The Nationalist Party also gains seats in South Carolina and Kansas.

December 3rd, 1934: Liberation of Shuangyashan; Chinese military officials announce the liberation of Shuangyashan as a "major turning point", although c. 5,000 people are killed...

December 15th, 1934: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to William Randolph Hearst.

December 23rd, 1934: Ottoman Empire officials announce that refuse to release further barrels of oil to Great Britain and France....

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April 12th, 1935: Mj. Wheeler-Nicholson's National Publications publishes Original Comics.

May 10 1935: King George V dies in his sleep. His son, Prince Edward becomes King Edward VIII, with his coronation due to take place soon.

June 11, 1935: Quebec provincial election. Premier Alexandre Taschereau's Liberals are heavily defeated by Maurice Duplessis' Tories. Duplessis issues Order-in-Council 11743 upon becoming Premier, authorizing the inclusion of Jehovah's Witnesses in the eugenics program.

September 1st, 1935: Francis Townsend presents his plan for a social security network to President Hiram Bingham in Washington D.C.,...

October 1, 1935: Construction on a Cantelever bridge, similar to the Sydney Harbor Bridge is planned for the Golden Gate in San Francisco.

October 6th, 1935: Johnny Siegel and Julius Shuster, Jr., create "Professor Arcane" for Original Comics #6.

October 11, 1935: Emperor Hirohito who now faces revolts in Primorsk, and orders his army to fire on the dissenters. The Vladivostock massacre happens which kill about 24,000 Russians. Shogun Tojo of Primorsk personally executes the revolt's leader.

Oct. 23, 1935: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a fourth term with 180 of 245 Commons seats.

November 1, 1935: Japanese submarines engage in a secret war to blockade Korea. Korea's Merchant Fleet is devastated. Japanese ships have strict orders only to fire upon Korean ships.

November 18th, 1935: Liberation of Tunhua; Chinese military forces announce the liberation of Tunhua against Japanese forces....

November 20th, 1935: "The Great Wall of Manchukuo" collapses to Chinese nationalist forces, as ground forces use guerilla tactics to evade defenses primarily designed for heavy weapons and vehicles...

December 15th, 1935: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to British King Edward VIII.

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January 2nd, 1936: President Bingham refuses to run for re-election.

January 11th, 1936: National Publications publishes Investigative Stories Comics, focusing on detective stories.

January 25th 1936: In an air battle over Shanghai, Fighters from the British Built Chinese Flying Aircraft Carrier Chi Yang engage a squadron of Japanese Dive-bombers, decimating them. This particular engagement proves to the eyes of the world the practicality of the Flying Aircraft Carrier.

January 28th, 1936: Second Battle of Shanghai; Chinese nationalist forces announce the liberation of Shanghai, despite heavy resistance by Japanese forces...

February 26th, 1936: P.M. Keisuke Okada is assassinated by Socialist guerillas, before the Diet in Tokyo, Japan....

March 1st, 1936: Prime Minister Purishkevich issues a speech to the Duma in which he calls for the restoration of Russia's "unreedemed" land - Ukraine, Primorsk, Poland, the Baltic, and Finland. He also outlines plans to remove non-Slavs like the jews and Muslims.

May 24th, 1936: March on Washington; Hiram Evans leads Silver Legion in a march outside the White House in Washington D.C.,...

May 31st, 1936: Virgil "Bert" Effinger (R-OH) calls for "Americanism", leads the "Silver Legion"rally in Columbus, Ohio....

June 4th, 1936: The Duma passes an act relocating Jews and Muslims to Turkestan.

June 11th, 1936: Wheeler-Nicholson rejects Shuster's and Siegel's concept for a union-suited man who fights crime with superhuman powers.

August 11th, 1936: Purishkevich and Leverque meet in Lyons, and sign the Anti-Kaiserreich Pact, dedicated to limiting German influence.

August 31st, 1936: Willliam Dudley Pelley leads a "Rally for the Bill of Rights" in front of the Washington Monument in Washington D.C., c.300,000 people participate...

November 5, 1936: Hiram Bingham III wins the nomination as the Republican candidate. Senator Franklin Delano Roosevelt is named the presidental candidate for the Democrats. The campaign is one of the most brutal in the 20th century. Bingham with his lack of campaigning skill and lack of accomplishments during his term, only has Hearst's papers, and Republican Machine politics to help his campaign. FDR on the other hand had the support of the most unusual coalition, whose only uniting factor was a dislike of the Republicans. FDR tells senior party heads that he will, "Respect Congress' decisions, and restore balance to the court."

December 15th, 1936: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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March 8th, 1937: Civil Rights leader Father M. J. Divine is killed by Silver Legion members in New York City, New York....

March 11th, 1937: Russian troops cross the Russo-Chinese border to reinforce the government in Nanking against warlords and communists.

May 29th, 1937: Silver Legion members launch a rally in San Francisco, California proclaiming the end of "Republican tyranny"....

June 13, 1937: Fr. Lionel Groulx, Jean Drapeau and Andre Laurendeau found the Societe Croix de Feu, advocating expansion of eugenics laws to "undesirable aliens".

July 21st, 1937: 130 African-Americans are killed, despite protection by the "Messengers of God" in Saint Petersburg, Florida....

September 25th, 1937: Battle of Pingxiangguan Pass; General Lin Biao launches a major ambush of Japanese forces, sparking national attention...

December 5th, 1937: Croix-de-Feu leaders meet with Howard P. Lovecraft in Los Angeles, California, sparking international attention...

December 15th, 1937: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to now Senator HP Lovecraft for a second time.

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February 17th, 1938: Fawcett Comics purchases Siegel and Shuster's concept for $150, and unveils "Marvelman: The Hero from the Future" in Heroic Comics #1.

November 5, 1938: A young Milton Friedman is hired straight out of college to work at the central Bank of the United States.

November 9, 1938: Immigration Minister F.C. Blair issues a directive halting all non-European immigration to Canada. Strict quotas are placed on Eastern and Southern European immigration

November 27th, 1938: Investigative Stories Comics #27 unveils "Owlman: Protector of the Night", Bob Kane's answer to Marvelman.

December 15th, 1938: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to automobile maker Henry Ford.

*************

March 1, 1939: Enrico Fermi and his team complete the Manhattan Project. The Staten Island Atomic Reactor goes online, the broadcast range of the Tesla Tower is extended and excess power is sent along high capacity power lines to other cities in the Northeast. They receive the Noble Prize for: The harnessing of the energy of the atom for civilian uses, and their discovery is hailed as one of the great achievements of the 20th century.

August 29th, 1939: George J. Garcia launches rally for the Nationalist Party in Jacksonville, Florida proclaiming the end to "Republican tyranny"...

November 8, 1939: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a fifth term with 178 of 245 Commons seats.

November 30, 1939: Premier Maurice Duplessis' Tories are re-elected in a landslide. Duplessis' name is floated as a possible Tory leader in the eventuality of King's retirement, but he disclaims all federal ambitions.

December 7, 1939: Prime Minister Mackenzie King resolves to convoke a First Ministers' Conference on constitutional repatriation in the spring of 1940. Later this would be known as Christmas Constitutionalism.

December 15th, 1939: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

[jmberry]

Let's get WWII started:

March 15th, 1934: Winston Churchill is struck and killed by a passing taxicab in Birmingham, UK.

October 14th, 1937: Seeing Japan as weak, Purishkevich orders General Vlasov to cross the Russian-Primorsk border.

December 1st, 1937: Russia, Sweden, and France sign the "Righteous Pact", commonly referred to as the Throne Axis after Leveque calls it an "alliance of thrones, an axis on which the world will turn from now on."

June 11th, 1938: Manchuria and Primorsk are almost completely occupied by Russo-Chinese forces, save the area around Vladivostok.

August 1st, 1938: France, Russia, China, and Sweden declare war on Germany. French troops launch a surprise attack into Belgium to outflank the Germans, Russian kettes steamroll into Ukraine and Belarus, and Swedish troops land in Pomerania, and China invades Indochina.

August 3rd, 1938: Britain declares war on the Throne Axis.

September 10th, 1938: Argentina joins the Throne Axis and launches an attack on the Falklands.

October 2nd, 1938: Russia and Sweden invade Finland.

[RogueBeaver]

Are we starting on the 1940s yet?

[Prometheus_2300]

Are we starting on the 1940s yet?

I should hope not we have barely scratched the 1930s. I still have to get Blanchard up and going

[Prometheus_2300]

So let's get some more Fascist France!

February 3, 1932: Fortescue blames the riots on the Communists and Socialists and holds the Alliance pour la Monarchie as heros of our new Republic.

January 1, 1933: The Communist and Socialist parties are declared illegal within the French Empire. Tridault's Inquisitors go on a rampage attacking the homes of Communist and Socialist assemblymen. Massive arrests are carried out regarding.

February 2, 1933: French factories having acquired the licenses for Swedish kettes, begin manufacturing their own, as French designs have been in adequate

August 12, 1934: In a compromise between Prime Minister Leveque and leaders of the Alliance pour la Monarchie. The Monarchy is officially re-established, but at the insistence of Cardinal Tridault, the Merovingan line is installed as the new Royal Family. Thus President Christophe Blanchard become Christophe I Emperor of the New French Empire.

March 13, 1934: The Alliance pour la Monarchie and Toulouse National Party between the two of them control nearly 84% of the National Assembly. They pass the French Rearmament Act. Calling for a massive expansion of the French Military. The Germans and British protest but the expansions are in areas NOT outlined in the Vatican treaty. Notably French kettes, submersibles, gyrodynes, and flying wing aircraft are being mass produced.

September 1, 1934: Blerot XV bombers appear above Cape Verde and the Azores. In an impressively coordinated attack, the French Navy occupies Cape Verde and the Azores, and is now blockading Portugal.

December 12, 1934: Being unable to get aid, and under continual assault from Air Bombs, Ship bombardments and Gyrodynes destroying infantry, and Spain's reluctance to aid Portugal's weakened position, Portugal surrenders to the French Empire. The treaty calls for Portugal's Colonial Empire to be ceded to the France. Also Portugal is forced to sign a treaty where they must pay reparations. Oddly these reparations are equal to about half of what France was required to pay to Germany.

May 1, 1935: An Alliance is signed between the French Empire and Scandinavian Union.

October 12, 1936: Igor Sikorsky attempts escape once more, and fails, but is able to get a message out. The German Imperial Intelligence attempts to retrieve Sikorsky and find out as much possible about France's new weapons of war.

[DrakonFin]

May 7th 1932: Alarmed by the events in the neighbouring "imperialist" nations, Finland decides to beef up its military capabilities. Because of difficulties in gaining foreign hardware, most will be acquired through domestic production. The Turku shipyards readied to build a batch of destroyers (the Helsinki-class) and MTBs. The Tampere heavy combine enlarged for weapons production. All military production placed in direct control of General Aaltonen.

February 2nd 1933: After covert deals, Nordisk Aeroplan AB (NAAB) set up in Sweden to produce Bleriot bombers and Morane fighters under license. Also, on this day armaments manufacturer Bofors enters into contract with the French MAS company to design and build small arms and artillery pieces.

March 14th 1933: The Nordic Guard established by the National Coalition leaders. While the Blue Brigades have been loyal to the movement, Magnusson is sceptical of Kalsta's troops because of the suspect racial status of the Finns. The Guard will be strictly Nordic and recruit in all of Scandinavia. Colonel Martin Ekström appointed leader of the Guard.

May 15th 1933: Considering its continuing political isolation, the Finnish government decides that the only potential sources for foreign support, even if small, are Britain and Germany. The Delegate for Foreign Affairs, Verner Lehtimäki, sent on a goodwill tour of the two nations.

June 1st 1933: The Finnish People's Parliament repeals the Prohibition after its enforcement has proven hopeless. State monopoly companies Alko and Narko set up to sell alcohol and recreational drugs to the people. Narko's collection includes a number of locally produced marihuana varieties. Especially the "Red Finnish" blend becomes soon very popular. In Sweden, Magnusson call the new Finnish policies "prime examples of Communist decadence".

August 1st 1933: Magnusson's "Strength Through Unity" speech. In a mass rally, the Scandinavian leader calls for the dissolution of all "arbitrary divisions" still separating the Nordic nations. Magnusson says the three national parliaments are "a superfluous weakness, and prone to Communist infiltration". The Swedish National Coalition officially changes its name to the Nordic Coalition. The Nordic Youth established.

October 2nd 1934: The Nordic Guard officially becomes an elite arm of the Swedish Army. The core leaders around Ekström soon become known as "the Knights of Odin" or just "the Knights" for short.

March 3rd 1935: The second Swedish armored vehicle, KV-34(a) enters service. While a big improvement to its predecessor, it still is very lightly armored and prone to malfunction.

August 10th 1936: The first Swedish armored unit equipped with KV-35(c)s. Complete with a 37mm Bofors gun, this slow but reliable machine finally convinces the generals for the utility of "war chariots".

[trekchu]

August 15th, 1938: The Pomerian landing is smashed by the German Army after the Swedish Navy runs into the German Baltic Fleet, and is almost totally destroyed. The six German Dreadnoughts also destroy most of a Divison of Swedish Royal Guards on their transports. Meanwhile in the west, a Brtish Squadron consisting of HMS Trafalgar, HMS Agincourt, HMS King George V and HMS St. Vincent, the most modern Dreadnoughts in the RN, along wioth the Admiral Class Battlecruisers, HMS Hood, HMS Nelson, HMS Howe and HMS Anson, along with several Cruisers and Destroyers begin to patrol the bay of Biscay, covered by several British Airborne Carriers.


Also on this day, the British and the Germans sign a treaty of alliance and perpetual friendship, founding the "Axis for Democracy".


August 20th, 1938: The RN Squadron runs into a small group of French ships that were at sea when the call of war came, the French Super Dreadnought 'La France', her escorts and one of their Airborne Carriers. The Carrier is destroyed, but La France and most of her escorts escape, being heavily damaged. It becomes a personal mission for the British to destroy them.

On the same day two German Kette Corps under Generals Guderian and Rommel counterattack in the east, managing to stop the Russian attack just east of Kiev, but farhter north a similar attack fails, due to a lack of German Air power in the Region.

August 30th, 1938: In the west a French attack on Alsace runs headlong into the German Kammhuber Line, where a combination of minefields, machine gun bunkers and anti-kette guns, a variant of the soon famous 89mm series, stop them dead. In the north, the British Expeditionary Force makes landfall in Germany and begins to move south to reinforce the German and Belgian troops conducting a fighting withdrawal towards the German border defences.



OOC Kammhuber is not the same man from OTL, but it's named after his father who TTL eventually became minister of War, and oversaw much of the construction)

[jmberry]

Here are some more comic entries:

February 19th, 1939: Heroic Comics #13 introduces the first sidekick in the form of Marvelman's kid brother Marvelboy. The gimmick proves to be a success.

March 7th, 1939: Siegel introduces the first major comic book villain in Heroic Comics #15, with "Sverchelovek." The character, a bald psychic with Nietzchian overtones, is based off of an earlier character Siegel created but never published called "Superman". Thecharacter is somewhat apparent as an insult to Purishkevik's policies.

October 11th, 1939: Publisher Martin Goodman publishes Fantastic Comics #1, introducing kids to "Volcanoman" and "Jungle King."

December 14th, 1939: Martin Goodman asks writer Jimmy Simon and artist Jacob Kurtzenburg to create a patriotic-themed mystery man. After reviewing their designs, he suggests making the character a woman. Thus the world is introduced to "Liberty Belle, Protector of America's Shores" in Patriot Comics #1. The cover art amusingly shows her punching Christophe I in the face, even though America and France aren't at war.

[Prometheus_2300]

I was still going on the development of Fascist France, but I can just backtrack that I guess. Ok France's response. Submarines and Bombers and Gyrodynes oh my!

September 12, 1934: The Paris Cannon, a gun that can accurately fire at a range of 100 miles is made and placed on railway cars. In later years many more would be produced

October 4, 1937: Given increasing tensions between France and the Alliance they begin creation of the "Maginot Line" a line of fixed fortifications from the Channel to Switzerland.

August 15, 1938: Christophe Blanchard attempts to call 10 Downing Street and the Richestag, to get the British and German Navies to withdraw. Blanchard argues that he has not violated the terms of the Vatican Treaty, but the two fleets are now violating the sovereignty of France and must withdraw, or the French will respond. They are given 2 days to comply.

(Blanchard would call for diplomacy first. But I would guess Britain and Germany won't withdraw. Blanchard argues that )

[Mr_ Bondoc]

ere are a few more PODs to make things interesting for the ATL:

May 13th, 1932: John D. Rockefeller, with Doctor Augustus Trowbridge, announce the formation of "positive eugenics" program at Empire University in New York City, New York....

September 8th, 1935: General Lázaro Cárdenas overthrows the American-backed government in Mexico City. Local followers name him "Jefe Maxino", demanding an end to American presence in the region....

April 15th, 1936: Professor C.H. Danforth announces the formation of the "College of Eugenics" at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California...

July 7th, 1936: Robert Goddard proclaims the need for a strong "national eugenics policy", pointing to rising rates of polio, during Congressional hearings in Washington D.C., ...

February 8th, 1937: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces a buildup of military forces nationwide, as a means of "national self-defense" in Mexico City, Mexico....

June 7th, 1937: General Lázaro Cárdenas meets covertly with leaders from Argentina, France, Scandinavia, Italy, and Great Britain in Madrid, Spain calling for financial and military aid...

March 18th, 1938: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces that the Mexican people have nationalized the oil fields in Mexico, and that it demands the immediate witdrawal of the United States from Mexican territories...

February 28th, 1939: Doctor Clyde Keeler, Harvard Medical School, announces a "School of Eugenics" in Cambridge, Massachusetts,...

March 17th, 1939: La Laguna Rebellion; Miner Antonio Madrazo leads a rebellion in La Laguna, Baja California against American occupation, American soldiers kill 43 people in the process...

[Prometheus_2300]

PODs: Roosevelt's first 100 days. Let's see what the Democrats can do while in power

November 5, 1930: The Pershing Doctrine mandates elections in the following Commonwealths: Puerto Rico, Haiti, Nicaragua, and American Guiana. Given the recent troubles in Haiti, the area remains a Commonwealth. None of the other territories elect to become states.

June 1, 1932: Tesla Broadcasting Corporation, starts transmitting television

January 5, 1935: With a huge gala, William Randolph Hearst announces his retirement from head of the Hearst Corporation, and retires to San Simeon, California. His son Willliam Randolph Hearst Junior, is a capable administrator, he is unable to stop the bad reception to his newspapers. The Hearst retirement gala would soon become the milestone by which historians would judge the end of the newspaper era, and the rise of Radio and Television.

May 12, 1935: The New York Times prints its final issue, its dedication to objective journalism was its downfall. America Today remains the politcal mothpiece of the RNC, and The Independent is the political mouthpiece of the DNC.

September 9, 1935: President Bingham, never receives word of Cardenas as Secretary of State Stimson, handles the issue by wishing Cardenas luck in his regime as long as he respects the borders of the United States.

January 12, 1937: At his inauguration, President Roosevelt talks about healing the deep rifts in this country. "We must still strive to be what the founding fathers wanted for our great nation. This republic will endure, although injured and wounded from the past administration with its corruption, we are Americans and we will endure. The Republic shall endure". After nearly 70 years in power the Republicans are now the minority, the only branch of government they still control is the Supreme Court. Although his words sound nice, he does go about replacing over 70 years worth of Republican clerks and officials out of their entrenched bureaucracies. The only office that is unaffected is McAdoo's Central Bank of the United States, where McAdoo using his prestige and former president keeps the Bank bipartisan.

February 3, 1937: President Roosevelt, sets about trying to solve the recession in the United States. He appoints Secretary of Commerce, Harold L. Ickes to direct the Public Infrastructure Administration, a federal agency designed to give the unemployed jobs across the nation and stimulate growth in previously unreachable markets. Airports are built along with Public Utility Tesla Stations throughout the nation. Alaska with its recently discovered Oil, is to be be heavily developed, prompting an Oil Rush in Alaska. Alaska will petition for Statehood in 1940 if projections hold.

February 20, 1937: On the advice of his Secretary of the Treasury (Henry Morgenthau) and Commerce (Harry Hopkins), Roosevelt proposes a National Deposit Insurance Agency (NDIA). This department is created in the Federal Banking Act, which reforms the BSEC into stricter banking laws, and a code of business practices. As a sideline of the bill Electric Power Distribution is now considered a Nationalized industry. Tesla Dynamic must surrender its Broadcast Power stations to the new National Electrical Association (NEA)

March 1, 1937: President Roosevelt also pushes through Congress the Pershing National Highway Act, named in honor of former President Pershing who first proposed the idea in 1926. President Pershing is in attendance as the Washington Beltway opens. His invitation is seen somewhat as an olive branch to the elderly President.

March 10, 1937: Roosevelt also calls upon all the Great Powers to meet once more to address the Global recession, as the Vatican's banking treaty is not working. He calls for a meeting in Zurich. Unfortunately none of the other powers are that interested as they believe the Vatican Banking Accord is working satisfactorily.

April 15, 1937: Associate Justice Victor Selden Clark is found dead in his chambers, a suicide note speaks of him "being blinded by Party politics, and ignoring his duty to the Constitution". Although the newspapers will say otherwise, it is a legitimate suicide.

June 6, 1937: Chief Justice Pierce Butler, is convinced to resign after talking with the court privately. His lack of opinions is embarassing for a chief justice, and as of late he frequently recuses himself. He resigns to enjoy retirement.

February 9, 1938: The Yucatan Free State petitions the UNited States for aid, following Cardenas announcement.

March 19, 1938: President Roosevelt, responds to Cardena's demand showing the Kellog Treaty of 29. However Roosevelt orders, the old Baja Army to the Baja territories in case trouble should start.

March 9, 1939: President Roosevelt sacks the governor general of the Baja Territories, General Marshall is now in command of the Baja Territories, and given strict instructions to only fire should Mexican troops cross the border by the terms of Kellog-Carranza Treaty.

[DrakonFin]

October 15th 1931: The Finnish People's Parliament passes Lex Tokoi, a law pardoning many of the people still incarcerated for taking part in the Blue Rebellion and the Triumvirate Terror. Many of the newly free Blue supporters choose exile rather than stay and live in Socialist Finland.

May 1st 1932: The film ...And Red Was Their Blood, directed by Aarne Orjatsalo, opens in Helsinki. Detailing Aaltonen's 1920 campaign against the Blues and the Triumvirate through the eyes of a platoon of young Red Guards, the plot depicts the tranformation of a rag-tag crew of young radicals into a cohesive military unit. Considered the first bigger success of the People's Film Commission (KEK) and the career-launching feature for the actor Uuno Paloniemi.

[Zacoftheaxes]

Alright, I'm happy with this resolution of Calvin dying before he can look bad. Godspeed Silent Cal. Godspeed.

And wait, we we're going for a Japan-Scandinavian-French axis. Hell Magnussion loves Hirohito. Why the hell would they betray theme for some crappy kingdom covered in snow? This World War 2 makes no sense.

Now:

Changed the 1936 TIME Award from Bingham to Roosevelt.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are a few more PODs to make sure Mexico stays interesting:

April 7th, 1936: American expatriate Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate General General Lázaro Cárdenas (a.k.a. "Jefe Maximo") in Mexico City, Mexico, sparking tensions with the United States and Mexico...

October 31st, 1936: Assassination attempt is made by Yucatan guerillas against General General Lázaro Cárdenas in Acapulco, Mexico, sparking tensions between Mexico and Yucatan...

April 23rd, 1937: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces the "Labor Charter of 1937", announces plans for state intervention into private industry, in an effort to prevent unemployment....

March 19th, 1938: Zocalo Firing Incident; Yucatan guerillas fire on Mexican forces along the border at Zocalo, sparking tensions between the two countries. General Lázaro Cárdenas warns that "ther is now blood inthe water", during a radio address in Mexico City, Mexico...

April 12th, 1938: "Los Madres Contra Occupacion American" , thousands of mothers of deceased Mexican soldiers, begin chanting and throwing stones at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, demanding an "end to American occupation". Several U.S. Marines fire into the crowd killing 17 people, sparking tensions between the two countries....

May 15th, 1938: San Luis Potosi Rebellion; Cacique Saturnino Cedillo calls for the "end of American occupation", launching an armed insurrection...

June 7th, 1938: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces the nationalization of oil fields of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Company by military force, most workers who have been unpaid by the American and Dutch-owned companies welcome the troops,...

[Zacoftheaxes]

Let's get WWII started:

March 15th, 1934: Winston Churchill is struck and killed by a passing taxicab in Birmingham, UK.

October 14th, 1937: Seeing Japan as weak, Purishkevich orders General Vlasov to cross the Russian-Primorsk border.

December 1st, 1937: Russia, Sweden, and France sign the "Righteous Pact", commonly referred to as the Throne Axis after Leveque calls it an "alliance of thrones, an axis on which the world will turn from now on."

June 11th, 1938: Manchuria and Primorsk are almost completely occupied by Russo-Chinese forces, save the area around Vladivostok.

August 1st, 1938: France, Russia, China, and Sweden declare war on Germany. French troops launch a surprise attack into Belgium to outflank the Germans, Russian kettes steamroll into Ukraine and Belarus, and Swedish troops land in Pomerania, and China invades Indochina.

August 3rd, 1938: Britain declares war on the Throne Axis.

September 10th, 1938: Argentina joins the Throne Axis and launches an attack on the Falklands.

October 2nd, 1938: Russia and Sweden invade Finland.


I contest these PODs on the grounds that Scandinavia and France we're on the side of Japan, and we have not heard anything about Russia in the 20's.

I propose instead.


March 15th, 1934: Winston Churchill is struck and killed by a passing taxicab in Birmingham, UK.

October 14th, 1937: Seeing Russia as weak, Emperor Hirohito orders General Tojo to cross the Primorsk-Russian border.

December 1st, 1937: Japan, Scandinavia, and France sign the "Righteous Pact", commonly referred to as the Throne Axis after Leveque calls it an "alliance of thrones, an axis on which the world will turn from now on."

June 11th, 1938: Much of Siberia is occupied by Japan.

August 1st, 1938: France, Japan, and Scandinavia declare war on Germany. French troops launch a surprise attack into Belgium to outflank the Germans,Swedish troops land in Pomerania, and Japan invades Indochina.

August 3rd, 1938: Britain declares war on the Throne Axis.

September 10th, 1938: Argentina joins the Throne Axis and launches an attack on the Falklands.

October 2nd, 1938: Scandinavia invades Finland.


Any objects or agreements?

[jmberry]

I contest these PODs on the grounds that Scandinavia and France we're on the side of Japan, and we have not heard anything about Russia in the 20's.

I propose instead.


March 15th, 1934: Winston Churchill is struck and killed by a passing taxicab in Birmingham, UK.

October 14th, 1937: Seeing Russia as weak, Emperor Hirohito orders General Tojo to cross the Primorsk-Russian border.

December 1st, 1937: Japan, Scandinavia, and France sign the "Righteous Pact", commonly referred to as the Throne Axis after Leveque calls it an "alliance of thrones, an axis on which the world will turn from now on."

June 11th, 1938: Much of Siberia is occupied by Japan.

August 1st, 1938: France, Japan, and Scandinavia declare war on Germany. French troops launch a surprise attack into Belgium to outflank the Germans,Swedish troops land in Pomerania, and Japan invades Indochina.

August 3rd, 1938: Britain declares war on the Throne Axis.

September 10th, 1938: Argentina joins the Throne Axis and launches an attack on the Falklands.

October 2nd, 1938: Scandinavia invades Finland.


Any objects or agreements?

I posted a dozen entries on Russia in the Twenties, and several more in the Thirties. Nobody else seems to even pay the slightest attention to them, despite the fact that they are in the official timeline.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

I posted a dozen entries on Russia in the Twenties, and several more in the Thirties. Nobody else seems to even pay the slightest attention to them, despite the fact that they are in the official timeline. Actually, I have been paying attention and very closely... I just feel that the authors should be able to defend the PODs.

[Prometheus_2300]

Here are some more comic entries:

February 19th, 1939: Heroic Comics #13 introduces the first sidekick in the form of Marvelman's kid brother Marvelboy. The gimmick proves to be a success.

March 7th, 1939: Siegel introduces the first major comic book villain in Heroic Comics #15, with "Sverchelovek." The character, a bald psychic with Nietzchian overtones, is based off of an earlier character Siegel created but never published called "Superman". Thecharacter is somewhat apparent as an insult to Purishkevik's policies.

October 11th, 1939: Publisher Martin Goodman publishes Fantastic Comics #1, introducing kids to "Volcanoman" and "Jungle King."

December 14th, 1939: Martin Goodman asks writer Jimmy Simon and artist Jacob Kurtzenburg to create a patriotic-themed mystery man. After reviewing their designs, he suggests making the character a woman. Thus the world is introduced to "Liberty Belle, Protector of America's Shores" in Patriot Comics #1. The cover art amusingly shows her punching Christophe I in the face, even though America and France aren't at war.

When I read the Liberty Belle POD I was on the floor from laughing so hard. Good work on creating a female Captain America analog in this ATL.

[Zacoftheaxes]

I posted a dozen entries on Russia in the Twenties, and several more in the Thirties. Nobody else seems to even pay the slightest attention to them, despite the fact that they are in the official timeline.

Hmm. Sorry. But Japan is on Scandinavia's side. We have to work it out so they are on the same side.

[RogueBeaver]

June 11, 1938: Future media baron Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. graduates summa cum laude from Harvard Business School.

[Chairman Sanchez]

June 11, 1938: Future media baron John F. Kennedy graduates summa cum laude from Harvard University.
I thought he died at birth, and Reagan might provide him some competiton if he does live......:D

[Mr_ Bondoc]

June 11, 1938: Future media baron John F. Kennedy graduates summa cum laude from Harvard University. Unfortunately the observation is true, John F. Kennedy did pass away at birth... Robert and Joseph Jr., on the other hand survived....

[Chairman Sanchez]

I posted a dozen entries on Russia in the Twenties, and several more in the Thirties. Nobody else seems to even pay the slightest attention to them, despite the fact that they are in the official timeline.

I agree, I wanted Argentina to stay neutral, my plan for Verdezs downfall would begin in the 70's with a Falkland war.

[Zacoftheaxes]

I wanted Japan to invade Korea in World War 2, as a member of the Axis. Anyway we can get that to work with Russia still in the Axis?

[Chairman Sanchez]

I wanted Japan to invade Korea in World War 2, as a member of the Axis. Anyway we can get that to work with Russia still in the Axis?

I like the Japanese invasion of Korea, good Idea. Maybe Russia can get Western Siberia back.....

[ArKhan]

(insert date here): Italian revolution, Fascist party leader (insert name here) aided by a rouge faction of the Italian army lead by general (insert name here) seize control of Rome.

(insert date here): All members of the Italian parliament and the Royal family that are captured by the Fascists are put to death. Several politicians and the King himself manage to escape Rome.

(insert date here): The surviving Italian politicians and the king arrive in London, declaring themselves the Italian government in exile.

(insert date here): Italian civil war begins.

There, now we can have a Spainish civil war without Spain.

[Zacoftheaxes]

I like the Japanese invasion of Korea, good Idea. Maybe Russia can get Western Siberia back.....

Yeah, two decide to keep the Alliance together, Russia gets Siberia back, in return Russia supports Japan in Korea.

[Prometheus_2300]

I thought he died at birth, and Reagan might provide him some competiton if he does live......:D

Actually Reagan was going to be a newscaster, being this ATL's Walter Cronkite. "It's October 5, 1942, and its morning in America. In News President..."

POD:

November 5, 1936: Richard Milhous Nixon, is hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation

[QuoProQuid]

(insert date here): Italian revolution, Fascist party leader (insert name here) aided by a rouge faction of the Italian army lead by general (insert name here) seize control of Rome.

(insert date here): All members of the Italian parliament and the Royal family that are captured by the Fascists are put to death. Several politicians and the King himself manage to escape Rome.

(insert date here): The surviving Italian politicians and the king arrive in London, declaring themselves the Italian government in exile.

(insert date here): Italian civil war begins.

There, now we can have a Spainish civil war without Spain.

Are we speaking of the same Italy? The incredibly wealthy Italy that won a rather significant war a few years back? The same Italy that seems to be the best off both morally and politically?

I call foul on this.

[Zacoftheaxes]

Actually Reagan was going to be a newscaster, being this ATL's Walter Cronkite. "It's October 5, 1942, and its morning in America. In News President..."

POD:

November 5, 1936: Richard Milhous Nixon, is hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation

So we could see Ronald Reagan meeting President Walter Kronkite for an interview? :p

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Ronald_Reagan_with_Walter_Cronkite.jpg

[Prometheus_2300]

So we could see Ronald Reagan meeting President Walter Kronkite for an interview? :p

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Ronald_Reagan_with_Walter_Cronkite.jpg

April 19, 1936: Walter Cronkite begins a college internship as an aide to Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri.

Now I have to make Walter Cronkite President somehow :p

[Zacoftheaxes]

April 19, 1936: Walter Cronkite begins a college internship as an aide to Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri.

Now I have to make Walter Cronkite President somehow :p

Let's see

Eisenhower
JPK Jr
RFK
Les Paul
Robert Byrd
Walter Kronkite

All have to be presidents with in the confines of 60 years now.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are the requested PODs for the Italian Civil War...

January 7th, 1936: Italian revolution, Fascist party leader (insert name here) aided by a rouge faction of the Italian army lead by general (insert name here) seize control of Rome.

July 12th, 1936: All members of the Italian parliament and the Royal family that are captured by the Fascists are put to death. Several politicians and the King himself manage to escape Rome.

July 17th, 1936: The surviving Italian politicians and the king arrive in London, declaring themselves the Italian government in exile.

July 20th, 1936: Italian civil war begins.

There, now we can have a Spainish civil war without Spain.

In regards to the dispute over the Finland/ Scandinavia/ Japan conflicts, the ATL will wait until both parties have agreed to a set of PODs...

[Eckener]

hey I've been following this TL project up till now and I really like it, and I'd like to get involved. Could someone tell me more or less what level the airship technology is up to this point? Being that that is one of my pet areas of history, I'd like to do some airship stuff for this TL if I can.

[Zacoftheaxes]

In regards to the dispute over the Finland/ Scandinavia/ Japan conflicts, the ATL will wait until both parties have agreed to a set of PODs...

Thanks, well work it out soon.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

hey I've been following this TL project up till now and I really like it, and I'd like to get involved. Could someone tell me more or less what level the airship technology is up to this point? Being that that is one of my pet areas of history, I'd like to do some airship stuff for this TL if I can. Well, "Radionics" (OTL's radar) was created by Nikola Tesla in 1917. Air Legions were created by the German military starting in 1912. By 1920, the White House even had one available for civilian use. The flying aircraft carrier was finally built in 1931. The flying aircraft carrier demonstrated its value in 1936, during the Second Battle of Shanghai. If anything, that should help with matters....

[Chairman Sanchez]

Let's see

RFK
Robert Byrd




These two DEFINATLY should be President. JFK Jr, would be a good canidate in the primarys for someone to defeat, I dont see the point of Les Paul though.

[RogueBeaver]

Oops, I forgot, JFK died in infancy. :o I'll edit things for JPK Jr. If you want an openly anti-Semitic POTUS, he's an ideal candidate.

[jmberry]

In regards to Japan and Russia, my reasoning was that they would HATE each other right now. Japan has beaten Russia twice in less than twenty years, and the faith and Motherland party has been portrayed as extremely revanchist - Japan would probably occupy their #1 enemy spot, beating out Germany and the Jews. In addition, Russia sees China as its little brother, and has even sent troops in to bolster Nanjing's government - which reminds me, we need a few events for Chinese politics.

On Japan's side, they have an emperor who is taking a direct hand in affairs and has no reason to love the Russians, and they are being driven out of Manchukuo by the Chinese. In any event, Japan doesn't aid Scandinavia's goals the way Russia would.

EDIT: I would also suggest Macarthur or Patton in place of Eisenhower, simply because Ike would be too convergent.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

In regards to Japan and Russia, my reasoning was that they would HATE each other right now. Japan has beaten Russia twice in less than twenty years, and the faith and Motherland party has been portrayed as extremely revanchist - Japan would probably occupy their #1 enemy spot, beating out Germany and the Jews. In addition, Russia sees China as its little brother, and has even sent troops in to bolster Nanjing's government - which reminds me, we need a few events for Chinese politics.

On Japan's side, they have an emperor who is taking a direct hand in affairs and has no reason to love the Russians, and they are being driven out of Manchukuo by the Chinese. In any event, Japan doesn't aid Scandinavia's goals the way Russia would.

EDIT: I would also suggest Macarthur or Patton in place of Eisenhower, simply because Ike would be too convergent. I tend to concur with this argument. It would also be 3 times, if you count the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. As for China, I have them fighting to drive Japan out of the region of Manchukuo, 1931-1937. Does anyone else agree or disagree?

[Prometheus_2300]

Well, "Radionics" (OTL's radar) was created by Nikola Tesla in 1917. Air Legions were created by the German military starting in 1912. By 1920, the White House even had one available for civilian use. The flying aircraft carrier was finally built in 1931. The flying aircraft carrier demonstrated its value in 1936, during the Second Battle of Shanghai. If anything, that should help with matters....

The Teslas even had an airship yacht by the late 20s. By the early 1930s the French are pioneering new areas. The Blerot XV bomber is a flying wing aircraft, with some specialized ones containing a "Radionics scanner". Gyrodynes (OTL's Helicopters) are getting fairly developed. The French were barred development of "traditional air fleets" (aka Zeppelins and conventional aircraft) and heavily researched more unconventional aircraft.

[Zacoftheaxes]

These two DEFINATLY should be President. JFK Jr, would be a good canidate in the primarys for someone to defeat, I dont see the point of Les Paul though.

A more moderate Reagan analogue. I said when he was born he would be president, and the same was said about RFK, Byrd, and JPK Jr. Eisenhower I'm going to bust my ass to make president and a damn good one too. Kronkite will be fun to watch.

[Zacoftheaxes]

Oops, I forgot, JFK died in infancy. :o I'll edit things for JPK Jr. If you want an openly anti-Semitic POTUS, he's an ideal candidate.

It'd be hilarious if through some shit storm in DC, he ended up having to work with Henry Kissinger.

[RogueBeaver]

I doubt it. RFK also had Jewish issues from 1964 onward IOTL, quite unfounded though.

[Zacoftheaxes]

I doubt it. RFK also had Jewish issues from 1964 onward IOTL, quite unfounded though.

Something goes wrong and he's forced to work with one of the world's most famous OTL Jewish Americans, instant comedy right there.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Actally, the entire point of having eugenics in the ATL, isn't to turn everyone into an anti_semite or racist. The idea is that until someone does something to so thoroughly discredit the theory and idea (e.g. Holocaust), most people will accept the notion that eugenics is a good thing. From experience, I attended U.C. Berkeley, and apparently most of the science buildings were named after scientists who during the 1920s & 1930s promoted eugenics. During the 1948 Nuremberg Trials, it was pointed out that most of the ideas of the "Master Race" came from the United States and Great Britain. They were thoroughly perverted by the Nazis....

[Prometheus_2300]

I tend to concur with this argument. It would also be 3 times, if you count the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. As for China, I have them fighting to drive Japan out of the region of Manchukuo, 1931-1937. Does anyone else agree or disagree?

I agree with this analysis. I would add that Japan would also hate Korea. They humiliated Japan when they revolted. Japan hates Russia because Russia gave some aid to Korea prompting the Second Russo-Japanese War

[RogueBeaver]

Actally, the entire point of having eugenics in the ATL, isn't to turn everyone into an anti_semite or racist. The idea is that until someone does something to so thoroughly discredit the theory and idea (e.g. Holocaust), most people will accept the notion that eugenics is a good thing. From experience, I attended U.C. Berkeley, and apparently most of the science buildings were named after scientists who during the 1920s & 1930s promoted eugenics. During the 1948 Nuremberg Trials, it was pointed out that most of the ideas of the "Master Race" came from the United States and Great Britain. They were thoroughly perverted by the Nazis....

I'm just extrapolating from OTL for JPK Jr. Regarding the "Master Race" Verwoerd often said that one of the strands which formed apartheid came from Jim Crow.

[jmberry]

(insert date here): Italian revolution, Fascist party leader (insert name here) aided by a rouge faction of the Italian army lead by general (insert name here) seize control of Rome.

(insert date here): All members of the Italian parliament and the Royal family that are captured by the Fascists are put to death. Several politicians and the King himself manage to escape Rome.

(insert date here): The surviving Italian politicians and the king arrive in London, declaring themselves the Italian government in exile.

(insert date here): Italian civil war begins.

There, now we can have a Spainish civil war without Spain.
I'm going to go with Quidproquo on this. It doesn't really make sense in context of an Italy which achieved every single on of its war aims (and then some), and became one of Europe's most prosperous nations.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is the second draft of the 1930s:

January 1, 1930: The Empire of Japan annexes Manchuria into the state of Manchukuo, they also begin "The Great Wall of Manchukuo" Fortifications on the Chinese-Machukuo Border, including Railroad howitzers sold to Japan from France. The Dragon Wing of Japan, Japan's First Air Legion is now stationed in Nagasaki. All zeppelins are outfitted with chemical weapons platforms. Also on this day, Another Papal Conclave is called in 1930, in the hopes of healing the schism between Catholics and Merovingan Catholics, the Conclave elects Sylvester IV a bishop of Lyon which attended seminary with Cardinal Tridault, but in correspondence with Celestine VI, conveyed his worries about France, and how far his friend had fallen.

January 2nd 1930: 12,000 Communist arrested by General Verdez, 329 executed. The regime begins to arrest dissidents. Buenos Aries riots quelled with Brutal Force.

January 3rd, 1930: The Americans caught in Cuba cause a riot in an attempt to get back out to sea, killing 21 Cubans. There ships however, are destroyed by mines planted by anarchists, but many find a way to blame the Cubans.

January 30th 1930: The First Commonwealth Conference is held in London to discuss the future of the British Empire/Commonwealth. As a result, the 5 Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland and South Africa all gain more autonomy within the Commonwealth.

February 12 1930: Future Socialist Revolutionary and Irish Republican Sylvia Tynan is born in Dublin.

March 12, 1930: William Randolph Hearst publishes interviews with Sava Kosanović, explaining how he was "desperate for a Sterilization Exception Card" and US Citizenship, and how he would have said almost anything to get around that law.

March 18 1930: The Alliance pour la Monarchie, a political Coalition led by the far Right and Monarchist Action Fransaise is founded in France.

March 25th 1930: the Swedish Sterilization Act extended to the "racially unfit" despite protests by the left.

April 11, 1930: In response to recent questions about the deregulation of the banking industries, President Coolidge creates the BSEC, the Banking Securities and Exchange Commission, a department of the FBI that specifically is in charge of tracking and enforcing federal banking laws. Coolidge remarks, "The Business of America, is Good Business." Former President William McAdoo is asked by President Coolidge to be the new President of the Central Bank of the United States. Keynes is now Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

April 17th 1930: The Argentine National Peoples Front is the only political party left legal. It adopts a growing Authortarian Ideology, known as Facism. The Military Junta bans all trade unions, and arrest and execute 21 leading Union leaders, including Juan Peron. The Regime announces a new constitution.

May 1, 1930: Oil is struck in Alaska, prompting a huge wave of construction and speculation in Alaska.

May 8th, 1930: Mohandas K. Gandhi is killed by British authorities in Calcutta, India, sparking international attention...

May 24th, 1930: Socialist win elections in Chile.

June 1, 1930: The Case of Anthony Parks v. Memphis Municipal Trolley is heard by the Supreme Court. The court finds in favor of Anthony Parks that it is illegal to charge different fares based on race. Also Plessy v. Ferguson is overturned as a result of this decision.

June 2nd, 1930:Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti proclaims himself a "devout evolutionist" in Mumbai, India, sparking religious controversy....

July 19th, 1930: Socialist take power by coup in Paraguay, with Chilean Support. The Argentine Junta convenes a emergency meeting in Buenos Aires.

August 1st, 1930: Operation Libertad: Argentine Military forces cross the Chilean border, dividing the country in half. Troops also invade Paraguay, and Uruguay (to prevent a Socialist regime).

August 5th 1930: The Münchener Post publishes an article by young journalist Bertolt Brecht about Finland. In the light of recent political developments in Scandinavia, Brecht says that Finland, despite its obvious faults, might well be more democratic than any of its neighbours. He calls for the German left to support the Finnish government. To Brecht's surprise, his piece prompts discussion in the Reichstag and leads to the creation of a minor Finland-lobby among the Social Democrats.

August 6th, 1930: The Replacement for Big Ben is installed in the Clocktower of the Palace of Westminster, since the original bell was heavily damaged. THe Tower has painstackingly been repaired according to the original plans. Present are the British and Irish PMs, the King, and curiously enough, the German Ambassador.

August 7th, 1930: Chile Surrenders

August 12th, 1930: Uruguay surrenders

August 22nd, 1930: Paraguay Surenders. Also on this day, Shyamaji Krishnavarma proclaims Jiddu Krishnamurti the leader of the Indian independence movement...

September 14th, 1930: The Treaty of Buenos Aries: Paraguay and Chile are annexed into Argentina, Uruguay is put under a 20 year Argentine Occupation. The Uruguayan National Front, a puppet party, is in power in Uruguay.

September 25th 1930: A German parliamentary delegation visits Helsinki. According to all accounts, the visit is a success: in the following months, the People's Republic is to receive much positive attention in German Socialist circles.

November 5, 1930: The Pershing Doctrine mandates elections in the following Commonwealths: Puerto Rico, Haiti, Nicaragua, and American Guiana. Given the recent troubles in Haiti, the area remains a Commonwealth. None of the other territories elect to become states.

December 15th, 1930: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

December 20th, 1930: Economists Waddill Catchings and William Trufant Foster meet with President Calvin Coolidge, reporting that deregulation of the commodities trade and foreign exchanges is necessary to create economic growth in Washington D.C.,...

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January 5, 1931: The Royal Air Force launch the HMS Leviathan, a flying Aircraft Carrier.

February 2, 1931: France's Third Republic Collapses, Prime Minister Leveque calls for a new Constitutional Convention. Christophe Blanchard, the last of the Merovingans drafts the Constitution. President Gaston Doumergue is tried at the Holy Court of the Merovingian Church in Toulouse, and is found guilty of high treason. He is to be executed by guillotine in the Bastille. The Holy French Empire is Created. The Toulouse National Party now controls 58% of the Assembly, and the electorate votes on the new "President" of France to his 5 year term, Christophe Blanchard. Prime Minister Leveque himself applauds the inauguration of Blanchard.

February 9th, 1931: Battle of Shanghai; Japanese forces launch a major offensive against Chinese nationalists in Shanghai, China...

February 21st, 1931: King Zog I is assassinated at the State Opera House, during a performance of Pagliacci in Vienna, Austria-Hungary...

February 25th, 1931: Ottoman Empire officials in Jidda, the cessation of the Ottoman Oil Agreement, saying that "The Ottoman Empire must determine its own fate, with its own resources..."

March 15th 1931: The Husqvarna Massacre. The Swedish military opens fire on a group of striking factory workers. 9 people killed. In parliament, von Rosen applauds the army for "firm action againts Socialist rabble". The strikes, however, only intensify.

April 27, 1931: Following Senate hearings before Congress, Tesla Dynamic must break into several smaller companies. Sierra Electric covers all Tesla Towers from the Rockies West. Central Electric covers the Great Plains and the states North of the Ohio River to Ohio. Tesla Electric manages the Broadcast Power Stations of: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and All of New England. Tesla Dynamic will retain control over R&D, Tesla Broadcasting Company and RWA (formerly Tesla Radio Wavesets of America)

May 15th, 1931: HP Lovecraft publishes The Call of Cthulu a book about a murderous being that is worshiped by poor immigrants, who comes to destroy the great nations of the world. It is an immediate success.

June 5th, 1931: French Gold Crisis; Ministry of Finance officials in Paris report the sale of 10% of the national gold reserves in an effort to pay war reparations, sparking an economic crisis...

June 20th, 1931: President Calvin Coolidge tries to reassure French, German, and British leaders that principle and interest payments on foreign loans will be suspended, sparking devaluation in the currencies on Wall Street...

June 25th, 1931: Minister of Finance Robert Lacour-Gayet announces a "bank holiday" due to a shortage of real funds, due to withdrawals nationwide...

August 22nd 1931: During a National Coalition rally, Communist extremist Set Persson approaches von Rosen and shoots him twice in the chest, shouting "This is for Husqvarna, and for Swedish democracy!" before being gunned down by the police.

August 23rd 1931: Eskil Magnusson becomes Acting Prime Minister of Sweden. He wows to "root out the vile Communist conspiracy" that led to the death of Count von Rosen. Magnusson's anxiety attacks, due to paranoia, begin.

August 24th, 1931: Minister of Finance Adolph Muller announces a massive devaluation in French currencies and bonds in Berlin...

October 2nd 1931: Beginning of the Red Scare in Sweden. Police hunts down and arrests scores of Communists and even moderate Social Democrats. The Blue Brigades given official status as special police troops, with Arvi Kalsta as their chief.

October 11th, 1931: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti warns audiences that America's "spiritual bankruptcy will be refelected in your physical poverty soon.." during a rally in New York City, New York...

October 15th 1931: The Finnish People's Parliament passes Lex Tokoi, a law pardoning many of the people still incarcerated for taking part in the Blue Rebellion and the Triumvirate Terror. Many of the newly free Blue supporters choose exile rather than stay and live in Socialist Finland.

November 9th 1931: Magnusson pushes through legislation classifying Communism a form of "mental infirmity". Several Communists committed to mental institutions, first work camp for detainees built in northern Sweden.

November 21st, 1931: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti is proclaimed a messiah, upon his return from abroad in Mumbai, India...

December 6th 1931: In a radio speech, Magnusson defends the crackdown on the left. "The Socialists want us to be reasonable", he says, "Reasonable! You can not reason with wild animals and vermin. You hunt them down and destroy their nests. It is the only way to prevent them from spreading their plague: the one way to maintain the health of the Nordic race."

December 15th 1931: The French press reprints Magnusson's speech. Leveque calls the Scandinavian leader "a protector of European civilization." Also on this day, TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to author HP Lovecraft.

December 25, 1931: President Coolidge, on the advice of McAdoo and his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon; and Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover; calls Pope Sylvester IV and asks to be able to use the Vatican to convene a "conference of all the World". The Second Vatican conference is called.

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January 1, 1932: The Second Vatican Conference which was not attended by France, or the Ottomans. Sets forth the following

* The Formation of a World Bank and Global Monetary Group
* All members currency must be pegged, and should they ever be changed a meeting of the ministers of finance will take place among the bank's Board of Directors.
* The establishment of the World Bank and Global Monetary Group's headquarters in Rome, and officially part of Vatican City (as close as you can get to International non-partisan territory in this world)

January 18th, 1932: Roman Catholic veteran Sgt. James Renshaw Cox leads "Cox's Army" (c. 50,000 people) on Washington D.C., protesting that the Vatican Treaty only benefits the world's richest 10%...

January 26th, 1932: As if to spite the French and the Swedes, in a special election after the death of the Chancellor, Germany once again elects a majority Social-Democrat Reichstag.

February 2nd 1932: Major riots occur in Paris between members of the Alliance pour la Monarchie and large amounts of Socialists and Communist's against the backdrop of the deepening economic crisis. The riots leave 32 dead.

February 3, 1932: Fortescue blames the riots on the Communists and Socialists and holds the Alliance pour la Monarchie as heros of our new Republic.

March 3rd 1932: The Royal Navy Launches HMS King Alfred, the second flying aircraft carrier. Slightly larger than her prototype, she is equipped to carry 15 Fairy Flycatcher Fighters as well as 10 Blackburn Skua Dive Bombers and 3 Fairy Rippon Reconnaissance aircraft.

March 9th, 1932: Citizen's militias seize control of the First National Bank brank in Mill Creek, Oklahoma, after it is reported that the bank has become insolevent due to foreign currency investments and commodities trade, forcing the foreclosure of farms throughout the Midwest...

May 1st 1932: The film ...And Red Was Their Blood, directed by Aarne Orjatsalo, opens in Helsinki. Detailing Aaltonen's 1920 campaign against the Blues and the Triumvirate through the eyes of a platoon of young Red Guards, the plot depicts the tranformation of a rag-tag crew of young radicals into a cohesive military unit. Considered the first bigger success of the People's Film Commission (KEK) and the career-launching feature for the actor Uuno Paloniemi.


May 7th 1932: Alarmed by the events in the neighbouring "imperialist" nations, Finland decides to beef up its military capabilities. Because of difficulties in gaining foreign hardware, most will be acquired through domestic production. The Turku shipyards readied to build a batch of destroyers (the Helsinki-class) and MTBs. The Tampere heavy combine enlarged for weapons production. All military production placed in direct control of General Aaltonen.

May 13th, 1932: John D. Rockefeller, with Doctor Augustus Trowbridge, announce the formation of "positive eugenics" program at Empire University in New York City, New York....

June 1, 1932: Tesla Broadcasting Corporation (TBS), starts transmitting television

June 5, 1932: Henry Ford announces that he plans to run for President in 1932 against Calvin Coolidge. He eventually loses to Huey Long

June 17th, 1932: Battle of Anacostia Falls; General Smedley Darlington Butler leads c.17,000 protesters demanding pay for soldiers, many who have been unemployed due to the bank crisis and the end of the Baja War; General Douglas Macarthur and General George S. Patton are ordered to fire on civilians, killing c. 1,017 people. The largest number of civilian deaths since the Civil War...

June 21st, 1932: Edward Young Clarke, CEO of Esskaye Inc., leads rally in Chicago, Illinois warning that the Republicans have rigged the election for a Coolidge win in November...

July 25th, 1932: African-American Dr. Eugene Dibble and Dr. Taliaferro Clark announce the launch of "positive eugenics" experiments in Tuskegee, Alabama, using batches of syphilis...

September 1st, 1932: Senators Newton W. Gilbert (R-IN), John R. Rathom (R-RI), and William Dudley Pelley (R-PA) launch opposition to the planned Vatican World Bank Treaty as "Papist trash", citing their support for Mexico during the Baja War...

November 8th, 1932: The ticket of Calvin Coolidge and Hiram Bingham wins reelection against Democrats Huey Long and George White. The election is close, showing the country increasing disillusionment with the GOP.

November 11th-31st, 1932: Indian Jiddu Krishnamurti begins atour of Europe, starting in Paris, France; then to London, England, and then to Berlin, Germany; all in an effort to gain financial and political support for Indian independence...

November 16th, 1932: Shah Reza Pahlavi, inspired by the Ottoman Empire, announces in Tehran, the cessation of the Anglo-Persian Petroleum Agreement...

November 18th, 1932: 3 Republican senators are implicated in a stock manipulation action, promptly covered up by the Hearst media and the Coolidge administration....

December 15th, 1932: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to President Calvin Coolidge for a second time.

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January 1, 1933: The Communist and Socialist parties are declared illegal within the French Empire. Tridault's Inquisitors go on a rampage attacking the homes of Communist and Socialist assemblymen. Massive arrests are carried out regarding.

January 5th, 1933: Calvin Coolidge dies suddenly. Hiram Bingham becomes Acting President and President-elect.

January 8th, 1933: American Christian missionaries John and Betty Stam are killed by Japanese forces outside of Nanking, China, sparking international tensions between the United States and Japan...

January 20th, 1933: French stocks collapse as Andre Tardieu reports that Oustric Bank is financially insolevent in Paris, France...

January 30th, 1933: The German Emporer signs the new German constitution into law, making the German Government system into a close copy of that of Britain, barring several adjustments for German sensibilities. Also on this day, Senator William Dudley Pelley (R-PA) establishes the "Silver Legion" as a means to defend the Administration through youth rallies nationwide....

