XXth C: Timeline [Archive] - Alternate History Discussion Board

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:03 PM

1905 -

1905 Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated by the Supreme Court of France and reinstated into the military.

1905 - The venerable New York Giants are sold to a new owner, and to the shock of the baseball world join the Continental League. Alluding to the American Revolutionary War, these new members of the 'Continental Army' of Baseball start playing Yankee Doodle Dandee at their games, and 'Yankees' becomes another nickname for the team.

1905- An expansion team is approved to replace the defecting Giants. The new team, also based in New York, began building an stadium in Brooklyn and named themselves the Metropolitans.

1905 Former Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, back from safari, begins a series of speaking events in New York, including some that address the ongoing war between Japan and Russia. President Root is persuaded to appoint Roosevelt ambassador to Russia.

1905 Inspired by the Finnish Uprising, Josef Dzhugashvili recommits himself to the goal of Georgian independence, even above socialism. He continues to go by the revolutionary name of Koba.

1905 Norway offers the throne to Swedish Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötlan (3rd son of Oscar). His father at first refuses, but after reassurances regarding his rights, he relents, allowing Prince Carl to take the Norwegian throne.

January 1905: A weak anti-trust law is passed. Major corperations quickly find loop holes. The law does not distinguish between board trusts and labor trusts.

January 13, 1905 - Howard Hughes Jr. is born. His mother, tragically, dies in childbirth leaving him to be brought up by his mechanically inclined father, Howard Hughes Sr.

February 1905 Rioting and Strikes break out in Russia, starting the Russian Revolution.

February 15, 1905 Successful assassination of Nikolai Bobrikov, beginning the Finnish Uprising.

Feburary 26, 1905: The Finnish Uprisring becomes much more volatile, with rioting Finns, mostly instigated by Communists, launching revolts in cities such as Helsinki and Turku.

March 1905: Long standing respected Populist Democrat Henry Teller attempts to take over as Democratic minority leader in the House. Though much more prominent then any other candidate, his Populism drags him down.

March 1905 Charles Evans Hughes is given charge of investigations into corruption in New York City.

March 2, 1905: The Socialist Republic of Finland is proclaimed, claiming borders similar to those of the Grand Duchy. The industrialized cities of Finland are the centers of the revolt. Assistance from the other Great Powers is called for, but only a handful of socialists from around the world and a Swedish volunteer regiment joins the brave Finns. Germany gives covert support in retaliation for the attacks on the German fishing boats. Most of the Finnish leaders, however, reject the Socialist Revolution while at the same time still agitating for reversal of the Russification laws and autonomy.

March 10, 1905, The Russian and Japanese Armies finish an inconclusive battle at Mudken, and both fall back to rethink their strategy.

March 19, 1905: The Russian Baltic Fleet passes through La Perouse Strait without incident and arrives in Vladivostok several days later. Admiral Togo's fleet misses Makarov's fog-hidden squadron by less than an hour.

April 1905: Aguinaldo returns to Luzon, hoping that MacArthur is less ruthless then Bell. Bell attempts to take control of the campaign to the north. Both MacArthur and Taft appeal to Root requesting that MacArthur be given full command. Bell is put in charge only of operations outside of Luzon. MacArthur runs an efficient operation fighting Aguinaldo while not stopping the programs he and Taft had created. MacArthur receives very good publicity for his operation back home.

April-May 1905: There are revolts in the Baltics and the Ukraine based on the Polish and Finnish ones, though they are not as powerful or successful as those two. There is also in increase of unrest in Russian cities like Petrograd and Moscow.

April 5, 1905: Hearing optimistic reports of the Finnish uprising's successes in Finland, plotters in Poland launch their long-awaited bid for independence. Overnight, Polish rebels launch an attempt to seize the cities of Warsaw and Lodz, and after a few days of hard fighting against Russian garrisons, the Polish flag flies once more over the cities.

April 8, 1905: Excited by reports that the peasants are rising up en masse throughout Poland, the Warsaw revolters declare the Republic of Poland. An emissary is sent in secret to offer the crown to an Austrian prince in return for support.

April 13, 1905: The new Polish State invites Archduke Karl of Austria to become it's king. He readily accepts, and though the Czar appeals to his relative the Kaiser to order their ally to stop supporting the new Polish state, Wilhelm III says that he won't discuss it until Russia pays reparations for the October 1904 "Fischen-Ereignis".

April 16, 1905: Russian troops capture Viipurii. Large-scale executions of rebels are kept quiet, but rumors spread quickly.

May 1, 1905: An ill-led Russian army enroute from Viipurii to Helsinki is annihilated by Finnish revolutionaries at the Battle of Kouvola.

May 8, 1905 - The Boston Ferry accident occurs when the overloaded Ferry capsizes, drowning several people, including prominant Bostonian John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald.

May 9, 1905: In a new attempt to deliver a crushing blow that will force Russia out of the war, Japanese troops begin an offensive towards Vladivostok.

May 12th 1905- United States agrees with the Dominican Republic an agreement that made possible the creation of the General Customs Office, the office thru which the United States administered the finances of the Dominican Republic.

May 24, 1905: The competent Lieutenant-General Count Fedor Keller arrives at Viipurii from the Far East to take command of the forces preparing to suppress the Finns. A short mutiny is crushed ruthlessly, and order is returned to the Russian forces. Negotiations are started with the "Whites" in Finland, in an attempt to weaken the socialists' position.

June 1, 1905: The Tsar announces that he will de-Russify Finland and return the country its former privileges if resistance ends. As a result, the "Whites" agree to not interfere with Count Keller's forces as they march against “the Reds”.

June 10, 1905: The “Siege of Helsinki” begins.

June 12, 1905: After the fifth uneventful sortie of the fleet (which results in the last of its coal supplies being exhausted), the Second Pacific Squadron offloads its guns from its ships, its sailors begin to try to learn how to be foot soldiers and Admiral Makarov prepares to lead the land defense of Vladivostok, as the Japanese forces approach.

June 18, 1905: A large but ill-trained and poorly-led Polish National Army is crushed outside of Warsaw.

June 20, 1905: Japanese troops arrive at Vladivostok, and the siege of Vladivostok begins.

June 21, 1905: Ambassador Theodore Roosevelt presents his credentials to the Court of the Russian Tsar.

June 24, 1905: Russian troops face severe street-fighting in Warsaw, but after a week resistance has ended. The revolutionary leaders, however, escape into exile abroad.

June 26, 1905: Red controlled portion of Helsinki falls. “White” controlled portions of the city are bypassed as the Russians close in on the “Reds”. The leaders of the Socialist Revolution die in battle in a last stand on Esplanadi Street.

July 1905 Gold, Siver, and Quarry miners organize themselves into a massive strike. A large number are fired on the spot, and are replaced by black or immigrant workers who accept less money and are not allowed to join the union.

July 20, 1905: While directing artillery, Admiral Makarov is killed by a Japanese shell. Morale up to this point had been good, but with their leader's death, the Russian sailors become demoralized. Mutinies among the defending troops are only put down with much trouble.

August 1905: The Hemenway Infrostructure Improvement Act is drawn up by James Hemenway. It gives economic aid to states which improve their much needed infrostructure. The legislation provess popular due to its utilization of both federal and national powers, and appeals to both parties.

August 8th 1905- Tyrus Cobb is sold to the Detroit Tigers by a minor league team.

August 19, 1905: As the Japanese begin a surprise offensive against Mukden, the city of Vladivostok falls.

September 1905: Former Senator and Governor Henry Heitfeld of Idaho resigns fromm public office and takes over the now almost dead Grange farm collective. Under his leadership it begins to grow again.

September 3, 1905: The 2nd Battle of Mukden results in a victory for the Japanese. With strikes shutting the nation down, and troops being unavailable to ship to the East due to the uprisings, the Tsar is advised to begin peace negotiations.

September 1905: Despite the defeat of Polish forces in the field, many Poles continue to strike in the cities and to ambush Russian forces in the countryside. Pamphlets from the exiled revolutionary leaders begin to appear.

September 15, 1905 Charles Evans Hughes is severly beaten and knifed in an apparent mugging in New York City. The attack leaves him crippled and disfigured, removing him from public service. The chief investigator into the assault believed it to be related to his corruption investigations, but no concrete evidence is discovered.

September 15th to 20th, 1905-Earlier in the year, St. Louis Browns' rookie catcher Branch Rickey declared his team "the best in the world," and challenged the National League's leading team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, to prove otherwise. The teams' owners like the idea, and play a best-of-5 exhibition when their seasons end. Pittsburgh wins, 3 games to 1.

September 22, 1905: Peace negotiations begin in Washington, DC with President Root mediating.

September 1905 Tsar Nicholas II attempts to end increasing violence and disorder in Russia with an offer of establishing an assembly called the Duma. However, the proposal gives little real representation or power to the body, and is rejected by most out of hand as a rubber stamp for the Tsar.

Fall 1905 - Robert Goddard travels to Cambridge, England to study rocketry under a scholarship provided by the British branch of the International Rocketry Society.

October 1905: Hearst newspapers criticize Root for a weak diplomatic stance in negotiating with the Russians.

October 1905 On the heels of the exoneration of Dreyfus Emile Zola is convinced by his fellow pro-Dreyfusards to publicly announce that he is joining the Parti Socialiste.

October 1905: William Jennings Bryan founds a newspaper, the Freeland Journal, which recieves wide circulation throughout the west and mid-west. He receives financial support from media emperor William Randolph Hearst, who is a part owner of the new paper.

October 25, 1905: Russian intransigence leads to the break-down of talks, despite a skilled effort on the part of President Root to mediate. Russian delegation is recalled to Russia for ‘consultation’.

November 1905 The Tsar begins to heed the advice to announce reforms with Russia and more autonomy for the minorities in a bid to return civil order.

November 1905 Tsar Nicholas II is forced by continuing chaos in the nation and the failures of the Russo-Japanese War in the East to make significant concessions. The new Duma will be a true representative legislative body and will have real powers in the government. The continuing unrest in the Grand Duchy of Finland is also addressed in the new proposal by having a similar body established there, the return of a separate Finnish military, and the repeal of all the previous Russification laws of the past several years. Although mostly autonomous, Finland will remain in personal union with Russia through the Tsars.

November 1, 1905 Ambassador Roosevelt, having learned of the breakdown in negotionations, begins to petition the Tsar himself on resuming talks to end the war. In the few months that the American Ambassador has been there, he has made a favorable impression on Tsar Nicholas II and begins to sway him to resume talks.

November 3, 1905 The Tsar, having been convinced of the necessity to end the war and the Revolution, orders negotiators back to Washington.

December 1, 1905 The Russians announce plans to restore the Congress Poland Constitution if the strikes and attacks on Russian troops end in Poland. The revolutionary leaders in exile reject this offer, but the people of Poland are beginning to tire of an increasingly difficult resistance, and most stop active resistance.

December 20, 1905 The Russian Revolution technically ends, as Tsar Nicholas is forced by events to sign "The Manifesto on the Improvement of the State Order". Importantly, the Duma is given the power to override the Tsar's veto in certain situations. In addition, autonomy as previously promised is formally granted to the Grand Duchies of Finland and Poland. Some fighting in the countryside continues, but the strikes have come to an end by December. Unfortunately, the Tsar is advised that the situation in the Far East has become dire, with winter hampering Russian ability to reinforce their beleaguered forces.

December 29th 1905 Two men are caught trespassing on former Governor Frank Steunenberg's property. They confess to attempting to assassinate the Govenor for breaking his promises to Union workers.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:03 PM

1906 -

1906- A Pure and Food Act is enacted. A law that provided for federal inspection of food and drugs, is a result of better education and the efforts of distinguished citizens like former Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt, authors Upton Sinclair and even President Root. It orders the labeling of all products correctly and nothing more.

1906- Freed from the burden of dealing with creditors, the Dominican Republic government of president Caceres dedicated itself to political reform. Caceres nationalized the public utilities and established a bureau of public works to administer them. Constitutional reforms eliminated the town councils independence and put them under central government control in an attempt to eliminate corruption. He also extended the presidential term to six years with the possibility of reelection for two other terms only.

1906-There is an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, near Naples. The Italian government needed money to rebuild the zone situated at the foot of the volcano and asked that the Games of the IV Olympiad, which should have taken place in Rome, be given to another city. The bid is given to the city of Berlin.

1906 - The Austrian branch of the International Rocketry Society establishes a scholarship for the study of rockets.

1906 Young artist Adolph Hitler starts up a relationship with a half-Jewish girl in Linz. Starts doing a series of sketches and drawings of her.

1906 Sparked when President Palma seeks to extend his presidency, General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo launches a successful rebellion in Cuba. President Root of the USA considers sending troops, but given the troubles in the Philippines decides not to intervene when Castillo agrees to respect the Platt Amendment.

January 12, 1906: The Russo-Japanese War comes to an end with the Treaty of Washington DC. Russia withdraws all of its troops from Manchuria, transfers its lease of Port Arthur to Japan, and cedes Vladivostok and all of Sakhalin to Japan. Japan's influence in Manchuria and Korea is recognized. Many ‘in the know’ behind the scenes credit Roosevelt for convincing the Tsar to resume negotiations. Roosevelt himself is dissatisfied with the treaty, fearing it gives too much to the Japanese, disrupting the balance between the two nations that he believes would benefit the USA in the Pacific.

February 1906 Zola is elected as a deputy for Valenciennes, mainly a personal vote after the success of his book on the region's miners, "Germinal".

February 1906: Bell, desperate to regain face, doubles his efforts in the south, forcing many civilians into reconcentration camps and hunting down everyone even rumored to be a rebel. He tries to cover up his war crimes. MacArthur demands that Root be relieved. Root claims that Bell will be closely monitored, but fails to take real action, knowing that Bell actions were quelling the rebellion.

March 1906 In the case Iowa V the Grange, the Supreme Court enforces anti-trust violations on farm syndicates. It is quickly followed by a case that accuses Unions of anti-trust violation. (this type of thing did happen)

March 1906 -- The Philadelphia Phillies move from the NL to the CL, hoping that they can boost business by playing the Philadelphia Athletic more often. The A's are better on the field, though, and the move does little more to highlight inter-league tensions. The National League evens itself out with a new team in the South's largest city, the New Orleans Cajuns.

March 1906: Aguinaldo leaks the stories from the south to a British newspaper. Soon news of the atrocities are spread all over the world. Anti-war protests start up all across the countries.

April 9th 1906- Bull Halsey travels to France and joins the French Foreign Legion.

April 18, 1906 San Francisco is hit by a massive earthquake followed by a runaway fire that destroys most of the city. Nearly 7000 people are believed to have been killed in the blaze.

April 24th 1906- David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, presents his budget to the House of Commons and to the House of Lords. His bold plan was to pay for the new naval race and the new social welfare reforms by raising taxes from the wealthy. Of course that affected more the members of the opposition Conservative Party and the majority of the members of the House of Lords.

May 9, 1906 -- Gertrude Stein moves to Paris.

May 14th 1906- House of Lords voted down the proposed budget of Lloyd George. Nation shocked by actions of the House of Lords.

June 1906: Henry Stimson is flung from a car and receives a serious head injury. He makes a full recovery, though many of his close friends and family commented that he never seemed quite the same after the event.

August 1906: To solidify power in Manila, MacArthur imposes some small measures such as a curfew. After several clashes between the two, Taft complains to Washington. Root decides that MacArthur is too valuable, and appoints Taft to the Supreme Court partly to get him out of the way.

August 14, 1906: Henry Cabot-Lodge Jr., son of George Cabot-Lodge, is born.

Sept 25, 1906 - Daniel Maria Jose Hipolito Figueres Ferrer and his twin brother Jose Marcos Enchandi Figueres Ferrer are born to a wealthy Costa Rican family.

Fall 1906 - Rose Fitzgerald matriculates at Wellesley College.

October 1906 Aristide Briand becomes Prime Minister of France.

October 12th 1906- General election declared and ended in a hung Parliament, with the Liberals not having an overall majority. They formed a minority government, thanks to the support of the Irish nationalists.

November 1906: Root's popularity begins to lower, which hurts the Republican Party in mid-term elecitons. Though Democrats fail to gain a full majority, together with Republicans who were fearful of his power, the Democrats are able to throw congressional warhorse Joseph Courney Cannon out of the Speakership, and replace him with James Hemenway.

December 17th 1906- William Taft, nominated by Elihu Root, sworn into the Supreme Court.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:10 PM

1907 -

1907-First elections in the Philippines for the lower assembly. The upper assembly was composed of US citizens named by the US president.

1907 Upton Sinclair publishes a similar book, this time about the meat packing industry, called 'The Jungle'. It greatly outsells his previous book on coal mining but mostly due to the lurid descriptions of men falling into meat grinders, not for its message of socialist change.

1907 Ford releases the Model R (analoguous to OTL's Model T). The car is an instant hit.

January 1907: A progressive in the war department leaks that Root had refused to take direct action against Bell. MacArthur privately contacts Aguinaldo to discuss a peaceful American pullout.

February 7th 1907- King Edward VII names 500 new Liberal Peers into the House of Lords, ending the stronghold of the Conservative Party on the upper house of Parliament. The proposed David Lloyd George’s budget this time is approved by the new House of Lords later on the year.

March 1907: Populist Democrat Henry Teller writes up legislation calling for withdrawl of troops from the Phillipines. In the past such legislation had been stopped by Cannon in the Rules Commitee. Hemenway allows it to be debated, and helps draw press attention to the anti-war movement, though the legislation is not passed.

March 18th 1907- The Detroit Tigers trade Ty Cobb to the Cleveland Naps for outfielder Elmer Flick. In what is considered one of the worst trades in the history of baseball, Cobb went to hit .350 that season in his way to a Hall of Fame career while injuries forced Flick to retirement by 1910.

April 1907-Walter Johnson is signed by the Washington Senators and made his debut in the majors that same year.

April 8, 1907 Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia suffers a minor stroke. While he has been ailing for years, he continues to be able to govern.

May 1907: Dissidents in Luzon revolt. They avoid attacking MacArhur’s men on Auguinaldo’s orders. Root orders three more divisions into the Philippines. MacArthur publicly sates that he no longer believes that the war can be won. Root fires him, a unpopular move in the US.

May 10th 1907 High-performance motorcycle builder and racer Glen Curtiss is killed in attempt to set a land speed record.

June 1907: Joseph Pulitzer begins to defend the Root administration partly to separate from his principal rival Hearst. He expands his newspaper chain, which is viewed as somewhat more reliable then Hearst's, though with a slight Republican bend. The Hearst papers have a greater circulation.

June 1907: The Hearst papers criticize Sinclair for making several potentially falible statements in his books. Other newspapers criticize Hearst for attacking Sinclair simply because he appeared to be politically strong.

June 1907- Tris Speaker contract purchased by the St. Louis Browns. He finally won the regular centerfield position in 1909.

June 1907: The Hearst newspapers publish articles both covering the need for progressive reform while at the same time criticizing La Follete for trying to organise a Progressive political movement.

August 1907: Democrats and Republicans in congress relunctantly come to an agreement abolishing anti-trust laws.

August 2, 1907: Edward McCarthy is born to parents Bridget Tierney and father Tim McCarthy.

August 5th 1907- Theobald von Bethmann named German Chancellor by Kaiser Wilhelm III. He stayed in power until 1919, when he resigned due to health. His foreign policy was one of detente with the British, trying to reduce conflict with them while at the same time being tough with the French and the Russians. He tried to carve a buffer zone between Germany and Russia, supporting the Polish independence movement. On the domestic front his attempts of taking a “centrist” approach, trying to work with both the liberal and socialist of the left and the right-wing nationalist of the right only succeeded in alienating most of the political establishment.

September 1907: The Hearst papers feature a passionate editorial discussing the need for new stable anti-trust laws.

September 1907: Congressmen Teller and Senator La Follete together try to somehow find a more adequate fair anti-trust solution, but recieve little support from either party officially, though Populist Democrats and Progressive Republicans due offer some political assistance.

September 10th 1907- King Alfonso XIII of Spain marries HRH Dagmar Louise Elizabeth of Denmark in a ceremony in Madrid Cathedral.

October 1907 Adolph Hitler barely passes the admission tests to enter study in the Vienna Academy of the Arts. He is warned that he needs to improve his drawings of people if he wishes to stay in school, but that his architectural sketches show promise.

November 1907 Adolph Hitler marries his girlfriend of over a year and brings her to Vienna to live with him while he prepares for the start of his Art studies.

November 1907 A.A. Campbell-Swinton writes a letter to Nature Magazine describing his concept of electronic television using the cathode ray tube, which had been invented in 1897 by the German physicist and Nobel prize winner Karl Ferdinand Braun. He proposed using an electron beam in both the camera and the receiver, which could be steered electronically to produce moving pictures.

Novermber 17th 1907- Oklahoma is admited as the 46th state

December 2, 1907 Freshman Idaho Senator Frank S. Steunenberg joins the 60th session of Congress.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:11 PM

1908 -

1908 Republican Convention: The Republicans renominate Root. Root decides that a more popular Vice President in needed. Progressive Republican La Follete openly refuses. War hero Admiral Dewey in put on the ticket.

1908 Democrat Convention: Populist William Jennings Bryan, who is supported by both the Progressives, labor, and agriculture, is the clear favorite, nominated by the fourth ballot. Bryan refuses to allow a conservative politician onto the ticket. He proposes several radical progressives that prove to be unpopular in the convention. Senator John Walter Smith, a moderate Progressive who had served as a successful and popular governor of Maryland is eventually named on the ticket. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walter_Smith

1908 Georges Clemenceau becomes increasingly bitter, and launches a scathing attack on the French political system in both L'Aurore and La Justice. The French Government does not take kindly to this, and Clemenceau is arrested on trumped up charges. He serves a year in jail, which excludes him from further political ventures, and his papers collapse whilst he is behind bars. In prison, he contracts recurring dysentery, and loses a large amount of weight. He becomes very frail, and has to walk with the aid of a stick.

February 1908: La Follete and Teller's Anti-Trust Bill fails to pass either House of congress, and because the issue was viewed as 'done to death' (according to Pulitzer) it recieved little media coverage.

February 1908: George Orson Welles is born to Richard Welles and Beatrice Ives in Chicago.

February 2, 1908 King Carlos I and Prince Manuel of Portugal assassinated. The heir, Luis Filipe, survives with a wounding only, becoming King of Portugal.

March 12th 1908 - President Granados of Costa Rica forces through amendments giving the executive branch more power, and launches a military buildup. He wins re-election the same year.

March 15th, 1908-Business competition between the National and Continental Leagues reaches a fever pitch when the floudering Phillies and Boston Braves, both facing tough competition from their crosstown rivals, both try to move to Buffalo, NY. The league owners meet and decide to merge, creating a trust corporation called Major League Baseball. The Braves move to Buffalo, while the Phillies become the Baltimore Saints.

June 1908: James Hemenway, Champ Clark, and other moderates attempt to reverse the current anti-trust law, and replace it with the one written by La Follete and Teller the previous year. The Bryant Administration refuse to budge on the issue.

June 30, 1908 Outgoing Ambassador Theodore Roosevelt was near the end of a farewell scientific expedition through Russian Siberia with a camera crew to document the expedition when they witnessed a fireball streak through the sky and explode. The event is captured on film, as is the aftermath when Roosevelt leads the team to the explosion site.

August 1908 Tom Watson, leader of the Populist Party, formally throws the Populist Party's support to Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan. The Grange also supports Bryan.

September 1908: Hearst throws all of his resources toward campaigning for Bryan. His newspapers are the only eastern papers to support the candidate.

September 14th to 20th, 1908-Major League Baseball, recalling the 1905 exhibition, formalizes an annual "Best-in-the-World Series". The Tigers beat the Pirates, 3 games to 2.

September 25 1908- Oil is discovered in the Malaysian State of Sarawak on Borneo.

October 3, 1908 - The occupied Ottoman provinces of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Novi Pazar are annexed by the Austrian Empire. Several prominent Serbian newspapers call for war, but are silenced by the pro-Austrian Serbian government. Russia issues a complaint, but does not escalate the crisis.

October 7th 1908- Emilio Aguinaldo dies from a bout from malaria in the island of Cebu. The Filipino leader died one year before his nation achieved his dream of receiving their independence from the United States.

October 24th 1908- Infante Alfonso is born to HM King Alfonso of Spain XIII.

November 1908 After returning from Russia, Theodore Roosevelt runs for and wins the race for Senator of the State of New York.

November 1908:The Republicans remain in control of the Senate, but lose their majority in Congress.

November 1908: William Jennings Bryan defeats Elihu Root, carying all deep southern states, all border states except West Virginia, all of the plains states, and every western state except Washington.

November 1908: The Democrats gain a majority in congress. Despite Bryan's influence, no Populist Democrats gain enough support to become speaker, so Missouri moderate Champ Clark is given the job.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:12 PM

1909 -

1909 Ford buys Cadillac and establishes it as a 'cutting edge' division for the company. Porsche is chosen to head the new division.

1909 Georges Clemenceau goes bankrupt; spends his remaining years campaigning (unsuccessfully) against both the French government and legal system.

1909 President Castillo of Cuba and President Bryan of the USA agree to overturn the Platt Amendment, and Guantanamo is returned to Cuba.

1909 William E. Borah (R) is elected to the House of Representives.

January 1909 -- Emperor Menelik II begins devolving his powers by placing Princess Zauditu in charge of Foreign Affairs. The Princess shows her cunning, and her devoutness, early on by co-ordinating with the various Christian missionary groups that are just beginning to penetrate the interior of Central and East Africa. Over several years, this simple move will help the spread of Christianity in the Sahel and cement Ethiopia's reputation among the imperial powers as a "civilized" nation.

February 1909: Before taking office, Bryan reorganizes the Freeman’s Journal to survive when he is gone. He sets up three major offices in Milwaukee, Lincoln, and Denver, along with countless small offices throughout the plains states and some of the south covering mostly local news. Though all papers have the heading The Freeman’s Journal, the paper varies widely from county to county due to the importance of local matters to most Populists. Foreign news is handled primarily through collaborations with Canadian (and indirectly British) newspapers, while most West Coast and East Coast news is handled by freelancers or bought from city non-affiliated newspapers.

March 1909: Elections are held in congress for the new Speaker of the House. Non western Democrats make it very clear that they require a non-Populist speaker if they are to continue support of Bryan. Missouri congressmen Champ Clark is selected.

March 1909: Bryan is sworn in as president, calling it the return of the common man, and attacks big business in his address, focusing especially on railroads.

April 1909: George Cabot-Lodge, son of Senator Henry Cabot-Lodge, recovers from illness, and decides to follow his father's footsteps into politics.

April 1909: Bryan announces a pullout from the Phillipines, and puts Arthur MacArthur in charge of the operations in an attempt to seem bi-partisan. The operation goes smoothly with many of the Public works projects surviving intact.

April 1909: George Cabot-Lodge, son of Senator Henry Cabot-Lodge, recovers from illness, and decides to follow his father's footsteps into politics.

April 15, 1909 Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary is persuaded to make a rare state visit to the newly incorporated A-H province of Bosnia-Herzigovina on the first anniversary of its annexation. Despite beefed up security measures, a Bosnian terrorist manages to assassinate the elderly Emperor. Archduke Franz Ferdinand ascends to the throne of the Empire.

May 1909: Many other midwestern Progressive Republicans form a coalition with La Follete siding with Bryan. Together they pass a minimum wage law, lower tariffs, and pass a new, incredibly harsh anti-trust bill, but which excludes labor movements.

May 1, 1909 - The Emperor Franz Ferdinand raises Countess Sophie and their children to the royal titles that would traditionally be given to the members of the Imperial Household. Many see this as a prelude to an eventual ending of their morganatic status.

May 7, 1909- The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS) is formed to regulate collegiate sports in the United States.

June 1909: Bryan attempts to pass a bill putting the railroad industry under partially under the governments controll. The Republicans object, and to avoid the takeover they appease Bryan on many other pieces of legislation.

June 1909: Charles Seymour, a member of a prominent family in Yale administration, after years of study and family business away from Connecticut, returns to New Haven and begins to study at Yale. Having already recieved most of his education at Columbia and Berkeley, he decides to take a job in the New Haven branch of a Hearst newspaper.

June 1909 - Robert Goddard successfully defends his thesis on liquid rocketry, and caps it off with a demonstration of one of his rocket designs, which flies for a total of 4 seconds before crashing to the ground. Herbert G. Wells is at hand for the demonstration and congratulates the young man on his modest yet monumental success.

Summer 1909 - In the wake of the panic of '07, Democrats pass legislation regulating stock purchases, including one that seriously curtails buying on Margin.

July 7, 1909- Upon the suggestion of President Bryan, the IAAUS bans the sports of football and rugby as too violent and vulgar at the collegiate level, effectively killing these games.

August 1909: Prohibition is passed as a law but not an amendment. It excludes beer and wine. The US is put under the silver standard, though it no longer has any major effect.

September 14th to 20th 1909- The Detroit Tigers defeat the Chicago Cubs, 3 games to 2. The decisive game was a 2-1 thriller won by a pinch homerun by Elmer Flick in the 9th inning. Flick a disappointment since his arrival in 1907, was a reserve outfielder by now after losing his regular spot to 25 year old Clyde Engle. Engle hit .276 with no homers, 83 ribbies and 18 stolen bases but the true stars of this team were Sam Crawford with .326- 6- 103 and 30 stolen bases and George Mullin with his best season ever with 31 victories and 7 defeats plus a 2.26 ERA.

Fall 1909- Unable to play the more contact oriented sports, "soccer" teams form at nearly all the schools where football was played before.

October 1909: MacArthur is named head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff again as a way to appeal to Progessive Republicans. Bell is forced into early retirement.

October 1909- After three non-impressive seasons, Walter Johnson is traded to the Yankees in a straight cash transaction.

October 1909: Hearst supports women's suffrage and other progressive reforms, but continues to warn the public of the danger that La Follete and other radical progressives could produce, and supports mainly Democratic politicians.

October 1909 The sixteenth amendment to the Constitution providing women's suffrage, is passed in Congress and sent to the States for ratification.

November 1909: The Pulitzer papers begin to openly criticize the Bryan administration. The papers begin to gain more circulation at the expense of the Freeman’s Journal and the Hearst chains.

November 1909- First election for the Filipino upper assembly and the Filipino presidency after the US pullout. The recently formed Nacionalista party wins the election, with young Manuel Quezon sweared in as president in January 1910.

November 1909: The Republicans try to pass a bill overriding the president to reclaim the Phillipines, led by Senate Republicans. Senator La Follete filibusters. The Republicans try to stir up interest in the Wisconsin legislature to replace La Follete. They fail and La Follete along with most of the Wisconsin legislature form what they call the Progressive Party.

November 1909: Richard Ballinger, former mayor of Seattle, is elected governor of Washington as a Republican. He receives support from Hearst, who he had helped legally when starting up a newspaper in Seattle. He is generally regarded as the most powerful 'traditional' Republican on the West Coast.

December 9th 1909- Herbert Asquith proposes an Irish Home Rule Bill as a reward to the Irish Nationalist Party support of his Liberal government.

December 25, 1909 - Negotiations with the Vatican for a formal denial of the morganatic status of Franz Ferdinand's are revealed, and the Vatican announces the granting of the request on Christmas Day. This angers some supporters of Franz Josef, saying that Franz Ferdinand is disrespecting his predecessor.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:13 PM

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1910 - Nicolai Tesla uses royalties from his radio patent to start a new venture, Tesla Transistors, to develop his patents in this area.

1910 - Gladys Smith becomes a major player in New York based motion pictures at the tender age of 16.

1910 - Sigmund Freud publishes 'Localization of the Human Mind' a seminal work localizing several neurological phenomena, and downplaying the psychoanalytic model of the mind.

January 1910: Hearst publicly criticizes Bryan in his paper for favoring some Americans over others, and for having lost sight of the true goals of the party. He accuses Bryan of pandering only to his public, while ignoring the rest of America.

January 5, 1910 -- Prime Minister Boutros Ghali petitions for Egypt to become a member of the Imperial Council, as a way of ending the uncertain status Egypt has wallowed in since the British ousted the Ottomans in 1886. Hard-liners are disappointed that he is not demanding immediate independence, but Ghali predicts that such a direct request would be met harshly.

January 1910 Booker T. Washington is invited by President Bryan for the first of several visits to the Executive Mansion, angering Southern Democrats.

February 1910 Penicillin becomes available clinically for the treatment of bacterial infections.

Febuary 1910: Hearst invests in London, Paris, Berlin, and Rome papers, trying to improve the international coverage in his American chains.

February 2, 1910 -- British Parliament works out a compromise with Egypt short of independence. Under the agreement, Britain will gradually grant more autonomy whenever Egypt's local politicians meet certain defined goals, such as increasing literacy or eliminating starvation. Egyptian Parliament considers repudiating the agreement as a symbolic gesture, but Ghali finally persuades them to sign on.

February 14th 1910- It's announced special elections will occur during the year in Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand to elect the representatives of those nations to an Imperial Council, the first step of Joseph Chamberlain's dream, the Imperial Parliament.

February 18, 1910 Attempted assassination of Boutros Ghali, the first native born Prime Minister of Egypt.

February 22, 1910 -- Recovering from the attempt on his life, PM Boutros Ghali defiantly defends the controversial "Independence Plan," declaring the Egypt will be "not only free, but prosperous, within 30 years." In the popular mind, this 30-year deadline becomes better known than the actual contents of the Plan.

March 1910 Emperor Franz Ferdinand calls for greatly enlarging the Imperial Navy, alarming Italy in the process.

March 29th 1910- Irish Home Rule Bill is approved barely by both Houses of Parliament.

April 1910: Bryan nominates progressive Republican Albert Beveridge as Attorney General in order to appeal to the Progressives.

April 1910: Henry Wallace is hired by the Iowa branch of the Freeman Journal to cover primarily the science and practice of agriculture. He also publishes a number of opinion pieces in support of President Bryan.

April 1910- Muslims in Mindanao and Sulu perceived the new Christian government as a threat and began armed resistance against the government in Manila.

April 1910- With disputes between teammates Nap Lajoie and Ty Cobb getting more frequent, Cobb is traded to the Philadelphia Athletic for third baseman Frank Baker and pitcher Charles Bender.

April 1910: American pro-labor laws are passed that clearly favor farm syndicates over labor and nativists over immigrants. Many factories begin to hire an all Catholic workforce to avoid the unions, and encourage greater immigration.

April 26th 1910- MP’s from Northern Ireland, with the backing of the Conservative Party and some members of the House of Lords, forced through an amending Exclusion of Northern Ireland attachment to the Bill. The Irish MP’s were furious and withdrew their support of the Liberal government.

May 1910: James Hemenway replaces Albert Beveridge as Senator from Indiana.

May 1910: Hannoversche Maschinenbau releases Europe's top-selling electric sedan and coupe, the Wolf and the Donner. They use their position to buy up the French company Castoldi, clearly modelling themselves after the French-German company dominating the gasoline market, Opel-Darracq.

June 1910 Emperor Franz Ferdinand proposes the creation of a Triple Monarchy; Austrian, Hungarian, and Slavic. Over the next several weeks, rioting breaks out in Hungary against the idea.

June 1910 - Rose Fitzgerald marries Fiorello H. LaGuardia after being introduced by a friend at school the year before.

June 10th 1910- The four ship Oklahoma Class are authorized by the US Congress. The ships are completed by late 1914. The ships, armed with twelve 14” guns introduced the “all or nothing” concept in armouring. The most powerful armed ships on the world by the time of them being laid down, by the time of their completion were under gunned compared to the British Queen Elizabeth Class.

June 17th 1910- New King George V orders Asquith to dissolve Parliament and asks for a general election.

July 1910: The Freeman’s Journal opens up another major office in Mobile. Local offices begin to become more plentiful among the south. The Lincoln office is declared the official headquarters coinciding with the expansion of Plains and western mid-western cities. The Freeman’s Journal begins to be strong enough to fully complete with Hearst and Pulitzer's chains.

July 29th 1910- Conservative Party barely wins the election, Bonar Law declared Prime Minister.

August 14th 1910- Conservative government tries to slow down the implementation of the Irish Home Rule Bill. Riots in Dublin, Cork and other counties as a result. Bonar Law authorizes the movement of troops into Ireland to quell the riots. Beginning of “The Troubles.”

September 1910: Extreme business regulations cause a dramatic fall for big business. Huge farming subsidies make Bryan and La Follete into heroes in the west, but lose the support of almost the entire eastern middle class.

September 1910 A plot to assassinate Emperor Franz Ferdinand and to declare Hungarian independence is unearthed by Imperial officials and many arrests of Hungarian nationalists follow. This is a major setback for Hungarian nationalists.

September 14th to 17th 1910- In a complete domination, the Pittsburgh Pirates blank the Chicago White Sox 3 games to none to easily win the World Series. Honus Wagner was declared the series best player.

October 1910 Honduran president Miguel Rafael Davila proposes legislation that would limit concessions to banana companies in Honduras.

October 3rd 1910-Portuguese Army defeats a mutiny by the fleet. Still the young King Luis Felipe announces he will name writer Teofilo Braga as Prime Minister to placate the Republican sentiments on the country.

November 1910 A planned coup sponsored by US Banana Companies is discovered in Honduras. President Davila is incensed and presents emergency legislation to nationalize the Banana industry in Honduras and strip US businesses of their power.

November 1910- President Enrique Loynaz del Castillo reelected president of Cuba after achieving the overturning of the Platt Amendment.

November 1910: George Cabot-Lodge is elected as a congressmen from Massachusetts.

November 1910: Congressional elections across the US dramatically change the face of the US Senate. Progressive Democrats win across the west and mid-west while the Republicans make a clean sweep over much of the north. The House is retaken by the Republicans, but the Senate remains in the hands of the Democrats. Some Progressive Republicans run as Democrats.

November 1910 Emperor Franz Ferdinand, after several attempts to gain support for a Triple Monarchy, abandons the plan in favor of a different course of reform, a federalized Empire consisting of 26 regions. The proposed federated Empire's Parliament would still have the Austrians and Hungarian states as roughly equal majorities, but would give Slavs their own representation.

December 1910 President Bryan himself instructs the State Department that the USA will not intervene in the Honduran situation on behalf of the Banana interests.

December 4th 1910- While some leaders in the Irish movement favored classic conventional warfare in order to legitimize their cause in the eyes of the world, groups led by Michael Collins opposed this idea and began irregular warfare.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:13 PM

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1911 - On a broadway tour in Boston, Gladys Smith is introduced to financier Joseph P. Kennedy.

1911: Hearst begins to take a more conservative turn arguing for a middle path between two radicals. He goes on a massive spending spree buying up several new small papers and thus making his agenda better known. He begins to become an apologist for traditional Democrats in the east.

January 1911 Snubbed by President Bryan, US companies turn to the Nicaraguans. Knowing of Zelaya's dream of a greater Central American nation, they agree to bankroll an invasion of Honduras in return for continuation and expansion of their banana concessions in the North.

January 1911: The Philippines and Japan enter into a non-aggression pact, and a Japanese naval port is planned for Luzon. MacArthur calls for intervention in the newspapers, and is fired by Bryan.

January 1911: Bryan attempts to force a bill taking control of the railroad industry. It is stopped by Democrats in the senate. Using support from Progressive Republicans Bryan forces a ridiculously low tariff, and begins to veto almost any piece of Republican legislation, no matter how partisan.

Jan.29 1911 The anarchist PLM seizes Mexicali on the Mexican-US border.

February 1911: The Republicans refuse to budge on railroads. Many of the congressmen have strong connections to the industry. La Follete uses his extreme influence in Wisconsin to pass a state law seizing control of all railroads. Republicans object to this, and demand that a law be passed preventing such actions. Bryan encourages it, and states across the entire south begin to pass such resolutions. When brought to court, La Follete successfully defends his arguments using Eminent Domain.

February 1911: Bryan supports congressional legislation limiting the power of the American territorial governor of Hawaii, giving more power to the territorial legislature, which has a majority of 'aboriginalists' in power at the time.

Febuary 1911: Former Nebraska Senator William Allen goes back into politics and reorganizes the Populist Party. Officially it still supports Bryan and the Democrats, but unoffically it pushes Populist sympathizers towards their side. They win several local seats, but fail to nominate any serious congressional candidates.

February 7th 1911- The Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, killed by a squad of IRA gunmen. The Earl of Dudley recalled from Australia to take over as Lord Lieutenant.

March 12th 1911- Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier signs a trade reciprocation agreement with the United States. The Conservatives used this as a weapon to gain power.

April 1911: Franklin Gatling invests in newspapers, helping create local branches of Hearst papers in Houston, Austin, Dalas, and Lubbock.

April 1911 Nicaragua invades Honduras.

Apr.17-May.6 1911 The siege of Ciudad Juárez: Madero’s forces suddenly appear and demand the town’s surrender. Federal forces raise the siege and later defeat an attack launched by rebel generals Orozco and Villa. This event is considered by many the reason Porfirio Diaz decided to stay as president of Mexico. Madero goes into exile into the US.

May 1911- Outfielder Joe Jackson signed by the Baltimore Saints and hit 417 in his rookie season.

May 1911 - Howard P. Lovecraft graduates from Brown with several poems and short stories already published.

May 5, 1911: Leland motors releases the Bolt, the first successful, mass-produced electric car not released by Ford in the USA.

May 7th 1911- After some local victories, President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico announces after being convinced by some of his advisors that he's the duly elected President of Mexico. He also stated he will continue until his enemies were defeated or to his bitter end.

May 08 1911 Tijuana is captured by the anarchist Magonistes - Lower California is now almost entirely in the hands of the PLM.

May 13-19 1911 Zapata takes Cuautla in fierce fighting - ~he orders all villages in the district to reclaim land seized by the haciendas.

May 16 1911 Villa resigns from Madero’s army. He states that force is led by a weakling and stronger men are needed if the revolution will triumph.

May 18th 1911- German government, worried over the new naval race between his allies Italy and Austria-Hungary, says it's willing to host a naval conference between both nations to try to end their rivalry.

May.18-21 1911 Supported by the landowners, the Pro-Madero Figueroa brothers occupy western Morelos, including Jojutla and Cuernavaca, preventing the more radical Zapata from fully controlling the state

May.20 1911 In control of Lower California, the anarchist PLM publishes a proclamation for peasants to take collective possession of the land.

May 29, 1911 In Morelos, Zapata reaches an accord with the rival Figueroa brothers.

June 1911: In an official meeting of moderate, mostly Catholic labor and eastern Industrialists, an agreement is formed, and the groups begin to work together against more radical Progressive movements.

June 1911 The capital of Honduras falls to the Nicaraguans. While a robust guerilla movement will continue for years, most Hondurans who live in crushing poverty want peace, and are brought over to the Nicaraguan side with promises of new social programs using money from the Nicaraguan Canal deal and from future tolls.

Jun 02, 1911 The Figueroas install a conservative provisional government.

June 5, 1911 - Aristide Briand is assassinated.

Jun.24 1911 Madero issues a conciliatory manifesto, asking for wide land reforms in exchange to end the revolution and the promise of new elections in 1912. Of course his offer is refused but still provokes criticism from many of his followers.

July 1911: The Hearst newspapers try to downplay the issues in Mexico, hoping to prevent a war in a potentiall future Republican administration.

July 1911: Having graduated from Yale, and taking his time before pursuing a Ph.D in history, Seymour moves to New York to take on a full time job in journalism. There he catches the eye of Hearst, who quickly gives him more responsibility.

Jul.12 1911 In Puebla, Federal troops use machine guns to suppress unrest, mowing down over a hundred Maderistas. Diaz declares the Maderista movement to be 'on its dead bed'.

Jul 14 1911 Miners form a national union. Diaz declares them to be illegal; still rising union activity and waves of strikes sweep Mexico.

August 1911: Hearst attempts to buy out the New York Times. Donors from across the nation donate money to keep what they view as the least biased newspaper afloat. The newspaper does lose lots of money, and loses about a quarter of its circulation. As the Hearst newspapers begin to get printed internationally, the Times becomes more and more limited to the north-eastern seaboard.

Aug.11 1911 Federal General Victoriano Huerta ordered to defeat the rebellion in Morelos. The first armed clash occurs between the Federals and Zapata’s forces. Figueroa brothers gave Zapata control of the rebel forces in the area.

September 1911- Ty Cobb plays on his first World Series.

September 1911- First Japanese “instructors” arrive to the Philippines to aid the Filipino troops in defeating the growing revolt in Mindanao and Sulu.

Sept 01 1911 Zapata escapes to Puebla after a botched attempt to capture him.

September 14th to 19th 1911- The Philadelphia A’s wins the first of three pennants in this decade and the first of two consecutive World Series 3 games to 1, thanks in part to the incredible season of Ty Cobb, who hit .423-8-129 and with at the time a record 91 stolen bases.