February 2, 1933: French factories having acquired the licenses for Swedish kettes, begin manufacturing their own, as French designs have been in adequate. Also on this day, After covert deals, Nordisk Aeroplan AB (NAAB) set up in Sweden to produce Bleriot bombers and Morane fighters under license. Also, on this day armaments manufacturer Bofors enters into contract with the French MAS company to design and build small arms and artillery pieces.

March 1, 1933: Emperor Hirohito enforces a policy of the purity of Japan. No full blooded Japanese can marry a non-Japanese, along with a rigid racial structure.

March 4th, 1933: Max Gaines founds Comics on Parade.

March 5th, 1933: President Hiram Bingham orders a national bank holiday in an effort to prevent a massive withdrawal of funds from banks nationwide, as financial instability increases nationwide from Washington D.C.,...

March 14th 1933: The Nordic Guard established by the National Coalition leaders. While the Blue Brigades have been loyal to the movement, Magnusson is sceptical of Kalsta's troops because of the suspect racial status of the Finns. The Guard will be strictly Nordic and recruit in all of Scandinavia. Colonel Martin Ekström appointed leader of the Guard.

March 16th, 1933: Kiangsi Retreat; Yank Shangkun and Lin Biao evacuate Chinese forces from Kiangsi after attack by Japanese forces...

May 15th 1933: Considering its continuing political isolation, the Finnish government decides that the only potential sources for foreign support, even if small, are Britain and Germany. The Delegate for Foreign Affairs, Verner Lehtimäki, sent on a goodwill tour of the two nations.

June 1st 1933: The Finnish People's Parliament repeals the Prohibition after its enforcement has proven hopeless. State monopoly companies Alko and Narko set up to sell alcohol and recreational drugs to the people. Narko's collection includes a number of locally produced marihuana varieties. Especially the "Red Finnish" blend becomes soon very popular. In Sweden, Magnusson call the new Finnish policies "prime examples of Communist decadence".

July 1st, 1933: General Smedley Darlington Butler meets with John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan, warning of the dictatorial powers of the President....

July 4th, 1933: General Smedley Darlington Butler is named "National Commander" of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) during their national convention in Washington D.C.,....

August 1st 1933: Magnusson's "Strength Through Unity" speech. In a mass rally, the Scandinavian leader calls for the dissolution of all "arbitrary divisions" still separating the Nordic nations. Magnusson says the three national parliaments are "a superfluous weakness, and prone to Communist infiltration". The Swedish National Coalition officially changes its name to the Nordic Coalition. The Nordic Youth established.

August 3rd, 1933: The German army creates the first modern "Special forces" unit, the Sondergruppe 9

October 1, 1933: Blanchard moves into the Palace of Versailles, now going by the name Christophe the Blessed. His honor guard, the Merovingian Inquisators are given presidental decree to enforce the Eugenics policy of Holy France.

November 5th 1933: French Prime Minister Leveque announces that France intends to re-militralize, flying in the face of arms restrictions placed on France by Germany.

December 3rd, 1933: Uighurs establish the Eastern Turkestan Republic, taking advantage of the civil unrest and warfare taking place...

December 15th, 1933: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to "All the Brave Men of Sondergruppe 9".

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February 3rd, 1934: Senator Wlliam Dudley Pelley (R-PA) praises President Hiram Bingham for his efforts to "defend the Christian America from barbarism..."

March 6th, 1934: Robert Sterling Clark meets with French representatives of Croix-de-Feu in New York City, New York....

March 13, 1934: The Alliance pour la Monarchie and Toulouse National Party between the two of them control nearly 84% of the National Assembly. They pass the French Rearmament Act. Calling for a massive expansion of the French Military. The Germans and British protest but the expansions are in areas NOT outlined in the Vatican treaty. Notably French kettes, submersibles, gyrodynes, and flying wing aircraft are being mass produced.

March 15th, 1934: Winston Churchill is struck and killed by a passing taxicab in Birmingham, UK.

April 15th, 1934: Henri Rouchette, CEO of Oustric Bank, is proclaimed as a "national traitor" for his financial dealings prior to his execution in Paris, France....

April 25th, 1934: Chinese government officials announce a "united front offensive" in Nanking....

May 6th, 1934: International authorities report famine in India. Jiddu Krishnamurti calls upon the global community to provide humanitarian aid and relief in Mumbai, India. British officials claim this is an effort to embarass the British Commonwealth...

May 19th, 1934: Minister of Finance Hideo Kuroda commits ritual suicide in Tokyo, after reports that the massive fluctuations in French, German and British currencies have caused the World Bank to cause a devaluation of the yen on the international market...

June 26th, 1934: Wallace D. Fard Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, leads a rally in Chicago, Illinois, proclaims that Republican Party is just a nest of "white devils", attracting attention from disaffected African-Americans who have moved North...

June 30th, 1934: Anarchist group "German Red Army" set off a bomb outside the Reichstag, 12 dead, 30 injured.

July 2nd, 1934: German "Special forces" task group Sondergruppe 9 receives it's first mission, the covert assassination of the leadership of the Anarchist group Karl-Heinz Schrader

July 15th, 1934: Silver Legion leaders launch rally in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a former Republican stronghold...

August 12, 1934: In a compromise between Prime Minister Leveque and leaders of the Alliance pour la Monarchie. The Monarchy is officially re-established, but at the insistence of Cardinal Tridault, the Merovingan line is installed as the new Royal Family. Thus President Christophe Blanchard become Christophe I Emperor of the New French Empire.

August 14th, 1934: Author HP Lovecraft announces his intentions to run for senate, with his newly formed Nationalist Party.

September 1, 1934: Blerot XV bombers appear above Cape Verde and the Azores. In an impressively coordinated attack, the French Navy occupies Cape Verde and the Azores, and is now blockading Portugal.

September 13th, 1934: Members of the Veteran of Foreign Wars (VFW) condemn the White House for its failure to address the needs of veterans during its convention in New York City, New York...

October 2nd, 1934: William Randolph Hearst, through America Todaylaunches "Operation Freedom" in an effort to boost support for the administration. Also on this day, The Nordic Guard officially becomes an elite arm of the Swedish Army. The core leaders around Ekström soon become known as "the Knights of Odin" or just "the Knights" for short.

November 5, 1934: For the first time since 1916, the Democrats once more command the House of Representatives. 213 Democrats, 202 Republicans, 20 socialists. The Republicans also lost control of the Senate losing about 22 seats. The current totals 50 Republicans, 46 Democrats. In particular Michigan, almost as a direct result of "Tesla Tyranny" in 1928 is a democrat stronghold. However the issue of Eugenics remains strongly divisive one for the Democrats which the Republicans usually exploit. The Republicans are also starting to show signs of division particular between the Big business and trust-buster factions. The election of 1936 should be interesting. Senate Minority Leader Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) has shown a keen political mind with his capability to forge coalitions.

November 8th, 1934: HP Lovecraft defeats Felix Hebert and becomes a United Senator for Rhode Island. The Nationalist Party also gains seats in South Carolina and Kansas.

December 3rd, 1934: Liberation of Shuangyashan; Chinese military officials announce the liberation of Shuangyashan as a "major turning point", although c. 5,000 people are killed...

December 12, 1934: Being unable to get aid, and under continual assault from Air Bombs, Ship bombardments and Gyrodynes destroying infantry, and Spain's reluctance to aid Portugal's weakened position, Portugal surrenders to the French Empire. The treaty calls for Portugal's Colonial Empire to be ceded to the France. Also Portugal is forced to sign a treaty where they must pay reparations. Oddly these reparations are equal to about half of what France was required to pay to Germany.

December 15th, 1934: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to William Randolph Hearst.

December 23rd, 1934: Ottoman Empire officials announce that refuse to release further barrels of oil to Great Britain and France....

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January 5, 1935: With a huge gala, William Randolph Hearst announces his retirement from head of the Hearst Corporation, and retires to San Simeon, California. His son Willliam Randolph Hearst Junior, is a capable administrator, he is unable to stop the bad reception to his newspapers. The Hearst retirement gala would soon become the milestone by which historians would judge the end of the newspaper era, and the rise of Radio and Television.

March 3rd 1935: The second Swedish armored vehicle, KV-34(a) enters service. While a big improvement to its predecessor, it still is very lightly armored and prone to malfunction.

April 12th, 1935: Mj. Wheeler-Nicholson's National Publications publishes Original Comics.

April 17th, 1935: Indian leader Jiddu Krisnamurti speaks in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, calling for political and fianncial support, sparking international attention...

May 1, 1935: An Alliance is signed between the French Empire and Scandinavian Union.

May 10 1935: King George V dies in his sleep. His son, Prince Edward becomes King Edward VIII, with his coronation due to take place soon.

May 12, 1935: The New York Times prints its final issue, its dedication to objective journalism was its downfall. America Today remains the politcal mothpiece of the RNC, and The Independent is the political mouthpiece of the DNC.

May 31st, 1935: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti meets with leaders of the military junta in Buenos Aires, Argentina to gain political support for Indian independence....

June 11, 1935: Quebec provincial election. Premier Alexandre Taschereau's Liberals are heavily defeated by Maurice Duplessis' Tories. Duplessis issues Order-in-Council 11743 upon becoming Premier, authorizing the inclusion of Jehovah's Witnesses in the eugenics program. Also on this day, First Abasand Co. oil sands plant becomes operational in Fort McMurray, Alta. This would lead to the development of the modern thriving Canadian oil industry.

July 26th, 1935: President Heber J. Grant, head of the Mormon Church of Latter-Day Saints speaks on the "Negro Question" in Salt Lake City, Utah, warning that "darkness is associated with sin..."

September 1st, 1935: Francis Townsend presents his plan for a social security network to President Hiram Bingham in Washington D.C.,...

September 8th, 1935: General Lázaro Cárdenas overthrows the American-backed government in Mexico City. Local followers name him "Jefe Maxino", demanding an end to American presence in the region...

September 9, 1935: President Bingham, never receives word of Cardenas as Secretary of State Stimson, handles the issue by wishing Cardenas luck in his regime as long as he respects the borders of the United States.

October 1, 1935: Construction on a Cantelever bridge, similar to the Sydney Harbor Bridge is planned for the Golden Gate in San Francisco.

October 6th, 1935: Johnny Siegel and Julius Shuster, Jr., create "Professor Arcane" for Original Comics #6.

October 11, 1935: Emperor Hirohito who now faces revolts in Primorsk, and orders his army to fire on the dissenters. The Vladivostock massacre happens which kill about 24,000 Russians. Shogun Tojo of Primorsk personally executes the revolt's leader.

Oct. 23, 1935: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a fourth term with 180 of 245 Commons seats.

November 1, 1935: Japanese submarines engage in a secret war to blockade Korea. Korea's Merchant Fleet is devastated. Japanese ships have strict orders only to fire upon Korean ships.

November 18th, 1935: Liberation of Tunhua; Chinese military forces announce the liberation of Tunhua against Japanese forces....

November 20th, 1935: "The Great Wall of Manchukuo" collapses to Chinese nationalist forces, as ground forces use guerilla tactics to evade defenses primarily designed for heavy weapons and vehicles...

December 15th, 1935: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to British King Edward VIII.

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January 2nd, 1936: President Bingham refuses to run for re-election.

January 11th, 1936: National Publications publishes Investigative Stories Comics, focusing on detective stories.

January 25th 1936: In an air battle over Shanghai, Fighters from the British Built Chinese Flying Aircraft Carrier Chi Yang engage a squadron of Japanese Dive-bombers, decimating them. This particular engagement proves to the eyes of the world the practicality of the Flying Aircraft Carrier.

January 28th, 1936: Second Battle of Shanghai; Chinese nationalist forces announce the liberation of Shanghai, despite heavy resistance by Japanese forces...

February 26th, 1936: P.M. Keisuke Okada is assassinated by Socialist guerillas, before the Diet in Tokyo, Japan....

February 29th, 1936: Indian Jiddu Krishnamurti warns that the United States and Europe are doomed to war due to "corrupt idolotry and inequality..." in New Delhi, India...

March 1st, 1936: Prime Minister Purishkevich issues a speech to the Duma in which he calls for the restoration of Russia's "unreedemed" land - Ukraine, Primorsk, Poland, the Baltic, and Finland. He also outlines plans to remove non-Slavs like the jews and Muslims.

April 7th, 1936: American expatriate Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate General General Lázaro Cárdenas (a.k.a. "Jefe Maximo") in Mexico City, Mexico, sparking tensions with the United States and Mexico...

April 15th, 1936: Professor C.H. Danforth announces the formation of the "College of Eugenics" at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California...

May 24th, 1936: March on Washington; Hiram Evans leads Silver Legion in a march outside the White House in Washington D.C.,...

May 31st, 1936: Virgil "Bert" Effinger (R-OH) calls for "Americanism", leads the "Silver Legion"rally in Columbus, Ohio....

June 4th, 1936: The Duma passes an act relocating Jews and Muslims to Turkestan.

June 11th, 1936: Wheeler-Nicholson rejects Shuster's and Siegel's concept for a union-suited man who fights crime with superhuman powers.

July 1st, 1936: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti proclaims that Europe is "suffering the rot of spiritual corruption and vice" during a rally in Rotterdam, Holland...

July 7th, 1936: Robert Goddard proclaims the need for a strong "national eugenics policy", pointing to rising rates of polio, during Congressional hearings in Washington D.C., ...

August 10th 1936: The first Swedish armored unit equipped with KV-35(c)s. Complete with a 37mm Bofors gun, this slow but reliable machine finally convinces the generals for the utility of "war chariots".

August 11th, 1936: Purishkevich and Leverque meet in Lyons, and sign the Anti-Kaiserreich Pact, dedicated to limiting German influence.

August 31st, 1936: Willliam Dudley Pelley leads a "Rally for the Bill of Rights" in front of the Washington Monument in Washington D.C., c.300,000 people participate...

September 12, 1934: The Paris Cannon, a gun that can accurately fire at a range of 100 miles is made and placed on railway cars. In later years many more would be produced

October 12, 1936: Igor Sikorsky attempts escape once more, and fails, but is able to get a message out. The German Imperial Intelligence attempts to retrieve Sikorsky and find out as much possible about France's new weapons of war.

October 31st, 1936: Assassination attempt is made by Yucatan guerillas against General General Lázaro Cárdenas in Acapulco, Mexico, sparking tensions between Mexico and Yucatan...

November 5, 1936: Hiram Bingham III wins the nomination as the Republican candidate. Senator Franklin Delano Roosevelt is named the presidental candidate for the Democrats. The campaign is one of the most brutal in the 20th century. Bingham with his lack of campaigning skill and lack of accomplishments during his term, only has Hearst's papers, and Republican Machine politics to help his campaign. FDR on the other hand had the support of the most unusual coalition, whose only uniting factor was a dislike of the Republicans. FDR tells senior party heads that he will, "Respect Congress' decisions, and restore balance to the court."

December 15th, 1936: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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January 12, 1937: At his inauguration, President Roosevelt talks about healing the deep rifts in this country. "We must still strive to be what the founding fathers wanted for our great nation. This republic will endure, although injured and wounded from the past administration with its corruption, we are Americans and we will endure. The Republic shall endure". After nearly 70 years in power the Republicans are now the minority, the only branch of government they still control is the Supreme Court. Although his words sound nice, he does go about replacing over 70 years worth of Republican clerks and officials out of their entrenched bureaucracies. The only office that is unaffected is McAdoo's Central Bank of the United States, where McAdoo using his prestige and former president keeps the Bank bipartisan.

February 3, 1937: President Roosevelt, sets about trying to solve the recession in the United States. He appoints Secretary of Commerce, Harold L. Ickes to direct the Public Infrastructure Administration, a federal agency designed to give the unemployed jobs across the nation and stimulate growth in previously unreachable markets. Airports are built along with Public Utility Tesla Stations throughout the nation. Alaska with its recently discovered Oil, is to be be heavily developed, prompting an Oil Rush in Alaska. Alaska will petition for Statehood in 1940 if projections hold.

February 8th, 1937: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces a buildup of military forces nationwide, as a means of "national self-defense" in Mexico City, Mexico....

February 20, 1937: On the advice of his Secretary of the Treasury (Henry Morgenthau) and Commerce (Harry Hopkins), Roosevelt proposes a National Deposit Insurance Agency (NDIA). This department is created in the Federal Banking Act, which reforms the BSEC into stricter banking laws, and a code of business practices. As a sideline of the bill Electric Power Distribution is now considered a Nationalized industry. Tesla Dynamic must surrender its Broadcast Power stations to the new National Electrical Association (NEA)

March 1, 1937: President Roosevelt also pushes through Congress the Pershing National Highway Act, named in honor of former President Pershing who first proposed the idea in 1926. President Pershing is in attendance as the Washington Beltway opens. His invitation is seen somewhat as an olive branch to the elderly President.

March 8th, 1937: Civil Rights leader Father M. J. Divine is killed by Silver Legion members in New York City, New York....

March 10, 1937: Roosevelt also calls upon all the Great Powers to meet once more to address the Global recession, as the Vatican's banking treaty is not working. He calls for a meeting in Zurich. Unfortunately none of the other powers are that interested as they believe the Vatican Banking Accord is working satisfactorily.

March 11th, 1937: Russian troops cross the Russo-Chinese border to reinforce the government in Nanking against warlords and communists.

April 15, 1937: Associate Justice Victor Selden Clark is found dead in his chambers, a suicide note speaks of him "being blinded by Party politics, and ignoring his duty to the Constitution". Although the newspapers will say otherwise, it is a legitimate suicide.

April 23rd, 1937: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces the "Labor Charter of 1937", announces plans for state intervention into private industry, in an effort to prevent unemployment....

May 29th, 1937: Silver Legion members launch a rally in San Francisco, California proclaiming the end of "Republican tyranny"....

June 6, 1937: Chief Justice Pierce Butler, is convinced to resign after talking with the court privately. His lack of opinions is embarassing for a chief justice, and as of late he frequently recuses himself. He resigns to enjoy retirement.

June 7th, 1937: General Lázaro Cárdenas meets covertly with leaders from Argentina, France, Scandinavia, Italy, and Great Britain in Madrid, Spain calling for financial and military aid...

June 13, 1937: Fr. Lionel Groulx, Jean Drapeau and Andre Laurendeau found the Societe Croix de Feu, advocating expansion of eugenics laws to "undesirable aliens".

July 7th, 1937: Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr, converts to the Republican Party over disagreements with the Roosevelt administration.

July 21st, 1937: 130 African-Americans are killed, despite protection by the "Messengers of God" in Saint Petersburg, Florida....

September 20th, 1937: Southern Youth Congress (SYC) led by Hosea Hudson is held in Richmond, Virginia, in an effort to mobilize youth to register people to vote...

September 25th, 1937: Battle of Pingxiangguan Pass; General Lin Biao launches a major ambush of Japanese forces, sparking national attention...

October 4, 1937: Given increasing tensions between France and the Alliance they begin creation of the "Maginot Line" a line of fixed fortifications from the Channel to Switzerland.

October 14th, 1937: Seeing Japan as weak, Purishkevich orders General Vlasov to cross the Russian-Primorsk border.

October 18th, 1937: Henry L. Stimson and Charles Curtis found the Conservative Party of America, more commonly referred to as "The Jaguar Party".

December 1st, 1937: Russia, Sweden, and France sign the "Righteous Pact", commonly referred to as the Throne Axis after Leveque calls it an "alliance of thrones, an axis on which the world will turn from now on."

December 5th, 1937: Croix-de-Feu leaders meet with Howard P. Lovecraft in Los Angeles, California, sparking international attention...

December 15th, 1937: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to now Senator HP Lovecraft for a second time.

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February 9, 1938: The Yucatan Free State petitions the UNited States for aid, following Cardenas announcement.

February 17th, 1938: Fawcett Comics purchases Siegel and Shuster's concept for $150, and unveils "Marvelman: The Hero from the Future" in Heroic Comics #1.

March 18th, 1938: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces that the Mexican people have nationalized the oil fields in Mexico, and that it demands the immediate witdrawal of the United States from Mexican territories...

March 19, 1938: President Roosevelt, responds to Cardena's demand showing the Kellog Treaty of 29. However Roosevelt orders, the old Baja Army to the Baja territories in case trouble should start.

March 19th, 1938: Zocalo Firing Incident; Yucatan guerillas fire on Mexican forces along the border at Zocalo, sparking tensions between the two countries. General Lázaro Cárdenas warns that "ther is now blood inthe water", during a radio address in Mexico City, Mexico...

March 29, 1939: President Roosevelt sacks the governor general of the Baja Territories, General Marshall is now in command of the Baja Territories, and given strict instructions to only fire should Mexican troops cross the border by the terms of Kellog-Carranza Treaty.

April 12th, 1938: "Los Madres Contra Occupacion American" , thousands of mothers of deceased Mexican soldiers, begin chanting and throwing stones at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, demanding an "end to American occupation". Several U.S. Marines fire into the crowd killing 17 people, sparking tensions between the two countries....

May 15th, 1938: San Luis Potosi Rebellion; Cacique Saturnino Cedillo calls for the "end of American occupation", launching an armed insurrection...

June 7th, 1938: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces the nationalization of oil fields of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Company by military force, most workers who have been unpaid by the American and Dutch-owned companies welcome the troops,...

June 11th, 1938: Manchuria and Primorsk are almost completely occupied by Russo-Chinese forces, save the area around Vladivostok.

July 31st, 1938: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti calls upon American architect to design a building worthy of "Maitreya, the World Teacher" in New Delhi, India...

August 15th, 1938: The Pomerian landing is smashed by the German Army after the Swedish Navy runs into the German Baltic Fleet, and is almost totally destroyed. The six German Dreadnoughts also destroy most of a Divison of Swedish Royal Guards on their transports. Meanwhile in the west, a Brtish Squadron consisting of HMS Trafalgar, HMS Agincourt, HMS King George V and HMS St. Vincent, the most modern Dreadnoughts in the RN, along wioth the Admiral Class Battlecruisers, HMS Hood, HMS Nelson, HMS Howe and HMS Anson, along with several Cruisers and Destroyers begin to patrol the bay of Biscay, covered by several British Airborne Carriers. Also on this day, the British and the Germans sign a treaty of alliance and perpetual friendship, founding the "Axis for Democracy".

August 15, 1938: Christophe Blanchard attempts to call 10 Downing Street and the Richestag, to get the British and German Navies to withdraw. Blanchard argues that he has not violated the terms of the Vatican Treaty, but the two fleets are now violating the sovereignty of France and must withdraw, or the French will respond. They are given 2 days to comply.

August 19th 1938: Following the realization of war in the Baltic area, the Finnish government orders full mobilization of the People's Army and Navy.

August 20th, 1938: The RN Squadron runs into a small group of French ships that were at sea when the call of war came, the French Super Dreadnought 'La France', her escorts and one of their Airborne Carriers. The Carrier is destroyed, but La France and most of her escorts escape, being heavily damaged. It becomes a personal mission for the British to destroy them. On the same day two German Kette Corps under Generals Guderian and Rommel counterattack in the east, managing to stop the Russian attack just east of Kiev, but farhter north a similar attack fails, due to a lack of German Air power in the Region. Also on this day, Fuming with rage, Magnusson sacks and imprisons the two main designers of the Pomeranian invasion, Rear Admiral Svensson and General Löf. The invasion of Finland is postponed into spring 1939. The Swedish bombing campaign against Finnish ports and inland cities begins.

August 22nd, 1938: General George S. Patton testifies before Congress, "If blacks aren't allowed to serve in the military with white officers, why should we allow this in civilian life?".

August 24, 1938: Emperor Christophe the First personally orders a squadron of French submersibles into the Bay of Biscay, their orders are to torpedo as many British Naval ships as possible. They are to avoid direct engagements when possible. The Bay of Biscay, all of the British Isles, the English Channel and all of the North Sea is now in the "Unrestricted submersible war"

August 26, 1938: The HMS Trafalgar is struck by three torpedoes and begins taking on water rapidly. The ship capsizes taking over 350 sailors to their watery grave. The fleet is in disarray as they try and find the attacking boats, but not used to fighting submersibles, they fail. 3 more dreadnoughts are sunk along with several support boats. The British Fleet is forced to withdraw from the Bay of Biscay.

August 27th 1938: The Finnish Coastal Fleet moves into the Archipelago Sea and begins laying minefields along the western and southern approaches. Also on this day, Secret Finno-German naval plans activated. The beginning of relief convoys from the Baltic ports to Finland.

August 28, 1938: The French Battle Group from the Azores withdraws to the Bay of Biscay. Safely within the air support radius of the 78th Blerot XV Naval Support wing.

August 29, 1938: French troops are waiting on the "Maginot Line" of the Alsace-Lorraine.

August 30th, 1938: In the west a French attack on Alsace runs headlong into the German Kammhuber Line, where a combination of minefields, machine gun bunkers and anti-kette guns, a variant of the soon famous 89mm series, stop them dead. In the north, the British Expeditionary Force makes landfall in Germany and begins to move south to reinforce the German and Belgian troops conducting a fighting withdrawal towards the German border defences.

September 1, 1938: The French Submersible Operations Theater is expanded.

Western zone limit: 15 degrees W
Northern zone limit: 62.5 degrees N
Eastern zone limit: 15 degrees E
Southern zone limit: 40 degrees N

Any Royal Navy ships entering this area are to be fired upon. Hit and run strategies are in effect. Given the lack of defenses against submersibles the RN is going to take some large losses. France lays minefields along the Belgian border, and French German border. A detachment of French ships from the Canaries goes to blockade Gibraltar.

September 13th 1938: Expecting a two-front war, the bulk of the Finnish People's Army settles into defensive positions in Southern Karelia and in coastal fortifications along the south-western coast ("War Plan 5"). Only smaller troops take positions in Northern Finland and Lapland.

September 15, 1938: Many domestic projects of Christophe's French Empire are cancelled, and their funds put into wartime production of: Blerot XVs, kettes, and Gyrodynes. Pilot training programs are increased.

September 25th 1938: The Finnish People's parliament evacuated into the countryside near Tampere. Also on this day, Christophe I and Magnusson have a meeting.

October 1st, 1938: In a joint declaration Germany and the British Empire call for France to back down and vacate Belgium. It is ignored. Also on this day, "The Time of Mines". As a Scandinavian naval task force moves to the Sound to block it with mine fields, up north Finnish and German ships aim to do the same to the Gulf of Finland. Both efforts are mainly successful and deemed to continue as long as the ice situation allows it...

October 4, 1938: French Recon flights over Finland begin, using Scandinavian air bases support

October 12th 1938: Beginning of the Russian fall offensive against Finland. After last minute changes, the goal is just to probe the Finnish defenses for the actual invasion next year. After just a couple of weeks, the Russians withdraw and settle into winter quarters.

October 29th, 1938: The onset of winter halts all combat operations. The French ,offensive into Alsace is slowly turning into a massive slaughterhouse.

October 30th, 1938: Radio prodigy and Future President of the United States Orson Welles broadcasts his famous radio rendition of The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells. It is regarded as one of Welles' best works.

November 5, 1938: A young Milton Friedman is hired straight out of college to work at the central Bank of the United States.

November 9, 1938: Immigration Minister F.C. Blair issues a directive halting all non-European immigration to Canada. Strict quotas are placed on Eastern and Southern European immigration

November 27th, 1938: Investigative Stories Comics #27 unveils "Owlman: Protector of the Night", Bob Kane's answer to Marvelman.

December 7th 1938: In Turku, a Swedish air raid kills 52 and wounds over 70, being the bloodiest to date.

December 15th, 1938: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to automobile maker Henry Ford.

December 26, 1938: Diplomatic talks break down between Germany and France. The British talks break down shortly.

December 27, 1938: The Blerot XVs launch, their goal is to bomb the British Expeditionary Force in Belgium, after first bombardments, Gyrodynes are scheduled to go in a do "sweeps for infantry." The French army digs minefields between Antwerp and Belgium. From Gent to Aachen is now the French lines. The French troops have dug in for the Winter. Meanwhile in the Alsace, the French have fortified Mulhouse. They have also dug in for the Winter.

December 30, 1938: A non-aggression pact is worked out between Italy and France. Although Christophe I hates making peace with his enemy of the first Great War, he cannot fight a three-front war. As a result the Western Med is mostly secure for the French. In the English Channel, French submersibles continue to harass any and all supplies that Britain tries to send to the BEF in Belgium. Occasional raids are carried out by gyrodynes and Blerots of the BEF and Strasbourt, both of chemical and conventional nature.

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January 1, 1939: Submersible patrols of the English channel double. Hoping to be able to stop a British landing. Gyrodyne reconaissance flights are now daily sights over the Channel. Meanwhile Christophe I, although disliking the idea, opens up a dialogue with Italy, with the hope of reaching an agreement that will either render Italy neutral during this "war-mongering agenda of the British and German Empires".

January 15th, 1939: George Schaffer of RKO Pictures offers Orson Welles a minor contract as a motion picture director, which Welles politely declines.

February 19th, 1939: Heroic Comics #13 introduces the first sidekick in the form of Marvelman's kid brother Marvelboy. The gimmick proves to be a success.

February 28th, 1939: Doctor Clyde Keeler, Harvard Medical School, announces a "School of Eugenics" in Cambridge, Massachusetts,...

March 1, 1939: Enrico Fermi and his team complete the Manhattan Project. The Staten Island Atomic Reactor goes online, the broadcast range of the Tesla Tower is extended and excess power is sent along high capacity power lines to other cities in the Northeast. They receive the Noble Prize for: The harnessing of the energy of the atom for civilian uses, and their discovery is hailed as one of the great achievements of the 20th century.

March 3rd, 1939: British authorities warn that Jiddu Krishnamurti would impose a Hindu theocracy with autocratic systems in Bombay, India...

March 7th, 1939: Siegel introduces the first major comic book villain in Heroic Comics #15, with "Sverchelovek." The character, a bald psychic with Nietzchian overtones, is based off of an earlier character Siegel created but never published called "Superman". Thecharacter is somewhat apparent as an insult to Purishkevik's policies.

March 10th, 1939: Papers in Britain and Germany call the period of inactivity after the bloodletting battles of Autumn and winter 1938 the 'Phony War' or 'Sitzkrieg'. While for the fleets of all involved it is anything but, the Armies need to rebuild first. The Germans plan to try and knock out, or at least badly weaken Russia so that they can decide one of the fronts in 1939 or 1940.

March 11th, 1939: British Carrier Aircraft raid Murmansk, while German planes at the same time bomb St. Petersburg. The British also begin to station part of their Bomber Force in Germany.

March 15, 1939: In a coordinated strike the BEF's winter quarters in Antwerp are bombed. The F-Series Chemical Weapons are used(OTL: G-Series Chemical weapons). The BEF is struck with Nerve gas. Strasbourg and the German army is not as Christophe I wants to limit Civilian casualties. Because of the winter recon flights, more is known about the British position, and a more accurate reading is possible.

March 17th, 1939: La Laguna Rebellion; Miner Antonio Madrazo leads a rebellion in La Laguna, Baja California against American occupation, American soldiers kill 43 people in the process. Also on this day, French Gyrodynes, provide support for the landing French troops at Gibraltar and take the British colony.

March 19, 1939: President Roosevelt sacks the governor general of the Baja Territories, General Marshall is now in command of the Baja Territories, and given strict instructions to only fire should Mexican troops cross the border by the terms of Kellog-Carranza Treaty. Also on this day, Max Gaines partners with Fawcett Comics.

April 1, 1939: In the East, the German puppet state of Belarus fell, as the Russian army aided by rebels overthrow the puppet king. The Russian war machine marches on.

April 2nd, 1939: The First Division fully equipped with the Kette III is activated and prepares to move to the western Front where they will face French Armour which is superior to that of the Russians.

April 10, 1939: Bruised and pinned down the BEF moves to withdraw from the Continent. The gyrodynes injured many troops during the winters, the bombers damaged many kettes, and the chemical weapons prompted a situation where the BEF had no choice but to retreat. They call Britain for transport back home from Brugge.

April 15, 1939: The French whose recon flights spotted the movements of the BEF to Brugge, called Versailles and informed them of the move. Upon consultation with his admirals, Christophe I sets strict orders that the transport ships to allow the retreat of the BEF to reach Brugge, but the submersible are not to allow them to return to England.

May 1, 1939: The Eugenics program of France is transferred to the authority of Christophe's Inquisition. Using a new model, developed by the Inquisition, labels many minorities and political opponents as impure.

May 12, 1939: Christophe I calls for the rounding up of "undesirables" and moving them to various concentration camps. A bounty is placed on all undesirables, approximately 25% of that person's assets, the other 75% going to Reparations payment.

May 15, 1939: The concentration camps are built to house Communists, "impure" minorities, and political dissidents, all under the excuse of the New Corrective Eugenics Model, developed by the French Inquisition. Although it would be until at least 1943 before the news about the camps is either believed or confirmed by any foreign power. Many of the inmates of these camps are used for medical tests and chemical weapons tests.

June 12, 1939: The Japanese and Russian ambassadors both try and get meetings with President Roosevelt. They both want America to sell them Alaskan Oil for their war against the other. President Roosevelt fearful of provoking anger of the British, German or Russians, promptly adopts a wait and see approach. Roosevelt also has his own problems in the Americas with Mexico.

August 14th, 1939: Quality Comics publishes Magnetic Comics #1, introducing their flagship character, the electromagnetic Magno

August 21st, 1939: Samuel Wilbert Tucker leads a sit-in in Alexandria, Virginia to protest the policy of segregation...

August 29th, 1939: George J. Garcia launches rally for the Nationalist Party in Jacksonville, Florida proclaiming the end to "Republican tyranny"...

Sept. 19, 1939: Canada and the United Kingdom sign the Joint Memorandum on Nuclear Research, setting up a research lab for the development of a heavy-water reactor. Today's modern Canadian nuclear arsenal can be directly traced to the JMNR.

October 11th, 1939: Publisher Martin Goodman publishes Fantastic Comics #1, introducing kids to "Volcanoman" and "Jungle King."

November 8, 1939: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a fifth term with 178 of 245 Commons seats.

November 30, 1939: Premier Maurice Duplessis' Tories are re-elected in a landslide. Duplessis' name is floated as a possible Tory leader in the eventuality of King's retirement, but he disclaims all federal ambitions.

December 7, 1939: Prime Minister Mackenzie King resolves to convoke a First Ministers' Conference on constitutional repatriation in the spring of 1940. Later this would be known as Christmas Constitutionalism.

December 14th, 1939: Martin Goodman asks writer Jimmy Simon and artist Jacob Kurtzenburg to create a patriotic-themed mystery man. After reviewing their designs, he suggests making the character a woman. Thus the world is introduced to "Liberty Belle, Protector of America's Shores" in Patriot Comics #1. The cover art amusingly shows her punching Christophe I in the face, even though America and France aren't at war.

December 15th, 1939: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

[Eckener]

Well, "Radionics" (OTL's radar) was created by Nikola Tesla in 1917. Air Legions were created by the German military starting in 1912. By 1920, the White House even had one available for civilian use. The flying aircraft carrier was finally built in 1931. The flying aircraft carrier demonstrated its value in 1936, during the Second Battle of Shanghai. If anything, that should help with matters....

Okay, so the white house has one for it's use. What about the 1929 flight of the Graf Zeppelin or analogue? and passenger travel in general on airships?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Okay, so the white house has one for it's use. What about the 1929 flight of the Graf Zeppelin or analogue? and passenger travel in general on airships? In response to your first question, while we don't have a specific 1929 analogue, the flight went of without a hitch since 1918. Second, in regards to general passenger travel, most airships are fueled by helium, thanks to a treaty signed by U.S. and Germany under Wilhelm III and President Pershing in 1924...

[Odysseus]

A few final dates for the thirties:

October 18th, 1937: Henry L. Stimson and Charles Curtis found the Conservative Party of America, more commonly referred to as "The Jaguar Party".

October 30th, 1938: Radio prodigy and Future President of the United States Orson Welles broadcasts his famous radio rendition of The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells. It is regarded as one of Welles' best works.

January 15th, 1939: George Schaffer of RKO Pictures offers Orson Welles a minor contract as a motion picture director, which Welles politely declines.

And few dates for the forties when we do get to them. (I assume quite soon.)

November 7th, 1940: President Franklin Roosevelt wins the Democratic Party Nomination by default. Henry L. Stimson wins the nomination for the Jaguar Party, and Former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover wins the nomination for the Republican Party. As a result of a splitting of the vote by the increasingly politically left Republican Party, Jaguar Party Nominee Henry L. Stimson is able to win the election by a mere 754 votes in the crucial swing state of New York. The election continues to be one of the most widely disputed and controversial in American history.

December 15th, 1940: TIME Magazine presents it's Person of the Year award to President-Elect Stimson.

June 18th, 1941: Mercury Theatre on the Air! airs it's final radio broadcast; A rendition of a made-for-radio script written by Welles, entitled Citizen Kane. It is only for the date of the broadcast that it is listened to by the majority of Americans, and became one of the most popular radio productions ever aired.

June 29th, 1941: Orson Welles enters a contract to have Michael Curtiz produce a film version of Citizen Kane.

[Prometheus_2300]

So the Royal Navy has decided not to withdraw eh?

August 24, 1938: Emperor Christophe the First personally orders a squadron of French submersibles into the Bay of Biscay, their orders are to torpedo as many British Naval ships as possible. They are to avoid direct engagements when possible. The Bay of Biscay, all of the British Isles, the English Channel and all of the North Sea is now in the "Unrestricted submersible war"

August 26, 1938: The HMS Trafalgar is struck by three torpedoes and begins taking on water rapidly. The ship capsizes taking over 350 sailors to their watery grave. The fleet is in disarray as they try and find the attacking boats, but not used to fighting submersibles, they fail. 3 more dreadnoughts are sunk along with several support boats. The British Fleet is forced to withdraw from the Bay of Biscay.

August 28, 1938: The French Battle Group from the Azores withdraws to the Bay of Biscay. Safely within the air support radius of the 78th Blerot XV Naval Support wing (OOC: If the number seems high for the French, that's because it is. It's actually 21st wing, but Blanchard orders the numbers to be alot higher for misinformation purposes to both Britain and Germany)

August 29, 1938: French troops are waiting on the "Maginot Line" of the Alsace-Lorraine.

<OOC: What caused the Germans and British to ally themselves in the first place, I really don't see their motivations. France although re-militarizing it is bending the Vatican treaty to its limit. The treaty didn't cover kettes, Aeroplanes or submersibles so the French aren't in violation. They are even still making reparation payments (although with Portugal and the plundered wealth of the opposition paying for it), so why attack now? If its Portugal, that country has had problems for a while, and the French saw the opportunity to take their colonial empire.>

EDIT: UGh it should be 38 not 37 moving up a year

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are a few non-Western PODs:

May 8th, 1930: Mohandas K. Gandhi is killed by British authorities in Calcutta, India, sparking international attention...

June 2nd, 1930:Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti proclaims himself a "devout evolutionist" in Mumbai, India, sparking religious controversy....

August 22nd, 1930: Shyamaji Krishnavarma proclaims Jiddu Krishnamurti the leader of the Indian independence movement...

October 11th, 1931: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti warns audiences that America's "spiritual bankruptcy will be refelected in your physical poverty soon.." during a rally in New York City, New York...

November 21st, 1931: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti is proclaimed a messiah, upon his return from abroad in Mumbai, India...

November 11th-31st, 1932: Indian Jiddu Krishnamurti begins atour of Europe, starting in Paris, France; then to London, England, and then to Berlin, Germany; all in an effort to gain financial and political support for Indian independence...

May 6th, 1934: International authorities report famine in India. Jiddu Krishnamurti calls upon the global community to provide humanitarian aid and relief in Mumbai, India. British officials claim this is an effort to embarass the British Commonwealth...

April 17th, 1935: Indian leader Jiddu Krisnamurti speaks in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, calling for political and fianncial support, sparking international attention...

May 31st, 1935: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti meets with leaders of the military junta in Buenos Aires, Argentina to gain political support for Indian independence....

February 29th, 1936: Indian Jiddu Krishnamurti warns that the United States and Europe are doomed to war due to "corrupt idolotry and inequality..." in New Delhi, India...

July 1st, 1936: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti proclaims that Europe is "suffering the rot of spiritual corruption and vice" during a rally in Rotterdam, Holland...

July 31st, 1938: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti calls upon American architect to design a building worthy of "Maitreya, the World Teacher" in New Delhi, India...

March 3rd, 1939: British authorities warn that Jiddu Krishnamurti would impose a Hindu theocracy with autocratic systems in Bombay, India...

[DrakonFin]

August 19th 1938: Following the realization of war in the Baltic area, the Finnish government orders full mobilization of the People's Army and Navy.

August 27th 1938: The Finnish Coastal Fleet moves into the Archipelago Sea and begins laying minefields along the western and southern approaches.

September 13th 1938: Expecting a two-front war, the bulk of the Finnish People's Army settles into defensive positions in Southern Karelia and in coastal fortifications along the south-western coast ("War Plan 5"). Only smaller troops take positions in Northern Finland and Lapland.

September 25th 1938: The Finnish People's parliament evacuated into the countryside near Tampere.


(OOC: Mr_Bondoc, seeing as the war will cause a lot of confusion for '38-'40, could we wait for a bit before moving into the 40s?)

[ArKhan]

Can someone please post more PODs involving my earlier civil rights movement?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Can someone please post more PODs involving my earlier civil rights movement?

July 25th, 1932: African-American Dr. Eugene Dibble and Dr. Taliaferro Clark announce the launch of "positive eugenics" experiments in Tuskegee, Alabama, using batches of syphilis...

June 26th, 1934: Wallace D. Fard Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, leads a rally in Chicago, Illinois, proclaims that Republican Party is just a nest of "white devils", attracting attention from disaffected African-Americans who have moved North...

July 26th, 1935: President Heber J. Grant, head of the Mormon Church of Latter-Day Saints speaks on the "Negro Question" in Salt Lake City, Utah, warning that "darkness is associated with sin..."

September 20th, 1937: Southern Youth Congress (SYC) led by Hosea Hudson is held in Richmond, Virginia, in an effort to mobilize youth to register people to vote...

August 22nd, 1938: General George S. Patton testifies before Congress, "If blacks aren't allowed to serve in the military with white officers, why should we allow this in civilian life?".

August 21st, 1939: Samuel Wilbert Tucker leads a sit-in in Alexandria, Virginia to protest the policy of segregation...

(OOC: Just remember that the U.S. Army wasn't desegregated until 1948 in OTL. Just as in OTL, most military commanders opposed desegregation)

[Zacoftheaxes]

Here's an attempt to fit in all those people that are "claimed" as presidents. We still have some room, too.

1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Barry Goldwater (R)
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Barry Goldwater (R)
1960: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr./ Robert Byrd (D)
1962: Robert Byrd/Elliot Roosevelt (D) (JPK assassinated)
1964: Walter Cronkite/Elliot Roosevelt (D)
1968: Walter Cronkite/Elliot Roosevelt (D)
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Nelson Rockefeller (R)
1976: Robert F. Kennedy/Gerald Ford (R)
1980: Lester “Les Paul” W. Polfuss/Milton Friedman (L)
1984: Lester “Les Paul” W. Polfuss/Milton Friedman (L)

Now I need to work out the WW2 debate.

[Prometheus_2300]

Here's an attempt to fit in all those people that are "claimed" as presidents. We still have some room, too.

1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Barry Goldwater (R)
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Barry Goldwater (R)
1960: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr./ Robert Byrd (D)
1962: Robert Byrd/Elliot Roosevelt (D) (JPK assassinated)
1964: Walter Cronkite/Elliot Roosevelt (D)
1968: Walter Cronkite/Elliot Roosevelt (D)
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Nelson Rockefeller (R)
1976: Robert F. Kennedy/Gerald Ford (R)
1980: Lester “Les Paul” W. Polfuss/Milton Friedman (L)
1984: Lester “Les Paul” W. Polfuss/Milton Friedman (L)

Now I need to work out the WW2 debate.

How about we go decade by decade instead of locking us down to a set list of presidents? Especially since given the current happenings of America a party realignment is bound to happen, and the name Republicans and/or Democrats may disappear as a result

[RogueBeaver]

I agree with Prometheus: nothing can be locked in, especially when we're not even finished the 1930s yet. ;)

[Zacoftheaxes]

I agree with Prometheus: nothing can be locked in, especially when we're not even finished the 1930s yet. ;)

Not intending to lock it in, but just showing one way all the people that have to be president could fit in.

[Odysseus]

Here's an attempt to fit in all those people that are "claimed" as presidents. We still have some room, too.

1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Barry Goldwater (R)
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower/Barry Goldwater (R)
1960: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr./ Robert Byrd (D)
1962: Robert Byrd/Elliot Roosevelt (D) (JPK assassinated)
1964: Walter Cronkite/Elliot Roosevelt (D)
1968: Walter Cronkite/Elliot Roosevelt (D)
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Nelson Rockefeller (R)
1976: Robert F. Kennedy/Gerald Ford (R)
1980: Lester “Les Paul” W. Polfuss/Milton Friedman (L)
1984: Lester “Les Paul” W. Polfuss/Milton Friedman (L)

Now I need to work out the WW2 debate.

Orson Welles is also a claimed President. I was planning on having him in office in the 50s.

[Zacoftheaxes]

Orson Welles is also a claimed President. I was planning on having him in office in the 50s.

Hmm. We've got plenty of room. I could push Cronkite or Paul into the 90's, or I can completely scratch Eisenhower as he was my idea, maybe put him in as a VP.

That's also going to be very surreal consider Bingham inspired Citizen Kane and now Orson Welles is going to filling the same role as him... again.

[Prometheus_2300]

Looking through the archives the following are mentioned to be future Presidents. Thought it might help to have them all in one place

Les Paul Polfuss
Joseph P Kennedy
Robert Byrd
Robert Kennedy (Republican)

The following have been named as possible presidents but have not been included in the official timelines in any mention

Walter Cronkite
Orson Welles

Future cabinet posts

George H. W. Bush as Secretary of State

Again why are we trying to set the order now, we don't know what the 40s 50s or any other decade will bring to the USA. There might not be a Republican or Democratic Party when these guys arrive. I was planning that in 1944 there would be four candidates for President, basically a party realignment election as if anything both parties have deep schisms and similar to what happened in 1860 (hopefully without the civil war).

[Zacoftheaxes]

Looking through the archives the following are mentioned to be future Presidents. Thought it might help to have them all in one place

Les Paul Polfuss
Joseph P Kennedy
Robert Byrd
Robert Kennedy (Republican)

The following have been named as possible presidents but have not been included in the official timelines in any mention

Walter Cronkite
Orson Welles

Future cabinet posts

George H. W. Bush as Secretary of State

Again why are we trying to set the order now, we don't know what the 40s 50s or any other decade will bring to the USA. There might not be a Republican or Democratic Party when these guys arrive. I was planning that in 1944 there would be four candidates for President, basically a party realignment election as if anything both parties have deep schisms and similar to what happened in 1860 (hopefully without the civil war).

Well, RFK is a future Republican president as the PoD says. So the Republicans have to survive, made sense for the Dems to stick around too.

[Odysseus]

Looking through the archives the following are mentioned to be future Presidents. Thought it might help to have them all in one place

Les Paul Polfuss
Joseph P Kennedy
Robert Byrd
Robert Kennedy (Republican)

The following have been named as possible presidents but have not been included in the official timelines in any mention

Walter Cronkite
Orson Welles

Future cabinet posts

George H. W. Bush as Secretary of State

Again why are we trying to set the order now, we don't know what the 40s 50s or any other decade will bring to the USA. There might not be a Republican or Democratic Party when these guys arrive. I was planning that in 1944 there would be four candidates for President, basically a party realignment election as if anything both parties have deep schisms and similar to what happened in 1860 (hopefully without the civil war).

Look, there have to be other things people can focus on in the TL than the United States Presidential Elections. Try adding some dates not related to politics.

[RogueBeaver]

June 11, 1935: First Abasand Co. oil sands plant becomes operational in Fort McMurray, Alta. This would lead to the development of the modern thriving Canadian oil industry.

Sept. 19, 1939: Canada and the United Kingdom sign the Joint Memorandum on Nuclear Research, setting up a research lab for the development of a heavy-water reactor. Today's modern Canadian nuclear arsenal can be directly traced to the JMNR.

[jmberry]

July 7th, 1937: Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr, converts to the Republican Party over disagreements with the Roosevelt administration.

March 19th, 1939: Max Gaines partners with Fawcett Comics.

August 14th, 1939: Quality Comics publishes Magnetic Comics #1, introducing their flagship character, the electromagnetic Magno.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Alright, true believers!! I just need to ask people are we ready to move on to the 1940s, I am ready to finish up the 1930s, but I need to make sure that everyone is ready....

[RogueBeaver]

Yes, I'm ready to move onto the 1940s.

[trekchu]

Let's wait a few more posts.

[Zacoftheaxes]

Alright, true believers!! I just need to ask people are we ready to move on to the 1940s, I am ready to finish up the 1930s, but I need to make sure that everyone is ready....

We need to fix this WW2 problem still. Give me until later today and I'll have a solution.

[Prometheus_2300]

PODs: French Battle Plans

September 1, 1938: The French Submersible Operations Theater is expanded.

Western zone limit: 15 degrees W
Northern zone limit: 62.5 degrees N
Eastern zone limit: 15 degrees E
Southern zone limit: 40 degrees N

Any Royal Navy ships entering this area are to be fired upon. Hit and run strategies are in effect. Given the lack of defenses against submersibles the RN is going to take some large losses.

France lays minefields along the Belgian border, and French German border.

A detachment of French ships from the Canaries goes to blockade Gibraltar.

September 15, 1938: Many domestic projects of Christophe's French Empire are cancelled, and their funds put into wartime production of: Blerot XVs, kettes, and Gyrodynes. Pilot training programs are increased.

September 25, 1938: Christophe I and Magnusson have a meeting.

OOC: Basically France will fortify position, try to marginalize the RN as much as possible, only firing on military targets. They will continue calling for a cease fire because of Britain and Germany's aggression.

Now for France's Eugenics

May 1, 1939: The Eugenics program of France is transferred to the authority of Christophe's Inquisition. Using a new model, developed by the Inquisition, labels many minorities and political opponents as impure.

May 12, 1939: Christophe I calls for the rounding up of "undesirables" and moving them to various concentration camps. A bounty is placed on all undesirables, approximately 25% of that person's assets, the other 75% going to Reparations payment.

May 15, 1939: The concentration camps are built to house Communists, "impure" minorities, and political dissidents, all under the excuse of the New Corrective Eugenics Model, developed by the French Inquisition. Although it would be until at least 1943 before the news about the camps is either believed or confirmed by any foreign power. Many of the inmates of these camps are used for medical tests and chemical weapons tests.

<OOC: Now we have France taking the eugenics idea, using it for political means, and using it as an excuse to permanently silence opposition. Christophe is merging OTL's Russian gulags with the Nazis death camps.>

We still need to know what Sweden is up to in this war, let's wait another day to see what happens there before moving onto the 1940s

[trekchu]

October 1st, 1938: In a joint declaration Germany and the British Empire call for France to back down and vacate Belgium. It is ignored.


October 29th, 1938: The onset of winter halts all combat operations. The French ,offensive into Alsace is slowly turning into a massive slaughterhouse.


March 10th, 1939: Papers in Britain and Germany call the period of inactivity after the bloodletting battles of Autumn and winter 1938 the 'Phony War' or 'Sitzkrieg'. While for the fleets of all involved it is anything but, the Armies need to rebuild first. The Germans plan to try and knock out, or at least badly weaken Russia so that they can decide one of the fronts in 1939 or 1940.

March 11th: British Carrier Aircraft raid Murmansk, while German planes at the same time bomb St. Petersburg. The British also begin to station part of their Bomber Force in Germany.

April 2nd, 1939: The First Division fully equipped with the Kette III is activated and prepares to move to the western Front where they will face French Armour which is superior to that of the Russians.

(OOC: Essentially a Panzer III with a long gun)

[Zacoftheaxes]

My compromise solution here:

Scandinavian-French-Russian-Japanese Axis.

American-British-German-Finnish-Chinese Allies.

Almost falls apart a year before the war with Russo-Japanese tensions, but Japan cedes Russian territory back to Russia.

Japan invades Korea with genocidal intent, and invades British and German territories.

France, Scandinavia, and Russia launch a three pronged attack into Germany.

Scandinavia and France attempt to invade Britain after it declares war.

Scandinavia and Russia invade Finland.

Russians fund Mexican rebels and japan pulls a Pearl Harbor analouge, bringing American into the war in late 1939.

Rest of the war is in the 40's.

Someone else can write the PoDs preferably Mr_Bondoc as he's neutral on this and it will be the most important part of HIS timeline. But if he doesn't want to then someone else can write them up.

[Prometheus_2300]

October 1st, 1938: In a joint declaration Germany and the British Empire call for France to back down and vacate Belgium. It is ignored.


October 29th, 1938: The onset of winter halts all combat operations. The French have managed to break into but not through the German border defences near Belgium, while their offensive into Alsace is slowly turning into a massive slaughterhouse.


March 10th, 1939: Papers in Britain and Germany call the period of inactivity after the bloodletting battles of Autumn and winter 1938 the 'Phony War' or 'Sitzkrieg'. While for the fleets of all involved it is anything but, the Armies need to rebuild first. The Germans plan to try and knock out, or at least badly weaken Russia so that they can decide one of the fronts in 1939 or 1940.

March 11th: British Carrier Aircraft raid Murmansk, while German planes at the same time bomb St. Petersburg. The British also begin to station part of their Bomber Force in Germany.

April 2nd, 1939: The First Division fully equipped with the Kette III is activated and prepares to move to the western Front where they will face French Armour which is superior to that of the Russians.

(OOC: Essentially a Panzer III with a long gun)

Umm, France isn't going for Belgium, they are sitting on the French-Belgian border, building defensive fortifications. The BEF is in Belgium though. France has taken Portugal's Colonial Empire though.

[trekchu]

OOps. Will edit.

[Prometheus_2300]

Also just FYI, France as far as I know is just sitting on the Eastern border, and letting fleets go at it.

January 1, 1939: Submersible patrols of the English channel double. Hoping to be able to stop a British landing. Gyrodyne reconaissance flights are now daily sights over the Channel.

Meanwhile Christophe I, although disliking the idea, opens up a dialogue with Italy, with the hope of reaching an agreement that will either render Italy neutral during this "war-mongering agenda of the British and German Empires".

Why is the war starting up now anyway? I don't really see the reasons.

[Zacoftheaxes]

Also just FYI, France as far as I know is just sitting on the Eastern border, and letting fleets go at it.

January 1, 1939: Submersible patrols of the English channel double. Hoping to be able to stop a British landing. Gyrodyne reconaissance flights are now daily sights over the Channel.

Meanwhile Christophe I, although disliking the idea, opens up a dialogue with Italy, with the hope of reaching an agreement that will either render Italy neutral during this "war-mongering agenda of the British and German Empires".

Why is the war starting up now anyway? I don't really see the reasons.

Some started it so let's just roll with it. You can write the PoDs I requested and then we have a WW2 that makes everyone happy.

[jmberry]

I will only say this one final time, as I'm getting sick of this:

Russia and Japan Will. Not. Ally. Ever. There is far too much bad blood for this to be possible. Russia is in France's pact because they can cause harm to Germany. Japan is a cobelligerent of Britain by default.

The war started because France invaded Belgium, as per my posts. You guys have continually been setting up France to be a revanchist unfascist nation, so if a war started they would start it.

[Zacoftheaxes]

I will only say this one final time, as I'm getting sick of this:

Russia and Japan Will. Not. Ally. Ever. There is far too much bad blood for this to be possible. Russia is in France's pact because they can cause harm to Germany. Japan is a cobelligerent of Britain by default.

The war started because France invaded Belgium, as per my posts. You guys have continually been setting up France to be a revanchist unfascist nation, so if a war started they would start it.
Well can we compromise. Have Japan invade Korea in a separate war and have not Russo-Japanese front? Japan is fascist and it inspired Magnusson.

[Prometheus_2300]

I will only say this one final time, as I'm getting sick of this:

Russia and Japan Will. Not. Ally. Ever. There is far too much bad blood for this to be possible. Russia is in France's pact because they can cause harm to Germany. Japan is a cobelligerent of Britain by default.

The war started because France invaded Belgium, as per my posts. You guys have continually been setting up France to be a revanchist unfascist nation, so if a war started they would start it.

I agree, the likelihood of Japan and Russia in any sort of alliance is just not going to happen. Once more the World War will primarily be a European one. Besides didn't the Russian just send a huge army into Primorsk starting the Third Russo-Japanese War?

I will leave the Pacific War to other people. I will just say that the likelihood of America getting involved in this war is remote.

December 26, 1938: Diplomatic talks break down between Germany and France. The British talks break down shortly.

December 27, 1938: The Blerot XVs launch, their goal is to bomb the British Expeditionary Force in Belgium, after first bombardments, Gyrodynes are scheduled to go in a do "sweeps for infantry." The French army digs minefields between Antwerp and Belgium. From Gent to Aachen is now the French lines. The French troops have dug in for the Winter

Meanwhile in the Alsace, the French have fortified Mulhouse. They have also dug in for the Winter.

December 30, 1938: A non-aggression pact is worked out between Italy and France. Although Christophe I hates making peace with his enemy of the first Great War, he cannot fight a three-front war. As a result the Western Med is mostly secure for the French

In the English Channel, French submersibles continue to harass any and all supplies that Britain tries to send to the BEF in Belgium. Occasional raids are carried out by gyrodynes and Blerots of the BEF and Strasbourt, both of chemical and conventional nature.

March 15, 1939: In a coordinated strike the BEF's winter quarters in Antwerp are bombed. The F-Series Chemical Weapons are used(OTL: G-Series Chemical weapons). The BEF is struck with Nerve gas. Strasbourg and the German army is not as Christophe I wants to limit Civilian casualties. Because of the winter recon flights, more is known about the British position, and a more accurate reading is possible.

March 17, 1939: French Gyrodynes, provide support for the landing French troops at Gibraltar and take the British colony.

April 1, 1939: In the East, the German puppet state of Belarus fell, as the Russian army aided by rebels overthrow the puppet king. The Russian war machine marches on.

June 12, 1939: The Japanese and Russian ambassadors both try and get meetings with President Roosevelt. They both want America to sell them Alaskan Oil for their war against the other. President Roosevelt fearful of provoking anger of the British, German or Russians, promptly adopts a wait and see approach. Roosevelt also has his own problems in the Americas with Mexico.

<OOC: Ok Russia and Japan are on the war. If anything we now have a three bloc war. France, Scandinavia, and Russia vs. Germany and Britain in Europe. Russia, Korea, and China vs. Japan. America will probably be out of it unless Argentina gets to Panama which is unlikely>

My reasoning is that the Air Force can operate wintertime raids, but the army is stopped for the Winter. The French still have up the defensive line outside Alsace, but are planning on moving towards Strasbourg and then maybe into Germany. France has fixed wing flying bombers which are faster then zeppelins hence their early success. By the time the Fighter planes from Britain are up, the Bombers start dropping bombs because the fighters drilled for Zeppelin (60 mph) instead of fixed wing bombers (200 mph)

[Prometheus_2300]

April 10, 1939: Bruised and pinned down the BEF moves to withdraw from the Continent. The gyrodynes injured many troops during the winters, the bombers damaged many kettes, and the chemical weapons prompted a situation where the BEF had no choice but to retreat. They call Britain for transport back home from Brugge.

April 15, 1939: The French whose recon flights spotted the movements of the BEF to Brugge, called Versailles and informed them of the move. Upon consultation with his admirals, Christophe I sets strict orders that the transport ships to allow the retreat of the BEF to reach Brugge, but the submersible are not to allow them to return to England.

OOC: reading over what the French did to the BEF over the winter, they must be hurting, and withdrawl seems inevitable, as the battle casualties are monstrous because of chemical weapons, gyrodynes, and bombers. Cut off from British supplies the BEF don't have many options besides withdraw or stay and be killed.

[ArKhan]

(insert date here): The world's first RPG, World of Lovecraft, make's it's hit debut.

[DrakonFin]

My compromise solution here:

[snip]

France, Scandinavia, and Russia launch a three pronged attack into Germany.

Scandinavia and France attempt to invade Britain after it declares war.

Scandinavia and Russia invade Finland.

[snip]



Really? The Pomeranian invasion was already very bad (and Very Stupid) for Scandinavia, it seems they lost a big chunk of their Baltic fleet, transports and crack troops. And then they go and invade Britain? Magnusson might be a fascist, a racist and a megalomaniac, but he is not (at least yet) actually out of his mind.

Because of the Pomeranian debacle, it already looks like the invasion of Finland might have to pushed into spring 1939: it is not like Scandinavia has amphibious capabilities to spare, and the winter up north is coming soon. By December-January, much of the Gulf of Bothnia and the Archipelago Sea will be frozen solid.

But I understand if you are merely meaning an air campaign against Britain from Denmark and Norway. For that, the Scands would have resources available.

[DrakonFin]

And some PoDs:

August 20th 1938: Fuming with rage, Magnusson sacks and imprisons the two main designers of the Pomeranian invasion, Rear Admiral Svensson and General Löf. The invasion of Finland is postponed into spring 1939. The Swedish bombing campaign against Finnish ports and inland cities begins.

August 27th 1938: Secret Finno-German naval plans activated. The beginning of relief convoys from the Baltic ports to Finland.

October 1st 1938: The Time of Mines. As a Scandinavian naval task force moves to the Sound to block it with mine fields, up north Finnish and German ships aim to do the same to the Gulf of Finland. Both efforts are mainly successful and deemed to continue as long as the ice situation allows it...

October 12th 1938: Beginning of the Russian fall offensive against Finland. After last minute changes, the goal is just to probe the Finnish defenses for the actual invasion next year. After just a couple of weeks, the Russians withdraw and settle into winter quarters.

December 7th 1938: In Turku, a Swedish air raid kills 52 and wounds over 70, being the bloodiest to date.

[Prometheus_2300]

Really? The Pomeranian invasion was already very bad (and Very Stupid) for Scandinavia, it seems they lost a big chunk of their Baltic fleet, transports and crack troops. And then they go and invade Britain? Magnusson might be a fascist, a racist and a megalomaniac, but he is not (at least yet) actually out of his mind.

Because of the Pomeranian debacle, it already looks like the invasion of Finland might have to pushed into spring 1939: it is not like Scandinavia has amphibious capabilities to spare, and the winter up north is coming soon. By December-January, much of the Gulf of Bothnia and the Archipelago Sea will be frozen solid.

But I understand if you are merely meaning an air campaign against Britain from Denmark and Norway. For that, the Scands would have resources available.

France is not going to try and invade Britain either, their goal is to just keep them out of the war until Germany is bloodied up a bit, hence the blockades and bombing. An unnamable sea mammal couldn't work in our world, I don't think it could work in this one either. This is also the reason why Christophe is only bombing military targets, he's hoping that popular support in Britain will call for an early armistice between the Axis and Britain, leaving Germany all alone. After a couple months of blockades, and the lack of civilian bombings, peace will get declared.

Blanchard may be a fascist, sadistic, mass murdered, with delusions of godhood and grandeur, but he does recognize that he is not a military strategist and leaves those decisions up to his admirals and generals. He's only ever sacked one and that was over Belgium.

October 4, 1938: French Recon flights over Finland begin, using Scandinavian air bases support

[Mr_ Bondoc]

With those issues out of the way, can we now start moving into the 1940s? Second, could someone post the maps for the 1920s and 1930s in "Timelines & Scenarios" section?

[Zacoftheaxes]

With those issues out of the way, can we now start moving into the 1940s? Second, could someone post the maps for the 1920s and 1930s in "Timelines & Scenarios" section?

Did anyone ever draw up what the Pershing Purchase looked like?

[Odysseus]

October 17th, 1999: The world's first RPG, World of Lovecraft, make's it's hit debut.

:p

..... ,

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is the third draft of the 1930s:

January 1, 1930: The Empire of Japan annexes Manchuria into the state of Manchukuo, they also begin "The Great Wall of Manchukuo" Fortifications on the Chinese-Machukuo Border, including Railroad howitzers sold to Japan from France. The Dragon Wing of Japan, Japan's First Air Legion is now stationed in Nagasaki. All zeppelins are outfitted with chemical weapons platforms. Also on this day, Another Papal Conclave is called in 1930, in the hopes of healing the schism between Catholics and Merovingan Catholics, the Conclave elects Sylvester IV a bishop of Lyon which attended seminary with Cardinal Tridault, but in correspondence with Celestine VI, conveyed his worries about France, and how far his friend had fallen.

January 2nd 1930: 12,000 Communist arrested by General Verdez, 329 executed. The regime begins to arrest dissidents. Buenos Aries riots quelled with Brutal Force.

January 3rd, 1930: The Americans caught in Cuba cause a riot in an attempt to get back out to sea, killing 21 Cubans. There ships however, are destroyed by mines planted by anarchists, but many find a way to blame the Cubans.

January 30th 1930: The First Commonwealth Conference is held in London to discuss the future of the British Empire/Commonwealth. As a result, the 5 Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland and South Africa all gain more autonomy within the Commonwealth.

February 12 1930: Future Socialist Revolutionary and Irish Republican Sylvia Tynan is born in Dublin.

March 12, 1930: William Randolph Hearst publishes interviews with Sava Kosanović, explaining how he was "desperate for a Sterilization Exception Card" and US Citizenship, and how he would have said almost anything to get around that law.

March 18 1930: The Alliance pour la Monarchie, a political Coalition led by the far Right and Monarchist Action Fransaise is founded in France.

March 25th 1930: the Swedish Sterilization Act extended to the "racially unfit" despite protests by the left.

April 11, 1930: In response to recent questions about the deregulation of the banking industries, President Coolidge creates the BSEC, the Banking Securities and Exchange Commission, a department of the FBI that specifically is in charge of tracking and enforcing federal banking laws. Coolidge remarks, "The Business of America, is Good Business." Former President William McAdoo is asked by President Coolidge to be the new President of the Central Bank of the United States. Keynes is now Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

April 17th 1930: The Argentine National Peoples Front is the only political party left legal. It adopts a growing Authortarian Ideology, known as Facism. The Military Junta bans all trade unions, and arrest and execute 21 leading Union leaders, including Juan Peron. The Regime announces a new constitution.

May 1, 1930: Oil is struck in Alaska, prompting a huge wave of construction and speculation in Alaska.

May 8th, 1930: Mohandas K. Gandhi is killed by British authorities in Calcutta, India, sparking international attention...

May 24th, 1930: Socialist win elections in Chile.

June 1, 1930: The Case of Anthony Parks v. Memphis Municipal Trolley is heard by the Supreme Court. The court finds in favor of Anthony Parks that it is illegal to charge different fares based on race. Also Plessy v. Ferguson is overturned as a result of this decision.

June 2nd, 1930:Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti proclaims himself a "devout evolutionist" in Mumbai, India, sparking religious controversy....

July 19th, 1930: Socialist take power by coup in Paraguay, with Chilean Support. The Argentine Junta convenes a emergency meeting in Buenos Aires.

August 1st, 1930: Operation Libertad: Argentine Military forces cross the Chilean border, dividing the country in half. Troops also invade Paraguay, and Uruguay (to prevent a Socialist regime).

August 5th 1930: The Münchener Post publishes an article by young journalist Bertolt Brecht about Finland. In the light of recent political developments in Scandinavia, Brecht says that Finland, despite its obvious faults, might well be more democratic than any of its neighbours. He calls for the German left to support the Finnish government. To Brecht's surprise, his piece prompts discussion in the Reichstag and leads to the creation of a minor Finland-lobby among the Social Democrats.

August 6th, 1930: The Replacement for Big Ben is installed in the Clocktower of the Palace of Westminster, since the original bell was heavily damaged. THe Tower has painstackingly been repaired according to the original plans. Present are the British and Irish PMs, the King, and curiously enough, the German Ambassador.

August 7th, 1930: Chile Surrenders

August 12th, 1930: Uruguay surrenders

August 22nd, 1930: Paraguay Surenders. Also on this day, Shyamaji Krishnavarma proclaims Jiddu Krishnamurti the leader of the Indian independence movement...

September 14th, 1930: The Treaty of Buenos Aries: Paraguay and Chile are annexed into Argentina, Uruguay is put under a 20 year Argentine Occupation. The Uruguayan National Front, a puppet party, is in power in Uruguay.

September 25th 1930: A German parliamentary delegation visits Helsinki. According to all accounts, the visit is a success: in the following months, the People's Republic is to receive much positive attention in German Socialist circles.

November 5, 1930: The Pershing Doctrine mandates elections in the following Commonwealths: Puerto Rico, Haiti, Nicaragua, and American Guiana. Given the recent troubles in Haiti, the area remains a Commonwealth. None of the other territories elect to become states.

December 15th, 1930: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

December 20th, 1930: Economists Waddill Catchings and William Trufant Foster meet with President Calvin Coolidge, reporting that deregulation of the commodities trade and foreign exchanges is necessary to create economic growth in Washington D.C.,...

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January 5, 1931: The Royal Air Force launch the HMS Leviathan, a flying Aircraft Carrier.

February 2, 1931: France's Third Republic Collapses, Prime Minister Leveque calls for a new Constitutional Convention. Christophe Blanchard, the last of the Merovingans drafts the Constitution. President Gaston Doumergue is tried at the Holy Court of the Merovingian Church in Toulouse, and is found guilty of high treason. He is to be executed by guillotine in the Bastille. The Holy French Empire is Created. The Toulouse National Party now controls 58% of the Assembly, and the electorate votes on the new "President" of France to his 5 year term, Christophe Blanchard. Prime Minister Leveque himself applauds the inauguration of Blanchard.

February 9th, 1931: Battle of Shanghai; Japanese forces launch a major offensive against Chinese nationalists in Shanghai, China...

February 21st, 1931: King Zog I is assassinated at the State Opera House, during a performance of Pagliacci in Vienna, Austria-Hungary...

February 25th, 1931: Ottoman Empire officials in Jidda, the cessation of the Ottoman Oil Agreement, saying that "The Ottoman Empire must determine its own fate, with its own resources..."

March 15th 1931: The Husqvarna Massacre. The Swedish military opens fire on a group of striking factory workers. 9 people killed. In parliament, von Rosen applauds the army for "firm action againts Socialist rabble". The strikes, however, only intensify.

April 27, 1931: Following Senate hearings before Congress, Tesla Dynamic must break into several smaller companies. Sierra Electric covers all Tesla Towers from the Rockies West. Central Electric covers the Great Plains and the states North of the Ohio River to Ohio. Tesla Electric manages the Broadcast Power Stations of: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and All of New England. Tesla Dynamic will retain control over R&D, Tesla Broadcasting Company and RWA (formerly Tesla Radio Wavesets of America)

May 15th, 1931: HP Lovecraft publishes The Call of Cthulu a book about a murderous being that is worshiped by poor immigrants, who comes to destroy the great nations of the world. It is an immediate success.

June 5th, 1931: French Gold Crisis; Ministry of Finance officials in Paris report the sale of 10% of the national gold reserves in an effort to pay war reparations, sparking an economic crisis...

June 20th, 1931: President Calvin Coolidge tries to reassure French, German, and British leaders that principle and interest payments on foreign loans will be suspended, sparking devaluation in the currencies on Wall Street...

June 25th, 1931: Minister of Finance Robert Lacour-Gayet announces a "bank holiday" due to a shortage of real funds, due to withdrawals nationwide...

August 22nd 1931: During a National Coalition rally, Communist extremist Set Persson approaches von Rosen and shoots him twice in the chest, shouting "This is for Husqvarna, and for Swedish democracy!" before being gunned down by the police.

August 23rd 1931: Eskil Magnusson becomes Acting Prime Minister of Sweden. He wows to "root out the vile Communist conspiracy" that led to the death of Count von Rosen. Magnusson's anxiety attacks, due to paranoia, begin.

August 24th, 1931: Minister of Finance Adolph Muller announces a massive devaluation in French currencies and bonds in Berlin...

October 2nd 1931: Beginning of the Red Scare in Sweden. Police hunts down and arrests scores of Communists and even moderate Social Democrats. The Blue Brigades given official status as special police troops, with Arvi Kalsta as their chief.

October 11th, 1931: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti warns audiences that America's "spiritual bankruptcy will be refelected in your physical poverty soon.." during a rally in New York City, New York...

October 15th 1931: The Finnish People's Parliament passes Lex Tokoi, a law pardoning many of the people still incarcerated for taking part in the Blue Rebellion and the Triumvirate Terror. Many of the newly free Blue supporters choose exile rather than stay and live in Socialist Finland.

November 9th 1931: Magnusson pushes through legislation classifying Communism a form of "mental infirmity". Several Communists committed to mental institutions, first work camp for detainees built in northern Sweden.

November 21st, 1931: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti is proclaimed a messiah, upon his return from abroad in Mumbai, India...

December 6th 1931: In a radio speech, Magnusson defends the crackdown on the left. "The Socialists want us to be reasonable", he says, "Reasonable! You can not reason with wild animals and vermin. You hunt them down and destroy their nests. It is the only way to prevent them from spreading their plague: the one way to maintain the health of the Nordic race."

December 15th 1931: The French press reprints Magnusson's speech. Leveque calls the Scandinavian leader "a protector of European civilization." Also on this day, TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to author HP Lovecraft.

December 25, 1931: President Coolidge, on the advice of McAdoo and his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon; and Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover; calls Pope Sylvester IV and asks to be able to use the Vatican to convene a "conference of all the World". The Second Vatican conference is called.

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January 1, 1932: The Second Vatican Conference which was not attended by France, or the Ottomans. Sets forth the following

* The Formation of a World Bank and Global Monetary Group
* All members currency must be pegged, and should they ever be changed a meeting of the ministers of finance will take place among the bank's Board of Directors.
* The establishment of the World Bank and Global Monetary Group's headquarters in Rome, and officially part of Vatican City (as close as you can get to International non-partisan territory in this world)

January 18th, 1932: Roman Catholic veteran Sgt. James Renshaw Cox leads "Cox's Army" (c. 50,000 people) on Washington D.C., protesting that the Vatican Treaty only benefits the world's richest 10%...

January 26th, 1932: As if to spite the French and the Swedes, in a special election after the death of the Chancellor, Germany once again elects a majority Social-Democrat Reichstag.

February 2nd 1932: Major riots occur in Paris between members of the Alliance pour la Monarchie and large amounts of Socialists and Communist's against the backdrop of the deepening economic crisis. The riots leave 32 dead.

February 3, 1932: Fortescue blames the riots on the Communists and Socialists and holds the Alliance pour la Monarchie as heros of our new Republic.

March 3rd 1932: The Royal Navy Launches HMS King Alfred, the second flying aircraft carrier. Slightly larger than her prototype, she is equipped to carry 15 Fairy Flycatcher Fighters as well as 10 Blackburn Skua Dive Bombers and 3 Fairy Rippon Reconnaissance aircraft.

March 9th, 1932: Citizen's militias seize control of the First National Bank brank in Mill Creek, Oklahoma, after it is reported that the bank has become insolevent due to foreign currency investments and commodities trade, forcing the foreclosure of farms throughout the Midwest...

May 1st 1932: The film ...And Red Was Their Blood, directed by Aarne Orjatsalo, opens in Helsinki. Detailing Aaltonen's 1920 campaign against the Blues and the Triumvirate through the eyes of a platoon of young Red Guards, the plot depicts the tranformation of a rag-tag crew of young radicals into a cohesive military unit. Considered the first bigger success of the People's Film Commission (KEK) and the career-launching feature for the actor Uuno Paloniemi.


May 7th 1932: Alarmed by the events in the neighbouring "imperialist" nations, Finland decides to beef up its military capabilities. Because of difficulties in gaining foreign hardware, most will be acquired through domestic production. The Turku shipyards readied to build a batch of destroyers (the Helsinki-class) and MTBs. The Tampere heavy combine enlarged for weapons production. All military production placed in direct control of General Aaltonen.

May 13th, 1932: John D. Rockefeller, with Doctor Augustus Trowbridge, announce the formation of "positive eugenics" program at Empire University in New York City, New York....

June 1, 1932: Tesla Broadcasting Corporation (TBS), starts transmitting television

June 5, 1932: Henry Ford announces that he plans to run for President in 1932 against Calvin Coolidge. He eventually loses to Huey Long

June 17th, 1932: Battle of Anacostia Falls; General Smedley Darlington Butler leads c.17,000 protesters demanding pay for soldiers, many who have been unemployed due to the bank crisis and the end of the Baja War; General Douglas Macarthur and General George S. Patton are ordered to fire on civilians, killing c. 1,017 people. The largest number of civilian deaths since the Civil War...

June 21st, 1932: Edward Young Clarke, CEO of Esskaye Inc., leads rally in Chicago, Illinois warning that the Republicans have rigged the election for a Coolidge win in November...

July 25th, 1932: African-American Dr. Eugene Dibble and Dr. Taliaferro Clark announce the launch of "positive eugenics" experiments in Tuskegee, Alabama, using batches of syphilis...

September 1st, 1932: Senators Newton W. Gilbert (R-IN), John R. Rathom (R-RI), and William Dudley Pelley (R-PA) launch opposition to the planned Vatican World Bank Treaty as "Papist trash", citing their support for Mexico during the Baja War...

November 8th, 1932: The ticket of Calvin Coolidge and Hiram Bingham wins reelection against Democrats Huey Long and George White. The election is close, showing the country increasing disillusionment with the GOP.

November 11th-31st, 1932: Indian Jiddu Krishnamurti begins atour of Europe, starting in Paris, France; then to London, England, and then to Berlin, Germany; all in an effort to gain financial and political support for Indian independence...

November 16th, 1932: Shah Reza Pahlavi, inspired by the Ottoman Empire, announces in Tehran, the cessation of the Anglo-Persian Petroleum Agreement...

November 18th, 1932: 3 Republican senators are implicated in a stock manipulation action, promptly covered up by the Hearst media and the Coolidge administration....

December 15th, 1932: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to President Calvin Coolidge for a second time.

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January 1, 1933: The Communist and Socialist parties are declared illegal within the French Empire. Tridault's Inquisitors go on a rampage attacking the homes of Communist and Socialist assemblymen. Massive arrests are carried out regarding.

January 5th, 1933: Calvin Coolidge dies suddenly. Hiram Bingham becomes Acting President and President-elect.

January 8th, 1933: American Christian missionaries John and Betty Stam are killed by Japanese forces outside of Nanking, China, sparking international tensions between the United States and Japan...

January 20th, 1933: French stocks collapse as Andre Tardieu reports that Oustric Bank is financially insolevent in Paris, France...

January 30th, 1933: The German Emporer signs the new German constitution into law, making the German Government system into a close copy of that of Britain, barring several adjustments for German sensibilities. Also on this day, Senator William Dudley Pelley (R-PA) establishes the "Silver Legion" as a means to defend the Administration through youth rallies nationwide....

February 2, 1933: French factories having acquired the licenses for Swedish kettes, begin manufacturing their own, as French designs have been in adequate. Also on this day, After covert deals, Nordisk Aeroplan AB (NAAB) set up in Sweden to produce Bleriot bombers and Morane fighters under license. Also, on this day armaments manufacturer Bofors enters into contract with the French MAS company to design and build small arms and artillery pieces.

March 1, 1933: Emperor Hirohito enforces a policy of the purity of Japan. No full blooded Japanese can marry a non-Japanese, along with a rigid racial structure.

March 4th, 1933: Max Gaines founds Comics on Parade.

March 5th, 1933: President Hiram Bingham orders a national bank holiday in an effort to prevent a massive withdrawal of funds from banks nationwide, as financial instability increases nationwide from Washington D.C.,...

March 14th 1933: The Nordic Guard established by the National Coalition leaders. While the Blue Brigades have been loyal to the movement, Magnusson is sceptical of Kalsta's troops because of the suspect racial status of the Finns. The Guard will be strictly Nordic and recruit in all of Scandinavia. Colonel Martin Ekström appointed leader of the Guard.

March 16th, 1933: Kiangsi Retreat; Yank Shangkun and Lin Biao evacuate Chinese forces from Kiangsi after attack by Japanese forces...

May 15th 1933: Considering its continuing political isolation, the Finnish government decides that the only potential sources for foreign support, even if small, are Britain and Germany. The Delegate for Foreign Affairs, Verner Lehtimäki, sent on a goodwill tour of the two nations.

June 1st 1933: The Finnish People's Parliament repeals the Prohibition after its enforcement has proven hopeless. State monopoly companies Alko and Narko set up to sell alcohol and recreational drugs to the people. Narko's collection includes a number of locally produced marihuana varieties. Especially the "Red Finnish" blend becomes soon very popular. In Sweden, Magnusson call the new Finnish policies "prime examples of Communist decadence".

July 1st, 1933: General Smedley Darlington Butler meets with John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan, warning of the dictatorial powers of the President....

July 4th, 1933: General Smedley Darlington Butler is named "National Commander" of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) during their national convention in Washington D.C.,....

August 1st 1933: Magnusson's "Strength Through Unity" speech. In a mass rally, the Scandinavian leader calls for the dissolution of all "arbitrary divisions" still separating the Nordic nations. Magnusson says the three national parliaments are "a superfluous weakness, and prone to Communist infiltration". The Swedish National Coalition officially changes its name to the Nordic Coalition. The Nordic Youth established.

August 3rd, 1933: The German army creates the first modern "Special forces" unit, the Sondergruppe 9

October 1, 1933: Blanchard moves into the Palace of Versailles, now going by the name Christophe the Blessed. His honor guard, the Merovingian Inquisators are given presidental decree to enforce the Eugenics policy of Holy France.

November 5th 1933: French Prime Minister Leveque announces that France intends to re-militralize, flying in the face of arms restrictions placed on France by Germany.

December 3rd, 1933: Uighurs establish the Eastern Turkestan Republic, taking advantage of the civil unrest and warfare taking place...

December 15th, 1933: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to "All the Brave Men of Sondergruppe 9".

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February 3rd, 1934: Senator Wlliam Dudley Pelley (R-PA) praises President Hiram Bingham for his efforts to "defend the Christian America from barbarism..."

March 6th, 1934: Robert Sterling Clark meets with French representatives of Croix-de-Feu in New York City, New York....

March 13, 1934: The Alliance pour la Monarchie and Toulouse National Party between the two of them control nearly 84% of the National Assembly. They pass the French Rearmament Act. Calling for a massive expansion of the French Military. The Germans and British protest but the expansions are in areas NOT outlined in the Vatican treaty. Notably French kettes, submersibles, gyrodynes, and flying wing aircraft are being mass produced.

March 15th, 1934: Winston Churchill is struck and killed by a passing taxicab in Birmingham, UK.

April 15th, 1934: Henri Rouchette, CEO of Oustric Bank, is proclaimed as a "national traitor" for his financial dealings prior to his execution in Paris, France....

April 25th, 1934: Chinese government officials announce a "united front offensive" in Nanking....

May 6th, 1934: International authorities report famine in India. Jiddu Krishnamurti calls upon the global community to provide humanitarian aid and relief in Mumbai, India. British officials claim this is an effort to embarass the British Commonwealth...

May 19th, 1934: Minister of Finance Hideo Kuroda commits ritual suicide in Tokyo, after reports that the massive fluctuations in French, German and British currencies have caused the World Bank to cause a devaluation of the yen on the international market...

June 26th, 1934: Wallace D. Fard Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, leads a rally in Chicago, Illinois, proclaims that Republican Party is just a nest of "white devils", attracting attention from disaffected African-Americans who have moved North...

June 30th, 1934: Anarchist group "German Red Army" set off a bomb outside the Reichstag, 12 dead, 30 injured.

July 2nd, 1934: German "Special forces" task group Sondergruppe 9 receives it's first mission, the covert assassination of the leadership of the Anarchist group Karl-Heinz Schrader

July 15th, 1934: Silver Legion leaders launch rally in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a former Republican stronghold...

August 12, 1934: In a compromise between Prime Minister Leveque and leaders of the Alliance pour la Monarchie. The Monarchy is officially re-established, but at the insistence of Cardinal Tridault, the Merovingan line is installed as the new Royal Family. Thus President Christophe Blanchard become Christophe I Emperor of the New French Empire.

August 14th, 1934: Author HP Lovecraft announces his intentions to run for senate, with his newly formed Nationalist Party.

September 1, 1934: Blerot XV bombers appear above Cape Verde and the Azores. In an impressively coordinated attack, the French Navy occupies Cape Verde and the Azores, and is now blockading Portugal.

September 13th, 1934: Members of the Veteran of Foreign Wars (VFW) condemn the White House for its failure to address the needs of veterans during its convention in New York City, New York...

October 2nd, 1934: William Randolph Hearst, through America Todaylaunches "Operation Freedom" in an effort to boost support for the administration. Also on this day, The Nordic Guard officially becomes an elite arm of the Swedish Army. The core leaders around Ekström soon become known as "the Knights of Odin" or just "the Knights" for short.

November 5, 1934: For the first time since 1916, the Democrats once more command the House of Representatives. 213 Democrats, 202 Republicans, 20 socialists. The Republicans also lost control of the Senate losing about 22 seats. The current totals 50 Republicans, 46 Democrats. In particular Michigan, almost as a direct result of "Tesla Tyranny" in 1928 is a democrat stronghold. However the issue of Eugenics remains strongly divisive one for the Democrats which the Republicans usually exploit. The Republicans are also starting to show signs of division particular between the Big business and trust-buster factions. The election of 1936 should be interesting. Senate Minority Leader Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) has shown a keen political mind with his capability to forge coalitions.

November 8th, 1934: HP Lovecraft defeats Felix Hebert and becomes a United Senator for Rhode Island. The Nationalist Party also gains seats in South Carolina and Kansas.

December 3rd, 1934: Liberation of Shuangyashan; Chinese military officials announce the liberation of Shuangyashan as a "major turning point", although c. 5,000 people are killed...

December 12, 1934: Being unable to get aid, and under continual assault from Air Bombs, Ship bombardments and Gyrodynes destroying infantry, and Spain's reluctance to aid Portugal's weakened position, Portugal surrenders to the French Empire. The treaty calls for Portugal's Colonial Empire to be ceded to the France. Also Portugal is forced to sign a treaty where they must pay reparations. Oddly these reparations are equal to about half of what France was required to pay to Germany.

December 15th, 1934: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to William Randolph Hearst.

December 23rd, 1934: Ottoman Empire officials announce that refuse to release further barrels of oil to Great Britain and France....

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January 5, 1935: With a huge gala, William Randolph Hearst announces his retirement from head of the Hearst Corporation, and retires to San Simeon, California. His son Willliam Randolph Hearst Junior, is a capable administrator, he is unable to stop the bad reception to his newspapers. The Hearst retirement gala would soon become the milestone by which historians would judge the end of the newspaper era, and the rise of Radio and Television.

March 3rd 1935: The second Swedish armored vehicle, KV-34(a) enters service. While a big improvement to its predecessor, it still is very lightly armored and prone to malfunction.

April 12th, 1935: Mj. Wheeler-Nicholson's National Publications publishes Original Comics.

April 17th, 1935: Indian leader Jiddu Krisnamurti speaks in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, calling for political and fianncial support, sparking international attention...

May 1, 1935: An Alliance is signed between the French Empire and Scandinavian Union.

May 10 1935: King George V dies in his sleep. His son, Prince Edward becomes King Edward VIII, with his coronation due to take place soon.

May 12, 1935: The New York Times prints its final issue, its dedication to objective journalism was its downfall. America Today remains the politcal mothpiece of the RNC, and The Independent is the political mouthpiece of the DNC.

May 31st, 1935: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti meets with leaders of the military junta in Buenos Aires, Argentina to gain political support for Indian independence....

June 11, 1935: Quebec provincial election. Premier Alexandre Taschereau's Liberals are heavily defeated by Maurice Duplessis' Tories. Duplessis issues Order-in-Council 11743 upon becoming Premier, authorizing the inclusion of Jehovah's Witnesses in the eugenics program. Also on this day, First Abasand Co. oil sands plant becomes operational in Fort McMurray, Alta. This would lead to the development of the modern thriving Canadian oil industry.

July 26th, 1935: President Heber J. Grant, head of the Mormon Church of Latter-Day Saints speaks on the "Negro Question" in Salt Lake City, Utah, warning that "darkness is associated with sin..."

September 1st, 1935: Francis Townsend presents his plan for a social security network to President Hiram Bingham in Washington D.C.,...

September 8th, 1935: General Lázaro Cárdenas overthrows the American-backed government in Mexico City. Local followers name him "Jefe Maxino", demanding an end to American presence in the region...

September 9, 1935: President Bingham, never receives word of Cardenas as Secretary of State Stimson, handles the issue by wishing Cardenas luck in his regime as long as he respects the borders of the United States.

October 1, 1935: Construction on a Cantelever bridge, similar to the Sydney Harbor Bridge is planned for the Golden Gate in San Francisco.

October 6th, 1935: Johnny Siegel and Julius Shuster, Jr., create "Professor Arcane" for Original Comics #6.

October 11, 1935: Emperor Hirohito who now faces revolts in Primorsk, and orders his army to fire on the dissenters. The Vladivostock massacre happens which kill about 24,000 Russians. Shogun Tojo of Primorsk personally executes the revolt's leader.

Oct. 23, 1935: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a fourth term with 180 of 245 Commons seats.

November 1, 1935: Japanese submarines engage in a secret war to blockade Korea. Korea's Merchant Fleet is devastated. Japanese ships have strict orders only to fire upon Korean ships.

November 18th, 1935: Liberation of Tunhua; Chinese military forces announce the liberation of Tunhua against Japanese forces....

November 20th, 1935: "The Great Wall of Manchukuo" collapses to Chinese nationalist forces, as ground forces use guerilla tactics to evade defenses primarily designed for heavy weapons and vehicles...

December 15th, 1935: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to British King Edward VIII.

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January 2nd, 1936: President Bingham refuses to run for re-election.

January 11th, 1936: National Publications publishes Investigative Stories Comics, focusing on detective stories.

January 25th 1936: In an air battle over Shanghai, Fighters from the British Built Chinese Flying Aircraft Carrier Chi Yang engage a squadron of Japanese Dive-bombers, decimating them. This particular engagement proves to the eyes of the world the practicality of the Flying Aircraft Carrier.

January 28th, 1936: Second Battle of Shanghai; Chinese nationalist forces announce the liberation of Shanghai, despite heavy resistance by Japanese forces...

February 26th, 1936: P.M. Keisuke Okada is assassinated by Socialist guerillas, before the Diet in Tokyo, Japan....

February 29th, 1936: Indian Jiddu Krishnamurti warns that the United States and Europe are doomed to war due to "corrupt idolotry and inequality..." in New Delhi, India...

March 1st, 1936: Prime Minister Purishkevich issues a speech to the Duma in which he calls for the restoration of Russia's "unreedemed" land - Ukraine, Primorsk, Poland, the Baltic, and Finland. He also outlines plans to remove non-Slavs like the jews and Muslims.

April 7th, 1936: American expatriate Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate General General Lázaro Cárdenas (a.k.a. "Jefe Maximo") in Mexico City, Mexico, sparking tensions with the United States and Mexico...

April 15th, 1936: Professor C.H. Danforth announces the formation of the "College of Eugenics" at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California...

May 24th, 1936: March on Washington; Hiram Evans leads Silver Legion in a march outside the White House in Washington D.C.,...

May 31st, 1936: Virgil "Bert" Effinger (R-OH) calls for "Americanism", leads the "Silver Legion"rally in Columbus, Ohio....

June 4th, 1936: The Duma passes an act relocating Jews and Muslims to Turkestan.

June 11th, 1936: Wheeler-Nicholson rejects Shuster's and Siegel's concept for a union-suited man who fights crime with superhuman powers.

July 1st, 1936: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti proclaims that Europe is "suffering the rot of spiritual corruption and vice" during a rally in Rotterdam, Holland...

July 7th, 1936: Robert Goddard proclaims the need for a strong "national eugenics policy", pointing to rising rates of polio, during Congressional hearings in Washington D.C., ...

August 10th 1936: The first Swedish armored unit equipped with KV-35(c)s. Complete with a 37mm Bofors gun, this slow but reliable machine finally convinces the generals for the utility of "war chariots".

August 11th, 1936: Purishkevich and Leverque meet in Lyons, and sign the Anti-Kaiserreich Pact, dedicated to limiting German influence.

August 31st, 1936: Willliam Dudley Pelley leads a "Rally for the Bill of Rights" in front of the Washington Monument in Washington D.C., c.300,000 people participate...

September 12, 1934: The Paris Cannon, a gun that can accurately fire at a range of 100 miles is made and placed on railway cars. In later years many more would be produced

October 12, 1936: Igor Sikorsky attempts escape once more, and fails, but is able to get a message out. The German Imperial Intelligence attempts to retrieve Sikorsky and find out as much possible about France's new weapons of war.

October 31st, 1936: Assassination attempt is made by Yucatan guerillas against General General Lázaro Cárdenas in Acapulco, Mexico, sparking tensions between Mexico and Yucatan...

November 5, 1936: Hiram Bingham III wins the nomination as the Republican candidate. Senator Franklin Delano Roosevelt is named the presidental candidate for the Democrats. The campaign is one of the most brutal in the 20th century. Bingham with his lack of campaigning skill and lack of accomplishments during his term, only has Hearst's papers, and Republican Machine politics to help his campaign. FDR on the other hand had the support of the most unusual coalition, whose only uniting factor was a dislike of the Republicans. FDR tells senior party heads that he will, "Respect Congress' decisions, and restore balance to the court." Also on this day, Richard Milhous Nixon, is hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation

December 15th, 1936: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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January 12, 1937: At his inauguration, President Roosevelt talks about healing the deep rifts in this country. "We must still strive to be what the founding fathers wanted for our great nation. This republic will endure, although injured and wounded from the past administration with its corruption, we are Americans and we will endure. The Republic shall endure". After nearly 70 years in power the Republicans are now the minority, the only branch of government they still control is the Supreme Court. Although his words sound nice, he does go about replacing over 70 years worth of Republican clerks and officials out of their entrenched bureaucracies. The only office that is unaffected is McAdoo's Central Bank of the United States, where McAdoo using his prestige and former president keeps the Bank bipartisan.

February 3, 1937: President Roosevelt, sets about trying to solve the recession in the United States. He appoints Secretary of Commerce, Harold L. Ickes to direct the Public Infrastructure Administration, a federal agency designed to give the unemployed jobs across the nation and stimulate growth in previously unreachable markets. Airports are built along with Public Utility Tesla Stations throughout the nation. Alaska with its recently discovered Oil, is to be be heavily developed, prompting an Oil Rush in Alaska. Alaska will petition for Statehood in 1940 if projections hold.

February 8th, 1937: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces a buildup of military forces nationwide, as a means of "national self-defense" in Mexico City, Mexico....

February 20, 1937: On the advice of his Secretary of the Treasury (Henry Morgenthau) and Commerce (Harry Hopkins), Roosevelt proposes a National Deposit Insurance Agency (NDIA). This department is created in the Federal Banking Act, which reforms the BSEC into stricter banking laws, and a code of business practices. As a sideline of the bill Electric Power Distribution is now considered a Nationalized industry. Tesla Dynamic must surrender its Broadcast Power stations to the new National Electrical Association (NEA)

March 1, 1937: President Roosevelt also pushes through Congress the Pershing National Highway Act, named in honor of former President Pershing who first proposed the idea in 1926. President Pershing is in attendance as the Washington Beltway opens. His invitation is seen somewhat as an olive branch to the elderly President.

March 8th, 1937: Civil Rights leader Father M. J. Divine is killed by Silver Legion members in New York City, New York....

March 10, 1937: Roosevelt also calls upon all the Great Powers to meet once more to address the Global recession, as the Vatican's banking treaty is not working. He calls for a meeting in Zurich. Unfortunately none of the other powers are that interested as they believe the Vatican Banking Accord is working satisfactorily.

March 11th, 1937: Russian troops cross the Russo-Chinese border to reinforce the government in Nanking against warlords and communists.

April 15, 1937: Associate Justice Victor Selden Clark is found dead in his chambers, a suicide note speaks of him "being blinded by Party politics, and ignoring his duty to the Constitution". Although the newspapers will say otherwise, it is a legitimate suicide.

April 23rd, 1937: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces the "Labor Charter of 1937", announces plans for state intervention into private industry, in an effort to prevent unemployment....

May 13, 1937: Prime Minister Leveque visits the new French colony of Macau to give it back to China, strengthening relations somewhat between the two countries.

May 29th, 1937: Silver Legion members launch a rally in San Francisco, California proclaiming the end of "Republican tyranny"....

June 6, 1937: Chief Justice Pierce Butler, is convinced to resign after talking with the court privately. His lack of opinions is embarassing for a chief justice, and as of late he frequently recuses himself. He resigns to enjoy retirement.

June 7th, 1937: General Lázaro Cárdenas meets covertly with leaders from Argentina, France, Scandinavia, Italy, and Great Britain in Madrid, Spain calling for financial and military aid...

June 13, 1937: Fr. Lionel Groulx, Jean Drapeau and Andre Laurendeau found the Societe Croix de Feu, advocating expansion of eugenics laws to "undesirable aliens".

July 7th, 1937: Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr, converts to the Republican Party over disagreements with the Roosevelt administration.

July 21st, 1937: 130 African-Americans are killed, despite protection by the "Messengers of God" in Saint Petersburg, Florida....

September 20th, 1937: Southern Youth Congress (SYC) led by Hosea Hudson is held in Richmond, Virginia, in an effort to mobilize youth to register people to vote...

September 25th, 1937: Battle of Pingxiangguan Pass; General Lin Biao launches a major ambush of Japanese forces, sparking national attention...

October 4, 1937: Given increasing tensions between France and the Alliance they begin creation of the "Maginot Line" a line of fixed fortifications from the Channel to Switzerland.

October 14th, 1937: Seeing Japan as weak, Purishkevich orders General Vlasov to cross the Russian-Primorsk border.

October 18th, 1937: Henry L. Stimson and Charles Curtis found the Conservative Party of America, more commonly referred to as "The Jaguar Party".

December 1st, 1937: Russia, Sweden, and France sign the "Righteous Pact", commonly referred to as the Throne Axis after Leveque calls it an "alliance of thrones, an axis on which the world will turn from now on."

December 5th, 1937: Croix-de-Feu leaders meet with Howard P. Lovecraft in Los Angeles, California, sparking international attention...

December 15th, 1937: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to now Senator HP Lovecraft for a second time.

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February 9, 1938: The Yucatan Free State petitions the UNited States for aid, following Cardenas announcement.

February 17th, 1938: Fawcett Comics purchases Siegel and Shuster's concept for $150, and unveils "Marvelman: The Hero from the Future" in Heroic Comics #1.

March 18th, 1938: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces that the Mexican people have nationalized the oil fields in Mexico, and that it demands the immediate witdrawal of the United States from Mexican territories...

March 19, 1938: President Roosevelt, responds to Cardena's demand showing the Kellog Treaty of 29. However Roosevelt orders, the old Baja Army to the Baja territories in case trouble should start.

March 19th, 1938: Zocalo Firing Incident; Yucatan guerillas fire on Mexican forces along the border at Zocalo, sparking tensions between the two countries. General Lázaro Cárdenas warns that "ther is now blood inthe water", during a radio address in Mexico City, Mexico...

March 29, 1939: President Roosevelt sacks the governor general of the Baja Territories, General Marshall is now in command of the Baja Territories, and given strict instructions to only fire should Mexican troops cross the border by the terms of Kellog-Carranza Treaty.

April 12th, 1938: "Los Madres Contra Occupacion American" , thousands of mothers of deceased Mexican soldiers, begin chanting and throwing stones at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, demanding an "end to American occupation". Several U.S. Marines fire into the crowd killing 17 people, sparking tensions between the two countries....

May 15th, 1938: San Luis Potosi Rebellion; Cacique Saturnino Cedillo calls for the "end of American occupation", launching an armed insurrection...

June 7th, 1938: General Lázaro Cárdenas announces the nationalization of oil fields of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Company by military force, most workers who have been unpaid by the American and Dutch-owned companies welcome the troops,...

June 11th, 1938: Manchuria and Primorsk are almost completely occupied by Russo-Chinese forces, save the area around Vladivostok.

July 31st, 1938: Indian leader Jiddu Krishnamurti calls upon American architect to design a building worthy of "Maitreya, the World Teacher" in New Delhi, India...

August 15th, 1938: The Pomerian landing is smashed by the German Army after the Swedish Navy runs into the German Baltic Fleet, and is almost totally destroyed. The six German Dreadnoughts also destroy most of a Divison of Swedish Royal Guards on their transports. Meanwhile in the west, a Brtish Squadron consisting of HMS Trafalgar, HMS Agincourt, HMS King George V and HMS St. Vincent, the most modern Dreadnoughts in the RN, along wioth the Admiral Class Battlecruisers, HMS Hood, HMS Nelson, HMS Howe and HMS Anson, along with several Cruisers and Destroyers begin to patrol the bay of Biscay, covered by several British Airborne Carriers. Also on this day, the British and the Germans sign a treaty of alliance and perpetual friendship, founding the "Axis for Democracy".

August 15, 1938: Christophe Blanchard attempts to call 10 Downing Street and the Richestag, to get the British and German Navies to withdraw. Blanchard argues that he has not violated the terms of the Vatican Treaty, but the two fleets are now violating the sovereignty of France and must withdraw, or the French will respond. They are given 2 days to comply.

August 19th 1938: Following the realization of war in the Baltic area, the Finnish government orders full mobilization of the People's Army and Navy.

August 20th, 1938: The RN Squadron runs into a small group of French ships that were at sea when the call of war came, the French Super Dreadnought 'La France', her escorts and one of their Airborne Carriers. The Carrier is destroyed, but La France and most of her escorts escape, being heavily damaged. It becomes a personal mission for the British to destroy them. On the same day two German Kette Corps under Generals Guderian and Rommel counterattack in the east, managing to stop the Russian attack just east of Kiev, but farhter north a similar attack fails, due to a lack of German Air power in the Region. Also on this day, Fuming with rage, Magnusson sacks and imprisons the two main designers of the Pomeranian invasion, Rear Admiral Svensson and General Löf. The invasion of Finland is postponed into spring 1939. The Swedish bombing campaign against Finnish ports and inland cities begins.

August 22nd, 1938: General George S. Patton testifies before Congress, "If blacks aren't allowed to serve in the military with white officers, why should we allow this in civilian life?".

August 24, 1938: Emperor Christophe the First personally orders a squadron of French submersibles into the Bay of Biscay, their orders are to torpedo as many British Naval ships as possible. They are to avoid direct engagements when possible. The Bay of Biscay, all of the British Isles, the English Channel and all of the North Sea is now in the "Unrestricted submersible war"

August 26, 1938: The HMS Trafalgar is struck by three torpedoes and begins taking on water rapidly. The ship capsizes taking over 350 sailors to their watery grave. The fleet is in disarray as they try and find the attacking boats, but not used to fighting submersibles, they fail. 3 more dreadnoughts are sunk along with several support boats. The British Fleet is forced to withdraw from the Bay of Biscay.

August 27th 1938: The Finnish Coastal Fleet moves into the Archipelago Sea and begins laying minefields along the western and southern approaches. Also on this day, Secret Finno-German naval plans activated. The beginning of relief convoys from the Baltic ports to Finland.

August 28, 1938: The French Battle Group from the Azores withdraws to the Bay of Biscay. Safely within the air support radius of the 78th Blerot XV Naval Support wing.

August 29, 1938: French troops are waiting on the "Maginot Line" of the Alsace-Lorraine.

August 30th, 1938: In the west a French attack on Alsace runs headlong into the German Kammhuber Line, where a combination of minefields, machine gun bunkers and anti-kette guns, a variant of the soon famous 89mm series, stop them dead. In the north, the British Expeditionary Force makes landfall in Germany and begins to move south to reinforce the German and Belgian troops conducting a fighting withdrawal towards the German border defences.

September 1, 1938: The French Submersible Operations Theater is expanded.

Western zone limit: 15 degrees W
Northern zone limit: 62.5 degrees N
Eastern zone limit: 15 degrees E
Southern zone limit: 40 degrees N

Any Royal Navy ships entering this area are to be fired upon. Hit and run strategies are in effect. Given the lack of defenses against submersibles the RN is going to take some large losses. France lays minefields along the Belgian border, and French German border. A detachment of French ships from the Canaries goes to blockade Gibraltar.

September 13th 1938: Expecting a two-front war, the bulk of the Finnish People's Army settles into defensive positions in Southern Karelia and in coastal fortifications along the south-western coast ("War Plan 5"). Only smaller troops take positions in Northern Finland and Lapland.

September 15, 1938: Many domestic projects of Christophe's French Empire are cancelled, and their funds put into wartime production of: Blerot XVs, kettes, and Gyrodynes. Pilot training programs are increased.

September 25th 1938: The Finnish People's parliament evacuated into the countryside near Tampere. Also on this day, Christophe I and Magnusson have a meeting.

October 1st, 1938: In a joint declaration Germany and the British Empire call for France to back down and vacate Belgium. It is ignored. Also on this day, "The Time of Mines". As a Scandinavian naval task force moves to the Sound to block it with mine fields, up north Finnish and German ships aim to do the same to the Gulf of Finland. Both efforts are mainly successful and deemed to continue as long as the ice situation allows it...

October 4, 1938: French Recon flights over Finland begin, using Scandinavian air bases support

October 12th 1938: Beginning of the Russian fall offensive against Finland. After last minute changes, the goal is just to probe the Finnish defenses for the actual invasion next year. After just a couple of weeks, the Russians withdraw and settle into winter quarters.

October 29th, 1938: The onset of winter halts all combat operations. The French ,offensive into Alsace is slowly turning into a massive slaughterhouse.

October 30th, 1938: Radio prodigy and Future President of the United States Orson Welles broadcasts his famous radio rendition of The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells. It is regarded as one of Welles' best works.

November 5, 1938: A young Milton Friedman is hired straight out of college to work at the central Bank of the United States.

November 9, 1938: Immigration Minister F.C. Blair issues a directive halting all non-European immigration to Canada. Strict quotas are placed on Eastern and Southern European immigration

November 27th, 1938: Investigative Stories Comics #27 unveils "Owlman: Protector of the Night", Bob Kane's answer to Marvelman.

December 7th 1938: In Turku, a Swedish air raid kills 52 and wounds over 70, being the bloodiest to date.

December 15th, 1938: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to automobile maker Henry Ford.

December 26, 1938: Diplomatic talks break down between Germany and France. The British talks break down shortly.

December 27, 1938: The Blerot XVs launch, their goal is to bomb the British Expeditionary Force in Belgium, after first bombardments, Gyrodynes are scheduled to go in a do "sweeps for infantry." The French army digs minefields between Antwerp and Belgium. From Gent to Aachen is now the French lines. The French troops have dug in for the Winter. Meanwhile in the Alsace, the French have fortified Mulhouse. They have also dug in for the Winter.

December 30, 1938: A non-aggression pact is worked out between Italy and France. Although Christophe I hates making peace with his enemy of the first Great War, he cannot fight a three-front war. As a result the Western Med is mostly secure for the French. In the English Channel, French submersibles continue to harass any and all supplies that Britain tries to send to the BEF in Belgium. Occasional raids are carried out by gyrodynes and Blerots of the BEF and Strasbourt, both of chemical and conventional nature.

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January 1, 1939: Submersible patrols of the English channel double. Hoping to be able to stop a British landing. Gyrodyne reconaissance flights are now daily sights over the Channel. Meanwhile Christophe I, although disliking the idea, opens up a dialogue with Italy, with the hope of reaching an agreement that will either render Italy neutral during this "war-mongering agenda of the British and German Empires".

January 15th, 1939: George Schaffer of RKO Pictures offers Orson Welles a minor contract as a motion picture director, which Welles politely declines.

February 19th, 1939: Heroic Comics #13 introduces the first sidekick in the form of Marvelman's kid brother Marvelboy. The gimmick proves to be a success.

February 28th, 1939: Doctor Clyde Keeler, Harvard Medical School, announces a "School of Eugenics" in Cambridge, Massachusetts,...

March 1, 1939: Enrico Fermi and his team complete the Manhattan Project. The Staten Island Atomic Reactor goes online, the broadcast range of the Tesla Tower is extended and excess power is sent along high capacity power lines to other cities in the Northeast. They receive the Noble Prize for: The harnessing of the energy of the atom for civilian uses, and their discovery is hailed as one of the great achievements of the 20th century.

March 3rd, 1939: British authorities warn that Jiddu Krishnamurti would impose a Hindu theocracy with autocratic systems in Bombay, India...

March 7th, 1939: Siegel introduces the first major comic book villain in Heroic Comics #15, with "Sverchelovek." The character, a bald psychic with Nietzchian overtones, is based off of an earlier character Siegel created but never published called "Superman". Thecharacter is somewhat apparent as an insult to Purishkevik's policies.

March 10th, 1939: Papers in Britain and Germany call the period of inactivity after the bloodletting battles of Autumn and winter 1938 the 'Phony War' or 'Sitzkrieg'. While for the fleets of all involved it is anything but, the Armies need to rebuild first. The Germans plan to try and knock out, or at least badly weaken Russia so that they can decide one of the fronts in 1939 or 1940.

March 11th, 1939: British Carrier Aircraft raid Murmansk, while German planes at the same time bomb St. Petersburg. The British also begin to station part of their Bomber Force in Germany.

March 15, 1939: In a coordinated strike the BEF's winter quarters in Antwerp are bombed. The F-Series Chemical Weapons are used(OTL: G-Series Chemical weapons). The BEF is struck with Nerve gas. Strasbourg and the German army is not as Christophe I wants to limit Civilian casualties. Because of the winter recon flights, more is known about the British position, and a more accurate reading is possible.

March 17th, 1939: La Laguna Rebellion; Miner Antonio Madrazo leads a rebellion in La Laguna, Baja California against American occupation, American soldiers kill 43 people in the process. Also on this day, French Gyrodynes, provide support for the landing French troops at Gibraltar and take the British colony.

March 19, 1939: President Roosevelt sacks the governor general of the Baja Territories, General Marshall is now in command of the Baja Territories, and given strict instructions to only fire should Mexican troops cross the border by the terms of Kellog-Carranza Treaty. Also on this day, Max Gaines partners with Fawcett Comics.

April 1, 1939: In the East, the German puppet state of Belarus fell, as the Russian army aided by rebels overthrow the puppet king. The Russian war machine marches on.

April 2nd, 1939: The First Division fully equipped with the Kette III is activated and prepares to move to the western Front where they will face French Armour which is superior to that of the Russians.

April 10, 1939: Bruised and pinned down the BEF moves to withdraw from the Continent. The gyrodynes injured many troops during the winters, the bombers damaged many kettes, and the chemical weapons prompted a situation where the BEF had no choice but to retreat. They call Britain for transport back home from Brugge.

April 15, 1939: The French whose recon flights spotted the movements of the BEF to Brugge, called Versailles and informed them of the move. Upon consultation with his admirals, Christophe I sets strict orders that the transport ships to allow the retreat of the BEF to reach Brugge, but the submersible are not to allow them to return to England.

May 1, 1939: The Eugenics program of France is transferred to the authority of Christophe's Inquisition. Using a new model, developed by the Inquisition, labels many minorities and political opponents as impure.

May 12, 1939: Christophe I calls for the rounding up of "undesirables" and moving them to various concentration camps. A bounty is placed on all undesirables, approximately 25% of that person's assets, the other 75% going to Reparations payment.

May 15, 1939: The concentration camps are built to house Communists, "impure" minorities, and political dissidents, all under the excuse of the New Corrective Eugenics Model, developed by the French Inquisition. Although it would be until at least 1943 before the news about the camps is either believed or confirmed by any foreign power. Many of the inmates of these camps are used for medical tests and chemical weapons tests.