Sep.26 1911 Huerta declares Morelos to be pacified, and moves into Puebla in pursuit of Zapata - on Sep.27, Zapata issues an anti-government manifesto.

October 1911- Cy Young announces his retirement from Baseball after winning 509 games thru his career with the Cleveland Spiders of the old national league and the Boston Blue Socks.

Oct.06-07 1911 As Huerta advances deep into Puebla, Zapata doubles back into Morelos.

October 8th 1911- Conservative Robert Borden is the new Canadian Prime Minister and lobbies heavily for both Imperial Preference and the Imperial Council.

Oct.24 1911 Zapata’s forces take Milpa Alta, only fifteen miles from the heart of Mexico City.

Oct.27-28 1911 A cabinet crisis is brought on by the Zapatista victories; at Diaz’s urging, Huerta is sacked as Federal commander in Morelos.

November 18th 1911- President Caceres wins reelection in the Dominican Republic, with fraud being claimed by the losing candidate Juan Isidro Jimenez. Caceres felt compelled to appoint leaders from different factions in an attempt to broaden his support.

November 1911: Al Smith, one of the leaders of the Catholic community in the New York legislature officially switches to the Republican Party along with many other prominent Catholic politicians across the country.

November 27, 1911- Chinese Revolutionaries capture Yuan Shikai and dissolve his army.

Nov.28 1911 Zapata’s Plan of Ayala is issued, calling for rural reform and the fulfillment of the Madero’s revolution; by then considered by many dead. The Zapatista revolt is formalized - on Dec.15; the Plan is published in Mexico City.

Dec 7 1911- With Federal forces busy fighting south, a refurbished Madero’s army under General Orozco capture Ciudad Juarez and began asserting their control over Chihuahua.

Dec.11 1911 Yaqui Indians in Sonora seize their ancestral lands. Federal forces send to try to deal with this new problem.

December 12th 1911- Delhi Durbar occurs with the presence of the British King. While small tokens of royal generosity were given the main announcement was the changing of the capital of India to Delhi and the declaration of Bengal being now a Lieutenant Governor province akin to Bombay and Madras. Completely autonomous in local concerns, the measure was well received in Calcutta.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:13 PM

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1912 - Tired of preferential treatment of the Western and Central Provinces and wishing more representation within the new Imperial system of the British Empire, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island break off from Canada and unite with New Foundland and Labrador to form the Maritimes Union, a new Dominion within the British Empire.

1912 - The Cambridge Line of the MTA system is completed from Park Street to Harvard Stations. It will later be expanded to Dorchester.

1912- The decision in the Dominican Republic of President Caceres of creating a cabinet that has member of all the factions in the Republic was a failure. The internecine conflicts that resulted only weakened the government and paralyzed the decision making process of the Republic. This forced President Caceres and his Secretary of War Desiderio Arias to disband his cabinet and Congress and ask for new elections for Congress. The response was the expected. The followers of Jimenez began a low-level resistance in the East and North of the island. President Caceres began ruling by decree until what he considered the end of the “emergency.”

1912 Georges Clemenceau dies of recurring dysentery. His funeral is attended only by his children and a gaggle of interested journalists.

1912 Democratic Convention: Trouble begins even before the convention can start when a split occurs in the credentialing committee between Bryan appointees and members supported by the moneyed business interests of the Democratic Party. Chaos ensues with one side disallowing the delegates of the other. Eventually, both sides go to different parts of the host city, proclaiming theirs the true Democratic Convention. The ‘Loyalist’ Convention nominates Bryan quickly. The ‘Real’ Convention decides that a southerner should be nominated for president due to the fact that if Bryan were to run, the Democrats would have to carry the Old South. Hearst is the keynote speaker and declares the true Democratic Party a party of compromise between a polarized America. He tries to reconcile the differing world views of the south and the north-east.They choose Speaker of the House "Champ" Clark of Missouri as their candidate. He appeals to the western more Populist southerners.

1912 Republican Convention: The Republicans, after the less then successful Root presidency search for a unifying platform, and eventually decide on pressure against Japan. Incredibly influential Senator Henry Cabot Lodge is an early favorite in the convention. Robert LaFollete makes a bid for the Presidential nomination with his upstart Progressives, but they are roundly shot down. With the news of the split in the Democrats, LaFollete feels emboldened and makes an ultimatum to the party to put a Progressive on the ticket. However, he is rebuffed and instead storms out of the convention with the Progressive candidates. With their departure Lodge is quickly made the Republican candidate with his friend Roosevelt acting as his floor manager. Though Arthur MacArthur has no stated political affiliation, he agrees to join the ticket due to their foreign policies. Many of the delegates from New York and New England were purposefully chosen due to their Catholicism.

1912 Progressive Convention: LaFollete is quickly nominated in the hastily called Progressive Convention in Milwaukee. But during the convention, a telegram is received from Bryan suggesting a fusion ticket between Loyalist Democrats and Progressives, with LaFollete as the VP on the ticket. After several days of argument and debate, the Progressives decide to fuse the tickets, leading to a Democratic Progressive ticket of Bryan/LaFollete.

1912 Upton Sinclair, Jack London, and several other pro-Socialist writers and artists abandon the Socialist party to support the new Progressive party and campaign for the fusion Bryan/LaFollete ticket.

Jan. 1st, 1912 Sun Yat-sen gains control of China and would be elected Provisional President of the Republic of China soon after.

Jan. 04 1912 The Zapatistas attack Yautepec.

Jan.09 1912 Zapatistas blow the Cuernavaca-Tetecala Railroad.

Jan.19 1912 Martial law is declared in Morelos, Guerrero, Tlaxcala, and parts of Puebla and Mexico State as the revolt spreads.

Jan 28 1912 Diaz is getting desperate due to the victories of the rebel leader Zapata on the south, He names his nephew Felix Diaz as commander of the forces tasked with defeating Zapata.

Jan 29 1912 Due to the deterioration of the situation in the border, Texas calls for US intervention in northern Mexico. President Bryan refuses.

Febuary 1912: Edward (Ted) Landrey is born in East Lansing Michigan.

Feb.02 1912 Fighting breaks out amongst the Federal garrison of Ciudad Chihuahua. General Orozco is authorized to raise troops and sets out for western Chihuahua.

Feb.03 1912 Orozco persuades the Federal forces in Ciudad Chihuahua to surrender. The state is on the hands of the Maderistas.

Feb.06 1912 The Zapatistas announce that they’ll blow up every train that enters Morelos and launch a renewed drive on Cuernavaca.

Feb.09 1912 Federal troops burn down Santa Maria, the hopes of Morelos moderates for the restoration of peace are shattered.

Feb.10 1912 Felix Diaz arrests Zapata’s relatives and institutes widespread ejections of officials and executions in Morelos.

February 10th 1912- Free and secret elections finally approved in Argentina by the Saenz Peña Law. First test is the elections in the province of Santa Fe, won by the Radical Party.

Feb.15 1912 Felix Diaz begins the systematic burning of villages and the forced ‘resettlement’ of rural populations throughout Morelos.

February 18th 1912- Robert Borden resigns as Prime Minister of Canada to take over as Prime Minister of the Maritimes Union after being offered the post. He stated “that in good conscience I couldn’t stay as Canadian Prime Minister when my own province is not part of Canada anymore and I have to follow the call of my people. If they have a need for my services, who am I to refuse?”

Feb. 23 1912 A secret report send to President Diaz stated that widespread rural unrest was endemic in the Laguna (Torreón) region of eastern Durango and southwestern Coahuila.

February 26th 1912- Sam Hughes, a member of Borden’s cabinet, barely elected Prime Minister of Canada. A well-known Orangeman, his administration was one of the most controversial in the history of Canada due to his anti-catholic stand and his charges of corruption later during his administration.

Spring 1912 - Hermann Oberth wins the Austrian branch of the International Rocketry Society's scholarship for the study of rockets. He begins his classes in engineering in the fall.

March 1912 -- Successful in his goal of instituting a nationwide modernization plan, Prime Minister Boutros Ghali retires with his most radical reform yet, requesting that the British allow his successor to be chosen through universal suffrage. Their hand forced by an appeal to democratic principles, British accept the challenge and use their occupying forces to oversee a fair election. Abdel Khaliq Sarwat of the Muslim Brotherhood wins.

March 5, 1912 - The Boston Elevated Railway builds the Harvard Elevated, which stretches from Harvard Square in Cambridge to a tunnel underneath the Beacon Hill and a connection to Park Street, with stops at Hancock, Central, Smith, Kendall, and Longfellow before trains enter a subway with stops at Bowdoin and Park Street. Because the line runs in a more straight path, the traincars are much larger than on the Main Line, in fact, they are the largest subway cars in the world for the time.

Mar.07 1912 Signs of panic in Mexico City. US Ambassador is frantically requesting arms from the US State Department and urging American citizens to flee.

Mar. 14 1912 Felix Diaz sends forces north to try to defeat Maderistas in Chihuahua.

March 20, 1912 Artist Adolph Hitler's wife dies in childbirth, but their only son lives. His father gives him his name, Adolph. Hitler entrusts his infant son to his in-laws while he deals with his grief in part by traveling Europe, staying with several artist friends and acquaintances.

Mar.24 1912 Battle of Parral. Maderista forces defeat the Federal force under the command of Felix Diaz on the city of El Parral in southern Chihuahua. Chihuahua under full rebel control.

Mar. 26 1912 Zapatista activity is accelerating due to Felix Diaz main forces, with nearly full control of countryside; the Zapatistas take Puebla, but are defeated in attacks on Tres Marias and Parque del Conde

Mar. 28 1912 Diaz imposes press censorship after some disturbing articles asking for his resignation.

Apr. 08 1912 Zapata briefly takes several key towns in Morelos, but is unable to hold them for long. Mass executions by Federal forces in Jojutla reported.

April 1912 -- Sopwith-Rolls Engine Company is founded in Manchester, England. It quickly develops a reputation for craftsmanship in the auto, rail, and aviation industries.

Apr. 13 1912 Zapatista-inspired revolts overrun much of southern Puebla and often cut its communications with Oaxaca until summer.

Apr. 15 1912 A revolt in Guanajuato starts but is suppressed by the end of the month.

April 17, 1912 - President Jose Joaquin Granados is assassinated in San Jose, in an election year. His successor does not inspire the same confidence, and is defeated in elections that year, and the Granados family begins to fade into the background. However, General Federico Tinoco, brother of the late president, remains a strong presence in the army.

April 30, 1912 RMS Titanic arrives in New York, completing her maiden voyage and becoming the largest luxury liner of the time.

May 1912- Young Pedro Albizu Campos decides to follow a military career in the budding Puerto Rican army instead of accepting a scholarship to study in the United States. He instead accepted an offer to study in the French Cavalry School in Saumur.

May 1, 1912 - Bulgaria and Greece sign a secret agreement to divide the Ottoman Empire, which becomes known as the Balkan League. They have the quiet support of Russia in this.

May 10 1912 Orozco captures Monclova in Coahuila from Federals’ control.

May 15, 1912 - Montenegro attempts to join the Balkan League, but is threatened with attack from Austria.

May 20, 1912 - Austria and Germany condemn the Balkan states aggression, and they are joined by France and Britain soon enough. However, Italy signs a secret agreement with the Balkan League.

May 29 1912 A revolt erupts in northern Oaxaca: rebels besiege the state capital.

June 1912: Rick Gatling graduates with honors from Yale and returns to Lubbock to work for his father. He becomes a prominent fixture in Texas society and the cultural scene.

June 3rd 1912- Ernst Heinkel takes a job at Zeppelin workshop as a machinist.He feels excited to work on what most fascinates him most, aviation.

Jun. 11 1912 The rebels in north Oaxaca defeat a Federal punitive force at Ixtepeji.

June 16th, 1912 William E. Borah marries Alison Roosevelt, Daughter of former Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.

August 1912: A new charter is writen for the Manitoban Populist-Liberal Party that tends to favor British Canadians over the large German and Polish minorities.

August 1912: Buddy Bulden, jazz great from New Orleans usually attributed with inventing jazz is recorded by RCA Victor. It is the first jazz recording, and an immediate smash hit. Both black and white imitators immediately start releasing jazz records.

August 1912: The Grange endorses the Progressive ticket. Watson and the Populist Party work with both Progressives and Democrats. Watson disdains La Follete, and admires Clark though he favors Bryan as president.

August 14, 1912
Madeline Fiermonte and Vincent_Astor meet at a Harvard-Radcliffe ball. They become quite enamored of each other, and marry the next summer.

September 1912: In accordance with the unification of the Populists and Progressives, a major office of the Freemans Journal is opened up in Oakland.

September 1912: Henry Wallace is first recognised as a prominent journalist after publishing both a solid and critical interview with Champ Clarke. Wallace, along with the Journal, endorse Bryan.

Sep. 14 1912 Rebels again attack Ciudad Oaxaca and ravage the central valley

September 14th to 19th 1912- With Ty Cobb once again leading the way in average with .412 and stolen bases with 63, the Athletics post a 96-57 record to repeat as the Continental League Pennant winner. In the World Series the A's would be matched again by the Chicago Cubs. After the Athletics took Game 1, Mordecai Brown and Eddie Plank hooked up in scoreless pitcher's duel. However, with 2 runs in the 11th the Cubs were able to tie the series at one game apiece. However, even Brown and the rest of the Cubs could not derail the Athletics locomotive as Philadelphia went on to win the next 2 to capture the series in 4 games.

Sep.20 1912 The Yaqui in Sonora decisively defeat the invading Federales at San Joaquín. Remnants of the Federales force abandon the province.

October 1912: Champ Clarke criticizes Bryan for using federal measures to supercede state rights. Many traditional Democrats and a few grass roots Populists side with Clarke on the issue. Hearst runs a 1,500 word feature on the topic which is published in over 30 newspapers.

October 8, 1912 - A Christian revolt breaks out in Macedonia, but is quickly put down. Immediately, an ultimatum is issued from the Balkan League to the Ottomans. The Ottomans reject it.

October 10, 1912 - War is declared. Greek troops move into Macedonia first, where they encounter heavy resistance from the Ottomans. The Bulgarians stay on the border.

Oct.16 1912 Félix Díaz crushes revolt in Veracruz.

Oct 17 1912- After preliminary naval bombardments, Italian marines capture Tobruk in Libya.

Oct 18 1912- Italian Marines capture Tripoli.

October 21, 1912 - Bulgaria launches an offensive into Ottoman territories near the border, and scores a major victory in Thrace. They decide to turn west towards Salonika.

Oct 22 1912- Army takes control of operations in Libya under recently promoted Armando Diaz, a protégé of the Chief of Staff Luigi Cardona.

November 1912 Henry Cabot Lodge wins the plurality in the election for President of the United States of America. Bryan comes in a surprisingly strong second, mostly due to sweeping the West and progressive Mid West. It will go to Congress in January.

November 1912: George Cabot-Lodge takes his father's seat in the senate, which he keeps over the next two decades.

November 1912: Bussiness expert and humanitarian Herbert Hoover is elected congressmen from Oregon with the support of the north-western Republican machine that supported Ballinger in Washington.

Nov. 01 1912 The Zapatistas decide to burn the cane fields of haciendas that refuse to pay ‘taxes’. By late January, half of the state’s sugar crop has been burned.

November 14, 1912 - Naval battles in the Aegean cut off Ottoman supply lines in the Aegean, and the Ottoman effort in Greece begins to fall apart.

Nov 17 1912- Diaz considers his forces are ready and began operations to conquer the province. Fighting will continue for at least two more years, even after the Treaty of Venice is agreed.

November 21, 1912 - Riots break out in Belgrade demanding the overthrow of the pro-Austrian Obrenovic Dynasty and calling for joining the war. They are barely put down, with Austrian aid.

December 2, 1912 - Battles break out outside Salonika between Bulgarian and Greek forces. Meanwhile, Turkish successes lead to supplies again reaching the beleaguered city.

December 13, 1912 - An attack on Adrianople narrowly takes the city, but Bulgarian forces are stalled due to heavy losses and an outbreak of plague.

Dec 8 1912- Italian forces land in Albania and began advancing to the interior. Austria privately protested but assurances were made by the Italian government that their tacit agreement to this act will be rewarded.

December 25, 1912 - The Balkan League and the Ottomans agree to arbitration by Great Britain.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:14 PM

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1913 - Congress passes an amendment to the Prohibition laws allowing for the production of hard liquors for export only.

1913 - Rising star Gladys Smith marries Boston financier Joseph P. Kennedy.

1913 Ford releases the Cadillac Model 30GE (gasoline-electric), the company's first hybrid vehicle. Interestingly, it is considered primarily an electric vehicle with a gasoline engine to back up the electric motor, as evidenced by the small gas tank. The car is popular in urban areas and especially with delivery services.

January 1913 Congress in a tempestuous but short session chooses Henry Cabot Lodge as the President of the United States and Arthur MacArthur as Vice-President.

January 1913: Charles Seymour returns to New Haven, where he returns to both his studies and minor administrative laws. He also is elected into city council, and becomes embroiled in Connecticut politics.

January 5, 1913 - The Treaty of Venice is signed. Most of the Aegean Islands and coastal Macedonia west of Salonika go to Greece; territories east of the Chalcidice go to Bulgaria. Thessalonika and the nearby peninsula become an autonomous state led by the Jewish population under Ottoman protection. The remaining territory becomes the Neutral State of Albania-Kosovo, divided into Austrian and Italian zones, north and south.

January 14, 1913 Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico, dies in office. To end the current conflict, former Diaz supporters agree to recognize Francisco Madero as interim president in return for promises of continued patronage. Pancho Villa reconciles with Madero.

January 17th 1913- After close to three years of “The Troubles” , King George V orders Bonar Law to dissolve his government and ordered new elections.

January 31, 1913 - Albania-Kosovo is divided by Austria and Italy. Austria gives Kosovo to Serbia, while retaining the coastal areas.

February 1913 Sung Chiao-jen elected as President of China.

February 3rd 1913- Liberals win the General election and Herbert Asquith returns to the Prime Minister chair. A cease-fire is arranged in Ireland and amnesty given to all leaders of the Irish Troubles as a sign of reconciliation.

March 1913 Theodore Roosevelt is named Secretary of War for the incoming Lodge Administration. Over the next several months he works with a maniacal energy, trying to rebuild the US military after years of neglect.

March 1913 Philander Knox is named Secretary of State.

March 7th 1913- Irish Home Rule Bill finally implemented. Ireland is divided into two territories, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland with separate Parliaments. Each territory was intended to be self-governing except for subjects reserved to the Crown, defence, foreign affairs, international trade and currency. A Lord Lieutenant represented the King and a Council of Ireland coordinate matters of common concern for both Irelands.

April 1913 Indian and Hindu leaders in the Guyanas contact Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, asking him to come speak to them on gaining more rights in their region. He travels to South America at this time.

April 2, 1913 The flag of revolution is once again raised over the city of Warsaw. The immediate cause of the revolution was the Tsar's crackdown on pro-independence newspapers in Poland. When the Polish legislature doesn't act against the papers, the Tsar orders its dissolution. The Poles refuse.

April 3-10, 1913 All of Poland raises the flag of revolt against the Russians. The garrisons are driven out of the cities in bloody fighting. The revolutionary leaders meet in Warsaw to deliberate on whom to offer the throne of Poland to.

April 10, 1913 The Poles, reputedly at the suggestion of the German Foreign Ministry, offer the throne of the Kingdom of Poland to Archduke Karl, the nephew of Hapsburg Emperor Franz Ferdinand.

April 12-18, 1913 The Tsar furiously demands that Karl refuse the throne. The German Foreign Ministry, assures Franz Ferdinand that Germany will support them if his nephew accepts the throne.

April 18th 1913- The first of the French five ship Normandie Class is laid down. Due to the war and the economic problems after the war they weren’t completed until late 1919.

April 20, 1913 Karl secretly accepts the throne of Poland, but does not yet travel to Warsaw. The German and Austrian armies begin to mobilize.

April 22, 1913 France demands that Germany remain neutral in the "current difficulties" in the East.

April 24, 1913 Germany rejects the French demand and continues mobilizing. British attempts to halt the "diplomatic train wreck" are ignored by all parties.

April 29, 1913 The initial columns of German and Austrian troops march into Poland to "preserve the peace".

April 30, 1913 Russia declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.

May 1913: Austrian composer Alban Berg, student of Schoenberg, joins the army becoming a low ranking officer while continuing his studies of atonalism. He believes that fighting in the war will help him gain the respect needed to be recognised by Viennese and Berlin donors.

May 1913 Only months after Francisco Madero assumes the Presidency of Mexico, Victoriano Huerta attempts a coup d'etat with limited success. He takes command in Mexico City, but President Madero evades capture and begins to rally supporters against the military coup. US President Lodge agrees to recognize Madero as the rightful president of Mexico in opposition of Huerta’s dictatorship. They provide Madero with military supplies and money, and the strife in Mexico continues.

May 1913: President Lodge creates the Department of Labor, and names Al Smith as its first Secretary. Smith creates decent labor laws which benefit the workers while not infringing upon business. Progressive supporters of La Follete and Bryan criticize Smith's actions for being too mild. Smith in turn denounces ultra-liberalism and calls for a middle way. More conservative Republicans are fearful of Smith, but others see him as a major positive force for the party.

Early May, 1913 The German Army prepares to execute the unmodified Schlieffen Plan, since the Netherlands is willing to allow German troops to march through enroute to France. The forces in the east, with the Austro-Hungarians, will defend the German and A-H borders, leaving the Poles to fend for themselves until the war is won in the West.

May 1913 Mohandas Gandhi had passed over into Dutch Guiana when the outbreak of the war leads to a closing of the border and his being trapped in the Dutch colony. He is hidden from the authorities and rallies the Indian and Hindu portion of the populace to protest the Dutch involvement in the War and for greater civil rights.

May 1, 1913 France declares war on Germany and Austria Hungary.

May 1, 1913- The United States Football Association is founded. Ten teams begin play in Chicago, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Hartford.

May 3th 1913 El Salvador joins Nicaragua with the signing of the Second Pact of Amapala. This was the result of the invitation of the new Salvadorian leftist regime to the Nicaraguan government to help in the supression of supporters of the former regime early in 1912.

May 9, 1913 -- Hoping to avoid tension with the Ottomans during the upcoming war, Britain pays the Ottomans for the remaining legal title to the territories under its de facto control -- Egpyt, Sudan, Yemen, and Kuwait. Killing two birds with one stone, Britain settles the Yemen-Ethiopian border, too; Ethiopia gets the Aseb, Dahlak, and Hanish Islands, and cedes the remainder to Britain.

May 14th 1913- German 1st Army cross from the Netherlands into Belgium in the direction of Antwerp.

May 15th 1913- Great Britain declares war to Germany due to their violation of the Belgium neutrality. Beginning of battle of Liege that will last until the 25th of May, slowing down the progress of the German 3rd Army.

May 16th 1913- German Chancellor von Bethmann is upset by the British declaration of war, stating in the press that “how Britain could go to war over a piece of paper while our hand stretched in friendship is just pushed away.”

May 17th 1913- Battle of Mulhouse. French following their Plan XVIII launched an offensive to capture the city of Mulhouse. They captured the city on the morning of the 18th.

May 18th 1913- Painter Adolph Hitler is arrested by French authorities as a "hostile foreigner." His experiences during his internment were the basis for two of his most famous paintings.
May 19th 1913- German counteroffensive forces French forces to abandon Mulhouse.

May 20th 1913- Antwerp falls to the German 1st Army, that continued their advance south in the direction of Brussels.

May 23rd 1913- Battle of Brussels. The Belgium Army, under pressure from the German 2nd Army, was forced to face the German 1st Army on their capital or being pocketed. Under the direct leadership of King Leopold, the Belgium forces fought long enough to ensure the escape of close to 70,000 men south but King Leopold is captured trying to escape.

May 23rd 1913- Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry Regiment created for service in Europe. It actually made it to the war, with the unit being the only Canadian unit to see combat, in South West Africa.

May 24th 1913- Battle of Morhange-Sarrebourg. French forces launched an invasion of Lorraine and captured both cities. The battle lasted until June 7th, with a German counter offensive recapturing both cities but being decimated trying to advance into French territory.

May 25th 1913- The Japanese Empire declares war to Germany.

May 26th 1913- Invasion of Togoland by Franco-British troops. The invasion lasted five days. With the French surrender in August the British asked the French troops out, who agreed.

May 26th 1913- Tsar orders Imperial forces to enter Poland to quell the rebellion before the German reinforcements could arrive to the area.

May 27th 1913- Capture of Bialystok. Russian 1st Army defeats Polish rebels and capture the city after a short battle.

May 28th 1913- Battle of Rodno. Polish rebels defeated by the advancing Russian 11th Army.

May 28th 1913- Battle of the China Sea.- The German East Asiatic Squadron intercepted by a Japanese fleet trying to escape near Formosa. The Japanese semi-dreadnaughts and semi-battlecruisers decimated the German fleet from the distance but the cruiser Emden escapes.

May 29th 1913- Provisional Polish government asks the Austrians and Germans for help.

May 30th 1913-Three major battles started on this date. The battle of Neufchateau was also part of the French Plan XVIII and was considered by many launching this offensive event with news of the German advance in Belgium as a very obvious mistake. This battle lasted close to six days and the French withdrew from the areas when news from the West made obvious the battle was a waste of resources. The siege of Namur started on this date and lasted until the 5th of June. Last was the battle of Charleroi. A French attempt to help the Belgium defenders in Namur was repulsed by the German 3rd Army.

Summer 1913- King Habibullah of Afghanistan entertains a German mission, but the crafty Afghan ruler clearly viewed the war as a way to play one side of the other. Finally he received assurances in early 1914 from the British government that they will end their control of his nation foreign policy in exchange of assurances of his part to never involve his nation in any type of military alliance.

June 1st 1913- 1st Battle of Lille- First battle between the British BEF and the German forces. German suffered heavy losses but forces the British to move west in the direction of the coast.

June 1st 1913- German 9th Army entered Poland. At the same time the Austrian 1st to 4th armies also entered Poland.

June 2nd 1913- Battle of Brest-Litovsk. Polish force decimated by Russian 5th Army. Situation considered serious by many in the Polish Provisional government.

June 3rd 1913- Battle of Maubeuge. The German 2nd Army captured the city and continued their advance south. The French 5th Army under Lanrezac, facing three German armies began a a withdraw in the direction of Avesnes, leaving a gap between them and the BEF.

June 4th 1913- Battle of Kowel-Lutsk. Two Russian armies defeat the token Polish forces in the area and continue their advance west.

June 5th 1913- Battle of Cambrai. A small French force put together to slow down the German advance is annihilated but still stopped the German 2nd Army for two days.

June 6th 1913- Battle of Loos- A rearguard action fought by the BEF trying to slow down the advancing German 1st Army. The BEF retired to protect the Channel ports. Later historians said the lack of action by the BEF was one of the factor of the French defeat.

June 3rd 1913- Montenegro declares war to Austria-Hungary in support of the actions of their ally Russia.

June 6th 1913- Battle of Dubno. First encounter between Russian and Austrian troops. After a three day battle the Austrian 3rd Army is forced south by Russian forces.

June 7th 1913- 1st Battle of the Bug River. Russian 2nd Army forces a crossing of the river. The token Polish forces in the area are unable to stop the Russian advance in the direction of Warsaw.

June 7th 1913- Puerto Rican president Luis Muñoz Rivera presents to the Puerto Rican Congress an offer to lease the area east of the island and the island of Culebra to the United States for a period of 75 years starting from the approval of the lease.

June 8th 1913- 2nd Battle of the Bug River. The Austrian 4th Army stops the Russian attempt to cross the Bug River west of Kowel.

June 8th 1913- Beginning of the Siege of Tsingtao. Lasted a month and a half with the Japanese in effective control of the Shantung Peninsula by the end of the siege.

June 8th 1913- Some leaders of the former IRA still considered the new Home Rule was not enough met in Cork and plans were being drafted by some of them, like Eamon de Valera, to rose against the “imposed regime” using the ongoing war as an excuse. It was decided to acquire weapons and funds from both the US and Germany.

June 9th 1913- Battle of Guise-St. Quentin- The remains of the French 5th Army under Lanrezac launched a counter offensive to buy time for reinforcements to arrive to the area. Lanrezac forces recaptured both St Quentin and Guise but his forces were considered spent and both cities were recaptured by the Germans three days later. Lanrezac was fired as an scapegoat.

June 10th 1913- Battle of Amiens- Small French force defeated by advancing German 1st Army. The road south laid open.

June 13th 1913- 1st Battle of Warsaw. The German 9th Army’s attempt to save the Polish capital. While finally failing in achieving that objective, the city being captured two weeks later, they bloodied three Russian armies and the advance west was stopped in northern Poland.

June 16th 1913- Battle of Brody. Invasion of Austro-Hungary launched by Russia. Austrian troops forced south after a two day battle.

June 16th 1913- French government escapes to Bordeaux.

June 17th 1913- 1st Battle of the Marne- The recently created French 6th Army and the remains of the 5th Army defeat in a six day battle the advancing German 2nd and 3rd Armies, forcing them to dig in.

June 17th 1913- 3rd Battle of the Bug River. Russian forces finally force a crossing of the river in face of heavy Austrian opposition. Austrian 4th Army forced to retreat into Austria-Hungary.

June 18th 1913- Georgian pro-independence activist Iosef Dzhugashvili, alias Koba, meets secretly with Ottoman officials in Trebizond. The Ottomans offered large quantities of money and weapons to help Koba achieve his dream of a free Georgia. Many later historians considered the Ottomans just middlemen for the Germans in their attempt to further undermine the Russian position.

June 20th 1913- Battle of the Seine- The German 1st Army and the recently created 7th Army defeated the French 7th Army on a five day battle. The German forces crossed the river and swing east to try to encircle the city.

June 21st 1913- Tarnapol falls to the Russian 11th Army.

June 23rd 1913- Battle of Lublin. Austrian troops forced in the direction of the Vistula River after being defeated on a three day battle against superior numbers.

June 23rd 1913- Battle of Reims. Side action launched by the German 3rd Army supporting the 4th Army in pushing the French 4th Army south. The city falls after a short fight.

June 24th 1913- Italy declares war to France.

June 25, 1913 In response to the Italian declaration, Great Britain declares war against Italy.

June 25th 1913- Battle of Fountainbleu-Etamps. A three day battle were the French 6th Army is defeated by the German 1st and 7th Armies, forcing them north in the direction of Paris.

June 27th 1913- 2nd Battle of the Marne- The German 2nd and 3rd Army crossed the Marne and defeat the weakened French 5th Army, they joined with elements of the German 1st army north of Melun on July 1st, effectively surrounding Paris.

June 28th 1913- Lemberg surrounded by Russian troops. Situation considered desperate by the Austro-Hungarian High Command.

June 29th 1913- Battles of the Alps-Name given to the three Italian offensives launched between July and August 1913. All three failed in achieving any significant breakthroughs and casualties were horrific.

June 30, 1913 Italian forces take Djibuti.

July - September 1913 The Uprising spreads from the Indians to the Maroon population. With military assistance from the neighboring colonial British and French, they manage to take the area, proclaiming a Guianan Free State.

July 1913: It is discovered that Japanese 'businessmen' have bribed several members of the Hawaiian legislature, as well as having gained control of the Hawaiian Japanese community. The many 'aboriginal' legislators are removed from office, giving control of the government to pro-US legislators, who vote for the institution of martial law and call for a military governor from the USA. John Pershing is appointed military governor of Hawaii on the recommendation of MacArthur, who never liked the man and was looking for a way to get rid of him. The Japanese government protests when anti-Japanese demonstrations in Hawaii turn violent.

July 2nd 1913- Siege of Paris- Lasted for two months. The French launched two failed attempts to relieve the city, one on July 7th, called by many the 2nd Battle of Chalons sur Marne and another on August 10th called the Battle of Dreux. That second attempt almost achieved the objective intended but fast reaction by the 7th Army commander Paul von Hinderburg defeated the French force composed mainly of recruits and North African troops.

July 3rd 1913: After his immediate supperiors are killed, Berg is forced to take command of a larger force. His personal bravery in the Battle of Kosmenice-Ivangorod wins him press recognition. He was shot in the torso, which caused slight breathing problems which forced him to leave the military.

July 3rd 1913- Battle of Kosmenice-Ivangorod. Attempts to cross the Vistula defeated by Austrian troops after a six day battle. Both sides suffered terrible casualties and were too exhausted to continue. Russian advance stopped on the Vistula river by combined German-Polish-Austrian forces.

July 4, 1913 While leading a protest, Mohandas Gandhi and several others are shot down and killed by the Dutch colonial forces. This ignites the Guianese Uprising. Mohandas Gandhi will go down in history as a great Martyr of the cause.

July 14, 1913 A plot to overthrow the ailing Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II and join the Italian side of the war, is broken up with several arrests. The Emperor's nephew, Lij Iyasu, is one of the key players in the conspiracy, and is executed.

July 14th 1913- Battle of the Dniester River. With the arrival of fresh troops from the Balkans, front is stabilized on the Dniester River. End of Russian advance into Poland and Austro-Hungary.

July 14th 1913- General Armando Diaz launches an invasion of Tunisia from their new territories in Libya. The advance is very limited but their presence served to them asking for Tunisia at the end of the war.

July 16th 1913- Battles of the Lakes. Name given to combat between two Russian Armies and the understrength German 10th and 11th Armies thru late July and early August. The casualties were terrible on both sides but by the middle of August half of East Prussia was under Russian occupation. German public opinion and the sight of refugees were a hit for German morale.

July 22nd 1913- 2nd Battle of Liege- British BEF tries to relieve the French pressure. The city of Lille falls to the British and is hailed as a victory by the British press.

July 26th 1913: Berg is given a heroes welcome in Vienna, where he starts making appearances in the local military and naval leagues and helping encourage volunteers.

August 1913- Puerto Rican cadet Albizu-Campos wounded while helping in the defenses of the city of Paris. He returns home after the war to recover from his wounds but he was back in France in 1915 to end his education as a cavalry officer.

August 11th 1913- Battle of Java Sea- A combined Australian-British naval force defeats the Dutch naval forces near Surabaya with the German cruiser Emden in tow.

August 19th 1913- Tsar Nicholas offers the German and Austrian governments a return to pre-war borders and for them to repudiate Polish independence. Both governments refuse.

August 20th 1913- After a long debate the leasing agreement with the United States is approved by the Puerto Rican Congress, but only for 50 years, after which both nations must agree to extend the lease further.

August 21st 1913- Paris surrenders to the German forces.

August 27th 1913- French government asks for a ceasefire to discuss terms of surrender.

August 29th 1913- Germany accepts a ceasefire and start moving forces to face the British on the Channel.

August 29th 1913- A small military force sailed from New Zealand and captured German Samoa without any bloodshed.

August 30th 1913- British began evacuation of the BEF. Operation last close to a week with very weak German response, them trying to get the British to accept the fait accompli.

September 1913: A group of Madero supporters led by Pancho Villa raid Mexico City killing hundreds of innocent civilians. Madero marches into the city and quickly establishes his own near dictatorship. Huerta flees to the south-west, and forms a large army of loyalists.

September 4th 1913- South African forces launch an invasion of German South West Africa. Due to the overwhelming number of South African forces, the German troops plus Boer allies offered delaying resistance.

September 5th 1913- The Netherlands lodges a protest to Great Britain for their unprovoked attack to their East Indies Fleet. After British refusal to discuss the event, they declare war to the United Kingdom.

September 6th, 1913 Ethiopian and British forces launch a coordinated attack on Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. Djibuti is occupied by the Allies.

September 7th, 1913- Dutch government secretly request the United States to station US Marines in the Dutch West Indies to ensure "the war doesn't spread to the Western Hemisphere."

September 8th 1913- Lt Col Maritz of the South African Army declares his attempt to create a Free Boer nation. Supported by the Germans and close to 12,000 went to his side.

September 9th 1913- The Canadian Automobile Machinegun Brigade created by Brigadier General Raymond Brutier. The unit was the very first fully mechanized unit in the British Army. Using Ford Motors cars and vehicles, the unit was too late to be mobilized to Europe but instead of being disbanded at the end of the war it was used as a test unit for motorization feasibility tests.

September 14th 1913- Australian troops land in German New Guinea.

September 14th 1913- With ceasefire with French in place, the Germans began moving the 2nd and 3rd Armies East.

September 14th to 20th 1913- The Cleveland Naps, who shocked the baseball world by winning the Continental League pennant and the World Series after finishing fifth the season before, defeated the Cincinnati Reds three games to two. While their captain Nap Lajoie had a sub-par season compared to the one he had in 1912; with his average dropping 32 points to .334, his ribbies dropping by 20 to 69 and his stolen bases been reduced to 18 the team was led all the way mainly by the efforts of Chief Bender and Frank Baker. Bender pitched in 50 games, starting 22 of them and finishing 22 of them to have an incredible record on 22 victories with 8 defeats and an ERA of 2.24 plus he had what later was called 15 saves. Meanwhile Frank Baker won the homerun crown for a four consecutive time with 14 of them and the ribbies crown with 124 plus adding a hefty .339 batting average and 32 stolen bases.

September 16th 1913- Japanese troops began landing in the German Micronesian islands, encountering token resistance.

September 18th 1913- Australian troops landed in Timor. Island declared secure by the end of the month.

September 19th 1913- First United States marines are landed in the Dutch West Indies to ensure their safety.

September 21st 1913- Martial law declared in South Africa by Prime Minister Botha.

September 24th 1913- German New Guinea surrendered. Australian troops began to be ferried to the Solomon Islands and Nauru to forestall any attempted Japanese intentions of moving into the area.

September 25th 1913- With the German surrender, Japanese troops took ownership of all German Micronesian colonies.

September 27th 1913- Anglo-Indian force landed in northern Sumatra and began moving south.

September 28th 1913- Russians renew their attacks after a month to replace losses and rebuild their supply lines. Still Polish partisans made the rear areas very dangerous.

September 30th 1913- Lemberg surrenders to the Russians.

September 30th 1913- Boer rebels are defeated in a lighting campaign directed by Jan Smuts. Surviving rebels are forced to flee into German West Africa.

October 1st 1913- Battle of Soldau. The Russian 12th Army launches an attack to the flank of the defenders of East Prussia. Chaos ensues with fear of encirclement.

October 2nd 1913- German 1st Army sent East.

October 4th 1913- Battle of Radom- Two day battle between the Russian 4th Army and Austrian 2nd. Austrian forced west with heavy casualties.

October 4th 1913- Treaty of Reims signed. The terms are considered lenient by most observers. France must revoke all current alliances, ending their participation in the Entente. Small payments imposed on France for a period of five years to Germany and Italy. French Congo and Gabon are ceded to Germany. The area of Briey and Lowny are placed under German administration for five years. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is allowed to become part of the German Empire if it so chooses. Very small border adjustments are made in favor of Italy on the French-Italian border. Tunisia is ceded to Italy. Belgium’s independence is guaranteed under German protection with no changes on the borders. King Albert of Belgium is made to sell the Belgian Congo to Germany.

October 5th 1913- Battle of Friedland- Russian troops defeats the German 11th Army and force them in the direction of Konigsberg.

October 6th 1913- Australian troops enter Dutch New Guinea.

October 7th 1913- Przemsyl falls to Russian forces after a nine-day battle. Austrian forces began withdrew to the Carpathian Mountains. Talks of leaving the war began to be rumored in some circles.

October 8th 1913- Battle of Zinten-Landberg. The recently arrived German 2nd Army, veterans from the French campaign, defeats the Russian attempt to encircle Konigsberg. Battle ends six days later and the city of Konigsberg still has a landline with the rest of Germany.

October 8th 1913- British troops move inland into Borneo. Japan offers help but politely refused by the British.

October 9th 1913- Germany offers Great Britain and Japan peace with all gains achieved until August 30th being accepted. Of course they both refused.

October 11th 1913- Battle of Allenstein- Russian 10th Army defeats the remnants of the German 10th Army and forces them east.

October 12th 1913- 1st Battle of Lodz- German 9th Army faces two Russian armies and forced west in the direction of the Worte River.

October 16th 1913- Battle of Osterode- Two Russian armies defeat the recently arrived German 3rd Army and the last surviving units of the 10th Army. A bloody two day battle, many consider the German sacrifices as the reason the Russians been stopped in the later battle of Deutsch-Eylau.

October 18th 1913- British force landed in Palembang in Sumatra and began to move north to meet with troops coming from the South.

October 19th 1913- The United States offers the Dutch government to purchase the Dutch West Indies for 25 million dollars.

October 21st 1913- With situation desperate in the Dutch Indies and with fear of their fall just being a question of time, Queen Wilhelmina ask her husband to make peace with the British before the rest of the area falls under their control.

October 21st 1913- The German 3rd and 5th Armies defeat the tired Russian forces and forces them west in the direction of Tannenberg, Homestein and Allenstein, were they began to dig in.

October 22nd 1913-Dutch government agrees to US offer to purchase the Dutch West Indies.

October 23rd 1913- Tarnow falls to the Russian 8th Army.

October 24th 1913- Germany offers a ceasefire to the British to discuss peace.

October 25th 1913- Battles of the Carpathian Passes. Two battles fought between October and November 1913. Both attempts ended in failure and front stayed with the Carpathians as the front lines.

October 26th 1913- 2nd Battle of Lodz- Name given to the German counter-offensive launched by the German 9th and 1st Armies that pushed the tired Russians east and ended in the recapture of Lodz by the Germans nine days later.

October 31st 1913- Battle of Krakow- Last victory of the so-called Russian Fall Offensive. Both sides spent by the fierce fighting. Both sides launched no major operations until the end of the winter in March of the next year.

October 31st 1913- Great Britain accepts German offer of a ceasefire to discuss end of their conflict in a neutral nation.

November 3rd 1913- United States announces they want to be invited to the negotiations due to their concerns in regard to possible violations of the Monroe Doctrine.

November 4th 1913- Great Britain after some backdoor negotiations accepts the United States presence in the negotiations.

November 9th 1913- Raymond Poincare dismisses his whole government and resigns as President of France. Beginning of the “Three-month Crisis” and the end of the Third Republic.

November 13th 1913- Japan laid down the first of the four Yamashiro class battleships. Last ship of the class commissioned by 1918. While faster than the US battleships at the time with 25 knots, they were under-gunned compared to the contemporary US New Mexico Class, just having ten 14” main guns.

November 21st 1913- Negotiations almost ended due to three issues, the status of Borneo, German West Africa and Belgium. While the British had some troops in the first two, their control of both areas was still being disputed and the status of Belgium under the Reims Treaty was being disputed by the British.

November 23rd 1913- Germany relented, agreeing to British acquiring German West Africa in exchange for some preferential trade treatment with their former colony.

December 1913- Many historians state that the Treaty of Madrid is an example of the foreign policy of von Bethmann, trying to create an atmosphere of friendship with the British that as time went by created the objective desired by von Bethmann; an alliance in everything nut name by the early 1930's.

December 4th 1913- Germany finally acknowledge the British control of Borneo in exchange for the British agreeing to the Belgian Congo being put under German protection with the former also receiving an extraterritorial corridor to build an transcontinental railroad. The Belgium Congo is purchased by the German Crown from King Albert, but then transferred to the Dutch in compensation for their losses overseas. However, it was for all intents and purposes German now.

December 5th 1913- Corporal William Roberts(Halsey) is promoted to Sargent and receives the Croix de Guerre for his actions during the Siege of Paris.

December 12th 1913- Remains of the Montenegrin army surrenders near the Serbian border. The nation is put under military administration until the end of the war.

December 18th 1913- The last two ships of the British Revenge Class battleship are cancelled. Only the Revenge and the Royal Oak are completed.

December 19th 1913- Pope Leo XIV dies.

December 28th 1913- Treaty of Madrid agreed by all parts after some horse-trading. Japan acquires the Shantung Peninsula and the former German Micronesia. Australia annexes both German and Dutch New Guinea plus the Solomon Islands and Nauru. Portugal was ceded the western half of Timor Island. United States purchase of the former Dutch West Indies is recognized by all signatories. Belgium is returned to their former position as a neutral nation with no changes on the borders. Great Britain incorporates into their Empire the former German colonies of Togoland and German West Africa and the former Dutch colonies of Sumatra and Borneo. Italy cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia, and Italian Somaliland to Great Britain. Djibuti is returned to France. Despite early attempts by the British to incorporate Guiana into British Guyana, the US support for the independent state leads to its recognition as an independent nation.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:14 PM

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1914 In response to the growing US military involvement in Mexico, the Roosevelt family sponsors the raising of a new volunteer force of Rough Riders to serve in Mexico. While the elder Theodore Roosevelt seriously contemplates resigning as Secretary of War to join the force, he is persuaded that he is needed most in his current post. Instead, his eldest son Theodore Roosevelt Jr. heads the force, with his brother Kermit as one of its officers. The newest generation of Rough Riders serve throughout the Mexican conflict with distinction, becoming the most decorated volunteer force since the Civil War.