June 12, 1939: The Japanese and Russian ambassadors both try and get meetings with President Roosevelt. They both want America to sell them Alaskan Oil for their war against the other. President Roosevelt fearful of provoking anger of the British, German or Russians, promptly adopts a wait and see approach. Roosevelt also has his own problems in the Americas with Mexico.

August 14th, 1939: Quality Comics publishes Magnetic Comics #1, introducing their flagship character, the electromagnetic Magno

August 21st, 1939: Samuel Wilbert Tucker leads a sit-in in Alexandria, Virginia to protest the policy of segregation...

August 29th, 1939: George J. Garcia launches rally for the Nationalist Party in Jacksonville, Florida proclaiming the end to "Republican tyranny"...

Sept. 19, 1939: Canada and the United Kingdom sign the Joint Memorandum on Nuclear Research, setting up a research lab for the development of a heavy-water reactor. Today's modern Canadian nuclear arsenal can be directly traced to the JMNR.

October 11th, 1939: Publisher Martin Goodman publishes Fantastic Comics #1, introducing kids to "Volcanoman" and "Jungle King."

November 8, 1939: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a fifth term with 178 of 245 Commons seats.

November 30, 1939: Premier Maurice Duplessis' Tories are re-elected in a landslide. Duplessis' name is floated as a possible Tory leader in the eventuality of King's retirement, but he disclaims all federal ambitions.

December 7, 1939: Prime Minister Mackenzie King resolves to convoke a First Ministers' Conference on constitutional repatriation in the spring of 1940. Later this would be known as Christmas Constitutionalism.

December 14th, 1939: Martin Goodman asks writer Jimmy Simon and artist Jacob Kurtzenburg to create a patriotic-themed mystery man. After reviewing their designs, he suggests making the character a woman. Thus the world is introduced to "Liberty Belle, Protector of America's Shores" in Patriot Comics #1. The cover art amusingly shows her punching Christophe I in the face, even though America and France aren't at war.

December 15th, 1939: TIME awards it's Person of the Year award to Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

[Prometheus_2300]

Did anyone ever draw up what the Pershing Purchase looked like?

I am making a map for the world of 1940 and Will include it.

Should Primorsk be back to Russia or still Japanese?

[Zacoftheaxes]

(insert date here): The world's first RPG, World of Lovecraft, make's it's hit debut.

Wait. I totally made that joke in 50 Years!

[Zacoftheaxes]

I am making a map for the world of 1940 and Will include it.

Should Primorsk be back to Russia or still Japanese?

Have it still under invasion, I guess.

[RogueBeaver]

OOC: Can we start posting 1940s PODs? I have mine ready.

[RogueBeaver]

Nov. 7, 1944: Joseph Kennedy Jr. is elected Congressman from MA-10.

June 9, 1948: Robert Kennedy graduates summa cum laude from Harvard Law School. He joins the law firm Mudge, Alexander & Associates in New York.

Sept. 17, 1944: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a sixth term with 177 of 245 seats.

Nov. 22, 1948: Mackenzie King retires after 27 years as Prime Minister, a record that still stands today. He is succeeded by Lester Pearson.

Apr. 19, 1949: Maurice Duplessis' Tories defeat Pearson's Liberals with 169 of 262 seats. Duplessis is sworn in on Apr. 30.

June 22, 1941; Maurice Duplessis resigns as Premier of Quebec, to be succeeded by Paul Sauve.

Oct. 6, 1941: Maurice Duplessis becomes MP for Trois-Rivieres following a by-election.

Jan. 30, 1944: Maurice Duplessis elected leader of the Conservative Party, and becomes Leader of the Opposition.

[Prometheus_2300]

My Nixon POD where he joins the FBI in 1936 is missing. Could you please include it Bondoc?

[Zacoftheaxes]

My Nixon POD where he joins the FBI in 1936 is missing. Could you please include it Bondoc?

Wait.

Nixon in the FBI?

Could he investigate a Watergate analogue?

[Prometheus_2300]

Wait.

Nixon in the FBI?

Could he investigate a Watergate analogue?

Oddly enough he applied to be an FBI agent in our world but allegedly he wasn't "agressive" enough so he became a lawyer.

What's happening with Prohibition, someone should get around to repealing that since it is causing organized crime to flourish and the intended effects of Prohibition haven't happened

[jmberry]

For Primorsk, the areas around Vladivostok and Okhotsk are still Japanese. Russia has occupied everything else.

And I agree with SFG, Arkhan's World of Lovecraft makes absolutely no sense.

[Prometheus_2300]

Behold! The World of 1940!!!

Some of the colonies I am unsure about especially Africa. Remember that France has taken Portugal's Colonial Empire

Oh that reminds me POD if its not to late Bondoc

May 13, 1937: Prime Minister Leveque visits the new French colony of Macau to give it back to China, strengthening relations somewhat between the two countries.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

My Nixon POD where he joins the FBI in 1936 is missing. Could you please include it Bondoc? The POD has been placed in the ATL...

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Behold! The World of 1940!!!

Some of the colonies I am unsure about especially Africa. Remember that France has taken Portugal's Colonial Empire

Oh that reminds me POD if its not to late Bondoc

May 13, 1937: Prime Minister Leveque visits the new French colony of Macau to give it back to China, strengthening relations somewhat between the two countries. The POD is also on the ATL... The 1930s are officially closed. Let the 1940s begin!!

[Prometheus_2300]

Indeed the 1940s are here. Also I will remind people that the first generation of people born after the POD is coming into adulthood.

November 5, 1940: Surprising absolutely no one, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected to another term. His opponent Wendell Wilkie suffered from a fractured base, and a highly successful and popular incumbent President.

May 16, 1942: Nikola Tesla's daughter, Electra Tesla graduates Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, (with a Tesla Science Hall) with a double major in Aerospace engineering and Physics.

October 1, 1946: Electra Tesla gets married to one of her college friends, George H.W. Bush. (There will not be a W or a Jeb in this world.)

January 1-10, 1940: The Blerot XVs drop pamphlets all over London, calling for an end to this war spreading a message that France didn't want the war, and that the British government is to blame for causing the war, and France was only defending itself. It is of course a bald-faced lie, and both governments know that BUT the British have only been getting news of fleet losses, and supply shortages. Not an invasion or a blitz on London. The pamphlet droppings continue until the General Election of 1940.

<France is hoping that a new Prime Minister will be more receptive to peace. Anyone want to fill in what's happening in Britain?>

January 20, 1940: Blerot XV-2s proceed to bomb the German Army in Strasbourg. Meanwhile the French army fortifies defenses in the Alsace-Lorraine. <French Strategy is to force the Germans to retreat>

January 25, 1940: With the threat of Gibraltar removed The army of Algeria is able to be resupplied, moves to occupy British Morocco.

March 12, 1942: Pope Sylvester IV has died. A Papal Conclave is to be called.

<Could someone else take the pope one?>

Ok let's see where these take us!

Also what's been happening with the Olympic Games?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

March 24th, 1940: Muhammad Ali Jinnah launches an armed insurrection, demanding an Islamic fundamentalist state of Pakistan in Lahore, India....

Decenver 1st, 1940: General Manuel Ávila Camacho leads an American-backed coup attempt against the government in Mexico City, Mexico...

April 17th, 1941: Petar II Karađorđević overthrows the government in Sarajevo, demanding a sovereign Serbian state.....

March 30th, 1942: Tamil leader E. V. Ramasami, leads a rebellion in Kanchipuram, India demanding independence for Dravida Nadu (a.k.a. Dravidistan)...

April 9th, 1942: Indian Revolution; Jiddu Krishnamurti and General Mohan Singh overthrow the goverment in New Delhi, India, demanding Indian independence...

May 8th, 1942: Brigadier General Gratien Fernando leads nationalist rebellion in Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte, Sri Lanka...

July 26th, 1943: Muslim rebel leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah is killed by British forces in Islamabad, Pakistan...

October 21st, 1943: Provisional Government of Free India wins recognition from German Foreign Ministry in Berlin, sparking international attention...

August 23rd, 1944: General Ion Antonescu overthrows the government in Bucharest, Romania

February 18th, 1946: Talwar Mutiny; Indian sailors rebel against British naval forces in Mumbai, India, demanding the withdrawal of British forces natonwide...

July 10th, 1946: Sikh leader Hukam Singh, proclaims independence for the state of Khalistan in Bathinda, India....

September 17th, 1946: Puchalapalli Sundaraiah leads Socialist rebellion in Nalgonda, Hyderabad, India calling for an independent state of Hyderabad...

August 14th, 1947: Angami Zapu Phizo, head of the Naga National Council (NNC) in Kohima, India, demanding independence for Nagaland...

February 17th, 1948: Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin leads an Islamic fundamentalist revolution against Ottoman leaders Sanaa, Yemen, demanding independence....

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is a small taste of what has been put together so far:

January 1-10, 1940: The Blerot XVs drop pamphlets all over London, calling for an end to this war spreading a message that France didn't want the war, and that the British government is to blame for causing the war, and France was only defending itself. It is of course a bald-faced lie, and both governments know that BUT the British have only been getting news of fleet losses, and supply shortages. Not an invasion or a blitz on London. The pamphlet droppings continue until the General Election of 1940.

January 20, 1940: Blerot XV-2s proceed to bomb the German Army in Strasbourg. Meanwhile the French army fortifies defenses in the Alsace-Lorraine. <French Strategy is to force the Germans to retreat>

January 25, 1940: With the threat of Gibraltar removed The army of Algeria is able to be resupplied, moves to occupy British Morocco.

March 24th, 1940: Muhammad Ali Jinnah launches an armed insurrection, demanding an Islamic fundamentalist state of Pakistan in Lahore, India....

December 1st, 1940: General Manuel Ávila Camacho leads an American-backed coup attempt against the government in Mexico City, Mexico...

April 17th, 1941: Petar II Karađorđević overthrows the government in Sarajevo, demanding a sovereign Serbian state.....

June 18th, 1941: Mercury Theatre on the Air! airs it's final radio broadcast; A rendition of a made-for-radio script written by Welles, entitled Citizen Kane. It is only for the date of the broadcast that it is listened to by the majority of Americans, and became one of the most popular radio productions ever aired.

June 22, 1941; Maurice Duplessis resigns as Premier of Quebec, to be succeeded by Paul Sauve.

June 29th, 1941: Orson Welles enters a contract to have Michael Curtiz produce a film version of Citizen Kane.

October 6, 1941: Maurice Duplessis becomes MP for Trois-Rivieres following a by-election.

March 12, 1942: Pope Sylvester IV has died. A Papal Conclave is to be called.

March 30th, 1942: Tamil leader E. V. Ramasami, leads a rebellion in Kanchipuram, India demanding independence for Dravida Nadu (a.k.a. Dravidistan)...

April 9th, 1942: Indian Revolution; Jiddu Krishnamurti and General Mohan Singh overthrow the goverment in New Delhi, India, demanding Indian independence...

May 8th, 1942: Brigadier General Gratien Fernando leads nationalist rebellion in Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte, Sri Lanka...

May 16, 1942: Nikola Tesla's daughter, Electra Tesla graduates Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, (with a Tesla Science Hall) with a double major in Aerospace engineering and Physics.

July 26th, 1943: Muslim rebel leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah is killed by British forces in Islamabad, Pakistan...

October 21st, 1943: Provisional Government of Free India wins recognition from German Foreign Ministry in Berlin, sparking international attention...

January 30, 1944: Maurice Duplessis elected leader of the Conservative Party, and becomes Leader of the Opposition.

August 23rd, 1944: General Ion Antonescu overthrows the government in Bucharest, Romania

September 17, 1944: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a sixth term with 177 of 245 seats.

November 7, 1944: Joseph Kennedy Jr. is elected Congressman from MA-10.

February 18th, 1946: Talwar Mutiny; Indian sailors rebel against British naval forces in Mumbai, India, demanding the withdrawal of British forces natonwide...

July 10th, 1946: Sikh leader Hukam Singh, proclaims independence for the state of Khalistan in Bathinda, India....

September 17th, 1946: Puchalapalli Sundaraiah leads Socialist rebellion in Nalgonda, Hyderabad, India calling for an independent state of Hyderabad...

October 1, 1946: Electra Tesla gets married to one of her college friends, George H.W. Bush.

August 14th, 1947: Angami Zapu Phizo, head of the Naga National Council (NNC) in Kohima, India, demanding independence for Nagaland...

February 17th, 1948: Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin leads an Islamic fundamentalist revolution against Ottoman leaders Sanaa, Yemen, demanding independence....

June 9, 1948: Robert Kennedy graduates summa cum laude from Harvard Law School. He joins the law firm Mudge, Alexander & Associates in New York.

November 22, 1948: Mackenzie King retires after 27 years as Prime Minister, a record that still stands today. He is succeeded by Lester Pearson.

April 19, 1949: Maurice Duplessis' Tories defeat Pearson's Liberals with 169 of 262 seats. Duplessis is sworn in on Apr. 30.




Disputed PODs (Scifiguy & Prometheus_2300):

November 5, 1940: Surprising absolutely no one, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected to another term. His opponent Wendell Wilkie suffered from a fractured base, and a highly successful and popular incumbent President.

November 7th, 1940: President Franklin Roosevelt wins the Democratic Party Nomination by default. Henry L. Stimson wins the nomination for the Jaguar Party, and Former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover wins the nomination for the Republican Party. As a result of a splitting of the vote by the increasingly politically left Republican Party, Jaguar Party Nominee Henry L. Stimson is able to win the election by a mere 754 votes in the crucial swing state of New York. The election continues to be one of the most widely disputed and controversial in American history.

December 15th, 1940: TIME Magazine presents it's Person of the Year award to President-Elect Stimson.

[Prometheus_2300]

Here is a small taste of what has been put together so far:

January 1-10, 1940: The Blerot XVs drop pamphlets all over London, calling for an end to this war spreading a message that France didn't want the war, and that the British government is to blame for causing the war, and France was only defending itself. It is of course a bald-faced lie, and both governments know that BUT the British have only been getting news of fleet losses, and supply shortages. Not an invasion or a blitz on London. The pamphlet droppings continue until the General Election of 1940.

January 20, 1940: Blerot XV-2s proceed to bomb the German Army in Strasbourg. Meanwhile the French army fortifies defenses in the Alsace-Lorraine. <French Strategy is to force the Germans to retreat>

January 25, 1940: With the threat of Gibraltar removed The army of Algeria is able to be resupplied, moves to occupy British Morocco.

March 24th, 1940: Muhammad Ali Jinnah launches an armed insurrection, demanding an Islamic fundamentalist state of Pakistan in Lahore, India....

December 1st, 1940: General Manuel Ávila Camacho leads an American-backed coup attempt against the government in Mexico City, Mexico...

April 17th, 1941: Petar II Karađorđević overthrows the government in Sarajevo, demanding a sovereign Serbian state.....

June 18th, 1941: Mercury Theatre on the Air! airs it's final radio broadcast; A rendition of a made-for-radio script written by Welles, entitled Citizen Kane. It is only for the date of the broadcast that it is listened to by the majority of Americans, and became one of the most popular radio productions ever aired.

June 22, 1941; Maurice Duplessis resigns as Premier of Quebec, to be succeeded by Paul Sauve.

June 29th, 1941: Orson Welles enters a contract to have Michael Curtiz produce a film version of Citizen Kane.

October 6, 1941: Maurice Duplessis becomes MP for Trois-Rivieres following a by-election.

March 12, 1942: Pope Sylvester IV has died. A Papal Conclave is to be called.

March 30th, 1942: Tamil leader E. V. Ramasami, leads a rebellion in Kanchipuram, India demanding independence for Dravida Nadu (a.k.a. Dravidistan)...

April 9th, 1942: Indian Revolution; Jiddu Krishnamurti and General Mohan Singh overthrow the goverment in New Delhi, India, demanding Indian independence...

May 8th, 1942: Brigadier General Gratien Fernando leads nationalist rebellion in Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte, Sri Lanka...

May 16, 1942: Nikola Tesla's daughter, Electra Tesla graduates Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, (with a Tesla Science Hall) with a double major in Aerospace engineering and Physics.

July 26th, 1943: Muslim rebel leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah is killed by British forces in Islamabad, Pakistan...

October 21st, 1943: Provisional Government of Free India wins recognition from German Foreign Ministry in Berlin, sparking international attention...

January 30, 1944: Maurice Duplessis elected leader of the Conservative Party, and becomes Leader of the Opposition.

August 23rd, 1944: General Ion Antonescu overthrows the government in Bucharest, Romania

September 17, 1944: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a sixth term with 177 of 245 seats.

November 7, 1944: Joseph Kennedy Jr. is elected Congressman from MA-10.

February 18th, 1946: Talwar Mutiny; Indian sailors rebel against British naval forces in Mumbai, India, demanding the withdrawal of British forces natonwide...

July 10th, 1946: Sikh leader Hukam Singh, proclaims independence for the state of Khalistan in Bathinda, India....

September 17th, 1946: Puchalapalli Sundaraiah leads Socialist rebellion in Nalgonda, Hyderabad, India calling for an independent state of Hyderabad...

October 1, 1946: Electra Tesla gets married to one of her college friends, George H.W. Bush.

August 14th, 1947: Angami Zapu Phizo, head of the Naga National Council (NNC) in Kohima, India, demanding independence for Nagaland...

February 17th, 1948: Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin leads an Islamic fundamentalist revolution against Ottoman leaders Sanaa, Yemen, demanding independence....

June 9, 1948: Robert Kennedy graduates summa cum laude from Harvard Law School. He joins the law firm Mudge, Alexander & Associates in New York.

November 22, 1948: Mackenzie King retires after 27 years as Prime Minister, a record that still stands today. He is succeeded by Lester Pearson.

April 19, 1949: Maurice Duplessis' Tories defeat Pearson's Liberals with 169 of 262 seats. Duplessis is sworn in on Apr. 30.




Disputed PODs (Scifiguy & Prometheus_2300):

November 5, 1940: Surprising absolutely no one, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected to another term. His opponent Wendell Wilkie suffered from a fractured base, and a highly successful and popular incumbent President.

November 7th, 1940: President Franklin Roosevelt wins the Democratic Party Nomination by default. Henry L. Stimson wins the nomination for the Jaguar Party, and Former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover wins the nomination for the Republican Party. As a result of a splitting of the vote by the increasingly politically left Republican Party, Jaguar Party Nominee Henry L. Stimson is able to win the election by a mere 754 votes in the crucial swing state of New York. The election continues to be one of the most widely disputed and controversial in American history.

December 15th, 1940: TIME Magazine presents it's Person of the Year award to President-Elect Stimson.

Well in terms of the dispute here was my reasoning, Roosevelt ended the recession, he is the first Democrat since McAdoo. The Senate and House is also controlled by the Dems, the court is balanced. The Republicans had absolutely no chance to get the presidency not after the utter disaster of Bingham.

My impressions are that FDR's popularity will carry a lot of states, along with labor votes across the board, along with the many people who were unemployed but got work with the PIA. The immigrant vote is scattered. New York has a Democratic governor (I was going to have Dewey get it in 1942) so the Democrats even have more of an edge there. The Democrats have spent the last 4 years entrenching themselves in Washington, just like the Republicans did for 70 years. It also doesn't help that the largest corp in New York, Tesla Dynamic was broken up by the Republicans, and aren't feeling very charitable to any party right now. From this reasoning I expected the Republicans to carry a few scattered states but a big win for the Democrats, and FDR.

If you need an Electoral map, the Democrats will carry the South, especially with the Republicans Civil Rights, Pennsylvania for the Democrats too. Same with Massachusetts. The Republicans might get Illinois, Indiana and a few others they will probably lose New York.

Also Three way electoral decisions don't really work. A majority of the electoral college is required, and in an equal three way race that just isn't possible, in which case it gets thrown to the House of Reps where the Dems put Roosevelt in for another term

What is the platform of the Jaguar Party? Which faction of the Republicans do they represent? How were they able to get the support necessary to field a serious candidate in less than 3 years?

[Lalli]

Deceber 3dr, 1942: Prime Minister [INSERT NAME] of The United Kingdom and reich chanchellor [INSERT NAME] agree in London founding of jewish state to Northern Madagascar.

July 19th, 1944: Adrien Arcand founds Indepent Movement of Quebec.

[DrakonFin]

The 40s it is. PoDs:

March 16th 1940: Scandinavian troops take Tampere in the decisive battle of the Finnish campaign. Approximately 2000 Finnish POWs executed by Scand troops in the following days. Kalsta's Finnish Volunteer Corps (FF) exhibit special brutality.

July 28nd 1940: Helsinki falls to the Scandinavian armies. General Aaltonen dies while personally leading a last-ditch counterattack. Remnants of the Finnish military and political leadership flee by various ships and airplanes towards Baltic cities under German control.

August 15th 1940: Concentration camps for Finnish POWs and Socialist officials built in Kuopio, Tampere and Helsinki.

October 1st 1940: Most of Finland officially annexed by Sweden.* Kurt Wallenius, a Finnish Blue Brigadist appointed Governor General of the new Eastern Provinces. Most Scand troops start to depart, leaving the mop-up and counter-insurgency tasks to the FF.

December 6th 1940: A Finnish government-in-exile set up in Berlin, headed by Arvo Tuominen, the former Delegate of Industry.


*(Per the understanding with Russia, the countries now have basically a simplified 1743 border.)

[Chairman Sanchez]

April 13 1942: The Papal Conclave elects Salvatore Lussilla as Pope Sylvestor V.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Well in terms of the dispute here was my reasoning, Roosevelt ended the recession, he is the first Democrat since McAdoo. The Senate and House is also controlled by the Dems, the court is balanced. The Republicans had absolutely no chance to get the presidency not after the utter disaster of Bingham.

My impressions are that FDR's popularity will carry a lot of states, along with labor votes across the board, along with the many people who were unemployed but got work with the PIA. The immigrant vote is scattered. New York has a Democratic governor (I was going to have Dewey get it in 1942) so the Democrats even have more of an edge there. The Democrats have spent the last 4 years entrenching themselves in Washington, just like the Republicans did for 70 years. It also doesn't help that the largest corp in New York, Tesla Dynamic was broken up by the Republicans, and aren't feeling very charitable to any party right now. From this reasoning I expected the Republicans to carry a few scattered states but a big win for the Democrats, and FDR.

If you need an Electoral map, the Democrats will carry the South, especially with the Republicans Civil Rights, Pennsylvania for the Democrats too. Same with Massachusetts. The Republicans might get Illinois, Indiana and a few others they will probably lose New York.

Also Three way electoral decisions don't really work. A majority of the electoral college is required, and in an equal three way race that just isn't possible, in which case it gets thrown to the House of Reps where the Dems put Roosevelt in for another term

What is the platform of the Jaguar Party? Which faction of the Republicans do they represent? How were they able to get the support necessary to field a serious candidate in less than 3 years?

I tend to agree with this analysis. You also have the added bonus that at least for now, he has kept the United States out of the war in Europe. Second, the Jaguar Party has not demonstrated a platform that could appeal to a large enough base, especially in the state of New York (e.g. FDR's home state). Third, the Democratic Party has remained relatively scandal-free (e.g. Coolidge & Bingham administrations).

[Odysseus]

Excuse me, but I already posted the election results of 1940.

The Jaguars are fairly conservative, but the majority of candidates are mostly centrist. I had the Republicans winning a few scattered states, but just enough to split the vote count enough for FDR to lose by the slimmest fraction possible.

[Prometheus_2300]

Deceber 3dr, 1942: Prime Minister [INSERT NAME] of The United Kingdom and reich chanchellor [INSERT NAME] agree in London founding of jewish state to Northern Madagascar.

July 19th, 1944: Adrien Arcand founds Indepent Movement of Quebec.

France might have something to say about that since they currently control Madagascar

[Odysseus]

The 1940 Election as I saw it. The Jaguars win a lot of states here, but as you can see none of them are won by much. And plus I posted the election results first and much more thoroughly than P2300, and he essentially ignored the Jaguar party.

http://uselectionatlas.org/TOOLS/genusmap.php?year=1948&pv_p=1&ev_p=1&type=calc&AL=2;11;7&AZ=1;4;5&AR=2;9;6&CA=3;25;4&CO=3;6;5&CT=3;8;4&DE=2;3;5&FL=2;8;4&GA=2;12;6&ID=1;4;4&IL=3;28;5&IN=2;13;4&IA=3;10;5&KS=3;8;5&KY=3;11;5&LA=2;10;4&ME=2;5;5&MD=2;8;4&MA=3;16;5&MI=2;19;4&MN=3;11;5&MS=2;9;8&MO=3;15;5&MT=1;4;5&NE=2;6;5&NV=3;3;5&NH=3;4;5&NJ=3;16;5&NM=2;4;5&NY=3;47;4&NC=2;14;5&ND=1;4;5&OH=3;25;4&OK=2;10;6&OR=3;6;4&PA=3;35;5&RI=3;4;5&SC=2;8;7&SD=1;4;5&TN=2;12;4&TX=2;23;6&UT=1;4;5&VT=2;3;6&VA=2;11;4&WA=2;8;5&WV=2;8;5&WI=2;12;5&WY=2;3;5

[Prometheus_2300]

Actually I did remember the Jaguar Party, I just don't see them being a very serious contending party until 1944at the earliest. It has only been three years since their inception, and following both the Dems and Repubs example they only got candidates into office in 5+ years after their inception.

Also I don't mean to sound rude but... where's the post where you posted the 1940 election results? The only mention I can find on the forum of the Jaguar Party winning the election is when Bondoc first brings it up as a disputed POD

In my 1940 election, the Jaguar Party does have a turnout, but its only about a few million votes, and not enough to clinch a state, and therefore didn't get a mention, because of the lack of EVs. Oh and you are also using the wrong electoral map that's 1944 not 1940. California has 22 EVs in 1940

PODs:

November 5, 1942: Governor Dewey of New York, after leaving the Republican Party clenches the victory for the Jaguar Party, promising to stamp out corporate corruption and to take down the mobs. He also promises to work with the Democrats in Washington for all New Yorkers benefits.

March 5, 1943: An Amendment to the Constitution is passed which null and voids the Prohibition amendment and the Right to Progeny Amendment.

December 5, 1943: News of Christophe's Concentration Camps makes its way out of France. The French Inquistion's Corrective Eugenics Model is published in pamphlet form by America Today in an attempt to cause schisms among the Democrats. The Independent also looking at the same sources is unsure of what the response should be to the French Corrective Eugenics Model, and don't talk about it at all. That was the worst possible course of action, as it caused schisms to form amongst the Democratic Party as a whole.

[Odysseus]

A few final dates for the thirties:

October 18th, 1937: Henry L. Stimson and Charles Curtis found the Conservative Party of America, more commonly referred to as "The Jaguar Party".

October 30th, 1938: Radio prodigy and Future President of the United States Orson Welles broadcasts his famous radio rendition of The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells. It is regarded as one of Welles' best works.

January 15th, 1939: George Schaffer of RKO Pictures offers Orson Welles a minor contract as a motion picture director, which Welles politely declines.

And few dates for the forties when we do get to them. (I assume quite soon.)

November 7th, 1940: President Franklin Roosevelt wins the Democratic Party Nomination by default. Henry L. Stimson wins the nomination for the Jaguar Party, and Former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover wins the nomination for the Republican Party. As a result of a splitting of the vote by the increasingly politically left Republican Party, Jaguar Party Nominee Henry L. Stimson is able to win the election by a mere 754 votes in the crucial swing state of New York. The election continues to be one of the most widely disputed and controversial in American history.

December 15th, 1940: TIME Magazine presents it's Person of the Year award to President-Elect Stimson.

June 18th, 1941: Mercury Theatre on the Air! airs it's final radio broadcast; A rendition of a made-for-radio script written by Welles, entitled Citizen Kane. It is only for the date of the broadcast that it is listened to by the majority of Americans, and became one of the most popular radio productions ever aired.

June 29th, 1941: Orson Welles enters a contract to have Michael Curtiz produce a film version of Citizen Kane.

Actually I did remember the Jaguar Party, I just don't see them being a very serious contending party until 1944at the earliest. It has only been three years since their inception, and following both the Dems and Repubs example they only got candidates into office in 5+ years after their inception.

Also I don't mean to sound rude but... where's the post where you posted the 1940 election results? The only mention I can find on the forum of the Jaguar Party winning the election is when Bondoc first brings it up as a disputed POD

In my 1940 election, the Jaguar Party does have a turnout, but its only about a few million votes, and not enough to clinch a state, and therefore didn't get a mention, because of the lack of EVs. Oh and you are also using the wrong electoral map that's 1944 not 1940. California has 22 EVs in 1940

PODs:

November 5, 1942: Governor Dewey of New York, after leaving the Republican Party clenches the victory for the Jaguar Party, promising to stamp out corporate corruption and to take down the mobs. He also promises to work with the Democrats in Washington for all New Yorkers benefits.

I'm starting to get pretty damn angry now. And I know I'm using the wrong election map, because 1940 doesn't have a third party option..

[Zacoftheaxes]

What. What the hell happened to the Nationalist party? They controlled a good part of the Congress and yet they don't run a presidential candidate?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Based on the situation at hand, the Nationalist Party, if they nominate a canddiate that is popular enough (e.g. Howard Philip Lovecraft, it is entirely feasible that the power of the Jaguar Party is nullified, allowing the Democratic Party under FDR to win. Also consider that the Jaguar Party, doesn't have much on an electoral base outside of the presidential campaigns (e.g. Ross Perot 1992, 1996), which would have some states prevent teh Jaguar Party from appearing on the ballot under the primary system of elections....

[Zacoftheaxes]

Based on the situation at hand, the Nationalist Party, if they nominate a canddiate that is popular enough (e.g. Howard Philip Lovecraft, it is entirely feasible that the power of the Jaguar Party is nullified, allowing the Democratic Party under FDR to win. Also consider that the Jaguar Party, doesn't have much on an electoral base outside of the presidential campaigns (e.g. Ross Perot 1992, 1996), which would have some states prevent teh Jaguar Party from appearing on the ballot under the primary system of elections....

Yeah. I mean, I'm all for getting rid of FDR, but we can't just pull a party out of our ass and have it win so soon. It'd be like the Tea Party winning the 2012 election.

[QuoProQuid]

Is it just me, or have the Phillipines been bizarrely quiet?


Also, in regards to the most recent map, I thought that the UK made a Dominion out of Ireland.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are some decidedly non-Western PODs:

January 8th, 1943: Race riots erupt in Johannesburg, South Africa, over plans for a proposed Jewish state of Madagascar....

January 21st, 1943: Matial law is declared in Bloemfontein, due to armed insurrection by Afrikaner guerillas in Bloemfontein, South Africa...

January 29th, 1943: Afrikaner Broederbond Party members launch raids in Vereeniging, Delmas, and Potchefstroom, South Africa, destabilizing the government...

February 2nd, 1943: Stormjaers, militias loyal to the Afrikaner Broederbond, announce control of Pretoria, South Africa...

August 20th, 1943: South African Foreign Minister Eric Louw announces diplomatic recognition of the Afrikaner government by Germany in Berlin...

July 13th, 1944: Daniel Francois Malan launches a series of "people's trials" in Johannesburg, South Africa, in an effort to "root out race traitors"....

October 21st, 1944: W.E.B. Dubois, Jaja Wachuku, Ras Makonnen, and Jomo Kenyatta publish an underground manifesto in Manchester, England calling for a "Pan-African Federation" (PAF)...

December 14th, 1944: Afrikaner Broederbond Party members led by Daniel Francois Malan seize control of the government in Johannesburg, South Africa demanding national independence...

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Is it just me, or have the Phillipines been bizarrely quiet?

Also, in regards to the most recent map, I thought that the UK made a Dominion out of Ireland.

Well, as requested here are some PODs:

May 2nd, 1942: Filipino Attorney-General José Abad Santos y Basco is assassinated by Nationalist guerillas in Manila, Philippines....

May 8th, 1942: Nationalist guerillas assassinate Filipino Treasury Secretary Manuel Acuña Roxas in Manila, Philippines....

October 13th, 1943: Nationalist leader José Paciano Laurel y García launches a coup d'etat overthrowing the American-backed government in Manila, Philippines...

August 1st, 1944: American-backed President Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina dies of a heart attack; Vice-President Sergio Osmeña y Suico is appointed President of the Philippines in Manila....

September 22nd, 1944: Martial law is declared in Manila, Philippines, sparking international attention and concern....

[Prometheus_2300]

Is it just me, or have the Phillipines been bizarrely quiet?


Also, in regards to the most recent map, I thought that the UK made a Dominion out of Ireland.

They did but there really isn't a color to separate Dominions versus Colonies for the British Empire

Ok Since no one is posting any PODs stopping France I guess they will march on. The BEF is gone and the submersible blockade is quite effective, so its a waiting game for France until the 1940 general election.

March 9, 1940: The French army performs a pincer manuever on the German Army in Strasbourg. With Blerot XV-2s from Paris bombing the German army in Strasbourg with both conventional bombs and F-Series (OTL G-Series) Sarin nerve gas on German troops in Strasbourg, and the French Army in their own kettes are able to use the confusion to completely rout out German forces. French Forces are now in complete control of the Alsace-Lorraine and Belgium.

April 14, 1940: Between a long blockade and pamphlet drops over Britain, the Labour majority is most certainly threatened in the 1940 general election. Although PM Attlee knows wishes to cancel the election, he knows that if he were to do so there would be a chance of open revolt. News of the complete destruction of the BEF in Belgium and the rout of German Forces in the Alsace-Lorraine, have caused many to seek out for peace.

April 20, 1940: French forces occupy the Alsace Lorraine, securing position before advancing into Germany itself. They are scheduled to advance into Germany in late August

June 12, 1940: The Labour Party takes large losses as a result of the war going very badly for Britain. Although civilians haven't been directly attacked, they have had to undergo rationing due to the blockade, combined with French leaflet drops, the British want the war over "Withdraw from the Continent" seems to be a popular slogan, and the Conservatives use it to make gains in the House of Commons, Edward F. L. Wood (aka Lord Halifax) is named PM, and takes residence of 10 Downing Street.

August 1, 1940: A British Zeppelin, and a French Dreadnought dock in the Channel Islands to sign an armistice. The Leveque-Halifax Treaty, hands back Gibraltar to Spain, British Morocco to the British, and the withdrawl of the British Empire from the German Alliance the cancellation of any reparations to Great Britain as a Result of the first Great War, and also surrender of British spheres of Influence in China except Hong Kong, in exchange for Madagascar and Mozambique. Christophe I laughs upon hearing that the treaty was signed, "Those silly Englishmen abandoned us to Germany in the First War, and now they have abandoned Germany in the Second!" The Blockade will end on October 5. PM Wood says after the treaty " I believe it is peace in our time"

The British Empire goes about trying to rebuild their navy and securing their vast empire, which has faltered during the war. First on the agenda, India and South Africa. <Anyone have some PODs for here?>

August 5, 1940: The Blockade Zone around Great Britain is ended, it is now solely targeting German ships.

August 6, 1940: Christophe I tells Magnusson of the news of the armistice with Great Britain, and organize a meeting in Oslo in December 1940.

August 10, 1940: The French African Legion begins deployment to the Ivory Coast to reacquire it for France

<Remember Christophe is only going after military targets, as a result the British electorate is generally being hurt by indirect means in the war. Although under attack it isn't enough to suspend elections. And yes Wood was an Appeaser in our world, and as PM we have an analog of Chamberlain>

[Prometheus_2300]

Oh and Bondoc. Here's some responses to your Caribbean PODs

But for the responses

March 30, 1941: Manuel Ávila Camacho overthrows the government of Mexico installing himself as President of the Mexican Republic. He is quick to dispel rumors that his seizing of power was an American plot, explaining that many of his supplies were simply leftovers from fleeing American troops during the Baja War. Of course a few generals are skeptical, but after a difficult war in the Yucatan, they are ready for peace, and the populace looks forward to Camacho's much promised "Fresh Start" for Mexico.

May 5, 1941: The Marines are deployed from Guantanamo to aid the crumbling Bautista regime. The March to Havana begins. A young Fidel Castro flees on a boat to Venezuela.

June 1, 1941: Haiti rebellions have ceased due to the installation of local leaders and some form of self rules in the "United States Commonwealth of Haiti"

[Chairman Sanchez]

Oh and Bondoc. Here's some responses to your Caribbean PODs

But for the responses

March 30, 1941: Manuel Ávila Camacho overthrows the government of Mexico installing himself as President of the Mexican Republic. He is quick to dispel rumors that his seizing of power was an American plot, explaining that many of his supplies were simply leftovers from fleeing American troops during the Baja War. Of course a few generals are skeptical, but after a difficult war in the Yucatan, they are ready for peace, and the populace looks forward to Camacho's much promised "Fresh Start" for Mexico.

May 5, 1941: The Marines are deployed from Guantanamo to aid the crumbling Bautista regime. The March to Havana begins. A young Fidel Castro flees on a boat to Venezuela.

June 1, 1941: Haiti rebellions have ceased due to the installation of local leaders and some form of self rules in the "United States Commonwealth of Haiti"


I dont know if Haiti should be a DIRECT US territory, but a puppet is a good idea.

[Zacoftheaxes]

Here are some Japanese PoDs. Someone should finish WW2.

January 13th 1940: Japan invades Korea, Emperor Hirohito declares all of Korea "Japanese Territory"

March 22nd, 1940: The Korean government fall to the Japanese government. Hirohito puts General Tojo in charge of the area.

May 13th, 1941: After a conference in Tokyo, It is decided that Russians and communists have no rights. 60,000 Korean communists and 25,000 Russians living in Korea are sent to labour camps.

June 1st, 1941: The first concentration camps appear in Korea.

[Prometheus_2300]

April 5, 1940: Russian Forces seize Vladivostock, with Japanese Forces fleeing into Korea.

May 2, 1940: Japanese Forces entrench themselves into Okhstok

May 3, 1940: Russian Forces pursue Japanese Forces to Korea. They coordinate with Chinese Forces in Manchuria, and combined they begin to advance down the Korean Peninsula

<Now Japan is down to Korea on the Asian continent along with Okhstock. How is Japan going to respond, Zac?>

[Zacoftheaxes]

<Now Japan is down to Korea on the Asian continent along with Okhstock. How is Japan going to respond, Zac?>

By killing more Russians in Korea. Hirohito has gone from an imperial maniac to a genocidal maniac.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is the first spin on the 1940s:


January 1-10, 1940: The Blerot XVs drop pamphlets all over London, calling for an end to this war spreading a message that France didn't want the war, and that the British government is to blame for causing the war, and France was only defending itself. It is of course a bald-faced lie, and both governments know that BUT the British have only been getting news of fleet losses, and supply shortages. Not an invasion or a blitz on London. The pamphlet droppings continue until the General Election of 1940.

January 13th 1940: Japan invades Korea, Emperor Hirohito declares all of Korea "Japanese Territory"

January 20, 1940: Blerot XV-2s proceed to bomb the German Army in Strasbourg. Meanwhile the French army fortifies defenses in the Alsace-Lorraine. <French Strategy is to force the Germans to retreat>

January 25, 1940: With the threat of Gibraltar removed The army of Algeria is able to be resupplied, moves to occupy British Morocco.

March 9, 1940: The French army performs a pincer manuever on the German Army in Strasbourg. With Blerot XV-2s from Paris bombing the German army in Strasbourg with both conventional bombs and F-Series (OTL G-Series) Sarin nerve gas on German troops in Strasbourg, and the French Army in their own kettes are able to use the confusion to completely rout out German forces. French Forces are now in complete control of the Alsace-Lorraine and Belgium.

March 16th 1940: Scandinavian troops take Tampere in the decisive battle of the Finnish campaign. Approximately 2000 Finnish POWs executed by Scand troops in the following days. Kalsta's Finnish Volunteer Corps (FF) exhibit special brutality.

March 22nd, 1940: The Korean government fall to the Japanese government. Hirohito puts General Tojo in charge of the area.

March 24th, 1940: Muhammad Ali Jinnah launches an armed insurrection, demanding an Islamic fundamentalist state of Pakistan in Lahore, India....

April 5, 1940: Russian Forces seize Vladivostock, with Japanese Forces fleeing into Korea.

April 14, 1940: Between a long blockade and pamphlet drops over Britain, the Labour majority is most certainly threatened in the 1940 general election. Although PM Attlee knows wishes to cancel the election, he knows that if he were to do so there would be a chance of open revolt. News of the complete destruction of the BEF in Belgium and the rout of German Forces in the Alsace-Lorraine, have caused many to seek out for peace.

April 20, 1940: French forces occupy the Alsace Lorraine, securing position before advancing into Germany itself. They are scheduled to advance into Germany in late August

May 2, 1940: Japanese Forces entrench themselves into Okhstok

May 3, 1940: Russian Forces pursue Japanese Forces to Korea. They coordinate with Chinese Forces in Manchuria, and combined they begin to advance down the Korean Peninsula

June 12, 1940: The Labour Party takes large losses as a result of the war going very badly for Britain. Although civilians haven't been directly attacked, they have had to undergo rationing due to the blockade, combined with French leaflet drops, the British want the war over "Withdraw from the Continent" seems to be a popular slogan, and the Conservatives use it to make gains in the House of Commons, Edward F. L. Wood (aka Lord Halifax) is named PM, and takes residence of 10 Downing Street.

July 28nd 1940: Helsinki falls to the Scandinavian armies. General Aaltonen dies while personally leading a last-ditch counterattack. Remnants of the Finnish military and political leadership flee by various ships and airplanes towards Baltic cities under German control.

August 1, 1940: A British Zeppelin, and a French Dreadnought dock in the Channel Islands to sign an armistice. The Leveque-Halifax Treaty, hands back Gibraltar to Spain, British Morocco to the British, and the withdrawl of the British Empire from the German Alliance the cancellation of any reparations to Great Britain as a Result of the first Great War, and also surrender of British spheres of Influence in China except Hong Kong, in exchange for Madagascar and Mozambique. Christophe I laughs upon hearing that the treaty was signed, "Those silly Englishmen abandoned us to Germany in the First War, and now they have abandoned Germany in the Second!" The Blockade will end on October 5. PM Wood says after the treaty " I believe it is peace in our time" The British Empire goes about trying to rebuild their navy and securing their vast empire, which has faltered during the war. First on the agenda, India and South Africa.

August 5, 1940: The Blockade Zone around Great Britain is ended, it is now solely targeting German ships.

August 6, 1940: Christophe I tells Magnusson of the news of the armistice with Great Britain, and organize a meeting in Oslo in December 1940.

August 10, 1940: The French African Legion begins deployment to the Ivory Coast to reacquire it for France

August 15th 1940: Concentration camps for Finnish POWs and Socialist officials built in Kuopio, Tampere and Helsinki.

October 1st 1940: Most of Finland officially annexed by Sweden.* Kurt Wallenius, a Finnish Blue Brigadist appointed Governor General of the new Eastern Provinces. Most Scand troops start to depart, leaving the mop-up and counter-insurgency tasks to the FF.

November 5, 1940: Surprising absolutely no one, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected to another term. His opponent Wendell Wilkie suffered from a fractured base, and a highly successful and popular incumbent President.

December 1st, 1940: General Manuel Ávila Camacho leads an American-backed coup attempt against the government in Mexico City, Mexico...

December 6th 1940: A Finnish government-in-exile set up in Berlin, headed by Arvo Tuominen, the former Delegate of Industry.

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March 30, 1941: Manuel Ávila Camacho overthrows the government of Mexico installing himself as President of the Mexican Republic. He is quick to dispel rumors that his seizing of power was an American plot, explaining that many of his supplies were simply leftovers from fleeing American troops during the Baja War. Of course a few generals are skeptical, but after a difficult war in the Yucatan, they are ready for peace, and the populace looks forward to Camacho's much promised "Fresh Start" for Mexico.

April 17th, 1941: Petar II Karađorđević overthrows the government in Sarajevo, demanding a sovereign Serbian state.....

May 5, 1941: The Marines are deployed from Guantanamo to aid the crumbling Bautista regime. The March to Havana begins. A young Fidel Castro flees on a boat to Venezuela.

May 13th, 1941: After a conference in Tokyo, It is decided that Russians and communists have no rights. 60,000 Korean communists and 25,000 Russians living in Korea are sent to labour camps.

June 1st, 1941: The first concentration camps appear in Korea. Also on this day, Haitian rebellions have ceased due to the installation of local leaders and autonomous form of self-rule in the "United States Commonwealth of Haiti"

June 18th, 1941: Mercury Theatre on the Air! airs it's final radio broadcast; A rendition of a made-for-radio script written by Welles, entitled Citizen Kane. It is only for the date of the broadcast that it is listened to by the majority of Americans, and became one of the most popular radio productions ever aired.

June 22, 1941; Maurice Duplessis resigns as Premier of Quebec, to be succeeded by Paul Sauve.

June 29th, 1941: Orson Welles enters a contract to have Michael Curtiz produce a film version of Citizen Kane.

October 6, 1941: Maurice Duplessis becomes MP for Trois-Rivieres following a by-election.

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March 12, 1942: Pope Sylvester IV has died. A Papal Conclave is to be called.

March 30th, 1942: Tamil leader E. V. Ramasami, leads a rebellion in Kanchipuram, India demanding independence for Dravida Nadu (a.k.a. Dravidistan)...

April 9th, 1942: Indian Revolution; Jiddu Krishnamurti and General Mohan Singh overthrow the goverment in New Delhi, India, demanding Indian independence...

May 2nd, 1942: Filipino Attorney-General José Abad Santos y Basco is assassinated by Nationalist guerillas in Manila, Philippines....

May 8th, 1942: Brigadier General Gratien Fernando leads nationalist rebellion in Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte, Sri Lanka. Also on this day, Nationalist guerillas assassinate Filipino Treasury Secretary Manuel Acuña Roxas in Manila, Philippines....

May 16, 1942: Nikola Tesla's daughter, Electra Tesla graduates Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, (with a Tesla Science Hall) with a double major in Aerospace engineering and Physics.

November 5, 1942: Governor Dewey of New York, after leaving the Republican Party clenches the victory for the Jaguar Party, promising to stamp out corporate corruption and to take down the mobs. He also promises to work with the Democrats in Washington for all New Yorkers benefits.

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January 8th, 1943: Race riots erupt in Johannesburg, South Africa, over plans for a proposed Jewish state of Madagascar....

January 21st, 1943: Matial law is declared in Bloemfontein, due to armed insurrection by Afrikaner guerillas in Bloemfontein, South Africa...

January 29th, 1943: Afrikaner Broederbond Party members launch raids in Vereeniging, Delmas, and Potchefstroom, South Africa, destabilizing the government...

February 2nd, 1943: Stormjaers, militias loyal to the Afrikaner Broederbond, announce control of Pretoria, South Africa...

March 5, 1943: An Amendment to the Constitution is passed which null and voids the Prohibition amendment and the Right to Progeny Amendment

July 26th, 1943: Muslim rebel leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah is killed by British forces in Islamabad, Pakistan...

August 20th, 1943: South African Foreign Minister Eric Louw announces diplomatic recognition of the Afrikaner government by Germany in Berlin...

October 13th, 1943: Nationalist leader José Paciano Laurel y García launches a coup d'etat overthrowing the American-backed government in Manila, Philippines...

October 21st, 1943: Provisional Government of Free India wins recognition from German Foreign Ministry in Berlin, sparking international attention...

December 5, 1943: News of Christophe's Concentration Camps makes its way out of France. The French Inquistion's Corrective Eugenics Model is published in pamphlet form by America Today in an attempt to cause schisms among the Democrats. The Independent also looking at the same sources is unsure of what the response should be to the French Corrective Eugenics Model, and don't talk about it at all. That was the worst possible course of action, as it caused schisms to form amongst the Democratic Party as a whole.

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January 30, 1944: Maurice Duplessis elected leader of the Conservative Party, and becomes Leader of the Opposition.

July 13th, 1944: Daniel Francois Malan launches a series of "people's trials" in Johannesburg, South Africa, in an effort to "root out race traitors"....

August 1st, 1944: American-backed President Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina dies of a heart attack; Vice-President Sergio Osmeña y Suico is appointed President of the Philippines in Manila....

August 23rd, 1944: General Ion Antonescu overthrows the government in Bucharest, Romania

September 17, 1944: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a sixth term with 177 of 245 seats.

September 22nd, 1944: Martial law is declared in Manila, Philippines, sparking international attention and concern....

October 21st, 1944: W.E.B. Dubois, Jaja Wachuku, Ras Makonnen, and Jomo Kenyatta publish an underground manifesto in Manchester, England calling for a "Pan-African Federation" (PAF)...

November 7, 1944: Joseph Kennedy Jr. is elected Congressman from MA-10.

December 14th, 1944: Afrikaner Broederbond Party members led by Daniel Francois Malan seize control of the government in Johannesburg, South Africa demanding national independence...

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February 18th, 1946: Talwar Mutiny; Indian sailors rebel against British naval forces in Mumbai, India, demanding the withdrawal of British forces natonwide...

July 10th, 1946: Sikh leader Hukam Singh, proclaims independence for the state of Khalistan in Bathinda, India....

September 17th, 1946: Puchalapalli Sundaraiah leads Socialist rebellion in Nalgonda, Hyderabad, India calling for an independent state of Hyderabad...

October 1, 1946: Electra Tesla gets married to one of her college friends, George H.W. Bush.

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August 14th, 1947: Angami Zapu Phizo, head of the Naga National Council (NNC) in Kohima, India, demanding independence for Nagaland...

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February 17th, 1948: Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin leads an Islamic fundamentalist revolution against Ottoman leaders Sanaa, Yemen, demanding independence....

June 9, 1948: Robert Kennedy graduates summa cum laude from Harvard Law School. He joins the law firm Mudge, Alexander & Associates in New York.

November 22, 1948: Mackenzie King retires after 27 years as Prime Minister, a record that still stands today. He is succeeded by Lester Pearson.

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April 19, 1949: Maurice Duplessis' Tories defeat Pearson's Liberals with 169 of 262 seats. Duplessis is sworn in on Apr. 30.

[Prometheus_2300]

The Third Russo-Japanese War

July 20, 1940: With the safety of the Mediterranean virtually gauranteed for France. French cargo planes begin a long flight to Russian forces in Vladivostock. In exchange for Russian partition concessions in the Western War, the French give F-Series Chemical Weapons to the Russian and France army. The 23rd Chemical Corp is given two Russian Airships as a means of deploying their weapons upon the Japanese Army.

Although the Japanese Army fights in the name of the Emperor, they fail to hold the continent. Emperor Hirohito reluctantly withdraws from Korea

July 31, 1940: Meanwhile there are grumblings amongst Japan's merchants, although they would never say it aloud, they start to believe that the Emperor is a madman, and must be handled... "delicately" or all of Japan may fall. The leaders of three Japanese Zaibatsus (Mitsui Group, Sumitomo Group, and the Yasuda Group) begin to plan the impossible. They plan to somehow kill the Emperor, but how does one kill a living god?

<Yeah... There is no way Japan is holding onto Korea now. So Japan is now feeling the burn. Let's see if the Zaibatsus plan for a Zaibatsu coup of Japan will work, eh?>

The Second European War

July 20, 1940: The Russian Forces "liberate" the puppet kingdoms of Lithuania and Estonia.

<What's happening with Rommel in the Ukraine?>

October 2, 1940: The French Army leaving the occupation of Belgium to the Inquisition, moves South to the German border, near Aachen. On this morning German Blerot XVs begin bombing German positions with conventional bombs. Which clear the way for the superior French kettes to move in, and occupy the city. After Aachen is secured, this army is planning to move onto Dusseldorf.

In a coordinated move the French Army of the Alsace splits into two smaller armies. The Third Army of Holy France advances on Stuttgart, after which is Munich. The Second Army of Holy France advances to Mannheim, and eventually towards Frankfurt. However they begin to encounter stiff resistance. The conventional army is being sliced to pieces thanks to Chemical Weapons and the Air Legions being decimated by French Gyrodynes. However the German Resistance with the cry of "Ich bin ein Deutscher" cause sabotage and delays that delays the French War Machine for months. Instead of Winter in Munich, the French will be lucky to have Winter in Stuttgart

So to summarize

1st French Army: in Aachen moving towards Dusseldorf.
2nd French Army: in Strasbourg moving to Mannheim. ETA Late November 1940.
3rd French Army: in Strasbourg moving Stuttgart and then Munich ETA Late November 1940.

<If anyone has any idea who the generals are in charge of these armies, please feel free. I was planning on the Third to have a Patton vibe, and the First to use Chemical warfare on any target (even civilians)>.

Overall the French Strategy is to force the capitulation of Germany, much like with Britain, but there is more bad blood between Germany and France, then there was between France and Britain.

Now to America...

August 5, 1943: Senator Howard Lovecraft, after many political backdeals, gets the Comprehensive National Eugenics Bill to vote. The bill shows some sharp division amongst the Democratic party, as despite them controlling 74 seats of Congress, the Bill only passes with 53 votes, and that included all 3 other Nationalist Senators. The bill passes and is now sent to the house, which after more backdeals with Senator Pelley (R-PA) who was instrumental in getting the support of Pennsylvania's House Delegates.

December 3, 1943: On a Friday afternoon the House votes on the Comprehensive National Eugenics Bill. Of the 435 House members, 239 vote for the Bill. The clerk tries to rush it over to the White House as soon as possible but have to leave it for the Clerk on Monday.

<And on Sunday December 5, 1943 is when Christophe's concentration camps are publicized. and FDR has one of the most contentious Bills in history on his desk... I honestly have no idea what the Roosevelt of this world will do.>

[Prometheus_2300]

Africa

November 22, 1940: The French African Army is able to contact and convince the rebels of the Ivory Coast (oddly enough the natives the Germans dealt with were the rebels under the French). The French African Army arms the rebels with weapons, and undertake the task of overthrowing the German colony of Elfenbeinküste. A bloody Civil War ensues in the Ivory Coast

January 23, 1941: Due to the lack of communication from Berlin, and fading supplies, the German forces in the Ivory Coast withdraw across Ghana into the Togoland Colony, to reinforce it for attack. The French general eager to stop the Germans retreat tries to beat them to Togoland, and makes the rash decision of having the natives govern themselves "until we return". This would mark the beginning of the first independent country in Africa since the fall of Ethiopia in the 1930s.

February 2, 1941: The German Africa Corps are able to stage a sneak attack upon the French forces pursuing them. Erik von Manstein, the General in charge of the German Forces in Togoland, is awarded the The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords for his strategic genius in facing a superior enemy. The remnants of the French army limp back to Algeria for resupply. It would be a year before the French African army would be at full strength againThe army's general is personally killed by Christophe I, calling him a "demon of France" the highest level of reprimand that he can bestow. The Inquisition, adds him and his family line to the "Corrective Eugenics list". Future French President Alain Vivien, now 3 flees with his mother to England.

April 5, 1941: After many years of Construction the Mittelafrika railway is complete. Its first train load is to move troops quickly across the continent to aid with the defense of Mittelafrika, quelling some fears of a French invasion.

<Manstein got shunted off to Togoland following a political scandal he was involved with in this ATL. I would go on the South African PODs but I am not that knowledgable about South African History.>

In Technology:

July 8, 1947: Electra Tesla successfully tests her new project. The Tesla Dynamic T-J35 Engine. In this test she flew her TDX-1 and set the world speed record. Not only passing Mach 1, but reaching a speed of Mach 2.4, before she ran out of fuel and had to land.

October 1, 1947: Electra Tesla, with a combination of her parents large corporate influence is able to get a meeting with the Department of Defense for funding a new type of weapon, A rocket that would be capable of piercing the heavens.

<This depends on who the President and Congress in 1947. I plan to get America in space before 1955.>

September 12, 1949: Enrico Fermi gives an interview with Popular Electric where he is asked, "Could a bomb be made on the same principles as the Staten Island Atomic Plant?" He laughs, but after the interview he begins to think it over. When working on the Manhattan project for Tesla Dynamic, the goal was always a reactor to produce electicity, a bomb was never even considered. He thinks for a moment, and that not only was it possible but fairly easy, given all the work done on the Manhattan Project. However just before he is about to call up Mr. Bush about the news, he thinks about the implications of this "fission explosive". He sits there for a few moments before igniting a bunsen burner and burning his notes on a "fission explosive". Later in his memoirs he wrote, "I felt the world would not, and would never be ready for that power. It seems all I bought it were a few more years"

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are a few PODs to add some spice to things:

September 4th, 1940: Student activists Gerald Ford, Sargent Shriver and Potter Stewart launch antiwar rallies in Chicago, Illinois, demanding no military intervention against Mexico...

September 19th, 1940: Jay Fox establishes the American Anarchist Congress (AAC) in Home Colony, Washington....

November 16th, 1942: Fransesco Fantin launches a series of bombings, killing 6 people in Sydney, Australia in an effort to bring attention to the Australian Eugenics program....

April 15th, 1943: Ayn Rand establishes the "Objectivist" manifesto of the Jaguar Party in New York City, New York....

July 19th, 1943: Maquis established; Alphonse and Paule Tricheux establish the Maquis in Toulousse, France, calling for the overthrow of the government...

August 21st, 1944: Maquis Uprising; anti-government Maquis rebels against the government in Paris, France, leaing to a brutal crackdown....

January 4th, 1945: Maria Occhipinti of Raguse, Sicily calls for political reforms from the Italian government in Rome....

April 27th, 1945: Anarchist riots erupt in London, England, sparking calls for matial law by government officials...

April 23rd, 1946: Anwui Rebellion; Korean guerillas Li Jung-Kyu and Li Eul Kyu launch rebellion against Japanese forces in Anwui, Korea...

December 19th, 1946: Local anarchists protest government policies, by re-enacting the Boston Tea Party in Boston, Massachusetts....

[Spitfiremk1]

March 18th 1945: Owing to South Africa's "Declaration of Independence" under the Afrikaner Broederbond Party and the rumoured persecution of both Blacks, Cape Coloureds and British South Africans, Britain, along with Empire and Loyal South African Forces, invade South Africa, striking from both the sea by way of landing near Cape Town and Durban and north from Rhodesia. Although the Rebel South Africans put up a stiff resistance, there small numbers and the confusion throughout the country mean that the Rebel Government Collapses within 2 weeks. However, the Afrikaners turn to Guerilla war fare and begin to carry out a large scale terrorist campaign against Loyalist and British Forces.

[QuoProQuid]

March 7, 1947: After part of the floor collapses beneath a senator during a visit to the White House, President Roosevelt calls a committe to examine the building to search for any problems with the building. The committe discovers severe structural damage as a result of previous additions to the building, such as the steel roof added in 1927 and upgrades to the wiring. The committe warns the President that if action is not taken immediately, the building may collapse.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

June 13th, 1940: Nationalist leaders Juan Feleo and Abad Santos, call for independence from American occupation in Manila, Philippines...

November 16th, 1940: Anarchist George P. Metesky bombs Grand Central Station in New York City, New York, killing 3 people...

September 17th, 1940: Anarchist George P. Metesky bombs Union Station in New York City, New York, killing 8 people....

June 1st, 1941: Martial law declared in Pampanga, Mueva Ecija, Bulacan, Yarlac, Pangisinan, Bataan, and Cavite, due to nationalist uprisings...

June 10th- July 15th, 1941: American-backed Governor Sotero Bauyut calls for greater military crackdown in Central Luzon, Philippines....

October 29th, 1945: President Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is overthrown in a military coup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.....

[Prometheus_2300]

The Second European War (Late 1940)

November 15, 1940: The First French Army after stiff resistance finally reach Dusseldorf. The Commanding General following the German implementation of gas masks as standard issue, along with the treatment countermeasures. The French General commanding orders the planes under his command to drop Sarin gas on the civilian population of Dusseldorf, in attempt to permanently end any resistance. Many countries are horrified with this act, however it is effective. The French first Army reaches Dusseldorf.

The Second French Army is encountering the stiffest resistance of all. In the Battle of Manheim, the German Army successfully defends the city, and the city is laid to siege. The German Army plans to move in a counterattack through a weakened second army to penetrate back into France

The Third French Army is hampered with supply problems but not only does the army reach Stuttgart, they make winter quarters in Augsburg.

November 16, 1940: The Russian Forces are still locked in a stalemate with Rommel in the Ukraine. However the Northern Russian Army advances to Warsaw to topple the German puppet government.

<I still need to include more about what is happening in France>

The Third Russo-Japanese War

February 2, 1940: One of the two Russian Airships with a French Chemical Weapons Platforms is shot down by the Japanese Dragon Wing (Japan's Airship Fleet), severely hampering the use of Chemical weapons by the Throne Axis. The forces of Eurasia continue their battles in Korea

<Oh my... I just realized the Orwellian overtones Eurasia will take if the Throne Axis wins.>

October 4, 1941: The leaders of the Three Zaibatsus, smuggle in a Russian sniper. The Russians contacted them in the hope of killing Hirohito and causing chaos. The sniper, by the name (Will insert later) begins planning with the conspiracy.

December 1, 1941: The fighting is absolutely brutal in Korea. The combined Russian and Chinese Forces, battle entrenched thoroughly fortified Japanese defenses. Even with the French Chemical Weapons are not very effective. But on this date, the Last Japanese soldier falls in Pusan in Southern Korea.

December 7, 1941: Emperor Hirohito giving a public radio address before an audience of thousands, and millions over the radio, begins to give a speech about how Japan will continue to...

His thought is not concluded, as a bullet enters his brain, killing him instantly. Without a clear line of succession the Japanese Empire is thrown into utter chaos.

That should do it. Everyone have fun with those PODs!

[QuoProQuid]

A few notes regarding my thoughts on the future of India after reading through the timeline:

- With Gandhi murdered, you've destroyed the idea of non-violent disobedience in India. You've killed him before any of ideas could have any real effect, thus making his ideas seem hopelessly idealistic and naive. Jiddu is the reasonable result of this. Although one cannot describe him as militant, he is much more aggressive than his predecessor.

- Although Jiddu seems like a nice leader, his ideas are going to spark a terrible powderkeg. Unlike OTL, the Indian Independence movement is much more anti-Western. In the original timeline, most leaders of the movement had some degree of respect for Western nations, however now Jiddu is turning Hinduism and India into itself. The movement does not have many friends. He is becoming friends with military juntas, for God's sake.

The Hindu religion of this world is going to be much different than that of our own. One of Gandhi's important achievements was convincing others to accept all wisdom as lighting the way to the divine. Hinduism will be much less accepting of other cultures. He also did a great deal in aleviating some of the suffering of the Untouchables. The differences between members of different castes are going to be much more noticeable.

- If you thought Hinduism and India were intertwined in the OTL, you haven't seen anything yet. The UK is correct, releasing India now would result in an autocratic theocracy forming in India.

- Tensions between the Muslims and the Hindus should be pretty high right now. The Muslims of the area should be itching for their own homeland. In 1947 in our world, India got partitioned to form the nation of Pakistan. The results were messy, to say the least.

[Prometheus_2300]

A few notes regarding my thoughts on the future of India afte reading through the timeline:

- With Gandhi murdered, you've destroyed the idea of non-violent disobedience in India. You've killed him before any of ideas could have any real effect, thus making his ideas seem hopelessly idealistic and naive. Jiddu is the reasonable result of this. Although one cannot describe him as militant, he is much more aggressive than his predecessor.

- Although Jiddu seems like a nice leader, his ideas are going to spark a terrible powderkeg. Unlike OTL, the Indian Independence movement is much more anti-Western. In the original timeline, most leaders of the movement had some degree of respect for Western nations, however now Jiddu is turning Hinduism and India into itself. The movement does not have many friends. He is becoming friends with military juntas, for God's sake.

The Hindu religion of this world is going to be much different than that of our own. One of Gandhi's important achievements was convincing others to accept all wisdom as lighting the way to the divine. Hinduism will be much less accepting of other cultures. He also did a great deal in aleviating some of the suffering of the Untouchables. The differences between members of different castes are going to be much more noticeable.

- If you thought Hinduism and India were intertwined in the OTL, you haven't seen anything yet. The UK is correct, releasing India now would result in an autocratic theocracy forming in India.

- Tensions between the Muslims and the Hindus should be pretty high right now. The Muslims of the area should be itching for their own homeland. In 1947 in our world, India got partitioned to form the nation of Pakistan. The results were messy, to say the least.

Great analysis Quid. Also don't forget that Britain in this world has kept its empire. Eventually the Empire will just burn itself out, it simply can't keep all that territory, especially after France in the late 30s. They will have to make choices on which countries to let go, which ones to keep as members of the Commonwealth and part of the British Empire, and which ones where it must play constable. I imagine that the Persians and Ottomans would get involved on the Indian Muslims behalf. China's got all of its territory back, save Hong Kong so that should free up a bit of British Forces to help.

I am eager for some more PODs for India.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

QuidProQuo & Prometheus2300- BWAHAHAHA!! As you can tell, that was my entire point of the many nationalist and secessionist movements starting in 1942. Believe me when I say things are going to get tougher for India and Great Britain:

January 19th, 1942: Jiddu Krishnamurti announces political manifesto of "Hindu nationalism", linking Indian nationalism with Hindu religion, from Azad Hind Radio in New Delhi, India...

February 28th, 1942: Jiddu Krishnamurti proclaims "Hour of Destiny" during a rally in New Delhi, India, sparking international attention...

April 15th, 1942: Bidadary Resolution; Jiddu Krishnamurti signs resolution demanding Indian independence in New Delhi, India....

September 4th, 1942: General Subhas Chandra Bose announces a guerilla campaign to "bleed the British from our homeland" in Bombay, India....

May 11th, 1943: Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces its recognition of the Provisional Government of India in Tokyo, Japan....

[Prometheus_2300]

The Second European War

March 15, 1941: French advance into Germany has been halted. The Second Army, is holed up in Manheim, under complete siege by the well positioned, and well supplied German army. Aided by the German Resistance in Manheim, the Second Army is holding up but its difficult.

The First French Army is told to redirect to aid the Mannheim Forces, and begin rushing down, obliterating any and all opposition in their path. The City of Bonn, is bombarded repeatedly, allowing the First Army to rush through the city on the way to Mannheim

The Third French Army, now is the only offensive army in the field, and is airlifted supplies from France. The Third Army rolls through Munich, then turning North towards Nurnberg.

April 1, 1941: Russian Forces secure Warsaw, and consolidate the gains before advancing onto Germany proper.

May 5, 1941: In Bucharest the Russian ambassador, asks for a meeting with Emperor Franz Ferdinand. Although this meeting is not disclosed until 5 years later. The agreement reached would cause no end of headaches in the 50s and 60s

June 2, 1941: After carrying out one of the best defenses in military history, Rommel is forced to withdraw from the field due to constant raiders attacking his supply lines to Germany. Rommel's Kette division withdraws back to Germany proper. However Rommel's escape was thwarted by Austro-Hungary. They denied the Kette troops travel through their borders. After 3 days of negotiation, the Russian army encircled Rommel's Army. Rommel is given an offer, personal asylum into Austro-Hungary, or get the same treatment as his men. Rommel could not do that. The entire German army knew what was going to happen. Rommel orders his troops to attack the superior Russian Army.

June 5, 1941: After two days of vicious fighting Rommel and about 1500 men limp away Victorious, having routed the Russian army. They proceed to Kiev to fortify, and wait for reinforcement. Reinforcement that would never come

September 11, 1941: East Prussia falls to the Russian army. Also Munich is seized.

November 12, 1941: Two French armies are locked in battle outside Mannheim. The third is slowly but surely advancing to Berlin. The Russians have seized as far as Dresden. The German Empire dispatches diplomats to the Throne Axis. For a peace conference. Germany is spent, exhausted. Both sides know that it is possible to keep fighting but the gains will be too little for the amount of bloodshed. The Amsterdam Treaty is called

In exchange for Germany's continued existence, Germany must surrender MittelAfrika, Alsace-Lorraine, South Indochina. A demilitarized Zone will exist within 50 miles of the French border. Southern Germany will be divided into the new nation, "The Kingdom of Bavaria", with a German collaborator of French forces as King. Perhaps one day re-unification will happen.

Issues left unresolved by the Conference are the Eastern European states, which Russia is trying to make puppet states out of. Also the Ukraine, which the Parliamentary Democracy has asked Rommel to lead the army of the Ukraine. Rommel accepts as his family was killed by French gas attack, and his home in the puppet state of Bavaria.

Poland now expanded, is left abandoned by Russian Forces as per a secret agreement with Austro-Hungary. As a result, the Federated Republic of Poland is created.

<Ok so Germany got beaten. France's goal was to get its allies out of the war, and it did. With Chemical Weapons, fixed wing bombers, the Germans were stuck fighting a two front war. Russia kept pressing with massive numbers in the East, and the French with chemical weapons in the West. The Richestag decided to just sue for peace and to spare more German lives.>

General observations: With Wilson gone, the idea of self-determination never caught one. Imperialism is still the dominant model of foreign affairs. Even the US got into it with the Pershing Doctrine. So the very idea of Internationalism is as foreign to them as a World government is to us.

<And the Second European War is done! I don't think France turning Bavaria into a puppet state is too ASB but I am not sure>

Holy France

December 24, 1941: Christophe I, is now actually starting to believe Tridault's homilies, that he as the Last Merovingan must rule the world for the 1000 year empire. He calls in all his generals fresh from victory in Germany to draw up plans for the Conquest of the Spanish Empire.

February 2, 1942: Prime Minister Leveque is executed for heresy against France, by decree of his holiness Christophe I. The Pope, officially condemns Christophe Blanchard, and threaten an interdict. Leveque who had been a tempering influencen on Christophe I is now lost

March 1, 1942: The number of political dissidents in French prisons doubles.

March 15, 1942: The Third French army is given orders to mobilize for deployment to Spain for 1943.

April 13, 1943: Christophe I blesses the Third French Army, before deployment.

April 20, 1943: The French army launches a surprise attack upon Spain.

September 1, 1943: Spanish forces flee from Cordoba to Spanish Morocco.

December 7, 1943: Spain is annexed by France, drawing universal condemnation from all powers.

<Now I will edit this to include more and get France up to 1945>

America

Since its been mentioned that Roosevelt was President in late 1945...

November 5, 1944: One of the most fractured political races in the twentieth century. After the Eugenics debacle, the Democratic base is split. The Repubican base is also split because of the Jaguar Party.

The candidates are as follows:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) (Accepted his party's nomination to provide party unity)
Henry L. Stimson (J) (the 1940 candidate with 4 more years of base building around an Objectivist Base, pulling away many of the Big Business supports of the Republicans)
Thomas E. Dewey (R) (Taking the Liberal Republicans as his base, petitioned an idea for an "International Delegation" where all nations could meet and discuss their ideas equally)
Howard Lovecraft (N) (Lovecraft, who was much more popular then Pelley, was chosen as the Nationalists first Presidental candidate.

On Election day, Roosevelt won the popular vote with 41% of the vote. Dewey with 36%, Lovecraft with 9% and Stimson with 14%

IN the Electoral College, no one came close to getting the 270 needed to win. As a result the election got thrown to the House of Representatives. After about a month of negotiations. The next President and Vice President of the United States are announced. Republicans and Democrats meet to compromise. Neither one like the other but don't want to ally with either the Jaguars or the Nationalists to get ahead. So they come up with a solution, freezing out Lovecraft and Stimson. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected to an unprecedented 3rd term, and Vice President Dewey is the first VP since the constitution was amended to be of a different party then his president.

<Ok before people jump on my for VP Dewey let me say this. The Repubs and Dems want to keep power, and the best way to do that is to minimize other parties. The two may hate each other, but better the enemy you know then the enemy you don't. I am not sure if Congress' vote violates the Congress rules, but with the weakened Supreme Court, I am sure the suit will find in Congress' favor. The Republicans wanted something big for cooperation, and given both groups fear of the Jaguars and Nationalists, they were able to demand the VP be Dewey, so that he is strong for a 1948 Presidental run, along with some cabinet posts. Now we have the first bipartisan administration, and considering this world... let the explosions begin.>

The Democrats still control Congress. Although in the Senate their control dropped to 52%. Senate make up (50 Democrats, 5 Nationalists, 39 Republicans, 2 Jaguars)

March 5, 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt orders an expansion to the West Wing and a total renovation of the White House, following the Commissions findings. LINK (http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/images/truman-1945-plan.jpg) for those who are curious what it will look like (Truman failed in OTL to get this)

Technology

November 2, 1944: Alan Turing is arrested for "indecency" for being a homosexual. He accepted imprisonment as punishment

January 2, 1945: A Tesla Dynamic recruiter meets Turing as he leaves Black's Gate Prison, offering him a job at Tesla Dynamic in the field of Computer Science. When asked about his prison record, the recruiter responds, "Mr. Turing, our founder was an immigrant from Austria, menace to the city of New York, continually dodged allegations like those you face despite being married and having a daughter, and is now the richest man in the United States. I think I can safely say, we at Tesla Dynamic don't care what you are, as long as you produce results". Turing now ostracized in Britain emigrates the the United States.

<Now I got to get the rest of my 40s PODs in now that the dang war is over.>

January 1, 1946: There are now 5 Atomic Power Plants in the United States. The Angel Island Atomic Reactor in San Francisco, The Madison Atomic Plant in Madison, Wisconsin; The Staten Island Atomic Generator in New York; The Oak Ridge Atomic Reactor in Tennessee

January 5, 1947: Tesla Dynamic begins research on Semiconductors and Transistors. Alan Turing is working an "Calculation Engine". Electra Tesla is perfecting her jet engine designs.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Prometheus 2300- Sorry, I had to correct the mistake regarding General Vargas. Yes, the coup he led was in Brazil. In any event, I plan to make the time period painful for the remaining powers in the ATL...

[Mr_ Bondoc]

November 25th, 1940: Juanita "Mita" Garcia Peraza launches the "Spirit of God" movement in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, calling for American withdrawal from Puerto Rico....

January 13th, 1942: British-backed André Grenard Matsoua overthrows the government in Brazzaville, Congo, demanding the withdrawal of French forces....

December 6th, 1942: Emir Maulana Muhammad Ali proclaims the Second World War, "a war between Gog and Magog", and that Islamic Revolution is needed to secure peace in Mecca, Ottoman Empire...

February 4th, 1944: Emir Maulana Muhammad Ali proclaims the rise of Islamic Revolution in Mecca, Ottoman Empire, sparking civil unrest and violence

April 19th, 1944: Mahdi Mirza Ghulam Ahmad proclaims himself the "Promised Son" during a religious rally in Riyadh, Ottoman Empire...

February 11th, 1947: Battle of Lahore; Abul Ala Maududi, adherent of Ahmadiyya Islam, launches armed insurrection against British troops in Lahore...

August 14th, 1947: Mahdi Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes his spiritual headquarters in Mecca, demanding an end to the corrupt rule of the Ottoman Empire....

November 12th, 1947: Self-proclaimed messiah Jehovah Wanyonyi, calls for independence from British rule in Mount Elgon, Kenya....

March 23rd, 1949: Emir Maulana Muhammad Ali is arrested by Ottoman officials during a religious rally in Riyadh, Ottoman Empire, sparking massive riots and demonstration....

October 16th, 1949: Meher Baba proclaims "New Life" movement in Meherazad, India, in support of "Hindu nationalism"...

[QuoProQuid]

April 9, 1942: Cardinal August Hlond of Poland is elected pope. For the first time in many years, the papcy has left Italy. He chooses the name Benedict XVI.

The newly elected Pope sets forward two goals he has for the Catholic Church:

1.) To firmly establish the Vatican's position as a supporter of the sciences. He increases archeological excavations in the Necropolis.

2.) To increase focus on the nations in the East. He believes that these nations will be powerful figures in the future. A missionary group is to be established.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are some PODs to show that culture is going to be different:

March 29th, 1941: George P. Metesky earns the name "the Mad Bomber" after detonating a bomb at Grand Central Station in New York City, New York...

October 22nd-24th, 1941: Great Blackout of 1941; George P. Metesky (a.k.a. "the Mad Bomber) causes the electrical blackout of New York City, New York after bombing Consolidated Tesla in White PLains, New York...

November 7th, 1944: Radio City Hall Fire; George P. Metesky (a.k.a. "the Mad Bomber") sets fire to Radio City Hall , during a screening of A Christmas Carol in New York City, New York, killing 60 people in the process...

April 7th, 1945: Rudi Gernreich, Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull and Dale Jennings form the homosexual motorcycle gang "Mattachine Society" in Los Angeles, California...

JUne 13th, 1945: New Age leader Gerald Gardner promotes "Skyclad" (a.k.a. "nudism") in Hertfordshire, England, as a form of anti-establishment resistance...

December 24th, 1946: George P. Metesky (a.k.a. "the Mad Bomber") detonates a bomb in Times Sqaure in New York City, New York, injuring 17 people in the process...

July 4th-6th, 1947: Members of the "Mattachine Society" and the "Hell's Angels" motorcycle gangs clash in Hollister, California...

March 20th, 1948: Police Chief Craig Ellis launches a series of raids against "obscene literature" (e.g. pornography, comic-books) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

September 21st, 1949: "Daughters of Bilitis" lesbian motorcycle gang is formed in San Francisco, California...

November 1st, 1949: Anti-homosexual lynching occurs in Boise, Idaho, sparking national attention and concern...

[jmberry]

March 20th, 1948: Police Chief Craig Ellis launches a series of raids against "obscene literature" (e.g. pornography, comic-books) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...


April 11th, 1948: The Pennsylvania State Supreme court rules that Officer Ellis's raids are unconstitutional, and that literature is not inherently obscene.

[QuoProQuid]

QuidProQuo & Prometheus2300- BWAHAHAHA!! As you can tell, that was my entire point of the many nationalist and secessionist movements starting in 1942. Believe me when I say things are going to get tougher for India and Great Britain:

"The Revolution will not be civilized, but it will be televised."

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are a few more PODs top make sure that things are made even more interesting:

April 10th, 1941: Croatian Revolution; Ante Pavelić calls for Croatian independence from Austria-Hungary in Zagreb....

May 5th, 1941: Prince Michael Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro calls for Montenegran independence from Austria-Hungary in Cetinje....

May 15th, 1943: Ottoman troops occupy Smyrna, Greece in an effort to "recapture lost territories", taking advantage of British and French enmity...

August 10th, 1944: Ottoman forces announce the capture of Thrace, Smyrna, Imbros, Tenedos and Chatalja, seizing control of the Straits of Bosporous....

October 20th, 1944: George II calls for an offensive against Ottoman forces, during a speech in Athens, Greece....

November 1st, 1944: Battle of Smyrna; Greek forces under General Anastasios Papoulas seize Smyrna from Ottoman forces....

June 27th-July 20th, 1945: Battle of Afyonkarahisar-Kutahya-Eskisehir; Greek forces land at Afyonkarahisar-Kutahya-Eskisehir, calling for the collapse of the Ottoman Empire...

September 14th, 1946: Battle of Ankara; Greek forces under General Anastasios Papoulas capture Ankara, sparking civil unrest throughout the Ottoman Empire...

November 26th, 1949: Sayyid Muhammad Idris bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Senussi proclaims an Islamic Revolution in Benghazi, Libya, sparking international attention...

[Prometheus_2300]

Well looks like Imperialism is finally being shown the door.

I think America will try and consolidate. Make commonwealths out of territories and protectorates, and eventually change those into states. In fact. In effect Dollar Diplomacy with a bit of Assimilation

April 5, 1941: A Hurricane hits the coast of Nicaragua. As a test of American emergency preparedness. President Roosevelt orders the military to take command of the crisis management. In the following months, the United States Army Corps of Engineers clear roads, and repair bridges, along with hospitals and other public services. The army drill was very successful, and much of the damage was fixed in a few months. This engenders a lot of positive support for the United States in Southern Central America, especially considering Militaristic Mexico, and Socialist Venezuela.

December 7, 1941: Hawaii is admitted as the 49th State of the Union

October 4, 1944: Alaska is admitted into the Union as the 50th State.

November 5, 1945: The Bautista regime is once more stabilized, however the US pressures for reforms and an end to the more blatant forms of Corruption. The Organized Mobs of the US, still find Havana a haven, but their activities are "overlooked" by Bautista in exchange for their help keeping the peace. However Cuba, although invited to be a Commonwealth of the United States, rejects the offer. On another note, Guantanamo has been doubled and is now the main military base for all US operations in the Caribbean

November 5, 1945: In Nicaragua, things have been mostly quiet. The Commonwealth is now mostly run by native Nicaraguans. Leonardo Argüello Barreto, the governor selected by the US Senate, visits Washington to ask for statehood.

December 30, 1944: On the other hand in Haiti, things have gone worse. François Duvalier, now leader of the ones opposed to American rule, topples the Commonwealth government, led by Louis Déjoie. What follows was nothing short of a massacre of Dejoie's Haitian supporters. The US Marines, who were left in a weakened state, after their forces were halved to deal with Puerto Rico, were forced to withdraw to Guantanamo.

March 11, 1944: In Puerto Rico, the number of marines on the island have doubled in anticipation of the US Commonwealth Elections. Juanita "Mita" Garcia Peraza has gained a large following for the plebiscite, calling for a rejection of the Governor General. On election day violence breaks out in Arecibo.

<The whole Caribbean can't go straight down the tubes for America. They have given up on Haiti, Nicaragua likes them. I am going to regret posting this question though... What's happening in the Canal? It's so close to Venezuela>

February 21, 1941: Emperor Franz Ferdinand collapses in court. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is starting to fray

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Just to make sure things stay turbulent:

June 21st, 1941: American Peace Mobilization (APM) led by Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Reverend Henry F. Ward, protests against any form of military aid for the war in Europe

July 4th, 1941: A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, lead c. 125,000 African-Americans in a march on Washington D.C., demanding equal rights...

December 8th, 1941: 7-year old Prince Akihito is transported to a secret location in Kyoto, Japan in an effort to prevent another assassination attempt; Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki decalres martial law in Tokyo, Japan...

December 10th, 1941: Gyokuon-hōsō; Emperor Akihito proclaims that the "Age of the Yamato People is Here!!" during a radio broadcast in Tokyo, Japan, in an effort to boost the morale of the people...

December 28th, 1941: Arthur Stanley Eddington establishes the National Peace Council (NPC) in London, England, calling the Second Great War an "unnecessary war"...

May 10th, 1943: James Gareth Endicott establishes the Canadian Peace Congress in Toronto, Ontario, calling for withdrawal from the colonial conflicts of Great Britain....

March 29th, 1944: Massacre by Bombing by Vera Brittain, featuring graphic photographs from India and the Ottoman Empire, condemning hte government policy of colonial wars, is immediately banned by local authorities...

[Prometheus_2300]

Just to make sure things stay turbulent:

June 21st, 1941: American Peace Mobilization (APM) led by Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Reverend Henry F. Ward, protests against any form of military aid for the war in Europe

July 4th, 1941: A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, lead c. 125,000 African-Americans in a march on Washington D.C., demanding equal rights...

December 8th, 1941: 7-year old Prince Akihito is transported to a secret location in Kyoto, Japan in an effort to prevent another assassination attempt; Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki decalres martial law in Tokyo, Japan...

December 10th, 1941: Gyokuon-hōsō; Emperor Akihito proclaims that the "Age of the Yamato People is Here!!" during a radio broadcast in Tokyo, Japan, in an effort to boost the morale of the people...

December 28th, 1941: Arthur Stanley Eddington establishes the National Peace Council (NPC) in London, England, calling the Second Great War an "unnecessary war"...

May 10th, 1943: James Gareth Endicott establishes the Canadian Peace Congress in Toronto, Ontario, calling for withdrawal from the colonial conflicts of Great Britain....

March 29th, 1944: Massacre by Bombing by Vera Brittain, featuring graphic photographs from India and the Ottoman Empire, condemning hte government policy of colonial wars, is immediately banned by local authorities...

Ah someone spotted it. Yep Akihito and Hitachi are now all that's left of the Imperial Line since Hirohito's brothers are dead. Now we have a near civil war between Parliament and the Three Zaibatsus that killed Hirohito.

December 8, 1941: As a consequence of Hirohito being shot in the head, the idea of the Emperor being a god has been shattered. The Emperor was merely a man, nothing more. Meanwhile, The Navy is fighting for its life, and able to severely hamper any invasion force, from Korea. Forcing a sort of statemate upon the Third Russo-Japanese War.

Prince Hitachi and Empress Kojun, who are staying at the Mitsui Castle, following assassination fears. They were sent by Emperor Hirohito in an attempt to curry favor with the powerful bank for possible war loans. But both the Empress and Hitachi are under the thumb of the Zaibatsus

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Ah someone spotted it. Yep Akihito and Hitachi are now all that's left of the Imperial Line since Hirohito's brothers are dead. Now we have a near civil war between Parliament and the Three Zaibatsus that killed Hirohito.

December 8, 1941: As a consequence of Hirohito being shot in the head, the idea of the Emperor being a god has been shattered. The Emperor was merely a man, nothing more. Meanwhile, The Navy is fighting for its life, and able to severely hamper any invasion force, from Korea. Forcing a sort of statemate upon the Third Russo-Japanese War.

Prince Hitachi and Empress Kojun, who are staying at the Mitsui Castle, following assassination fears. They were sent by Emperor Hirohito in an attempt to curry favor with the powerful bank for possible war loans. But both the Empress and Hitachi are under the thumb of the Zaibatsus

So, will there be a Emperor Akihito? Prince Hitachi? Empress Kojun? If anything, I would assume that the son (e.g. Akihito) would be the first in line in succession due to the monarchy.

[jmberry]

Ah someone spotted it. Yep Akihito and Hitachi are now all that's left of the Imperial Line since Hirohito's brothers are dead. Now we have a near civil war between Parliament and the Three Zaibatsus that killed Hirohito.

December 8, 1941: As a consequence of Hirohito being shot in the head, the idea of the Emperor being a god has been shattered. The Emperor was merely a man, nothing more. Meanwhile, The Navy is fighting for its life, and able to severely hamper any invasion force, from Korea. Forcing a sort of statemate upon the Third Russo-Japanese War.

Prince Hitachi and Empress Kojun, who are staying at the Mitsui Castle, following assassination fears. They were sent by Emperor Hirohito in an attempt to curry favor with the powerful bank for possible war loans. But both the Empress and Hitachi are under the thumb of the Zaibatsus
I'm pretty confident Japanese emperors had been killed before. Certainly, there was no belief that being a god made the emperor indestructible. Also, before the 1948 constitution, Japanese succesion laws didn't follow Western conventions. A child of seven would have been viewed as fully capable of being emperor (since he wasn't the guy who would actually run the country, after all), and the emperor could adopt his heir (provided he came from an agnate branch of the family).

Also, don't open up entries with words like "Meanwhile" or "Also", since there could be 20 dozen events between that entry and the one it's referencing when all is said and done.

[Prometheus_2300]

So, will there be a Emperor Akihito? Prince Hitachi? Empress Kojun? If anything, I would assume that the son (e.g. Akihito) would be the first in line in succession due to the monarchy.

Japanese Succession laws ensure that Kojun, Hirohito's wife cannot assume the throne. Since Hirohitos brothers were killed earlier in the timeline, this means that only Akihito OR Hitachi can be Emperor. You are correct though Akihito is the Crown Prince, Hitachi is only second in line.

EDIT: OK looking at the wrong succession laws. After Hitachi were Hirohito's daughters: (by age) Shigeko (21), Kazuko (12), Atsuko (10), Takako (2). Oh and the male kids: Akihito (8), Hitachi (6). So its a bit more complex

Oh and yes jmberry other Japanese Emperors have been assassinated, but none after the Meiji Restoration, and definitely none in recent memory. Although curiously only one other Japanese Emperor was assassinated outright, Sushun in 592 AD. The rest died in battle or of natural causes or disease or abdicated to their heirs, as far as I can tell. If anyone knows otherwise please let me know.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Well, we now have a 7-year old, going to be 8-year old boy becoming the Emperor of Japan. This alone spells political unrest throughout the country. He may be loved by the Japanese people, but I can certainly doubt that he will be seen as a competent head of state , even by other monarchies until c.1948....

[Prometheus_2300]

Well, we now have a 7-year old, going to be 8-year old boy becoming the Emperor of Japan. This alone spells political unrest throughout the country. He may be loved by the Japanese people, but I can certainly doubt that he will be seen as a competent head of state , even by other monarchies until c.1948....

Of course that why I killed Hirohito. Japan is headed for some changes I imagine. AND... there is still the Third Russo-Japanese War. So a strong military, the monarchy minimalized, along with a strong parl and zaibatsus.

Oh its going to be a turbulent decade for Japan

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is the second spin on the 1940s:


January 1-10, 1940: The Blerot XVs drop pamphlets all over London, calling for an end to this war spreading a message that France didn't want the war, and that the British government is to blame for causing the war, and France was only defending itself. It is of course a bald-faced lie, and both governments know that BUT the British have only been getting news of fleet losses, and supply shortages. Not an invasion or a blitz on London. The pamphlet droppings continue until the General Election of 1940.

January 13th 1940: Japan invades Korea, Emperor Hirohito declares all of Korea "Japanese Territory"

January 20, 1940: Blerot XV-2s proceed to bomb the German Army in Strasbourg. Meanwhile the French army fortifies defenses in the Alsace-Lorraine. <French Strategy is to force the Germans to retreat>

January 25, 1940: With the threat of Gibraltar removed The army of Algeria is able to be resupplied, moves to occupy British Morocco.

February 2, 1940: One of the two Russian Airships with a French Chemical Weapons Platforms is shot down by the Japanese Dragon Wing (Japan's Airship Fleet), severely hampering the use of Chemical weapons by the Throne Axis. The forces of Eurasia continue their battles in Korea

March 9, 1940: The French army performs a pincer manuever on the German Army in Strasbourg. With Blerot XV-2s from Paris bombing the German army in Strasbourg with both conventional bombs and F-Series (OTL G-Series) Sarin nerve gas on German troops in Strasbourg, and the French Army in their own kettes are able to use the confusion to completely rout out German forces. French Forces are now in complete control of the Alsace-Lorraine and Belgium.

March 16th 1940: Scandinavian troops take Tampere in the decisive battle of the Finnish campaign. Approximately 2000 Finnish POWs executed by Scand troops in the following days. Kalsta's Finnish Volunteer Corps (FF) exhibit special brutality.

March 22nd, 1940: The Korean government fall to the Japanese government. Hirohito puts General Tojo in charge of the area.

March 24th, 1940: Muhammad Ali Jinnah launches an armed insurrection, demanding an Islamic fundamentalist state of Pakistan in Lahore, India....

April 5, 1940: Russian Forces seize Vladivostock, with Japanese Forces fleeing into Korea.

April 14, 1940: Between a long blockade and pamphlet drops over Britain, the Labour majority is most certainly threatened in the 1940 general election. Although PM Attlee knows wishes to cancel the election, he knows that if he were to do so there would be a chance of open revolt. News of the complete destruction of the BEF in Belgium and the rout of German Forces in the Alsace-Lorraine, have caused many to seek out for peace.

April 20, 1940: French forces occupy the Alsace Lorraine, securing position before advancing into Germany itself. They are scheduled to advance into Germany in late August

May 2, 1940: Japanese Forces entrench themselves into Okhstok

May 3, 1940: Russian Forces pursue Japanese Forces to Korea. They coordinate with Chinese Forces in Manchuria, and combined they begin to advance down the Korean Peninsula

June 12, 1940: The Labour Party takes large losses as a result of the war going very badly for Britain. Although civilians haven't been directly attacked, they have had to undergo rationing due to the blockade, combined with French leaflet drops, the British want the war over "Withdraw from the Continent" seems to be a popular slogan, and the Conservatives use it to make gains in the House of Commons, Edward F. L. Wood (aka Lord Halifax) is named PM, and takes residence of 10 Downing Street.

June 13th, 1940: Nationalist leaders Juan Feleo and Abad Santos, call for independence from American occupation in Manila, Philippines...

July 20, 1940: With the safety of the Mediterranean virtually gauranteed for France. French cargo planes begin a long flight to Russian forces in Vladivostock. In exchange for Russian partition concessions in the Western War, the French give F-Series Chemical Weapons to the Russian and France army. The 23rd Chemical Corp is given two Russian Airships as a means of deploying their weapons upon the Japanese Army. Although the Japanese Army fights in the name of the Emperor, they fail to hold the continent. Emperor Hirohito reluctantly withdraws from Korea. Also on this day, the Russian Forces "liberate" the puppet kingdoms of Lithuania and Estonia.

July 28nd 1940: Helsinki falls to the Scandinavian armies. General Aaltonen dies while personally leading a last-ditch counterattack. Remnants of the Finnish military and political leadership flee by various ships and airplanes towards Baltic cities under German control.

July 31, 1940: Meanwhile there are grumblings amongst Japan's merchants, although they would never say it aloud, they start to believe that the Emperor is a madman, and must be handled... "delicately" or all of Japan may fall. The leaders of three Japanese Zaibatsus (Mitsui Group, Sumitomo Group, and the Yasuda Group) begin to plan the impossible. They plan to somehow kill the Emperor, but how does one kill a living god?

August 1, 1940: A British Zeppelin, and a French Dreadnought dock in the Channel Islands to sign an armistice. The Leveque-Halifax Treaty, hands back Gibraltar to Spain, British Morocco to the British, and the withdrawl of the British Empire from the German Alliance the cancellation of any reparations to Great Britain as a Result of the first Great War, and also surrender of British spheres of Influence in China except Hong Kong, in exchange for Madagascar and Mozambique. Christophe I laughs upon hearing that the treaty was signed, "Those silly Englishmen abandoned us to Germany in the First War, and now they have abandoned Germany in the Second!" The Blockade will end on October 5. PM Wood says after the treaty " I believe it is peace in our time" The British Empire goes about trying to rebuild their navy and securing their vast empire, which has faltered during the war. First on the agenda, India and South Africa.

August 5, 1940: The Blockade Zone around Great Britain is ended, it is now solely targeting German ships.

August 6, 1940: Christophe I tells Magnusson of the news of the armistice with Great Britain, and organize a meeting in Oslo in December 1940.

August 10, 1940: The French African Legion begins deployment to the Ivory Coast to reacquire it for France

August 15th 1940: Concentration camps for Finnish POWs and Socialist officials built in Kuopio, Tampere and Helsinki.

September 4th, 1940: Student activists Gerald Ford, Sargent Shriver and Potter Stewart launch antiwar rallies in Chicago, Illinois, demanding no military intervention against Mexico...

September 17th, 1940: Anarchist George P. Metesky bombs Union Station in New York City, New York, killing 8 people....

September 19th, 1940: Jay Fox establishes the American Anarchist Congress (AAC) in Home Colony, Washington....

October 1st 1940: Most of Finland officially annexed by Sweden.* Kurt Wallenius, a Finnish Blue Brigadist appointed Governor General of the new Eastern Provinces. Most Scand troops start to depart, leaving the mop-up and counter-insurgency tasks to the FF.

October 2, 1940: The French Army leaving the occupation of Belgium to the Inquisition, moves South to the German border, near Aachen. On this morning German Blerot XVs begin bombing German positions with conventional bombs. Which clear the way for the superior French kettes to move in, and occupy the city. After Aachen is secured, this army is planning to move onto Dusseldorf. In a coordinated move the French Army of the Alsace splits into two smaller armies. The Third Army of Holy France advances on Stuttgart, after which is Munich. The Second Army of Holy France advances to Mannheim, and eventually towards Frankfurt. However they begin to encounter stiff resistance. The conventional army is being sliced to pieces thanks to Chemical Weapons and the Air Legions being decimated by French Gyrodynes. However the German Resistance with the cry of "Ich bin ein Deutscher" cause sabotage and delays that delays the French War Machine for months. Instead of Winter in Munich, the French will be lucky to have Winter in Stuttgart. So to summarize:

1st French Army: in Aachen moving towards Dusseldorf.
2nd French Army: in Strasbourg moving to Mannheim. ETA Late November 1940.
3rd French Army: in Strasbourg moving Stuttgart and then Munich ETA Late November 1940.

Overall the French Strategy is to force the capitulation of Germany, much like with Britain, but there is more bad blood between Germany and France, then there was between France and Britain.

November 5, 1940: Surprising absolutely no one, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected to another term. His opponent Wendell Wilkie suffered from a fractured base, and a highly successful and popular incumbent President.

November 15, 1940: The First French Army after stiff resistance finally reach Dusseldorf. The Commanding General following the German implementation of gas masks as standard issue, along with the treatment countermeasures. The French General commanding orders the planes under his command to drop Sarin gas on the civilian population of Dusseldorf, in attempt to permanently end any resistance. Many countries are horrified with this act, however it is effective. The French first Army reaches Dusseldorf. The Second French Army is encountering the stiffest resistance of all. In the Battle of Manheim, the German Army successfully defends the city, and the city is laid to siege. The German Army plans to move in a counterattack through a weakened second army to penetrate back into France. The Third French Army is hampered with supply problems but not only does the army reach Stuttgart, they make winter quarters in Augsburg.

November 16th, 1940: Anarchist George P. Metesky bombs Grand Central Station in New York City, New York, killing 3 people. Also on this day, The Russian Forces are still locked in a stalemate with Rommel in the Ukraine. However the Northern Russian Army advances to Warsaw to topple the German puppet government.

November 22, 1940: The French African Army is able to contact and convince the rebels of the Ivory Coast (oddly enough the natives the Germans dealt with were the rebels under the French). The French African Army arms the rebels with weapons, and undertake the task of overthrowing the German colony of Elfenbeinküste. A bloody Civil War ensues in the Ivory Coast.

November 25th, 1940: Juanita "Mita" Garcia Peraza launches the "Spirit of God" movement in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, calling for American withdrawal from Puerto Rico....

December 1st, 1940: General Manuel Ávila Camacho leads an American-backed coup attempt against the government in Mexico City, Mexico...

December 6th 1940: A Finnish government-in-exile set up in Berlin, headed by Arvo Tuominen, the former Delegate of Industry.

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January 23, 1941: Due to the lack of communication from Berlin, and fading supplies, the German forces in the Ivory Coast withdraw across Ghana into the Togoland Colony, to reinforce it for attack. The French general eager to stop the Germans retreat tries to beat them to Togoland, and makes the rash decision of having the natives govern themselves "until we return". This would mark the beginning of the first independent country in Africa since the fall of Ethiopia in the 1930s.

February 2, 1941: The German Africa Corps are able to stage a sneak attack upon the French forces pursuing them. Erik von Manstein, the General in charge of the German Forces in Togoland, is awarded the The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords for his strategic genius in facing a superior enemy. The remnants of the French army limp back to Algeria for resupply. It would be a year before the French African army would be at full strength againThe army's general is personally killed by Christophe I, calling him a "demon of France" the highest level of reprimand that he can bestow. The Inquisition, adds him and his family line to the "Corrective Eugenics list". Future French President Alain Vivien, now 3 flees with his mother to England.

February 21, 1941: Emperor Franz Ferdinand collapses in court. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is starting to fray

March 15, 1941: French advance into Germany has been halted. The Second Army, is holed up in Manheim, under complete siege by the well positioned, and well supplied German army. Aided by the German Resistance in Manheim, the Second Army is holding up but its difficult. The First French Army is told to redirect to aid the Mannheim Forces, and begin rushing down, obliterating any and all opposition in their path. The City of Bonn, is bombarded repeatedly, allowing the First Army to rush through the city on the way to Mannheim. The Third French Army, now is the only offensive army in the field, and is airlifted supplies from France. The Third Army rolls through Munich, then turning North towards Nurnberg.

March 29th, 1941: George P. Metesky earns the name "the Mad Bomber" after detonating a bomb at Grand Central Station in New York City, New York...

March 30, 1941: Manuel Ávila Camacho overthrows the government of Mexico installing himself as President of the Mexican Republic. He is quick to dispel rumors that his seizing of power was an American plot, explaining that many of his supplies were simply leftovers from fleeing American troops during the Baja War. Of course a few generals are skeptical, but after a difficult war in the Yucatan, they are ready for peace, and the populace looks forward to Camacho's much promised "Fresh Start" for Mexico.

April 1, 1941: Russian Forces secure Warsaw, and consolidate the gains before advancing onto Germany proper.

April 5, 1941: After many years of Construction the Mittelafrika railway is complete. Its first train load is to move troops quickly across the continent to aid with the defense of Mittelafrika, quelling some fears of a French invasion. Also on this day, a Hurricane hits the coast of Nicaragua. As a test of American emergency preparedness. President Roosevelt orders the military to take command of the crisis management. In the following months, the United States Army Corps of Engineers clear roads, and repair bridges, along with hospitals and other public services. The army drill was very successful, and much of the damage was fixed in a few months. This engenders a lot of positive support for the United States in Southern Central America, especially considering Militaristic Mexico, and Socialist Venezuela.

April 10th, 1941: Croatian Revolution; Ante Pavelić calls for Croatian independence from Austria-Hungary in Zagreb....

April 17th, 1941: Petar II Karađorđević overthrows the government in Sarajevo, demanding a sovereign Serbian state.....

May 5, 1941: The Marines are deployed from Guantanamo to aid the crumbling Bautista regime. The March to Havana begins. A young Fidel Castro flees on a boat to Venezuela.

Also on this day, in Bucharest the Russian ambassador, asks for a meeting with Emperor Franz Ferdinand. Although this meeting is not disclosed until 5 years later. The agreement reached would cause no end of headaches in the 50s and 60s. Also on this day, Prince Michael Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro calls for Montenegran independence from Austria-Hungary in Cetinje....

May 13th, 1941: After a conference in Tokyo, It is decided that Russians and communists have no rights. 60,000 Korean communists and 25,000 Russians living in Korea are sent to labour camps.

June 1st, 1941: The first concentration camps appear in Korea. Also on this day, Haitian rebellions have ceased due to the installation of local leaders and autonomous form of self-rule in the "United States Commonwealth of Haiti" . Also on this day, Martial law declared in Pampanga, Mueva Ecija, Bulacan, Yarlac, Pangisinan, Bataan, and Cavite, due to nationalist uprisings...

June 2, 1941: After carrying out one of the best defenses in military history, Rommel is forced to withdraw from the field due to constant raiders attacking his supply lines to Germany. Rommel's Kette division withdraws back to Germany proper. However Rommel's escape was thwarted by Austro-Hungary. They denied the Kette troops travel through their borders. After 3 days of negotiation, the Russian army encircled Rommel's Army. Rommel is given an offer, personal asylum into Austro-Hungary, or get the same treatment as his men. Rommel could not do that. The entire German army knew what was going to happen. Rommel orders his troops to attack the superior Russian Army.

June 5, 1941: After two days of vicious fighting Rommel and about 1500 men limp away Victorious, having routed the Russian army. They proceed to Kiev to fortify, and wait for reinforcement. Reinforcement that would never come

June 10th- July 15th, 1941: American-backed Governor Sotero Bauyut calls for greater military crackdown in Central Luzon, Philippines....

June 18th, 1941: Mercury Theatre on the Air! airs it's final radio broadcast; A rendition of a made-for-radio script written by Welles, entitled Citizen Kane. It is only for the date of the broadcast that it is listened to by the majority of Americans, and became one of the most popular radio productions ever aired.

June 21st, 1941: American Peace Mobilization (APM) led by Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Reverend Henry F. Ward, protests against any form of military aid for the war in Europe

June 22, 1941; Maurice Duplessis resigns as Premier of Quebec, to be succeeded by Paul Sauve.

June 29th, 1941: Orson Welles enters a contract to have Michael Curtiz produce a film version of Citizen Kane.

July 4th, 1941: A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, lead c. 125,000 African-Americans in a march on Washington D.C., demanding equal rights...

September 11, 1941: East Prussia falls to the Russian army. Also Munich is seized.

October 4, 1941: The leaders of the Three Zaibatsus, smuggle in a Russian sniper. The Russians contacted them in the hope of killing Hirohito and causing chaos. The sniper, by the name (Will insert later) begins planning with the conspiracy.

October 6, 1941: Maurice Duplessis becomes MP for Trois-Rivieres following a by-election.

October 22nd-24th, 1941: Great Blackout of 1941; George P. Metesky (a.k.a. "the Mad Bomber) causes the electrical blackout of New York City, New York after bombing Consolidated Tesla in White PLains, New York...

November 12, 1941: Two French armies are locked in battle outside Mannheim. The third is slowly but surely advancing to Berlin. The Russians have seized as far as Dresden. The German Empire dispatches diplomats to the Throne Axis. For a peace conference. Germany is spent, exhausted. Both sides know that it is possible to keep fighting but the gains will be too little for the amount of bloodshed. The Amsterdam Treaty is called "the best chance for peace". In exchange for Germany's continued existence, Germany must surrender MittelAfrika, Alsace-Lorraine, South Indochina. A demilitarized Zone will exist within 50 miles of the French border. Southern Germany will be divided into the new nation, "The Kingdom of Bavaria", with a German collaborator of French forces as King. Perhaps one day re-unification will happen. Issues left unresolved by the Conference are the Eastern European states, which Russia is trying to make puppet states out of. Also the Ukraine, which the Parliamentary Democracy has asked Rommel to lead the army of the Ukraine. Rommel accepts as his family was killed by French gas attack, and his home in the puppet state of Bavaria. Poland now expanded, is left abandoned by Russian Forces as per a secret agreement with Austro-Hungary. As a result, the Federated Republic of Poland is created.

December 1, 1941: The fighting is absolutely brutal in Korea. The combined Russian and Chinese Forces, battle entrenched thoroughly fortified Japanese defenses. Even with the French Chemical Weapons are not very effective. But on this date, the Last Japanese soldier falls in Pusan in Southern Korea.

December 7, 1941: Emperor Hirohito giving a public radio address before an audience of thousands, and millions over the radio, begins to give a speech about how Japan will continue to... His thought is not concluded, as a bullet enters his brain, killing him instantly. Without a clear line of succession the Japanese Empire is thrown into utter chaos. Also on this day, Hawaii is admitted as the 49th State of the Union

December 8th, 1941: As a consequence of Hirohito being shot in the head, the idea of the Emperor being a god has been shattered. The Emperor was merely a man, nothing more. Meanwhile, The Navy is fighting for its life, and able to severely hamper any invasion force, from Korea. Forcing a sort of statemate upon the Third Russo-Japanese War. 7-year old Prince Akihito is transported to a secret location in Kyoto, Japan in an effort to prevent another assassination attempt; Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki decalres martial law in Tokyo, Japan...

December 10th, 1941: Gyokuon-hōsō; Emperor Akihito proclaims that the "Age of the Yamato People is Here!!" during a radio broadcast in Tokyo, Japan, in an effort to boost the morale of the people...

December 24, 1941: Christophe I, is now actually starting to believe Tridault's homilies, that he as the Last Merovingan must rule the world for the 1000 year empire. He calls in all his generals fresh from victory in Germany to draw up plans for the Conquest of the Spanish Empire.

December 28th, 1941: Arthur Stanley Eddington establishes the National Peace Council (NPC) in London, England, calling the Second Great War an "unnecessary war"...

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January 19th, 1942: Jiddu Krishnamurti announces political manifesto of "Hindu nationalism", linking Indian nationalism with Hindu religion, from Azad Hind Radio in New Delhi, India...

February 2, 1942: Prime Minister Leveque is executed for heresy against France, by decree of his holiness Christophe I. The Pope, officially condemns Christophe Blanchard, and threaten an interdict. Leveque who had been a tempering influence on Christophe I is now lost

February 28th, 1942: Jiddu Krishnamurti proclaims "Hour of Destiny" during a rally in New Delhi, India, sparking international attention...

March 1, 1942: The number of political dissidents in French prisons doubles.

March 12, 1942: Pope Sylvester IV has died. A Papal Conclave is to be called.

March 15, 1942: The Third French army is given orders to mobilize for deployment to Spain for 1943.

March 30th, 1942: Tamil leader E. V. Ramasami, leads a rebellion in Kanchipuram, India demanding independence for Dravida Nadu (a.k.a. Dravidistan)...

April 9th, 1942: Indian Revolution; Jiddu Krishnamurti and General Mohan Singh overthrow the goverment in New Delhi, India, demanding Indian independence...

April 9, 1942: Cardinal August Hlond of Poland is elected pope. For the first time in many years, the papcy has left Italy. He chooses the name Benedict XVI. The newly elected Pope sets forward two goals he has for the Catholic Church:

1.) To firmly establish the Vatican's position as a supporter of the sciences. He increases archeological excavations in the Necropolis.

2.) To increase focus on the nations in the East. He believes that these nations will be powerful figures in the future. A missionary group is to be established.


April 15th, 1942: Bidadary Resolution; Jiddu Krishnamurti signs resolution demanding Indian independence in New Delhi, India....

May 2nd, 1942: Filipino Attorney-General José Abad Santos y Basco is assassinated by Nationalist guerillas in Manila, Philippines....

May 8th, 1942: Brigadier General Gratien Fernando leads nationalist rebellion in Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte, Sri Lanka. Also on this day, Nationalist guerillas assassinate Filipino Treasury Secretary Manuel Acuña Roxas in Manila, Philippines....

May 16, 1942: Nikola Tesla's daughter, Electra Tesla graduates Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, (with a Tesla Science Hall) with a double major in Aerospace engineering and Physics.

September 4th, 1942: General Subhas Chandra Bose announces a guerilla campaign to "bleed the British from our homeland" in Bombay, India....

November 5, 1942: Governor Dewey of New York, after leaving the Republican Party clenches the victory for the Jaguar Party, promising to stamp out corporate corruption and to take down the mobs. He also promises to work with the Democrats in Washington for all New Yorkers benefits.

November 16th, 1942: Fransesco Fantin launches a series of bombings, killing 6 people in Sydney, Australia in an effort to bring attention to the Australian Eugenics program....

December 6th, 1942: Emir Maulana Muhammad Ali proclaims the Second World War, "a war between Gog and Magog", and that Islamic Revolution is needed to secure peace in Mecca, Ottoman Empire...

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January 8th, 1943: Race riots erupt in Johannesburg, South Africa, over plans for a proposed Jewish state of Madagascar....

January 21st, 1943: Matial law is declared in Bloemfontein, due to armed insurrection by Afrikaner guerillas in Bloemfontein, South Africa...

January 29th, 1943: Afrikaner Broederbond Party members launch raids in Vereeniging, Delmas, and Potchefstroom, South Africa, destabilizing the government...

February 2nd, 1943: Stormjaers, militias loyal to the Afrikaner Broederbond, announce control of Pretoria, South Africa...

March 5, 1943: An Amendment to the Constitution is passed which null and voids the Prohibition amendment and the Right to Progeny Amendment

April 13, 1943: Christophe I blesses the Third French Army, before deployment.

April 15th, 1943: Ayn Rand establishes the "Objectivist" manifesto of the Jaguar Party in New York City, New York....

April 20, 1943: The French army launches a surprise attack upon Spain.

May 10th, 1943: James Gareth Endicott establishes the Canadian Peace Congress in Toronto, Ontario, calling for withdrawal from the colonial conflicts of Great Britain....

May 11th, 1943: Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces its recognition of the Provisional Government of India in Tokyo, Japan....

May 15th, 1943: Ottoman troops occupy Smyrna, Greece in an effort to "recapture lost territories", taking advantage of British and French enmity...

July 19th, 1943: Maquis established; Alphonse and Paule Tricheux establish the Maquis in Toulousse, France, calling for the overthrow of the government...

July 26th, 1943: Muslim rebel leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah is killed by British forces in Islamabad, Pakistan...

August 5, 1943: Senator Howard Lovecraft, after many political backdeals, gets the Comprehensive National Eugenics Bill to vote. The bill shows some sharp division amongst the Democratic party, as despite them controlling 74 seats of Congress, the Bill only passes with 53 votes, and that included all 3 other Nationalist Senators. The bill passes and is now sent to the house, which after more backdeals with Senator Pelley (R-PA) who was instrumental in getting the support of Pennsylvania's House Delegates.

August 20th, 1943: South African Foreign Minister Eric Louw announces diplomatic recognition of the Afrikaner government by Germany in Berlin...

September 1, 1943: Spanish forces flee from Cordoba to Spanish Morocco.