1914: La Follete leads a Progressive movement against US military action in Mexico, claiming that it is a 'toy war' where nothing can truly be gained, and that it is causing senseless loss of life simply for American Imperialist gratification. Traditional Democrats claim that they want a speedy end to the conflict and hope for some victory, trying to play both sides off each other to make themselves look like an appropriate middle road. Hearst uses his papers to spread notions of compromise. He utilizes anti-Catholic sentiment to attempt to discourage expansion into Mexico.

January 1914: The US drops their support of Madero after his presidency proves to be a disaster, and recognizes Emiliano Zapata as the rightful president of Mexico. Zapata quickly consolidates his support in southern and central Mexico. He gains popularity in the Yucatan for treating the local inhabitants as equal citizens.

January 2nd 1914- Rafael Merry del Val elected as Pope after the fifth ballot. With a war brewing it was considered important for the Cardinals to elect a Pope with diplomatic experience and who better than the man in charge of the Vatican’s diplomatic corps. He took the name of Gregory XVII.

January 14th 1914- Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti forced to resign due to critics’ accusations that both the Germans and the British robbed them in the negotiation table.

January 21st 1914- Sidney Sonnino named Prime Minister again for the third time in his career.

February 1914: Huerta recaptures Mexico city. Pancho Villa raids El Paso in protest to the US removing support of Madero. Zapata creates diplomatic ties with Central American nations which have close cultural ties with southern Mexico. These are especially strong tie with other nations close to the US such as Nicaragua and Guatemala.

February 7th 1914- With the growing concern caused by the ongoing war with the Germans, the Defense of India Act passed. Many leaders in the Indian communities considered the measures as trampling their liberties given by the Delhi Durbar.

February 8, 1914 Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia suffers a massive stroke and dies several days later. Zauditu is declared Empress of Ethiopia.

February 18th 1914- Gabriele D’Annunzio returns to Italy after being interned in France during the war. He began his political writings almost immediately, blaming the government for their mistake of attacking France. He stated “we gained nothing for the blood of our men while the lands that truly belong to our nation still are on the hands of the Austrians.”

March 1914: To cover for his pro Yale legislation, and to avoid corruption charges, Seymour actually becomes a leader of anti-corruption measures in Connecticut.

March 1914: Huerta’s forces destroy the principle Zapata army. The USA stubbornly refuses to recognize him as the leader of Mexico, however. Madero gains increased support from the north especially from those who criticize Americans and have lost favor with Huerta. A Japanese syndicate tries to purchase Magdalena Bay from Mexico. With US/Japanese relations still strained from the Hawaii situation, protest and threaten intervention if this sale proceeds, including cutting off Japanese access to the new Nicaragua Canal. The Japanese government claims they have no ties to the syndicate.

March 2nd 1914- Alexandre Millerand named President by a coalition of Socialist, Centrist and the Military in an attempt to save the nation of further chaos after three months of civil disturbances and near civil war.

March 8th 1914- Millerand names Socialist leader Jean Jaures as his new Prime Minister. While Germany applauded this decision, some sectors in the French military were nervous by this announcement.

March 12th 1914- Jack Schneider a financier, balloonist and aircraft enthusiast announced he would hold a contest for seaplanes for a trophy and cash award.He hoped to encourage technical advances in aviation.

March 27th 1914- Beginning of the German Spring Offensive. Launched two weeks before the planned Russian offensive, it was a long drawn affair that lasted to early June 1914. By them a little over a quarter of a million Germans and Austrians were either dead or wounded but the Russians suffered over half a million men and were expelled from East Prussia except for everything north of the Niemen River and a small section of East Prussia by the Masurian Lakes. Also the Russians either thru defeats and the fear of being encircled were forced to the Vistula and Narew Rivers to anchor their lines in Poland. The gains in Austro-Hungarian territory were minimal.

March 27th 1914- Battle of Homestein. Name given to the breakthrough of the Tannenberg-Homestein-Allenstein defensive line by three German Armies in their attempt to clear East Prussia. A two days battle, the defending Russians was pushed east but the terrain helped the defender.

March 30th, 1914- In the last year of his presidency, Liberian president Oran Saint-John gets a bill limiting the president to one term passed.

March 31st 1914- Battle of Bartenstein. Russian 13th Army routed by the attacking Germans after a three-day battle and the Russian secondary line anchored on the Alle River broken.

April 1914 A Japanese fleet is spotted off the north coast of Luzon. The US is concerned, but does not have cause to take direct action. Later that week another Japanese fleet is reportedly spotted off the coast of Latin America, headed towards southern Mexico. The Russians suggest they have intelligence that this fleet may head to the canal after establishing themselves in Mexico. The US sends an ultimatum to Japan and Mexico, who deny everything. The USA sends troops to occupy Veracruz and Magdalena Bay.

April 1914: Arthur MacArthur draws up the Military Reorganization Act, which reforms West Point into a rigorous academic school, makes it somewhat easier for non-commissioned officers to become Lieutenants, removes wasteful training such as bayonet practice for training camps, and moves to save money by replacing old equipment with a smaller number of newer equipment, taking away the old practice of wastefully maintaining out of date equipment. It easily passes both houses of Congress.

April 6th 1914- Battle of Bolimov. Two German armies pushed the Russian defenders in the direction of Warsaw.

April 11th 1914- Haitian President Cincinnatus Leconte assassinated while driving thru the streets of Port-eu-Prince by a grenade being thrown into his car. The chaos that ensued in the capital gave the excuse to the US government to intervene in Haiti. The main concern was that Germany controlled 80% of the country’s international commerce thru their small German community in the nation plus they also owned important commercial properties on the nation.

April 14th 1914- First US Marines land in Port-eu-Prince and take control of the city. Within six weeks, US representatives controlled Haiti’s customs houses and administrative institutions.

April 15th 1914- Battles of the Johannesberg Forest. Name given to the slow fighting thru this forest that was one of only two Russian victories in East Prussia during this campaign and resulted in the ending of operations on this area by the end of May.

April 19th 1914- Russian troops evacuate Krakow due to fear of being encircled.

April 19th 1914- Japan announces they had no intention of purchasing any Mexican territory and disavow any ties to the consortium trying to purchase Magdalena Bay. The Japanese also state their fleet was on exercises and had no intention to approach North America.

April 21st 1914- Combined Austro-Polish Army defeats Russian forces and began pushing defenders to the Vistula.

April 21st 1914- Small detachment of US Marines is landed in Magdalena Bay.

April 22nd 1914- Japanese fleet is once more sited off the coast of Luzon. Whether the fleet was always intended to return or was recalled is unknown at the time.

April 23rd 1914- Battle of Mlawa. A Cavalry Corps under Von der Goltz defeats a Russian Corps in the area and pushes the Russian flank on the direction of the Narew River. Remembered by the German innovative use of motorcycles and trucks to create an ad-hoc motorized brigade to keep up with the cavalry forces.

April 23rd 1914- Home Rule League founded in Bombay. They were asking for an status similar to the one in Canada and Australia.

April 25th 1914- Provisional Brigade lands in Veracruz. A patchwork unit of one Marine Regiment and an Army one with artillery support neutralizes the port defenses with naval support and occupies the city.

April 29th 1914- Ciudad Juarez captured by the 2nd Division. Madero asks the people of Mexico to oppose the invaders of their homes.

May 1914: Seymour begins to go after some business' leaders more then others, claiming that when there is corruption, go after it, but when there isn't, there's absolutely nothing wrong with business. In reality he utilized personal favoritism and political support, slowly becoming the most powerful political manager in the state.

May 2, 1914 The Nicaragua Canal officially opens.

May 7th 1914- Battle of Insterbert. This battle, with the battles that followed them in East Prussia, were some of the bloodiest one of the war and were referred as the “Bloody Battles“. Russian losses in these three battles close to 75,000 dead and wounded with 45,000 Germans suffering same fate. German victory that pushed Russians farther East.

May 7, 1914: Ethel Roosevelt, serving as a nurse in the Rough Riders, meets José Vasconcelos, a pro-Madero politician now aligned with the Zapatistas. The two form a strong friendship.

May 8th 1914- Battle of Tarnow. Russians defeat Austrian attackers but forced to abandon the city one-week later due to the crumbling of the front north of them.

May 9th 1914- Battle of Darkemmen. One of the so-called “Bloody Battles”. German victory.

May 11th 1914- Battle of Ciudad Chihuahua. American forces defeat a force under General Orozco and force the Maderistas to the hills of Chihuahua.

May 11th 1914- The new Constitution of the Fourth Republic was unveiled.

May 16th 1914- Battle of Gumbinnen. Last of the so-called “Bloody Battles”. Germans on the center began to dig in.

May 19th 1914- Lieutenant Omar Bradley is killed in an ambush outside of Veracruz.

May 26th 1914- 2nd Battle of Warsaw- A three-month long battle. Russians tried to hold on to the city and only finally forced out by the German Fall Offensive that almost cut the defenders off.

June 1914: Theodore Roosevelt, not to be outdone, proposes a Naval Reorganization Act which follows a similar strategy to the previous legislation and proves a worthy follow-up to the changes already instituted by Roosevelt to the military and the Navy in particular.

June 1914: Though the home rule bill has passed a year ago, attempts by the British to conscript the Irish on the breakout of war, which triggers a revolt by Eamon de Valera and other radical Irish leaders . They launch a failed Uprising, which only lasts a week. Due to De Valera being held at the same prison as James Connoly and other radical Irish leaders, he's executed at the same time. His US citzenship is comes into factor, but it's decided he's too dangerous.

June 5th 1914- Battle of Tilsit. City captured after a ten-day battle and front anchored by the Niemen River. End of offensive operations in East Prussia until the early fall. Last major battle of the Central Powers Spring campaign.

June 17th 1914- The four ships of the New Mexico Class are authorized by the US Congress. The ships are an improvement over the preceding Oklahoma Class but armed with ten 16” guns in dual turrets, the first ship in the world with that caliber. The main drawback is the max speed of 21 knots, the same of the preceding class. The four ships are completed by late 1918.

June 17th 1914- Yankees signed a 19 year old catcher from the International League call George Herman Ruth.

July 1914: Hoping to expand his financial power, Hearst invests in several businesses and industries. He is careful to reward businessmen and industrialists who have helped him in the past. Franklin Gatling becomes his main man in the oil industry.

July 1914: The Hearst newspapers began to quote Seymour as a good respectable moderate when it comes to issues of corruption, both business and political.

July 8th 1914- Kaiser Wilhelm requests a change on the strategies used to defeat the Russians due to the terrible casualties of the Spring Offensive. Helmuth von Moltke replaced as German Chief Staff by Alexander von Kluck, former commander of the 1st Army during the Franco-German War and a new favorite of the Kaiser. Von Kluck was promoted over some other more senior officer and critics charge he gained the position riding on his success during the last year.

July 8th 1914- Japanese government takes their first order of war material for the Russian government. By the end of the war in 1915, the Japanese were helped by the diversification of their industries and they were a creditor nation for the first time in their history.

June 18th 1914- The US ambassador asks the Lodge administration to recognize Huerta as president of Mexico to end the bloodshed. Lodge’s administration refuses and replaces the ambassador.

July 23rd 1914- Paul von Hinderburg is promoted to Army Group East Prussia commander, as a reward for his excellent work during the Franco-German War. Erich von Lunderdorff named his chief of staff. Lunderdorff began immediately to find a solution to the Kaiser’s requests.

July 31st 1914- Zapata announces his refusal to be declared President of Mexico without elections. But he also adds that the man in Mexico City is not the true leader of Mexico and needs to be defeated.

August 4th to 6th 1914- US forces fight in battle for the first time with Huerta’s forces in Battle of Puebla. US artillery and Marines from the Provisional Brigade support Zapatistas in the recapture of Puebla.

August 6th 1914- Great Britain delivers the Reshadieh and the Sultan Osman I to the Ottoman Navy.

August 18th 1914- Sonora declares the US invasion of their state illegal and join forces with the Maderistas.

August 19th 1914- Count Sergei Witte sent to Sweden to try to negotiate an end to the war with the Germans and Austrians. After two weeks of negotiations, both sides were deadlocked and Witte returned to Russia. He died on September 02 1914, many saying he was heartbroken due to his failure to end the war.

August 20th 1914- Small force of US national guardsmen in Nogales forced back into Arizona by rebel leader Obregon.

August 23rd 1914- Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich killed during an artillery barrage while inspecting the front. Replaced as overall Russian commander by his deputy Nikolai Yudenich.

August 24th 1914-German forces in East Prussia began practicing the concentration of force in narrow sectors of the front and them pour troops as fast as possible as soon as a gap is achieved. Practices being done close to roads, with brigades beginning to be formed of mixed cavalry, motorcycle, truck mounted and primitive armored cars to exploit those gaps.

August 25th 1914- In Poland, General Oskar von Hutier recommendations to how to reduce casualties during assaults were implemented and some troops began to be trained to achieve the desired effect.

September 1914: Al Smith utilizes his new Department of Labor to draw up mild anti-trust regulations which would not impose too harsh penalties on either business of labor. In Congress conservative Democrats along with some old guard Republicans support legislation to allow clear loopholes for trusts while imposing harsher penalties on labor. The bill passes the House but not the Senate. Smith gains the respect of most moderate Republicans and even some Progressives for his efforts.

September 09th 1914- German zeppelins bomb Riga. First major air raid of the war. Russians began crash production of the massive Sikorsky’s designed four-engine bomber Ilya Mourometz as a response after further attacks. The Russian aircraft still was too late to reach any combat units and was only operational by late 1916.

September 12th 1914 -- The "Raid on Veracruz." Huerta's forces launch a surprise raid in an attempt to recapture Veracruz, but are beaten back after a full day of merciless back-and-forth raids. A few well-placed artillery shells hit a petroleum cache in the Zapatista camp. Capt. Kermit Roosevelt dives in and out of the conflagration, saving 12 lives before perishing of smoke inhalation. Zapata dubs him "the angel of Veracruz."

September 14th to 20th 1914- In a surprising season, the Buffalo Braves won the National League pennant with a team lacking any true stars, with no player having what it could be called an outstanding season but still are defeated by the Boston Blue Socks 3 games to 2. In a series were all games were decided by one run the offensive turned to be Duffy Lewis, who won two games with game-winning singles on the 9th inning.

September 18th 1914- Battle of Saltillo. US forces capture the city of Saltillo after heavy casualties. Defenders use dynamite as miners and rurales begin guerilla warfare on the US lines.

September 21st 1914- Alvaro Obregon defeats another US force in Cananea. Chaos and panic spread on the Arizona/New Mexico/California border.

September 28th 1914- Zapata’s forces begin to receive an influx of US weapons and money. After capturing Puebla they still resist the temptation to capture Mexico City, instead concentrating on pushing Huerta’s troops out of their territory.

October 3rd 1914- 1st Division with the 1st Cavalry Brigade attached move to the Arizona border to deal with the Sonoran Army.

October 4th 1914- Paul von Hindenburg announces his forces will not be ready to launch a fall offensive and request more time to prepare. He uses the excuse of “trying to save German lives” to get the Kaiser to agree to it.

October 5th 1914- The 4th Infantry Division is activated from the Texas and Oklahoma National Guard and tasked with replacing the 2nd Division in Chihuahua.

October 6, 1914 - The Grand Duchess of Luxemburg agrees to join the German Empire.

October 6th 1914- August von Mackensen, commander of the Combined Army Group Poland, also states his forces will not very ready for a general offensive but a limited one could be launched in conjunction with the Austrians in Galicia to force the Russians to leave the “bleeding ulcer of Warsaw.”

October 8th 1914- The 2nd Provisional Brigade of two 'colored' regiments and artillery capture Tampico. Secretary of War Roosevelt praises the actions of the 'colored' soldiers in the battle.

Oct 18th 1914- US forces capture Matamoros.

October 18th 1914- Combined Austrian-Polish 6th Army forces a crossing of the Vistula river and began moving east.

October 19th 1914- German 9th Army forces crossing of the Vistula south of Warsaw and began to turn north to try to pocket the city. Fear of excessive casualties makes the advance very slow but a force trying to stop them was defeated three days later.

October 19 1914: Joseph Pulitzer dies and is buried in a large ceremony in the Bronx. Tributes are giving to him, including an especially moving oration by his main rival Hearst. Pulitzer Inc. continues to be the main competition to Hearst's empire, and remains mostly pro-Republican, though willing to break the party line in some issues.

October 23rd 1914- Russian forces began evacuation of the parts of Warsaw they still controlled.

October 25th 1914- Battle of Krasnik. Austro-Polish 6th Army defeats Russian forces and continues their advance east.

October 27th 1914- Battle of Jaroslau. Austrian 4th Army defeated in attempt to cross the San River.

November 1914
The Rough Riders and Zapatistas soon develop a remarkable camaraderie. During the lulls in between battles, the Rough Riders teach Zapatistas how to play American football. The sport, now forever associated with liberation, becomes popular among the Southern Mexican population.

November 1914: Burton Wheeler is elected as a Montana representative under the Populist wing of the Progressive Party.

November 1914: Seymour is elected state senator in Connecticut as a Democrat. His first move is to push directly and indirectly for legislation that assists Yale.

November 1914: Fiorello LaGuardia is elected as a Representative from New York. He is a very pro-Smith moderate Republican.

November 1914: Disappointed over not been named Secretary of war, Stimson runs and is elected into Congress for Albany. He becomes a strong supporter of the Mexican engagement, and even favors a harsher stance in Europe.

November 18, 1914 - Gladys Kennedy gives birth to Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.

November 1914: Bainbridge Colby, former attorney general of New York and major eastern leader of the Progressive Party, is elected Congressmen from New York. There he becomes one of the strongest Progressive voices in the house. He is chosen as minority leader for the party.

November 1914: Labor Secretary Smith's allies in Congress propose a labor bill which encourages businesses to come to separate arrangements to individual workers rather then unions. This type of legislation is already in place in individual states with high numbers of Catholic immigrant blue collar workers who are often shunned by organized labor. The bill also makes closed house labor unions, where all workers are required to be members of the union, illegal. This measure is supported by almost all Republicans and southern Democrats, and thus can not be defeated by northern Democrats and Progressives. The bill passes.

November 1914: Congress passes the Hoover Educational Restoration Act, which meets with general approval from all parties giving benefits in the business world to those who decide to stay through out high school rather then leave for early employment. Hoover becomes a champion for popular tri-partisan legislation and is able to utilize a pro-capitalists philosophy while promoting small measures of welfare reform.

November 1914- President Castillo of Cuba, barred from seeking reelection by the Constitution, gives his support to former general Jose Miguel Gomez who wins the election.

November 1914- Gomez's opponent Roberto "Tio Beto" Diaz-Leon gains support among the people of Cuba but still not enough to win the presidential election.

November 2nd 1914- Zacatecas surrender to US troops. Huerta's position is becoming desperate.

November 08th 1914- Battle of Lukov. German 9th Army defeats the Russian 5th Army after a four-day battle. Fear of casualties let the Russian forces escape east. First combat by the Italian Volunteer Corps.

November 9th 1914- Ciudad Durango falls to the US troops. Captain George S. Patton leads cavalry charge that cuts off the withdrawal of Maderistas forces. He himself captures Madero, at the time meeting with Villa and Orozco on the city. The two generals escape.

November 12th 1914- Tijuana captured by forces from the Californian National Guard.

November 12th 1914- Battle of Komarov- Austro-Polish 6th Army defeats Russian 9th Army forces them to cross the Bug River. The political decision to name Josef Pilsudski as commander of this Army actually paid off, with his forces being extremely loyal to their commander and showing in their performance.

November 25th 1914- Russian evacuates Przemsyl due to fear of being encircled.

November 26th 1914- US 1st Infantry division pushes into Sonora. Sonoran leader Alvaro Obregon designs his defenses based on the lessons of the European war. The highest US casualties of the war result. After the war Secretary of War Roosevelt called Obregon "the only true general on the Mexican side."

December 1914: The Freemans Journal opens up a major office in Montgomery Alabama.

December 2nd 1914- Adolph Kegresse modifies twelve Austin Putilov armored cars with halftracks for service in the Russian Army.

December 7th 1914- US forces, under command of Leonard Wood, began the drive in the direction of Mexico City. The 3rd US Infantry Division and two National Guard divisions being send since August began the drive to try to get rid of Huerta.

December 11th 1914- Front stabilizes on the Bug-Dniester Rivers line after another defeat to the Austrian forces. Political climate in Austria is very volatile due to the poor performance of their forces and the casualties suffered during the last two years.

December 15th 1914- Obregon forces slowly being pushed south. Nogales and Cananea are in the hands of the 1st Division.

December 16th to 19th 1914- Battle of Mexico City. US forces capture the city from Huerta forces. Felix Diaz dies while defending the city. The Huerta faction lost their best general.

December 17, 1914 Major Archibald Butt is cited for bravery in the Battle of Mexico City. He is short-listed for Promotion to Colonel.

December 21st 1914- Huerta began the militarization of the areas of Mexico he still dominates. Mass conscription of people and the forced enlistment of children.

December 28th 1914- Zapata declares that South Mexico is now separate of the rest of the nation. His areas have been under relative peace for some months now and his being supported by the US. President Lodge dismayed by Zapata's decision to separate southern Mexico from the rest of the nation.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:15 PM

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1915 - One of H. P. Lovecraft's short stories is optioned as a radio play for a New York station.

1915- Representatives of the United States wielded veto power over all government decisions in Haiti, and finally after close to a year under military administration a provisional President was named by the US. Philippe Dartiguanave, a mulatto, was named President while a state of martial law was declared by Admiral William Sims, military commander of Haiti. A treaty was arranged that pretty much made the country a US colony, with the US being in complete control of the finances of Haiti in a similar arrangement that the one with the Dominican Republic but also put the US in control of the government and public health affairs. A professional military force was created to assist in the USMC in the policing of the nation.

1915 Ford releases the Cadillac Model 30GE (gasoline-electric), the company's first hybrid vehicle. Interestingly, it is considered primarily an electric vehicle with a gasoline engine to back up the electric motor, as evidenced by the small gas tank. The car is popular in urban areas and especially with delivery services.

January 2nd 1915- US forces capture Hermosillo.

January 6th 1915- US forces capture Torreon. General Orozco surrenders to US troops.

January 2nd, 1915- John B. Tillings wins in a landslide election, using the platform of "making Liberia powerful"

January 17th 1915- Zapata declares the Republic of Southern Mexico. Recognized by the US, Guatemala and Salvador the same day.

February 21st 1915- Alvaro Obregon surrenders to save civilian lives in Sonora.

February 24th 1915- Turning point in the Georgian war of independence with the capture of the cities of P’ot’i and K’ut’ais by rebel forces.

March 7th 1915- Last anarchist forces in Baja surrender to Californian National Guard troops.

March 18th 1915- City of Bat’umi captured by Georgian rebels. Direct land communication with the Ottomans is achieved.

March 21st 1915- Russian forces from Stravka’s reserves ordered south to the Caucasus to deal with the growing rebellion.

April 5 1915
Adolph Hitler, previously only known for his paintings, publishes his first book, The Jewess and the Gendarme, an account of the death of his wife and his ordeal with French military police. Hitler wrote most of the book while imprisoned as a "hostile foreigner" in France. Despite its formulaic style, Jewess is widely praised for "restoring smoldering passion to the heart of modernist literature," and wins several minor German literature awards. In France, however, the book is immediately banned for "vile slander and murderous threats against the continued existence of the French Race."

April 18th 1915- Capt. Douglas MacArthur, son of the Vice President, dies in an ambush by guerillas near the city of Puebla.

April 19th 1915- Upon receiving word of his son's death, Vice President Arthur MacArthur suffers a massive heart attack, dying later that day.

April 22nd 1915- The German Spring Offensive starts. The new tactics showed their worth in both the Polish and East Prussian fronts.

April 23rd 1915- German forces outflank Russian defenders in the Johannisburg Forest and forced a crossing in the Pizo River, with cavalry-motorized columns racing for Kolno.

April 25th 1915- Battle of Vilkovisk. German forces defeat the Russian rear area forces and send the Russian right flank in East Prussia in disarray. The utilization of columns of mixed cavalry-motorized forces and the slow reaction of the Russian forces on the front caused the debacle. Panic ensues in the Russian 14th Army. The new tactics were a surprise to the Russians, who were slow to react to the fast moving units or the storm troopers tactics being used in Poland and cost them dearly.

April 27th 1915- City of Brest-Litovsw complete surrounded by German forces. German forces continue their advance east.

April 29th 1915- City of Kovno captured by fast moving German forces. By now they were reduced to just the cavalry and motorcycle forces due to the bad performance of the trucks and armored vehicles. But the purpose of creating chaos has been achieved.

April 30th 1915- Crossing achieved by Grodno and city captured. A young officer, Erwin Rommel, later promoted to Captain and awarded the Iron Cross for actions during this action. By now the “flying columns” have been reduced to cavalry and motorcycle forces.

May 1 1915: President Lodge names Washington Governor Richard Ballinger as his choice for Vice President to replace the deceased Arthur MacArthur.

May 5th 1915- Battle of Lutsk. The Austro-Polish 6th Army defeats a Russian force and push them into the marshes.

May 6th 1915- US forces begin their so-called "last offensive" in the direction of Acapulco.

May 7, 1915: Progressive investigators discover evidence that Ballinger may have embezzled money from several local businesses and firms while securing himself as a major stockholder in a major Seattle shipping corporation.

May 7th 1915- Capture of Vilna by German forces. The Russian 10th Army pocketed. Panic began to ensue in the Stravka.

May 8th 1915- Georgian rebels capture Tiblis.

May 11th 1915- Memel recaptured by German forces.

May 12th 1915- Russian 10th Army tries to break free from their encirclement. In a very close affair defeated and Russian Field Marshall Sievers surrendered his army on May 16th 1915.

May 13th 1915- City of Rovno captured by the Austro-Polish 6th Army. Russian forces in Galicia began to evacuate the area.

May 13 1915: Conservationists begin to criticize the VP choice of Ballinger for granting some of Washington's rich wilderness to real estate companies and large scale farming corporations much criticized by Progressives.

May 15th 1915- City of Pinsk captured by advancing German forces. Any coherent Russian defense seems to be disappearing.

May 15 1915: President Lodge travels through Denison, Iowa. A poor local Progressive who had lost his farm to a farming corporation, reads about the Ballinger controversy. During a stop by the president's group, this farmer simply walks up to the president and his group with his gun concealed in his shirt, and offers to shake his hand. He shoots him at point blank range. The President dies that day.

May 16th 1915- DW Griffith's epic "The Birth of Texas" was first shown in New York City. A very popular film, now is considered a piece of propaganda, with the Mexicans and their allies runaways slaves being presented as rapists and murderers of prisioners. The lurid scenes of the capture of The Alamo and the killing of Davy Crockett while leading a suicidal bayonet charge are considered classics still.

May 16 1915: Secretary of State Philander Knox, who has since word of the death been ‘acting president’, claims that he is in fact the rightful president of the United States, as Ballinger has not be confirmed by Congress, and takes the oath. He receives the official recognition of many prominent Republicans, including former president Elihu Root.

May 17, 1915 – Richard Ballinger files suit against Philander Knox, claiming he has acted unconstitutionally and that he, Richard Ballinger, is the true President of the United States.

May 18th 1915- With the situation getting desperate, Huerta resigns and goes into exile to Peru. This date considered the end of the conventional war in Mexico.

May 18th 1915- Demonstrations in both St. Petersburg and Moscow asking for the end of the war. Privately, many advisors ask the Tsar to sue for peace.

May 18th 1915- First unit completely issued Kegresse armored cars sees combat in Belorussia. A couple of damaged vehicles recovered by advancing German forces.

May 19 1915: Prominent members from both the Progressive and Democratic parties meet in a lounge in a prominent Washington hotel. Hearst, La Follete, and Johnson are among those present. They look through Ballinger's records, and agree that he would be a defeatable candidate in the 1916 election, and a way of breaking Republican growing popularity. Moralists such as Johnson and Perkins disapprove of the plan, but fail to sway the assembly. The leaders begin lobbying in the press and congress in favor of Ballinger.

May 19th 1915- Minsk captured by the advancing German armies. It seemed to many the Russian army was “just melting away.”

May 21st 1915- Last Russian forces leave Galicia. Central Powers territory was finally free of Russian occupation.

May 25th 1915- Tsar Nicholas II asks for a ceasefire to discuss terms. After deliberation, the Germans refused.

May 31st 1915- Zhitomir captured by the now famed Austro-Polish 6th Army. The road to Kiev lays open.

Summer 1915- Thomas Eliot studies philosophy at Marburg, Germany. He falls in love with Laura Etz, a female student at the university, and marries her. Satisfied and happy, he takes a job as a teacher in a Berlin university.

Summer 1915 - Joseph Kennedy moves his family out to California in support of his wife's film career. He also has become interested in investing in the industry, and begins to build his own production company, with his wife's advice.

June 1st 1915- Riga captured by the Germans after a three-day battle breaks the defensive line in the Daugava River.

June 3rd 1915- City of Vinnitsa captured by Austrian forces moving south in the direction of the Black Sea.

June 7th 1915- With his army in disarray and the German rejection of his peace offer, Tsar Nicholas is forced to abdicate in favor of his son Alexei, with his brother Grand Duke Michael as regent.

June 7th, 1915 The Supreme Court renders a decision on the presidency, coming down on a very narrow 5-4 decision mostly along partisan lines in favor of Ballinger’s claim to the presidency. The world waits to see what Philander Knox, who has been acting in the role of President, will do.

June 8th, 1915 – Philander Knox announces that he will not see the nation torn apart by this issue. While disagreeing with the decision of the Supreme Court, he steps down from the office, allowing Ballinger to take the oath and assume the Presidency of the United States of America.

June 8th 1915 The Dutch navy begin to test a snort system for their submarines.The Snort allows the use of ther diesels while underwater to increase their recharge time.It's problematic and work is continued to improve its funtionability.

June 12th 1915- Russian forces began a pullout of Georgia to try to stop the Austro-German steamroller.

June 17th 1915- President Ballinger declares forces will begin a pull out of Mexico when a responsible government is in place and announces election for March 15th 1916.

June 18th 1915- Grand Duke Michael takes direct command of the forces defending the capital.

June 21st 1915- Battle of Kiev. A twelve-day battle. Russian troops under Alexei Brusilov defeat the Austrian attempt to capture the city and began slowly pushing them west. The supply lines of the Central Powers forces were very strained by now.

June 25th 1915- City of Odessa captured by Austrian forces.

June 26th 1915- Koba declares “a new nation exists on the face of the Earth and the name is Georgia.” Immediately recognized by the Ottomans, the Austrians, the Germans and the Italians.

June 28th 1915- Battle of Psvok. Grand Duke Michael stopped the weary German forces moving in the direction of the capital. Still the German forces continued their advance north thru Estonia.

June 29th 1915- Republic of Southern Mexico recognized by Great Britain and other European powers. The so-called ABC Powers consider this "a sign of the Imperialistic designs of the United States in Latin America."

July 1915 President Ballinger names Henry Stimson Secretary of State.

July 1915: Massive strikes spring up all across the mid-west and west as Progressive labor unions complain about losing power to the recent labor union laws that have just come into force.

July 1915 Ballinger, a political opportunist, tries to regain face not only by removing a quarter of the troops from Mexico, he vetoes a minor civil rights law. He takes up traditional west coast issues, including halting Japanese immigration. He receives severe opposition from moderate Republicans.

July 1, 1915: Japan formally annexes Korea and Manchuria, over the protests of all of the Great Powers and China.

July 3rd 1915- Battle of Narva. Another clear Russian victory that saved their capital. With the German supply lines being severely strained the German advance has reached zenith.

July 5th 1915- Grand Duke Michael sends a note again requesting a ceasefire. This time the Germans agree to a ceasefire and begin negotiations to end the war.

August 7th 1915- Treaty of Stockholm. Russia renounces any claims to Poland, the Baltic States, Greater Litva, Bessarabia and Georgia. Ottoman Empire purchases the districts of Erdehan, Kars and Batum for $25 million rubles. Russia will pay an indemnization for the damages caused to the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary for a period of 10 years. Russia will give 20% of the Ukrainian grain production to Germany and Austria-Hungary for a period of five years, followed by 10% for the next five years afterwards. Austria-Hungary receives the former Russian province of Bessarabia as compensation for renouncing to their rights to Polish ethnic parts of Galicia. Germany will maintain a military occupation of the Baltic States and Greater Litva until a stable government is established. Georgia is recognized as a Republic. Montenegro is incorporated into the Austro-Hungarian Reich. Serbia receives the former coastal lands of northern Albania from Austria-Hungary.

August 8th 1915- Villa's guerillas hit an US supply convoy near Monterey. All troops died and it seemed some were shot after surrendering. Military Governor Wood announces no mercy will be given to the bandit Villa.

September 1915: Ballinger helps negotiate the Borah Anti-Trust Act. He slowly begins to earn the trust of the moderate conservatives, and Bryan's Freeland Journal begins to praise Ballinger for trying to find comprimise.

September 1915: Hearst founds the Hearst foundation to run his newspaper during his absences while serving in Public office.

September 1915: While overseeing the withdrawl of US troops from Mexico, Secretary Stimson becomes privately critical of America's recent peaceful acts, believing that strong intervention may be needed in times of war.

Sept 1st 1915 José Santos Zelaya Issues a presidental decree uniting the former nations of Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua in a revived United Republic of Central America.

September 4th 1915- Georgy Zhukov promoted to officer for his excellent work in a cavalry unit after the recommendation of this commanding officer, that stated “the young man have a mind for military things.”

September 8th 1915- Great Britain delivers the Almirante Latorre to the Chilenian Navy.

September 17th 1915-Prime Minister Jaures assassinated by a right-wing revanchists. Replaced as leader of the Socialist Party and as Prime Minister by the young Leon Blum, a protege of author Emile Zola. Blum was the first Jew Prime Minister of France.

October 1st to October 8th 1915- With the number of games in the regular season being increased and the growing popularity of the World Series Major League Baseball decides to move the series to October and to raise the number of games to a best of seven series. In the first World Series with the new format the Baltimore Saints defeated the National League pennant winners Brooklyn Superbas. Led by the outfielder Joe Jackson with .324-5-81 with 20 stolen bases, and the leading power hitter of the Continental League Gavvy Cravath that hit 25 homers and finished third on the league with 113 ribbies the Saints hitting overmatched the Superbas by defeating them by more than five runs in their four victories in the Series.

October 4th 1915- Alvaro Obregon freed from US custody but under watch. He returns to his home state of Sonora and pledges to work for the well being of the Sonoran people in a peaceful way.

October 4th 1915- Louis Bleriot became president of an aircraft company that he calls Societe Pour l’Aviation et ses Derives. That company was the leading producer of French aircrafts by the end of the decade.

November 17th 1915- French investors purchase deceased William Know D'Arcy claim to search for oil in Persia from their remaining partners.

November 1915: Hearst becomes the governor of New York having run on a moderate plank. He carries almost all of upstate New York who had benefited from Bryan's policies, but had believed he had gone too far. He wins by a very slight margin. He is criticized by Al Smith and other major moderate leaders, but their cries are drowned out by Hearst's media machine.

November 1915- President Quezon of the Philippines is reelected in what many considered as fraudulent elections.

November 14th 1915- Kingdom of Poland created under Archduke Karl of Hapsburg. The new nation encompasses portions of the former Russian Poland, former Austrian Galicia and the former Ukrainian district of Kholm.

December 1915: The Pan-American Foundation opens with Roosevelt seed money. Its main function is to promote pan-American scholarship and encourage travel abroad. Ethel Roosevelt chairs the Foundation.

December 18th 1915- With body count of US soldiers rising, especially in the north, "special measures" ordered by the General Staff. General Woods obeys the orders but decries publicly these actions "as being a repeat of the Philippines fiasco and will take us on the same path."

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:15 PM

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1916- Olympic games celebrated on Milan. Jim Thorpe repeats his performance of the 1912 Olympic Games, winning the decathlon but loses the pentathlon to another American, Captain George Patton.

1916 - Lovecraft's Tales of the Macabre become a new radio serial for New York stations and begins to be picked up by other stations.

1916- Clinton Andersen joins the army and receives order for Mexico after finishing his indoc period.

1916 - Hughes Scandal breaks when an arrest leads to one of the assailants of Charles Evans Hughes in 1905 turning state's evidence in a plea bargain on an unrelated charge, re-opening the old case. He implicates several New York political machine bosses as at least knowing about the attack.

1916 Republican Convention: Leading up to the convention, President Ballinger loses all the primaries he runs in, but this counts for little as most states do not have a primary system. It is the general consensus that he still couldn't win in Progressive states due to their new unity, and that after alienating the moderate and Catholic immigrant vote, he might lose to Democrats in the east. The convention develops a more urban conservative platform which appeals to Catholic voters. Ballinger loses badly on the first ballot, and drops out of the race. Within only a few ballots, Philander Knox is chosen as the Presidential candidate, a further slap in the face to the former Ballinger Presidency. Senator Charles Townsend is chosen as his vice-presidential running mate, in an attempt to appeal to Midwest voters.

1916 Democratic Convention: Former Vice President, popular governor and senator from Maryland, John Walter Smith is the clear choice for the nomination. Hearst had been advertising his qualifications across his papers over the last month. He has clear support from Maryland, West Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, and perhaps Pennsylvania. A very flexible platform is adopted that could be molded to work for any politician.

1916 Progressive Convention: The previously agreed upon platform is ratified, and La Follete delivers a speech emphasizing more moderate policies. He is still a powerful orator and incredibly popular, and receives the nomination. Johnson is named as his running mate.

January 1916: Ballinger proposes The General Immigration Act, establishing quotas for the number of immigrants allowed into the United States, based on the 1900 census. Ballinger also presents a Labor Act which more or less revokes Al Smith's previous efforts. This act leads to increased wages and rights to mid-western and west-coast laborers while harming the fragile peace between east-coast blue collar workers and their managers.

January 3rd 1916- Leonard Wood and John Pershing change places as military governors of Mexico and Hawaii respectively. While announced as being in the making for a while many agreed Leonard Wood was being fired due to his resistance to taking hostages.

January 11th 1916- Prime Minister Blum supports subsidies for the military industries, “to get the nation back on his feet.” Many critics insist this measure was to placate some right-wing members of the government and the military.

January 18th 1916- Dwight Eisenhower, West Point Class of 1915, assigned to staff of US commander Mexico, John J. Pershing. His gift for organization was recognized by his superiors and promoted to 1st LT by the end of the year.

February 1916: Al Smith resigns as Secretary of Labor. Ballinger begins to gain popularity among Progressives. Hearst uses his media control to prevent further publicizing the former Ballinger scandals, saving them for September before the elections.

February 11th 1916- Pershing first official order was to eliminate the taking of hostages ordered by the General Staff but continued the forced relocation of Villa supporters to "protection camps." President and General Staff furious but have to accept these actions.

March 1916: La Follete continues to harshly criticize Washington, while maintaining almost socialist policies back in the mid-west. The moderate wing of the Progressive party demands a meeting. La Follete, Bryan, Johnson, Borah, and other prominent members meet. Johnson and Borah threaten to rejoin the Republicans. Much to La Follete's dismay, his son sides with the moderates. In the end La Follete is forced to agree to a much more moderate and somewhat smaller government platform made to appeal to the entire west, including pro-expansion south-western constituency. La Follete still maintains considerable power in the mid-west and thus is able make the gradual switch.

March 1916 With the situation in Mexico calming down, Theodore Roosevelt feels it is time to resign his office.

March 1916: Strikes break out at the Boston ship yards. Authorities and labor leaders try to come in and restore order, but are met with surprisingly peaceful opposition. Upon investigation it turns out that the strikes were organised by local political machines with the support of major politicians including Al Smith.

March 9th 1916- Baja California and Sonora declared "secured". In reality some very small resistance still exist but nothing compared to what is going on farther east.

March 15th 1916- Elections in Mexico under US administration. Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected President. Villa repudiates the results and declares himself the real President of Mexico from his hideout in Chihuahua.

March 18th 1916- Prince William of Urach offered the crown of Lithuania, a nation that will be under a personal union to the German Reich.

March 21st 1916- Grand Duchy of the Baltic's created under Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenberg. This nation also was under a personal union to the German Reich.

March 27th 1916- Plans are secretly drawn for forced relocalization of the Armenian populations to Iraq and Syria in case of war. Some relocations of Armenians in the new provinces were implemented.

April 1916 Hearst begins to release the muck he has on President Ballinger.

April 1916: The New York Times is awarded the very first Pulitzer prize due to its unbiased coverage of city bosses discussing both the pros and cons.

April 9th 1916- Borders between Mexico and Southern Mexico negotiated by the US and recognized by the new Mexican government. Pascual Orozco offered a post under the new administration and accepts to be in charge of the newly created Federal Army.

April 9th 1916- With the tacit agreement of the young King and his advisors, Colonel Sidoneo Pais launches a coup and dissolves the government of Prime Minister Braga. This was recognized by Republican elements in the country as a monarchist plot to set back the democratic process in the country. Political instability started in the country that lasted close to ten years.

April 15th 1916- President Ballinger approves a pull out of central Mexico slated to start by May 1st.

April 17th 1916- Nishihara Kamezo negotiates with the Chinese government the later called Nishihara loans. While they actually helped the Chinese government they also put the Chinese into further debt with the Japanese.

April 24th 1916- The Kingdom of Belarus created under Prince Karl Maria Luitpold of Bavaria. At a difference from the other two nations created from the Baltic States, this nation was not under a personal union with the German Reich.

May 1916: Robert La Follete criticises Ballinger's programs, despite their liberal sentiment, claiming that he'ed work towards a more reasonable national programs based around regional differences. This makes him somewhat more appealing to the moderate Republicans while not upsetting any Progressive branch. Hearst, still in charge of his Newspaper despite his political position, emphasizs the fact that this goes against La Follete's traditional policies.

May 1916 - Hermann Oberth graduates from his engineering course and starts doctoral work on rocket science, funding by continuing scholarships from the International Rocketry Society.

May 1st 1916- John J Pershing moves his headquarters to Tampico.

May 3rd 1916- President Ballinger announces the US will annex the former Mexican states of Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and Baja California plus they will maintain the administration of the other border Mexican states to ensure the safety of the border states.

May 6th 1916- Villa’s response to the US president announcement was a massive raid to Ciudad Chihuahua that cost hundreds of lives.

May 7th 1916- Georgian government began secret negotiations with the Russians to purchase the remaining Armenian areas under their control.

May 21st 1916- August Borms named Prime Minister of Belgium.

Summer 1916 Congress awards Kermit Roosevelt a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor.

Summer 1916- The original founders of the Dedalist take a paperknife and stab a French dictionary with it to find their name. The knife lands on dedal: a thimble.

June 17th 1916- Great Britain gives women the right to vote.

July 7th 1916- Mexican President Pascual Ortiz signs the agreement ending the US occupation of Mexico and acknowledges the new borders of his nation. Many, including his young army commander Pascual Orozco privately disagree of these forced events but admit there is nothing they can do at the time.

July 9th 1916- Grand Duke Michael is convinced by advisors to sell the Armenian holdings to Georgia as a way to influence the new regime.
July 11th 1916- Russian government agrees to sell their remaining Armenian holdings to the Georgians. The money for the sale was given forward by the Germans.

July 20th 1916- Otto Frank decides to stay in the military after his enlistment is up.

August 18th 1916- General Staff orders an engineering board to examine the captured Kegresse armored cars and to gauge the feasibility of using the design as base for future “Flying Columns.” The board after six months of studies recognized it could very possible help.

September 1916: Jazz great Buddy Bulden receives spiritual counseling, and recovers from his paranoia. He hires Jellyroll Morton as his arranger to help lower stress levels.

September 1916: Alban Berg rejects an earlier plan to compose the opera Wozzec in atonal form, and instead returns to more traditional operatic technique. He works openly with both the Austrian and the German government to compose nationalist pieces.

September 4th 1916- Nikola Tesla proposed principles regarding frequency and power levels needed to detect objects using electronic waves. This ideas were used for his invention of the Electrowave Detector or EWD for short. He used low frequency signals for detection, making necessary a large antenna. This made his invention impractical for ships and later for aircrafts. His EWD can detect the presence of an object but not his exact location or velocity. Tesla’s EWD has a range of over 25 miles.

September 18th 1916- Germany delivers the battleship Vasileus Georgios to Greece. With eight 14” guns in dual turrets and with a max speed of 23 knots it was considered a counter to the new Ottoman dreadnoughts purchased in Great Britain.