October 13th, 1943: Nationalist leader José Paciano Laurel y García launches a coup d'etat overthrowing the American-backed government in Manila, Philippines...

October 21st, 1943: Provisional Government of Free India wins recognition from German Foreign Ministry in Berlin, sparking international attention...

December 3, 1943: On a Friday afternoon the House votes on the Comprehensive National Eugenics Bill. Of the 435 House members, 239 vote for the Bill. The clerk tries to rush it over to the White House as soon as possible but have to leave it for the Clerk on Monday.

December 5, 1943: News of Christophe's Concentration Camps makes its way out of France. The French Inquistion's Corrective Eugenics Model is published in pamphlet form by America Today in an attempt to cause schisms among the Democrats. The Independent also looking at the same sources is unsure of what the response should be to the French Corrective Eugenics Model, and don't talk about it at all. That was the worst possible course of action, as it caused schisms to form amongst the Democratic Party as a whole.

December 7, 1943: Spain is annexed by France, drawing universal condemnation from all powers.


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January 30, 1944: Maurice Duplessis elected leader of the Conservative Party, and becomes Leader of the Opposition.

February 4th, 1944: Emir Maulana Muhammad Ali proclaims the rise of Islamic Revolution in Mecca, Ottoman Empire, sparking civil unrest and violence

March 11, 1944: In Puerto Rico, the number of marines on the island have doubled in anticipation of the US Commonwealth Elections. Juanita "Mita" Garcia Peraza has gained a large following for the plebiscite, calling for a rejection of the Governor General. On election day violence breaks out in Arecibo.

March 29th, 1944: Massacre by Bombing by Vera Brittain, featuring graphic photographs from India and the Ottoman Empire, condemning hte government policy of colonial wars, is immediately banned by local authorities...

April 19th, 1944: Mahdi Mirza Ghulam Ahmad proclaims himself the "Promised Son" during a religious rally in Riyadh, Ottoman Empire...

July 13th, 1944: Daniel Francois Malan launches a series of "people's trials" in Johannesburg, South Africa, in an effort to "root out race traitors"....

August 1st, 1944: American-backed President Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina dies of a heart attack; Vice-President Sergio Osmeña y Suico is appointed President of the Philippines in Manila....

August 10th, 1944: Ottoman forces announce the capture of Thrace, Smyrna, Imbros, Tenedos and Chatalja, seizing control of the Straits of Bosporous....

August 21st, 1944: Maquis Uprising; anti-government Maquis rebels against the government in Paris, France, leaing to a brutal crackdown....

August 23rd, 1944: General Ion Antonescu overthrows the government in Bucharest, Romania

September 17, 1944: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a sixth term with 177 of 245 seats.

September 22nd, 1944: Martial law is declared in Manila, Philippines, sparking international attention and concern....

October 4, 1944: Alaska is admitted into the Union as the 50th State.

October 20th, 1944: George II calls for an offensive against Ottoman forces, during a speech in Athens, Greece....

October 21st, 1944: W.E.B. Dubois, Jaja Wachuku, Ras Makonnen, and Jomo Kenyatta publish an underground manifesto in Manchester, England calling for a "Pan-African Federation" (PAF)...

November 1st, 1944: Battle of Smyrna; Greek forces under General Anastasios Papoulas seize Smyrna from Ottoman forces....

November 2, 1944: Alan Turing is arrested for "indecency" for being a homosexual. He accepted imprisonment as punishment

November 7, 1944:One of the most fractured political races in the twentieth century. After the Eugenics debacle, the Democratic base is split. The Repubican base is also split because of the Jaguar Party. The candidates are as follows:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) (Accepted his party's nomination to provide party unity)
Henry L. Stimson (J) (the 1940 candidate with 4 more years of base building around an Objectivist Base, pulling away many of the Big Business supports of the Republicans)
Thomas E. Dewey (R) (Taking the Liberal Republicans as his base, petitioned an idea for an "International Delegation" where all nations could meet and discuss their ideas equally) Howard Lovecraft (N) (Lovecraft, who was much more popular then Pelley, was chosen as the Nationalists first Presidental candidate. On Election day, Roosevelt won the popular vote with 41% of the vote. Dewey with 36%, Lovecraft with 9% and Stimson with 14%. In the Electoral College, no one came close to getting the 270 needed to win. As a result the election got thrown to the House of Representatives. After about a month of negotiations. The next President and Vice President of the United States are announced. Republicans and Democrats meet to compromise. Neither one like the other but don't want to ally with either the Jaguars or the Nationalists to get ahead. So they come up with a solution, freezing out Lovecraft and Stimson. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected to an unprecedented 3rd term, and Vice President Dewey is the first VP since the constitution was amended to be of a different party then his president. The Democrats still control Congress. Although in the Senate their control dropped to 52%. Senate make up (50 Democrats, 5 Nationalists, 39 Republicans, 2 Jaguars). Joseph Kennedy Jr. is elected Congressman from MA-10.

Also on this day, Radio City Hall Fire; George P. Metesky (a.k.a. "the Mad Bomber") sets fire to Radio City Hall , during a screening of A Christmas Carol in New York City, New York, killing 60 people in the process...

December 14th, 1944: Afrikaner Broederbond Party members led by Daniel Francois Malan seize control of the government in Johannesburg, South Africa demanding national independence...

December 30, 1944: On the other hand in Haiti, things have gone worse. François Duvalier, now leader of the ones opposed to American rule, topples the Commonwealth government, led by Louis Déjoie. What follows was nothing short of a massacre of Dejoie's Haitian supporters. The US Marines, who were left in a weakened state, after their forces were halved to deal with Puerto Rico, were forced to withdraw to Guantanamo.


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January 2, 1945: A Tesla Dynamic recruiter meets Turing as he leaves Black's Gate Prison, offering him a job at Tesla Dynamic in the field of Computer Science. When asked about his prison record, the recruiter responds, "Mr. Turing, our founder was an immigrant from Austria, menace to the city of New York, continually dodged allegations like those you face despite being married and having a daughter, and is now the richest man in the United States. I think I can safely say, we at Tesla Dynamic don't care what you are, as long as you produce results". Turing now ostracized in Britain emigrates the the United States.

January 4th, 1945: Maria Occhipinti of Raguse, Sicily calls for political reforms from the Italian government in Rome....

March 5, 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt orders an expansion to the West Wing and a total renovation of the White House, following the Commissions findings.

March 18th 1945: Owing to South Africa's "Declaration of Independence" under the Afrikaner Broederbond Party and the rumoured persecution of both Blacks, Cape Coloureds and British South Africans, Britain, along with Empire and Loyal South African Forces, invade South Africa, striking from both the sea by way of landing near Cape Town and Durban and north from Rhodesia. Although the Rebel South Africans put up a stiff resistance, there small numbers and the confusion throughout the country mean that the Rebel Government Collapses within 2 weeks. However, the Afrikaners turn to Guerilla war fare and begin to carry out a large scale terrorist campaign against Loyalist and British Forces.

April 7th, 1945: Rudi Gernreich, Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull and Dale Jennings form the homosexual motorcycle gang "Mattachine Society" in Los Angeles, California...

April 27th, 1945: Anarchist riots erupt in London, England, sparking calls for matial law by government officials...

June 13th, 1945: New Age leader Gerald Gardner promotes "Skyclad" (a.k.a. "nudism") in Hertfordshire, England, as a form of anti-establishment resistance...

June 27th-July 20th, 1945: Battle of Afyonkarahisar-Kutahya-Eskisehir; Greek forces land at Afyonkarahisar-Kutahya-Eskisehir, calling for the collapse of the Ottoman Empire...

October 29th, 1945: President Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is overthrown in a military coup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.....

November 5, 1945: The Bautista regime is once more stabilized, however the US pressures for reforms and an end to the more blatant forms of Corruption. The Organized Mobs of the US, still find Havana a haven, but their activities are "overlooked" by Bautista in exchange for their help keeping the peace. However Cuba, although invited to be a Commonwealth of the United States, rejects the offer. On another note, Guantanamo has been doubled and is now the main military base for all US operations in the Caribbean. In Nicaragua, things have been mostly quiet. The Commonwealth is now mostly run by native Nicaraguans. Leonardo Argüello Barreto, the governor selected by the US Senate, visits Washington to ask for statehood.

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January 1, 1946: There are now 5 Atomic Power Plants in the United States. The Angel Island Atomic Reactor in San Francisco, The Madison Atomic Plant in Madison, Wisconsin; The Staten Island Atomic Generator in New York; The Oak Ridge Atomic Reactor in Tennessee

February 18th, 1946: Talwar Mutiny; Indian sailors rebel against British naval forces in Mumbai, India, demanding the withdrawal of British forces natonwide...

April 23rd, 1946: Anwui Rebellion; Korean guerillas Li Jung-Kyu and Li Eul Kyu launch rebellion against Japanese forces in Anwui, Korea...

July 10th, 1946: Sikh leader Hukam Singh, proclaims independence for the state of Khalistan in Bathinda, India....

September 14th, 1946: Battle of Ankara; Greek forces under General Anastasios Papoulas capture Ankara, sparking civil unrest throughout the Ottoman Empire...

September 17th, 1946: Puchalapalli Sundaraiah leads Socialist rebellion in Nalgonda, Hyderabad, India calling for an independent state of Hyderabad...

October 1, 1946: Electra Tesla gets married to one of her college friends, George H.W. Bush.

December 19th, 1946: Local anarchists protest government policies, by re-enacting the Boston Tea Party in Boston, Massachusetts....

December 24th, 1946: George P. Metesky (a.k.a. "the Mad Bomber") detonates a bomb in Times Sqaure in New York City, New York, injuring 17 people in the process...

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January 5, 1947: Tesla Dynamic begins research on Semiconductors and Transistors. Alan Turing is working an "Calculation Engine". Electra Tesla is perfecting her jet engine designs.

February 11th, 1947: Battle of Lahore; Abul Ala Maududi, adherent of Ahmadiyya Islam, launches armed insurrection against British troops in Lahore...

March 7, 1947: After part of the floor collapses beneath a senator during a visit to the White House, President Roosevelt calls a committe to examine the building to search for any problems with the building. The committe discovers severe structural damage as a result of previous additions to the building, such as the steel roof added in 1927 and upgrades to the wiring. The committe warns the President that if action is not taken immediately, the building may collapse.

July 4th-6th, 1947: Members of the "Mattachine Society" and the "Hell's Angels" motorcycle gangs clash in Hollister, California...

July 8, 1947: Electra Tesla successfully tests her new project. The Tesla Dynamic T-J35 Engine. In this test she flew her TDX-1 and set the world speed record. Not only passing Mach 1, but reaching a speed of Mach 2.4, before she ran out of fuel and had to land.

August 14th, 1947: Angami Zapu Phizo, head of the Naga National Council (NNC) in Kohima, India, demanding independence for Nagaland. Also on this day, Mahdi Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes his spiritual headquarters in Mecca, demanding an end to the corrupt rule of the Ottoman Empire....

November 12th, 1947: Self-proclaimed messiah Jehovah Wanyonyi, calls for independence from British rule in Mount Elgon, Kenya....

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February 17th, 1948: Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin leads an Islamic fundamentalist revolution against Ottoman leaders Sanaa, Yemen, demanding independence....

March 20th, 1948: Police Chief Craig Ellis launches a series of raids against "obscene literature" (e.g. pornography, comic-books) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

April 11th, 1948: The Pennsylvania State Supreme court rules that Officer Ellis's raids are unconstitutional, and that literature is not inherently obscene.

June 9, 1948: Robert Kennedy graduates summa cum laude from Harvard Law School. He joins the law firm Mudge, Alexander & Associates in New York.

November 22, 1948: Mackenzie King retires after 27 years as Prime Minister, a record that still stands today. He is succeeded by Lester Pearson.

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March 23rd, 1949: Emir Maulana Muhammad Ali is arrested by Ottoman officials during a religious rally in Riyadh, Ottoman Empire, sparking massive riots and demonstration....

April 19, 1949: Maurice Duplessis' Tories defeat Pearson's Liberals with 169 of 262 seats. Duplessis is sworn in on Apr. 30.

September 12, 1949: Enrico Fermi gives an interview with Popular Electric where he is asked, "Could a bomb be made on the same principles as the Staten Island Atomic Plant?" He laughs, but after the interview he begins to think it over. When working on the Manhattan project for Tesla Dynamic, the goal was always a reactor to produce electicity, a bomb was never even considered. He thinks for a moment, and that not only was it possible but fairly easy, given all the work done on the Manhattan Project. However just before he is about to call up Mr. Bush about the news, he thinks about the implications of this "fission explosive". He sits there for a few moments before igniting a bunsen burner and burning his notes on a "fission explosive". Later in his memoirs he wrote, "I felt the world would not, and would never be ready for that power. It seems all I bought it were a few more years"

September 21st, 1949: "Daughters of Bilitis" lesbian motorcycle gang is formed in San Francisco, California...

October 16th, 1949: Meher Baba proclaims "New Life" movement in Meherazad, India, in support of "Hindu nationalism"...

November 1st, 1949: Anti-homosexual lynching occurs in Boise, Idaho, sparking national attention and concern...

November 26th, 1949: Sayyid Muhammad Idris bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Senussi proclaims an Islamic Revolution in Benghazi, Libya, sparking international attention...

[Prometheus_2300]

We need more in the late 40s. Before we should move onto the 50s

List of Presidents in 100 years

1912-1916: William Howard Taft (R)
1916-1920: William McAdoo (D)
1920-1924: John Pershing (R)
1924-1928: John Pershing (R)
1928-1932: Calvin Coolidge (R)
1932-1936: Calvin Coolidge (R) Died of heartattack in 1933, Hiram Bingham (R) becomes President
1936-1940: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)
1940-1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)
1944-1948: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) w/ VP Thomas Dewey (R)
1948-1952: ????

So... Will an FDR without Polio live to see the '48 election? Or are we looking at a President Dewey taking over in FDR's third term

[jmberry]

We need more in the late 40s. Before we should move onto the 50s

List of Presidents in 100 years

1912-1916: William Howard Taft (R)
1916-1920: William McAdoo (D)
1920-1924: John Pershing (R)
1924-1928: John Pershing (R)
1928-1932: Calvin Coolidge (R)
1932-1936: Calvin Coolidge (R) Died of heartattack in 1933, Hiram Bingham (R) becomes President
1936-1940: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)
1940-1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)
1944-1948: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) w/ VP Thomas Dewey (R)
1948-1952: ????

So... Will an FDR without Polio live to see the '48 election? Or are we looking at a President Dewey taking over in FDR's third term
I'd say let him live to see '48, but give him a Polk-style post-presidential career. We've already ditched the Twenty Year curse, so there's no real reason to kill him.

For 1948, I'd suggest these candidates:
Democrat
Harry Truman
Henry Wallace
J. Strom Thurmond
Douglas Macarthur
Joseph McCarthy (maybe, with no Soviet Union it'd be hard to figure out what else he could do)

Republican
Dewey
Bob Taft
Arthur Vandeburg
Macarthur (he could go either way)
Earl Warren

Jaguars, Conservatives, Socialists, et cetera
Don't really care, they're not going to win anyway

Personally, I see the GOP making a comeback with either Dewey or Macarthur. I don't see Ike getting into the White House, since the US didn't enter the war, so there's no big name general other than Macarthur TTL.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are some decidedly different PODs to keep things interesting:

May 16th, 1940: U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Harold J. Ickes proposes the creation of a "Autonomous Territory of Sitka" in Alaska, for Jewish refugees in Washington D.C., much to the anger of Nationalist Party, Jaguar Party, and Republican Party leaders...

July 4th, 1940: Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Anchorage, Alaska, based on claims that "Jewish refugees will drag us into the European War..."

November 15th, 1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, fresh from his re-election, announces his support for the "Autonomous Territory of Sitka" during a televised speech in Washington D.C.,...

April 1st, 1941: Ottoman General Hajj Amin al Husseini announces a crackdown on the "Jewish problem" in Jerusalem...

May 9th, 1942: Zionist leaders Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion decry the idea of the "Autonomous Territory of Sitka" as a "temporary solution" during testimony in Washington D.C.,...

November 6th, 1944: Zionist guerillas Eliyahu Hakim and Eliyahu Bet Zuri are killed by Ottoman forces in Jerusalem, sparking international attention...

April 17th, 1945: New Age leader Alice Bailey proclaims the "Great Invocation" of the "Age of Aquarius", signaling the "return of the messiah" in Manchester, England....

June 15th, 1945: "Age of Aquarius" is proclaimed by New Age practitioners led by "Djhwal Khul" in Los Angeles, California

April 19th, 1946: Tesla employees and occult practitioners Jack Whiteside Parsons and Sarah Northrup announce the conception of the "Moonchild" in Pasadena, California...

June 12th, 1946: Ottoman General Hajj Amin al Husseini announces a second crackdown on the "Jewish problem" in Jerusalem, sparking international attention...

December 1st, 1947: Sectarian riots between Muslim and Jewish pilgrims erupts in Jerusalem. Ottoman troops are deployed to Jerusalem, Haifa, Mecca, and Damascus...

January 12th, 1948: Ottoman General Fauzi Al-Kaukji launches a brutal crackdown on Zionist guerillas nationwide...

April 9th, 1948: Deir Yassan Massacre; Ottoman General Fauzi Al-Kaukji ambushes Zionist guerillas in Deir Yassan, killing 100 people...

May 13th, 1948: Kfar Etzion Massacre; Ottoman General Fauzi Al-Kaukji announces the ambush of Zionist guerillas in Kfar Etzion, killing 128 people...

June 15th, 1948: New Age leader Savitri Devi (a.k.a. Maximiani Portas), French sympathizer of Jiddu Krishnamutri, proclaims the "Age of Divine Kings" during a rally in Lyon, France...

April 5th, 1949: Savitri Devi (a.k.a. Maximiani Portas) launches a rally in Dusseldorf, Germany proclaiming the "Age of Divine Kings" sparking international attention and concern...

[Prometheus_2300]

Ok I have an idea what do for the 1948 election


April 5, 1947: FDR suffers a minor stroke, which kept him bedridden. Between VP Dewey and Harold Ickes they kept the country running. Later on in an interview Dewey would ask why he didn't exploit the bedridden FDR and become president outright, "I could have but it wasn't right. The American people didn't vote for me, they voted for Frankie, and me and Harry felt obligated to maintain FDR's dignity and continue his agenda."

April 15, 1947: Vice President Dewey before a panel of reporters, reports that President Roosevelt will be on retreat at Hyde Park, while the White House is renovated. Although not reported by any newspapers, all the journalists know that FDR is at death's door, but they still want to preserve the dignity of the Presidency.

November 5, 1948: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the popular president who was able to keep the Democratic Party from fracturing was in ill health. At age 66 he was now confined to a wheelchair.

Without a frontrunner the Democrats were faced with an impossible situation. How to follow the act of FDR so to speak. Senator Harry S. Truman, Henry Wallace and Strom Thurmond were all front runners. But during the election season, Senator Lovecraft asked for a meeting with Thurmond, and following a generally unsuccessful campaign, led to the Nationalists pledging support to the Democrats should Thurmond be the candidate. On the first Ballot of the convention, there was no clear leader. On the second ballot, Thurmond began to edge out Truman and Wallace. on the third Ballot, Wallace had conceded throwing his support to Truman, in exchange for a cabinet post in a possible Truman administration

Meanwhile for the Republicans, Dewey had been VP under FDR, but was seen as too liberal for many Republicans taste. Hearst still involved with RNC nominations, suggests placing Dewey as the candidate. However Arthur Vandenburg was getting high marks too. There was also a possibility of General MacArthur or Marshall throwing their hat in but it readily became apparent that it would be Dewey v. Vandenburg. Eventually after 7 ballots, and a personal meeting between the two (and a coin toss as would be revealed in the 1960s by Vandenburg), Dewey is the Presidental Candidate, and Vandenburg the VP.

The Jaguar Party once more nominates Stimson, but only manage to capture one state for the party.

On election day millions of Americans went to the polls to decide. The election was very close, coming down to Illinois in the Electoral college.

President-elect Dewey holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune, that incorrectly reported the headline "Truman Defeats Dewey"

April 26, 1949: Former President Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs Georgia.

<Ok after I decided that Truman would have won the convention and would be running against Dewey, I just could not get that image out of my head. The Tribune is doomed to get the election results of any Truman and Dewey race wrong>

1912-1916: William Howard Taft (R)
1916-1920: William McAdoo (D)
1920-1924: John Pershing (R)
1924-1928: John Pershing (R)
1928-1932: Calvin Coolidge (R)
1932-1936: Calvin Coolidge (R) Died of heartattack in 1933, Hiram Bingham (R) becomes President
1936-1940: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)
1940-1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)
1944-1948: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) w/ VP Thomas Dewey (R)
1948-1952: Thomas E. Dewey (R)

[Prometheus_2300]

May 12, 1942: The Mitsui Zaibatsu meets with the kumicho of a prominent yakuza gang, and make an alliance of sorts in the Japanese Civil War.

January 1, 1942: The Third Russo-Japanese War is at a stalemate but Admiral Yamamoto of the Third Japanese Fleet is hailed by the Russian Commander. They send two proposals to Yamamoto. One proposal, assumes that the Japanese Parliament wins the Civil War, and is much more harsh on Japan with DMZs and withdrawls from Sakhalin and Taiwan. The second proposal is much less harsh, allowing the Japanese Navy to continue to exist but is to become a Defense only force, it also assumes that Prince Hitachi is named Emperor

April 21, 1947: After a long 7 year search, FBI agent Richard Nixon captures "The Mad Bomber", propelling Nixon into the national spotlight. After a long court case, Metesky is sentenced to life in prison in Alcatraz

May 1, 1947: Following a recent string of successes, Richard Nixon is promoted to Director of Criminal Investigations by FBI director Hoover.

October 5, 1949: The Supreme Court hears the case of Miller v. Tennessee Board of Education which finds that segregation in the class room is unconstitutional, and therefore all state laws regarding segregation illegal. This creates an uproar in the South. "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

<I am running empty on ideas of what Japan is going through, if anyone has any ideas please make the PODs. Will it be a Parliamentary Democracy or will it be a Anarcho-Capitalist? And Russia and China are waiting, hoping to avoid a costly invasion, and force an armistice>

[QuoProQuid]

May 1, 1943: May Crowning. Pope Benedict XVI establishes the Army of Salvation, a Catholic missionary group dedicated soley to spreading the Gospel in Asian countries.

August 9, 1943: The first members Schola Iesu (Soldiers of Jesus), a Jesuit branch of the Army of Salvation, arrive in Nagasaki and Osaka, bringing much needed support to the missionaries already there.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Still some more PODs:

December 11th, 1941: Sinking of the HMS Repulse; Malaysia nationalists sink British naval vessel at Kuantan, Malaysia...

January 23rd, 1942: Parit Sulong Massacre; British military forces kill 450 people at Parit Sulong, Malaysia mainly civilians, sparking national outrage...

February 18th, 1942: Battle of Pasir Panjang; Colonel Adnan bin Saidi ambushes British forces at Pasir Panjang, Malaysia....

June 26th, 1945: Sandakan Death March; Mass graves are discovered of c. 470 British soldiers in Sandakan, Malaysia, sparking calls for withdrawal...

August 15th, 1945: Second Sandakan Death March; British forces are ambushed and massacred at Kundasang, Malaysia...

February 6th, 1947: First reported case of "Mittelafrika Feuer" (a.k.a. "Middle-African Fire") is reported in Kinshasha, according to German medical technicians....

November 9th, 1947: Dr. Gordon Hennigar reports a case of "persistent pneumonia" in New York City, New York. Scientists later determine it is "Mittelafrika Feuer"....

June 18th, 1948: Evacuation of Malaysia; British forces evacuate civilians and traders from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as the British presence in the region collapses...

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Something weird came to mind when, I looked over the events of the political unrest in Asia. Two nations that might be interested in forming a political alliance would be Japan and Great Britain, especially with the situation in India, the mutual dislike of Russia and France, along with political unrest in their own countries...

Another potential POD, with Great Britain, the United States, Japan, and Germany experiencing cultural upheaval expect some major changes in pop culture. Consider that there is going to be some changes. We should see some changes in music, entertainment, et al.,....

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are some PODs to show that Russian history is still tragic in the ATL:

September 12th, 1941: Russian General Mikhail Skorodumov defects to German officials in Danzig, sparking international attention...

November 14th, 1944: Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia established in Prague, Austria-Hungary under Andrey Vlasov...

February 1st, 1945: German General Helmuth von Pannwitz establishes the XV Cossack Regiment in Berlin, based on expatriates and deserters from the Russian community....

April 11th, 1945: Oder Massacre; Members of the Russian Liberation Army (RLA) are killed by Russian troops at the Oder, sparking international condemnation...

May 8th-9th, 1949: Russian expatriates launch riots in St. Valentin, Austria-Hungary, calling for a collapse to the regime....

[Prometheus_2300]

Something weird came to mind when, I looked over the events of the political unrest in Asia. Two nations that might be interested in forming a political alliance would be Japan and Great Britain, especially with the situation in India, the mutual dislike of Russia and France, along with political unrest in their own countries...

Another potential POD, with Great Britain, the United States, Japan, and Germany experiencing cultural upheaval expect some major changes in pop culture. Consider that there is going to be some changes. We should see some changes in music, entertainment, et al.,....

Brilliant! Britain and the US could support Parliament and I doubt the Russo-Chinese Alliance, wants to try and challenge the British & American Navy in fact:

June 12, 1942: The Parliamentarians of Japan receive unexpectedly receive some help from the other side of the Pacific. The British and America, the former wishing to show its strength in the pacific, and the latter wanting to become a more prominent international power, support the Parliamentary government, and Emperor Akihito

September 15, 1942: The Gas Attack on Hiroshima. The Russian Air Legion attacks Hiroshima with F-Series Chemical weapons. The Zaibatsu stumbles but the Parliamentarians condemn the attack, with the young Emperor Akihito delivering a speech to all of Japan

October 4, 1942: The Japanese-American-British Alliance is signed, or as it would later be known the Pacific Alliance is created. The Blockade of East Asia begins.

January 4, 1943: Exhausted from war and stymied by the combined British and American Navy, an armisitice is called. The Okinawa treaty establishes that the Japanese Army is severlely limited, but the Japanese Navy is not limited in such a way. The Idea of Japanese Imperialism in Mainland Asia has ended. The colony of North Indochina is ceded to Germany. The world's powers are once more at peace.

<So now we have our first post-war defensive bloc. The Pacific Alliance: Britain, The United States and Japan. China is free of Europeans. Korea is liberated. Japan still has the Kurils and the Sakhalin. Now the Empires have to hold their territories. Wonder how that will go>

<I will post a map. Now that the war is over for 1943. I am unclear on what India's maps should be>

[Mr_ Bondoc]

India in the ATL will have several pieces vying for secession:

* Dravidistan
* Pakistan
* Khalistan
* Hyderabad
* Nagaland

This alone will create a very different map of South Asia.

[Prometheus_2300]

India in the ATL will have several pieces vying for secession:

* Dravidistan
* Pakistan
* Khalistan
* Hyderabad
* Nagaland

This alone will create a very different map of South Asia.

Should there still be British Pink between these areas?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Should there still be British Pink between these areas? I am thinking a pink stripes, if only to show that the areas are in contention, at least until their independence can be fully recognized.

[General Awesome]

Since Chairman Sanchez has been banned, can I take over his Argentina, I will honor what was already started by him, (like the regime lasting 50 years). And can I also finish his Robert Byrd presidency?

[Prometheus_2300]

Since Chairman Sanchez has been banned, can I take over his Argentina, I will honor what was already started by him, (like the regime lasting 50 years). And can I also finish his Robert Byrd presidency?

Anyone can make PODs for any place on Earth in the decade of the 1940s as long as it does not contradict any other events previously posted. For example we still don't know if America passed its Eugenics bill or not, or if Roosevelt did anything more for Civil Rights despite being in the White House for 12 years

Some notably empty areas:

America and Civil Rights
Post-War Germany
Socialist Venezeula

[Prometheus_2300]

January 1, 1943: Christophe I blesses the Third French Army. Blerot XVs carryout bombing raids upon the whole of Spain. The army begins to move.

May 5, 1943: General Francisco Franco, and the Spanish Army, fully equipped with Gas Masks entrench themselves in Cordoba, along with the Spanish Royal Family and remnants of the Republican government in Granada.

June 10, 1943: Pope Benedict XVI, demands that Christophe I and Cardinal Tridault meet with him at once in the Vatican. Although the chambers doors were closed, the chamberlain heard shouts from inside from all parties. After 1 hour of heated discussion, Emperor Christophe I storms out and vowing, "I will take this throne of God from you by force!"

June 11, 1943: A papal interdict is declared upon the nation of France, until the withdrawl of their forces from Spain.

June 15, 1943: The Italian Prime Minister meets secretly in Zurich with the German and British Ambassadors. "For the future of Europe we need to stop France's agression, or shortly they will be knocking on our doors"

<And now to begin the fall of France. Not sure how to go about it exactly>

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Since Chairman Sanchez has been banned, can I take over his Argentina, I will honor what was already started by him, (like the regime lasting 50 years). And can I also finish his Robert Byrd presidency? Sounds like a plan!! In the meantime, please feel free to add some of your own PODs to the ATL. Here are some counter-culture PODs to make things strange:

August 12th, 1940: Carl Gustav Jung proclaims "Age of Aquarius" in Zurich, Switzerland, sparking international attention....

June 16th, 1944: New Age leader Alice Bailey decries the "Autonomous Territory of Sitka" saying during a rally in Los Angeles, California, that the Jewish people "take what they want, to see to it that their children get the best of everything available, no matter what the cost to others"; they "blame the non-Jewish nations for their miseries"; and, "The Jew needs to recognize his share in bringing about the dislike which hounds him everywhere."

April 6th, 1945: Orpheus Emerged by Jack Kerouac is published in New York City, New York, signalling a tise in hte counter-culture literature...

November 1st, 1945: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac is published in New York City, New York...

October 29th, 1946: The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac is published in New York City, New York....

September 5th, 1948: On the Road by Jack Kerouac is published in New York City, New York.....

[General Awesome]

August 13th 1948: General Verdezs son, Alejandro graduates the military colledge in Buenos Aries.

August 24th 1948: Alejandro Verdez, 22, is named the Youngest member of the State Council, and National Front Politbro.
October 2nd 1948: Robert Byrd joins the Jaguar Party and moves to Sutton West Virginia (my grandma lived there at the time:D)
October 12th: ABC "Argentine Broadcasting Channel" is the first (and only) Television Channel in Argentina, and it glorifies the National Front and General Verdez.
November: 4th: Robert Byrd is elected as a Republican to the US Senate, beating Melvin Snyder in the primaries, and Harley Staggers in the election. He will hold this seat to his election as President in 1972.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

<And now to begin the fall of France. Not sure how to go about it exactly>

Here are a few PODs for that:

July 19th, 1943: Toulousse Congress; Alphonse and Paule Tricheux organize Maquis resistance groups in Toulousse, France. Andre Arru, Voline, Maurice and Charles Laisant call for the overthrow of the French government...

January 29th, 1944: Maquis leader Gérard Duverge is tortured and killed by Inquisition leaders in Paris, sparking national attention...

June 25th, 1944: Maquis leader Eugene Humbert delivers messages to Allied forces in Spain, calling for weapons and aid...

December 21st, 1944: Maquis leaders Sébastien Faure and Louise Michel begin transmission of "Libertaire" from London, England calling for "popular uprising"....

December 2nd, 1945: Fédération Anarchiste Française (FAF) begins operations against the government in Paris, France...

February 19th, 1947: Pierre Besnard leads AIT (International Workers Association) in an armed insurrection at the Renault automobile plant in Lyon, France.....

[QuoProQuid]

March 15, 1944: Catholic missionaries renovate and expand Ōura Cathedral in Nagasaki. Some extremists in Japan see this as "an invasion of Western culture" and an attempt to "brainwash the children".

April 9, 1944: American comic books begin to appear in Japan en masse. Certain officials are angered by what they see as "obscene literature".


OOC: Do with this what you will.

[Prometheus_2300]

Here are a few PODs for that:

July 19th, 1943: Toulousse Congress; Alphonse and Paule Tricheux organize Maquis resistance groups in Toulousse, France. Andre Arru, Voline, Maurice and Charles Laisant call for the overthrow of the French government...

January 29th, 1944: Maquis leader Gérard Duverge is tortured and killed by Inquisition leaders in Paris, sparking national attention...

June 25th, 1944: Maquis leader Eugene Humbert delivers messages to Allied forces in Spain, calling for weapons and aid...

December 21st, 1944: Maquis leaders Sébastien Faure and Louise Michel begin transmission of "Libertaire" from London, England calling for "popular uprising"....

December 2nd, 1945: Fédération Anarchiste Française (FAF) begins operations against the government in Paris, France...

February 19th, 1947: Pierre Besnard leads AIT (International Workers Association) in an armed insurrection at the Renault automobile plant in Lyon, France.....

You know I just realized something. The French Colonial Empire is stable, but the Core is not. Unlike the British where its vice versa

January 7, 1944: Igor Sikorsky and his Gyrodyne research team, escape France with the help of Italian agents, and move to Italy, greatly enhancing the Gyrodyne designs of Italy. Certain Information is shared with the Americans, Germans, and the British.

December 9, 1944: President Franklin Roosevelt vetos the National Eugenics Bill. Senator Pelley tries his best to override but fails spectacularly

April 15, 1944: The French Inquistion first uses chemical weapons as a means of quelling dissidents. This provokes International outrage, in addition to the death camps.

April 20, 1944: President Roosevelt meets with Prime Minister Butler, and the German and Italian Ambassadors, about a possible defense of Spain. They meet onboard the HMS Prince of Wales.

May 7, 1945: The American Submersible Fleet joins the British and Italian in Blockading France. The American Fleet, who is much more experienced than the British in Anti-submarine tactics, is actually able to fight the French submersibles

July 14, 1946: Christophe I is killed while travelling from Toulouse to Paris. His limousine blown up by a land mine buried in the road by saboteurs aided by Britain, German and Italians. Vice-Emperor Clouseau assumes the mantle of Emperor.

January 15, 1947: The Third French Army surrenders to the Allied Forces in Barcelona, as its general refuses to order his men to a suicide attack. The BEF along with Italian and Spanish Republican Forces cross the Pyrenees into France.

May 15, 1947: With armed insurrections happening across the country, and a French Army betraying them, the Allies make their way across France. The American Submersibles continue to blockade France, while the British, French and Spanish Forces work up from the Pyrenees while the Germans come through Belgium, marching towards Paris.

July 20, 1947: Emperor Jacques I surrenders to Coalition Forces. The Fourth French Republic is dismantled, and the Fifth French Republic is formed. The Socialists and Workers parties control about 40% of the National Assembly

November 5, 1947: The Act of Union merges the People's Republic of Venezeula with the Union of Columbia, into the Estados Unidos de América Repúblicas Socialistas (E.U.A.R.S.) or United States of American Socialist Republics. (USASR)

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are a few PODs to take care of that issue:

March 29th, 1941: Malagasy Uprising; Mouvement Democratique de la Renovation Malagache (MDRM) guerillas launch an uprising against French forces in Antananarivo, Madagascar...

May 6th, 1941: Battle of Moramanga; French colonial forces are ambushed in Moramanga, Madagascar....

April 10th, 1942: Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) led by Charles Assalé, Léonard Bouli, Guillaume Bagal launch nationalist insurrection in Yaoundé, Cameroon....

January 5th, 1943: Pan-African Federation (PAF) leaders launch calls for nationalist insurrection in Treichville, Côte d'Ivoire...

April 13th, 1944: First Congress of Dschang; Cameroon nationalist leaders announce the creation of a provisional government in Dschang, Cameroon...

June 1st, 1946: Malagasy rebels assassinate Pierre de Chevigné in Antananarivo, Madagascar...

May 8th, 1945: Sétif Massacre; Algerian nationalists inflamed after French troops fire on civilians in Sétif, Algeria...

May 13th, 1945: Algerian nationalists sink the French naval cruiser Duguay-Trouin in the Gulf of Bougie, sparking international attention...

August 25th, 1945: Emperor Bao Dai is killed in Hanoi, after calling for the expulsion of foreign troops in a televised address from Indochina...

September 2nd, 1945: Ho Chi Minh calls for aid from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, proclaiming the need for "life, liberty and hte pursuit of happiness..."

November 23rd, 1946: Siege of Haiphong; French naval forces bombard Haiphong, Indochina, sparking nationalist sentiment...

December 19th, 1946: Ho Chi Minh announces the Indochinese rebellion in Hanoi, calling for the withdrawal of French troops...

November 1st, 1948: Toussaint Rouge ("Red All Saints' Day"); Algerian nationalists led by Ferhat Abbas and Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj launch a nationalist rebellion....

[Mr_ Bondoc]

March 15, 1944: Catholic missionaries renovate and expand Ōura Cathedral in Nagasaki. Some extremists in Japan see this as "an invasion of Western culture" and an attempt to "brainwash the children".

April 9, 1944: American comic books begin to appear in Japan en masse. Certain officials are angered by what they see as "obscene literature".


OOC: Do with this what you will.

Here are some PODs to make sure that comic books don't have a "free ride":

May 23rd, 1941: Police officials in San Diego, California impound several alrge crates with "Tijuana Bibles" (illegal pornographic comics), sparking national attention...

March 4th, 1946: Police officials raid Charlton Comics under John Santangelo, Sr. and Ed Levy, after uncovering links to organized crime in Derby, Connecticut...

May 12th, 1947: Seduction of the Innocent by Frederic Werthem, M.D., states that "obscene material" (esp. comic books) are the source in the rise of juvenile crime...

September 19th, 1947: Senator Robert Hendrickson (R-NJ) and Senator Estes Kefauver (D-TN) launch Congressional hearings regarding comic books and their link to juvenile crime...

June 4th, 1948: Comic book publisher William Gaines is jailed in Washington D.C., on charges of "contempt of Congress" after defending comics as "posing no harm to children"....

April 2nd, 1949: Comic book artists "Doc" Rankin and Wesley Morse are charged with "obscenity" after they are linked to "Tijuana Bibles" in Washington D.C.,...

[Prometheus_2300]

Here are a few PODs to take care of that issue:

March 29th, 1941: Malagasy Uprising; Mouvement Democratique de la Renovation Malagache (MDRM) guerillas launch an uprising against French forces in Antananarivo, Madagascar...

May 6th, 1941: Battle of Moramanga; French colonial forces are ambushed in Moramanga, Madagascar....

April 10th, 1942: Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) led by Charles Assalé, Léonard Bouli, Guillaume Bagal launch nationalist insurrection in Yaoundé, Cameroon....

January 5th, 1943: Pan-African Federation (PAF) leaders launch calls for nationalist insurrection in Treichville, Côte d'Ivoire...

April 13th, 1944: First Congress of Dschang; Cameroon nationalist leaders announce the creation of a provisional government in Dschang, Cameroon...

June 1st, 1946: Malagasy rebels assassinate Pierre de Chevigné in Antananarivo, Madagascar...

May 8th, 1945: Sétif Massacre; Algerian nationalists inflamed after French troops fire on civilians in Sétif, Algeria...

May 13th, 1945: Algerian nationalists sink the French naval cruiser Duguay-Trouin in the Gulf of Bougie, sparking international attention...

August 25th, 1945: Emperor Bao Dai is killed in Hanoi, after calling for the expulsion of foreign troops in a televised address from Indochina...

September 2nd, 1945: Ho Chi Minh calls for aid from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, proclaiming the need for "life, liberty and hte pursuit of happiness..."

November 23rd, 1946: Siege of Haiphong; French naval forces bombard Haiphong, Indochina, sparking nationalist sentiment...

December 19th, 1946: Ho Chi Minh announces the Indochinese rebellion in Hanoi, calling for the withdrawal of French troops...

November 1st, 1948: Toussaint Rouge ("Red All Saints' Day"); Algerian nationalists led by Ferhat Abbas and Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj launch a nationalist rebellion....

Ok now I must ask... What part of Africa is not revolting against the Empires right now? <checks 1940 list> South Africa? Really... South Africa is not revolting? I don't whether or not I should laugh or worry if we have opened a hole in the Space time Continuum

[Prometheus_2300]

Here are some PODs to make sure that comic books don't have a "free ride":

May 23rd, 1941: Police officials in San Diego, California impound several alrge crates with "Tijuana Bibles" (illegal pornographic comics), sparking national attention...

March 4th, 1946: Police officials raid Charlton Comics under John Santangelo, Sr. and Ed Levy, after uncovering links to organized crime in Derby, Connecticut...

May 12th, 1947: Seduction of the Innocent by Frederic Werthem, M.D., states that "obscene material" (esp. comic books) are the source in the rise of juvenile crime...

September 19th, 1947: Senator Robert Hendrickson (R-NJ) and Senator Estes Kefauver (D-TN) launch Congressional hearings regarding comic books and their link to juvenile crime...

June 4th, 1948: Comic book publisher William Gaines is jailed in Washington D.C., on charges of "contempt of Congress" after defending comics as "posing no harm to children"....

April 2nd, 1949: Comic book artists "Doc" Rankin and Wesley Morse are charged with "obscenity" after they are linked to "Tijuana Bibles" in Washington D.C.,...

The Supreme Court seems very Constitutionalist right now. Also since Yellow Journalism is the standard, reality might actually be more sensationalized then the comics, which means that...

June 20, 1948: The Hearst Corporation Legal team, meets with their subsidiary DC to discuss some form of content scale in order to quell the media storm surrounding comics. The three tier rating system, becomes standard for many comics. The Green level comics, are for child audiences, the Yellow for Teen comics, and the Red for adult comics.

September 19, 1949: The Case of Gaines v. the District of Columbia is heard before the Supreme Court. In a 6 to 3 decision, the court finds in favor of Gaines, citing first amendment's "Freedom of the Press"

November 5, 1949: The Comic Book Content Association is established as a way of helping parents make "informed decisions regarding their child's reading"

With a powerful Media backer wanting to maintain profits swoops to the defense of comics and involved in a court case that allows for more freedom in newspapers itself. Comic books have a self-regulated content rating system. Freedom of Press was invoked, of course a later Supreme Court could overturn that decision.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Ok now I must ask... What part of Africa is not revolting against the Empires right now? <checks 1940 list> South Africa? Really... South Africa is not revolting? I don't whether or not I should laugh or worry if we have opened a hole in the Space time Continuum

Actually South Africa is still pretty violent (see: 3/18/1945). They just switched to guerilla warfare. But in the meantime, it is becoming abundantly clear that the 1950s and 1960s are going to be even tougher than in OTL.

One problem with the development of civil rights is that there has been a lack of either a massive role or political presence for African-Americans (provided in OTL by the military, professional sports, along with pop culture). To make matters worse, with decolonization taking place in the form of violent and often sectarian conflicts (esp. with Gandhi's death), most people are going to become more conservative, rather than open to racial integration....

[Mr_ Bondoc]

All things considered, once we hit c. #460, I think we can close the 1940s. If anything, we are certainly moving at a brisk pace. Once the map is put in place, I want to put up the final draft of the 1940s, within the next 48 hours.

Everybody is doing a great job!!

[Mr_ Bondoc]

November 5, 1947: The Act of Union merges the People's Republic of Venezeula with the Union of Columbia, into the Estados Unidos de América Repúblicas Socialistas (E.U.A.R.S.) or United States of American Socialist Republics. (USASR)

Here are a few PODs to add to the history of EUARS and Argentina:

September 13th, 1943: Venezuelan government officials in Caracas, announce the nationalization of Standard Oil facilities, sparking demands for American military intervention in the region...

April 5th, 1946: Asociacion Fisica Argentina led by Enrique Gaviola announces that it has begun nuclear fusion experiements in Buenos Aires, Argentina...

December 18th, 1948: La Violencia; Nationalist militias led by Pedro Antonio Marin in Bogota and Medellin launch attacks against the Socialist government....

[Prometheus_2300]

Ok let's wrap up Fascist France

September 24, 1943: The American Navy denies travel to any and all EUARS ships. They also blockade Grenada to Panama, in protest. Although due to the rise of Atomic Power and larger production in Alaska, the impact is not as great. However it is mostly the nationalization of American property that annoys Standard Oil and the American Government. President Roosevelt asks for the Premier of the EUARS to meet with him in Jamaica, to peacefully end the dispute.

August 10, 1947: The Brussels Conference. Prime Minister Butler, meets with German Chancellor von Papen, and Vice President Dewey, along with Italian and French representatives.

September 1, 1947: After much deliberation all parties come to an agreement. None of the country wants a war and now they meet to discuss how to best stabilize Europe, to stop another European War from ever happening. The following points are agreed:

* The Fifth French Republic, will not bear the blame of the war or face reparations. In fact the German, Italian, and British Army, maintain order and restore the government on January 1, 1949. <Similar to Germany after ww2>

* The French Colonial Empire will be reduced to its pre-1936 levels. Mittelafrika will be returned to Germany.

* The Coalition of Nations is founded, for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

<Roosevelt and Dewey agreed on some parts to a UN analog. This is Dewey's first real foray into International politics due to President Roosevelt's ill health>

The Big Wars (Am I forgetting any? I am not including revolts.)

The First European War: 1913-1915
The Baja War: 1913-1929
The Second European War: 1936-1941
The Third European War: 1944-1947
The Second Russo-Japanese War: 1914-1916
The Third Russo-Japanese War: 1936-1943
The Argentine Conquest: 1930

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are some random PODs:

September 10th, 1941: Austro-Hungarian forces launch a massive military crackdown on Serbian forces in Užice, Austria-Hungary...

November 29th, 1941: Battle of Kadinjača; Austro-Hungarian forces launch a massive crackdown on Serbian forces in Kadinjača, Austria-Hungary...

July 26th, 1942: Mathematician Isaak Yudovich Ozimov announces his "Theory of Psychohistory" in Moscow, Russia....

November 29th, 1943: Serbian guerillas led by Josip Broz Tito call for Serbian independence from Austria-Hungary in Begrade....

July 22nd, 1944: Mathematician Isaak Yudovich Ozimov warns that the political collapse of the imperial systems of France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and Austria-Hungary are "inevitable" during a speech in Cambridge, England...

December 31st, 1944: Government officials in Warsaw, report the economic collapse of Poland, sparking civil unrest and violence....

December 27th, 1945: Mathematician Isaak Yudovich Ozimov predicts a massive economic collapse of the United States by 1953, during a lecture in St. Petersburg, Russia...

September 15th, 1946: Labor riots and civil unrest led by Vasil Kolarov erupt in Sofia, Bulgaria, further destabilizing the Balkans politically...

December 30th, 1947: Government officials in Bucharest, report the economic collapse of Romania, sparking civil unrest and violence...

August 18th, 1949: Labor riots and unrest led by Árpád Szakasits erupt in Budapest, further destabilizing the Austro-Hungarian government....

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is the third spin on the 1940s:


January 1-10, 1940: The Blerot XVs drop pamphlets all over London, calling for an end to this war spreading a message that France didn't want the war, and that the British government is to blame for causing the war, and France was only defending itself. It is of course a bald-faced lie, and both governments know that BUT the British have only been getting news of fleet losses, and supply shortages. Not an invasion or a blitz on London. The pamphlet droppings continue until the General Election of 1940.

January 13th 1940: Japan invades Korea, Emperor Hirohito declares all of Korea "Japanese Territory"

January 20, 1940: Blerot XV-2s proceed to bomb the German Army in Strasbourg. Meanwhile the French army fortifies defenses in the Alsace-Lorraine. <French Strategy is to force the Germans to retreat>

January 25, 1940: With the threat of Gibraltar removed The army of Algeria is able to be resupplied, moves to occupy British Morocco.

February 2, 1940: One of the two Russian Airships with a French Chemical Weapons Platforms is shot down by the Japanese Dragon Wing (Japan's Airship Fleet), severely hampering the use of Chemical weapons by the Throne Axis. The forces of Eurasia continue their battles in Korea

March 9, 1940: The French army performs a pincer manuever on the German Army in Strasbourg. With Blerot XV-2s from Paris bombing the German army in Strasbourg with both conventional bombs and F-Series (OTL G-Series) Sarin nerve gas on German troops in Strasbourg, and the French Army in their own kettes are able to use the confusion to completely rout out German forces. French Forces are now in complete control of the Alsace-Lorraine and Belgium.

March 16th 1940: Scandinavian troops take Tampere in the decisive battle of the Finnish campaign. Approximately 2000 Finnish POWs executed by Scand troops in the following days. Kalsta's Finnish Volunteer Corps (FF) exhibit special brutality.

March 22nd, 1940: The Korean government fall to the Japanese government. Hirohito puts General Tojo in charge of the area.

March 24th, 1940: Muhammad Ali Jinnah launches an armed insurrection, demanding an Islamic fundamentalist state of Pakistan in Lahore, India....

April 5, 1940: Russian Forces seize Vladivostock, with Japanese Forces fleeing into Korea.

April 14, 1940: Between a long blockade and pamphlet drops over Britain, the Labour majority is most certainly threatened in the 1940 general election. Although PM Attlee knows wishes to cancel the election, he knows that if he were to do so there would be a chance of open revolt. News of the complete destruction of the BEF in Belgium and the rout of German Forces in the Alsace-Lorraine, have caused many to seek out for peace.

April 20, 1940: French forces occupy the Alsace Lorraine, securing position before advancing into Germany itself. They are scheduled to advance into Germany in late August

May 2, 1940: Japanese Forces entrench themselves into Okhstok

May 3, 1940: Russian Forces pursue Japanese Forces to Korea. They coordinate with Chinese Forces in Manchuria, and combined they begin to advance down the Korean Peninsula

May 16th, 1940: U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Harold J. Ickes proposes the creation of a "Autonomous Territory of Sitka" in Alaska, for Jewish refugees in Washington D.C., much to the anger of Nationalist Party, Jaguar Party, and Republican Party leaders...

June 12, 1940: The Labour Party takes large losses as a result of the war going very badly for Britain. Although civilians haven't been directly attacked, they have had to undergo rationing due to the blockade, combined with French leaflet drops, the British want the war over "Withdraw from the Continent" seems to be a popular slogan, and the Conservatives use it to make gains in the House of Commons, Edward F. L. Wood (aka Lord Halifax) is named PM, and takes residence of 10 Downing Street.

June 13th, 1940: Nationalist leaders Juan Feleo and Abad Santos, call for independence from American occupation in Manila, Philippines...

July 4th, 1940: Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Anchorage, Alaska, based on claims that "Jewish refugees will drag us into the European War..."

July 20, 1940: With the safety of the Mediterranean virtually gauranteed for France. French cargo planes begin a long flight to Russian forces in Vladivostock. In exchange for Russian partition concessions in the Western War, the French give F-Series Chemical Weapons to the Russian and France army. The 23rd Chemical Corp is given two Russian Airships as a means of deploying their weapons upon the Japanese Army. Although the Japanese Army fights in the name of the Emperor, they fail to hold the continent. Emperor Hirohito reluctantly withdraws from Korea. Also on this day, the Russian Forces "liberate" the puppet kingdoms of Lithuania and Estonia.

July 28nd 1940: Helsinki falls to the Scandinavian armies. General Aaltonen dies while personally leading a last-ditch counterattack. Remnants of the Finnish military and political leadership flee by various ships and airplanes towards Baltic cities under German control.

July 31, 1940: Meanwhile there are grumblings amongst Japan's merchants, although they would never say it aloud, they start to believe that the Emperor is a madman, and must be handled... "delicately" or all of Japan may fall. The leaders of three Japanese Zaibatsus (Mitsui Group, Sumitomo Group, and the Yasuda Group) begin to plan the impossible. They plan to somehow kill the Emperor, but how does one kill a living god?

August 1, 1940: A British Zeppelin, and a French Dreadnought dock in the Channel Islands to sign an armistice. The Leveque-Halifax Treaty, hands back Gibraltar to Spain, British Morocco to the British, and the withdrawl of the British Empire from the German Alliance the cancellation of any reparations to Great Britain as a Result of the first Great War, and also surrender of British spheres of Influence in China except Hong Kong, in exchange for Madagascar and Mozambique. Christophe I laughs upon hearing that the treaty was signed, "Those silly Englishmen abandoned us to Germany in the First War, and now they have abandoned Germany in the Second!" The Blockade will end on October 5. PM Wood says after the treaty " I believe it is peace in our time" The British Empire goes about trying to rebuild their navy and securing their vast empire, which has faltered during the war. First on the agenda, India and South Africa.

August 5, 1940: The Blockade Zone around Great Britain is ended, it is now solely targeting German ships.

August 6, 1940: Christophe I tells Magnusson of the news of the armistice with Great Britain, and organize a meeting in Oslo in December 1940.

August 10, 1940: The French African Legion begins deployment to the Ivory Coast to reacquire it for France

August 12th, 1940: Carl Gustav Jung proclaims "Age of Aquarius" in Zurich, Switzerland, sparking international attention...

August 15th 1940: Concentration camps for Finnish POWs and Socialist officials built in Kuopio, Tampere and Helsinki.

September 4th, 1940: Student activists Gerald Ford, Sargent Shriver and Potter Stewart launch antiwar rallies in Chicago, Illinois, demanding no military intervention against Mexico...

September 17th, 1940: Anarchist George P. Metesky bombs Union Station in New York City, New York, killing 8 people....

September 19th, 1940: Jay Fox establishes the American Anarchist Congress (AAC) in Home Colony, Washington....

October 1st 1940: Most of Finland officially annexed by Sweden.* Kurt Wallenius, a Finnish Blue Brigadist appointed Governor General of the new Eastern Provinces. Most Scand troops start to depart, leaving the mop-up and counter-insurgency tasks to the FF.

October 2, 1940: The French Army leaving the occupation of Belgium to the Inquisition, moves South to the German border, near Aachen. On this morning German Blerot XVs begin bombing German positions with conventional bombs. Which clear the way for the superior French kettes to move in, and occupy the city. After Aachen is secured, this army is planning to move onto Dusseldorf. In a coordinated move the French Army of the Alsace splits into two smaller armies. The Third Army of Holy France advances on Stuttgart, after which is Munich. The Second Army of Holy France advances to Mannheim, and eventually towards Frankfurt. However they begin to encounter stiff resistance. The conventional army is being sliced to pieces thanks to Chemical Weapons and the Air Legions being decimated by French Gyrodynes. However the German Resistance with the cry of "Ich bin ein Deutscher" cause sabotage and delays that delays the French War Machine for months. Instead of Winter in Munich, the French will be lucky to have Winter in Stuttgart. So to summarize:

1st French Army: in Aachen moving towards Dusseldorf.
2nd French Army: in Strasbourg moving to Mannheim. ETA Late November 1940.
3rd French Army: in Strasbourg moving Stuttgart and then Munich ETA Late November 1940.

Overall the French Strategy is to force the capitulation of Germany, much like with Britain, but there is more bad blood between Germany and France, then there was between France and Britain.

November 5, 1940: Surprising absolutely no one, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected to another term. His opponent Wendell Wilkie suffered from a fractured base, and a highly successful and popular incumbent President.

November 15, 1940: The First French Army after stiff resistance finally reach Dusseldorf. The Commanding General following the German implementation of gas masks as standard issue, along with the treatment countermeasures. The French General commanding orders the planes under his command to drop Sarin gas on the civilian population of Dusseldorf, in attempt to permanently end any resistance. Many countries are horrified with this act, however it is effective. The French first Army reaches Dusseldorf. The Second French Army is encountering the stiffest resistance of all. In the Battle of Manheim, the German Army successfully defends the city, and the city is laid to siege. The German Army plans to move in a counterattack through a weakened second army to penetrate back into France. The Third French Army is hampered with supply problems but not only does the army reach Stuttgart, they make winter quarters in Augsburg.

November 15th, 1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, fresh from his re-election, announces his support for the "Autonomous Territory of Sitka" during a televised speech in Washington D.C.,...