September 19th 1916- Painter Adolph Hitler's "Beauty in a sea of despair" is displayed publicly for the first time. It is considered by many, including Picasso, as a true masterpiece. The first canvas painted by Hitler following the cubist style, it presented a light colored female form surrounded by other figures darker in color and in different poses of despair. On the background the guard tower could be seen.

October 1st to 8th 1916- The Brooklyn Superbas returned to the Series, but this time they left with the victory, defeating the Philadelphia A’s 4 games to 2. With a team that has no player having an extraordinary season, the Superbas beat the star studded A’s, with Ty Cobb leading the way for the A’s with 371-6- 82 and a new record of stolen bases of 96.

October 3rd 1916- Machinist Ernst Heinkel is interested by the latest developments in heavier than air vehicles and is hired by Hansa Brandeburg as a designer engineer after his schematics are considered excellent by some members of the company.

October 12th 1916- Radical Party wins the presidential elections in Argentina and began making some social reforms in the country.

October 18th 1916- With the fiscal stability that had resulted from the 1905 agreement with the US was eroding, mostly to finance military campaigns against the rebels. On this date President Caceres send a note to the US government asking for a more direct support to his government to end the impasse on the island.

October 21st 1916- Adolph Hitler marries his model and inspiration for the canvas "Beauty in a sea of despair" in a private ceremony.

November 1916- Nap Lajoie announces his retirement from baseball after injuries and fading skills only produced a .246-2-38 season with 15 stolen bases.

November 1916: Burton Wheeler is elected Senator of Montana. He becames the principle Populist voice in the senate as a new younger leader of the movement.

November 1916: James Couzens is elected as a Representative from Detroit. He is a moderate Progressive who has chosen to remain in the Republican Party.

November – December 1916: The USA is much divided with the west going Progressive, the Democrats winning the south, and the middle states they suspected to win, and the Republicans sweeping the rest of the north-east. The Progressives gain congressional and senatorial seats throughout the west while the Democrats gain in the east. The election goes to Congress when they convene again in December. The Senate quickly confirms Johnson as the Vice Presidential winner, but the House is deadlocked.

November-December 1916: Invigorated by his lecture tour of America, Marcus Garvey travels to Ethiopia to pay homage to the newly-crowned Empress Zauditu. The Empress is very flattered by Garvey's passionate interest in the Ethiopian Coptic Church; even though she has to constantly correct him on its beliefs. He convinces her to support the Back-to-Africa movement, with some help from her chief advisor, regent Tafari, who realizes this is an excellent way to win the Empress over to his modernization plans. The Empress issues a proclamation banning slavery and opening her Empire to immigration "by all Jews and Christian Negros."

November 5, 1916 -- Boutros Ghali dies at the age of 70. The reforms he forced through 6 years ago have already shown themselves in an economic boom and artistic and literary renaissance, and therefore led to greater autonomy from Britain. Over 2 million attend his funeral. Prime Minister Abdel Khaliq Sarwat eulogizes, "Never have so many Muslims mourned the death of a Christian, and justly. For no force besides Allah has brought more prosperity to Egypt."

November 8th 1916- President Ortiz assassinated while visiting Acapulco. Vice-president Carranza blames persons opposed to the agreement that ended the US occupation.

December 1916
Wojciech Świętosławski publishes Liquid Chemistry, a general theory of how chemicals interact in all types of liquids. The work proves very practical to engineers in developing better wet cell batteries.

December 11th 1916- Herbert Asquith barely wins the national election.

December 13th 1916- Great Britain laid down the first units of the Formidable Class battleship. A 32000 tons armed with eight 15” main guns and with a max speed of 27 knots, the bill for their construction called for eight ships been build but the Canadian government paid for three additional units for the RCN and India paid for one additional unit.

December 19th 1916- Adolph Kegresse opens a factory, under the auspices of the Grand Duke Michael himself, to produce his armored car for service in the Russian cavalry.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:15 PM

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1917- With a rise in the number of drug using citizens on the rise, the La Follete administration made the decision to try to stop the growing problem. After considerations and debates it was concluded that opium-based habit forming drugs should be made illegal but other ones should be taxed as way of controlling them. A rush to also include cocaine in the banned list was barely defeated. A bill that only allowed designated "distributors" to sell habit forming drugs was enacted and past the Senate and House floors. Those distributors were forced to pay a very large quantity of money for their licenses and renewal was annual. Also a tax was included into any transaction that involved the sale of habit forming drugs. Doctors and farmacies were given a discount in the licenses as long as they were sold under prescription and kept a detailed record of their sale. Thousands of companies that can't afford the license fees went out of business, but Coca-Cola wasn't one of them. A force by now, they continued using their original formula after some debate to eliminate cocaine of the recipe was defeated in the board of directors.

1917 The first diesel-electric locomotive enters service.

1917 Ford releases the Cadillac Metropolitan, their first automobile to be marketed as a hybrid vehicle.

January 14th 1917- Adolf Hitler returns with his new bride to Vienna, a very well know painter in the artistic circles of Europe by now.

January 19th 1917- Germany began construction of the Bismarck class battlecruisers. (OTL Mackensen Class with bigger guns.) Four units were laid down and completed by 1921. The ships were armed with eight 15” main guns and were faster than any British capital ship at the time with 30 knots max speed.

February 1917 Li Yuanhong, of the Progressives, is elected to a four year term as President of the Republic of China, with Vice President Liang Qichao. In the last four years something of a merger has happened. Sun leads the Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang or the KMT, and Li leads the Progressives that supported the more traditional and military visionaries bent on modernizing China.

February 24th 1917- In one of the first decisions of the La Follette administration, President La Follette refuses to get involved in the ongoing problems in the Dominican Republic.

March 2nd 1917- The New York Yankees announce a major trade sending their former number one starter Christy Mathewson, center field Benny Kauff and first baseman Fred Merckle to the cash stripped St. Louis Browns for Tris Speaker and pitcher Bob Shawkey.

March 4, 1917 The House of Representatives is recognized as permanently deadlocked, with no side being willing to compromise. Under the Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution, the Vice-President elect, Hiram Johnson becomes the acting President of the United States.

March 5, 1917 Acting President Hiram Johnson announces the appointment of La Follete as Secretary of State, then promptly resigns office so that La Follete may take the oath of office of President of the United States, in accordance with the order of succession. Johnson states he is doing this for the good of the Nation and the Progressive party, to bypass the deadlock in Congress and restore the Executive Mansion to the man who won the most votes in the nation. He cites the Ballinger precedent justifying the succession going to an unconfirmed appointee.

Early March, 1917 Now that the bickering has become moot, enough members of the House of Representatives cross party lines to vote La Follete into the office of President, for the good of the nation and to remove any lingering doubts of legitimacy.

Spring 1917- Eliot discovers that his wife has been cheating on him with one of his fellow professors at the university. After a messy divorce, a hate-filled and world-despising Eliot joins the Dedalist movement in Zurich.

April 1, 1917 - The second phase of the Harvard Elevated, the Dorchester Tunnel, goes into place, with stops at Winter Street, South Station, Broadway, Southampton, and then followed an Old Colony Right of Way (purchased in a somewhat suspicious arrangement) to Crescent Avenue, Savin Hill, Harrison Square, Fields Corner, Ashmont, and Cedar Grove.

April 20th 1917- A massive rebellion starts in the northern provinces of Haiti that almost overrun the troops in the area. Only the arrival of more troops from the United States made possible the defeat of the rebellion by the end of the year. Over 5,000 Haitians were accounted as being killed facing US troops but the number could had been higher.

May 17th 1917- Captain Benjamin O Davis appointed to the American Embassy in Ethiopia as military attache.

May 18th 1917- Recently promoted captain Bela Ferenc Blasko decides to stay in the Hungarian Honved. He’s posted in the new province of Montenegro to fight “separatist” guerillas.

Summer 1917 - The International Rocketry Society holds its annual meeting in Sweden. A round table discussion with participation of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Herbert G. Wells, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberth becomes the highlight of the convention and the stuff of legends.

June 1917 - The Russian Duma passes a series of legislation modernizing the Russian military in the wake of the war, and abolishing many of the bars to talented commoners rising to high rank within the Russian army.

June 1917 In response to the recent series of presidential succession crises, an Amendment to the Constitution is passed by Congress to make the line of Presidential Succession only applicable to congressionally confirmed cabinet members, to move up the date of the Inauguration to January 2, and to stipulate that if the House has not elected a president by a majority vote in a contested election by January 2 after the election, the post automatically goes to the candidate with the highest electoral count in the election.

June 1917: La Follete attempts to nominate long time political ally Debs to the post of Secretary of Commerce. Moderates immediately stop the process before it goes public, and instead go with New Mexican rail-road manager Fredrick Hanslow. Hearst gets tipped off by a staffer, and quickly the story is spread across the nation, emphasizing not only the potential political promotion of a socialist, but also the division among the Progressive Party.

June 2, 1917 -- Gertrude Stein publishes Sacred Sarah, her fifth book of poetry. Like all her works, it earns greater appreciation in academic circles than among the public at large, but it becomes famous for one pair of lines: Gold is gold is gold is gold, but only in poetry is it gilded.

June 7th 1917- A young Jew activist, David ben Gurion, is expelled from Palestine by Ottoman authorities due to his political activities. He moves to New York City, pledging to return to Palestine in the future.

June 15th 1917- The new Naval Station, MacArthur Roads, named after the former Vice President and war hero finally is completed. It will be the new home of the Caribbean Squadron and the island of Culebra will be used for the training of the Marine Corps.

July 1917: La Follete proposes the Labor Liberation Act, which would actually take Ballinger's programs and push them to a greater extent. Moderate Progressives convince him to keep to his campaign pledge however, and La Follete allows an amendment to be added on basically allowing local nullification. He claims to insiders that he is hoping on establishing a precedent in the case that liberal Progressives never regain the national government. Ballinger is appointed Secretary of Labor as an attempt to show bi-partisan co-operation. He is viewed as a hero, especially on the west-coast.

July 18th 1917- Refugees from the Ottoman Empire tell lurid tales of “massacres”.

August 1917: Mid-western states take advantage of the Labor Liberation Act to create near socialist regimes. Bryan believes that the government is begining to take too much in their own hands, and the Freemans Journal returns more to its Populist Origins, and reflects the slow change of small-town rural politics towards a more individualist sentiment.

August 1917: Disturbed by La Folletes radicalism, Wallace and other major Populist media figures begin to attack La Follete, and begin to support revisionist Democrats such as Congressman Hoover.

August 17th 1917- Henri Bourassa demands to the Imperial Council in a letter to step in to resolve the suppression of the French language in the Ontario Public School systems. He stated “the situation could turn into something worse if not resolved eventually.”

August 27th 1917- Japan laid down the first of the four Mutsu class battleships. Build as a response to the New Mexicos, they were armed with ten 16” guns in dual turrets and raised their main speed to 26.5 knots. The last unit was commissioned in 1921.

Aug 28 1917 - An independent international benevolent organization, the Diplomats of the Eastern Rites, is formed. It was inspired by conversations among Ethiopian, Georgian, and Greek diplomats. Its chartered purpose is "to peacefully advocate improved conditions for the various Eastern Christian communities living in nations that are predominantly of another faith." The DER immediately proposes that the Geneva Convention be modified to recognize the Red Crescent symbol, and that in return the Ottoman Empire shall allow International Red Cross/Crescent officials to investigate requests for relief from the Ottoman Armenian community.

September 5th 1917- Jaroslav Hasek publishes his masterpiece The Good Soldier Schweik. His satirical piece was very well received in the veterans circles of Eastern and Central Europe.

September 18th 1917- George Ruth is the first man in baseball history to hit 55 homeruns.

Fall 1917 - A coalition of Progressives and Moderate Republicans manage to pass by a narrow margin federal anti-lynching legislation.

October 1917: La Follete tries to push his long time beliefs that machine politics are corrupt, and that city managers are more effective as mayors. The legislation fails to pass either house of congress, and La Follete becomes more unpopular among his own party, a fact used by Hearst. He also tries to take direct control of railroads with similar legislation to those that Bryan had originally proposed earlier in the decade.

October 1917: Fearing Hearst growing media influence over the public, rich mainstream Republicans begin investing in back room deals with political machines to try to gain local support. Smith and other moderate Catholic Republicans help influence the predominantly poor Catholic machines to side with the Republican base, though officially most politicians deny their existence.

October 1st to 10th 1917- The Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Blue Sox 4 games to 3 in the World Series. The Reds, led by their pitching, won 95 games and beat the Superbas by only two games for the National League pennant on their way to this victory.

November 1917: La Follete considers legislation returning the control of the Mexican states to either Mexico or granting them independance. He is stopped by moderates.

November 1917: Charles Seymour defeats Clifford Wilson to become Lt. Governor of Connecticut. He serves under a popular Republican Governor, but retains popularity himself due to a seemingly strong sense of justice and responsibility. In reality he uses his seat of power as a way to control the state behind the governor's back.

November 2nd 1917- Japanese mission visited the United States to discuss the situation in China.

November 1917- Moro resistance pretty much defeated thanks to extreme measures by Filipino and Japanese troops.

Winter 1917- The poem "I Hate Laura" becomes Eliot's and one of the Dedal movement's crowning achievements.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:16 PM

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1918 - Howard P. Lovecraft sells the rights to one of his radio serials to be turned into a serial for the movies.

January 13, 1918 William E. Borah is appointed to take the place of Senator James H. Brady.

January 20th 1918- Ireland send the first representatives to the Imperial
Council.

February 1918: Seeing the wave of the future, Hearst buys up huge amounts of shares in the upstart movie industry in Hollywood. Over the next 30 years Hollywood would continue to support the Democratic Party through all its twists and turns.

February 1918- Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves elected as President of Brazil and serves until 1922.

Febuary 1918: Much to the surprise of the Progressive Party, the Freeland Journal publishes an article discusing and praising La Follete's position toward's Mexico, and attacks Vice President Johnson and other moderate Progressives. Hearst then uses his own media empire to bash both Bryan and La Follete for tearing apart the nation.

Febuary 1918: Hoover helps form the first comprehensive foreign aid legislation. Instead of raising the amount of money spent, or raising taxes, he simply redistributes already collected savings to support those in need. As an expert in China, Hoover sucessfully helps the government introduce Democracy in more remote areas, often using volunteer missionaries and bussinessmen. La Follete personally objects, but fails to veto the move because of its popularity due to extreme promotion in all Hearst newspapers.

Febuary 1918: The Hearst newspapers accuse Smith of using illegal political machines to secure his new position as governor. Seeing a potential opportunity in the future, Hearst quietly encourages Democratic politicians to end ties to machines. Legal action is taking against many of the larger ones, many of which were also involved in bootlegging.

February 8th 1918- The new Naval Attache to the German Embassy in Buenos Aires, Wilhelm Canaris, is expelled after accusations of spying are lodged against him.

February 12th, 1918- Tillings gets St.-John's bill repealed, saying that " making the Liberia of today the Liberia of tomorrow is a task which require a longer time to accomplish.

February 26th 1918- Germany began construction of a six light cruiser replacement program. The ships, the Berlin Class, were a quantum leap in capabilities of the light cruisers of the era. Armed with nine 5.9” guns in triple turrets and having a 33 knots max speed, they were faster and better armed than any ship of the same type by the time of their completion in late 1920.

March 11th 1918- Hara Takashi elected Prime Minister, first commoner to serve as Prime Minister. He used his influence in the military and the House of Peers to achieve a fast clipped democratization of Japan. Still the influx of Western Customs and an emerging labor movement was a worry to many.

March 27th 1918- Yankees acquired a young shortstop called Roger Hornsby from the St Louis Browns. The young man was moved to second base, where he stayed for the next fifteen years.

April 1918: Hearst decides not to seek re-election as Governor of New York, planning to devote himself full time to managing the party. He is officially named Chairman of the Democratic Party. The Democrats use the Hearst papers to magnify regional issues, and to try to attack Republicans in the east and Progressives in the west. Democrats are portrayed as the middle of the road compromise party. The party actualy has very little real unity with candidates running as general opposition across the political spectrum. However the Democrats begin to gain the ultra-rich clientele of extreme conservative north-eastern Republicans.

April 1918: La Follete proposes a large welfare package that would raise taxes and give huge amounts of revenue directly to needy citizens. Hoover counters with his own legislation creating a lighter welfare package which is used to promote helpful organisations and schools rather then the individual citizen. It achieves this again through monetary redistribution rather than raised taxes. Most Progressives, all Democrats, and a few Republicans support the Hoover resolution, and it passes.

April 1918: La Follete names Colby Secretary of the Treasury.

April 23rd 1918- Cavalry officer Manfred von Richthofen asks for a transfer to the growing Luftwaffe.

May 1918 - The Russian Duma passes mild agrarian reforms that help mollify the peasantry, though they do disturb the nobility who fought to have them fail outright.

May 1918 Quentin Roosevelt graduates from college with an engineering degree and begins his own aircraft and automobile design business.

May 5th 1918- French physicist Paul Langevin & electrical engineer Constantin Chilowski develop a underwater sound detection device. The hydrophone was immediately picked up by French navy for testing and development.

May 18th 1918- A French officer invents deflector blades, making possible to put a machine gun forward in an aircraft. French kept this secret until at least 1921.

May 18th 1918- Germany began the construction of three battleships for the Dutch Navy. The ships, 32000 tons armed with eight 13.8” main guns and a max speed of 27 knots, were finally delivered to the Dutch Navy in 1923.

Summer 1918- Eliot's controversial tour of the United States. He is admired by many, but hated by more. Before Eliot departs, he has written "Uncle Sam", a snide and viciously sarcastic work that only thinly conceals his hatred for Americans and their way of life. It is the toast of Europe when it is published the following year.

June 1918, Under Yuanhong's presidency an amendment is made to the Chinese constitution making governors of the provinces elected offices by the people of China, and not an appointed position. Provincial Powers would increase continually during the Yaunhong presidency.

June 1918: La Follete tries to restore the Progresesive Party before congressional elections. He starts proposing popular reform legislation.

June 8, 1918 A.A. Campbell figures out the design for electronic television, patenting it that very week.

June 12 1918 King Aleksandar of Serbia marries Princess Viktoria Luise Duchess of Brunswick-Lunenburg.

June 15th 1918- Young captain Charles de Gaulle joins the right-wing faction in the French Army led by Henri Petain.

June 21st 1918- The four ship South Dakota Class approved by the US Congress over the veto of President La Follette. First ships in the US Navy to be armed with triple turrets and speed raised to 23 knots. Completed in 1922.

July 1918: The Hanslow Tarriff is passed. It slightly cuts the down the tariff while promoting international trade, appealing to the entire nation.

August 1918: National Tax Reform Bill is passed with the support of all Progressives and some moderate Republican.

August 17th 1918- Josip Broz arrested in Croatia for sedition. Sentenced to five years in jail.

August 22nd 1918- The battlecruiser Indefatigable is transferred to the Royal Australian Navy and renamed the HMAS Canberra. All ships of this class are now serving in the South Pacific, either in the Australian Navy or in the New Zealand Division.

September 18 1918- President La Follette orders the demobilization of the National Guard but is forced by moderates in the administration to recognize the situation in Mexico needs the Army's regular forces to be fully manned. One brigade each in the 8th and 9th Infantry Divisions plus one independent cavalry brigade are declared Colored by executive order.

September 19th 1918- Chamberlain Declaration announces the Imperial Council will be a permanent fixture in the British Empire politics and implied the Commonwealth nations have the rights to directly advise his Majesty in regard to matters concerning their territories.

October 1918: Charles Seymour recieved his Ph.D in American history. He had been studying off and on during his political career. He also abused his family connections to speed up the process, though his hard work and intelectualism allowed him to enter academia as an expert.

October 1918: Hearst steps up his attacks on the administration, publishing all of the dirt he has on Bryan, Ballinger, and La Follete. He also emphasizes the questions of prohibition and the teaching of evolution. These are both issues that cause a greater division in the Progressive Party. La Follete fails to take a stance, but Bryan and the Freemans Journal take up the cause of Prohibition, and anti-evolution. Johnson publicly critizes these polices.

October 1918- Led by Ruth, Johnson and Hornsby, the New York Yankees won their first Continental League pennant. They went to defeat the Cincinnati Reds on the now called World Series 4 to 2.

October 1918: 'Pursuit of Happiness' a film directed by D.W. Giffith is released. It is viewed by many film historians to be the first great film ever made. The movie is a re-telling of the historical Bacon's Rebellion, and focuses on the plight of the small farmer going up against the greater political interests.

October 14th 1918- Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck ends his tenure as military commander in East Africa and returns to Germany.

November 1918: Henry Stimson returns to Congress as a Republican. He attempts to block all of La Folletes foreign policy agendas. He becomes the leading radical Republican in the House Foreign Relations Committee, which he chairs.

November 1918- Due to health reasons, Puerto Rico’s president Luis Muñoz Marin declines running for a second term. His vice-president Jose de Diego losses the election by a very small margin to the Socialist party candidate Santiago Iglesias-Pantin. While the Socialists Party had the support of the urban workers, many later considered the campaign launched by the Socialists stating the “US was returning” based in the recent arrangements with the US as enough to swing some votes in the direction of the Socialists.

November 1918: The Progressives lose all political stability after disputed primaries, and even multiple candidates. The Democrats make gains all across the board, though the congressmen have no ideological unity other then political opportunity. No party has a majority in congress. Congressmen Herbert Hoover, a former Republican turned Democrat becomes Speaker of the House as a compromise.

November 1918: Al Smith is elected Governor of New York.

November 1918: Phil Swing is elected US Representative from Imperial County California as a moderate Progressive.

November 9th 1918- Austria-Hungary laid down the battlecruisers Wien and Budapest. Armed with four dual 13.8” guns and with a max speed of 28 knots, they were the fastest capital ships of in the Med after their completion in 1924.

November 19th 1918- After a commission send by President La Follette stated that while the infrastructure of Haiti has been improved by the US occupation of that nation “the social forces that created instability still remain; poverty, ignorance, the lack of a tradition of orderly government and deep racial differences between the mulatto and negro population.” La Follette decides to leave the island as “a waste of money and time” and to turn over the administration of the government and military to the mulattos that have been the administrators under the American government but leaving the financial administration of the nation still under the hands of the US.

November 21st 1918- Mustafa Kemal made military commander of the Syrian military district.

December 24th 1918- Joseph Chamberlain dies from a massive stroke while eating with his family on Christmas Eve. The architect of the Imperial Council , he was considered one of the most influential men in British politics during the late 19th and early 20th century.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:16 PM

1919

1919 - A molasses explosion is narrowly averted in the North End of Boston.

January 1919: Herbert Hoover blocks almost all of President LaFollete's radical legislation initiatives, proposing in their stead more reasonable compromises that address the issues while failing to take as radical a position. Many traditional Republicans start to question the huge ammount of legislation going through Congress, and advocate for a less activist government. This move proves unpopular, and is criticized by many mainstream Republicans. Moderate Republicans begin to lead in upcoming local primaries.

January 1919 The trickle of blacks from the USA following Marcus Garvey to Ethiopia starts to flow much faster. Among the more recognizable names are: Sammy Davis and Will Mastin, two rising new stars to the vaudeville circuit who dream of finding nice girls and raising kids some day in a nation free of racism, Claude McKay, a brilliant agronomy professor (and sometime poet) who studied under George Washington Carver, and his wife Eulalie Lewars, and Frederick M. Jones, an engineer who had been having poor luck at garnering attention for his inventions.

February 1919- Henry Wallace is made director of the Iowa branch of the Freeman Journal.

February 18th 1919- Russians laid down the first of the four ship Varth yag heavy cruisers class for duty in their Pacific Fleet. While the ships are considered to be the main combat units of the Russian Pacific Fleet after their delivery in 1923, they were armed with twelve 8" main guns in triple turrets and a max speed of 31 knots, they were smaller than any capital ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Still Japan viewed their appearance in the area as a possible threat.

March 1919: Franklin Gatling dies from tetanus due to a puncture wound while inspecting one of his oil rigs. Rick Gatling takes over the business. Though young, his seven years of experience and Yale Business College have prepared him for the job.

March 1919: The Adler Otto, an innovative gas-electric hybrid, helps Adler temporarily leap over Opel to claim the top spot in the German car market -- until Opel responds the next year with the Opeleszenz.

March 3rd 1919- Russians laid down the first of the four ship Aleksandr Nevsky class. Massive twelve 16" guns in triple turrets with a max speed of 25 knots, by the time of their completation in 1923 they changed the balance of power in the Baltics. The Germans were surprised by their size and capabilities.

March 17th 1919- Last US Marines leave Haiti. The nation’s president Dartiguanave ask the world’s community for help to consolidate his government weak control of the situation.

March 19th 1919- The Commitee for a Communist India is formed in Chicago, Il.

April 17th 1919- Beginning of the Italian Civil War. The right wing movements failed in their attempt to march to Rome to ask for the resignation of Prime Minister Sonnino and were faced by troops. Called the “Florence Massacre” by the Fascisti and was later celebrated annually.

May 1919: Many moderate Progressive become disastisfied with Hoover and his redistribution policies, and side with moderate Republicans for what they call real political reform.

May 1919 - Hermann Oberth successfully defends his doctoral dissertation on the use of multi-stage liquid fuel rockets.

June 1919: Having lost much of their former Progressive support, Hearst returns to his Populist origins, donating vast sums of money to the near dead Grange and other rural movements. He encourages Democrats to push Populists agendas. In some regions Hearst newspapers actually unite with local branchs of the Freemans Journal.

June 1919 Using a ghost writer, Ballinger publishes a book entitled "Out of Many, One" an optimistic portrayal of American politics. In it he emphasises the importance of co-operation. It appeals to all political factions, and is a national best-seller.

June 2, 1919 Quentin Roosevelt marries Flora Payne Whitney, daughter of Harry Payne Whitney.

July 1919: The Freemans Journal suffers from lower circulation, and the Oakland branch goes out of business.

July 20th 1919- Robert Hillary is born in New Zealand.

July 26th 1919-Kaiser Wilhelm III names war hero Paul von Hindenburg as Chancellor. Many considered the four years of his administration as “the most boring in the history of the Reich.” A supporter of the right, he only was interested in military spending and in agrarian subsidies for the junkers. But his disinterest in politics was used by the Reichstag to pass, with the secret support of the Kaiser, the change to Article 15 of the Empire’s Constitution.

August 1919- Hoover draws up the Agricultural Workers Rights Act which would use his policies of redistribution to favor poor rural communities. He is famous for saying "We have come back and saved the forgotten regions of America."

August 11th 1919- Secret report by chemist Fritz Haber is studied by German General Staff. The General Staff found his discoveries fascinating and decided to continue to fund his research.

August 21st 1919- Walther Rathenau, social theorist and economist, named Foreign Minister. His pro-British leanings were viewed by many as a change in the direction the German nation was going.

September 1st 1919- Japan laid down the first of their response to the US South Dakota class. While armed only with ten 16” guns like their predecessors, the speed was raised even more, reaching a max speed of 30 knots on trials. Last units commissioned in 1923.

September 3rd 1919- France announces their naval construction plan for 1919. With the end of the payment of reparations, funds were raised for the construction of more capital ships against the wishes of the Prime Minister. The socialist representatives of the dockyards were very influential in the approval of this naval bill, knowing full well of the lack of work since the end of the war. Six battlecruisers were approved, armed with three triple 13.4” main guns and a max speed of 28 knots.

September 8th 1919- Massive protests in Ontario due to the supression of more rights to the French speakers in the province. Henri Bourassa blamed the Imperial Council for their lack of action in this situation.

September 13th 1919- Otto Frank promoted to officer rank and assigned to the German Embassy in Poland.

September 18th 1919- Oil is discovered in Persia and in the province of Basra in the Ottoman Empire by the French.

October 1919: Wheeler announces his support of the Democrats.

October 1919- Some Democrats scared of Hearst try to convince Hoover to run against him for the nominations. Hoover declines stating that he believes that he can best serve the party as Speaker of the House. Privately Hoover knows that Hearst has the power to destroy his political career.

October 1919- The Agricultural Workers Rights Act fails to pass. Most Populists throw their support towards the Democrats rather then Progressives. Some Progressives openly announce that they are switching over to the Republican Party. Some Populist Progressives trying to save their own political skins join the Democrats. They are welcomed with open arms by Hearst and Hoover.

October 1st to 5th 1919- The New York Yankees win their second consecutive World Series after defeating the Cincinnati Reds again, but this time sweeping them 4 games to zero. Led by the magnificent seasons of catcher Herman Ruth with .322- 50- 136 and Walter Johnson with 28 victories and an minuscule 1.46 ERA, the Yankees won the pennant by eight games over the Chicago White Sox on their way to their Series victory.

October 9th 1919- First EWD station build in Newfoundland to detect icebergs. Later followed by more in Greenland and Iceland.

November 1919: After choosing not to seek a second term as Lt. Governor, fearing a possible cover up, Seymour takes a teaching position at Yale, while in private keeping up his political machine.

November 12th 1919- Hearst and Hoover meet privately and draw up the Democratic agenda. They become close political allies. Hearst privately states that he intends Hoover to be his presidential successor. Hearst's newspapers try to picture Hoover as a American political hero.

November 21st 1919- The 8th Infantry Division and the 9th Infantry Divisions assigned to the West Coast after being withdrew from Mexico.

December 1919- The Freeman's Journal follows the lead of the Hearst newspapers in their praise of Hoover. Bryan states that he will support Hearst in the 1920 election.

December 3rd 1919- Major Albert Kesselring asks for a transfer to the growing Luftwaffe.

December 3rd 1919- Ernst Rohm given command of the 27th Infantry Brigade in the Grand Duchy of the Baltics.

December 5th, 1919 China and Germany meet in Alsace to discuss increasing the German role in the Chinese market.

December 12th 1919- Carl Mannerheim promoted to commander Russian 9th Army, the army in control of Finland. First Finnish born officer in charge of the Russian forces in the autonomous province.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:16 PM

1920 -

Democratic National Convention, 1920, Lincoln Nebraska (taking place in the early summer. All convention events so far posted need to be moved down)
Hearst comes in basically unchallenged with Hoover giving a speech in his support. Hearst is nominated unanimously with all contenders having already dropped out. Hearst names Burton Wheeler as his VP candidate due to his youth, vitality, geographic seperation, and populism.

Republican National Convention, 1920, Boston Massachusetts: A heavily contested convention with no clear political winners. Smith declines to run due to his sucess as governor. Leonard Wood eventually gains the nomination on the 11th ballot mostly due to his name recognition. Nevada Governor Tasker Oddie is named as the VP candidate to try to balance out the ticket.

1920 - The Fairmount-Broadway train line is opened and put under MTA jurisdiction.

1920: In a shocking move, many moderate Progressive members of Congress announce party switches to the Republican Party.

November 1920- Roberto Diaz Leon wins the Cuban presidential election.

January 1st, 1920-The Negro Abroad, a newspaper for the growing Negro community in Europe, begins circulating in Berlin. It will add printing presses in Rome, Paris, London, Addis Ababa, and Harlem by 1930.

January 2nd, 1920- Tillings once again wins, still on the strong Liberia platform, but this time saying that he will finish the "Task" by "making Liberia independent of any other country" .

January 18th 1920- President Dartiguanave of Haiti forced to escape to Cuba after a military coup of the US created Gendarmerie forced him out of office.

January 19, 1920: Willys Motors buys out Nash-LaFayette to become the 4th-largest car manufacturer in the USA.

Febuary 7th, 1920 China signs a deal with Germany that gives a German company a contract to build railroads for the New Republic.

February 16th 1920- Dutch aviation engineer, Anthony Fokker, develops an interrupter gear for the German military. He produces the first forward firing aircraft in the German Luftwaffe, the Fokker E.5

Spring 1920 A virulent strain of influenza breaks out in the United States of America, first in the mid-west but then spreading through most of the nation. It hits healthy young adults especially hard compared to other strains. Almost the entire country closes down. The influenzae also spreads to other parts of North America.

March 2, 1920 -- In response to repeated requests from American immigrants, Empress Zauditu divides the nation into 35 states, grants each autonomy in strictly subsidiary matters, and allows each to have an elected House and Governor (or Mayor, in the case of Addis Ababa). She also creates a Senate, which she appoints and which cannot override her veto. Among her first slate of Senators is Prof. McKay's wife, Eulalie Lewars.

March 4th 1920- Major Erwin Rommel assigned to the motorization testing Brigade. He’s recognized by many in the General Staff as an expert in motorization by now.

March 21, 1920- Leon Blum wins the general election in France. Despite actually being moderate compared to some of his Socialist supporters, he is highly disliked by the right (which is fired up due to the Italian Civil War). Right-wingers start protesting on the street.

March 27, 1920- At a protest in Tours, a govt. soldier gets a little nervous and accidentally shoots into the air. This gets the protesters very angry, thinking someone has been shot, and they rush the soldiers. Both soldiers and protestors are killed in the ensuing chaos, and protests in other cities threaten to erupt into something bigger...

March 30, 1920- PM Blum, alarmed by the growing chaos, declares martial law and orders the military to enforce a strict curfew in many major cities. This is too much for many rightists in the Army, and a group, led by Marshal Petain and including a young Colonel Charles De Gaulle, resign their commissions.

April 1, 1920- Marshal Petain is contacted in his home by several rightists from the Action Francaise, who feel an all-out leftist coup and takeover is inminent and want to strike first, or at least be ready. Alarmed, he agrees to lend his, and the other rightist officers, support to the movement.

April 3, 1920- Rightist sympathizers begin to camp out in Paris, waving protest signs during the day and generally being a nuisance. The police keep an eye on them, but Blum, not wanting to further exacerbate the situation, orders them to keep quiet.

April 6th 1920- King George I of Greece dies on his sleep. Replaced as King by his son Constantine.

April 6th 1920- Start of the “April Riots” in Canada. Henri Bourassa declared a general strike of all French-Canadians to protest what he called “the racist policies of Prime Minister Hughes and the lack of interest of the Governor-General and the Imperial Council for the plight of citizens of the Empire.”

April 7, 1920- The Rightist demonstrations get a major boost when Marshal Petain, along with many of the other recently resigned officers, arrives to join them. By now news of the demonstration has spread through France, and conservatives and authoritarians alike are congegrating on the city. Blum grows increasingly agitated, and after much discussion with his advisors (many of which urge him to take out the "damn fascistis" once and for all), orders the police to get ready to arrest the officers in the next few days.

April 8th 1920- Canadian Prime Minister Sam Hughes announces the strike was illegal and to disperse in 48 hours.

April 10, 1920 -- Gertude Stein, disdainful of the looming civil war, leaves Paris for New Orleans.

April 10th 1920- Canadian troops began arresting French-Canadian protestors in Ontario but in Quebec troops were forced back to their barracks and in many instances French-Canadian troops joined the strikers.

April 12th 1920- Canadian Populist leaders in the central provinces declared their support for the plight of the French-Canadian. Canada was rapidly falling into chaos.

April 12, 1920 - Blum's government sends in the police to arrest the Rightist demonstrators, but they resist, often with violence. The police are forced to retreat from the field, giving the Rightist protestors a boost. Several protestors are wounded, one fatally, who becomes the cause's first martyr.

April 12th 1920 The German designers draw up plans for the UA class U Boat. The UA class is 230 feet long, about 1500 tons with a speed of 15.3 knots on the surface, and a range of 15,420 miles at 10 knots. Can dive to the depth of 175 ft. Is manned by a crew of 56 with room for twenty more. Has an cargo capacity of 700 tons.

April 13, 1920 - Blum orders the military in to break up the protestors. Several refuse to take action against the Rightists.

April 15, 1920 - Enough volunteer military, mostly sympathetic to the left, are found to send against the protestors. Bloody street fighting breaks out this time in earnest. The protestors are forced to flee, but this is only the beginning.

April 16, 1920 - Violent riots break out in major cities throughout France protesting the 'Cowardly Reds' and their 'pet soldiers'. Several cities are taken over entirely as many veterans of the last war swarm in from the countryside.

April 16th 1920- Troops fight the strikers in the Quebec-Ontario border and began to move north in the direction of Montreal and Quebec City.

April 17th 1920- An expose appears in the Canadian newspapers, demonstrating the level of corruption on the Hughes’ administration, with his cronies getting paid for services not provided to the government or being overpaid for contracts. The source of the information is unknown to this day but is suspected more moderate members of the Conservative party were responsible but even some far-fetch theories blame the British or the Americans.

April 19th 1920- Chaos ensued in all major cities in the north. French Prime Minister Leon Blum forced to leave Paris in an airship and move the government to Marseilles.

April 20th 1920- British government, thru Governor-General the Duke of Devonshire, dissolves the Canadian Parliament and ask Hughes to resign “for the good of the Dominion.”

April 21st 1920- Troops advancing into Quebec are ordered to return to Ontario and an agreement was reached with the strikers in Quebec assuring them troops will not enter again until the situation is resolved.

April 22nd 1920- Sam Hughes, his political career in ruins and being forced to resign, commits suicide. Albert Edward Kemp replaces him as Prime Minister until elections could be held.

April 24th 1920- French-Canadian militias disperse after assurances were given their grievances were going to be examined by the Imperial Council and the new government plus amnesty was being given to all the leaders of the strike.

May 1st 1920- After close to a month of chaos the dust settled and the nation was divided in a north-south split, with the right-wing followers in control of the North of France except for socialist pockets in Troyes and Chartres. On the south the socialists were in control except for the city of Toulouse and a long strip of land following the Swiss border and going all the way to Lyon. Both sides began to make operations to eliminate the pockets of enemy soldiers in their respective areas of control.

May 7th 1920- Ford Motors Co. began assembling cars in Australia.

May 7th 1920- Prime Minister Hara survives an assassination attempt by a left wing supporter. The resulting persecution of the Socialists and other dissenting movements was finally made official by the Peace Preservation Law.

May 11th 1920- Bela Ferenc Blasko promoted to the rank of major. His troops in Montenegro, many of them from Transylvania, gave him his nickname after he impalled some prisioners. He was called either Vlad the Impaller or Dracula by his troops.

May 18th 1920- Charles Maurras, leader of the Action Francaise, self-styled himself as Prime Minister and after a long debate between the factions involved he wins but the more moderate Petain gets both the War and Foreign Ministries.

May 30th 1920- Chartres falls in the hands of the right-wing forces.

Summer 1920
With political instabilty making life difficult at home, French people begin alighting for overseas in increasing numbers. A few move abroad to Quebec or to various colonies, but the majority make the simple trip across the Mediterranean to Algeria. The towns of NouvelleAlsace and Cambon are founded this summer.

June 7th 1920- British Government announces India will receive representation in the Imperial Council and a special election will be done to elect the Indian representatives.

June 11th 1920- Prime Minister Hara reluctantly presents the Peace Preservation Law to the Emperor to his approval. Hara knew the civil liberties of many citizens would be curtained by this measure but he also accepted it needed to be done to “save the nation.”

June 16th 1920- Riots in Buenos Aires and other cities broke by troops following a week of a general strike that paralyzed the country. The Radical Party, very popular at the moment of their election in 1916, was losing popularity due to the economic problems caused by the lack of commerce caused by the Flu epidemic.

June 17th 1920- Socialist attempts to capture Lyon foiled by the arrival of the 4th Army, an army under the control of the right-wing forces.

June 18, 1920 - The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) obtains a charter to operate a transit line on the now mostly-abandoned Grand Junction trackage, while it remains in the hands of Boston and Albany.

June 18th 1920- City of Toulouse surrenders after defenders are allowed to go to Spain for internment.

June 19th 1920- Liberal Mackenzie King elected Prime Minister of Canada by a landslide. Many considered the actions of Hughes as the end of the Conservative Party in Canada, not able to elect a Prime Minister until the early 1970’s.

Summer 1920 - With some 20% of the United States population having contracted the Yankee Flu, as the world has taken to calling it, the nation is paralyzed. Canada, the Mexicos, and Central America have been similarly hard hit. Cases are beginning to appear in South America as well. Europe has been mostly spared due to stringent quarantine of shipping from the Western Hemisphere. Approximately 350,000 people will die of the epidemic in the USA alone.

Summer 1920: Moderate Republican front-runner Theodore Roosevelt contracts influenzae while campaigning and nearly dies from pneumonia complications.

July 1920: Ballinger attempts to distance the newly founded league from La Follete. Johonson encourages him to seek a more mainstreme Progressive stance, but Ballinger fails to take decicive action. His staff draws up a charter which basically supports general liberal ideology while failing to take a direct stance of the issues of the day. Ballinger continues to appear tri-partisan and money begins to pour in. Ballinger's men try to paint the league as a non partisan attempt to achieve social justice. La Follete privately criticizes the movement, but fails to take any public action.

July 8th 1920- First major offensive operation of the war starts when the right-wingers 4th and 10th Armies attacked to eliminate the socialist bulge between Lyon and Clermont. After close to two weeks of combat the bulge was eliminated. The front ran at that time from a line roughly going from north of Bordeaux in the Atlantic (in socialists hands) thru France and following a line going south of Clermont and Lyon (in right-wingers hands) until reaching the Italian border.

July 17th 1920- City of Troyes falls. The persecution of socialist dissidents began on earnest on the north.

July 17th 1920- King Alfonso XIII names Miguel Primo de Rivera Prime Minister of Spain in an attempt to end the economic crisis in the nation.

July 18th 1920- Serbian emigre Gravilo Prancip dies during a botched robbery in Sarajevo.

July 31st 1920- Right-Winger Prime Minister Maurras calls for a return of the monarchy and offered the throne to the Napoleonic pretender, who accepted after some deliberations on August 15th 1920.

August 1920 - The first cases of Yankee Flu appear in China, believed due to lax quarantine procedures.

August 18th 1920- First of the six ship Constellation Class battlecruisers approved by the US Congress. Very fast battlecruisers (32 knots), They were armed with ten 14” guns in dual turrets and the last was commissioned by late 1924.

August 18th 1920- Leon Blum recognized a long civil war will weaken France and began secret negotiations to end the conflict.

August 25th 1920- Oil discovered in Argelia by the Bureau of Petroleum Research. The area is near the Tunisian border in Hassi Messamoud but it's considered substantial enough to merit further exploration and exploitation.

September 1920: Seymour publishes his first book, "The Eagle and the Greenback: A history of American Corruption." The book is not only detailed and well researched, but also exceptionally well written and appealing to both academics and everyday people. During the election campaign, Hearst somewhat promotes the book, claiming that it is a truly multi sided look at a very serious problem, partly to help promote Seymour himself. The book sells better then even Hearst intended, after recieving amazing reviews from all newspapers, including the Freemans Journal, and those owned by Pulitzer Inc. The struggles against political machines and corrupt businesses is a universal tri-partisan subject.

September 18th 1920- The military governor of Libya and Tunisia, Armando Diaz declares for the Fascisti.

September 18th 1920- Benjamin Davis, after being approached by Ethiopian military and government officials and after consulting with his family and other American expatriates, resigns his commision in the United States Army and accepts the rank of Colonel in the Ethiopian Army.

September 20th 1920- Napoleon the IV is crowned in a ceremony in Paris.

September 25th 1920-Prime Minister Maurras refuses to even discuss terms to end the war with Blum and don't pass the information to his cabinet. The war was turning into a quagmire, with both sides not been strong enough to end the stalemate.

Fall 1920 - The Yankee Flu has reached the Russian Empire and Southeast Asia. Millions of deaths are being reported in China, some being blamed on a shortage of antibiotics. However, demographers note that losses are only moderately more percentage wise than the developed world.

October: The Equality League expands to include inner city urban issues and Populist farming issues. It begins to hire clerks and lawyers becoming an early lobbyist empire. Ballinger personally invites both Smith and Bryan to join the league. Bryan agrees to join on the condition that the league support his actions in his respective areas, and that his regions would get equal ammounts of monetary assistance as compared to the west coast where the league is based.

October 1st to 9th 1920- The New York Yankees win an astounding third consecutive World Series by defeating the Buffalo Braves 4 games to 2. With Johnson having an injury plagued season and only winning 10 games it was up to the Yankee offense to win the pennant and they responded. With catcher Ruth leading the way with a healthy .374-54-142 and leading the league in homeruns and ribbies, Tris Speaker having his first outstanding season since being acquired in 1917 leading the league in hitting with a .391 batting average plus adding 10 homers and 110 ribbies, Roger Hornsby exploded into a power hitter by hitting .372-20-86 and the arrival of rookie Bob Meusel that hit .322-10-86 their offense changed the face of baseball. Teams began to look for power hitters instead of slap hitters and this season is considered the beginning of the live ball era.

October 7th 1920- Russia and Romania signed an economic treaty with secret clauses included. Germany and Austria-Hungary were wary of this economic treaty, and the refusal of the Romanians to join the German led Central European Trade Union, but recognized there was no reason for an aggressive action.

October 11th 1920- French Socialist military officers leak information to the Monarchist Foreign Minister Petain of the refusal of Maurras to end the conflict.

October 18th 1920- Petain launches a coup to remove Maurras from power with the support of the new monarch. Maurras is arrested and Petain is named Prime Minister by the King. The persecution of the more radical elements of the Action Francaise starts.

November 1920 - For the first time in years, a presidential election ends with a candidate receiving the majority of the electoral vote, though only a plurality of the popular vote, as Democratic candidate William Randolph Hearst wins the US presidency.

November 1920 - Dr. Oberth publishes an expanded, popular version of his doctoral thesis, exciting further interest in the field of rocketry.

November 1920: Phil Swing is re-elected on a joint Progresive-Republican ticket. As the Progressive party falls apart, Swing drops his connection to the Progressive party.

November 17th 1920- Petain request to meet with Blum in Clermont to negotiate an end to the conflict. By now the military officers on both sides recognized a long civil war will destroy the nation and were working for a fast resolution of the conflict.

December 17th 1920- With the industrial areas on the hands of the Fascisti since the beginning of the conflict and with the defection of the colonial forces the situation was considered as a losing proposition by the King. He asked the Fascisti leader, Franco Pasolini, to form a new government and dissolved the government of Sidney Sonnino. Pasolini accepts the offer and arrives to Rome three days later under heavy escort of his sympathizers.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:17 PM

1921 -

192 Growing concern over the potental that Submarines may be threat to shipping in the future forced the major powers to develop a new weapon call the depth charge. It is a weapon that has a explosive charge that detonates at a preselected depth by a detanates fuze.The British,French,Ottomans used a 150lb weapon where the German,A-H,Greek,Italian used a 400lb one.

1921 The beginning of the decade in which the Sede del Nascosta was formed, with 19 crime families coast to coast. Each family had an identical paramilitary structure with a national commission that set rules and policies.

February 1921- Puerto Rico’s president Iglesias-Pantin offers the city of San Juan to host the revision of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. He was surprised his offer was accepted and began preparations to ensure everything goes well during the Conference.

February 1921 Li Yaunhong is re-elected President of the Republic of China.

February 1921: Young freelance Chicago journalist Ernest Hemingway reports on the Colosimo bootleging empire. His talent is quickly recognised by newspaper moguls, and he is quickly hailed as the next great muckraker. He receives a death threat from Colosimo's nephew Torio. He then aranges with the New York Journal American to take him on board. He quickly joins the Hearst owned organization as a star reporter.

February 8th 1921- After months of negotiations, Leon Blum agrees to resign as Prime Minister and Napoleon IV is recognized as King of France. The agreement reached gave an amnesty to all supporters of the socialist regime and elections were announced for February next year.

February 14th 1921- Chandra Bose and Motilal Nehru arrived to London, as the newest members of the Imperial Council. Still India was divided. The Indian nobles were in an uproar and they considered this Council as a threat to their hereditary powers.

February 15th 1921- The Unionist Party under Petain wins the elections with a wide margin, acquiring a majority in the Senate. The party has a more right-center approach to government and was very welcomed by the majority of the Frenchmen, tired of the last year radical politics.

February 24th 1921- In one of the first decisions of the Hearst's administration, orders were given to send a Marine regiment to Santo Domingo to assist the Caceres government in defeating the rebels. Also weapons and instructors were ordered to the nation as support.

March 1921: With the Democratic Party being a majority in Congress for the first time this century, the Agricultural Worker's Rights Act is passed with the support of the now minority Populist congressmen.

March 11th 1921- Tesla discover by chance that radio signals generated by lighting can be detected by his EWD. He used this new information as a way to track thunderstorms. With the help of his working staff they made possible the development of rotational antennas to detect the direction of the storms and an oscilloscope in order to display it. All was missing was the transmitter.

March 17th 1921- Arthur Griffith tries to get the British government to agree on having the two Catholic majority counties of Northern Ireland, and having autonomous status for the rest. The Ulster Protestants strongly object to this and present their concerns to the Imperial Council.

March 25th 1921- German 1st Infantry Division is decided to be the test bed of the new fad in the German planning, motorization. Kegresse-based armored trucks, armored cars and artillery movers plus motorcycles are sent to this unit to test the feasibility of the concept.

April 16th 1921- Leon Blum goes into exile after his defeat due to concerns about his safety.

April 18th 1921- While an amnesty was promised to all socialists, a persecution of the more radical members of that party was silently started while the one of the radical members of the Action Francoise continued.

Spring 1921 The Yankee Flu has reached Eastern Europe, India, and the Ottoman Empire. Having learned from the American experience the year before, entire nations shut down when the first cases are reported to minimize spread. Antibiotic production to treat secondary infections are ramped up, but most Western European nations horde theirs, foreseeing the inevitable spread of the flu to their lands. The Americans are the largest exporter at this time, due to the increases in production made in the wake of their own outbreak and the flu having run its course in the Western Hemisphere.

Summer 1921 The Yankee Flu has spread to Western Europe and Africa. Draconian quarantine measures and antibiotic stockpiles lead to less infection and death in Western Europe than elsewhere, though Africa is hard hit. The British Isles are the least affected.

May 1921: The Equality League creates the Society for American Justice. The Freemans Journal under Bryan's supervision agrees to help fund it. Its mission is to take legal action to protect those who have been harmed by society. Bryan is named as chairman though he rarely took up a case, and the firm tended to deal with rural issues. Several popular cases were won by the league, and Ballinger took advantage of the publicity, though Sinclair and other leaders in the league dissaproved of its regional focus.

May 8th 1921- British government signs the Dublin accords with the government of the Irish Free State. The accord gave the two Catholic majority counties to the Irish part of the Free State and put Ulster under the adminstration of the Dublin government as an autonomous area.

May 17th 1921- The Ulster Rebellion starts. Irish army commander Michael Collins order his forces to move into the rebellious province.

May 28th 1921- Prime Minister Asquith order British forces to help the Irish army in putting down the revolt.

June 1921: President Hearst considers attacking some of Smith's labor laws, like the eight-hour work day and the pension plans, but is stopped by Hoover who convinces him that any form of attack would be deemed unpopular.

June 7th 1921- David ben Gurion moves to Salonika, where he continued his work on the zionist movement, calling for a Jewish Homeland in Palestine.

June 30th 1921- Belfast fell to the join British-Irish forces under Sir Douglas Haig. Start of the “unconventional war.”

August 1921: Colby, Ballinger, Sinclair, and other prominent figures in the Equality League publish a book entitled "Grassroots Progressivism" focusing on statewide and local reforms that still can be made, even without a major Progressive presence in Washington.

August 8th 1921- Great Britain began construction of the Hood Class battlecruisers. The new ships, with nine 16” guns in triple turrets all forward of the funnels and with a speed of 32 knots, they were expected to be the most powerful battlecruisers by the time their construction was completed in 1925.

August 10th 1921- President Louis Bouno of Haiti is assassinated and replaced by Rosalvo Bobo.

August 30th 1921- Communist Party of India is founded, in support of the Indian National Congress.

September 1921: The Equality League successfully pushes through harsher child labor laws in a movement led by Sinclair.

September 1921: Hearst pronounces a general tax cut. Hoover is somewhat more reluctant to take this action, but as a compromise new pro-business legislation is passed making it harder for the national government to impede on corporations. The legislation does not prohibit state governments from taking such measures. This legislation helps establish unity in the Democratic Party as a party of smaller federal government, though Populists and other liberals in the party favored large state governments.

September 17th 1921- Wilhelm Canaris named naval attache to the United States.

September 18th 1921- Anglo-German Naval Agreement signed in London. The German government agreed to reduce their Navy to 35% of the size of the British Fleet’s capital ships. The British in exchange agreed to withdrew their presence of the Baltic Sea completely. The treaty barely passed both houses of Parliament. Many considered this a surrender of Europe to the German Empire but the Imperial movement considered the Empire continued existence was more important.

September 19th 1921- Great Britain began construction of the St. Andrew Class battleships. Considered overgrown version of the Hoods, they were only capable of 23 knots but were the first ships mounting 18” guns in triple turrets forward of the funnels.

October 1921: The Freeman Journal praises Hearst for his economic policies, but is more mixed when it comes to issues of foreign intervention.

October 1921: Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee attempt to pass state bills that makes it harder for poor southerners to vote in an attempt to lower Populist influence. They use heightened poll taxes and fees and regulations to avoid a constitutional issue.

October 1921: Sinclair is convinced that the League can be used as an effective political tool. He convinces equality Democrats to propose several moderate welfare programs to Hoover. He rejects them, but quietly notes some of the suggestions.

October 1st to 5th 1921- The New York Yankees sweep the Chicago Cubs to 4 games to zero in another example of incredible hitting by Herman Ruth seconded by Hornsby during the Series and the regular season. Ruth hit five homers in the Series to follow his .376-60-173 season that included repeats in the homeruns and RBI crowns while Hornsby hit .625 in the series to follow .395-23-125 regular season that gave him the batting crown in taking this team to a four consecutive World Series victory.

October 5th 1921- The Northern Territories-New Guinea-Solomon Islands Representation Act of 1921 gave representation to the citizens of the Northern Territories and the new territories representation in the Australian Parliament.

November 1921: Frederick Hanslow is elected governor of New Mexico as a Populist Democrat.

November 1921- President Quezon wins another six-year term as the leader of the Philippines but opposition was growing inside his own party to his rule over the islands.

November 10th 1921- British Admiralty issues a request for a device that detects submarines underwater.

December 1921: There is a general strike of white southern workers against landowners. New money capitalists take advantage of the situation by hiring the most efficent workers, forcing large farm complexes to hire a larger black work force.

December 1921: Henry Wallace moves to Lincoln Nebraska in order to become a Vice President of the Freeman Journal. There he meets several major Populist political figures such as Wheeler and Bryan, and quickly is hailed as the best young journalist in rural America.In order to retain respect, Wallace avoids taking any ultra-radical positions.

December 1921: Popular mainstream Democrat Newton D. Baker, former mayor of Cleveland, announces his intentions of running for the senate the next year against plutocrat traditional Republican incumbent Warren G. Harding.

December 18th 1921- Sargent Roberts(Halsey) excellent service during the Civil War is taken into consideration and by order of Prime Minister Petain himself is commisioned as an officer on the French Army.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:17 PM

1922 -

1922 Upton Sinclair is elected as the governor of California.

1922- A large rebellion starts in the Visayas, taking close to three years to defeat. This rebellion affected the economy of the nation and was another blow to the dwindling support of his own party to President Quezon.

1922- The arrival of US Marines plus more weapons and instructors for the Dominican Army turned the tide in the nation. By the end of 1922, only small bands of rebels remain, but the city of San Pedro of Macoris was still a bed of unrest, with the bulk of the US Marines being stationed in that city to keep the peace. Still the Hearst administration considered the only way to achieve a lasting peace in the Dominican Republic was for President Caceres to step down and to have new elections under US supervision to ensure that no fraud was committed. After long negotiations finally Caceres relented and announced elections were going to be held by November 1922, with him not running for President.

1922: Nancy Bush is born. Tragically, she dies three years later from leukemia.

January 1922: The southern voting restrictions are brought to the US Supreme Court, and are declared unconstitutional. The decision also helps break down Jim Crow laws.

January 1922 Economists theorize that the Yankee Flu has cost billions in lost productivity for the 1920-21 period. More people have died of the Yankee Flu than did in the European wars of 1913-15.

January 7, 1922- After a pro-communist speech in the snow the day before in Turin, Italy, the famous radical "anti-art" poet Eliot dies in his hotel.

January 15, 1922
The last few quarantines are lifted, the Yankee Flu having run its course. In Italy, it marks the beginning of a human flood. Between 1922 and 1933, 6 million Italians move abroad -- 2 million in 1922 alone. The choice destination is the USA, but The General Immigration Act makes it very difficult to gain access to America. The Mafia soon finds itself in the business of smuggling immigrants into the USA. For those who cannot afford their fees, Tunisia, Libya, Puerto Rico and Brazil are the most popular destinations.

January 29, 1922 -- The First Revision to the 1883 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Its revisions on the original convention are minor, mainly consisting of an improved priority right system that lessens some of the unfair advantages enjoyed by deeper-pocketed claimants. It is a landmark convention, however, for taking place in a "colored" nation. It also marks the start of the "Próspero 20s", in which a major increase in foreign investment helps to begin pulling Puerto Rico out of poverty.

February 1922: Hearst and Hoover unveal a massive piece of legislation taking into accounts Hoover's philosophy of redistribution. It includes thousands of changes to be made in all branches of the government through shifting money around. They utilized several Equality League suggestions, though the league complains that taxes will have to be raised if the changes are to have any real effect.

February 1922- Fernando Moreima Umanzor elected as president of Brazil.

February 7th 1922- Argentinian General Hector Varela announces the rural guerillas in Patagonia are crushed and declares martial law in the area. He’s viewed by many in the Conservative Party as a possible candidate for the Presidency in 1928.

February 8th 1922- The first successful test on a human patient with diabetes occurres in Pisa, Italy saving a young Paolo Pier Marconi.

March 1922: Young lawyer Wendell Wilkie joins the Baker campaign and quickly rises through the ranks untill reaching the status of Deputy Campaign Manager.

March 1922
The DuPont company patents and releases Pepta-Bis, "scientifically formulated to aid the cure of all digestive maladies." Its two active ingredients are bismuth subsalicylate and cannabis hemp oil. DuPont can rightfully claim that the product is "scientifically formulated" -- it is arguably the first medicine to be tested with both chemical research and clinical trials. It quickly becomes a top seller at soda fountains, lauded for its calming powers on both the mind and stomach.

March 1922: The reorganisation bill passes both houses of Congress with support of both the Democrat and Populist factions of Congress. Still the Republicans opposed to this legislation and voted against it.

March 1922- New York Yankees announce last year homerun leader Herman Ruth was being moved to the outfield to open a space for catcher Bubbles Hargraves acquired from the Chicago Cubs.

March 7th 1922- A literacy program is approved for India thanks to their representatives in the Imperial Council. By 1932 the literacy rate had doubled from 7% to 14%. Still, specially the Conservatives and the ruling classes in India began to get worried.

March 10th 1922- Oil is discovered in Venezuela. General Juan Vicente Gómez begins to forge ties with United States and Europe,especially the British.

March 15th 1922- Pascual Orozco,former commander of the Mexican Army, wins the presidential election in Mexico. Known for his nationalistic views, he began a silent campaign to recover the territories under US occupation by what he stated in one speech, "all means necessary."

March 17th 1922- Germany sells two of their Nassau class battleships to Chile to try to get into the limits of the Anglo-German Naval treaty.

March 28th 1922- Colonel Charles Young promoted to Brigadier General and named commander of the Negro brigade of the 9th Infantry Division. Before his posting all white officers on the brigade are replaced by black officers to ensure we will not have any white men under his command.

April 1922- Young catcher Gabby Hartnett makes his debut with the Boston Blue Soxs.

April 7th 1922- Under great fanfare, the first train bound for Cairo left the city of Cape Town. The transcontinental railroad was declared open.

April 19th 1922- Henrich Hartmann is born in Germany.

April 21, 1922 At the end of his first year in office the President of China meets with the Kaiser and Chancellor of Germany in Berlin, serious discussion over an alliance starts taking place.

May 1922: In order to beat Baker's growing popularity Harding 'donates' 2 million dollars (mostly from wealthy campaign contributers who feared another popular Democratic Senator) to local machines and uses his governmental influence to assist those who support him.

May 11th 1922- United States acquires a lease for the contruction of a naval base in the Bay of Cozumel from the Southern Mexican government. The United States agreed to share the facility and to build two coastal battleships for the South Mexican Navy.

May 18th 1922- Lou Gehrig signs a contract to play for the New York Giants, the professional football (soccer) team based in his hometown after playing college ball in Columbia University.

May 29th 1922- U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized baseball is a sport, not subject to antitrust laws.

June 1922: The reorganisation bill comes into effect. Though most experts and economists believe that it is an improvement, the change temporarily slowed down several major government projects. Critics also note that the more effort is placed in making the changes in the south, plains states, and western mid-west which support Hearst.

June 1922 Franklin Delano Roosevelt accepts a position in the Equality League leadership.

June 4th 1922- Commander Chester Nimitz addressed the Naval War College on "Defensive and Offensive tactics of submarines." His views of using subs to defend harbors were well received but the ones in regard to using them to hunt capital ships was found to be, using the words of an Admiral present, "out of reality with the current submarines' capabilities."

June 14th 1922- President Hearst is the first heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry.

July 10th 1922- Disgruntled Portuguese young military officers join forces with the middle classes to end the chaos on their country and launch a coup against the monarchy and their Prime Minister Sidoneo Pais. King Luis Felipe is forced into exile and a Republic was formed under the leadership of President Antonio Maria da Silva.

July 21, 1922 Quentin Roosevelt manages to escape serious harm after the crash of one of his firm's newest airplane designs. Despite concerns from his partners, he refuses to stop serving as one of the firm's main test pilots.

August 1922: Charles Seymour begins to tour the nation going from university to university. He also begins to serve as corporate and political advisor to both business and federal organisations, being the most nationally recognised expert in corruption. Meanwhile his own personal political machine has become so deeply engrained that the vast majority of politicians are no longer fully aware of its existence.

August 1922: The media is attracted to Baker and both the Hearst Foundation and the Freemans journal give Baker good publicity. Wilkie is interviewed and soon becomes a media fixture as a man with sharp wit.
Harding pays the machines another million dollars, telling them to do whatever it takes.

August 1922: Hanslow is viewed as a Populist hero as he helps the more barren states of New Mexico blossom into a economic powerhouse with its cities growing faster than those in Arizona and western Texas. He is a shrew economist applying extra money to Hoover's programs to receive maximum benefit while receiving monetary support from the Equality League. To avoid any charges of corruption, Hanslow display's his entire personal assets to show that he did not embezzel any of the money.

August 18th 1922- The first of the UA class submarine is put in service. She has 2 8.8cm guns and 2 3.0cm AA. 4 Bow torpedoes and carries a staggering 20 torpedoes reload. Range of 12000 mi at 12kts.

September 1922: Now that the reorganization bill has settled in, the American economy starts to improve. Hearst and Hoover both gain popularity, and use their new momentum to help encourage the growth of cities and light industry in the west and plains states which had been growing population wise since the Bryan administration with more farmers and tired laborers moving out west. The Hearst administration begins leaning more conservative, which appeals to this people.

September 8th 1922- President Hearst refuses an invitation to attend a Naval Conference in London. With his refusal being made public, the Japanese government also refused. These actions caused the cancelation of the proposed Conference.

September 17th 1922- US Army accepts a John Browning's design of a light automatic rifle to replace the US standard weapon, the Hotchkiss 1909. It was ordered as the lessons of the Second Mexican War sank in. The war in Mexico was a conflict of small sized units and the need to upgrade the firepower of the squads and platoons in the US was considered a must by the General Staff. The weapon, called the BAR, was the first of many attempts to upgrade the firepower of the small units in the US Army.

September 18th 1922- In Great Britain, retired British admiral Percy Scott writes a letter to a newspaper stating; "the submarine and the aeroplane have changed naval warfare; no fleet can't hide from the aeroplane eyes and the submarine is capable of sinking a ship from under the water even in broad daylight." He called for more submarines and less battleships. He was attacked by many sectors and his statement called "a fantastic dream of an old man."

September 23rd 1922- Heinrich von Willensen began studying microwaves as a possible way of building a better Tesla EWD and publishes his ideas. They were very well received thru the world and began a race to build similar equipments by different nations.

October 1922: Upton Sinclair publish a new book, "The Cesspool",which criticizes political opportunists, party bosses, prohibition, and other scandal related topics. It becomes very widespread, and he uses it to expand his influence in the Equality League and becomes frontrunner in the elections for Governor of California. The League grows in strength due to a new influx of donations.

October 1922 -- an amateur league for "Mexican Rugby", otherwise known as the American-style football that was banned in American colleges in 1909, forms in New Orleans among the Mexican immigrants and the American blacks who grew up playing the game. Amateur rugby leagues soon catch on in Mobile, Miami, and other Gulf port towns where the game had survived as a youth street sport.

October 1922: Swing pushes for damning the Colorado River with his proposed Boulder Dam project. He is given initial support from Hiram Johnson, but Swing becomes the major pusher of the legislation. Swing joins the Equality League, though never becomes incredibly active in its burocracy. The League becomes a major supporter of the Boulder Dam project.

October 1st to 10th 1922- Under the leadership of Joe Jackson the Boston Blue Socks win the Continental League pennant by defeating the New York Yankees by one game in the last game of the season and went to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4 games to 3. Jackson have an outstanding season, leading the league with a .402 average together with 15 homers and 135 ribbies but injuries slowed him down for the next two years and was traded to the Yankees before the beginning of the 1925 season.

October 21st 1922- President Hearst names James Clark Reynolds, former Attorney General in the Ballinger Administration and former Governor of Nuevo Leon as the first civilian governor of Hawaii since the early 1910's, ending the military emergency in the islands.

November 1922: Harding officially beats Baker and prepares to return to Washington as Senator.

November 1922: Colby is re-elected to the House, and once again is named minority leader to the slowly dying Progressive Party.

November 1922: Democratic candidates win elections all across the west and mid-west, thanks to personal appearances by the President himself in support of their campaigns,though several are defeated on both coasts. Also some deep south and north-east Democrats fail to support the Populist measures in congress.

November 1922- The Socialist Party wins the presidential elections in Puerto Rico. While their achievements were small during their first four years, their next twelve years in power raised the standards of living of the island to levels never seem on the island.

November 14 1922: Wilkie questions the election result, and investigates further. He reveals that political machines were responsible for the re-election, through ballot stuffing and bribery.

November 18th 1922- In elections monitored by US officials, the former commander of the army Desiderio Arias won the presidency with a 63% popular vote but still he was defeated in the former rebel areas. Nevertheless US commander for the Hispaniola, Admiral Sims, announced the regular forces will abandon the Dominican Republic by February 1923 but with the military advisors staying to help in further development of the Dominican Army.

November 19th 1922- President Zapata wins the presidential elections in South Mexico by an incredible margin of 91%. While truly a nationalist, he knew a continued relationship with the United States was essential for the survival of his nation.

December 4, 1922: Frederick M. Jones perfects a mass-produced automatic transmission. Gesgeshi, Ethiopia's automobile company, is born.

December 7th 1922- As part of the warming relations between Germany and China, the German government sell to China the battlecruiser Von der Tann and two battleships of the Helgoland class.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:17 PM

1923-

January 1923: Hearst attempts to create an anti-poverty program in the inner city, but it meets with little success.

January 1923: Working mostly with governors, former Secretary of the Treasury Colby helps institute Progressive economic reforms in several local levels, though such legislation would never pass in congress.

January 1923: Due to his popularity, Baker chooses Wilkie as his lawyer to argue in court that he was the rightful Senator. Wilkie performs brilliantly making both Baker and himself look like champions of the common man.

January 12, 1923 Former President and cofounder of the Equality League Richard Ballinger dies.

January 28th 1923- United States began construction of the Canonicus Coastal Battleships, two for the Southern Mexican Navy and two for the new US Navy Yucatan Squadron. The ships were armed with three dual 12" turrets and with a max speed of 15 knots. They only weight 8,000 tons and their range was very limited. All ships completed by 1927.

Febuary 1923: Hoover puts and end to the Boulder Dam legislation, claiming that it would simply take too much money for questionable results. Swing has become a popular western politician in the process.

Febuary 1923: Baker hires private investigators to search deeper into the Ohio political system. He makes a statement that the machines were rigging almost all local elections across the state, and that the governor was illegitimate. He also implicates enough state senators and congressmen to create a clear Democratic majority in the Ohio legislature.

Febuary 1923: Labor leader William Green is named as a temporary new chairman for the Equality League. He is uncontroversial, but also ineffective. Privately, many Populist equalilty members wonder whether the candidate was hand picked by Sinclair so he could be controlled.

February 7th 1923- The proposed changes to Article 15 of the German Constitution barely pass in the Reichstag but the controversy subsided when the Kaiser himself stated he considered the German people should have the right to elect the Chancellor and they had his blessing to do so. Still he had the power to dismiss the Chancellor and request elections in a model similar to the one in Great Britain. Special elections for the position of Chancellor were announced for November 1923.

February 13th 1923- Germany sells the last two remaining Nassau ships to Greece and the last remaining Helgolands, one each to Peru and Siam.

March, 1923 - Widespread corruption at the Old Colony Railroad Line is leaked. Despite attempts by officials at the line to calm the public, the New Haven Railroad, owners of the line, are forced to take action, and the leadership of the line is replaced. Ridership still takes a stready drop.

March 1923: Wilkie refuses to take up Baker's second case, claiming that many of the men implicated were fine men being implicated only for political reasons. He refuses to take the case, and Baker drops the charges. Wilkie becomes nationally recognised as, as Bryan put it, "A man who remembers what Democracy means." Wilkie was offered and accepted junior seat in the board of the Society for American Justice.

March 11th 1923- Otto Frank renounces to his commission and stays in Poland. He marries a local Jewish girl and later accepts a commission in the Polish Army.

March 15th 1923- After a second consecutive so-so season Tris Speaker is traded by the Yankees to the Toronto Blue Jays for three players. He has his last great season for the Blue Jays in 1923, leading them to the pennant and victory in the World Series with a .388-18-140 season.

April 1923: With League support, a law regulating coal mines is passed greatly reducing the risks involved but also greatly increasing costs. It is initially unpopular due to its expense, but after the vast majority of miners state their approval, the move begins to gain general support, helping the League regain members who left after Ballinger's death.

April 3th 1923 Commander in Chief of the Paraguayan army José Félix Estigarribia defeats attempted coup.President Eusebio Ayala remains in power.

April 12th 1923- Assassination attempt against Argentinian general Hector Varela fails. The general's popularity grows within the Conservative Party.

May, 1923 - The new head of operations on the Old Colony Railroad announces a plan to slowly phase out operations on unprofitable and expensive lines. The first target is the Greenbush Secondary, which had a large number of road crossings making it much slower than other lines. The government approves the plan, and passenger operations are phased out over five years, though the occasional freight to the lumber yard at Nantasket continues.

May 5th, 1923-A modernized version of Romeo & Juliet set in Harlem debuts. Sixteen-year-olds Joanie Carson and Jose Romero make their debut. The show runs 26 months, a record for a Harlem off-broadway drama.

May 7th 1923- Greek Army Chief of Staff Ionnis Metaxas present in joint Greco-German military maneouvers. He stated that he was happy with the results so far.

May 10th 1923- Ernest Rutherford and his asistance Robert Boyle demostrate a device to detect submarines by the use of soundwaves.They call there system The Acoustic Submarine Detector or ASD for short.

May 25th 1923- President Hearst signs the construction of the new Boxer battlecruiser class. Six ships with three 16" dual turrets and with a max speed of 28 knots, they were still too slow to compete with the newest British Hood Class but with their commission in 1926 they actually gave the US Navy a 12 to 11 advantage in the number of battlecruisers over the Royal Navy.

June 1923: Governor Smith introduces his own anti-poverty program in New York, which actually utilizes some of Hoover's redistributionary programs. The majority of the program is devoted to getting people jobs and improving local industry. It is a sucess, and similar programs are soon developed in Boston, Baltimore, and Chicago, all Republican cities.

June 15, 1923 President Juan Gomez begins negotiations with Standard Oil and British Petroleum to develop and refine the recently discover oil fields of Lake Maracaibo.

June 18th 1923- Hector Varela announces in the press that the only way the Patagonian rebels were getting weapons was from Chile. Chile denied the accusations and denounced the Argentineans as “being provocative.”

1923 June 21, King Constantine I of Greece dies. His son, George II, would receive the crown soon after.

July 3rd, 1923- By this time Tillings has managed to sever ties with all except the US, and the economy is starting to suffer for it. Tillings tells his staff only that he will do something drastic to estrange the relationship of the US and Liberia.

July 5th 1923- Cuban president Roberto Diaz Leon gets enough support on the legislature to allow the president to run for reelection. His political enemies accused him of using bribery and blackmail to achieve the necessary majority to past that bill, charges he denied.

July 7th 1923-United States Army Air Service created as a separate branch of the Army. First chief of the branch was a recently promoted Brigadier General called Billy Mitchell.

July 19th 1923- The Japanese Empire announces they will construct a new class of fast battleships to counter the British Saints Class. The four ships of the Kii class were armed with four 18" dual turrets but they had an advantage in speed over the British Saints with their 30 knots. Still their armor was weaker compared with the British ships. Completed by late 1927.

July 27th 1923- Mexico signs trade agreements with the Japanese Empire and the British Empire. While viewed by the Hearst administration as provocative, in reality the Mexican government was trying to get some leverage for future negotiations and have no intention of direct hostility.

August 1923: The Hearst businesses buy up most existing radio transmitters, and starts up AW: American Wireless, which becomes the first semi-nationwide radio station. Several major leaders are broadcast, including Hearst, Baker, Wheeler, and Hoover. Wilkie proves to have a natural talent for the radio, and serves frequently as a substitute when other prestigious politicians are less available to guest star. From that point on radio and eventually TV news would be dominated by historically influential figures, while normal straight news was viewed as more newspaper terrain.

August 7th 1923- Hugo Schmeisser designed a gun for the crews of the vehicles in the motorized units and for the members of the crew served weapons. It was approved for issue and production in 1925, so they were called the MP-25's. They were widely copied, with similar weapons been develop by the French, Italians and British by the end of the decade.

August 9th 1923- With the discovery of RDX Germany's Navy switches all of its torpedos to use a RDX/TNT mix, that is considered to be more effective than the standard TNT mix of the day.

August 16th, 1923- The revolutionary group Freedom Africa is formed in response to the president John B. Tillings burning the original charter for Liberia. They put out posters and almost overnight gather a following

August 18th, 1923- Rioters gather at the Presidential residence in Monrovia, protesting the president's burning of the original US charter for Liberia. They take this as an act that will destroy the country.

August 23rd, 1923- It is revealed that the revolutionary group Freedom Africa organized the riots, the group responds with a parade down the streets of Monrovia. When this parade is ambushed by government police, the group turns violent, starting the Liberian Revolutionary War.

August 26th 1923- South Mexican government signs a trade agreement with the United States, viewed by many as a response to the treaty signed by Mexico with the British and Japanese a month before.

August 30th, 1923- Freedom Africa, or the Patriots as they are called, adopt a picture of George Washington in the middle of an entire flag of red and white stripes as in the US flag.

September 1923: About a third of the members of the Equality League resign, and many others begin to distance themselves from it after a corruption scandal implicating William Green and several other Equality leaders breaks. Josephus Daniels of the Equality League, Naval Secretary under La Follette as a Democratic cross-position, and a prominent member of the Democratic Party, is one of those implicated in taking bribes and participating in fraud. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while at first implicated as well in the scandal, is later exonerated. However, the lingering taint makes it difficult for him to continue in politics.

September 1923: Joe Kennedy slowly gains prominence in California media. He slowly realises that in order to compete in Hollywood against Hearst, he had to ally himself with othe powerful organisations. He joins Pulitzer Inc. as the editor of one of the two Pulitzer papers in southern California.

September 8, 1923 - Boston Airport is opened in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, however, it does not act as a commercial airport until 1927.

September 21st 1923- Josip Broz travels to Russia after been released from jail.

October 1923: With his new corporate and political connections, Seymour begins to use his academic influence to once again help control politics. He keeps it very secret, having learned from his historical studies how to keep his operations.

October 1923: Hanslow resigns from the Equality League, and discusses with traditional Populist leaders about the possibility of forming their own league.

October 1st to 9th 1923: Sometimes baseball and politics go hand-in-hand. In "the Waterfall Series", Canada wins its first World Series when the Toronto Blue Jays best the Buffalo Braves, 4 games to 2. The sight of overcrowded ferry and train stations as fans travelled between the cities led to the first meetings between New York and Ontario officials about building a grand new bridge to replace the International Railway Bridge. In popular lore, though, the credit will go to Braves outfielder Sam Rice, who griped about carousing Blue Jays fans, "I'd give them bums a ride home myself, 'cepting the police don't take kindly to driving cars into the waterfall."

October 17th 1923- A revolt in northern Haiti forces the Haitian president Bobo into exile and the rebellion leader Joseph Davilmar Theodore is declared president of Haiti.

October 22nd 1923- Georgy Zhukov promoted to the command of the 227th Regiment. Many of the officers in Stravka considered him a rising star and plans were made to send him abroad to study military science.

November 1923: Governor Sinclair is offered the chairmenship of the Equality League out of desperation. He accepts.

November 1923: The Manitoban Populist-Liberal Party receives more financial support from American donors. Their policies begin to closely reflect those of Wheeler and Hanslow, as opposed to local Candadian politicians. The former extreme nativist elements of the party slowly lose power.

November 2nd 1923 Senator Theodore Roosevelt dies in Oyster Bay, NY. He never fully recovered from complications of the Yankee Flu, despite a herculean effort to regain his health. Despite this, he was an active member of the Senate until the last weeks of his life. Rumor has it that upon his deathbed, he swore his sons to all seek service to the nation, even up to the highest office in the land, though no family member would ever confirm or deny this rumor.

November 14th 1923- Hugo Haase of the SPD party wins the Chancellor election with a 47% of the popular vote.

November 19th 1923- King George V orders new elections, with the Conservative Party regaining power for the first time in a decade. The troubles caused by the ongoing guerilla war in Northern Ireland and the fiscal problems caused by the ongoing naval arms race brought Austen Chamberlain to the position of Prime Minister.

December 1923: A separate Populist League is formed with Hanslow as chairman. The Society for American Justice defects to the new organization. Clarence Darrow is hired by the Equality League to help form a new legal organization. Wilkie again makes national news by joining the Populist League while refusing the resign from the Equality League.

December 1923: The Ethiopian economy crosses a major landmark: a GDP of $1,000/capita. Zauditu seizes the opportunity to invite leaders from other small-market nations such as Thailand, Liberia, Puerto Rico, and Persia to attend an economic conference; this boosts Ethiopia's claim to be the leader of the Coloured World.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:18 PM

1924 -

1924 Democratic Convention: Hearst is renominated with no contenders. The Equality League tries to convince him to change his running mate, but Heart chooses not to seeing carrying all of rural America as his only chance for re-election.

1924 Republican Convention: Al Smith comes ahead in the primaries against most favorite son competitors. Though some conservatives see him as too extreme, most favor his policies. He nominates more moderate Calvin Coolidge to be his Vice President.

1924:Prescott Shelton Bush Jr. is born. He later proves to be, like his father, the big man on campus. It is expected that he will go far with his speaking skills and persuasiveness.

January 1924: Urban sentiment grows throughout America as many believe that Hearst's policies are stunting urban economic growth. Democrats counter by mentioning that the urban regions were actually much more economically stable then the rural.

January 1924: Seymour returns to Yale.

January 12th, 1924-The Fletcher Henderson Orchestra adds Louis Armstrong, and the debate over whose jazz orchestra is the best in New York ends immediately. Over the five years, they release over a dozen albums with myriad collaborators; these works are retrospectively considered "the birth of swing."

January 14th, 1924- Queen Wilhelmina I and Kaiser Wilhelm III abdicate in favor of their son, Wilhelm Frederick, who becomes Kaiser Wilhelm IV. The Netherlands passes the Act of Union on the same day, bringing Netherlands formally into the German Empire. The Netherlands retains a great deal of autonomy within the Empire, however.

January 18th 1924- Fascisti movement Linea Recta led a military coup in Chile that got rid of President Arturo Alessandri.

1924 Jan 24, The wedding of Alma Reed, a New York Times reporter, and Felipe Carrillo, governor of the Yucatan takes place.

January 30th 1924- The US Navy laid down the first of the four ships of the North Carolina Class battleships. A design radically different from previous US Navy designs, they had two triple 18" turrets forward and one aft but most important, the speed was 27 knots, making them the fastest battleships on the US Fleet at the time of their completition in 1927.

February 7th 1924- China negotiates a loan with the United States to pay the so-called Nishihara loans. The important thing for the Chinese nation was that all debts still owed to the Japanese Empire were repaid in full.

March 1924: Wendell Wilkie begins a whole series of small town court casses which would never have been noticed if not for the publicity he collected. He becomes a master of the press, and the first of many politicians to gain a weekly radio show on AW.

March 1924
With the economy of British Columbia absolutely booming, Manchurians and Koreans begin moving, mainly to Victoria and Vancouver, respectively. There are plenty of jobs to go around, so the immigrants enjoy an unusually warm reception. "Oriental food" becomes the latest craze in Canada.

1924 Mar 5, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp became IBM.

March 13th 1924- The last of the three Caracciolo class suspended by the Italian Civil War finally completed. Prime Minister Pasolini hails their construction as “the first step in achieving superiority in our sea, the Mediterranean.”

March 19th 1924- Funds are alloted in Japan for the further study and development of oxygen propelled torpedos for use in destroyers. Studies in both the United States and Great Britain decided against using oxygen due to the risks involved.

March 28th 1924- As sign of continued warming relations Germany give 10 U-5 type Submarines to China for a base in Hainan.

April 1924: Hearst attempts to regain the Eastern vote by supporting factory regulations. Though very popular in the Equality League, the move fails to gain national popularity. It is generally believed to be too little too late.

April 1924: Hemingway wins the Pulitzer prize for journalism for a unique look into the urban lifestyle. Due to his prestige, he is moved by the Hearst Foundation from Chicago to New York.

April 5 1924 Venezuela, Standard Oil, and British Petroleum come to a agreement. Oil extraction and transport will be the responsibility of Standard oil while the Refinement will be that of British Petroleum.

April 23, 1924 As part of the effort to mend relations with Belgium, Kaiser Wilhelm IV marries Princess Victoria of Belgium.

May 13th 1924- A team in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics first studies the results of the bombardments of uranium by neutrons. The results weren’t properly interpreted until years later. Institute director Albert Einstein shared the research with his Austro-Hungarian colleagues.

1924 June 6 Alexander of Greece, brother of George II, marries Princess Mary, daughter of George V of Great Britain.

July 1924: The Freemans Journal grows closer to the Hearst Foundation for economic support. They buy unused radio equipment from AW to form a small station called The United Voice (UV) which is broadcast in all of the Freemans Journal center cities, along with stations in Atlanta, Bismark, Salt Lake City, Carson City, and Helena. It quickly expands. It is the first radio station to present comedies and dramas rather then just music and talk. They first are presented on the air simply because they were cheaper to produce and buy rights to then political speakers and copywrited songs.

July 7th 1924- As the prospects of power devolution by the British seemed more imminent as time goes by, and wary of the intentions of the Indian National Congress, riots erupted in every major city in Northern India between Muslims and Hindus. Members of the Conservative government in Great Britain called for a slow down in the number of reforms being given to India.

July 12th 1924- The Brazilian goverment realizing its fighting a losing battle all but gives up try to compete with the rubber plantions in Asia.

August 1924: Pulitzer Inc. purchases the Grand Rapids Herald under the encouragement of editor Arthur Vandenberg. With the growing power of the media in American politics, such possitions were becoming increasingly powerful, and Vandenberg became a leading Michigan Republican.

September 1924: In order to avoid the growth of the Hearst foundation and to provide a voice for what they hoped would be the Smith administration, Pulitzer Inc. creates its own radio station, in collaboration with AT&T, RCA, and Westinghouse. It was called the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and tended to appeal to slightly poorer audiences. Its first major attraction was boxing, which appealed to the masses. Seeing that NBC was moving into the sports business, AW quickly acquired full rights to broadcast Baseball.

September 1924-Ernest Hemingway, Hearst's top reporter, meets the editor-in-chief of The Negro Abroad. The two quickly become close friends.

September 1924: Seymour becomes involved in a legal dispute, working against Sinclair Oil, who had been embezelling money. It is a highly publicized case, and Seymour uses his influence and personal testimony to prove how deep the scandal ran. Sinclair is sentenced to 12 years in prison, and forced to sell his shares.

September 19th 1924- Japan laid down two coastal battleships for the Filipino Navy. With a max speed of 22 knots and two dual 12" turrets, they were commissioned by 1927.

September 21st 1924- New Chilenian government signed a military cooperation treaty with the US, with military advisors and weapons been send to the country.

Winter 1924
With the opening of a series of mines in the Atlas Mountains, Spanish and French laborers come seeking steady employment. This ordinarly mundane event takes on new significance, however, when the Colonial Goverment reports that there is now a "Latin Quarter" in every town of any significance between the Atlas Mountains and the coast. The Berber and Arabic community seems torn between anger and dispair. Resistance movements see a surge in membership, but a few give up and move to other North African countries or the Sarahan side of Algeria.

October 1st to 10th 1924- The New York Yankees win the first of nine consecutive Continental League pennants but is defeated 4 games to 3 by the Buffalo Braves. While the Yankees where led again by Ruth (.375-43-123), Hornsby (.427-30-101) and Meusel (.329-14-121) the Braves counted with Sam Rice(.338-2-85 with 28 stolen bases) and former Superbas outfielder Zach Wheat (.372- 14- 99) to defeat the Yankees in a very tight Series that saw all games decided by two runs or less.

October 5th 1924- President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear from Argentina signed an order to create 10 brigades of border guards in response to Chile’s rearmament.

October 7th 1924- The German 1st infantry division is formally named the 1st Motorized Division and plans are started to change two other divisions to this table of organization.

October 9th 1924- British Navy convert a merchant ship into an experimental type of ship,an aircraft carrier. It was named the HMS Meridian with a seven ship complement.

October 28th 1924- Soon after the Netherlands joining the Reich The German navy learns of the Dutch snort and the start a joint research program under a new name, the snorkel.

November 1924: Colby, who supports Hearst in international matters, chooses to become a Democrat rather then a Republican. This is also partly due to his dislike of Al Smith.

November 1924 - Bolstered by support from both Republican stalwarts and a significant fraction of former Progressives, Republican Candidate Al Smith wins the presidency, though once again no candidate has received a majority of the popular vote.

November 1924 Theodore Roosevelt Jr. becomes the second Roosevelt to be elected Governor of New York. Then Governor Al Smith ran instead for President, but actively campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt Jr, along with the previous Republican Presidential Candidate and personal family friend, General Leonard Wood, who also campaigned for Smith's presidential run.

November 1924- With economy lagging due to the results of the Yankee Flu quarantines, a large-scale left-wing rebellion occurred in Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro. The rebellion was supported by some left-leaning young officers in the army and was very well organized and armed. Martial law is declared.

December 1924: As a lame duck, Hearst pardons over a hundred criminals, mostly those who had been forced to crime due to harsh economic conditions. He accepts suggestions from both the Populist and the Equality League. To try to show equality in those he chose, he also pardons a Rockfeller who was arrested for tax fraud. No longer worring about re-election, Hearst draws up a measure to save Liberia from harsh economic times, with the support of the Equality League. It passes the Senate but fails to pass congress due to Hearst's lack of political clout after losing to Smith and because it is viewed as too imperialist.

December 1924 - Disgusted with the narrow minded politicos who still shy from him due to his association with the the Equality League scandal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt decides to leave New York politics behind as far as he can, and moves to Hollywood, California to work in the entertainment and news industry that is booming there.

December 8th 1924- The first Willensen MWD or Microwave Detector is build for the first time. Using microwaves for detection, now it was possible to install radar sets in ships due to the size of the antennas and the equipment were greatly reduced.

Glen

April 2nd, 2006, 05:18 PM

1925 -

1925 - Author and screenwriter Howard P. Lovecraft moves to Hollywood to accept a position with one of the major studios.

1925 Ford released the Model V, the first hybrid vehicle from the company's main division.

1925-President Quezon announces he will not be running for president in the 1927 Filipino presidential elections.

1925 Secretary of the Interior Theodore Roosevelt Jr. with the support of President Smith puts into action an idea that his father had suggested to him and others several years before, and institutes a National Parks System under the Department of the Interior. This gains both President Smith and Secretary Roosevelt a great deal of support among conservationist Progressives who have felt their issues have been neglected for several years.

January 1925: In an attempt to appeal to both interventionist Republicans and old Ballinger supporters, Smith appoints Henry Stimson Secretary of State. They soon clash over issues of how much pressure to put on international powers. Smith's isolationist viewpoints due not mesh with Stimson's policies, but he is forced to keep with him awhile to try to maintain mainstreme support. He is more or less successful as most hard-line Republicans support moderate Al Smith.

January 12th 1925:In Chicago, Schemer Drucci and Bugs Moran make an attempt on Capone's life after following him to a restaurant on 55th Street. It succeeds, along with a hit on Johnny Torrio as he leaves his apartment. After this, the Chicago mob is greatly weakened, and the North Side gang gains dominance over much of the bootleg trade. Frankie Yale would be killed more than a year later in New York as he tried to move in

February 1925- Rebellion in Pernambuco is defeated but still the seeds of this rebellion continued to exist.