November 16th, 1940: Anarchist George P. Metesky bombs Grand Central Station in New York City, New York, killing 3 people. Also on this day, The Russian Forces are still locked in a stalemate with Rommel in the Ukraine. However the Northern Russian Army advances to Warsaw to topple the German puppet government.

November 22, 1940: The French African Army is able to contact and convince the rebels of the Ivory Coast (oddly enough the natives the Germans dealt with were the rebels under the French). The French African Army arms the rebels with weapons, and undertake the task of overthrowing the German colony of Elfenbeinküste. A bloody Civil War ensues in the Ivory Coast.

November 25th, 1940: Juanita "Mita" Garcia Peraza launches the "Spirit of God" movement in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, calling for American withdrawal from Puerto Rico....

December 1st, 1940: General Manuel Ávila Camacho leads an American-backed coup attempt against the government in Mexico City, Mexico...

December 6th 1940: A Finnish government-in-exile set up in Berlin, headed by Arvo Tuominen, the former Delegate of Industry.

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January 23, 1941: Due to the lack of communication from Berlin, and fading supplies, the German forces in the Ivory Coast withdraw across Ghana into the Togoland Colony, to reinforce it for attack. The French general eager to stop the Germans retreat tries to beat them to Togoland, and makes the rash decision of having the natives govern themselves "until we return". This would mark the beginning of the first independent country in Africa since the fall of Ethiopia in the 1930s.

February 2, 1941: The German Africa Corps are able to stage a sneak attack upon the French forces pursuing them. Erik von Manstein, the General in charge of the German Forces in Togoland, is awarded the The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords for his strategic genius in facing a superior enemy. The remnants of the French army limp back to Algeria for resupply. It would be a year before the French African army would be at full strength againThe army's general is personally killed by Christophe I, calling him a "demon of France" the highest level of reprimand that he can bestow. The Inquisition, adds him and his family line to the "Corrective Eugenics list". Future French President Alain Vivien, now 3 flees with his mother to England.

February 21, 1941: Emperor Franz Ferdinand collapses in court. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is starting to fray

March 15, 1941: French advance into Germany has been halted. The Second Army, is holed up in Manheim, under complete siege by the well positioned, and well supplied German army. Aided by the German Resistance in Manheim, the Second Army is holding up but its difficult. The First French Army is told to redirect to aid the Mannheim Forces, and begin rushing down, obliterating any and all opposition in their path. The City of Bonn, is bombarded repeatedly, allowing the First Army to rush through the city on the way to Mannheim. The Third French Army, now is the only offensive army in the field, and is airlifted supplies from France. The Third Army rolls through Munich, then turning North towards Nurnberg.

March 29th, 1941: George P. Metesky earns the name "the Mad Bomber" after detonating a bomb at Grand Central Station in New York City, New York. Also on that day, Malagasy Uprising; Mouvement Democratique de la Renovation Malagache (MDRM) guerillas launch an uprising against French forces in Antananarivo, Madagascar...

March 30, 1941: Manuel Ávila Camacho overthrows the government of Mexico installing himself as President of the Mexican Republic. He is quick to dispel rumors that his seizing of power was an American plot, explaining that many of his supplies were simply leftovers from fleeing American troops during the Baja War. Of course a few generals are skeptical, but after a difficult war in the Yucatan, they are ready for peace, and the populace looks forward to Camacho's much promised "Fresh Start" for Mexico.

April 1, 1941: Russian Forces secure Warsaw, and consolidate the gains before advancing onto Germany proper. Also on this day, Ottoman General Hajj Amin al Husseini announces a crackdown on the "Jewish problem" in Jerusalem...

April 5, 1941: After many years of Construction the Mittelafrika railway is complete. Its first train load is to move troops quickly across the continent to aid with the defense of Mittelafrika, quelling some fears of a French invasion. Also on this day, a Hurricane hits the coast of Nicaragua. As a test of American emergency preparedness. President Roosevelt orders the military to take command of the crisis management. In the following months, the United States Army Corps of Engineers clear roads, and repair bridges, along with hospitals and other public services. The army drill was very successful, and much of the damage was fixed in a few months. This engenders a lot of positive support for the United States in Southern Central America, especially considering Militaristic Mexico, and Socialist Venezuela.

April 10th, 1941: Croatian Revolution; Ante Pavelić calls for Croatian independence from Austria-Hungary in Zagreb....

April 17th, 1941: Petar II Karađorđević overthrows the government in Sarajevo, demanding a sovereign Serbian state.....

May 5, 1941: The Marines are deployed from Guantanamo to aid the crumbling Bautista regime. The March to Havana begins. A young Fidel Castro flees on a boat to Venezuela.

Also on this day, in Bucharest the Russian ambassador, asks for a meeting with Emperor Franz Ferdinand. Although this meeting is not disclosed until 5 years later. The agreement reached would cause no end of headaches in the 50s and 60s. Also on this day, Prince Michael Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro calls for Montenegran independence from Austria-Hungary in Cetinje....

May 6th, 1941: Battle of Moramanga; French colonial forces are ambushed in Moramanga, Madagascar....

May 13th, 1941: After a conference in Tokyo, It is decided that Russians and communists have no rights. 60,000 Korean communists and 25,000 Russians living in Korea are sent to labour camps.

May 23rd, 1941: Police officials in San Diego, California impound several alrge crates with "Tijuana Bibles" (illegal pornographic comics), sparking national attention...

June 1st, 1941: The first concentration camps appear in Korea. Also on this day, Haitian rebellions have ceased due to the installation of local leaders and autonomous form of self-rule in the "United States Commonwealth of Haiti" . Also on this day, Martial law declared in Pampanga, Mueva Ecija, Bulacan, Yarlac, Pangisinan, Bataan, and Cavite, due to nationalist uprisings...

June 2, 1941: After carrying out one of the best defenses in military history, Rommel is forced to withdraw from the field due to constant raiders attacking his supply lines to Germany. Rommel's Kette division withdraws back to Germany proper. However Rommel's escape was thwarted by Austro-Hungary. They denied the Kette troops travel through their borders. After 3 days of negotiation, the Russian army encircled Rommel's Army. Rommel is given an offer, personal asylum into Austro-Hungary, or get the same treatment as his men. Rommel could not do that. The entire German army knew what was going to happen. Rommel orders his troops to attack the superior Russian Army.

June 5, 1941: After two days of vicious fighting Rommel and about 1500 men limp away Victorious, having routed the Russian army. They proceed to Kiev to fortify, and wait for reinforcement. Reinforcement that would never come

June 10th- July 15th, 1941: American-backed Governor Sotero Bauyut calls for greater military crackdown in Central Luzon, Philippines....

June 18th, 1941: Mercury Theatre on the Air! airs it's final radio broadcast; A rendition of a made-for-radio script written by Welles, entitled Citizen Kane. It is only for the date of the broadcast that it is listened to by the majority of Americans, and became one of the most popular radio productions ever aired.

June 21st, 1941: American Peace Mobilization (APM) led by Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Reverend Henry F. Ward, protests against any form of military aid for the war in Europe

June 22, 1941; Maurice Duplessis resigns as Premier of Quebec, to be succeeded by Paul Sauve.

June 29th, 1941: Orson Welles enters a contract to have Michael Curtiz produce a film version of Citizen Kane.

July 4th, 1941: A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, lead c. 125,000 African-Americans in a march on Washington D.C., demanding equal rights...

September 10th, 1941: Austro-Hungarian forces launch a massive military crackdown on Serbian forces in Užice, Austria-Hungary...

September 11, 1941: East Prussia falls to the Russian army. Also Munich is seized.

September 12th, 1941: Russian General Mikhail Skorodumov defects to German officials in Danzig, sparking international attention...

October 4, 1941: The leaders of the Three Zaibatsus, smuggle in a Russian sniper. The Russians contacted them in the hope of killing Hirohito and causing chaos. The sniper, by the name (Will insert later) begins planning with the conspiracy.

October 6, 1941: Maurice Duplessis becomes MP for Trois-Rivieres following a by-election.

October 22nd-24th, 1941: Great Blackout of 1941; George P. Metesky (a.k.a. "the Mad Bomber) causes the electrical blackout of New York City, New York after bombing Consolidated Tesla in White PLains, New York...

November 12, 1941: Two French armies are locked in battle outside Mannheim. The third is slowly but surely advancing to Berlin. The Russians have seized as far as Dresden. The German Empire dispatches diplomats to the Throne Axis. For a peace conference. Germany is spent, exhausted. Both sides know that it is possible to keep fighting but the gains will be too little for the amount of bloodshed. The Amsterdam Treaty is called "the best chance for peace". In exchange for Germany's continued existence, Germany must surrender MittelAfrika, Alsace-Lorraine, South Indochina. A demilitarized Zone will exist within 50 miles of the French border. Southern Germany will be divided into the new nation, "The Kingdom of Bavaria", with a German collaborator of French forces as King. Perhaps one day re-unification will happen. Issues left unresolved by the Conference are the Eastern European states, which Russia is trying to make puppet states out of. Also the Ukraine, which the Parliamentary Democracy has asked Rommel to lead the army of the Ukraine. Rommel accepts as his family was killed by French gas attack, and his home in the puppet state of Bavaria. Poland now expanded, is left abandoned by Russian Forces as per a secret agreement with Austro-Hungary. As a result, the Federated Republic of Poland is created.

November 29th, 1941: Battle of Kadinjača; Austro-Hungarian forces launch a massive crackdown on Serbian forces in Kadinjača, Austria-Hungary...

December 1, 1941: The fighting is absolutely brutal in Korea. The combined Russian and Chinese Forces, battle entrenched thoroughly fortified Japanese defenses. Even with the French Chemical Weapons are not very effective. But on this date, the Last Japanese soldier falls in Pusan in Southern Korea.

December 7, 1941: Emperor Hirohito giving a public radio address before an audience of thousands, and millions over the radio, begins to give a speech about how Japan will continue to... His thought is not concluded, as a bullet enters his brain, killing him instantly. Without a clear line of succession the Japanese Empire is thrown into utter chaos. Also on this day, Hawaii is admitted as the 49th State of the Union

December 8th, 1941: As a consequence of Hirohito being shot in the head, the idea of the Emperor being a god has been shattered. The Emperor was merely a man, nothing more. Meanwhile, The Navy is fighting for its life, and able to severely hamper any invasion force, from Korea. Forcing a sort of statemate upon the Third Russo-Japanese War. 7-year old Prince Akihito is transported to a secret location in Kyoto, Japan in an effort to prevent another assassination attempt; Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki decalres martial law in Tokyo, Japan...

December 10th, 1941: Gyokuon-hōsō; Emperor Akihito proclaims that the "Age of the Yamato People is Here!!" during a radio broadcast in Tokyo, Japan, in an effort to boost the morale of the people...

December 11th, 1941: Sinking of the HMS Repulse; Malaysia nationalists sink British naval vessel at Kuantan, Malaysia...

December 24, 1941: Christophe I, is now actually starting to believe Tridault's homilies, that he as the Last Merovingan must rule the world for the 1000 year empire. He calls in all his generals fresh from victory in Germany to draw up plans for the Conquest of the Spanish Empire.

December 28th, 1941: Arthur Stanley Eddington establishes the National Peace Council (NPC) in London, England, calling the Second Great War an "unnecessary war"...

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January 1, 1942: The Third Russo-Japanese War is at a stalemate but Admiral Yamamoto of the Third Japanese Fleet is hailed by the Russian Commander. They send two proposals to Yamamoto. One proposal, assumes that the Japanese Parliament wins the Civil War, and is much more harsh on Japan with DMZs and withdrawls from Sakhalin and Taiwan. The second proposal is much less harsh, allowing the Japanese Navy to continue to exist but is to become a Defense only force, it also assumes that Prince Hitachi is named Emperor

January 19th, 1942: Jiddu Krishnamurti announces political manifesto of "Hindu nationalism", linking Indian nationalism with Hindu religion, from Azad Hind Radio in New Delhi, India...

January 23rd, 1942: Parit Sulong Massacre; British military forces kill 450 people at Parit Sulong, Malaysia mainly civilians, sparking national outrage...

February 2, 1942: Prime Minister Leveque is executed for heresy against France, by decree of his holiness Christophe I. The Pope, officially condemns Christophe Blanchard, and threaten an interdict. Leveque who had been a tempering influence on Christophe I is now lost

February 18th, 1942: Battle of Pasir Panjang; Colonel Adnan bin Saidi ambushes British forces at Pasir Panjang, Malaysia....

February 28th, 1942: Jiddu Krishnamurti proclaims "Hour of Destiny" during a rally in New Delhi, India, sparking international attention...

March 1, 1942: The number of political dissidents in French prisons doubles.

March 12, 1942: Pope Sylvester IV has died. A Papal Conclave is to be called.

March 15, 1942: The Third French army is given orders to mobilize for deployment to Spain for 1943.

March 30th, 1942: Tamil leader E. V. Ramasami, leads a rebellion in Kanchipuram, India demanding independence for Dravida Nadu (a.k.a. Dravidistan)...

April 9th, 1942: Indian Revolution; Jiddu Krishnamurti and General Mohan Singh overthrow the goverment in New Delhi, India, demanding Indian independence...

April 9, 1942: Cardinal August Hlond of Poland is elected pope. For the first time in many years, the papcy has left Italy. He chooses the name Benedict XVI. The newly elected Pope sets forward two goals he has for the Catholic Church:

1.) To firmly establish the Vatican's position as a supporter of the sciences. He increases archeological excavations in the Necropolis.

2.) To increase focus on the nations in the East. He believes that these nations will be powerful figures in the future. A missionary group is to be established.

April 10th, 1942: Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) led by Charles Assalé, Léonard Bouli, Guillaume Bagal launch nationalist insurrection in Yaoundé, Cameroon....

April 15th, 1942: Bidadary Resolution; Jiddu Krishnamurti signs resolution demanding Indian independence in New Delhi, India....

May 2nd, 1942: Filipino Attorney-General José Abad Santos y Basco is assassinated by Nationalist guerillas in Manila, Philippines....

May 8th, 1942: Brigadier General Gratien Fernando leads nationalist rebellion in Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte, Sri Lanka. Also on this day, Nationalist guerillas assassinate Filipino Treasury Secretary Manuel Acuña Roxas in Manila, Philippines....

May 9th, 1942: Zionist leaders Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion decry the idea of the "Autonomous Territory of Sitka" as a "temporary solution" during testimony in Washington D.C.,...

May 12, 1942: The Mitsui Zaibatsu meets with the kumicho of a prominent yakuza gang, and make an alliance of sorts in the Japanese Civil War.

May 16, 1942: Nikola Tesla's daughter, Electra Tesla graduates Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, (with a Tesla Science Hall) with a double major in Aerospace engineering and Physics.

June 12, 1942: The Parliamentarians of Japan receive unexpectedly receive some help from the other side of the Pacific. The British and America, the former wishing to show its strength in the pacific, and the latter wanting to become a more prominent international power, support the Parliamentary government, and Emperor Akihito

July 26th, 1942: Mathematician Isaak Yudovich Ozimov announces his "Theory of Psychohistory" in Moscow, Russia....

September 4th, 1942: General Subhas Chandra Bose announces a guerilla campaign to "bleed the British from our homeland" in Bombay, India....

September 15, 1942: The Gas Attack on Hiroshima. The Russian Air Legion attacks Hiroshima with F-Series Chemical weapons. The Zaibatsu stumbles but the Parliamentarians condemn the attack, with the young Emperor Akihito delivering a speech to all of Japan.

October 4, 1942: The Japanese-American-British Alliance is signed, or as it would later be known the Pacific Alliance is created. The Blockade of East Asia begins.

November 5, 1942: Governor Dewey of New York, after leaving the Republican Party clenches the victory for the Jaguar Party, promising to stamp out corporate corruption and to take down the mobs. He also promises to work with the Democrats in Washington for all New Yorkers benefits.

November 16th, 1942: Fransesco Fantin launches a series of bombings, killing 6 people in Sydney, Australia in an effort to bring attention to the Australian Eugenics program....

December 6th, 1942: Emir Maulana Muhammad Ali proclaims the Second World War, "a war between Gog and Magog", and that Islamic Revolution is needed to secure peace in Mecca, Ottoman Empire...

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January 1, 1943: Christophe I blesses the Third French Army. Blerot XVs carryout bombing raids upon the whole of Spain. The army begins to move.

January 4, 1943: Exhausted from war and stymied by the combined British and American Navy, an armisitice is called. The Okinawa treaty establishes that the Japanese Army is severlely limited, but the Japanese Navy is not limited in such a way. The Idea of Japanese Imperialism in Mainland Asia has ended. The colony of North Indochina is ceded to Germany. The world's powers are once more at peace.

January 5th, 1943: Pan-African Federation (PAF) leaders launch calls for nationalist insurrection in Treichville, Côte d'Ivoire...

January 8th, 1943: Race riots erupt in Johannesburg, South Africa, over plans for a proposed Jewish state of Madagascar....

January 21st, 1943: Matial law is declared in Bloemfontein, due to armed insurrection by Afrikaner guerillas in Bloemfontein, South Africa...

January 29th, 1943: Afrikaner Broederbond Party members launch raids in Vereeniging, Delmas, and Potchefstroom, South Africa, destabilizing the government...

February 2nd, 1943: Stormjaers, militias loyal to the Afrikaner Broederbond, announce control of Pretoria, South Africa...

March 5, 1943: An Amendment to the Constitution is passed which null and voids the Prohibition amendment and the Right to Progeny Amendment

April 13, 1943: Christophe I blesses the Third French Army, before deployment.

April 15th, 1943: Ayn Rand establishes the "Objectivist" manifesto of the Jaguar Party in New York City, New York....

April 20, 1943: The French army launches a surprise attack upon Spain.

May 1, 1943: May Crowning. Pope Benedict XVI establishes the Army of Salvation, a Catholic missionary group dedicated soley to spreading the Gospel in Asian countries.

May 5, 1943: General Francisco Franco, and the Spanish Army, fully equipped with Gas Masks entrench themselves in Cordoba, along with the Spanish Royal Family and remnants of the Republican government in Granada.

May 10th, 1943: James Gareth Endicott establishes the Canadian Peace Congress in Toronto, Ontario, calling for withdrawal from the colonial conflicts of Great Britain....

May 11th, 1943: Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces its recognition of the Provisional Government of India in Tokyo, Japan....

May 15th, 1943: Ottoman troops occupy Smyrna, Greece in an effort to "recapture lost territories", taking advantage of British and French enmity...

June 10, 1943: Pope Benedict XVI, demands that Christophe I and Cardinal Tridault meet with him at once in the Vatican. Although the chambers doors were closed, the chamberlain heard shouts from inside from all parties. After 1 hour of heated discussion, Emperor Christophe I storms out and vowing, "I will take this throne of God from you by force!"

June 11, 1943: A papal interdict is declared upon the nation of France, until the withdrawl of their forces from Spain.

June 15, 1943: The Italian Prime Minister meets secretly in Zurich with the German and British Ambassadors. "For the future of Europe we need to stop France's agression, or shortly they will be knocking on our doors"

July 19th, 1943: Maquis established; Alphonse and Paule Tricheux establish the Maquis in Toulousse, France, Andre Arru, Voline, Maurice and Charles Laisant call for the overthrow of the French government...

July 26th, 1943: Muslim rebel leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah is killed by British forces in Islamabad, Pakistan...

August 5, 1943: Senator Howard Lovecraft, after many political backdeals, gets the Comprehensive National Eugenics Bill to vote. The bill shows some sharp division amongst the Democratic party, as despite them controlling 74 seats of Congress, the Bill only passes with 53 votes, and that included all 3 other Nationalist Senators. The bill passes and is now sent to the house, which after more backdeals with Senator Pelley (R-PA) who was instrumental in getting the support of Pennsylvania's House Delegates.

August 9, 1943: The first members Schola Iesu (Soldiers of Jesus), a Jesuit branch of the Army of Salvation, arrive in Nagasaki and Osaka, bringing much needed support to the missionaries already there.

August 20th, 1943: South African Foreign Minister Eric Louw announces diplomatic recognition of the Afrikaner government by Germany in Berlin...

September 1, 1943: Spanish forces flee from Cordoba to Spanish Morocco.

September 13th, 1943: Venezuelan government officials in Caracas, announce the nationalization of Standard Oil facilities, sparking demands for American military intervention in the region...

September 24, 1943: The American Navy denies travel to any and all EUARS ships. They also blockade Grenada to Panama, in protest. Although due to the rise of Atomic Power and larger production in Alaska, the impact is not as great. However it is mostly the nationalization of American property that annoys Standard Oil and the American Government. President Roosevelt asks for the Premier of the EUARS to meet with him in Jamaica, to peacefully end the dispute.

October 13th, 1943: Nationalist leader José Paciano Laurel y García launches a coup d'etat overthrowing the American-backed government in Manila, Philippines...

October 21st, 1943: Provisional Government of Free India wins recognition from German Foreign Ministry in Berlin, sparking international attention...

November 29th, 1943: Serbian guerillas led by Josip Broz Tito call for Serbian independence from Austria-Hungary in Begrade....

December 3, 1943: On a Friday afternoon the House votes on the Comprehensive National Eugenics Bill. Of the 435 House members, 239 vote for the Bill. The clerk tries to rush it over to the White House as soon as possible but have to leave it for the Clerk on Monday.

December 5, 1943: News of Christophe's Concentration Camps makes its way out of France. The French Inquistion's Corrective Eugenics Model is published in pamphlet form by America Today in an attempt to cause schisms among the Democrats. The Independent also looking at the same sources is unsure of what the response should be to the French Corrective Eugenics Model, and don't talk about it at all. That was the worst possible course of action, as it caused schisms to form amongst the Democratic Party as a whole.

December 7, 1943: Spain is annexed by France, drawing universal condemnation from all powers.


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January 7, 1944: Igor Sikorsky and his Gyrodyne research team, escape France with the help of Italian agents, and move to Italy, greatly enhancing the Gyrodyne designs of Italy. Certain Information is shared with the Americans, Germans, and the British.

January 29th, 1944: Maquis leader Gérard Duverge is tortured and killed by Inquisition leaders in Paris, sparking national attention...

January 30, 1944: Maurice Duplessis elected leader of the Conservative Party, and becomes Leader of the Opposition.

February 4th, 1944: Emir Maulana Muhammad Ali proclaims the rise of Islamic Revolution in Mecca, Ottoman Empire, sparking civil unrest and violence

March 11, 1944: In Puerto Rico, the number of marines on the island have doubled in anticipation of the US Commonwealth Elections. Juanita "Mita" Garcia Peraza has gained a large following for the plebiscite, calling for a rejection of the Governor General. On election day violence breaks out in Arecibo.

March 29th, 1944: Massacre by Bombing by Vera Brittain, featuring graphic photographs from India and the Ottoman Empire, condemning hte government policy of colonial wars, is immediately banned by local authorities...

April 9, 1944: American comic books begin to appear in Japan en masse. Certain officials are angered by what they see as "obscene literature".

April 13th, 1944: First Congress of Dschang; Cameroon nationalist leaders announce the creation of a provisional government in Dschang, Cameroon...

April 15, 1944: The French Inquistion first uses chemical weapons as a means of quelling dissidents. This provokes International outrage, in addition to the death camps.

April 19th, 1944: Mahdi Mirza Ghulam Ahmad proclaims himself the "Promised Son" during a religious rally in Riyadh, Ottoman Empire...

April 20, 1944: President Roosevelt meets with Prime Minister Butler, and the German and Italian Ambassadors, about a possible defense of Spain. They meet onboard the HMS Prince of Wales.

June 16th, 1944: New Age leader Alice Bailey decries the "Autonomous Territory of Sitka" saying during a rally in Los Angeles, California, that the Jewish people "take what they want, to see to it that their children get the best of everything available, no matter what the cost to others"; they "blame the non-Jewish nations for their miseries"; and, "The Jew needs to recognize his share in bringing about the dislike which hounds him everywhere."

June 25th, 1944: Maquis leader Eugene Humbert delivers messages to Allied forces in Spain, calling for weapons and aid...

July 13th, 1944: Daniel Francois Malan launches a series of "people's trials" in Johannesburg, South Africa, in an effort to "root out race traitors"....

July 22nd, 1944: Mathematician Isaak Yudovich Ozimov warns that the political collapse of the imperial systems of France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and Austria-Hungary are "inevitable" during a speech in Cambridge, England...

August 1st, 1944: American-backed President Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina dies of a heart attack; Vice-President Sergio Osmeña y Suico is appointed President of the Philippines in Manila....

August 10th, 1944: Ottoman forces announce the capture of Thrace, Smyrna, Imbros, Tenedos and Chatalja, seizing control of the Straits of Bosporous....

August 21st, 1944: Maquis Uprising; anti-government Maquis rebels against the government in Paris, France, leaing to a brutal crackdown....

August 23rd, 1944: General Ion Antonescu overthrows the government in Bucharest, Romania

September 17, 1944: Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberals are returned for a sixth term with 177 of 245 seats.

September 22nd, 1944: Martial law is declared in Manila, Philippines, sparking international attention and concern....

October 4, 1944: Alaska is admitted into the Union as the 50th State.

October 20th, 1944: George II calls for an offensive against Ottoman forces, during a speech in Athens, Greece....

October 21st, 1944: W.E.B. Dubois, Jaja Wachuku, Ras Makonnen, and Jomo Kenyatta publish an underground manifesto in Manchester, England calling for a "Pan-African Federation" (PAF)...

November 1st, 1944: Battle of Smyrna; Greek forces under General Anastasios Papoulas seize Smyrna from Ottoman forces....

November 2, 1944: Alan Turing is arrested for "indecency" for being a homosexual. He accepted imprisonment as punishment

November 6th, 1944: Zionist guerillas Eliyahu Hakim and Eliyahu Bet Zuri are killed by Ottoman forces in Jerusalem, sparking international attention...

November 7, 1944:One of the most fractured political races in the twentieth century. After the Eugenics debacle, the Democratic base is split. The Repubican base is also split because of the Jaguar Party. The candidates are as follows:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) (Accepted his party's nomination to provide party unity) , Henry L. Stimson (J) (the 1940 candidate with 4 more years of base building around an Objectivist Base, pulling away many of the Big Business supports of the Republicans), Thomas E. Dewey (R) (Taking the Liberal Republicans as his base, petitioned an idea for an "International Delegation" where all nations could meet and discuss their ideas equally) Howard Lovecraft (N) (Lovecraft, who was much more popular then Pelley, was chosen as the Nationalists first Presidental candidate. On Election day, Roosevelt won the popular vote with 41% of the vote. Dewey with 36%, Lovecraft with 9% and Stimson with 14%. In the Electoral College, no one came close to getting the 270 needed to win. As a result the election got thrown to the House of Representatives. After about a month of negotiations. The next President and Vice President of the United States are announced. Republicans and Democrats meet to compromise. Neither one like the other but don't want to ally with either the Jaguars or the Nationalists to get ahead. So they come up with a solution, freezing out Lovecraft and Stimson. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected to an unprecedented 3rd term, and Vice President Dewey is the first VP since the constitution was amended to be of a different party then his president. The Democrats still control Congress. Although in the Senate their control dropped to 52%. Senate make up (50 Democrats, 5 Nationalists, 39 Republicans, 2 Jaguars). Joseph Kennedy Jr. is elected Congressman from MA-10.

Also on this day, Radio City Hall Fire; George P. Metesky (a.k.a. "the Mad Bomber") sets fire to Radio City Hall , during a screening of A Christmas Carol in New York City, New York, killing 60 people in the process...

November 14th, 1944: Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia established in Prague, Austria-Hungary under Andrey Vlasov...

December 9, 1944: President Franklin Roosevelt vetos the National Eugenics Bill. Senator Pelley tries his best to override but fails spectacularly

December 14th, 1944: Afrikaner Broederbond Party members led by Daniel Francois Malan seize control of the government in Johannesburg, South Africa demanding national independence...

December 21st, 1944: Maquis leaders Sébastien Faure and Louise Michel begin transmission of "Libertaire" from London, England calling for "popular uprising"....

December 30, 1944: On the other hand in Haiti, things have gone worse. François Duvalier, now leader of the ones opposed to American rule, topples the Commonwealth government, led by Louis Déjoie. What follows was nothing short of a massacre of Dejoie's Haitian supporters. The US Marines, who were left in a weakened state, after their forces were halved to deal with Puerto Rico, were forced to withdraw to Guantanamo.

December 31st, 1944: Government officials in Warsaw, report the economic collapse of Poland, sparking civil unrest and violence....

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January 2, 1945: A Tesla Dynamic recruiter meets Turing as he leaves Black's Gate Prison, offering him a job at Tesla Dynamic in the field of Computer Science. When asked about his prison record, the recruiter responds, "Mr. Turing, our founder was an immigrant from Austria, menace to the city of New York, continually dodged allegations like those you face despite being married and having a daughter, and is now the richest man in the United States. I think I can safely say, we at Tesla Dynamic don't care what you are, as long as you produce results". Turing now ostracized in Britain emigrates the the United States.

January 4th, 1945: Maria Occhipinti of Raguse, Sicily calls for political reforms from the Italian government in Rome....

February 1st, 1945: German General Helmuth von Pannwitz establishes the XV Cossack Regiment in Berlin, based on expatriates and deserters from the Russian community....

March 5, 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt orders an expansion to the West Wing and a total renovation of the White House, following the Commissions findings.

March 15, 1944: Catholic missionaries renovate and expand Ōura Cathedral in Nagasaki. Some extremists in Japan see this as "an invasion of Western culture" and an attempt to "brainwash the children".

March 18th 1945: Owing to South Africa's "Declaration of Independence" under the Afrikaner Broederbond Party and the rumoured persecution of both Blacks, Cape Coloureds and British South Africans, Britain, along with Empire and Loyal South African Forces, invade South Africa, striking from both the sea by way of landing near Cape Town and Durban and north from Rhodesia. Although the Rebel South Africans put up a stiff resistance, there small numbers and the confusion throughout the country mean that the Rebel Government Collapses within 2 weeks. However, the Afrikaners turn to Guerilla war fare and begin to carry out a large scale terrorist campaign against Loyalist and British Forces.

April 6th, 1945: Orpheus Emerged by Jack Kerouac is published in New York City, New York, signalling a tise in the counter-culture literature...

April 7th, 1945: Rudi Gernreich, Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull and Dale Jennings form the homosexual motorcycle gang "Mattachine Society" in Los Angeles, California...

April 11th, 1945: Oder Massacre; Members of the Russian Liberation Army (RLA) are killed by Russian troops at the Oder, sparking international condemnation...

April 17th, 1945: New Age leader Alice Bailey proclaims the "Great Invocation" of the "Age of Aquarius", signaling the "return of the messiah" in Manchester, England....

April 27th, 1945: Anarchist riots erupt in London, England, sparking calls for matial law by government officials...

May 7, 1945: The American Submersible Fleet joins the British and Italian in Blockading France. The American Fleet, who is much more experienced than the British in Anti-submarine tactics, is actually able to fight the French submersibles

May 8th, 1945: Sétif Massacre; Algerian nationalists inflamed after French troops fire on civilians in Sétif, Algeria...

May 13th, 1945: Algerian nationalists sink the French naval cruiser Duguay-Trouin in the Gulf of Bougie, sparking international attention...

June 13th, 1945: New Age leader Gerald Gardner promotes "Skyclad" (a.k.a. "nudism") in Hertfordshire, England, as a form of anti-establishment resistance...

June 15th, 1945: "Age of Aquarius" is proclaimed by New Age practitioners led by "Djhwal Khul" in Los Angeles, California

June 26th, 1945: Sandakan Death March; Mass graves are discovered of c. 470 British soldiers in Sandakan, Malaysia, sparking calls for withdrawal...

June 27th-July 20th, 1945: Battle of Afyonkarahisar-Kutahya-Eskisehir; Greek forces land at Afyonkarahisar-Kutahya-Eskisehir, calling for the collapse of the Ottoman Empire...

August 15th, 1945: Second Sandakan Death March; British forces are ambushed and massacred at Kundasang, Malaysia...

August 25th, 1945: Emperor Bao Dai is killed in Hanoi, after calling for the expulsion of foreign troops in a televised address from Indochina...

September 2nd, 1945: Ho Chi Minh calls for aid from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, proclaiming the need for "life, liberty and hte pursuit of happiness..."

October 29th, 1945: President Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is overthrown in a military coup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....

November 1st, 1945: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac is published in New York City, New York....

November 5, 1945: The Bautista regime is once more stabilized, however the US pressures for reforms and an end to the more blatant forms of Corruption. The Organized Mobs of the US, still find Havana a haven, but their activities are "overlooked" by Bautista in exchange for their help keeping the peace. However Cuba, although invited to be a Commonwealth of the United States, rejects the offer. On another note, Guantanamo has been doubled and is now the main military base for all US operations in the Caribbean. In Nicaragua, things have been mostly quiet. The Commonwealth is now mostly run by native Nicaraguans. Leonardo Argüello Barreto, the governor selected by the US Senate, visits Washington to ask for statehood.

December 2nd, 1945: Fédération Anarchiste Française (FAF) begins operations against the government in Paris, France...

December 27th, 1945: Mathematician Isaak Yudovich Ozimov predicts a massive economic collapse of the United States by 1953, during a lecture in St. Petersburg, Russia...

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January 1, 1946: There are now 5 Atomic Power Plants in the United States. The Angel Island Atomic Reactor in San Francisco, The Madison Atomic Plant in Madison, Wisconsin; The Staten Island Atomic Generator in New York; The Oak Ridge Atomic Reactor in Tennessee

February 18th, 1946: Talwar Mutiny; Indian sailors rebel against British naval forces in Mumbai, India, demanding the withdrawal of British forces natonwide...

March 4th, 1946: Police officials raid Charlton Comics under John Santangelo, Sr. and Ed Levy, after uncovering links to organized crime in Derby, Connecticut...

April 5th, 1946: Asociacion Fisica Argentina led by Enrique Gaviola announces that it has begun nuclear fusion experiements in Buenos Aires, Argentina...

April 19th, 1946: Tesla employees and occult practitioners Jack Whiteside Parsons and Sarah Northrup announce the conception of the "Moonchild" in Pasadena, California...

April 23rd, 1946: Anwui Rebellion; Korean guerillas Li Jung-Kyu and Li Eul Kyu launch rebellion against Japanese forces in Anwui, Korea...

June 1st, 1946: Malagasy rebels assassinate Pierre de Chevigné in Antananarivo, Madagascar...

June 12th, 1946: Ottoman General Hajj Amin al Husseini announces a second crackdown on the "Jewish problem" in Jerusalem, sparking international attention...

July 10th, 1946: Sikh leader Hukam Singh, proclaims independence for the state of Khalistan in Bathinda, India....

July 14, 1946: Christophe I is killed while travelling from Toulouse to Paris. His limousine blown up by a land mine buried in the road by saboteurs aided by Britain, German and Italians. Vice-Emperor Clouseau assumes the mantle of Emperor.

September 14th, 1946: Battle of Ankara; Greek forces under General Anastasios Papoulas capture Ankara, sparking civil unrest throughout the Ottoman Empire...

September 15th, 1946: Labor riots and civil unrest led by Vasil Kolarov erupt in Sofia, Bulgaria, further destabilizing the Balkans politically...

September 17th, 1946: Puchalapalli Sundaraiah leads Socialist rebellion in Nalgonda, Hyderabad, India calling for an independent state of Hyderabad...

October 1, 1946: Electra Tesla gets married to one of her college friends, George H.W. Bush.

October 29th, 1946: The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac is published in New York City, New York....

November 23rd, 1946: Siege of Haiphong; French naval forces bombard Haiphong, Indochina, sparking nationalist sentiment...

December 19th, 1946: Local anarchists protest government policies, by re-enacting the Boston Tea Party in Boston, Massachusetts. Also on this day, Ho Chi Minh announces the Indochinese rebellion in Hanoi, calling for the withdrawal of French troops...

December 24th, 1946: George P. Metesky (a.k.a. "the Mad Bomber") detonates a bomb in Times Sqaure in New York City, New York, injuring 17 people in the process...

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January 5, 1947: Tesla Dynamic begins research on Semiconductors and Transistors. Alan Turing is working an "Calculation Engine". Electra Tesla is perfecting her jet engine designs.

January 15, 1947: The Third French Army surrenders to the Allied Forces in Barcelona, as its general refuses to order his men to a suicide attack. The BEF along with Italian and Spanish Republican Forces cross the Pyrenees into France.

February 6th, 1947: First reported case of "Mittelafrika Feuer" (a.k.a. "Middle-African Fire") is reported in Kinshasha, according to German medical technicians....

February 11th, 1947: Battle of Lahore; Abul Ala Maududi, adherent of Ahmadiyya Islam, launches armed insurrection against British troops in Lahore...

February 19th, 1947: Pierre Besnard leads AIT (International Workers Association) in an armed insurrection at the Renault automobile plant in Lyon, France.....

March 7, 1947: After part of the floor collapses beneath a senator during a visit to the White House, President Roosevelt calls a committe to examine the building to search for any problems with the building. The committe discovers severe structural damage as a result of previous additions to the building, such as the steel roof added in 1927 and upgrades to the wiring. The committe warns the President that if action is not taken immediately, the building may collapse.

April 5, 1947: FDR suffers a minor stroke, which kept him bedridden. Between VP Dewey and Harold Ickes they kept the country running. Later on in an interview Dewey would ask why he didn't exploit the bedridden FDR and become president outright, "I could have but it wasn't right. The American people didn't vote for me, they voted for Frankie, and me and Harry felt obligated to maintain FDR's dignity and continue his agenda."

April 15, 1947: Vice-President Dewey before a panel of reporters, reports that President Roosevelt will be on retreat at Hyde Park, while the White House is renovated. Although not reported by any newspapers, all the journalists know that FDR is at death's door, but they still want to preserve the dignity of the Presidency.

April 21, 1947: After a long 7 year search, FBI agent Richard Nixon captures "The Mad Bomber", propelling Nixon into the national spotlight. After a long court case, Metesky is sentenced to life in prison in Alcatraz

May 1, 1947: Following a recent string of successes, Richard Nixon is promoted to Director of Criminal Investigations by FBI director Hoover.

May 12th, 1947: Seduction of the Innocent by Frederic Werthem, M.D., states that "obscene material" (esp. comic books) are the source in the rise of juvenile crime...

May 15, 1947: With armed insurrections happening across the country, and a French Army betraying them, the Allies make their way across France. The American Submersibles continue to blockade France, while the British, French and Spanish Forces work up from the Pyrenees while the Germans come through Belgium, marching towards Paris.

July 4th-6th, 1947: Members of the "Mattachine Society" and the "Hell's Angels" motorcycle gangs clash in Hollister, California...

July 8, 1947: Electra Tesla successfully tests her new project. The Tesla Dynamic T-J35 Engine. In this test she flew her TDX-1 and set the world speed record. Not only passing Mach 1, but reaching a speed of Mach 2.4, before she ran out of fuel and had to land.

July 20, 1947: Emperor Jacques I surrenders to Coalition Forces. The Fourth French Republic is dismantled, and the Fifth French Republic is formed. The Socialists and Workers parties control about 40% of the National Assembly

August 10, 1947: The Brussels Conference. Prime Minister Butler, meets with German Chancellor von Papen, and Vice President Dewey, along with Italian and French representatives.

August 14th, 1947: Angami Zapu Phizo, head of the Naga National Council (NNC) in Kohima, India, demanding independence for Nagaland. Also on this day, Mahdi Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes his spiritual headquarters in Mecca, demanding an end to the corrupt rule of the Ottoman Empire....

September 1, 1947: After much deliberation all parties come to an agreement. None of the country wants a war and now they meet to discuss how to best stabilize Europe, to stop another European War from ever happening. The following points are agreed:

* The Fifth French Republic, will not bear the blame of the war or face reparations. In fact the German, Italian, and British Army, maintain order and restore the government on January 1, 1949.

* The French Colonial Empire will be reduced to its pre-1936 levels. Mittelafrika will be returned to Germany.

* The Coalition of Nations is founded, for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

September 7th, 1947: Timely Publications sells its mystery men characters, like Liberty Belle and Volcanoman, to Fawcett Comics. Martin Goodman reorganizes the company as Atlas Publications, and switches focus to mythological stories.

September 19th, 1947: Senator Robert Hendrickson (R-NJ) and Senator Estes Kefauver (D-TN) launch Congressional hearings regarding comic books and their link to juvenile crime...

November 5, 1947: The Act of Union merges the People's Republic of Venezeula with the Union of Columbia, into the Estados Unidos de América Repúblicas Socialistas (E.U.A.R.S.) or United States of American Socialist Republics. (USASR)

November 9th, 1947: Dr. Gordon Hennigar reports a case of "persistent pneumonia" in New York City, New York. Scientists later determine it is "Mittelafrika Feuer"....

November 12th, 1947: Self-proclaimed messiah Jehovah Wanyonyi, calls for independence from British rule in Mount Elgon, Kenya....

December 1st, 1947: Sectarian riots between Muslim and Jewish pilgrims erupts in Jerusalem. Ottoman troops are deployed to Jerusalem, Haifa, Mecca, and Damascus...

December 30th, 1947: Government officials in Bucharest, report the economic collapse of Romania, sparking civil unrest and violence...

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January 12th, 1948: Ottoman General Fauzi Al-Kaukji launches a brutal crackdown on Zionist guerillas nationwide...

February 17th, 1948: Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin leads an Islamic fundamentalist revolution against Ottoman leaders Sanaa, Yemen, demanding independence....

March 20th, 1948: Police Chief Craig Ellis launches a series of raids against "obscene literature" (e.g. pornography, comic-books) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

April 9th, 1948: Deir Yassan Massacre; Ottoman General Fauzi Al-Kaukji ambushes Zionist guerillas in Deir Yassan, killing 100 people...

April 11th, 1948: The Pennsylvania State Supreme court rules that Officer Ellis's raids are unconstitutional, and that literature is not inherently obscene.

April 19th, 1948: Seeing mystery men as unprofitable, National Publications sells Owlman and the Investigative Comics line to Fawcett. By now only Charlton and Quality Comics rival Fawcett in the mystery man genre.

May 13th, 1948: Kfar Etzion Massacre; Ottoman General Fauzi Al-Kaukji announces the ambush of Zionist guerillas in Kfar Etzion, killing 128 people...

June 4th, 1948: Comic book publisher William Gaines is jailed in Washington D.C., on charges of "contempt of Congress" after defending comics as "posing no harm to children"....

June 9, 1948: Robert Kennedy graduates summa cum laude from Harvard Law School. He joins the law firm Mudge, Alexander & Associates in New York.

June 15th, 1948: New Age leader Savitri Devi (a.k.a. Maximiani Portas), French sympathizer of Jiddu Krishnamutri, proclaims the "Age of Divine Kings" during a rally in Lyon, France...

June 18th, 1948: Evacuation of Malaysia; British forces evacuate civilians and traders from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as the British presence in the region collapses...

June 20, 1948: The Hearst Corporation Legal team, meets with their subsidiary National Publication Comics (a.k.a. National Comics, a.k.a. "NC") to discuss some form of content scale in order to quell the media storm surrounding comics. The three tier rating system, becomes standard for many comics. The Green level comics, are for child audiences, the Yellow for Teen comics, and the Red for adult comics.

August 3rd, 1948: Argentina and Great Britain come to an accord in Montevideo, agreeing to joint control of the Falklands for the next ten years.

August 13th 1948: General Verdezs son, Alejandro graduates the military colledge in Buenos Aries.

August 24th 1948: Alejandro Verdez, 22, is named the Youngest member of the State Council, and National Front Politburo.

September 5th, 1948: On the Road by Jack Kerouac is published in New York City, New York.....

October 2nd 1948: Robert Byrd joins the Jaguar Party and moves to Sutton, West Virginia

October 12th, 1948: ABC "Argentine Broadcasting Channel" is the first (and only) Television Channel in Argentina, and it glorifies the National Front and General Verdez.

November 1st, 1948: Toussaint Rouge ("Red All Saints' Day"); Algerian nationalists led by Ferhat Abbas and Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj launch a nationalist rebellion....

November 4th, 1948: Robert Byrd is elected as a Republican to the US Senate, beating Melvin Snyder in the primaries, and Harley Staggers in the election.

November 5, 1948: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the popular president who was able to keep the Democratic Party from fracturing was in ill health. At age 66 he was now confined to a wheelchair. Without a frontrunner the Democrats were faced with an impossible situation. How to follow the act of FDR so to speak. Senator Harry S. Truman, Henry Wallace and Strom Thurmond were all front runners. But during the election season, Senator Lovecraft asked for a meeting with Thurmond, and following a generally unsuccessful campaign, led to the Nationalists pledging support to the Democrats should Thurmond be the candidate. On the first Ballot of the convention, there was no clear leader. On the second ballot, Thurmond began to edge out Truman and Wallace. on the third Ballot, Wallace had conceded throwing his support to Truman, in exchange for a cabinet post in a possible Truman administration

Meanwhile for the Republicans, Dewey had been VP under FDR, but was seen as too liberal for many Republicans taste. Hearst still involved with RNC nominations, suggests placing Dewey as the candidate. However Arthur Vandenburg was getting high marks too. There was also a possibility of General MacArthur or Marshall throwing their hat in but it readily became apparent that it would be Dewey v. Vandenburg. Eventually after 7 ballots, and a personal meeting between the two (and a coin toss as would be revealed in the 1960s by Vandenburg), Dewey is the Presidental Candidate, and Vandenburg the VP. The Jaguar Party once more nominates Stimson, but only manage to capture one state for the party. On election day millions of Americans went to the polls to decide. The election was very close, coming down to Illinois in the Electoral college. President-elect Dewey holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune, that incorrectly reported the headline "Truman Defeats Dewey"

November 22, 1948: Mackenzie King retires after 27 years as Prime Minister, a record that still stands today. He is succeeded by Lester Pearson.

December 18th, 1948: La Violencia; Nationalist militias led by Pedro Antonio Marin in Bogota and Medellin launch attacks against the Socialist government....

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March 23rd, 1949: Emir Maulana Muhammad Ali is arrested by Ottoman officials during a religious rally in Riyadh, Ottoman Empire, sparking massive riots and demonstration....

April 2nd, 1949: Comic book artists "Doc" Rankin and Wesley Morse are charged with "obscenity" after they are linked to "Tijuana Bibles" in Washington D.C.,...

April 5th, 1949: Savitri Devi (a.k.a. Maximiani Portas) launches a rally in Dusseldorf, Germany proclaiming the "Age of Divine Kings" sparking international attention and concern...

April 19, 1949: Maurice Duplessis' Tories defeat Pearson's Liberals with 169 of 262 seats. Duplessis is sworn in on Apr. 30.

April 26, 1949: Former President Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs Georgia.

May 8th-9th, 1949: Russian expatriates launch riots in St. Valentin, Austria-Hungary, calling for a collapse to the regime....

August 18th, 1949: Labor riots and unrest led by Árpád Szakasits erupt in Budapest, further destabilizing the Austro-Hungarian government....

September 12, 1949: Enrico Fermi gives an interview with Popular Electric where he is asked, "Could a bomb be made on the same principles as the Staten Island Atomic Plant?" He laughs, but after the interview he begins to think it over. When working on the Manhattan project for Tesla Dynamic, the goal was always a reactor to produce electicity, a bomb was never even considered. He thinks for a moment, and that not only was it possible but fairly easy, given all the work done on the Manhattan Project. However just before he is about to call up Mr. Bush about the news, he thinks about the implications of this "fission explosive". He sits there for a few moments before igniting a bunsen burner and burning his notes on a "fission explosive". Later in his memoirs he wrote, "I felt the world would not, and would never be ready for that power. It seems all I bought it were a few more years"

September 19, 1949: The Case of Gaines v. the District of Columbia is heard before the Supreme Court. In a 6 to 3 decision, the court finds in favor of Gaines, citing first amendment's "Freedom of the Press"

September 20th, 1949: Chief Justice Hugo Black is heard to say "Anyone who thinks picture books are corrupting America's youth, is simply too stupid to be capable of providing a coherent argument." Combined with his recent actions in favor of integration, the ex-klansman is finding his southern power base dwindling.

September 21st, 1949: "Daughters of Bilitis" lesbian motorcycle gang is formed in San Francisco, California...

October 5, 1949: The Supreme Court hears the case of Miller v. Tennessee Board of Education which finds that segregation in the class room is unconstitutional, and therefore all state laws regarding segregation illegal. This creates an uproar in the South. "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

October 16th, 1949: Meher Baba proclaims "New Life" movement in Meherazad, India, in support of "Hindu nationalism"...

November 1st, 1949: Anti-homosexual lynching occurs in Boise, Idaho, sparking national attention and concern...

November 5, 1949: The Comic Book Content Association is established as a way of helping parents make "informed decisions regarding their child's reading". With a powerful Media backer wanting to maintain profits swoops to the defense of comics and involved in a court case that allows for more freedom in newspapers itself. Comic books have a self-regulated content rating system. Freedom of Press was invoked, of course a later Supreme Court could overturn that decision.

November 26th, 1949: Sayyid Muhammad Idris bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Senussi proclaims an Islamic Revolution in Benghazi, Libya, sparking international attention...

December 11th, 1949: Atlas Publications releases Saucy Historical Tales #1. In flagrant defiance of the CBCA, Atlas simply labels the content "16+". When asked about this, Atlas CEO Martin Goodman states he "won't stoop to using a system designed by those b-----ds of Hearst."

[jmberry]

I'd suggest removing the comment about Byrd being elected in 1972. We haven't even gotten to the seventies yet, and there's a good chance the Jaguars won't exist by then. Also, DC Comics don't exist (and they weren't even called that until the 70s anyway OTL). They are still National Publications, and don't have the comics focus they did OTL.

Anyway:

August 3rd, 1948: Argentina and Great Britain come to an accord in Montevideo, agreeing to joint control of the Falklands for the next ten years.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

I'd suggest removing the comment about Byrd being elected in 1972. We haven't even gotten to the seventies yet, and there's a good chance the Jaguars won't exist by then. Also, DC Comics don't exist (and they weren't even called that until the 70s anyway OTL). They are still National Publications, and don't have the comics focus they did OTL.

Anyway:

August 3rd, 1948: Argentina and Great Britain come to an accord in Montevideo, agreeing to joint control of the Falklands for the next ten years.

I've added your POD. As for the first point about Byrd, it could be a situation similar to the case of Arlen Specter (D-PA), who in OTL, changed political parties twice before he lost the primary yesterday, despite over 40 years in elected office. In this case, the idea could be that Byrd could change parties, but it will have to be at an important juncture...

As for the National Publications, they became primarily known for its flagship title Detective Comics starting in 1937. In the ATL, it could be argued that similar pressures have arisen....

[Prometheus_2300]

Behold the World of 1950!!!

[jmberry]

I've added your POD. As for the first point about Byrd, it could be a situation similar to the case of Arlen Specter (D-PA), who in OTL, changed political parties twice before he lost the primary yesterday, despite over 40 years in elected office. In this case, the idea could be that Byrd could change parties, but it will have to be at an important juncture...

As for the National Publications, they became primarily known for its flagship title Detective Comics starting in 1937. In the ATL, it could be argued that similar pressures have arisen....

Except they never made Detective Comics TTL. A similar title, Investigative Stories Comics, was launched, but they focus on detective stories, not superheroes (who are called mystery men TTL). And again, they were National Publications or National Comics until the sixties. Which reminds me ...

September 7th, 1947: Timely Publications sells its mystery men characters, like Liberty Belle and Volcanoman, to Fawcett Comics. Martin Goodman reorganizes the company as Atlas Publications, and switches focus to mythological stories.

April 19th, 1948: Seeing mystery men as unprofitable, National Publications sells Owlman and the Investigative Comics line to Fawcett. By now only Charlton and Quality Comics rival Fawcett in the mystery man genre.

September 20th, 1949: Chief Justice Hugo Black is heard to say "Anyone who thinks picture books are corrupting America's youth, is simply too stupid to be capable of providing a coherent argument." Combined with his recent actions in favor of integration, the ex-klansman is finding his southern power base dwindling.

December 11th, 1949: Atlas Publications releases Saucy Historical Tales #1. In flagrant defiance of the CBCA, Atlas simply labels the conten "16+". When asked about this, Atlas CEO Martin Goodman states he "won't stoop to using a system designed by those b-----ds of Hearst."



Also, I was refering to Byrd being elected as president.

[RogueBeaver]

Are there many 40s PODs left? I'm anxious to start the 1950s. :cool:

[Prometheus_2300]

Except they never made Detective Comics TTL. A similar title, Investigative Stories Comics, was launched, but they focus on detective stories, not superheroes (who are called mystery men TTL). And again, they were National Publications or National Comics until the sixties. Which reminds me ...

September 7th, 1947: Timely Publications sells its mystery men characters, like Liberty Belle and Volcanoman, to Fawcett Comics. Martin Goodman reorganizes the company as Atlas Publications, and switches focus to mythological stories.

April 19th, 1948: Seeing mystery men as unprofitable, National Publications sells Owlman and the Investigative Comics line to Fawcett. By now only Charlton and Quality Comics rival Fawcett in the mystery man genre.

September 20th, 1949: Chief Justice Hugo Black is heard to say "Anyone who thinks picture books are corrupting America's youth, is simply too stupid to be capable of providing a coherent argument." Combined with his recent actions in favor of integration, the ex-klansman is finding his southern power base dwindling.

December 11th, 1949: Atlas Publications releases Saucy Historical Tales #1. In flagrant defiance of the CBCA, Atlas simply labels the conten "16+". When asked about this, Atlas CEO Martin Goodman states he "won't stoop to using a system designed by those b-----ds of Hearst."



Also, I was refering to Byrd being elected as president.

So just to clarify. What are the major comic book companies of this ATL? It's a bit difficult to tell with all the PODs and mergers and characters selling and name changes. I just included DC because I thought it was around at the time? Which comic company should Hearst Corp own?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

jmberry- I have added your PODs. In an effort to make sure that there are no major contradictions, I will simply remove the "Future President references" for Robert Byrd. Second, DC will become National Comics (NC), in an effort to prevent any major changes.

Prometheus 2300- Hearst will have ownership of National Comics (NC). Atlas Comics (AC) and Fawcett Comics are separate comic book companies, and for now make up the majority of the marketplace. Charlton Comics was recently raided for its links to organized crime. Also make sure that a copy of the map is posted in the "Timelines & Scenarios" section , once the 1940s has been posted....

RogueBeaver- Feel free to start the Fabulous 50s!!

[Prometheus_2300]

By the way I forgot to ask. Did I miss anything on the map?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

By the way I forgot to ask. Did I miss anything on the map?

Nothing that I can notice... So far the maps look wonderful!!!

[Prometheus_2300]

Thanks Bondoc! I was mostly worried that I forgot something in Africa or that the India parts were too small.

By the way, do you think the Dutch are likely to give up Indonesia anytime soon? Or what sort of policy do you think they are following?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Thanks Bondoc! I was mostly worried that I forgot something in Africa or that the India parts were too small.

By the way, do you think the Dutch are likely to give up Indonesia anytime soon? Or what sort of policy do you think they are following?

My thoughts are that the Dutch, are considered terribly ineefective in the region. The fact that the Japanese, the French, the Chinese, the Russians, the British, and the Americans haven't even consulted the Dutch is a sign that they are not taken seriously in the region. My best guess is that it would be like Portugal in OTL. Although they have control of Singapore, everyone sees them as a second or third-rate power in the region...

[Prometheus_2300]

My thoughts are that the Dutch, are considered terribly ineefective in the region. The fact that the Japanese, the French, the Chinese, the Russians, the British, and the Americans haven't even consulted the Dutch is a sign that they are not taken seriously in the region. My best guess is that it would be like Portugal in OTL. Although they have control of Singapore, everyone sees them as a second or third-rate power in the region...

Works for me. Once the final draft of the 1940s is posted I will start on the 1950s.

[RogueBeaver]

I believe Mr Bondoc has posted the 1940s in the T&S subforum, so presumably the 1940s are completed.

November 4, 1952: President Dewey wins re-election, Rep. Joseph Kennedy (MA-11) is elected the junior Senator from Massachusetts.