February 1925- President Li Yaunhong of China wins reelection. His government was recognized as the legitimate government in China and in his inaugural speech he announced “the three stages of the revolution had been achieved. Military unification, political tutelage have already being achieved but today the proof that we are truly a Constitutional Democracy is right in front of you. I was elected thru a true democratic process, proving the Chinese people has learned how to follow the ideas of the democracy. Our road is still a long one but the worst is now over.”

February 1925: Sinclair Oil is bought by Hearst Democrat Texan Rick Gatling.

March 1925: Gatling 'donates' 9 million dollars to Yale to help 'expand its library.'

March 7th 1925- Tsar Alexei fully ascends to the throne, ending the regency of Grand Duke Michael. Grand Duke Michael takes over as commander of the Russian Army.

March 7th, 1925 Beginning of the Mussolini Crisis. Radical Italian Nationalist and newspaper editor Benito Mussolini is killed while resisting arrest by Austrian authorities when his Trento based newspaper is shut down for sedition. The Italian government protests and withdraws their ambassador from Vienna.

March 17th 1925- Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic is created by the Linea Recta government in Chile plus other economic reforms are implemented with US help, including putting the nation on the gold standard. These reforms attracted massive investments from the United States, including loans.

April 1925: In a suprising move, Smith proposes a very similar Liberian Aid legislation, though the military is completely taken out of the bill so as to seem less imperialist. It passes both houses of congress and starts the new presidency on a good foot by appearing bi-partisan.

May 1925 - The Smith administration faces its first major challenge with the beginning of the great Dust Bowl, spurred in part by the agressive farming of the Midwest and West spurred by farm subsidies and federal irrigation projects, coupled with severe drought.

May 2, 1925
The Puerto Rican census reports that over 5% of the population are immigrants. Most are from Mexico, but Argentines, Spaniards, and Italians are growing in numbers.

May 17, 1925 -- Congress formally authorizes the Department of the Interior to create a National Parks System, and authorizes the NPS to use its budget to create new parks.

Summer 1925 - FDR, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt is known to many in the Hollywood film industry, starts narrating his own company's newsreels, and becomes a well known figure on the big screen.

June 1925: The Equality League has gone great lengths towards recovery after the controversy. They push for a legislation to help women get jobs. Smith decides he cannot accept such legislation because it interferes too much in business, but as a compromise he does make female wages in federal jobs equal to those of their male counterparts, and doubles the federal womens workforce.

June 1925: Riots break out throughout the south as small farmers ridicule large old money land owners who control the majority of the profits. The farmers recieve economic support from new money capitalist southerners, mostly from Atlanta, Savannah, Mobile, St. Louis, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, and Lubbock, who view old money plantation owners as political rivals. The political divide widens, though theoretically both factions remain Democrats.

June 8th 1925- THe first ASD units enter service in the Royal navy.

Jul 1925: Smith draws up an aid package to farmers in the Dust Bowl region. The Democrats claim its too small, while the Republicans counter the other direction calling it too large. It fails to pass either house. Herbert Hoover, still Speaker of the House, draws up an alternative package bill which redistributes funds for naval construction and road development, viewed as less crucial, to aiding farmers. Many politicians support the move, and claim that the legislation would provide better aid then Smith's original proposal. It fails to pass simply because several congressmen are afraid that Hoover has become too powerful.

July 1925: LaGuardia is named as Secretary of Labor by Smith.

July 17th 1925- A Willensen MWD set is installed in the battleship Mackensen for testing. It proves it worth by detecting the cruiser Koln ten miles away with an accuracy of 150 feet, enough for gun laying.

August 1925: Smith announces a tax cut, favoring the poor class. It is the first such cut since the Root administration. Sinclair and the Equality League opposes the move claiming that the government needs to expand. They recieve support from many non-Populist Democrats, many of whom join the League. Overall the move is incredibly popular in both urban and rural areas.

August 1925: William Jennings Bryan, tired of the negative response he receives in the US, begins to tour Europe. He already has decent comprehension in several languages, and makes a strong possitive impression in several rural communities. He is viewed as something of a novelty by much of the upper middle class.

August 4, 1925 -- The National Parks System takes a physical existence for the first time, when it assumes control of the already existing national parks: Yellowstone, Sequoia, Yosemite, Mt. Rainier, Crater Lake, Wind Cave, and Denali.

August 5th 1925- Jean Guillaume Sam, leader of a revolt in southern Haiti against the Theodore presidency since 1924, was killed after being ambushed by troops from the Gendarmarie.

August 7, 1925 -- Citing & quote;increasing violence among the Haitian population, the Dominican Republic calls for a conference with Cuba and Puerto Rico. The San Cristobal Conference produces few concrete results, but does produce a major shift in attitudes, with the Caribbean Giants; for the first time considering a treaty organization to help end the cycle of collapsing governments that have plagued much of the region since independence.

August 21st 1925- Adolf Hitler II, son of the painter, gets enrolled in the Austrian military academy after his father used some of his connections to get him the position.

September 1925: With no change, and economic prosperity across the rest of the nation, the Dust Bowl gets worst. Much of the nation ignores the issue.

September 1925: While studying at Harvard, Henry Cabot-Lodge Jr. is given a job as a reporter for Pullitzer Inc.

September 1925: With Smith's support, the Boulder Dam Acts are passed. Though it becomes an immense project, it eventually pays off serving as the major source of electricity for the west. Swing is pushed into mild national prominence as a Progressive politician who fits well into Smith's contemporary policies.

September 5, 1925 -- With the nation ignoring the Dust Bowl, Oklahoma takes matters into its own hands. The state enacts a new banking code that, while fairly non-controversial in the long term, has the side effect of postponing any further real estate foreclosures until March 1926. They also enact huge expansions and reorganizations of the state's agricultural and mechanical colleges: OK Panhandle State U, OK A&M, Cameron State Agricultural College, OK Colored Agricultural and Normal U, Cherokee National Seminary, and OK College for Women. Populist Governor William_J._Holloway becomes nationally famous for this forward-thinking program.

September 10, 1925 -- Mimicking the conservationist movement in the USA, the Dominican Republic creates Parque Nacional Sierra De Bahoruco, a giant wildlife park extending from the southwestern tip of the nation to Lakes Enriquillo and Saumatre. The fences built to protect the wildlife have the added bonus of cutting off the southern route that the Haitian refugees flooding the country had been using.

September 19th 1925- Brigadier General Charles Young dies on his sleep. The performance of his Negro brigade made possible the later appearance of a Negro division that gave a good account of themselves in combat.

October 1925: President Smith pushes towardes an improvement in infrastructure, including building more suitable roads and dams.

October 1st to 6th 1925- In a season that saw Ruth (.319-21-55) and recently acquired Joe Jackson (.302-1-29) miss half of it, or more in the case of Jackson, due to injuries the team was led by homerun champ Meusel (.302-41-125) and ribbies and batting champ Hornsby (.404-38-152) to win the World Series 4 games to 1 over the St Louis Cardinals.

October 3rd 1925- Grand Duke Michael receives authorization of the new Tsar to try to remove the new self-proclaimed Shah of Persia and put a Russian puppet in power.

October 5th 1925- First use of aircrafts for bombardment when Russian Ilya Muromets and the new Alexander Nevsky bombers were used against the cities of Tabriz and Teheran.

October 6th 1925- City of Astara captured by Russian troops. Kegresse armored cars supported by cavalry led the way of the advancing Russian army and divided in two distinct columns, one moving in the direction of Tehran and the other of Tabriz.

October 12th 1925- Worried about the growing influence of Germany in his nation’s economical infrastructure, President Li Yaunhong signs a trade agreement with the United States to help in improving the highway infrastructure plus to increase the agricultural and industrial production.

October 14th 1925- City of Gorgan falls to the advancing Russian forces. Georgy Zhukov cited by his action during the capture of the city.

October 14th 1925- A professor of economy, Antonio Salazar, is named minister of finance. Minister of Finance of Portugal for close to twenty years, he was the architect of his nation’s economic recovery thanks to improving revenue collection, centralizing financial control and cutting public expenditures. He also pushed forward colonial development to make possible for the colonies to pay for themselves and to build a trade surplus to raise capital for the state. He was a supporter of the emigration of Portuguese citizens to Angola and Mozambique in an attempt to raise the standards of production in both colonies. By the time he won the Presidency of Portugal in 1942 he was a very respected figure in the economic circles of Europe.

October 17th 1925- Ottoman Empire demand to the Russians to retire their forces from Persia.

October 21st 1925- Ottoman Empire declares war to Russia and began moving troops in the direction of Tabriz.

October 29th 1925- Russian cavalry and armored forces enter Tehran. Reza Pahlavi escapes south and pledges he will continue the fight. Foreign observers in the city noted the performance of the Russian vehicles and military attaches of all nations tried to get a look at them.

November 1925: Secretary Stimson urges President Smith to take a more active role in international politics. He especially encourages the US lending economic support, and diplomatic arbitration in the Persian affair to help gain international headlines. It is clear to most that Stimson didn't care which side to support, or how much money used, just that the US gained increased PR. Smith, tired of Stimson's activities, fires him and names Borah Secretary of State. Borah is more of a peaceful semi-isolationist who helps negotiate arms and naval deals with other powers.

November 1925: Frederick Hanslow is elected Senator from New Mexico as a Democrat. He remains chairman of the Populist League. In both capacities he actively complains for Dust Bowl relief.

November 1, 1925
Anxious to complete the national railroad and make the long-overdue connections to the British Transcontinental Rail, Empress Zaiditu proclaims that "all races and creeds" may move to Ethiopia. As expected, the new immigrants are almost entirely Persian. As Persians grow increasingly frustrated with their nation's puppet governments, they begin immigrating to Morocco, the Trucal States, and Australia as well.

November 9, 1925 -- New Mexico, being almost entirely desert to begin with and thus less affected by the Dust Bowl, takes a different tack from the Oklahoma Plan and instead creates the New Mexico Institute of Technology in Roswell. Lavishly funded through a hike in finance taxes, it boldly aims to be "the brightest beacon of science west of Chicago." Fredrick Hanslow receives much-earned credit for pushing the legislation through. Harper's Monthly runs a cover story on Hanslow and Hoover, under the title "Technocracy: The Politics of the Future."

November 18th 1925- Tabriz captured by Russian forces under Marshall Brusilov. First major battle between Ottoman and Russian forces.Both sides began courting the Georgian Republic.

November 24, 1925 - A son, the Crown Prince Chomklao is born to King Rama VI of Siam and his wife Princess Suvadhana.

December 4th 1925- Georgian Republic troops cross the Ottoman border and lay siege to the city of Batumi while marching in the direction of Kars. Ottoman foreign minister Enver Pasha declares "a state of war exist between both of our nations. Let Allah give the just punishment to the ones without honor."

December 19th 1925- Russian forces continue their advance south. British government send a note asking what were the Russian intentions.

December 21st 1925- Armenians rose in rebellion against the Ottoman Empire. Georgian leader Koba calls for them to join his Republic in a Federation.

perdedor99

April 14th, 2006, 11:38 AM

1926-

1926- In a joint ventury, Californian and Bajan executives entered the market with the Tijuana Marijuana Cigar. They were the first visionaries capable of paying the license fees to distribute their product. By the end of the Global War, Tijuana Cigars were being smoked all over the globe.

1926 The Germans,French and British begin work in an electric powered torpedo.

1926 - During the course of the war, Tsar Alexi makes a series of speeches, several broadcast to the small but growing radio audience, to bolster the Russian people's morale. He proves to be an enthralling speaker. Many regular Russians begin to believe that they once more have a Tsar who is truly a 'Father' to the Russian people.

1926:George Herbert Walker Bush is born. He proves to be somewhat awkward, often being the butt of jokes while going to Andover and is accepted to be a barely passable student. He eventually gets over it and becomes rather popular, but he is known to be quite impulsive, and gets more drunk than is normal for his family.

January 1926: There is a mass migration away from the expanding Dust Bowl, mostly west to California. They are not greeted with open arms, and have trouble getting jobs. Anti-rural sentiment grows quickly due to the influx of refugees.

January 3, 1926 -- The Pennsylvania Railroad, in an attempt to restructure itself as a general transportation company, resolves to build airports in major cities, then connect them to train stations so that travellers can use planes for long distance trips and then take trains to reach more precise local destinations. This rail-air mix becomes known as the "hub and spoke" system.

January 17th 1926- Russian 17th Army continues their advance south. British government send a note to the Russians that their continued advance will destroy the balance in the area and will not be allowed. Russian forces stop for the time being and put a puppet in the Peacock Throne in Tehran.

January 21st 1926- Mustafa Kemal named commander of the Ottoman forces in Thrace.

February 1926: Cabot-Lodge Jr. takes a semester off and works as a journalist in New York. There he works closely with Ernest Hemingway, who helps Cabot-Lodge develop a political identity as a urban reformer.

February-April 1926 -- The remaining Dust Bowl states complete their debate on education's role in recovering from the agricultural disaster. Arkansas, Kansas, and Nebraska follow the "Oklahoma plan." Louisiana, affected less in the agricultural sector than in the loss of business at its ports, makes perhaps the most radical move. They not only upgrade all their state schools, but also move their "Negro colleges" to be immediately adjacent to, and share resources with, the whites-only colleges. Racial alarm caused by the Louisiana legislation, along with genuine budgetary concerns, helps scuttle similar legislation in Texas and Colorado.

February 1926: Smith pulls the plug on several infrastructure projects as to avoid increased taxation.

February 1926: In a surprising move, the Equality League uses up much of its assets to buy out 51% of the New York Times. The newspaper keeps its format, and helps lend credibility to the league.

Febuary 1926: Bainbridge Colby, a firm believer in states rights, takes up a campaign to encourage individual states to take up social and political reforms. The move proves more successful then previous attempts at reform, and Colby is boosted into prominence.

February 26, 1926 -- The National Parks system makes up for lost time with its Herculean first round of expansion. New National Parks are created for Mesa Verde, Glacier, Colorado Rockies, Denali, Grand Canyon, Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Hot Springs Reservation, Grand Teton, and Carlsbad Caverns. It even creates a new subgenre of parks, Volcanic Parks, for Hawai'i Island, Maui Island, Lassen, and the already established Mt. Rainier.

March 1926: Smith proposes a popular anti-crime bill, which focuses mainly on cleaning up major inner-cities. Smith bases much of the bill on his own personal experiences. It passes and is viewed as successful in all major Americans cities, building on Smith's already powerful support from urban communities.

March 1926- Larry Fisher, a scout for the New York Yankees and a veteran of the 2nd Mexican War, opened an office in Cuba and later was named Scouting Director for the Caribbean. In a career that lasted 15 years he opened the Latin American market to baseball and was responsible of the crop of Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican players that played for the Yankees well into the 1950’s. The most famous of that crop were the pitchers Maximo “Max” Gomez and Rodrigo Amador from Cuba, second baseman-outfielder Alberto “Al” Serrano from the Dominican Republic, shortstop Victor “Vic” Lopez from Puerto Rico and outfielders Luis Olmo from Puerto Rico and Pedro Centeno from Cuba.

March 1st 1926- In an attempt to consolidate power the coffee barons elect Artur da Silva Bernardes president of Brazil.

March 5, 1926 -- The Pennsylvania Railroad begins construction on an impressive new airport in Moon Township, just outside Pittsburgh, PA. In an attempt to keep down building height in the surrounding area, it coordinates with a local society that has been seeking to build a new college in Pittsburgh, as well as the Mellon family, whose first attempt at founding a university has been floundering.

March 18th 1926- Bulgaria declares war to the Ottoman Empire and moves forces forward in the direction of Istambul and Salonika.

March 18th 1926- The United States Commissions the First Aircraft Carrier, the Langley.

March 21st 1926- Great Britain declares they will support the Ottoman Empire due to the danger their fall could cause to the current balance in the Balkans.

March 24th 1926- Ottoman 8th Army under Mustafa Kemal defeats the Bulgarian advance in the direction of Istambul.

March 27th 1926- British troops from Egypt land in Salonika and declares any advance by Bulgarians against their positions will be met with force.

April 1926: Hearst, now back in charge of his media empire, attempts to use his papers to put a bad name on Smith, focusing not on rural but on urban opposition, exagerating many of Smith's policies as corrupt. Hemingway, who has become a strong Smith Republican, resigns from the foundation and takes up a 7 year contract with Pulitzer Inc.

April 1926: A drought covers many of the plains states. The price of food begins to go up. Smith lowers agricultural tariffs to help poor families afford meals. When the drought lifts, rural communities are in a worse economic position having to compete with greater numbers of foreign markets.

April 1st 1926- Kars falls in the hands of a combined Georgian-Russian force.

April 9th 1926- First strike from a carrier took place on this date. The complement from the Meridian used to attack an Bulgarian airfield in Thrace.

April 11th 1926- Mosul falls to the Russians while forces in Persia began moving south again. British forces began landing in Basra and Bandar Abbas in response to that actions.

April 19th 1926- British invite Greek troops into Salonika to help in the defence of the area. Both the Bulgarians and Ottomans protested but weren't ready to face the British.

May 1926: Democrats criticize Smith's crime plan as being limited to only large cities. Wilkie takes on a series of court casses in cities like Dayton, Ohio and Detroit Michigan, where he publicizes the fact that little to nothing is being done to combat crime in the rust belt. He gains mid-western support while undermining several local Republicans in the region.

May 1st 1926- Russians back down as they considered Persia wasn't reason enough to go to war with the British Empire. A ceasefire was negotiated in all fronts and talks were started to end the crisis.

May 10th 1926 British Foreign Minister Lord Curzon visits Brussels and assured the Belgium government that "any violation of their neutrality will be considered an act of war against the British Empire."

June 14th 1926- President Li Yaunhong of China continues to use the competition between Germany and the US to gain influence over his country to his advantage. German military advisors began teaching the concept of motorization to three divisions that later served as the core of elite Guard Divisions. Meanwhile United States aviators began teaching the Chinese the basics of combat flying. By the end of the decade the difference in doctrines was noticeable in the different branches of the Chinese military, with German being the technical language in the infantry and artillery branches, while English was the language of the air branch due to American influence.

July 7th 1926- Prime Minister Pasolini recognizes they don’t have the resources to build battleships and decides to build what he called “light battleships” A design of only 18,000 tons, it was decided to laid down eight of them in 1927, with the idea to complete them in 1931. Armed with two triple 13.5” main guns and a max speed of 29 knots, their only drawback was their weak armor.

July 12th 1926- Bernardes suspends the Draught relief programs for the sugar cane growers in northern Brazil. and is reinvested in the southern regions controlled by the coffee oligarchy This leads to resentment among the sugarcane plantions owners in the north.

August 1926: Hemingway publishes his first book, a novel titled "The Last Man Standing" about corruption in the inner city, with the protagonist being a semi-autobiographical reporter. The book is published in serial form in Pulitzer papers across the nation, and receives critical acclaim both in the US and abroad. He quickly rises on the Pulitzer Inc. payroll, becoming the reporter with the highest name recognition.

August 5th 1926- Captain Isokuru Yamamoto, fresh back from the United States, submits his thesis on carriers and how planes could be utilized to carry torpedos.

August 9th 1926- The German Army creates the 1st Motorized Corps, composed of the 1st, 13th and 20th Infantry divisions and put under the command of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck.

August 13th 1926- First Japanese aircraft carrier enters service.

September 1926: Bryan visits Manitoba, and in a special ceremony admits several major Liberal-Populist Party members into the Populist league, officially making it an international organisations. Over the next 6 months a handful of members are admitted from across the world.

September 1926: George Welles enters Columbia studying journalism and business, with a focus on public relations.

September 18th 1926- President Orozco reach an agreement with the Mexican Catholic Church to diffuse the growing resistance of the Church to some officials that understood the Constitution ordered them to persecute the religious orders and other catholic associations. Freedom of religion was written in the Constitution of Mexico.

October 1926: The Freemans Journal tries to sue the New York Times for unfair atacks against Populist policy. The Society for American Justice attempts to hire its star lawyer Wilkie to argue the case. Wilkie states that he does not have time on his schedule as to avoid getting on the bad side of the Equality League. The New York Times is defended by Clarence Darrow, who wins the case.

October 1st to 7th 1926- The New York Yankees wins their second consecutive World Series with a 4 games to 2 over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hornsby (.324-30-120), Meusel (.297-33-109), second year player Al Szymanski (.340-30-107) and George Ruth (.356-63-159) were part of the team that hit a record 248 homeruns and won the pennant by 18 games by winning 106 games.

October 12th 1926- Germany perfects the Snorkel and immediately order for them to be refited on all German and Dutch submarines.

October 21st 1926- Former Brazilian President Fernando Moreima Umanzor with support from the Army and Navy launches a coup against the the coffee barons elected President.Thou it fails and as a result it starts a civil war in Brazil.

November 1926: Arthur Vandenberg is elected Senator from Michigan. He respects Smith and his laissez-faire meassures.

November 1926: Phil Swing is elected Governor of California, taking office the following year. He continues as a centrists whith support from both parties.

November 1926: Gatling is elected into the House of Representatives for the district of Lubbock.

November 1926- Puerto Rico’s Iglesias-Pantin won a third consecutive term riding in the success of the economic policies so far on the island. During his second term he continued his attempts to change the economic base of the island from an agrarian base to an industrial one. Also for the first time the Puerto Rico’s armed forces allowed immigrants to enter the military for two years of service if unemployed, created a two year mandatory service for all unemployed Puerto Ricans, a two year school was created for the education of career NCO’s and junior grade officers and elementary schooling was mandatory in the barracks for the lower ranks, in the long term raising the literate rate of the population in general. Iglesias-Pantin considered this as a step to ensure the future workers receive an education while serving their country. While many nations in the Caribbean were surprised by that decision, the new troops were used more for agricultural and industrial work after receiving their basic indoctrination and no new purchases of weapons were allocated in the budget.

November 1926- Roberto “Tio Beto” Diaz Leon wins reelection in Cuba by a landslide. Under his first six years he began the modernization of Cuba and began the creation of a large middle-class of technocrats and professionals. He also undertook public works and openly encouraged foreign investment. But the civil liberties of the Cubans began to erode. During this period the feared and hated “Directorado de Seguridad y Bienestar” was created. Also many political dissidents, especially members of unions and socialist organizations were targeted first as dangerous to the regime. Former Puerto Rican president Iglesias-Pantin wrote in 1932 that Cuba “gained wealth and fortune during the 1920’s but it was achieved on the blood of our Cuban comrades.” Diaz-Leon and Iglesias-Pantin dislike each other due to their political views, one being right-wing while the second having leftists leanings.

November 1926: Congressmen Couzens is named Speaker of the House to appeal to both Progressive and urban Republicans.

November 1926: The Republicans win a majority in congress, and Herbert Hoover decides to resign from Congress after losing the speakership. He is replaced by another Oregon Democrat. Hoover becomes an incredibly high payed business and political consultant.

November 18th 1926- Prime Minister MacKenzie King dies after suffering a car accident while returning from a cabinet meeting in Ottawa. He was considered the “savior of the Canadian nation” by many on his nation thanks to his actions trying to heal the wounds of the 1920 events. He was replaced by James Anderson, a Populist member of his Cabinet and a well respected politician.

Decemver 1926: Rick Gatling puts Sinclair Oil into a trust with family members still in control. Though officially divested, he still has a major influence on the company and how it spends its money. He is one of the richest men in Congress.

December 10th 1926- Treaty of Bern signed by the opposing sides of the Russo-Ottoman War. No side was satisfied by their gains or losses except by maybe the Georgians and the Greeks, who weren't even a belligerent in the conflict. Bulgaria received small border adjustments in Thrace and Eastern Macedonia. Georgia gains the Armenian parts of the Ottoman Empire and the areas were joined to the nation as a Federation. Persia was divided into two kingdoms, one ruled by Reza Pahlavi based in Bandar Abbas under British protection and one based Tehran under Russian protection and ruled by the Russian puppet Ahmad Shah Qajar. A Kurdish kingdom with capital in Mosul was created under Russian protection. The Salonika Autonomous Region, still technically under Ottoman control, but in reality being administrated by a joint Anglo-Jewish-Greek Council.

December 25th 1926- Emperor Hirohito declared Emperor after the death of his father but will not be crowned until 1928.

perdedor99

April 27th, 2006, 07:38 PM

1927

1927 - France starts serruptitiously supporting Wallonian extremists interested in carving a Francophone state out of Southern Belgium.

1927 British naval analylist and alternate history buff Hector C. Bywater publistes 1930:The War of the Greater Pacific. A story about a war in the pacific between the Great Powers of the World. It has fantastic stories of aircraft carrier's and submarines sinking fleets of ships which keep it as being seen as a serious piece.

1927 As the civil war in Brazil rages, local coffee farmers in Colombia band together and form the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia to see if they can better compete and take advantage of the situation.

January 3rd 1927- Prime Minister Hara Takashi resigns due to health reasons.

January 7th 1927- Great Britain sells the HMS Dreadnaught to Argentina, were is renamed the 25th of Mayo.

January 11th 1927- Prince regent Hirohito names Count Yamamoto Gonnohyoe as Prime Minister.

January 12th 1927- Northern Plantation owners throw their support to Moreima's side.

January 15, 1927 Quentin Roosevelt's engineering firm receives its first contract from the military for the design of military aircraft.

January 28, 1927
One of the curious side effects of the General Immigration Act is that many Scandinavians who hoped to immigrate to the northern plains in the USA find it much easier to move to Canada. 50,000 now live in Edmonton alone. Today is the first ever "Viking Parade", an annual holiday that soon becomes one of the Canadian plains' greatest tourist attractions.

Febuary 1927: Congressmen Gatling begins to bring home the bacon, securing federal funds for dozens of Texas projects mostly benefitting poor white southerners over traditional old money plutocrats. He becomes a very moderate Populist in the Democratic Party, and a hero for new money southerners trying to break into the aristocracy.

February 13, 1927
The odd effects of the General Immigration Act begin to cause political discomfort on both sides of the border. Canadian opposition leader Jimmy Gardiner accuses the entire government of being "anti-Oriential, scare-mongering Klansmen" when Prime Minister James Anderson proposes that Canada adopt their own GIA, but the measure passes. Congressman Thomas Butler of Pennsylvania, meanwhile, makes headlines by proposing (most likely on Al Smith's orders) that the GIA be repealed.

February 17th 1927- US Naval Base Thomas Dewey opens in Cozumel.

February 17th 1927- Linea Recta government, under General Marmaduke Grove, announced the elimination of trade unions that started the repression of the last remaining enemies of the regime.

April 1927 - France and Russia enter into a secret alliance, contrary to the treaties ending the last European wars.

April 1927 - In Russia, a coalition of nationalist and monarchist parties have coalesced around the figure of the charismatic Tsar Alexi, and gain control of the Duma. They begin a process of significant military build-up and 'Russification' of many areas of the Empire that had been left to their own devices over the past decade.

June 1927 As the civil war wages the economy of Brazil is taking the most damage as rival faction start the burning of sugar plantations in the north and the coffee fields in the south.

June 4, 1927 - Twin girls are born to Siamese King Rama VI, Bejaratana and Soamsavali, but the Princess dies in childbirth, touching off mass mourning across the Southeast-Asian nation.

June 8th 1927-The German General Staff agrees motorization is the way of the future and funds are appropriated for the motorization of the artillery trains in the divisions plus the change in the table of organization of six more divisions.

July 1927: Vandenberg introduces a new economic reform bill which attempts to reconcile Smith's urban policies with Hoover's economic plan. It fails in both houses, receiving more Democratic support then Republican support.

July 14th 1927- Rebels force Haitian president Theodore into exile. The rebels, led the former anti-US guerilla leader and later a member of the Gendarmerie Charlemagne Peralte, announced that free elections were going to be held in early 1928.

August 10th 1927- Rubber Plantation owners in Amazonia throw their support with Moreima's side as they feel that they have been forgotten by the goverment.

August 13th 1927- Imperial Council approves Indian representatives’ plan for an industrialization program for India. Again the Maharajas protested these proposed reforms.

August 8th 1927- By now famous painter Adolf Hitler due to a dare enters the competition for the design of the new Austrian Federal Parliament and on this date it was announced his design won the competition. A gigantic building, big enough to fit both houses of the new Austrian Empire, it was considered by the Kaiser "as a symbol of the power of the new era for our nation."

October 1927: Alban Berg is made conductor of the Vienna orchestra.

September 8th 1927- The Landship Committee is created in Great Britain to develop a response to the Russian armored cars units.

October 1927 - Protests in the Grand Duchy of Finland over some of the new Russification laws breaks out. Tsar Alexi himself intervenes in the dispute, stating that the Finns and Karelians have a 'special status' within the Empire and calling for the relaxation of some of the Russification laws to instead teach Russian language, history, and culture alongside Finnish and Karelian materials as part of a 'Dual Heritage' policy. Many prominant Finns become supporters of the Tsar after the incident.

October 1st to 5th 1927- The Chicago Cubs win their first World Series ever, sweeping the Yankees 4 games to none. The Cubs, led by Kiki Cuyler (.289-18-103 and 37 stolen bases) and Bill Terry (.327-22-124), pounded the Yanks by winning the Series by a combined score of 30-8 in the four games.

October 10th 1927- Vannevar Bush makes a device that detects magnetic anomalies. He offers his device to the US Navy but they show no interest. The British, Greek and Italain navies show some interest as a potentially mine clearing device.

November 1927: NBC begins to lose listeners to both AW and UV, which has expanded past rural America, and looks for new creative outlets. They create an experimental TV station in Pulitzer headquarters, St. Louis. The technology is a sensation, and Pulitzer Inc. comes to an agreement with RCA allowing TV's to be sold dirt cheep. AT&T, the other partner in the station, makes huge amounts of money, and quickly buys out almost all of its opponents, leaving only enough to avoid anti-monoploy lawsuites.

November 1927- In a very close election, the Nacionalista Party loss for the first time ever, with the Unitarian Party under Benigno Ramos defeating the Nacionalista candidate Sergio Osmeña. The Unitarians were very pro-Japanese and believed that joining the destiny of their nation to the Japanese Empire as an ally was a priority.

December 1927: NBC TV stations open up all across the country.

October 1927: The first television drama is aired on NBC, a serialized but profound and tragic but all the while entertaining show called "Risks." Hemingway writes out many of the episodes, and the general plot. He is chosen purely for his name recognition, though many credit the success of television to his brilliance.

December 19th 1927- Hugo Haase government receives a vote of no-confidence by the Reichstag and the Kaiser ask for new elections for the Chancellor position. The three years of Haase government saw an increase in the rights of the workers, with better working conditions and benefits made into law thru legislation. This was the eventual downfall of his government when the big interests, the right wing movements and the old aristocracy joined together as the opposition. Only Haase’s support to military spending and an aggressive foreign policy made him palatable to the military and made possible the army support to some of his measures.

perdedor99

April 30th, 2006, 01:14 AM

1928-

1928- With the economy going extremely well, the government of Linea Recta in Chile was very popular with the middle classes. But many were worried by the ongoing border clashes with Argentina.

Democratic Convention 1928: With the Democratic Party becoming increasingly dominant in rural regions, while dying out in the east, Populists have control at the convention, much to the annoyance of more traditional Democrats and Hearst Democrats. Several names are strong on the first ballot, including Hanslow, Hoover, and Colby. Hanslow agrees to drop out of the race because a Populist could not gain enough votes in the east. He throws his support to Hoover, who still has lots of power and respect in the party. As a part of the back room agreement that set up Hoover, Hanslow is agreed as the running mate. When a more Populist platform is adopted, several eastern, west-coast, interventionist, and Equality Democrats leave the room, and go across town to hold a seperate convention, where they nominate Colby. Stimson, who had left the Republican Party after being fired, offers himself as VP. He is a national figure who is respected by member former Hearst supporters. The new Democratic Party seems to be disorganised with no really unity other then dislike of Smith and Hoover.

1928 Bainbridge Colby is nominated to be the Democratic Party's next Presidential Candidate.

January 4th 1928- Japanese representives present a plan for an economic agreement with the USA.

January 7th 1928- First purpose build carrier is commissioned, the British HMS Argus. It had a complement of 18 aircrafts.

February 1928-Hermann_Scherchen and The Weintraub Syncopators each release top-selling swing albums with contrasting but decidedly German takes on "schwing" music.

February 4th 1928- Matthias Erzberger of the Catholic Central Party is elected in a coalition government that saw the center/right-wing National Liberal Party being an important part of the government, for example Gustav Stresemann was the leader of the National Liberal Party and also was the foreign minister until his untimely dead in late 1930 due to a heart attack. Erzberger government continued to help the workers’ conditions while trying to create greater ties with the British Empire on the foreign front. His war years government were truly a coalition one, with members of all political parties being represented, especially the Social Democrats Walther Rathenau as foreign minister and Theodor Heuss as a minister without portfolio. He was forced to resign after the war when dissatisfaction with the results of the Global War was palpable on the German nation.

February 7th 1928- Lord Curzon visits Berlin and paves the way for a warming up of the Anglo-German relations.

February 10th 1928- Charlemagne Peralte wins the presidency of Haiti, but the defeated candidates declare fraud on the general election and new resistance appeared in the south and the west of Haiti. One of the first official acts of President Peralte was to get a loan from France to purchase weapons from them.

March 1928: Hemingway decides to distance himself from television in order to keep on his journalistic ventures.

March 2nd 1928- The center of opposition against the Bernardes regime was the State of Rio Grande do Sul, whose politicians in alliance with those of Bahia, Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro formed the Reação Republicana.In an attempt to form a new goverment.

March 30th 1928- Pascual Orozco declares himself winner of the presidential in Mexico. While charges of fraud existed it was never proved and he barely won the election, something he used on his defense everytime charges of fraud were launched against him.

May 15, 1928 -- Actors Freddy Ball and Barbie Davis first get noticed when a talent agent notices their art school production of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors".

May 15th 1928- Due to its involvement in the crisis in Spain France stops works on its electric torpedo.

June 1928: Over the summer George Welles works as a PR advisor for Democratic Party's state congressmen from northern Ilinois.

June 22th 1928- General Hector Varela wins the presidential elections in Argentina. He inmediatly began a program to respond to what he considered the growing Chilenian threat.

June 28, 1928 - General Federico Tinoco Granados seizes control of San Jose in a bloodless revolution. He soon moves to crush the political opposition of the nation. In the elections that year, he wins by a ridiculous margin of error that screams fraud. He begins moving closer to France.

July 12th 1928- The civil war effects in Brazil are finally felt in Amazonia as rivalry amonst Rubber Plantation owners leads to the burning of each others fields.

August 1928: A group of Republicans, 5 Senators and 40 congressmen, led by Vandenberg, try to quash all welfare projects and tax raises that are not impliment via redistributionary reforms as originally suggested by Hoover. They are put under attack by many in the Republican Party, but have enough clout with local Democrats to retain their in their home sates.

August 1928: Many criticize the new Democratic Party as a weak organisation that will destroy the party once again. Most politicians on both sides wish to avoid another 1912.

August 1928: Utilizing local machines, monetary donations, and clever political strategy, Arthur Vandenberg recieves the nomination from both the Democrats and and the Republicans.

August 1928- Unknown to each other the British and German Navy test electric torpedos on the 2nd and 27th respectivelly.The British design is slower and shorter ranged then contemporary torpedosw and sent off for more testing. The German designs also are lacking in performance but the Dutch shown interest in them and are put in service.

August 1928: The Populist League create the Teller Foundation devoted to assisting refugees world wide. It quickly becomes the League's most sucessful non profit organisation.

August 1928: Ernest Hemingway, after a night of hard drinking and partying, almost dies of alcohol poisoning.

August 1928: While keeping his consulting jobs, Hoover moves to New Haven, and becomes a tenure professor at Yale.

August 11 1928 With the economy booming form the oil-generated income President Gomez begins to found a professionalized army with a centralized command structure and to take control over customs revenues through an alliance with regional caudillos and the financial sector.

August 21 1928: In a well rehearsed address over radio and television Colby announces that he wishes the party to stay united, and announces that he will not seek election. Colby gains widespread respect, and Hoover promises him the vice presidency if he wins. Stimson takes over the party as campaign manager, but quickly loses almost all support.

September 1928-Presidential candidate Al Smith makes immigration reform one of the key themes of his campaign. Smith delivers a speech on Ellis Island and invites newsreel teams to film it. With the Statue of Liberty towering over Smith in the long-range shots, the speech arguably marks the first time that a candidate has consciously used the power of cinema to influence the election.

September 1st 1928- In their first test as long range cargo ships, 2 UA submarines leave Kiel and travel to port of Fiume in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They carried 200 tonnes of steel strapped to their pressure hulls.

October 1928: Old guard former president Elihu Root endorses Hoover.

October 1928: Hemingway quits drinking, and begins a personal restraint movement supported by the Pulitzer papers and NBC. The idea is that both the temperance movement and the hard drinkers were extremist, and that the focus should be placed on alcohol in moderation. The Equality League with the New York Times quickly jumps on this and starts lobbying for alcohol limits. The Populist League retains its original temperance status.

October 1st to 5th 1928- The Pittsburgh Pirates swept the New York Yankees 4 games to none, the second consecutive series the Yankees are eliminated in four games. With Pie Traynor (.337-4-118) leading the hitting and old veteran Burleigh Grimes leading the pitching with 28 victories and a 2.87 ERA the Pittsburgh team won the first of two consecutive World Series.

October 7th 1928- J. Walther Christie demostrates his so-called M1928 design in Fort Meyer as the US response to the Russian halftracks. His vehicle, being fully tracked and using a suspension of his own invention, was agreed by the Cavalry Board under Lt Col George Patton to be build as an armored car for the Cavalry. Following the Russian idea of a turret, the vehicle have two machine guns (one .50 and one .30) mounted as the main armament in the original designs.

Oct. 15, 1928- Colonel Manfred von Richthofen, is appointed as a military attache to the New Polish State.

October 17th 1928- General Primo de Rivera assassinated in Spain by anarchists. King Alfonso XIII declares a state of emergency.

October 19th 1928- Riots began in all major Spanish cities asking for the resignation of the King.

October 24th 1928- King Alfonso XIII refuses to abdicate and calls for “all responsible Spaniards to stand by his side to defeat the anarchist threat.”

October 28th 1928- King Alfonso forced to flee Madrid and escapes to Sevilla. Socialist leader Manuel Azaña declared president of the rebels with capital in Madrid. Three of the six regular army divisions’ troops join the rebels but majority of the officers in the Spanish Army and Navy stayed loyal to the King. Majority of the Spanish fleet joins the rebels. General Jose Sanjurjo takes charge of the rebel forces while Emilio Mola is named by the King to command his forces.

November 1928: LaGuardia once again runs and wins election as a New York Representative.

November 1928 - Al Smith wins re-election to the US presidency, the first candidate to do so since William McKinley at the turn of the century. He wins in the north-east, the mid-west, and the west-coast. He also wins Maryland and West Virginia, former Democratic strongholds.

November 1928- Dominican president Desiderio Arias wins reelection on his nation presidential election. The first six years of his administration were a shining beacon for the Dominican people and it brought back the good times of the first Caceres administration. Arias took care to respect the political and civil rights of his citizens and the economy of his nation continued to grown thanks to a increase in the price of the export commodities of his nation. Public works projects proliferated and the nation expanded and modernized.

November 1928: Local Democrats sweep elections in northern Illinois. After further research, George Welles is given much of the credit.

November 9th 1928- Lt. Colonel Charles de Gaulle publishes his book "The Army of the Future," were he proposes the creation of a professional army with specialized divisions based in the Russian's use of armored cars in the short Russo-Ottoman conflict. While his ideas were rejected by the General Staff he received support from the monarchy to try his ideas.

November 17th 1928- Argentina and Great Britain sign the Roca-Curzon Pact that regulated commerce between both nations and gave a status to Argentina’s good in the British markets similar to the ones from the Empire.

November 17th 1928- Spanish Monarchist forces move troops from Morocco with cover Italian navy help.

November 22nd 1928- South Mexican President Zapata wins his third consecutive election.

December 1928: Joe Kennedy takes over all California branches of Pulitzer Inc., becoming the 4th biggest shareholder in the company. He delegates most of the papers and magazines to other executives while focusing on expanding NBC, especially the renowned news coverage.

December 9th 1928- City of Merida falls to the Monarchist forces in Spain. The two main monarchist areas are now united.

December 13th 1928- Pittsburgh Pirates trade their main starter Burleigh Grimes and two other players to the Philadelphia A’s for pitchers George Uhle, Red Farber and a young catcher-first baseman-outfielder called Joseph Foxx.

December 18th 1928- British Foreign Minister Lord Curzon dies in his sleep. Replaced by Stanley Baldwin as Foreign Minister.

December 21st 1928- City of Toledo falls to a column from the monarchist Army of Africa. But attempts to enter Madrid are rebuffed and factions began to dig in for the winter.

perdedor99

April 30th, 2006, 09:00 PM

1929

1929- Linea Recta announces major changes in Chile starting with reshuffling military commands; the creation of a 50,000-member civilian paramilitary force, the Milicia Republicana, to threaten the remaining leftists and cut unemployment by promoting industry and public works.

1929- Mexican President Orozco recognized his popularity was falling, as the results of the 1928 presidential election demonstrated. He started legislation to raise the wages and work conditions of the Mexican workers and was a believer in capitalism and trade. He began increasing the size of the military very late on the year as a way to increase his standing in the area and to create jobs for some of the poorest in the nation. This was viewed by both the United States and South Mexico as provocative but he assured both nations the intentions were peaceful.

1929 - The first of Howard P. Lovecraft's screen adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe stories hits the big screen to critical acclaim and good box office returns. It is also his directorial debut. Though often withdrawn and introspective, he has an uncanny knack for getting his players to express the darker side of human nature.

1929:Jonathan James Bush is born. He inmediately proves to be the athlete of the family and proves friendly and popular. He also proved to be obsessed with maintaining his popularity, and often strays away from confrontation to do it. He proves to be a bad singer, unlike his brothers and father.

January 1929 - New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is named by President Al Smith as his new Secretary of the Interior.

January 1929: George Welles leaves Columbia to work as communications and PR advisor to several national congressmen.

January 1929: Though still practicing as a consultant, Hoover joins the faculty at Yale full tenure.

January 2nd, 1929 President Smith is inaugurated for the second time.

January 8th 1929- Argentina signs an agreement with the German aeronautical company Fokker to purchase 60 of their new fighters.

January 17th 1929- Italian Prime Minister Pasolini offers a volunteer force to help resolve the issue. Great Britain, Germany and Austria-Hungary issued some concerns but French and Russian support to the Italian decision diffused the situation.

February 1929: Smith presents a Civil Rights Initiative, and uses his political influence to help pass it through congress.

February 1929- Wang Jingwei, the left-leaning leader of the Populist Party, win the very close election for the Presidency of China after the incumbent Li Yaunhong decides to step down and not seek reelection for the position. Li Yaunhong's designated successor, the leader of the National Chinese Army Chiang Kai-Shek, was perceived by many voters as too authoritarian and that mainly swing the undecided votes in favor of Wang.

February 2-23, 1929 -- South Mexico hosts a Mexican Rugby international tournament; 5 American and 4 Caribbean teams show up to take on 15 South Mexican squads. The crowds are huge, and businessmen take over the tournament and make it an annual event, the culmination of the season for the various national amateur leagues.

February 18th 1929- After being reelected, President Smith announces that his campaign promise for a plebiscite in the Mexican Occupied territories will be a reality and it will be held at the end of the year.

March 1929: Democrats in the house amend the Civil Rights Initiative somewhat, but the essence of the bill remains. Huge segregation laws exists only in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida while milder segregation acts are inacted for the rest of the South.

March 28th 1929- First Italian “volunteers” arrive to Spain.

April 1929- The lessons of the Russo-Ottoman War in regard to the infantry rifle were put under the microscope and finally under a directive of the Tsar Alexis himself the russian weapons designers Fedorov and his junior partner Simonov came up with a new weapon. That weapon, a selective fire gas operated 15 round rifle, was started into production by late 1931 and was called the AVS-32. The weapon needed a lot of maintenance and never fully replaced the Mosin-Nagant rifle in the Russian inventory. Still it was the model for the later self-loading and intermediate cartridge rifles of later.

April 7th 1929- Argentina and Germany sign a cooperation agreement, secret clauses included the shipment of small arms and instructors to help in the training of the Argentinian army.

April 8th 1929- Georgy Zhukov named commander of the Russian 7th Cavalry Brigade (motorized).

April 8th 1929- Josip Broz returns to his native Croatia after being abroad for close to six years.

April 9th 1929- Italian Navy lands forces in the Balearic Islands of Menorca and Mallorca, capturing them after a short fight.

April 10th 1929- Naval battle of Mallorca. The Spanish dreadnaught España is sunk by the Italian dreadnaughts Andrea Doria and Count Cavour while trying to ferry troops into the island. Both Italian ships suffered moderated damage and were forced to withdraw back to Italy. The Republican convoy was forced to turn back.

April 27th 1929- General Mola orders the start of an offensive to try to capture Madrid. The operation lasted thru the year until cancelled in October. Thousands died in the futile attempts to capture the city and ended in failure with the Monarchists forces just reaching the suburbs of the city.

May 4th 1929- General Balbo, commander of the Italian volunteers, leads his seven-division force as the left flank of the Andalusian front. His forces, supposed to be on the defensive, launched limited operations in the area that captured Cordova and supported the limited offensive of Francisco Franco that captured Granada.

May 8th 1929- President Smith offers to host a Naval Conference in New York to try slow down the ongoing naval race between Great Britain, Japan and themselves. All major nations agree to attend after some negotiations behind close doors.

May 17th 1929- Republican forces began operations to try to eliminate the Monarchist redoubt in Navarre.

May 29th 1929- France offers a loan to Monarchist Spain for the purchase of weapons.

June 5th 1929- Walther Christie agrees to sell the license to build his suspension in France and later in Italy.

June 18th 1929- Germany offers their services to mediate the conflict. Both sides refused, due to their beliefs that victory was certain and close.

Summer 1929 Famed artist and designer Adolph Hitler with several members of Austrian intelligentsia form a new party, The Pan-Teutonic Party. Its goals are to promote Tuetonic/German culture over all others, calling for the teaching of German culture and language in all parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, assimilation of non-Germans into German culture, citing acculturated Jews as success stories and counting several in their ranks, and eventual political union with the German Empire and Scandinavia.

June 24th 1929- United States offers to sell war material to the both sides on the conflict but only the Republican side agrees to. All sales were paid in cash and on delivery. Still the quality of the American small arms was proven, with the machineguns designed by Browning being highly sought additions by the Republican forces.

July 17th 1929- Envoys from eight nations arrive to New York to attend the Naval Conference proposed by US president Al Smith. Secretary of state Borah was the host and on his welcoming speech he spoke of "ending the vicious competation that will only ruin all our nations."

August 1st 1929- Argentinian worker activist Kurt Gustav Wilkens Assassinates General Héctor Varela with a bomb.Rumors are he was a member of the Unión Cívica Radical.

August 4th 1929- Argentina's army commander Felix Uriburu declares an state of emergency after the assasination of president Varela. In essence he launched a bloodless coup and jumped the constitutional means for the succesion of the President. Riots occurred thru Argentina but he was able to defeat opposition.

August 7, 1929 -- Moon Station, the Pennsylvania Railroad's first airport and the new "hub" for its Pittsburgh-area trains, opens.

September 2nd 1929- The German and Dutch Navy decides to standardize their torpedo size to 21 in any further Submarines.

September 2, 1929 -- The sprawling campus of Mellon University opens. Its classical dual focus -- liberal arts and theoretical science -- provides a nice complement to Pittsburgh's other major private school, Carnegie Institute of Technology, with its eclectic dual focus on engineering and dramatic arts.

September 21st 1929- Pamplona falls to Republican forces. Monarchist bastion in Navarre is eliminated. Thousands of refuges flee across the border to France.

October 1929- Joe Jackson retires after close to twenty years on the majors. Jackson, an outfielder for the Saints, Blue Socks and finally the Yankees, retired with a .339 lifetime average and over 3500 career hits.

October 1929- Gabby Harnett traded to the Chicago Cubs in a multiplayer deal.

October 1st 1929- Conference almost fails due to Italian refusal to stop the construction of their planned "fast battleships" and their threats of leaving the Conference if forced to do so. The actions of US secretary of state Borah and the German envoy Gustav Stresemann saved the Conference, with Germany leaning over the Austrian-Hungarian representatives to accept the Italians request and Borah running the floor to convince the other delegates to also accept this. He was forced to make some concessions, like canceling the Montana class to placate the British delegates and to accept that all ships under construction been allowed to be finished to placate the Japanese and the Russians.

October 1st to 7th 1929- In a repeat of the World Series of the year before the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the New York Yankees again, this time 4 games to 2. The revelation of the Pittsburgh team was the young Joe Foxx (.351-32-125), who in his first chance to play in a regular basis was an offensive juggernaut for the Pittsburgh team.

October 11th 1929- Port of Cartagena captured by forces under Francisco Franco. Republican commander Sanjurjo began to move troops south to try to stop the advancing Army of Andalucia.

October 19th 1929- Murcia is captured by the advancing Monarchists. Front seems to be unraveling in front of the Monarchist advance.

October 31st 1929- The recent arrival of reinforcements stopped the advancing Army of Andalucia near the city of Alicante. Both forces were exhausted and began to dig in.

November 1929: Rick Gatling is elected Senator from Texas.

November 1929: Cabot-Lodge Jr. is appointed to fill a space of a retired Boston City Council member due to his family name recognition.

November 3rd 1929- The proposed plebiscite proposed for the occupied Mexican territories was almost canceled but President Smith decided to continue after his Chief of Staff assured him the Mexican Army was no match for US arms and troops are moved into the area for “maneuvers” as a deterrent.

November 9th 1929- Italians capture the island of Ibiza, completing their capture of the Balearic Islands.

November 18th 1929- A small “volunteer” force of Russians arrive to the port of Malaga. Composed mainly of armored cars and aircrafts, the unit was very important during operations on the coming year.

November 18th 1929- With negotiations going well, the two last ships of the Montana class super-dreadnaughts are cancelled, with the two hulls already laid down waiting for a possible future use.

December 1929: Franklin D. Roosevelt is hired by contract to the Hearst foundation, desperate to keep their hold on Hollywood. Roosevelt has invested much of his earnings into purchasing the rights to release old films, which were viewed as largely worthless at the time. Now that TV can easily broadcast these classics, the AW's programming is quickly dominated by the movie industry. Other stations cannot keep up with this move, and NBC begins to lose ratings.

December 3rd 1929- Polls close in the Occupied Mexican Territories. After close to a week of counting the votes and a recount in Chihuahua, the results are announced. Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua asked to join the United States while Coahualia,Nuevo Leon and Taumalipas decided to form their own nation.

December 9th 1929- Italian Prime Minister Pasolini declares the members of the volunteer force “heroes of the Italian Kingdom and that thousands are willing to join them to end that struggle.” Afterwards he announced enough men have asked to “volunteer” that three more divisions are being raised for service in Spain.

December 17th 1929- Michael Collins and David Lloyd George elected Prime Minister of Ireland and Great Britain after the King asked Griffiths and Chamberlain to disbands their governments in response to the ongoing irregular war in Ulster. Both men announced they will meet to discuss how to reach a peaceful solution to the bloodshed.

December 18th 1929- British military intelligence experts report the increase in the size of the forces fighting in Spain as “incredible.” The experts stated that from three divisions each at the beginning of the conflict now both sides field over 20 divisions, without including the Italian force. They stated “this is the most destructive conflict since the end of the Russo-German War in 1915. It's even bigger than the Russo-Ottoman War.”

December 29th 1929- Spanish Republican President Azaña in a speech ask the "socialist workers of the world to join the struggle for the survival of the only true socialist nation in the world." He also announced the formation of two divisions composed entirely from French emigres. While they have been serving from the beginning of the conflict, the creation of this units infuriated France. Composed mainly of refugees of the losing side of the French Civil War, they were mainly socialist and enemies of France.

Glen

April 30th, 2006, 11:43 PM

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1930 - A small influx of Indian immigrants wishing to live in a free and independent state has nearly doubled the population of the Republic of Guiana.

January 1930: Hemingway, the most recognised name in the Pulitzer organisation, though far from a major investor, is named honorary chairmen. Here for the first time he comes into conflict with Joe Kennedy. He believes that Kennedy's news programming is too exagerated. He accuses him of being a yellow journalist out to make a story interesting. Hemingway is unable to kick out such a major investor.

January 2nd 1930- President Orozco of Mexico announced a "volunteer" force will leave for Spain at the end of the month as a response to Azaña's plea.

January 18th 1930- Italian "volunteer"force, supported by the Russians, launched an attack that surprised the Republicans by the speed of the forces involved. The Italians requisitioned enoughs trucks to mount two divisions to keep up with the Russian armored cars. By the first week of February they surrounded Valencia. All military observers reported the battle but all nations reached different conclusions to the outcome.

January 18th 1930- Adolph Hitler II is commissioned in the Austro-Hungarian army and posted to the Italian border.

January 19th 1930- South Mexican President Zapata response to the increase in the Mexican military was to announce an increase to the size of his armed forces as well. This was the beginning of the Mexican Cold War that lasted until the end of the Global War.

January 26th 1930- Puerto Rico’s president Iglesias-Pantin announces that “his nation will respond to the plea of the mother country to defeat an illegal force bound in defeating the government elected by her workers.” A small volunteer force, led by Lt. Colonel Albizu-Campos, began to prepare for service in Spain with the agreement they were going to be issued new weapons on their arrival.

January 27th 1930- After some backdoor dealing with United Fruit General Cortés Vargas stages a successful coup in Colombia. United Fruit is given total control over all of Colombian banana and plantains plantations.

January 27, 1930 -- Freddy Ball and Barbie Davis have their first hit movie on Joseph Kennedy's RKO label, "That's Not Ladylike."

Febuary 1930: Almost at the brink of bankrupcy, the UV hires as many third rate writers and directors to try to create cheap original programming because they can't afford movies. Westerns and slap stick comedies prove popular, especially in the rural areas where the Freemans Journal has the greatest influence.

February 6th 1930- Dr Albert Fono applies for a patent for a new jet propulsion engine working on a ramjet principle.

March 8, 1930-The Academy of Film Workers holds the first-ever Motion Picture Awards ceremony. Set designer and AFW president Cedric Gibbons designs the award to resemble a narrator about to deliver the opening lines.

March 10th, 1930-Enormous oil deposits are found in the Libyan desert. It is the beginning of the "Libyan Oil Rush": businesses rush to claim and extract the oil, and tens of thousands of unemployed people, mostly Algerian Arabs, come seeking well-paying jobs.

March 12th 1930- Marshal Hermes da Fonseca Openly decrees that he no longer backs the coffee oligarchy's backed goverment of Bernardes. Issueing a telegraph to all commanders "that they should act according to their consciences for what what is best for there country"

March 12 1930 President Gomez and John D. Rockefeller, Jr make plans to Bring Venezuelan oil under the sole control of Standard Oil.

March 14th 1930- Valencia surrenders after a short siege.

March 21st 1930- Lt. Colonel Dwight Eisenhower arrives to La Coruña to observe the war.

March 26th 1930- President Arias of the Dominican Republic again invites his counterparts from Cuba and Puerto Rico for a meeting in La Romana to discuss the growing size of the Haitian Gendarmerie and the continued chaos in that nation.

March 28th 1930- Treaty of New York is signed by the delegates of Great Britain, United States, Japan, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Sweden and Russia. A moratorium of five years in the construction of new dreadnaughts and battlecruisers was imposed but all ships already laid down will be allowed to be completed. After five years the only new constructions will be to replace old ships, to ensure the numbers stay constant. No new ship would have a gun over 16" or weight over 40,000 tons. All signatories were allowed to build ships for other navies as long as those ships are not armed with guns heavier than 14" and weight over 35,000 tons. Except for the two hulls allowed to the US, no other aircraft carrier will weight over 30,000 tons. Cruisers, both heavy and light, also suffered a five year moratorium. No mention was given to submarines.

April 1930: As city councilmen, Cabot-Lodge begins to shine as a reformer. He starts to work directly with business to try to improve labor-owner relations, following Smith's belief that co-operation works better then unionization for both parties concerned. His high profile and background wins support for reform meassures from old-guard Republicans in Boston. He continues to write for Pulitzer.

April 18th 1930- Partition was finally decided as the only solution to end the conflict. The last four counties with a protestant majority will be separated from Ireland and administrated from London. The solution was received with protests in Ireland but Collins stated that "it was the only solution or this war was going to last forever." He also stated that the war, lasting close to eight years now, was a drain to the Irish economy and needed to be ended. "Close to 25% of the nation''s budget is going to this bloody war and our people is falling behind the rest of the Empire due to this."

April 22nd 1930- In a surprise attack, fifteen French divisions poured over the Spanish border.

May 8th 1930- San Sebastian falls to the advancing French, using sheer numbers to push the basques west. Baptism of fire to Puerto Rican volunteers.

May 10th 1930- Pamplona is captured by the advancing French. The French are received as liberators by the Navarrese.

May 17th 1930- David ben Gurion returns to Palestine and began to work for his dream of a Jewish Homeland.

May 28th 1930- French troops meet with advancing Monarchist forces in Navarre. The Republic divided in two.

June 1930: The Cabot-Lodge Educational Reform Bill is passed in the Boston City Council and is approved by the school boards. It creates a new much more equal public school system which would serve as a model for all major urban educational systems for years to come.

June 2nd 1930- General Sanjurjo uses the French Socialist Divisions as core to stop the French forces moving in the direction of Barcelona, still the French achieved air superiority over Catalonia.

June 12th 1930- The first British production landship, the A1, is delivered to the Army. A five turreted giant running in tracks, the main gun was a 2 pounder in the main turret with one vicker machinegun in the other turrets. Armor was 28mm and can reach a max speed of 20mph.

July 31st 1930- Monarchist General Mola launches another attack to capture Madrid.

August 11th 1930- Bilbao falls to the French. Mexican volunteers cited by French officers for their excellent performance as rivals.

August 22nd 1930- Zaragosa surrenders to Monarchist forces. Situation is getting desperate in the Mediterranean coast.

August 29th 1930- Naval battle of Barcelona. French ships sunk the Spanish dreadnaught Republica after a three hour battle. The Spanish ship gave good account of itself, damaging three French capital ships before going down.

September 8th 1930- Leo Szilard calls the process discovered by the Germans in 1924 a chain reaction, a term borrowed from chemistry. He also discovered that indeed uranium was the best element to try to get the process now being called nuclear fission by both Germans and Austrian physics.

September 8th 1930- Bela Ferenc Blasko promoted to the rank of General and given the command of the 14th Honved Division. A well-respected officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, he was considered a little bit too cruel by many in the General Staff but also a man that gets results.

September 19th 1930- German General Staff considers they made the right choice after studying the results of the battle of Valencia, where Italian troops used trucks to keep up with Russian armored cars. The German army have more motorized divisions than any nation in the world and three more divisions were ordered to be changed to motorized. Still the lack of landships was noted and plans were made to study the foreign designs to decide on the best approach. But for now units began to be issued heavy caliber rifles to counter the possible Russian threat.

October 1st to 7th 1930- The New York Yankees win their first World Series since 1926 after three consecutive losses 4 games to 2 over the Chicago Cubs. With the dynamic duo of batting and ribbie champ Al Szymanski (.389-38-165) and homerun leader George Ruth (.354-51-152) the Yankees dominated the regular season and winning the Series easily, winning their four games by a combined score of 36-6.

October 7th 1930- Madrid falls to forces under General Mola. King moves back to the city a week later. Azaña escapes to Barcelona.

October 12th 1930- Italy signs secret treaties with both France and Russia.

November 1930: Swing is re-elected Governor of California.

November 1930: Henry Cabot-Lodge Jr. is re-elected city council member.

November 1930- Iglesias-Pantin wins a four consecutive term as president of Puerto Rico. He’s considered by modern historians as the real “Father of Puerto Rico”, his sixteen years in power shaping the future of the island.

November 8th 1930- French military leader recognized the possibilities presented by the Battle of Valencia and decided to create three motorized infantry divisions to accompany the proposed landships divisions.

November 19th 1930- Both France and Italy declare a blockade of the Catalonian coast.

November 23rd 1930- Italian "volunteer" force, with the Russians attached to them, meet with French forces in Aragon sealing Catalonia.

December 8th 1930- Great Britain began to organize the first landship division in the world. They consider their landship, the A1, to be a nice counter to the fast Russian designs.

December 18th 1930- Mexican president Orozco orders his forces to move to La Coruña to return to Mexico. He stated that "Mexican honor and valor has been proven to the world."

Glen

April 30th, 2006, 11:43 PM

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1931- Clinton Anderson builds a home in Sonora. He would also founds the first radio station in the area, it would support both English and Spainsh programing.

1931: In New York The Castellemarese War began, started by Joe Masseria. Around 65 people are killed. Among them is an ally of Maranzano, Tommy Lucchese, and Charles Luciano, one of Masseria's top men, who was stabbed in the throat after being beaten severely when he refused to join Maranzano. Masseria is eventually cornered and killed in a cafe. Maranzano then proclaims himself boss of all bosses and divided the structure of the New York Mafia into five families, each with a capo in charge. Eventually, Maranzano gets tired of a number of his subordinates that are "Young Turks." Frank Costello and Vito Genovese are shortly assassinated after this

January 27th 1931- Santander fall to the advancing Monarchists forces. Chaos is ensuing in the Republican forces in the north and the end is considered to be near.

January 29th 1931- Leida falls to French forces. French forces continue an advance in the direction of Barcelona from the West and the north while Spanish monarchists forces are advancing from the South.

February 6th 1931- Puerto Rico’s small volunteer force is ordered by their government to La Coruña to return home. They served for close to a year in the Basque and Asturian Front, receiving commendations and medals.

February 11th 1931- Tarragona falls to the new formed Army of Catalonia under Franco.

February 13th 1931- Gijon falls to the advancing Army of the North under Mola. Two days later Oviedo is captured. The scenes of refugees fleeing west and the capture of Oviedo by advancing troops were filmed by a British crew with a movie camera and their film was the first war scenes ever viewed on TV.

February 24th 1931- Mexican government agrees to purchase small arms and artillery from Japan to equip the new-formed units.

February 25th 1931- The scenes from Asturias are showed on the BBC TV station. Still at this time TV is only a new toy for the wealthy, not being as accesible to acquire as the radio.

March 11th 1931-French forces capture Terrasa and artillery can be hear in Barcelona.

March 13th 1931- Azaña and his cabinet ask for asylum on the British Consulate and Sanjurjo negotiates for the surrender of the remaining forces in Catalonia before also entering the Consulate.

March 20th 1931- The German Navy starts to lay down the Type V U-boat.It is 240ft long about 1200 tons has a top speed of18 kts and a range of 15000mi at 12 knots. It's armed with six 21 inch tubes, four fore and two stern and carries 16 torpedos. One 8.8cm gun and two twin 3.7cm AA guns are also carried on deck. It's intended to be standard Submarine for all the German states.

April 2nd 1931- Pope Gregory XVII dies of appendicitis.

April 7th 1931- Last remaining forces in Galicia surrender to the advancing Monarchists. War is considered over on this date but guerilla activity will continue in the north for the next couple of years.

April 17th 1931- In an historic accord signed in the city of Santiago the presidents of the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Cuba agreed to cooperate in all issues relevant to the Caribbean, to support each other if necessary and to build a new trade organization to further expand their products into the world markets.

April 29th 1931- Pietro Gasparri elected by the Cardinals as a compromise Pope after sixteen ballots went thru with no clear winner. He took the name of Clement XV.

May 1, 1931 - American settlements in Tamaulipas refuse to evacuate in preparation for the handover of power to the new nation.

May 10th 1931- Stafford Cripps found the Socialist League, composed largely of left-wing members of the Labour Party.

May 12th 1931- United States responded to the Japanese sale of military equipment is to announce a massive sale of military gear to the South Mexico and the creation of a three-division size army in the Commonwealth of Rio Grande.

May 17th 1931- Secretary of the Interior Theodore Roosevelt Jr. attends the ceremony in Monterey that gave the three former occupied territories their independence.

May 18, 1931 - American settlers actively resist attempts by the Republic of Rio Grande to institute a their institutions over their small areas of the state.

June 1931: A Berg opera is performed in Paris to incredibly bad reviews. One of the singers was attacked after the opening night because of the Pan-Germanic themes suggested in the piece.

June 1931 - First live broadcast of a speech by the Tsar on television. His image has become familiar in cities across the Russian Empire from movie footage of his speeches, but at least for the small but growing middle class of the Empire as well as the affluent upper class, there is something electrifying about seeing the Tsar and hearing his voice in their own home.

June 3, 1931 Quentin Roosevelt takes a heavily modified version of his company's newest military airplane design on a non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic from New York, USA to London, England. As the first man to do so, he is celebrated as a hero in both nations and throughout the world.

August 1931: After huge success in politics George Welles, still in his early 20s, founded a political PR firm.

August 1931: The Hanslow International Airport is built in Santa Fe, with the support of Senator Frederick Hanslow. This was the first major airport in the south west. The airport helps boost the New Mexican economy, and Santa Fe became the largest commercial power in the region.

August 12th 1931- The military backed forces of Moreima capture the States of Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais ending the reign of the coffee oligarchy and the civil war.

October 1931: Poor farmers, with the support of several new money southernors burn down a plantation near Mobile. They receive lots of coverage, some of it positive. They are painted as heroes by both the editorial section of both the Hearst Foundation and the Freemens Journal.

October 1st to 10th 1931- In the first so-called “Subway Series” ever, the Brooklyn Superbas beat the New York Yankees 4 games to 3. Led by power hitters Tommy Ott (.297-29-113) and Jim Bottomley (.343-22-100) the Superbas won the division by five games and when on to beat the Yankees in one of the most exciting Series so far in history. With all games decided by one run and two of them in extra innings, it was also the first Series shown on Television.

October 13 1931 Following the civil war and the destruction of its main cash crop, the Southern Brazil coffee planter turn to a new product, hemp.The Northern sugarcane growers are wary about this new crop and only use a small portion of their available fields to grow it till their cane matures.

Glen

April 30th, 2006, 11:44 PM

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1932- By this time all major nations have MWD equipment in every major capital ships. Them the next revolution was started when transistors were used to create more efficient MWD sets and smaller.

Democratic National Convention 1932: Colby is the front runner coming into the convention, and the Populists lack the financial support to topple him. Major Populists leaders such as Wheeler or Hanslow refuse to run on the ticket. In the end Robert Cochran, moderate Populist governor from Nebraska, is nominated as the vice presidential canidate.

Republican National Convention, 1932: Smith remains popular among the eastern urban poor, and had gained the respect of much of the eastern middle-class. Though the former Progressives tended to like Smith's economic policies, they believed that the current Republican Party lack true understanding of the needs of west-coast citizens. There is also some resentment against having another east-coast politician. To avoide a schism the convention nominates California Governor Phil Swing. George Cabot-Lodge is named as the Vice Presidential candidate mainly to appeal to traditional conservative Republicans and for name recognition.

February 4-20, 1932 -- The Mobile Home Boys not only become the first American team to win a game at the International Mexican Rugby Touranment, they win the entire tournament. In a chain reaction, several other teams at the tournament go pro to try to lock up the other stars for next year's game.

February 7th 1932- France began production of their Christie based landship, the Char d'Assult 1 or CA1 for short. A light tracked vehicle with a 13mm armor protection, their main armament was a 37mm gun and a machine gun. Very fast, 53 mph on the road and 38 off-road, was perfect for the French operational procedures.

Feb 20 1932 General José Félix Benito Uriburu Dies suddenly from illness. Vice President Enrique Santamarina and General Agustín Pedro Justo Rolón Via for control of the Country.

February 26th 1932- Paul Schimdt begins work on a functional pulse jet engine.

March 8th 1932-Flight Lt Frank Whittle produces a small working model for a Centrifugal compressor jet turbine engine and a workable thesis for a more advanced axial compressor

March 15th 1932- British engineer and automaker Sidney Hortsman develops a new idea for of heavy suspension.The army asks him to see if he could incorporate to be used on their landships.The system uses coil-springs and has the advantages of a relatively long travel and, consisting of a self-contained boogie that is bolted to the hull, causing little or no encroachment on internal hull space. In addition, the entire suspension unit may be relatively easily removed and replaced if damaged.

March 15 1932- The first fields of hemp are planted in the once booming coffee fields of Sao Paulo.

March 19th 1932- After two years of preliminary experimentation,Dr Albert Fono tests a working ramjet engine.

April 1932: La Follete Jr. steps forward and sponsors several pro-Swing infrastructure resolutions, some of which passes due to the senator's influence. Though there were proposed operations in all regions, there was a clear preference for projects in the upper mid-west.

April 18th 1932- Brigadier General Manfred von Richthofen is recalled from Poland and giving the command of all air assets in Saxony.

May 1 1932 Alexander Palmer announces his candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for President.

May 31, 1932 - Exhausted by the problems in Tamaulipas, the new President of the Commonwealth of Rio Grande calls for the President of the United States to move in the army.

June 7th 1932- Erwin Rommel named commander of the 20th Motorized Division.

June 13th 1932- Two US divisions, the 2nd Cavalry and the 4th Infantry are moved into the Commonwealth of Rio Grande to help in the control of US citizens’ troublemakers.

June 28, 1932 - The Commonwealth of Massachusetts takes over the BERy system after several problems are noted in the corporate structure. As part of the deal, the Grand Junction trackage is purchased.

July 1932: Colby fails to directly address the agricultural crisis, campaigning more in the west-coast inner cities. Many Populists view him as a sell out trying to appeal as a successor to Smith, and using the Equality League for promotion. The Grange refuses to endorse Colby. The Populist League considers taking similar action, but declines because Swing seems just as unappealing, and a break from the party line.

July 3rd 1932- British began organizing their second landship division, this one being named the Middle East Landship Division and being based in Egypt. Experts like Fuller consider the landship as “naturally made for the open terrains of the desert.”

July 4, 1932 - After increasing tensions over border disputes between Chile and Argentina, war breaks out between the two nations. Germany pledges significant material support to the Argentines, while the USA does the same for Chile.

July 9th 1932- Chilean troops cross into Patagonia, launching a surprise attack due to the terrible weather going on in the area. While attacks were launched in the Andes to tie Argentinean troops, the Chileans continued their advance thru the snow.

July 15th 1932- Colombia declares neutrality in the conflict on the continent.Stating that it has no interest in joining the war.

July 22nd 1932- Rio Grande surrenders to the Chileans. Two days later Ushuaia also surrenders.

August 14, 1932 -- Pennsylvania Railroad, Eastern Airlines, and Air Canada all begin landing flights in Boston's airport and offering direct connections to the BERy. The man behind the deal, Massachusetts politician Leverett Saltonstall, rises greatly in prominence and begins to be mentioned as a Senate candidate.

August 1932: Colby campaigns for a few days in Harlem and other black communites. Though many traditional Populist are anti-racist, the League sees that they have the opportunity to carry the south if they did run a candidate. The near dead Populist Party recieves new funding from the league, which plans a convention to be held in Lincoln.

August 1, 1932 -- Freddy Ball gets his first crack at writing and holding down a star role. The result is "How I Became a Werewolf." At the time, the film is hailed mainly for bringing witty writing to the usually rote genre of horror films. Only decades later do most people catch on that the teenaged Cain Howler's transformation into a werewolf is an elaborate metaphor for Ball's closeted homosexuality.

August 18th 1932- Santa Cruz falls to the Chileans but the arrival of reinforcements stopped the advancing troops before reaching Puerto Deseado and Comodoro Rivadavia.

September 1932: Senator Gatling endorses Wheeler for president, recognising him as a man with the people's interest at heart. However Gatling is not a full Populist, differing with Wheeler on several issues, especially in foreign policy. Gatling remains basically a Hearst Democrat, and refuses to campaign for such a Progressive candidate as Colby.

September 1932: The Pan-American Foundation celebrates its 10,000th scholarship. Foundation offices in New Orleans have also become something of a home-away-from-home for the small but growing community of Latino intellectuals in the USA, especially Afro-Latinos, who consider New Orleans an island of paradise in a world of racism.

September 1932 - Former Virginia Governor and Senator Harry F. Byrd receives the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States of America.

September 4th 1932: Populist National Convention is held. Former Vice President and Populist leader Burton Wheeler shows interest. No primaries were held due to lack of time, so there was no chosen leader. Many speculated that Hanslow would try to take the nomination, but Hanslow declines to attend the convention, stating that he was needed in Washington. It was understood that he wished to distance himself from the Populist movement, believing that the Democratic Party was the only way he would ever have a chance for a national office. Wheeler is the most recognised name on the ballot, mostly consisting on favorite sons. He wins by the 5th ballot. He nominates Harry Byrd, a southern Populist, as the vice-presidential candidate. Race relations are not mentioned in the platform.

September 12th 1932- Reginald J. Mitchell Blackburn M-2 racer sets a new absolute speed record of 408 mph and wins the Schneider Trophy for the second year in a row.The event draws interest from the the Royal Air Force.Blackburn and Mitchell are asked to design a fighter based on the M-2.

September 18th 1932- The Valparaiso and the Almirante La Torre cross the Magellan straits and port in Santa Cruz. Chileans also began to run raids from Santa Cruz to try to stop the commerce going to Argentina.

October 1932: Arthur Vandenburg refuses to recognize Swing as a candidate. He claims that both parties have nominated radicals, and briefly considers starting his own party. After Hoover shows no intrest he drops the idea.

October 1932: Colby makes several radio and TV appearances, in which he appears weak in comparison to other candidates. He fails to sway almost any of the Progressive vote from Swing. He makes a last gasp attempt to appease the Populists, who show very little interest this late in the campaign. Most of Colby's support comes from extreme elements of the Equality League, and some of the deep south unwilling to break party loyalty.

October 1st to 9th 1932- The Yankees beat the Cincinnati Reds 4 games to 2. Led by pitching revelation Max Gomez who won 25 games with a 2.78 ERA plus the hitting of George Ruth (.341- 40-134) and Al Szymanski (.327-37-152) the Yankees won the pennant by one game over the Washington Senators and continued that dominance into the World Series. On this season Major League Baseball announced an annual award to honor what should be considered the leading player in each League. The first recipient of the Leadership Award in the Continental League was George Ruth while in the National League it was Pittsburgh first baseman Joe Foxx that led his team to a third place finish but only four games out of first place.

October 3rd 1932- Niels Bohr published his discoveries in regard to what is now called nuclear fission.

October 9th 1932- Argentina’s offensive in the Andes fails after only making minimal gains. The war began to turn into a static one due to the lack of resources to break the impasse.

October 10th 1932- Stafford Cripps and associates create a newspaper, the Tribune, to be used as mouthpiece for the Socialist League.

October 19th 1932- Battle of the Maldivas. A Chilean naval victory. The 25th of Mayo was sunk and the two Rivadavia dreadnaughts were damaged and forced to withdraw after intercepting the Chilean task force near the islands. The Valparaiso suffered severe damage and was forced to return to Chile for repairs but the Almirante La Torre superior guns made the difference in the battle while suffering minimal damage that was repaired in Santa Cruz. Still the raids to Argentinean commerce stopped for a while.

November 1932: Phil Swing is elected President of the United States. Colby performers very poorly, only carrying Wisconsin, Minesota, South Carolina, Georgia, and Missisipi. Wheeler comes in second in both the electoral and the Popular votes, but Swing wins a little over 63% of the popular vote.

November 1932- Alvaro Obregon elected to the Sonoran Territorial Senate as a Populist. A respected figure by both Anglos and Hispanics, continued his career as first governor of Sonora and later as a US Senator for his home state of Sonora until his dead.

November 1932 -- McKinley "Double Duty" Radcliffe, a star quarterback who also plays free safety, organizes the first pro Mexican Rugby team, in response to the embarassing fate of the American amateur squads at the first 4 international tournaments. The Mobile Home Boys hire Jeb "The Herman Ruth of Rugby" Gibson, Jerry Hairston, and James "Buck" O'Neil.

November 1932- Roberto “Tio Beto” Diaz Leon wins a third term in Cuba but all semblance of legality was pretty much gone. The thugs of the DSB, in English the Directorate of Security and Welfare, attacked political meetings of other parties while permissions for political rallies were also very difficult to be issued to opposition parties. During his second term Diaz-Leon continued his modernization campaign in Cuba while the economy continued to grow. In the international front he received with open arms the refugees from the Spanish Civil War while achieving the important Santiago Accord with Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

November 1932: Cabot-Lodge Jr. is elected a state senator for Massachusetts. He continues the same reform based agenda he started in Boston.

November 7th 1932- Using the Bohr article as a base, the Italian Institute of Physics creates a team under Enrico Fermi to further study the possibilities of nuclear fission.

December 17-24, 1932 -- National Volcanic Parks Service geologists Nelson Horatio Darton and Frederick Leslie Ransome have the fortune to be stationed at Lassen National park in California during a series of minor eruptions in the Chaos Crags, coinciding with a 7.2 Richter earthquake at Cedar Mountain, NV. The result is the most detailed collection of data on a minor volcanic event ever. Their resultant paper for Journal of Geology, "Volcanic Events and Continental Drift," represented a major advance in tectonic plate theory.

Glen

April 30th, 2006, 11:45 PM

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1933- Attempts to amend the 1917 Drug Laws fails to gain the necessary votes in the House and the Senate. Many blamed the large lobbies as guilty for this failure while others observed the revenues acquired by the sale of drugs were a substancial part of the current budget and their elimination could affect the ability of the government to run the nation. While many influential men like Hemingway were in favor of full prohibition at the end the revenues won the day.

1933 - With the overrunning of Belgium by the surprise attack of the French, pre-placed cells of Wallonian revolutionaries become active. One catches the Belgian Royal family in their attempt to flee the oncoming French and guns them down in the name of Wallonia.

1933 George Samuel Clason is elected to represent California's 14th Congressional District.

1933 - Saint-Pierre and Miquelon are occupied by British troops.

1933:William Henry Trotter Bush is born.

1933- Naval War Caribbean- The war here started fairly early, with the destruction of the French Caribbean Squadron on the middle of June. With the elimination of this threat the British considered the area secured and moved the ships in the area to other stations.

1933-Naval War Pacific-As in the Caribbean, this conflict was almost one sided. The commander of the French Far East Squadron is now considered to have committed a mistake in waiting too long to try to escape to safety. With the destruction of his forces on October 12th the Russian Far East Fleet was the only presence of the Triple Alliance on the area and they were too far to be of any importance for the time being.

1933-Naval War Indian Ocean- The French Red Sea Squadron escaped to the Indian Ocean in early May and dedicated itself to commerce raiding until the destruction of the light cruiser Primauguet near the Maldives by a squadron led by the British battlecruiser Tiger on December 8th. The other light cruiser, the Jules Michelet, made it to France in the middle of 1934. The arrival of the cruiser was a propaganda victory for the French and his captain was promoted to the rank of rear admiral as a reward for his actions.

1933- Naval War South Atlantic- The arrival of the British battlecruiser Squadron 1, composed of the Hood and her sister ship the Rodney (equivalent to OTL G3 battlecruisers), arrived to Comodoro Rivadavia on August 29th to ensure the commerce between Argentina and Great Britain continue without interruption. Chile protested this clear violation of neutrality but the British ships have orders of not fire except if attacked. US protested this also and British response was that their ships will be moved if the US ensures the commerce between Argentina and Great Britain runs without problems.

1933-Naval War Black Sea- The Black Sea was essentially a Russian lake after the remnants of the Ottoman fleet escaped to the Mediterranean. Only Ottoman patrol boats and, after their war declaration in November, the minuscule Georgian Navy resisted the Russian ships.

1933-Naval War Mediterranean Sea- All forces in the area stayed wary of each other for the year, with the French and Italians controlling the west and the center of the Sea while the British and their allies controlled the East. No major battles occurred during the year, but the British began to prepare themselves to contest the Mediterranean in 1934 with the arrival of reinforcements from the Far East late on the year.

1933-Naval War North Atlantic- The French surface fleet refused to contest the Atlantic after two of their commerce raider cruisers were destroyed fairly fast by the Royal Navy and the destruction of the French battle cruiser Bretagne on a chance encounter with the British battlecruisers Hanson and Howe (sisters ships to the Hood) near the coast of Spain convinced them to save the strength of the fleet. But the French decided to use their submarine fleet to try to curtain commerce to the British islands and Germany. At the time the French submarine strength was 60 short-range subs and 20 long range ones. They declared the North Sea and the waters around Great Britain as subject to interception of all merchant ships and the possibility of been sunk if merchant ships were found to be carrying war material and supplies to either Germany or Great Britain. While at the beginning the French tried to verify cargo, the threat of the Royal Navy forced them to start indiscriminate submarine warfare by November 1933.

1933- Naval War Baltic- The biggest battle between dreadnaughts occurred for the control of the Baltic on August 19th 1933. The whole Russian Baltic Fleet, led by seven dreadnaughts and two battlecruisers, faced the German High Seas Fleet, led by ten dreadnaughts and nine battlecruisers, in a three hour battle that shattered both forces but realistically gave the Russians the control of the Baltic. The Russian lost both their Borodino class battlecruisers and the Gangut, plus two other dreadnaughts suffered moderate damage while the Germans lost three battlecruisers and forced the Russians to withdrew. Still six German dreadnaughts suffered damage ranging from moderate to severe and the German High Seas Fleet refused to contest the Baltic again until 1935.

January 7th 1933- US Army pulls a mounted brigade each of the 1st and 2nd Cavalry divisions and replaces them with armored car brigades. The mounted brigades were used to activate the 3rd Cavalry division.

January10th 1933- President Gomez of Venezuela declares neutrality in the conflict in the continent.

Febuary 1933: To kick off his term, President Swing proposes serious anti-crime and anti-corruption legislation. Unlike similar moves in the Smith administration, this legislation does not only focus on large cities, but actually emphasises medium-seized cities and large towns. This appeals to Swing's west coast constituency, though is viewed as too little by many Populists.

February 1933: The American automobile market collapses, with Commonwealth, Markin, Maxwell, and Chrysler all going bankrupt. Studebaker swoops in and buys up all their assets, using the wide variety of factories to its advantage to become the first auto manufacturer to offer custom-building at prices that the average buyer could afford. The world-famous "Studebaker -- As You Wish" slogan emerges.

February 1933- Soong Tzu-Wen wins the Chinese presidential election in another close call election over the incumbent Wang Jingwei. A millionaire and Chairman of the Bank of China, he understood the advances made by his predecessor in regard to public welfare were too important to be dismissed and even when they were considered socialist by many in his cabinet he continued to subsidize those programs. He was the Chinese president during the Global War and is now considered a leader that united the different factions in China during that time of peril.

February 3rd 1933: Recently promoted Brigadier General George S. Patton is given command of the new armored car brigade in the 2nd Calvary Division.

February 7th 1933- The two former Montana class, now named the USS Cowpens and USS Bunker Hill, are commissioned as the biggest aircraft carriers in the world. Carrying over 80 aircrafts each, their only drawback was their slow speed of 25 knots.

March 1933: As an attempt to finally get through to the rural vote, Swing meets with major congressmen from both parties in an attempt to draw up The Bureau of Rural Benefit and Enahancement. He purposefully includes Wheeler, and even brings in Bryan for part of the conference. Very little common ground is found, and the final bill pleases few. Senator Hanslow ends up supporting the bill, stating that he is pleased to see that the government is at least trying to do something. Many criticize him, saying that he is only doing this because he's given up on the seemingly dead Democratic Party, and is looking to join up with the Progressive Republicans.

March, 1933: Fearing that the Democratic Party is falling apart, major party leaders encourage Wilkie, who they view as a popular unifying figure, to run for the Senate in his home state of Indiana. Wilkie hesitantly agrees, and most view this as a sign that he may have future presidential aspirations.

March 18th 1933- Hans von Ohain, a student at the Unversity of Goettingen, successfully test a turbojet engine called Strahltriebwerk 1.He goes off to find financial support to further develop his work.

March 25th 1933- First operational use of US armored cars. Used in the patrolling of the Commonwealth of Rio Grande by the 2nd Cavalry Division. Their imposing appearance is called by many one of the reasons of the reduction of “events” between American settlers and troops.

April 1933: The Bureau of Rural Benefit and Enhancement is stopped by the Senate. Though the Populists did not fully support the bill, they still take this as an excuse to further complain about US neglect of plains communities. Swing draws up a far reaching improvements programming focusing almost exclusively on rural areas. It includes irrigation projects, and over 30 new dams, especially on the west coast and in the Tennessee Valley. Instead of making them federal, he makes them joint business and governent ventures.

April 1933: At Frederich Hanslow's strong encouragement, New Mexico re-aranges is election laws to provide for a devided electoral college.

April 1933- General Davis directed the Ethiopian attack on Djibuti.

April 1st 1933- David Lloyd George has to step down as Prime Minister of Great Britain due to health. Conservative Winston Churchill elected Prime Minister after recall elections.

April 6th 1933- Heinz Guderian named commander of the 13th Motorized Division.

April 10th 1933- In a attempt to try and stop the sinking of their ships by French subs the British started work on a new depth charge as the current ones are considered to be of limited effect.

Summer 1933- West front. The French forces surprised the German General Staff launching a simultaneous attack combined with the Russians on May 8th 1933. The French Motorized Corps, composed of three landship divisions and three truck-borne infantry divisions, advanced north thru the Ardennes while some forces hold the Germans in place in Alsace-Lorraine. But the decision to invade Belgium brought Great Britain into the war and by the end of the summer the combined forces of the BEF and the IEF helped in stopping the advancing tide on the Rhine.

Summer 1933- American Front- The war finally reached the Caribbean on the middle of June, when British naval forces defeated the French navy Caribbean Squadron, composed of a light cruiser and some smaller units, near Guadalupe and followed that with landings in every single French Caribbean island colony. By the end of the month all islands were under British control. United States protested but the British assured the US government the move wasn’t permanent. Still negotiations began between both nations to resolve this.

Summer 1933- Asia- The war in the Pacific was very similar to the one in the Caribbean, except here the Australians and New Zealanders captured the islands of French Polynesia fairly easily. By the end of June Australians were in command of Tahiti and the other French colonies in the area. On the other hand, China joined the war almost immediately and while they have small border clashes with the Russians in Mongolia and Sin kiang they actually launched offensive operations against the French forces in Indochina, capturing almost all of Tonkin by the end of June but they suffered terrible casualties in the process. The Chinese had over 20 divisions trained by the Germans but they feared more the Japanese and the Russians so the forces used in Indochina were of lower quality.

Summer 1933- Middle East. All thru the summer the forces in the area put their troops in a high state of alert but they stayed neutral. Still small border clashes occurred in Persia and in Mesopotamia between Russians and British in Persia and between Ottomans and Russians in Mesopotamia.

Summer 1933- Africa- War started almost immediately in East Africa, were Ethiopia surprised everyone by declaring war to the French and capturing Djibouti in a surprise attack. On West Africa the war was confined to border clashes in Nigeria and German Equatorial Africa except by the capture of Sierra Leone and Gambia by French colonial forces. Also an invasion of Ghana was launched but by the end of June it was still an ongoing concern. The main operation of the summer in Africa was the Italian invasion of Egypt, which failed in their objective of capturing the area. By the end of June the frontlines followed a line running from Marsa Matruh all the way to the oasis in Siwa.

Summer 1933- Italian front- The war turned into a positional one due to the terrain. The Italian advance turned into a very slow and delivered one but it reality only the Austrian-Hungarian concerns of the situation in other fronts made possible the capture of Trento by the end of June. The borders changes in the area were minimal compared to the events in other parts of Europe.

Summer 1933- Balkan Front- The war didn’t reached the Balkans until the war declarations of Bulgaria and Romania against the Austro-Hungarian Empire in early June. While both nations by themselves were just a small threat to the Austrians, their declaration of wars combined with the attacks launched by the Italians and Russians put the Empire in a very difficult situation. By the end of the month one fifth of Transylvania was on the hands of the Romanian army while the Serbians and the Bulgarian were locked in mortal combat in the Macedonian Mountains. Greece declared their neutrality in the conflict but took over the defense of Salonika, dissolving the council that ruled the city since 1926 and putting the area under military rule for “the time being.”

Summer 1933- Eastern Front- The sheer size of the Russian attack shocked both the German and Austrian Empires. By the end of June the Kingdom of Belarus was no more, the Grand Duchy of the Baltics was almost gone except for Livonia, Bessarabia and the former Ukrainians lands were wrestled away from the Austrians and the front lines rested in the borders of Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Poland.

Summer (winter) 1933- South American front- The stalemate in the Chilean-Argentina War continued but this time the British began to put political pressure on both sides to reach an end to the hostilities. The shipment of grain and beef from Argentina were considered essential by the British government and they wanted to secure that supply line.