July 17, 1953: Canadian Prime Minister Maurice Duplessis' Tories win a second term in a landslide.

November 2, 1954: Robert Kennedy is elected the Republican Congressman from NY-26.

November 6, 1956: President Dewey is re-elected to a third term.

November 4, 1958: Democrats retake both houses of Congress, Sen. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) overwhelmingly re-elected to a second term.

Sept. 7, 1959: Canadian Prime Minister Maurice Duplessis dies of a severe stroke at age 69. Deputy Prime Minister Daniel Johnson succeeds him.

[jmberry]

So just to clarify. What are the major comic book companies of this ATL? It's a bit difficult to tell with all the PODs and mergers and characters selling and name changes. I just included DC because I thought it was around at the time? Which comic company should Hearst Corp own?
The big *superhero publisher is Fawcett Comics TTL. OTL they created Captain Marvel. Rivaling them in *superheroes are Charlton Comics (OTL they produced the characters the cast of "Watchmen" were based off of), and Quality Comics (best known for producing some of the most bizarre Golden Age characters imaginable).

Both of the companies most well known for superheroes OTL have ditched that genre TTL. Timely/Atlas is now focusing on mythological stories and erotica, and will probably never become Marvel Comics. National Comics, which in the sixties OTL renamed itself DC after the comics Batman appeared in, never really got into the *superhero game TTL, and now focuses on stuff like detectives, and, now that we're in the Fifties, spies.

I don't know what would have become of EC comics TTL, if they ever existed.

For the record, I'm trying to avoid what happened in "50 years" with comics, which was largely "The same events and characters with slightly different names. Oh, and Stan Lee works for DC somehow." Thus I don't plan on having Stan Lee, or even Stanley Lieber, appear TTL, and that's why I've been having different companies focus on *superheroes while *DC and *Marvel avoid the genre.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are some PODs:

April 25th, 1950: Republik Maluku Selatan led by Chr. R. S. Soumokil, demands independence from Indonesia at Ambon...

June 29th, 1951: Admiral Khuang Aphaiwong overthrows the government in a military coup in Bangkok, Thailand, sparking tensions in Southeast Asia....

January 11th, 1952: Egyptian General Hussein Sirri Pasha is assassinated by nationalist guerillas in Cairo, demanding withdrawal of British forces from the region...

January 13th, 1952: Maharaja Gaj Singh II calls for independence for Jodhpur, further dividing the former state of India....

March 27th, 1952: Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer is assassinated in Munich, Germany after calling for political reforms during a rally...

July 7th, 1954: General Gamal Abdel Nasser is assassinated by British forces, during a rally in Ismaila, demanding Egyptian independence....

April 6th, 1956: Colonel Ramón M. Barquín overthrows the government in Havana, Cuba, demanding the withdrawal of American forces....

May 10th, 1957: Colmbian nationalist guerilla Gabriel París Gordillo launches armed insurrection against the USASR in Bogota....

December 18th, 1959: General Abd al-Karim Qasim launches a nationalist rebellion calling for Iraqi independence in Baghdad, further breaking the Ottoman Empire...

[Prometheus_2300]

January 13, 1952: Electra Tesla-Bush takes charge of a subsidiary of Tesla Dynamic. The often overlooked, Aviation division. She names it Electra Dynamics

April 15, 1953: The designs for the ED F-2 Fighter Jet are complete, and begin rolling off the assembly design

November 5, 1954: George Bush, who handles managing the Electra Dynamics, after much lobbying of the Defense budget, gets funding for a Rocket program

January 1, 1955: The Vanguard Series of Rockets is started production

March 14, 1955: Vanguard-01 fails to launch. The Navy withdraws from the project. The Secretary of the Navy, said "What is the point of a rocket when you have battleships and submersibles"

June 20, 1955: Vanguard-03 launches. It is the first object to reach orbit. The 200 pound canister, orbits the Earth for 3 months before burning up over the Saharan Desert.

September 12, 1958: The Electra Tesla Science Hour, a half hour weekly science program starts airing. It becomes one of the longest running children's shows in Television History

<Ok so Electra can do a lot of the things she does because of the money from her parents, both now deceased. Making her one of the richest people in the Country. No one calls her out for doing 'man's work' because she is the "Heir of Tesla-Morgan". No idea what this could mean for gender equality in America>

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are some PODs that should get things heated:

July 23rd, 1950: Mississippi Attorney General Thomas P. Brady launches a class-action suit against the Miller v. Tennessee State Board of Education, proclaiming it a violation of the 10th Amendment...

December 1st, 1950: Southern Manifesto by James O. Eastland is published, asserting that Miller v. Tennessee State Board of Education is unconstitutional, robbing the "states' rights"....

February 16th, 1951: Projeckt Huemul; Enrique Gaviola announces the detonation of a nuclear weapon on La Isla de Huemul, Patagonia, shocking the world....

March 3rd, 1951: The Iron Sword Over America by Colonel John O. Beaty proclaims that the United States, through its "Autonomous Territory of Sitka" has fallen under the thrall of the "Judaized Khazars". The anti-Semitic tract is a major bestseller nationwide...

March 24th, 1951: Government officials announce in Buenos Aires that despite international opposition, Argentina will mass produce the nuclear weapons as a "security deterrent" against the the "Socialist horde"...

July 11th, 1952: Gerald L. K. Smith leads rally of the Jaguar Party, proclaiming that with the "Autonomous Territoy of Sitka", the country is "under the control of the Jews..."

[RogueBeaver]

July 17, 1957: A CIA-backed coup overthrows Cuban leader Col. Roman Barquin and installs Gen. Fulgencio Batista in his place.

November 22, 1959: President Dewey concludes the top-secret Fairfax Accords with Ottoman Prime Minister Abdul Demiran in Fairfax, Virginia. In return for US military bases in Turkey and arms shipments to the Empire to help quell nationalist uprisings, Demiran agrees to reduced tariff barriers and oil prices.

December 25, 1959: In the "Christmas Day Massacre", a joint operation by the Ottoman Imperial Intelligence Bureau (OIIB) and CIA, Iraqi nationalist leaders are rounded up and summarily executed in Mosul, Iraq under direct orders from Constantinople.

April 15, 1955: President Dewey signs the National Air and Space Administration (NASA) Act into law, thus creating NASA.

June 20, 1959: Sen. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) wins the nonbinding Florida Democratic straw poll. Some take this as an indication that Kennedy will seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

April 8th, 1950: José Lluis Facerias bombs the Lonja police station in Barcelona, calling for Catalonian independence...

July 19th, 1951: "Brigada politico-social" led by César Saborit Carrelero takes responsibility for several bombings in Barcelona, killing 17 people....

September 4th, 1951: Wolfenden Report released in London, England; report recommends the chemical castration of "sexual deviants", especially homosexuals as a "social protection"...

September 21st, 1951: Russian officials detonate a nuclear weapon at Semipalatinsk, Russia, sparking fears that the West (esp. the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Germany) are falling behind.....

February 1st, 1952: Philip Lamantia introduces mainstream society to peyote in San Francisco, California, sparking national attention...

July 5th, 1952: John Cage introduces the world to "Leveller" music in San Francisco, California, as a symbol of youth rebellion...

October 13th, 1953: Qibya Massacre; Zionist guerillas massacre Ottoman civilians in Qibya, Palestine...

November 4th, 1954: Stockholm Riots; Stig Dagerman leads labor riots and civil unrest in Stockholm, Sweden...

October 29th, 1956: Kafr Qasim Massacre; Egyptian and Ottoman forces clash, after Palestinian guerillas launch attacks in Kafr Qasim, killing 49 people, and escape into Egypt...

December 22nd, 1956: Ceasefire is announced in London, England between the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, sparking tensions between the Muslim states...

March 12th, 1958: Yordan Sotirov, Bulgarian nationalist proclaims independence of Bulgaria during a rally in Sofia...

May 28th, 1958: Peace activist Ammon Hennacy, dies after 40-days of a hunger-strike outside the White House in Washington D.C.,...

[QuoProQuid]

OOC: If we were to rank the top ten best nations in this world (economically, politically, etc.) which nations would be where?

Also, as a result of the Pershing Purchase, there are going to be floods of Mexican immigrants wandering into rural areas. This, combined with the larger border probably should have resulted in some sort of reverse White Flight.

Perhaps Italy could hold an Independence Referendum with its colonies, seeing as it is one of the few stable and sane Great Powers. With the nonsense happening with the British colonies, Italy has got to be wondering when their own will start to become unhappy.

[Prometheus_2300]

OOC: If we were to rank the top ten best nations in this world (economically, politically, etc.) which nations would be where?

Also, as a result of the Pershing Purchase, there are going to be floods of Mexican immigrants wandering into rural areas. This, combined with the larger border probably should have resulted in some sort of reverse White Flight.

Perhaps Italy could hold an Independence Referendum with its colonies, seeing as it is one of the few stable and sane Great Powers. With the nonsense happening with the British colonies, Italy has got to be wondering when their own will start to become unhappy.

Well I will give it a shot. So Prometheus2300's Top Ten!

1. Great Britain - After the Third European War its honor has been restored, and it has the largest conventional navy in the world. However they have been slow to move to adapt new technologies. Even after being decimated by French Subs. American Submersible crews were the ones to take down the French Submersibles. The British provided vital support and Naval Superiority. At present they are at peace between other Nations. They are in the Pacific Alliance with the United States and Japan, they are also at peace with Italy, Germany, Spain, and ostensibly France (Sort of Like Germany in 1946 there). They are uneasy about the Scandinavian Union, and are on bad terms with the Russians. In terms of their empire, things are messy, India is on the verge of open revolt. Africa is in trouble too. Economically, things are okay. Trade is good but raw materials from the colonies are intermittent

2. United States - Under Presidents Roosevelt and Dewey, they have rocketed to the international stage. They played vital roles in the Third European War, and are now strategic partners with Japan and Britain in the Pacific. They are also home to many of the great scientists of the age. The Pershing Doctrine, is going effectively and Nicaragua is applying for Statehood. Domestically, race relations and anti-semitism are at new highs. The Sitka Dilemma, has galvanized the country. Yellow Journalism is standard. In popular elections there are two major parties, but about 3 minor parties. Over the last 20 years there has been only liberal bend presidents, although of varying parties. Relations are tense between China, Russia, and EUARS

3. Italy - Despite all the problems that the other Europeans faced, Italy has been a stalwart. Its colonies content, Oil exports from Libya continue, and has been victorious in the third European War. They are on reasonably good relations with everyone. They also are home to the Holy See, which gives them a boost to prestige

4. Russia - They have waged battle in all three European wars and all three Asian wars. Their soldiers are all battlehardened veterans. They have the largest army in the world, but are capitalist... somewhat. They are also far behind technologically (No stalin industrialization) and is about 25 years behind the European Powers.

5. China - After over a century and a half of European Domination, China is free, save Hong Kong. They must modernize quickly... or accept Russian aid. They are vowed to protect Socialist Korea from Japanese Attack. Something not very likely right now, but still a possibility. They dislike the Pacific Alliance, and see it as little more then a means to halt them from influence in the Pacific.

6. Germany - They have won two European Wars, but lost the second one. They are an industrial powerhouse. However they are growing tired of maintaining a large colonial Empire, and focusing on more domestic matters. The consensus among Germans is that they maintained the empire, but forget about the loose dogs at our gates. It is maintaining garrison troops in France, and is very concerned about Russia. Emperor Wilhelm III at the behest of the Richestag is trying to organize a grand alliance in the event of a soviet invasion

7. Ottoman Empire - Being victorious in the First European War, and staying out of the other two, worked well for them. They have consolidated their control over the Oil fields. However they are facing revolts in Arabia. They are leery of Europeans getting them under thumb again, but are in negotiations with Persia for a mutual defensive pact.

8. Japan - Wrecked by Hirohito's Reign, and the intervening chaos, they must do a lot of rebuilding to become strong once more. With the help of their new American and British Allies, their economy is recovering, and the sharing of technologies is helping with modernization.

9. Scandinavian Union - Magnusson's Empire is right now seen as a black sheep. He endorsed Christophe I's policies but was not agressive enough in the Second European War. Although strong and stable for now, they only are allies of the Russia and China.

10. TIE - Argentinan Imperium OR EUARS - Both countries are modernizing at equal pace, and economies on the rise. Venezeula is edging ahead with Oil but the American blockade is hurting them. Argentina's military eats up a large proportion of the GNP and thus is in the same boat

Honorable Mentions: Austro-Hungary, Mexico, Persia, Netherlands, Brazil

>>>>

Also I disagree with a reverse White flight idea. If anything the cheap land, and sparse population, will encourage white settlement and exploitation of the native pop. Similar to what happened to California after Guadeloupe.

Also Casualties List

First European War: ~5.3 million (Reasoning: It was quick. German Troops were able to weave around French troops and force a surrender)
Second European War: ~ 20.0 million (Reasoning: Heavy use of Chemical Warfare on civilian targets by the french, but overall civilians weren't attacked)
Third European War: ~11.2 million (Reasoning: Large French Casualties, Deathcamps, heavy urban fighting)
Third Russo-Japanese War: ~22.4 million (Reasoning: Massacres, Chemical Warfare, The Burning of Korea, Large Chinese losses)

Overall the Third Russo-Japanese War is the closest to our world's casualties, hovering between OTL's WW1 and WW2 for sheer size. However taken together, all three wars of the 1940s, out numbers world war 2. Popular Perception would view 3 smaller wars instead of one big war

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is what we have so far:

April 8th, 1950: José Lluis Facerias bombs the Lonja police station in Barcelona, calling for Catalonian independence...

April 25th, 1950: Republik Maluku Selatan led by Chr. R. S. Soumokil, demands independence from Indonesia at Ambon...

July 23rd, 1950: Mississippi Attorney General Thomas P. Brady launches a class-action suit against the Miller v. Tennessee State Board of Education, proclaiming it a violation of the 10th Amendment...

December 1st, 1950: Southern Manifesto by James O. Eastland is published, asserting that Miller v. Tennessee State Board of Education is unconstitutional, robbing the "states' rights"....

************

February 16th, 1951: Projeckt Huemul; Enrique Gaviola announces the detonation of a nuclear weapon on La Isla de Huemul, Patagonia, shocking the world....

March 3rd, 1951: The Iron Sword Over America by Colonel John O. Beaty proclaims that the United States, through its "Autonomous Territory of Sitka" has fallen under the thrall of the "Judaized Khazars". The anti-Semitic tract is a major bestseller nationwide...

March 24th, 1951: Government officials announce in Buenos Aires that despite international opposition, Argentina will mass produce the nuclear weapons as a "security deterrent" against the the "Socialist horde"...

June 29th, 1951: Admiral Khuang Aphaiwong overthrows the government in a military coup in Bangkok, Thailand, sparking tensions in Southeast Asia....

July 19th, 1951: "Brigada politico-social" led by César Saborit Carrelero takes responsibility for several bombings in Barcelona, killing 17 people....

September 4th, 1951: Wolfenden Report released in London, England; report recommends the chemical castration of "sexual deviants", especially homosexuals as a "social protection"...

September 21st, 1951: Russian officials detonate a nuclear weapon at Semipalatinsk, Russia, sparking fears that the West (esp. the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Germany) are falling behind.....

***********

January 11th, 1952: Egyptian General Hussein Sirri Pasha is assassinated by nationalist guerillas in Cairo, demanding withdrawal of British forces from the region...

January 13th, 1952: Maharaja Gaj Singh II calls for independence for Jodhpur, further dividing the former state of India. Also on this day, Electra Tesla-Bush takes charge of a subsidiary of Tesla Dynamic. The often overlooked, Aviation division. She names it Electra Dynamics

February 1st, 1952: Philip Lamantia introduces mainstream society to peyote in San Francisco, California, sparking national attention...

March 27th, 1952: Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer is assassinated in Munich, Germany after calling for political reforms during a rally...

July 5th, 1952: John Cage introduces the world to "Leveller" music in San Francisco, California, as a symbol of youth rebellion...

July 11th, 1952: Gerald L. K. Smith leads rally of the Jaguar Party, proclaiming that with the "Autonomous Territoy of Sitka", the country is "under the control of the Jews..."

November 4, 1952: President Dewey wins re-election, Rep. Joseph Kennedy (MA-11) is elected the junior Senator from Massachusetts.

***********

April 15, 1953: The designs for the ED F-2 Fighter Jet are complete, and begin rolling off the assembly design

July 17, 1953: Canadian Prime Minister Maurice Duplessis' Tories win a second term in a landslide.

October 13th, 1953: Qibya Massacre; Zionist guerillas massacre Ottoman civilians in Qibya, Palestine...

July 7th, 1954: General Gamal Abdel Nasser is assassinated by British forces, during a rally in Ismaila, demanding Egyptian independence....

November 2, 1954: Robert Kennedy is elected the Republican Congressman from NY-26.

November 4th, 1954: Stockholm Riots; Stig Dagerman leads labor riots and civil unrest in Stockholm, Sweden...

November 5, 1954: George Bush, who handles managing the Electra Dynamics, after much lobbying of the Defense budget, gets funding for a Rocket program

***********

January 1, 1955: The Vanguard Series of Rockets is started production

March 14, 1955: Vanguard-01 fails to launch. The Navy withdraws from the project. The Secretary of the Navy, said "What is the point of a rocket when you have battleships and submersibles"

April 15, 1955: President Dewey signs the National Air and Space Administration (NASA) Act into law, thus creating NASA.

June 20, 1955: Vanguard-03 launches. It is the first object to reach orbit. The 200 pound canister, orbits the Earth for 3 months before burning up over the Saharan Desert.

************

April 6th, 1956: Colonel Ramón M. Barquín overthrows the government in Havana, Cuba, demanding the withdrawal of American forces....

October 29th, 1956: Kafr Qasim Massacre; Egyptian and Ottoman forces clash, after Palestinian guerillas launch attacks in Kafr Qasim, killing 49 people, and escape into Egypt...

November 6, 1956: President Dewey is re-elected to a third term.

December 22nd, 1956: Ceasefire is announced in London, England between the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, sparking tensions between the Muslim states...

************

May 10th, 1957: Colmbian nationalist guerilla Gabriel París Gordillo launches armed insurrection against the USASR in Bogota....

July 17, 1957: A CIA-backed coup overthrows Cuban leader Col. Roman Barquin and installs Gen. Fulgencio Batista in his place.

************

March 12th, 1958: Yordan Sotirov, Bulgarian nationalist proclaims independence of Bulgaria during a rally in Sofia...

May 28th, 1958: Peace activist Ammon Hennacy, dies after 40-days of a hunger-strike outside the White House in Washington D.C.,...

September 12, 1958: The Electra Tesla Science Hour, a half hour weekly science program starts airing. It becomes one of the longest running children's shows in Television History

November 4, 1958: Democrats retake both houses of Congress, Sen. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) overwhelmingly re-elected to a second term.

***************

June 20, 1959: Sen. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) wins the nonbinding Florida Democratic straw poll. Some take this as an indication that Kennedy will seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960.

Sept. 7, 1959: Canadian Prime Minister Maurice Duplessis dies of a severe stroke at age 69. Deputy Prime Minister Daniel Johnson succeeds him.

November 22, 1959: President Dewey concludes the top-secret Fairfax Accords with Ottoman Prime Minister Abdul Demiran in Fairfax, Virginia. In return for US military bases in Turkey and arms shipments to the Empire to help quell nationalist uprisings, Demiran agrees to reduced tariff barriers and oil prices.

December 18th, 1959: General Abd al-Karim Qasim launches a nationalist rebellion calling for Iraqi independence in Baghdad, further breaking the Ottoman Empire...

December 25, 1959: In the "Christmas Day Massacre", a joint operation by the Ottoman Imperial Intelligence Bureau (OIIB) and CIA, Iraqi nationalist leaders are rounded up and summarily executed in Mosul, Iraq under direct orders from Constantinople.

[Brady Kj]

I thought you were going to put people in space by 1955? And there's nothing in the 50s about comics yet, so may I amend that?

[QuoProQuid]

I have just realized that the Philippines seem to have been left hanging in the mid 40s. Martial law got declared, but no updates were made regarding its situation. Would it be alright if I added a few dates late just to resolve some issues?

[jmberry]

Actually, I'd say Russia would be #3, not Italy, since Russia did go through an indrustrialization phase.

Anyway:

April 3rd, 1953: Charlton Comics, ruined by anti-mafia investigations, folds and is bought out by Fawcett Comics.

November 14th, 1954: Stanley Lieber writes "The Fantastic Voyage", the first modern science fiction novel. It is noted for it's grounding in various scientific theories, and marks sci fi's departure from fantastic stories to more serious works.

August 17th, 1959: Fawcett Comics buys out Quality Comics, leaving themselves sole creators of mystery men themed comics, an increasingly narrow niche in an industry filled with detectives (NC), spies (NC again), cowboys (EC), horror (EC again), fantasy (Atlas), and erotica (Atlas again).

[Mr_ Bondoc]

I have just realized that the Philippines seem to have been left hanging in the mid 40s. Martial law got declared, but no updates were made regarding its situation. Would it be alright if I added a few dates late just to resolve some issues?

August 31st, 1950: Hukbalahap Muslim guerillas assassinate U.S. Army General General Edward Lansdale in Bulacan, Philippines...

October 17th, 1950: Hukbalahap leader Luis Taruc is recognized as the "popular leader" of the Philippines by the Socialist government of the USASR...

March 23rd, 1951: Hukbalahap guerillas seize control of Pampanga,c. 50 miles froml from Manila.....

July 31st, 1951: U.S. Army General William Westmoreland is killed in a suicide bomber attack in Manila, 23 feet from the Presidential Palace....

September 20th, 1952: Guillermo Capadocia launches a Muslim rebellion against American forces in Visayas, demanding an end to "American imperialism"....

May 17th, 1954: Hukbalahap leader Luis Taruc lays siege to Manila, sparking concerns of a collapse of the government...

December 10th, 1957: Hacienda Luisita Rebellion; Jose Cojuangco (OTL's father of Corazon Aquino) is killed in a peasant uprising, when rural farmers demand payment for services...

[Prometheus_2300]

I thought you were going to put people in space by 1955? And there's nothing in the 50s about comics yet, so may I amend that?

I was but then I realized that Electra Tesla and a few others are the only ones pushing the boundary for space. In this era of cooperative imperialism, I see limited applications for rocketry. Right now I am expecting more unmanned development then manned. For example, Human space flight might not get up there until the mid 60s, but we would have 1970s level unmanned flight. This is the problem with starting private space development first. Manned Space Flight is expensive with limited returns at the start. Hence Tesla, even with her father's legacy, and mountains of money, can't get the government behind a manned program yet.

As time passes and the importance of satellites becomes more apparent to other powers, I am sure there will be cause for manned flight.

November 1, 1951: The world is stunned over the detonation of a Russian atomic device. So begins the race by the Imperial Powers to develop the bomb.

November 12, 1955: As a response to the Fantastic Voyage, National Comics tries to capitalize on factual science fiction comics. They capitalize on bringing in a wide range of diverse writers and artists. One choice is the exporting of a work by Osamu Tezuka called Mechanoboy.

October 4, 1957: The launch of Polaris-1; The first television broadcast satellite of the 15 satellite Tesla Communication Network

November 5, 1957: NASA, designs and launches the first of many Orbital Observers for the OSS. (OOC: Have we established if the CIA was made in this world? If not can it still be the OSS?)

June 20, 1959: Prototype Electra Dynamic Jet VX-15, reaches an altitude where the air is too thin to operate. This flight is followed up many times. Electra Tesla herself is now design the VX-17. A small aircraft capable of carrying 4 people into high altitudes and launching

<Eventually I plan to see a sort of shuttle system where the spacecraft is dropped from a plane and uses rockets to pop into orbit. Yes its horribly inefficient, but the Defense department will buy a super fast plane that can get around the world in about 4 hours, but not a Saturn Rocket>

Oh and the Presidential List (Washington's limit is busted)

1912-1916: William Howard Taft (R)
1916-1920: William McAdoo (D)
1920-1924: John Pershing (R)
1924-1928: John Pershing (R)
1928-1932: Calvin Coolidge (R)
1932-1936: Calvin Coolidge (R) Died of heartattack in 1933, Hiram Bingham (R) becomes President
1936-1940: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)
1940-1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)
1944-1948: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) w/ VP Thomas Dewey (R)
1948-1952: Thomas E. Dewey (R)
1952-1956: Thomas E. Dewey (R)
1956-1960: Thomas E. Dewey (R)

[Brady Kj]

Let me know if any of this doesn't fit into this TL, or does fit but in a different time. I don't want to step on anyone's toes by adding to the story. But feel free to add whatever you want after my additions. This is mostly about comic books, but it brings in some very major political events.

February 1952: Charlton comics artist/writer Steve Ditko convinced his employers to take a risk on a concept of his, a Objectivist anti-government comic called Captain A. It was canceled after the first issue, but was widely distributed by members of the counterculture who actually went to Charlton headquarters and demanded to bring back Captain A.

April 1952: Ditko begins a comic miniseries called "A for Avenger" which was only distributed in venues where underground comics are sold.

June 1952: To copy the surprising success of Captain A, Quality Comics writer Harvey Kurtzman publishes a one-shot political satire comic, about a character resembling Liberty Belle but called Libertine Belle, and the cover shows her punching President Dewy in the face. It is sold in the same venues as the Captain A comic.

June 1952: Several new underground comics about masked vigilantes are created and distributed in political radical circles. The authorship of these comics is a secret, and most of the artists use mystery man style pen names. These comics soon become the most popular entertainment medium of the counterculture movement. Graffiti showing superheroes fighting against symbols of the establishment begin to appear in major cities across North America. Many political protestors now wear masks.

July 1952: The Spider-Men, the first 20th-century masked gang is formed. They were a group of white and Hispanic motorcyclists. Shortly afterward, there are the Black Jaguars and an resurgence of white supremacists in KKK robes.

August 1952: An FBI investigation led by Richard Nixon proves that many places that sell radical newspapers also sell illegal drugs (which was no surprise) and a few of them sell advanced military weapons (which shocked everyone). Newspaper articles mention that most of these stores sold both A for Avenger and Libertine Belle comics.

August 1952: Quality Comics cancels its Libertine Belle series and fires Harvey Kurtzman, but somebody calling himself the Mad Man continues the series in a much darker direction. Charlton continues its Captain A series, because it's the only thing that's turning a profit.

1953: A radical objectivist calling himself Mr. A begins writing underground comics, shortly after Charlton folds and Fawcett comics fires Steve Ditko.

1954: During a US senate meeting, a group of 16 men break away from their tour group in the Capitol building, put on matching masks with the anarchy A symbol, and walk in on a senate meeting but then pull out assault pistols and a grenade from their coats, killing several guards and causing serious brain damage to one senator before they are taken down by the police. . The fact that they were somewhat successful suggests that they had connections to insiders in the Capitol Building's security. The three gang members who were not killed on the spot were interrogated extensively said their boss only gave them information on a need-to-know basis, so they didn't know if their organization had members who work in the building. One of the gang members cited Mr. A and Mad Man as inspirations to him. (Someone else may flesh out the details of this and its investigation, and butterfly freely;D)

1954: Harvey Kurtzman and Steve Ditko are arrested for conspiracy, due to the suspicion that they are the underground writers Mr. A and Mad Man. They tell their judges that they aren't these people, and that they don't think those writers did anything illegal. They had swift trials and were sentenced to 20 years in prison for treason.
1956: Police arrested a Detroit teacher named Jerry Gwin Bails for possible connection to the Radical Comics Movement. Bails had stolen the names and traits of canceled comic book characters in creating new characters, and sold them in Michigan, Ontario, and Ohio. Bails said he had nothing to do with the Radical Comics Movement, that he just took to writing and drawing fan comics to "save his sanity" after his wife's suicide, and then his friends started offering money for the comics, and showed them to their friends and relatives, and he promised not to draw any more comics. The judge dropped charges and Bails considered writing science fiction stories instead, but over the week he received notices of lawsuits from Fawcett, EC, and Atlas., totaling to nearly , which Bails could never pay off. Bails then committed suicide.

1959: the real Mad Man and Mr. A were in fact one man named Andy Warhola, who was very skilled at copying the styles of other artists. Kurtzman and Ditko were released.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are your PODs with a few more details for the ATL:

Let me know if any of this doesn't fit into this TL, or does fit but in a different time. I don't want to step on anyone's toes by adding to the story. But feel free to add whatever you want after my additions. This is mostly about comic books, but it brings in some very major political events.

February 20th, 1952: Charlton comics artist/writer Steve Ditko convinced his employers to take a risk on a concept of his, a Objectivist anti-government comic called Captain A. It was canceled after the first issue, but was widely distributed by members of the counterculture who actually went to Charlton headquarters and demanded to bring back Captain A.

April 15th, 1952: Ditko begins a comic miniseries called "A for Avenger" which was only distributed in venues where underground comics are sold.

June 5th, 1952: To copy the surprising success of Captain A, Quality Comics writer Harvey Kurtzman publishes a one-shot political satire comic, about a character resembling Liberty Belle but called Libertine Belle, and the cover shows her punching President Dewy in the face. It is sold in the same venues as the Captain A comic.

June 15th, 1952: Several new underground comics about masked vigilantes are created and distributed in political radical circles. The authorship of these comics is a secret, and most of the artists use mystery man style pen names. These comics soon become the most popular entertainment medium of the counterculture movement. Graffiti showing superheroes fighting against symbols of the establishment begin to appear in major cities across North America. Many political protestors now wear masks.

July 15th, 1952: The Spider-Men, the first 20th-century masked gang is formed. They were a group of white and Hispanic motorcyclists. Shortly afterward, there are the Black Jaguars and an resurgence of white supremacists in KKK robes.

August 10th, 1952: An FBI investigation led by Richard Nixon proves that many places that sell radical newspapers also sell illegal drugs (which was no surprise) and a few of them sell advanced military weapons (which shocked everyone). Newspaper articles mention that most of these stores sold both A for Avenger and Libertine Belle comics.

August 15th, 1952: Quality Comics cancels its Libertine Belle series and fires Harvey Kurtzman, but somebody calling himself the Mad Man continues the series in a much darker direction. Charlton continues its Captain A series, because it's the only thing that's turning a profit.

April 12th, 1953: A radical objectivist calling himself Mr. A begins writing underground comics, shortly after Charlton folds and Fawcett comics fires Steve Ditko.

February 18th, 1954: During a US senate meeting, a group of 16 men break away from their tour group in the Capitol building, put on matching masks with the anarchy A symbol, and walk in on a senate meeting but then pull out assault pistols and a grenade from their coats, killing several guards and causing serious brain damage to one senator before they are taken down by the police. . The fact that they were somewhat successful suggests that they had connections to insiders in the Capitol Building's security. The three gang members who were not killed on the spot were interrogated extensively said their boss only gave them information on a need-to-know basis, so they didn't know if their organization had members who work in the building. One of the gang members cited Mr. A and Mad Man as inspirations to him. (Someone else may flesh out the details of this and its investigation, and butterfly freely;D)

March 4th, 1954: Harvey Kurtzman and Steve Ditko are arrested for conspiracy, due to the suspicion that they are the underground writers Mr. A and Mad Man. They tell their judges that they aren't these people, and that they don't think those writers did anything illegal. They had swift trials and were sentenced to 20 years in prison for treason.

March 15th, 1956: Police arrested a Detroit teacher named Jerry Gwin Bails for possible connection to the Radical Comics Movement. Bails had stolen the names and traits of canceled comic book characters in creating new characters, and sold them in Michigan, Ontario, and Ohio. Bails said he had nothing to do with the Radical Comics Movement, that he just took to writing and drawing fan comics to "save his sanity" after his wife's suicide, and then his friends started offering money for the comics, and showed them to their friends and relatives, and he promised not to draw any more comics. The judge dropped charges and Bails considered writing science fiction stories instead, but over the week he received notices of lawsuits from Fawcett, EC, and Atlas., totaling to nearly , which Bails could never pay off. Bails then committed suicide.

February 27th, 1959: the real Mad Man and Mr. A were in fact one man named Andy Warhola, who was very skilled at copying the styles of other artists. Kurtzman and Ditko were released.

I certainly hope this helps!!

[Brady Kj]

Thanks! It looks good. And I meant for the lawsuits to total nearly $900,000. By the way, which senator would be most interesting to give brain damage to?

[Brady Kj]

January 24, 1950: Electra Tesla convinces the United States treasurer to hire Russian mathematician Isaak Osimov, in hopes of delaying massive economic collapse for at least 10 years. (I put this one on here because what's already in the 1950s doesn't seem to be consistent with such a collapse, but I do like the idea of him being a good predictor)
1952 Proposition 8 of the state of California is put on the ballots to make it legal to be homosexual in California.
October 1-November 4 1952: Members of the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis stage protests in every major California City to protest the illegality of homosexuality, and the brutal treatment of homosexuals by police. This was also the first time the Mattachine Society wore their trademark theatre masks. There were also men dressed like the comic book characters Magno and Firebrand, who were becoming gay icons.
November 4 1952: California's Proposition 8 to legalize homosexuality failed. 44% of the voting population favored it, but many people suspected that number would have been lower if homosexuals from out of state hadn't voted illegally or threatened violence to people who didn't vote for the measure. However, there were very few confirmed incidents of such intimidation or illegal voting. Two weeks of violent riots between homosexual rights protesters and the general public ensued.
November 7 1952: Quality Comics cancels its Firebrand series, and creates a female character named Magma for a love interest in the Magnetic Comics series.
February 21 1954: After the 2/18 attack on the Senate, the Mattachine Society's unofficial leader Rudi Gernreich tells his branch of the motorcycle gang not to wear masks until things calm down, and this news spread. For nearly a year, the Mattachine masks were rarely seen except as a symbol on their jackets.

Also, I want somebody to develop more information about "Mittelafrika Feuer", the disease that hit New York City in 1947. It's AIDS, right?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Also, I want somebody to develop more information about "Mittelafrika Feuer", the disease that hit New York City in 1947. It's AIDS, right?
Yes, "Mittelafrika Feuer" is AIDS/HIV. Considering that this is an ATL, wherein there is heavy international air travel, strong travel into the interior of Africa, and a world that has few vaccines (consider there is no polio vaccine available yet)...

[jmberry]

Just to let you guys know I put a cleaned-up, UCS version of the 1950 map on Thande's map thread. I'd also like to argue against the number of OTL people who are slipping through. With that said, here's another event:

November 4th, 1957: The Reverend Glenn Hefner, Jr., argues against "growing corruption" in American culture.

[Prometheus_2300]

Thanks! It looks good. And I meant for the lawsuits to total nearly $900,000. By the way, which senator would be most interesting to give brain damage to?

I hate to say it but Harry S. Truman. This would pave the way for one of his trusted assistants to run for the seat this decade.

November 5, 1954: With an overwhelming sympathy vote. Walter Cronkite, a trusted aide and protege of Truman is elected to the United States Senate.

April 13, 1954: PResident Dewey appoints Richard Nixon to be the director of the FBI. Dewey also signs the "United States Capital Security bill" which doubles the funding of the Capital's Police. A tunnel system is built under the Capital to several exits, limiting assassins chances.

April 15, 1954: FBI Director Richard M. Nixon, launches a taskforce to capture "The Mad Man" and Mr. A comics. He begins trying to shut them down.

Let the manhunt begin. I hate to say it but Nixon is shaping up as a good guy in this world.

[Zacoftheaxes]

November 6th, 1954: Commenting on the election of Walter Kronkite, Les Paul discusses his interest of getting involved in politics.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here are some other PODs to get things messy:

May 3rd, 1952: "Shinreikyo" movement is established in Tokyo by Kanichi Otsuka, calling for the restoration of "Japanese spirit"....

December 12th, 1952: Chalk River Disaster; NRX nuclear reactor suffers a massive nuclear meltdown in Chalk River, Ontario; U.S. and Canadian military forces are deployed in an effort to deal with cleanup....

August 25th, 1953: Hoover FBI Scandal; Pictures of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover are published by the The Independent, bringing scandal to the police agency...

November 14th, 1953: Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is caught up in the Hoover FBI Scandal, after reports of her alleged lesbian trysts, are published by Hearst newspapers...

August 15th, 1955: "Shinreikyo" political movement announce their Japanese Medical Association (JMA) in Tokyo....

October 10th, 1957: Windscale Disaster; nuclear power plant at Windscale, Cumberland, forcing a massive evacuation by British military officials....

October 26th, 1957: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan resigns over the Windscale Disaster; public concern over the alleged safety of nuclear is brought into question....

[Prometheus_2300]

May 16, 1952: Isaak Osimov on a visit to New York, happens to meet Alan Turing. The two begin a correspondence

November 27, 1954: The Treatise of Man and Machine is written by Turing and Asimov. It's Four laws of robotics and methods of computing would prove the basis for the Cybernetic Revolution of the early 70s.

October 4, 1956: "Good Evening America. This is Ronald Reagan with the HBC Nightly News" Ronald Reagan is chosen to be the newscaster for HBC nightly News. A position he will hold until the late 70s.

January 1, 1953: The London Conference. The heads of all Imperial Nations meet to come up with a unified strategy of securing their domains. They all recognize maintaining authority, but the incredible costs. A system of protectorates and mandates is proposed, but ultimately rejected. France is barred from attending, China though invited refuses, Russia attends but merely observes.

* Great Britain will work with a 5 tier, road to "full membership" in the British Commonwealth of Nations.

* The United States will seek to make its territories full states.

* Italy will hold independence referendums in Libyan and Ethiopian territories, but with conditions that Italian businesses won't be affected.

* Germany decides to try and make Mittelafrika, more autonomous. However they have shutdown all airtravel as a health precaution. Only raw materials are being shipped out.

July 5, 1955: The Mittelafrika Feuer Quarantine is enforced by German troops and the border troops of other Imperial Colonies. There is much unrest.

October 11, 1957: The <insert name here> attack the rail hub at Butembo. The German troops are overwhelmed by the sheer number of people. The Butembo Rail Hub, one of the most strategic points in Africa (Not only is it halfway between Dar Es Salaam and Brazzaville, but its also is the connection to the British Railways of Egypt and SOuth Africa.)

November 1, 1959: Dr. Elijah Salk gives a news conference that a Polio vaccine is now available. Reporters ask what his next project is, "A treatment for the Mittelafrika Feuer."

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March 15, 1959: Great Britain recognizes the Independence of Hyderaland, Nagaland, Pakistan, and Sikhland, and (the other one that I can't remember)

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<Well India is violent and dangerous. Ok now to resolve some of these empires problems...> Now to fix some of America's civil problems. anti-semiticism, race relations, and the anarchists. One thing I find interesting is that we have now nearly had 25 years of nothing but "liberal" presidents. FDR and Thomas Dewey are both shaping up to be good presidents. In this timeline FDR and Dewey worked together quite a lot, and the two even worked together well, despite their divisions. Heck you could almost argue that the Presidental administration hasn't changed since 1936 since Dewey was effectively president during the Second half of FDR's third term, and kept things going with FDR's staff. Oh dear, an entrenched West Wing bureaucracy... this does not bode well.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Just added the quick details...

July 5, 1955: The Mittelafrika Feuer Quarantine is enforced by German troops and the border troops of other Imperial Colonies. There is much unrest.

October 11, 1957: The Pan-African Federation guerillas attack the rail hub at Butembo. The German troops are overwhelmed by the sheer number of people. The Butembo Rail Hub, one of the most strategic points in Africa (Not only is it halfway between Dar Es Salaam and Brazzaville, but its also is the connection to the British Railways of Egypt and SOuth Africa.)

Also consider:

February 4, 1958: "Eden's Folly". Prime Minister Anthony Eden proposes an "autonomous Indian Parliament" that would be appointed to rule the Colony of India. Over the proceeding months, the idea was tried. However the "Indian Parliament" was so rife with corruption and scandal, that the whole thing blew up in Eden's face.

March 15, 1959: Great Britain recognizes the Independence of Hyderabad, Nagaland, Pakistan, and Sikhland, and Khalistan

April 12, 1959: Prime Minister Eden loses a vote of no confidence. He is sacked by the Conservatives. Giving rise to PM Harold McMillan, who would have to get a Victory in British India to ensure the Conservative remain in power. The nations of the Indian Sub-Continent are:

* Dravidistan
* Pakistan
* Khalistan
* Hyderabad
* Nagaland

As for the issue of Harold McMillan, he was PM before Anthony Eden, so its more likely a new candidate will be chosen as PM, considering the Windscale Disaster of 1957....

[Prometheus_2300]

Just added the quick details...



Also consider:

The nations of the Indian Sub-Continent are:

* Dravidistan
* Pakistan
* Khalistan
* Hyderabad
* Nagaland

As for the issue of Harold McMillan, he was PM before Anthony Eden, so its more likely a new candidate will be chosen as PM, considering the Windscale Disaster of 1957....

Sorry about that Bondoc, its been a long day. I will rework the whole India thing. I was trying to show that even in British India things are spiraling out of control. I think I will change it to be something non-Eden

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Sorry about that Bondoc, its been a long day. I will rework the whole India thing. I was trying to show that even in British India things are spiraling out of control. I think I will change it to be something non-Eden

Not a problem!! Considering that the country has had the rumors of homosexuality of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt take place, will insure that there is going to be some homophobia...

Also, considering that AIDS/HIV is also sexually-transmitted and has begun in traditionally minority communities is going to create grounds for a conservative backlash...

[Prometheus_2300]

Not a problem!! Considering that the country has had the rumors of homosexuality of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt take place, will insure that there is going to be some homophobia...

Also, considering that AIDS/HIV is also sexually-transmitted and has begun in traditionally minority communities is going to create grounds for a conservative backlash...

Actually I just thought of a great POD with Eleanor.

December 1, 1953: President Dewey meets with Harold Ickes, both worked with Eleanor during FDR's final term, and had grown to respect her. They despised what the press was doing to her, and upon talking about it in detail, they came to the conclusion that the root of the problem was the newspaper moguls themselves. Both Hearst and the Independent.

December 5, 1953: On this day would occur one of the greatest moments of the Dewey administration. Both publisher's chairmans were called to the White House for a meeting. No records of the meeting were kept but both papers cleaned up their act soon.

In his memoirs in 1972, William Randolph Hearst Junior would write. "It had been nearly 30 years since I had been called to the Principal's office. But for that one day in 1953 I was there again. I was sat in front of the Resolute Desk in the Oval, with my rival at the Independent next to me. After 5 minutes President Dewey stepped in with Harry Ickes. Dewey sat behind the desk, and Ickes merely stood off to the side. In no uncertain terms we were told to clean up our acts. Let me tell you, when the Standard bearer of the Republican Party, and one of the major behind the scenes players of the Democrats find your business practices 'reprehensible' it's time to change. We were both shown out of the Oval soon afterwards" a few paragraphs later. "There was some resistance but the good thing about being the Chief's Son is that when you ask the editors to jump, they say how high."

About a week later America Today printed a correction regarding Eleanor Roosevelt, and publically apologized to the former First Lady. "Our sources were grossly inaccurate."

The Independent's editorial staff generally ignored the President's request, but decided not to publish the story about the meeting with Dewey, as it would cause chaos with the Democrats as well with Ickes in favor of Dewey's approach

<So here's my reasoning. When Roosevelt became bedridden in 1946, Eleanor, Ickes, and Dewey basically kept the country running. This makes Roosevelt's 3rd term incredibly bipartisan. Dewey and Ickes both could not abide by these rumors surrounding Eleanor, and decided they had to do something. Dewey's strategy got Hearst to change, the Independent not so much... Oh my... I just realized... I made HEARST objective journalists...>. So Homophobia still high, but a plus for journalism changing to something more objective

Oh and some others

October 2, 1953: The Republics of Lithuania, Estonia, and Belarus are formally integrated into the Russian Empire.

<I am really unclear on what sort of government is in Moscow now. Could someone enlighten me please?>

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Prometheus 2300- The PODs need to be brushed up a bit. If anything, it doesn't sound terribly realistic. Once the accusation has been made of Eleanor Roosevelt's lesbianism, considering how damaging it is, any retraction would spell either the collapse of The Independent or the discredit of Eleanor Roosevelt. Considering its still the 1950s, and women haven't achieved the present-day gender equality, the damage will be done...

Here are a few more PODs to keep things messy:

August 24th, 1953: Edmund Bergler publishes a report in the New England Journal of Medicine linking "Mittelafrika Feuer" to rise in "unrestrained immorality" since 1942....

March 7th, 1954: Independent tabloid Confidential, publishes a stolen 1947 letter from Lorena Hickok to Eleanor Roosevelt stating, "Goodnight, dear one. I want to put my arms around you and kiss you at the corner of your mouth. And in a little more than a week now — I shall..."

May 17th, 1954: Christian fundamentalist Oral Roberts pronounces, "If the Supreme Court had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord's will, I am quite confident that the Miller v. Tennessee State Board of Education decision would never had been made. The facilities should be separate. When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line..."

October 2nd, 1955: Actor Rock Hudson is reported dead of complications from "Mittelafrika Feuer" in Beverly Hills, California....

August 11th, 1956: Jerry Falwell pronounces that "Mittelafrika Feuer" carry the "Mark of Cain" during a rally in Lynchburg, Virgnia....

June 7th, 1957: Singer Anita Bryant launches the "Save Our Children" campaign in Dade County, Florida....

July 19th, 1957: Musician Wladziu "Valentino" Liberace is beaten in Sherman Oaks, California, after the tabloid Confidential reports that "Valentino" is homosexual...

August 26th, 1957: Doctor Evelyn Cooker publishes “The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual”, in the New England Journal of Medicine stating that only by "treating the sickness of homosexuality, will we have a cure for the disease..."

January 18th, 1958: Battle of Hayes Pond; State Senator James W. "Catfish" Cole (J-NC) accuses African-American residents of spreading "Mittelafrika Feuer" in Maxton, North Carolina, sparking race riots....

May 22nd-28th, 1958: Indian Riots; violence and civil unrest erupt after British forces fire on demonstrators in Ceylon, Sri Lanka, sparking anti-British riots throughout South Asia...

August 30th-31st, 1958: Notting Hill Riots; "Teddy Boys" set fire to several housing projects in the Notting Hill area of London, England, targetting Indian refugees, claiming "Death to the ragheads..."

[Prometheus_2300]

Prometheus 2300- The PODs need to be brushed up a bit. If anything, it doesn't sound terribly realistic. Once the accusation has been made of Eleanor Roosevelt's lesbianism, considering how damaging it is, any retraction would spell either the collapse of The Independent or the discredit of Eleanor Roosevelt. Considering its still the 1950s, and women haven't achieved the present-day gender equality, the damage will be done...


Looking it over I didn't explain it the best way. Ok so first an explanation, looking back through Hearst Biographies and his papers, Hearst makes no reference, or even a private joke to one of his editors regarding FDR's disability. This I always felt was a bit odd considering that Hearst disliked FDR intensely. In the end I chalked it up to Hearst was respecting the dignity of the office of the president, and that the president's private life was just that, private.

Now when I first read the Eleanor POD, I saw one implication, it means that both Hearst and the Independent are stepping up yellow journalism. If they are willing to slander the widow of a popular President, then what won't they do. Dewey knew that if he didn't do something they would soon be directly attacking the president, which he did not want. Dewey knew that if he did it himself, it would blow up in his face. After working with Ickes during Roosevelt's third term, he asked for his help, so that it would present a bipartisan face. In the end the meeting was what resulted. If anything Dewey and Ickes actions were preventative to stop Yellow Journalism to escalating to pure fiction, and direct attacks on the President himself. It was a big gamble on Dewey's part, and it partially worked. Hearst Jr. is changing but the Independent is not

Hearst himself was always patriotic, he may have disagreed with the president but he never tired to directly undermine the president (indirect though is another story). Basically Dewey took a huge gamble, lectured Hearst jr, who unlike his stubborn father, would gave in. Hearst Jr, posts a correction, but hid it on page 3, and ensured that some new front page story would take precedence, drowning the Eleanor story.

Behind the Scenes, Hearst Jr begins to change some of his father's long standing editorial policies.

The Independent, gets away with Hoover because Dewey didn't particularly like him, and he wanted a new director.

I will be re-editing my POD to explain things better. I hope this reasoning makes a bit more sense.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Looking it over I didn't explain it the best way. Ok so first an explanation, looking back through Hearst Biographies and his papers, Hearst makes no reference, or even a private joke to one of his editors regarding FDR's disability. This I always felt was a bit odd considering that Hearst disliked FDR intensely. In the end I chalked it up to Hearst was respecting the dignity of the office of the president, and that the president's private life was just that, private.

Now when I first read the Eleanor POD, I saw one implication, it means that both Hearst and the Independent are stepping up yellow journalism. If they are willing to slander the widow of a popular President, then what won't they do. Dewey knew that if he didn't do something they would soon be directly attacking the president, which he did not want. Dewey knew that if he did it himself, it would blow up in his face. After working with Ickes during Roosevelt's third term, he asked for his help, so that it would present a bipartisan face. In the end the meeting was what resulted. If anything Dewey and Ickes actions were preventative to stop Yellow Journalism to escalating to pure fiction, and direct attacks on the President himself. It was a big gamble on Dewey's part, and it partially worked. Hearst Jr. is changing but the Independent is not

Hearst himself was always patriotic, he may have disagreed with the president but he never tired to directly undermine the president (indirect though is another story). Basically Dewey took a huge gamble, lectured Hearst jr, who unlike his stubborn father, would gave in. Hearst Jr, posts a correction, but hid it on page 3, and ensured that some new front page story would take precedence, drowning the Eleanor story.

Behind the Scenes, Hearst Jr begins to change some of his father's long standing editorial policies.

The Independent, gets away with Hoover because Dewey didn't particularly like him, and he wanted a new director.

I will be re-editing my POD to explain things better. I hope this reasoning makes a bit more sense. It works a little bit better. I also have created PODs for the tabloid Confidential. In OTL, the tabloid set the precedent for sensationalist and exploitative tabloids. Unlike the Independent, they have no political agenda. They just want to sell papers. Unlike the other papers, they actually don't care if what they say destroys peoples' lives....

[QuoProQuid]

OOC: So a Chernobyl in Ontario. That will certainly have interesting cultural effects.

May 18, 1952: Tensions rise between members of the Shinreikyo movement and the Japanese Catholic Church when the Archbishop of Nagasaki condemns the group during a special Mass.

January 9, 1953: As a result of continued Italian prosperity, the government of Italy begins to draw up plans to construct an elaborate museum dedicated to the sciences in Rome.

March 7, 1955: Construction on the National Gallery of Science begins in Rome.

December 3, 1955: Schola Iesu announces the construction of St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Tokyo, Japan.

OOC: Messy times for India... If this POD causes any problems, I will remove. Sorry bothering.

October 23, 1957: An unknown group of men, dressed in black, fire upon a crowd in Varansi, India on the Hindu holy day of Diwali. During what will become known as, The Massacre of Lights, a multitude of civilians and several members of the Indian Independence Movement are killed.

[Brady Kj]

I hate to say it but Harry S. Truman. This would pave the way for one of his trusted assistants to run for the seat this decade.
Yeah. I like to push the boundaries, and see what happens. Let me know what you think is more reasonable, and change it to that.

June 22 1950: Pierre Trudeau becomes a member of Quebec's Eugenic-Fascist party.

December 1954: The President of the Comic Book Content Association steps down, and Chuck Carter Heston is named as his replacement.

January 1955: The issue of comic book regulation is on trial in the US Supreme Court. The new president of the Comic Book Content Association, Chuck Carter Heston, surprised most of America by standing up and making a speech in opposition to increasing regulation, saying that "If comics are outlawed, only outlaws will have comics", citing the first amendment and how he spent much of his childhood pretending to be Marvelman and Owlman in the woods near his house. He exclusively mentioned Fawcett Comics characters, because Fawcett had paid him under the table to speak well of them. Fawcett wasn't aware that Heston was already planning to speak out against comic regulation to the supreme court.

February 28 1955: Jerry Simpson II begins the Red State movement in Kansas City, Kansas. The Red Staters are a league of people mostly from the middle states who want to secede from the Union and from an Agrarian Communist Utopia.

May 1 1955: Red Staters wearing red robes and hoods set fire to an automobile factory in Topeka.

May 9, 1955: Pierre Trudeau leads a military-style march of French Canadian Fascists through Ottawa demanding a new order.

November 1956: Jerry Simpson II (Communist, Kansas) is elected to the US House of Representatives, with plans to join the senate as soon as possible. A newspaper pole shows that while Red Statism is strongest in Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri, it has ardent supporters as far off as Idaho and Georgia.

1957: the Sons of Sitka Jewish ethnic gang is formed in Trenton, New Jersey. They start out committing petty crime and destroying local Christian symbols at courthouses, but soon expand and get into complex gang wars with nearby New York City Muslim gangs and fledgling New England Christian gangs. Historians debate whether this group inspired the Son of Samson killer later on.

Spring 1958: The SkyClad Movement (nudism) hits America, beginning in the South. One convert to this way of life was a chubby Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, who later opened up a church in Atlanta for SkyClad people. He was filmed by Tesla Communication Network reporters, in a meeting of sky-clad Christians in Birmingham Alabama, shouting "Free at Last! Free at Last!" (shown only from the waist up). TCN decided this scene was humorous, and chose to broadcast this at the end of a particularly gruesome news day. Unfortunately, it had the opposite effect, and people were furious. Tesla herself formally apologized for allowing this scene on national TV, and several sky-clad members began wearing clothes or fled to Mexico, but King himself only began to speak more passionately about his dream of a sky-clad future.

OOC: I'm toying with an idea involving Harry Hay the first openly gay mayor being elected in Nixon's hometown, and then the mayor's office being bombed with a stolen plane by a group led by someone calling himself the New Mad Bomber who keeps harrassing Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover with phone calls. What do you folks think? Just like everyone else, I'm trying to make this TL as interesting as possible without becoming a pariah of the thread.

OOC: I think a Chernobyl in Ontario is AWESOME!!! And what if there's two Chernobyl-like disasters, both in Canada?

[Prometheus_2300]

Spring 1958: The SkyClad Movement (nudism) hits America, beginning in the South. One convert to this way of life was a chubby Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, who later opened up a church in Atlanta for SkyClad people. He was filmed by Tesla Communication Network reporters, in a meeting of sky-clad Christians in Birmingham Alabama, shouting "Free at Last! Free at Last!" (shown only from the waist up). TCN decided this scene was humorous, and chose to broadcast this at the end of a particularly gruesome news day. Unfortunately, it had the opposite effect, and people were furious. Tesla herself formally apologized for allowing this scene on national TV, and several sky-clad members began wearing clothes or fled to Mexico, but King himself only began to speak more passionately about his dream of a sky-clad future.


For future reference give the exact date not just the season. Also minor quibble. Why is Electra Tesla is apologizing? she is research scientist and aeronautics engineer. Electra did inherit her parents wealth but she isn't CEO or even Chairman of the Board. However I believe that Prescott Bush is currently CEO of Tesla Dynamic while his son George Bush (who is also the husband of Electra) runs Electra Dynamics, the aeronautics subsidiary of Tesla Dynamic. Electra probably doesn't learn of it until later, as she is heavily involved with the Space Plane, and high speed aeroplanes.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is the new date for the POD for the ATL:

May 23rd, 1958: The SkyClad Movement (nudism) hits America, beginning in the South. One convert to this way of life was a chubby Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr., who later opened up a church in Atlanta for SkyClad people. He was filmed by Tesla Communication Network reporters, in a meeting of sky-clad Christians in Birmingham Alabama, shouting "Free at Last! Free at Last!" (shown only from the waist up). TCN decided this scene was humorous, and chose to broadcast this at the end of a particularly gruesome news day. Unfortunately, it had the opposite effect, and people were furious. Tesla herself formally apologized for allowing this scene on national TV, and several sky-clad members began wearing clothes or fled to Mexico, but King himself only began to speak more passionately about his dream of a sky-clad future.

In terms of the other future PODs, please feel free to post them. If anything, just make sure to have a specific date for them. This makes it easier for me to fit them into the ATL.