May 1933: Hearst publishes a widely publicized book called "Devision" where he talks about the end of the American political system and the absolute colapse of the Democratic party. It is incredibly pessimistic, though imploys some rather clever dry humour. It reveals several major political secrets about major politicians throughout the ages, including Cleavland, McKinely, Roosevelt, Bryan, MacArthur, Wheeler, and Smith. There is an entire chapter devoted to what a sham Ballinger was. Wilkie goes on radio and TV, publicly crticizing Heart's move, and gives a strong positive partisan vision of America. Both parties respect what Wilkie says. Swing even agrees to guest star of Wilkie's show.

May 1933- Spain announces they will stay neutral in the just starting conflict, but privately Spain’s sympathies laid on the French side.

May 7, 1933- The French battleship Normandie blows up in Brest with the loss of nearly her entire complement. Unstable nitrocellulose is the cause, although the navy claims that saboteurs were responsible.

May 8th 1933 - France and Russia launch an unprovoked surprise attack on the German Empire and her allies. The French and Russian assaults use combined arms and speed of movement to a breathtaking degree not seen in modern warfare prior to this date.

May 9th 1933- French forces cross the border into Belgium and continue their advance north. Great Britain gave a 48-hour ultimatum requesting the French to withdrew or else.

May 11th 1933- The Netherlands' legislature pass a motion supporting the war effort of the German Reich.

May 11th 1933- Odessa is surrounded by the Russians while they continue their advance west.

May 11th, 1933 -- The Ethiopian and Georgian Secretaries of State meet with their Greek counterpart in Athens to discuss what appears to be another Great War. They agree to not declare war on each other, and to inform the other of any diplomatic moves.

May 12th 1933- Great Britain and the nations of the British Empire declare war to France. British Prime Minister Churchill and Irish Prime Minister Collins announced they were raising expeditionary forces to serve in Europe.

May 12th 1933 -- The Ottomans learn of the negotiations in Athens. They frantically contact the "Greek Three" and the British in an effort to avoid being the odd man out.

May 13, 1933: President Swing makes an official statement broadcast on all stations stating that the US has no reason to involve itself in foreign conflicts, and that if requested he personally would mediate any dispute.

May 14th 1933- China declares war to France and Russia.

May 15th 1933- Tallinn falls, the Grand Duke being evacuated by ship to Konigsberg.

May 16th 1933- Bastogne is captured by advancing French motorized forces.

May 16th 1933 -- With the government convinced that war against France and Russia is inevitable, the British authorize their ambassador to Greece to meet with the "Greek Three" and the Ottomans to see if they can be pursuaded to join their side. Intense negotiations begin over economics and border adjustments.

May 18th 1933 -- Ethiopia declares war to France and invades Djibouti immediately.

May 19th 1933- Italian troops cross the border of Egypt and began moving east thru the coastal plain.

May 19th 1933- Minsk captured after a two-day battle. The belarussian forces were in disarray.

May 20, 1933: Germany and France each nationalize the portions of Hannoversche Maschinenbau-Castodi and Opel-Darracq that are within their borders and order the manufacturing plants to only produce military vehicles for the duration of the conflict. Humbled by the destruction of two of the largest companies in the European motor vehicle market, the rest of the industry scrambles to secure defense contracts and secure their independence.

May 20th 1933- Great Britain and the Empire declare war to Italy.

May 21st 1933- Gambia surrenders to French colonial troops.

May 22nd 1933- Brussels is captured by the French forces but already their advance is slowing down in the center.

May 22nd 1933-With the port of Djibouti now under direct artillery fire from Ethiopian guns, the French Red Sea Squadron, now consisting of two light cruiser and four destroyers, breaks out into the Indian Ocean to begin commerce raiding.

May 23rd 1933- Chinese forces cross the Tonkin border in the direction of Hanoi.

May 24th 1933- Ostende falls to the French. The Belgium coast is under French occupation.

May 26th 1933- Aachen falls to the French motorized forces. With German troops being moved north to try to stop the advancing enemy motorized forces the French in the south finally broke the defenses in Alsace-Lorraine and began slowly to push the Germans in the direction of the Rhine.

May 29th 1933- Cripps, a long-time friend of Churchill, is named Chancellor of the Exchequer in the War Cabinet. He turned to be a very popular man with the working classes, with the way he enforced rationing with equal severity against all classes and his plans for bigger subsidies to the families of the soldiers fighting in all fronts.

May 31st 1933- Antwerp surrounded by the advancing French, that continued advancing north and entered the Netherlands on the 1st of June.

June 1933: Fed up with the high spending Swing, Vandenburg along with other Hoover Republicans quit the party. Many become Democrats, though fiercely opposed to Stimson's Hard Democrats and Populists. Vandenberg and others refer to themselves as independants.

June 1st 1933- Italian 8th Army defeats the defenders of Sidi Barrani and pushed them in the direction of Alexandria.

June 3rd 1933- British Admiralty covertly arms merchat ships with hidden weapons and begins to call them M-Ships.

June 4th 1933- Freetown surrenders to French colonial forces. The British squadron in Sierra Leone escapes to Nigeria.

June 4th 1933- First combat between the IEF, composed of two infantry divisions, and the French occurred in Eindhoven. The Irish were forced to abandon the field after the supporting Dutch forces to their left flank were defeated and due to fear of encirclement they were ordered to move north in the direction of the Rhine.

June 5th, 1933 - The Republic of Guiana declares war against the French, and by the end of the month a small combined Guianan-British force have taken French Guiana.

June 5, 1933 -- Mere days after a messy breakup with Hollywood's most famous dancer, Fred Austerlitz, Barbie Davis weds "highschool sweetheart" Freddy Ball. Press coverage is through the roof, and the event is later looked on as the birth of "celebrity news".

June 6th 1933- French Motorized Corps reach Cologne but they bypass the city to continue their advance. They left a small token force to contain the defenders until the arrival of more troops to deal with the enemy inside the city.

June 7th 1933- Romania declares war to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

June 7th 1933- Austrian garrison of Odessa surrenders.

June 8th 1933- First combat between forces of the BEF, composed of five infantry divisions and a landship division, and the French north of Cologne. British 52nd Infantry division forced north after suffering some heavy casualties.

June 8th 1933- Last Austrian forces in Bessarabia surrender after being cutoff by the Romanian declaration of war.

June 9th 1933- Saarbruken falls to the advancing French.

June 9th 1933- Bulgaria declares war to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and to the Kingdom of Serbia.

June 10th 1933- Former Kaiser Wilhelm III forms an impromptu command of stragglers from retreating forces in the Netherlands and forms a rearguard allowing several Dutch and German troops as well as many Dutch civilians to successfully escape from the advancing French invasion, but at the cost of his own life. A prominant Dutch member of the Reichstag is quoted as saying upon hearing the news, "Today, with Iron and Blood, the Hohenzollern have wed themselves forever to the Dutch people."

June 11th 1933- French forces reach Bonn and troops in the city put a stiff defense.

June 14th 1933- Marsa Matruh captured by Italians but the forces were exhausted. First time landships clashed in the African desert. The Italian landship's main armament was too light to cause any damage to the British vehicles but the raw number of the Italian forces forced the British to move to Garawla.

June 16th 1933- Sibiu captured by Romanian troops.

June 17th 1933- British Landship division stops almost by itself the Italian advance and forced them to go back to Marsa Matruh, were they began to dig in.

June 17th 1933- First combat ever between landships. Units of the French 1st DCA faced landships of the British 1st Landship Division northwest of Dusseldorf. The British landships demonstrated to be better armored than the French ones, but the speed of the French forced the British to withdrew or be encircled. The French lost 11 vehicles compared with 5 British ones.

June 19th 1933- French tried to cross the Rhine south of Bonn but they were repulsed.

June 22nd 1933- Mulhouse falls to the advancing French forces in Lorraine.

June 25th 1933- Strasbourg falls. Last German forces in Alsace-Lorraine cross the Rhine into Baden. King Napoleon IV declares the 25th of June a national holiday.

June 25th 1933- Haiphong falls to the Chinese 15th Army.

June 27th 1933- Hanoi is surrounded by the Chinese 14th Army. French authorities escape by aircraft to Hue.

June 28th 1933- Italian forces capture Trento.

June 30th 1933- Front stabilizes on the Rhine from the Atlantic to the Swiss border. Germans defenders blow up every single major bridge on the Rhine in their withdraw plus the dikes were opened in the Netherlands also in the attempt to slow down the advancing French.

Fall 1933- Asia- The war in Asia saw the near end of the French presence in Indochina. By the end of October Tonkin and Laos were effectively in the hands of the Chinese. After landings by small forces of German troops from the Dutch Indies in the area around Saigon the French Naval Command ordered their Far East Squadron to try to intern themselves in the Philippines. They failed and it was considered by many that it was only a question of time before the whole area fell on the hands of the Central Powers and their allies. In Sinkiang, the Russians launched limited offensives to try to relieve the pressure put to their allies in Indochina but their territorial gains were minuscule due to supply constrains.

Fall 1933- Middle East - Flush by their success in Europe, the Russians tried to expand their borders into the Middle East and launched two major operations to try to reach the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea. The first one reached their objective with the capture of Bandar Abbas late on October of 1933, with only the arrival of Indian troops helping stop the Russians to their small foothold facing the Gulf. On the other hand, their attempt to capture Syria and reach Alexandretta fails thanks to the sacrifices performed by the Ottoman forces under Mustafa Kemal, the hero of Istanbul in the last war. The casualties were appalling for the Ottomans but the Russians underestimated them and paid dearly for their mistake. By the end of October the Russians were back at their starting point and the only reason the Ottomans didn’t took advantage of the situation was more pressing concerns in other fronts.

Fall 1933- Italian front- The slow advance continued in this front, the terrain helping the defenders. By the end of October the arrival of the German Mountain corps helped to stabilize the front for the rest of the year.

Fall 1933- Balkan front- The Romanians continued their slow advance in Transylvania, the defenders performing an scorch earth policy while giving away terrain. Also the Bulgarians captured Skojpe but stopped offensive operations against the Serbs after their war declaration against the Ottoman Empire. At the same time Italy extended the conflict in the Balkans by attacking the Serbs from Albania. But the biggest event of the fall was the defeat of the Ottoman Black Sea Fleet that made possible the Russian landings north of Istanbul. By the end of October a join Russo-Bulgarian force have Istanbul surrounded and it was considered a question of time before the city was captured.

Fall 1933- Africa- Ghana finally falls to the French on late September 1933. The forces in Nigeria and the German Equatorial Africa were big enough to defend the area but not sufficient to launch offensive operations in the area. Due to the many concerns going on somewhere else the area was very low in the Central Powers priority list. So for now the French had the upper hand in West Africa. Egypt on the other hand was another matter completely. The Italians reinforced by French colonial troops and the famed French Foreign Legion, tried again to reach Alexandria. The battles raged thru the fall, with the offensive been defeated in the town of El Alamein after the arrival of reinforcements from South Africa, Australia, British East Africa and Ethiopia. By the end of October the Italians and their allies were back in Marsa Matruh, but this time they were running low on supplies and were outnumbered 2:1 by the defenders.

Fall 1933- Eastern Front- During the fall of 1933 the Russians continue their advance against the combined forces of the Austrian and German Empires, their fast operational tempo of the summer slowing down due to the terrain that helped the defender. The marshes of the eastern part of Poland channeled the advance of the Russians and many of their armored cars were destroyed or damaged by the heavy caliber rifles issued by the German Army to their allies the Poles and the Austrians. On the Baltic States the battle was more mobile, with the Russian armored cavalry units fighting it out with the last remaining German Motorized Corps in the area used as a fire brigade. By the end of October Livonia was on Russians hands and the artillery rumble could be heard in Memel and Vilna. But it was in Austrian Galicia were the Russian superiority in mobile warfare was really fell. In less than a month, from August 4th to September 1st 1933, the Austrians were forced into the Carpathian mountains and only the heroics of Polish, German and Austrians troops stopped the Russians from turning the flank on the defenders in Central Poland. What many later historians considered extended the war was the Stravka decision to expand the war to the Middle East, lacking the forces necessary to knock out of the war the Austro-Hungarian Empire at this time.

Fall 1933- Western front- The French mobile forces were exhausted after the summer campaign but the French High Command wanted to end the war right now. Scrapping as much landships as possible they prepared their units for the invasion of Hannover, aimed at reaching Hamburg and force Germany into the negotiation table. The plan was flawed. The mobile forces were basically spent and the casualties suffered by the forces tasked in achieving a crossing of the Rhine were very heavy. The Germans won the war in the air over Hannover after terrible casualties to both sides and the French advance stalled after reaching the city of Celle on August 18th. The German counterattack was a decisive defeat of the French forces in the area, with the Germans learning the lessons of the summer and used three of their four Motorized Corps (moved from the eastern front as soon as the French crossings of the Rhine succeeded) to attack the flanks of the French forces in Hannover and pocketed two French mobile divisions on August 25th to the 29th. The French were successful in escaping the pocket but they lost close to 20% of their heavy equipment in the attempt. The French mobile forces were taken out of the front lines to refit. By the end October the French recognized the impossibility to keep forces in Hannover under the circumstances and recrossed the Rhine, leaving the field to the Germans.

Fall 1933- American front- The war in continued at a leisure pace in the area, with French Guinea being captured after a short campaign. The US continue to show their displeasure with the events but received assurances events in the Caribbean were just “temporary measures.”

Fall(Spring) 1933- South America- The war Argentines tried to break the impasse after receiving massive help from the British thru the winter. The two operations, one to get over the Andes near Mendoza and another an attempt to recover Santa Cruz both ended in failure. By the end of October the frontlines looked almost the same as four months before, but now fresh corpses littered the area. British Prime Minister George sent a note to the US asking if they will be interested in helping to mediate the conflict. The US first asked the British to remove their naval forces of Comodoro Rivadavia before any negotiations could be started.

July 7th 1933 -- All of Djibouti has fallen, except for the city itself. The Ethiopian troops have been extremely successful on land, but their navy is in tatters. The Ethiopians beg the British Navy to help them block off sea access to Djibouti, but the British are too occupied in the European theater. The Ethiopian army decides to pound Djibouti into submission with artillery and aerial bombardment.

July 8th 1933- Russia declares war to both Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire. The Republic of Georgia declares their neutrality for the time being.

July 16 1933- After the outbreak of war in Europe. Venezuela President Juan Gomez suddenly announces the nationalization of all petroleum and petroleum related industry "In the interest of the prosperity and sincerity of Venezuela." This brings the whole country's oil under the control of Standard Oil.

July 18th 1933- With the war going on in Europe, Japan secretly began construction of the Shinano class battleship. The ships were being build in violation of the agreements of the Treaty of New York of 1930, so that was the reason of their construction being under wraps. The largest battleship ever build, the three ship class was completed by the middle of 1936 after receiving priority for their construction. With a weight of over 70,000 tons loaded, with a speed of 27 knots and armed with eight 20" guns in dual turrets this ships gave good account of themselves versus the US Pacific Fleet early in that part of the war.

July 27th 1933- Riga falls after close to a month of house to house fighting.

July 28th- 30th 1933- French infantry forces successfully achieve a bridgehead on the Right Bank of the Rhine and began to expand. The forces involved suffered terrible casualties. German General Staff orders 3/4 of their motorized forces west to counter the French.

August 1933: The arms industry booms in the US, with weapons, food, ships, and planes being sent to all corners of the world. Though more profitable, trade directly with Europe proves to be more dangerous do to possible threats of sinking. Therefore a large portion of the goods are shipped to African train depots for the French, and through high northern waters to assist the British and Germans. Trade to the other fronts and to the colonies grows exponentially. Quentin Roosevelt, one of the three principle planes dealers in the US takes the high risk high reward road, trading with both sides of the European conflict.

August 2nd 1933- First French mobile forces cross the Rhine and began advancing north.

August 7th, 1933 - After secret negotiations, Bolivia and Peru declare war on Chile and launch a dual invasion in the north, in an attempt to reclaim territory previously lost to Chile before the British can force an end to the Chile-Argentina War.

August 9th 1933- Hannover falls to advancing French.

August 14th 1933- First Canadian troops arrive, being shipped directly from Halifax to Hamburg.

August 17th 1933- Hanoi surrenders to the Chinese 14th Army.

August 17th 1933- Bulgaria declares war to the Ottoman Empire.

August 18th 1933- City of Celle is captured. High mark of the French advance into Hannover.

August 19th 1933- Lemberg captured and Austrian forces began to rout in the direction of the Carpathian Mountains.

August 22nd 1933- Major Otto Frank of the Royal Polish Army is captured and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp. The book based in his memories, “The Diary of Otto Frank”, was a very compelling anti-war book and narrated the horrors of the Siberian POW camps.

August 23rd 1933- The 2nd Cavalry Division replaced by the 3rd Cavalry on the Commonwealth of Rio Grande. The number of “incidents” are been reduced and many of the American settlers are beginning to accept the new regime.

August 25th 1933- German counterattack starts under the command of Field Marshall Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. Following the advice of some of his subordinates and the lesson learned from the summer operations he attacked the flanks of the French forces, defended by infantry, and broke them. Commendations were given to divisional commanders Heinz Guderian and Erwin Rommel for the actions of their divisions on the operation.

August 30th 1933- Italian forces reach the Drin River, pushing the Serbians from their coastal enclaves.

September 1933- Lieutenant-Colonel Juan Peron of the Argentinian Army is promoted to Colonel after taking a Chilean redoubt near Mendoza previously thought to be impregnable.

September 4th 1933- Battle of Karacakoy. The Ottoman Fleet composed of the Reshadieh and three light cruisers tried to intercept the Russian force trying to land in the area. The Russian escorts, led by the massive Alexander Nevsky, sank the Ottoman capital ships in a three-hour battle. The Russian lost the battlecruiser Borodino and the dreadnaught Imperatritsa Mariya was severely damaged but the Ottomans failed in their attempt to stop the Russians reaching the coast.

September 5th 1933- Land battle of Karacakoy. The Russian naval infantry established a beachhead after suffering terrible casualties but by the middle of the month the Russian 70th Corps was already advancing in the direction of Istanbul while another Corps was being unloaded.

September 5th, 1933 - US foreign service officers, fearing the fall of their ally Chile, essentially bribe the Ecuador government to declare war on the Peruvians, relieving pressure on the Chileans. These negotiations are done without the knowledge of the Executive Mansion or the Congress.

September 8th 1933- Over 120 French landships were recovered from the battlefield by the Germans. Only about forty were salvaged and were formed into the first German landship unit, as a provisional testing one. The others were reversed engineered for study.

September 18th 1933- Bulgarian and Russian forces meet in the city of Catalos.

September 18th, 1933 - The Republic of Guiana announces they are formally annexing French Guiana. The British recognize the annexation.

September 20th, 1933 - First major covert shipment of weapons and money arrive in Ecuador.

September 27th 1933- Hannover recaptured by German 7th Corps.

October 1933: American ships stopping through provides a huge boost to the long stagnant Greenland and Iceland's economies.

October 1933: Clarence Darrow leaves the Equality League to take up private practice.

October 1st to 6th 1933- The Washington Senators win their first World Series ever by defeating the Buffalo Braves 4 games to one. Led by their trio of outfielders, veteran Lew Wilson (.298-23-123), Frankie O’Doul (.357-21-87) and John Stone (.288-17-108), the Senators surprised the experts by repeating their performance of the year before and taking it a step further by winning it all.

October 12th 1933- French Far East Squadron, composed of three light cruisers and other small ships, is intercepted by an Anglo-German-Dutch Task Force led by a Dutch battleship and the two battlecruisers of the Australian Navy. The battle was a carnage, with the three French capital ships being sunk and other ships been scuttled or force to surrender. Only two destroyers reached Filipino waters.

October 24th 1933- Bandar Abbas falls to the Russian 7th Army Group. Reza Pahlevi escapes to India were he pledges he will return to his beloved nation.

October 30th 1933- Russian and Bulgarian artillery began to hit positions inside the city of Istanbul and pleas were launched to the Russians to respect the historical buildings. Their response was “to evacuate the city if you want them to be left standing.”

Winter 1933- Caribbean- The war was over in the area for all effects with the surrender of French Guinea in October. While some troops went to jungle to continue resistance and refused to surrender the majority of the forces in the colony of French Guiana went into captivity. But the United States was highly displeased by the events of the year and put his naval forces in the area on alert to show their displeasure.

Winter 1933- Asia- The war on Indochina ended with the surrender of the colonial administration in Hue to the advancing Chinese forces on December 9th. But before that another nation entered the war when the Kingdom of Siam declared war to France and moved into Cambodia. By the end of the year Indochina was divided into areas of occupation, with Tonkin, Annam and Laos falling under the Chinese protection, Cochinchina and Cambodia under German administration. The Siamese were allowed to annex the disputed border areas they had in Cambodia as a reward for their declaration of war. Meanwhile the war in Sinkiang continued as a low-level affair.

Winter 1933- Italian front- The war in this region pretty much stalled during the winter, with other fronts taking priority for both the Austrians and the Italians.

Winter 1933- Western front- Both sides were exhausted by the battles of the summer and fall. They both recognized now that mobile warfare burns the forces involved fairly fast and they began preparations for the coming year. The French expanded their production of landships to rebuild the decimated landship divisions and build at least two more of them. The British also began replacing the losses of landships in their armored division and began preparations to build a new one. Meanwhile the Germans continued their study of the captured French vehicles in an attempt to build their own landship. The most important event during this period on this front was the arrival of more reinforcements from Great Britain, Ireland and Canada, bringing the size of their forces in the Continent to 11, 3 and 2 divisions respectively.

Winter 1933- Eastern front- The front also fell into a standstill due to both sides been exhausted and the Russian sending their fresh troops to other fronts to either defend or launch offensive operations. The hiatus gave the German, Polish and Austrian forces to dig in and wait for the coming onslaught. But at least until the end of December only small unit operations occurred in the area and the front stayed stable.

Winter 1933- Balkan Front- The situation on this front changed on November 18th when Greece declared war to Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Italy. Both nations, while not completely surprised by the actions of Greece, were badly positioned to put an effective resistance on the short term. Thru the rest of the year the Greeks rolled both Italian positions in Albania and Bulgarian ones in Thrace and in the Chaldice. The Serbs and the Austrian took advantage of the situation to launch limited offensives that gained some of the ground lost to both the Italians and Bulgarians in Serbia. By the middle of December the situation was so desperate for the Bulgarians that they have to plea for help from the Russian Empire, who was forced to move troops from the Eastern front south to the Balkans to stabilize the front. The siege of Istanbul continued but with the Bulgarians forced to withdraw forces from the siege the situation on the city began to look better.

Winter 1933- The Middle East front- The area was one of the few active fronts during the period, with the Georgian declaration of war taking the Russians by surprise. The Georgian declaration started a snowball effect that ended with the Russians reeling in the area, with troops being send from another fronts in an attempt to stop the bleeding. The November 18th declaration of war was followed by the expected British counteroffensive starting on November 21st while in the west the Ottomans under Kemal launched a limited offensive designed to tie troops but due to stripping of forces for other fronts it was fairly successful. By the end of December the Kingdom of Kurdistan was under the heel of the Ottomans, the Russians foothold on the Persian Gulf was lost and the sound of gunfire could be heard in the mountains of Azerbaijan. The Russians began to make preparations to crush Georgia by 1934.

Winter 1933- African front- While the war in West Africa continued to stall, being a non-important front for all sides involved, the war in Egypt took a turn in the opposite direction. Starting on November 7th the British plus Australians and Ethiopians began a counteroffensive that broke the Franco-Italian lines and by the end of the year the front lines were sitting in Bardia. Egypt was free of invading forces by the end of the year.

November, 1933: Wendell Wilkie is elected Senator from Indiana by a landslide. He continues his TV and radio broadcast though he no longer accepts money from them.

November 1933- Filipino president Ramos wins reelection thanks to the economy turning for the better, with free trade agreements with both the Japanese and the Chinese in place since the early 1930's.

November 14th 1933- New York Yankees trades Roger Hornsby to the New Orleans Cajuns. After two consecutive seasons of sub-par performances, the Yankees decided to part ways with their star. The Cajuns’ management surprised everyone by announcing Hornsby was going to start in second base next season.

November 15th, 1933 - Brazil, fearing the beginnings of an Argentine-dominated continent, attacks Bolivia and Peru to relieve pressure on Chile, while at the same time demonstrating on the Brazilian/Argentine border.

November 18th 1933 -- Greece declares war to Bulgaria and Georgia declares war to Russia.

December 1933: Swing attempts to expand his public works projects, but finds that there is little interest. The economy is booming, and there are thousands of factory jobs available.

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1934

1934- In self-defence, a Chinese immigrant kills drunken white man John Pershing in Oakland. Riots start, and many Chinatowns around Oakland are burned and some of the occupants lynched.

1934- Chinese property in the Philippines is confiscated and many ethnic Chinese were deported to either Mainland China or to camps deep into the Philippines.

1934 Harry Houdini's Great Escapes is the top rated television show for the year. Most of the stunts are performed by up and coming magicians, but at the end of every episode the spry 60 year old performs the biggest escape of the performance, many of which now incorporate the newest technological marvels in the threat to the escape artist.

1934- The British construct a 36" diameter mortar to test new aerial bombs. The mortar, nicknamed "Little David", is not used for combat due to its inaccuracy and unspectacular range of six miles

1934- Clinton Anderson is elected Chair of the Democrat party in Sonora.

January-February-March 1934:South American front: A ceasefire brokered by both the British and the US was accepted by both parts on February 17th 1934 and for the first time in close to two years the guns fell silent in the Patagonia and in the Andes.

January-February-March 1934: Balkan front: The Russian juggernaut was unleashed against Greece and Serbia in an offensive that in conjunction with the ones in the Middle East and the Eastern front are considered by some later historians an attempt by the Russians to end the war right there and now. The arrival of new fresh recruits gave the Russian commander in the area, the aging Field Marshall Mannerheim, the resources to attack many targets at the same time. Only the arrival of British troops from Egypt saved the city of Salonika of falling to the advancing Russians but the Greeks used the terrain to slowly give up territory. The Serbians suffered the brunt of the attack and by the end of March Nis and Zica were in the hands of the Bulgarians while artillery can be hear in Belgrade from the Russian forces that attacked from Romania. Istanbul was finally sealed from the rest of Turkey.

January-February-March 1934:Asian front: The war continued to be at a very low level in the Sinkiang area, with what it seemed like the Chinese and the Russians were just waiting for the end of the war. All that changed with the surprising declaration of war of the Japanese Empire on March 8th. A Japanese task force with a Russian heavy cruiser division attached defeated the British Far East Fleet and followed that with landings in China.

January-February-March 1934: Middle East front: January 13th was the beginning of the Russian counteroffensive that later was called “the year of the Horde.” Grand Duke Michael himself took command of the operation in the area and with close to one million men under arms they sweep the region. Three different operations were launched and by sheer numbers they began to succeed. By the end of March all the enemies of Russia on the Middle East were in retreat.

January-February-March 1934 - Chinese Front. The Japanese launch a series of attacks on coastal areas of China and British enclaves in the East, as well as one major thrust from Manchuria. The coastal expeditions are relatively successful, but the Chinese had held in reserve their best forces in the North in fear of just such an occurence, and they acquit themselves well, eventually throwing the Japanese forces back to the border.

January-February-March 1934; African Front: The war on Egypt entered a lull, with Italian and French trying to recover from being forced out of Egypt while the Central Powers were incapable of launching any offensive operations due to the events occurring in the Middle East and Greece. On the other hand a combined British-German-South African force launched an limited offensive out of Nigeria that captured Dahomey and liberated Ghana from French hands by the end of March.

January-February-March 1934: Italian Front: The war continued to be a slow draw affair until the middle of March, when the Italians took advantage of the situation in other fronts to finally capture to cities of Gorizia and Bolzano.

January-February-March 1934: Eastern Front: The expected Russian offensive began on March 14th and as such the advance was very low. Both the Germans and Austrians were prepared and had time to reinforce their positions for the coming storm. Still the sheer number of the Russian forces forced the defenders back and by the end of March the city of Memel was on the hands of the Russians and the Poles were pushed back to the Bug River. Only in Austria-Hungary the lines hold, the Carpathian mountains being a formidable obstacle.

January-February-March 1934: Western Front: The French began their own offensive on March 16th, an attempt, in conjunction with the Russian attack, to bring the Germans to the diplomatic table. But all thru the winter the banks of the Rhine were transformed into a mass of trenches and well armed positions that caused terrible casualties to the attacking French. By the end of March only three major crossings have survived and the French were furiously trying to move as many troops as possible to keep that bridgeheads alive and the momentum going.

Spring 1934 - French and Russian troops begin to employ flamethrowers, both man-portable and vehicle mounted, to clear out embedded German and Austrian defensive works.

Spring 1934 - Brazil demands that the British end support to the Argentinians before they will agree to talks. The British are in a difficult position as they can ill afford to actually provide such support and do not have the resources to commit to defending British Guyana which could be threatened by the Brazilians, but on the other hand can not be seen as capitulating to the dictates of a third rate Latin American power.

January 1934: With a booming economy, Swing sees an opportunity to expand welfare and public services to as much of the population as possible. Congress agrees with him and authorizes several new entitlement programs, spending most of the increased revenue coming into federal coffers.

January 2nd 1934 - King Rama VI of Siam dies. His son Chomklao becomes King Rama VII, however due to his young age Prince Prachadhipok Sakdidej becomes the regent.

January 3rd 1934- Major General Archibald Butt is named commander of Fort Hood, Texas. The home of the 2nd Cavalry and the Armored Cars School, Butt arranged the training of the new tactics of the Great War to be teached in the School. One of his biggest supporters was Brigadier General Patton.

January 19th 1934- Pressure is released in Azerbaijan with the defeat of Georgian forces in Shemakha.

January 19th 1934- Yazd recaptured by Russians, Georgy Zhukov promoted to commander 4th Cavalry Corps.

January 26th 1934- Sultan Abdul Mejid II died when artillery barrage hit his palace. Also killed was the foreign minister and commander of the defense of the city, Enver Pasha.

Febuary 1934: The International Alliance Orchestra is created, featuring famed musicians from Germany, Austria, Britain, and other allied nations. Alban Berg is named the conductor. The orchestra is unique in that it also utilized musicians from the colonies and from popular bands, giving the classical music a surprisingly exotic feel.

Febuary 1934: Having surpassed the other two aviation companies, Quentin Roosevelt buys 4 artillery companies and 3 shipyards to become the most powerful arms dealer in the world.

February 5, 1934 -- Zapata announces that he will not seek a fourth term as President of South Mexico. "I am 54 years old, and I have lived enough to be 100," he tells the Veracruz Post. "It is time for me to sit on the beach and play with my grandchildren."

February 10th 1934- Charlemagne Peralte wins reelection as president of Haiti, the first man to stay in power longer than a couple of years in that nation since the beginning of the century. Still his regime was shaky, with opposition forces being active on the South and the East of the nation while the size of the Gendarmerie grows thanks to the arrival of French military equipment during the last six years. Due to all this the economy of the nation was in shambles and many considered it was only a question of time before his regime also fails.

February 11th 1934- Mosul recaptured by Russian forces. Ottoman forces reeling under the sheer size of the Russian troops.

February 15th-17th 1934- Battle of Persopolis. Indian troops defeat the advancing Russian troops after a three-day battle, stopping their advance south for the time being.

February 19th 1934- Ahmed Nihad crowned as new Ottoman Sultan in Ankara.

February 26th 1934- Tikrit falls to the Russians. British troops are switched from Persia to Mesopotamia to try to prop the failing Ottomans.

March 1934- First massive recruitment of black Africans by France. Over half a million men joined during the the war with the promise of receiving full citizen rights by the French government. They suffered over 22% casualty rate during the war.

March 1st 1934- City of Bam captured and the threat of the lines of communication with India hung on the balance.

March 2nd 1934- Australian troops entered Palestine on their way north to try to help the Ottomans.

March 6th 1934- Upon hearing of Von Ohain invention aircraft mogul Hugo Junkers eagerly puts both financial and technical help for Von Ohain. Appointing Dr.Herbert Wagner and Adolf Mueller to assist the him.

March 8th, 1934 - The Russians come to an agreement with the Japanese, acknowledging a significant sphere of influence in Asia and the Pacific, as well as subsidized and guaranteed shipments of oil and scrap metal, should the Japanese join the war on their side, which they do on this day. Japan and Russia launch a combined naval attack within hours of the delivery of the Japanese declaration of war on the British Asian Fleet, seen as their first major opposition. The unanticipated attack on a British naval force become overconfident after their easy victories over the French leads to major British losses in the greatest Battleship battle up until that time.

March 11th 1934- Battle of Kithera. Italian fleet tried to intercept the British reinforcements being ferried to Greece. In what now is considered to have been a trap, the bulk of the British Mediterranean Fleet made mincemeat of the surprised Italian attackers, destroying two of their vaunted fast battleships in the process. The Italians lost the two mentioned ships plus three cruisers and three destroyers while the British losses were reduced to two destroyers and a light cruiser. The Italians never again contested the Eastern Mediterranean.

March 11th 1934- David ben Gurion began to raise a volunteer Jewish Brigade to serve against the Russians.

March 12th 1934- Battle of the South China Seas. A four hour battle were the bulk of the Japanese Home Fleet defeated the British Far East Fleet. At the end of the battle two old Japanese dreadnaughts, the Satsuma and the Settsu, were damaged but were towed and salvaged but the British dreadnaught Revenge was blown out of the water by two Japanese Kii class battleships. But this battle proved the failure of the battlecruiser concept in a straight battle. While the Japanese ships old battlecruiser Tsukuba was severely damaged the British suffered the destruction of four of the type, demostrating the inferiority of armor of the class in battle versus battleships. The German-Dutch fleet also lost the battleship Rotterdam. The end result was the British Fleet was decimated and the British were forced to scramble ships from other theaters to help.

March 18th 1934-Russian forces finally cross the Georgian border and reach the shores of Lake Sevan.

March 19th 1934- First reported use of flamethrowers by French forces near Cologne.

March 21st 1934- Battle of Habbaniyah. Russian forces defeat a sizable Anglo-Ottoman force and the Central Powers are forced to evacuate Baghdad.

March 21st 1934- Gorizia falls to the advancing Italians under General Balbo.

March 26th 1934- Major William Robert (Halsey) dies while leading his regiment in assaulting the German defenses near Lichtenau in Baden.

March 29th 1934- Aleppo falls to advancing Russian troops, Ottoman forces exhausted and demoralized. Talks of surrender are rumored around the troops.

March 29th 1934- Bolzano is captured after the German Mountain Corps is forced to withdrew north under heavy pressure to their left flank.

March 30th 1934- Captain Adolph Hitler leads his company as a rear guard to cover the retreat of his regiment in the Trentino area. The actions of his company tied the enemy forces for three days and gave time to the forces farther east to dig in. Hitler himself and three other men were the only survivors of the action to reach the Austrian lines. He was recommended to be promoted to Major and received commendations for his actions.

March 30th 1934- Forced by the Constitution not to seek reelection in the presidential election, Pascual Orozco gave his blessing to his former Minister of Labor Lazaro Cardenas to run as his successor. Cardenas won the election by a very large margin, a symbol that the efforts of the last six years by Orozco had been well received by the Mexican people.

April-May-June 1934: South American Front- The revelation of the covert support of the US to Ecuador caused the failure of the ceasefire and war restarted with a vengeance. Paraguay joined the war on the side of Brazil, their aims to expand at Bolivia’s expense. By the end of June the war was going badly for Argentina and their allies. The Chileans forced the Peruvians north, recovering Arica on May 18th while forcing the now embattled Bolivians to abandon San Pedro de Atamaca and flee east while further east Paraguay achieved some victories in the Chaco region versus Bolivia. Only in the north were the pro-Argentinean forces more successful. With the fall of the city of Borja, Zamora, Loja and Machala in rapid succession the Ecuadorian government was on the verge of falling but the arrival of Brazilians to bolster the defense helped to defeat further attempts of advancing by the Peruvian forces.

April-May-June 1934: Asian front: With the defeat of the British Far East Fleet and the remains of the German-Dutch fleet staying in port the Pacific was a Japanese playground. On late April Japanese forces, supported by Filipino troops began landing in the northern coast of New Guinea overwhelming the Australian defenders. At the same time Japanese forces, again supported by Filipinos landed in Borneo and Celebes but here the defenders put a stauncher defense.

April-May-June 1934: China Front: The war in this front was an affirmation of the shape of the Chinese Army. On the north their best units, trained by Germans and similar in organization and equipment to them, defeated the summer Japanese offensives in the area. The Japanese push from Manchuria in the direction of Peking and Tientsin were stopped well short of their objectives and by the end of June were back on their starting lines. Only the situation farther south forced the Chinese not to take the initiative in the area. On the south, the Chinese forces were of lower quality and it showed on their performance. Japanese forces that landed in March in China began to expand their control of certain sections and the Chinese seemed incapable of stopping them until the arrival of forces from the north. By the end of June the north was a bloody stalemate, with trenches appearing in the Chinese-Manchurian border while the Chinese started to advance slowly in the Shantung Peninsula. But in the south the Japanese have the initiative. Canton, Hong Kong, Fukien the island of Hainan and Shanghai were in the hands of the Japanese and artillery fire could be heard on Nanking.

April-May-June 1934: Middle East Front: Grand Duke Michael launched his revenge against his former ally, Koba, who he considered a traitor. With a vengeance Russian forces crushed the Georgian Republic, forcing Koba to go back to the hills to lead guerilla forces. Further south the Russians continued their unhindered advance in the direction of the Mediterranean coast, finally capturing the province of Hatay and reaching the coast. Only the remaining Ottoman forces under Kemal and the Australians stopped the Russians finally north of Damascus. But it was in Persia and Mesopotamia where the Russians were more effective. With further reinforcements from India being diverted to Australia and other locations in the Far East the Russians forces pushed the defenders from Persia and Mesopotamia and by the end of June both areas were basically in Russian hands.

April-May-June 1934: Balkan Front: Russian Field Marshall Mannerheim offensives suffered of being the ones receiving the less reinforcements and it was that the excuse he used to explain his defeat in his attempt to capture Salonika. But his career was saved with the capture of Istanbul on May 29th and them achieving the surrender of the Ottoman Empire on June 11th. While the Ottoman forces in Anatolia lay down their arms the ones in Syria, Palestine and the Hejaz refused to surrender and under Field Marshall Mustafa Kemal they continued the fight. In the northern portion of the Balkans was getting desperate, with Serbia setting a government in exile in Vienna after the fall of Belgrade and by the end of June 80% of Transylvania was on the hands of the Romanian Army.

April-May-June 1934: African Front: With the British been forced to move troops to other front the composition of the forces facing the Italians in Libya changed. While by the middle of 1933 the forces were mainly British and Australians one year later fifty percent of the forces in the front were either Ethiopian soldiers or British and German Askaris. That same forces achieved the only major victory of the Central Powers during the summer of 1934. Using the landships of the Middle East Division to make a breach on the Italian lines, the so called “Black Legions” poured thru the gap and never let the enemy mount a credible defense. Many historians give credit to Ethiopian and American expatriate Benjamin Davis for mounting his troops in any type of vehicle he could put his hands on to keep the advance moving while using air power as mobile artillery. While the concept has being used before by the French and later by the Germans in 1933 on the Western front, it was the first time it was used in Africa. By the end of June the Cyrenaica and Chad were on the hands of the Central Powers. Both France and Italy was forced to move troops from the north to try to stop the tide. Many later historians now consider the decision to attack in the middle of summer was a very risky proposition and it was a very close to failure due to heat and supply concerns. But the preparations made for that eventuality and the surprise of an attack at that time of the year at the end paid off.

April-May-June 1934- Western Front: The French finally had enough strength to try to push out of their beachheads on the other side of the Rhine at the end of April. The three coordinated offensives were stopped well short of their objectives, with one being a devastating defeat. The first drive, an attempt to capture the major population centers of the Netherlands, was defeated by the combined Dutch-Irish-British defenders who were forced to open the dikes to slow down the advancing French and forced them to pull away from The Hague and Amsterdam. The second drive, a limited offensive aimed at tying forces in the area of Baden, achieved that objective but the territorial gains were minimal. The third drive, an armored thrust in the direction of Munster and them in the direction of Bremen, was defeated by the use of new weapons on the German arsenal. The liberal use of mustard gas by the Germans and the appearance of the Panzerjager I vehicle were a terrible surprise for the advancing French that after being grinded by this new weapons, were pocketed by the German Motorized units north of Munster. Two armored divisions were captured or destroyed and the French were forced back to the Rhine by the end of June. They lost close to 500 lanships in their failed offensive.

April-May-June 1934: Eastern Front: The Russian advance continued unabated during April, with all the Central Powers forces being pushed west. But with the Russian threat closing in, the city of Konigsberg under threat and the breaking of the Carpathian passes making possible to the Russians to pour into the heart of the Hungarian Kingdom forced the Central Powers to use a new weapon. The release of mustard gas stopped the advancing Russian in their tracks, the attackers being unprepared to the effects of the weapon plus they lacked the countermeasures for it. Thousands of troops were blinded or scarred by this new weapon and in many instances soldiers refused to advance if the weapon was being deployed against them. Finally on early June the order was given to stop until proper countermeasures could be given to the troops.

April-May-June 1934: Italian Front: The Italians during the month of April and early May captured more land than in the previous six months put together. With the chaos on the Balkans and the Carpathians making that areas the main concern of the Austrian General Staff. With the fall of parts of the provinces of Kustenland, Carinthia and Tirol to the advancing Italians forced the Austrians to use gas against them. This coupled with the need to send men to Africa stopped the advance of the Italians in the area.

April 1st, 1934 - The revelation of covert American encouragement and support for Ecuador to enter the war causes a break-down of peace talks and the resumption of the South American conflict.

April 4th 1934: LaGuardia is chosen as the new Speaker of the House. It is believed by many that a Smith Republican would seem more respectable then another Progressive.

April 9th 1934- British forces breach the enemy lines in Bardia.

April 12th, 1934 The Philippines declares war against China, after promises from the Japanese and the French to acknowledge the claim of the Philippines on the Spratley Islands. However, discussions are still ongoing about expanding the declaration to other nations.

April 12th 1934-Vilnius captured by Russian forces.

April 15, 1934 - Regent Prachadhipok Sakdidej proposes a Siamese Parliament, based off the British system of government. Despite opposition from some of his more conservative advisors, the plan goes through.

April 16th 1934- Trieste falls to the Italians. Prime Minister Pasolini declares the capture of the city “a triumph for the glorious legions of Italy and the time of our enemies is running out.”

April 17th, 1934 - After the diplomatic fiasco of the Ecuador Affair, President Swing replaces Secretary of State Borah with Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

April 17th 1934- Paraguay declares war to Bolivia.

April 17th 1934- Japanese troops land near Rabaul. Australian Navy contests the landings but defeated. HMAS Canberra sunk by the fire of the Japanese battleships escorting.

April 18th 1934- Shanghai surrenders to Japanese forces.

April 18th 1934- Rotterdam falls to the French. Area commander Field Marshall Haig orders the dykes to be open.

April 18th 1934- Carpathian passes finally broken by Russian forces and they began to pour troops south in the direction of Budapest.

April 18th 1934- Philippines declares war to Great Britain but not to Germany after further negotiations offered them concessions in regard to trade and weapons.

April 19th 1934- Filipino troops overwhelm the garrison in Wewak.

April 20th 1934- Manado in the Celebes captured. Japanese contained in the northern part of the island by German-Dutch defenders.

April 20th, 1934- Newly appointed Secretary of State Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ends all arms shipments to Ecuador and try to stir some up support in Congress for the revocation of the military co-op treaty with Chile.

April 21st 1934- Tobruk is captured by German Askaris

April 22nd 1934- With the city of Tientsin on danger of falling to the Japanese, the Chinese Fleet made an attempt to escape. The Carrier Group under Rear Admiral Isokuro Yamamoto was near by and launched their aircrafts armed with torpedoes and dive-bombers. The attack was devastating. In close to twenty minutes the Chinese battlecruiser Yai Pen and the battleship Ching Pen were sunk by the attacking airplanes and the escorts were forced to run a gauntlet later on with the arrival of the Battlecruiser Squadron. No Chinese ship survived the attack. Two capital ships and four destroyers were sunk.

April 22nd 1934- Start of the Battle of Salonika. The Anglo-Greek defenders repulsed the Russo-Bulgarian assault of the city in a battle that lasted almost the whole month of May. Field Marshall Mannerheim ordered the end of operation in the area by May 18th, deciding to swing resources to more successful offensives on his front.

April 25th 1934- Munster captured by advancing French.

April 28th 1934- First recorded use of mustard gas in northern Hungary.

Summer 1934 - A series of sinkings by French submarines of American shipping incenses the nation. The Hearst papers play up the sinkings to increase sympathy for the British cause.

Summer 1934 - Germans begin to use gas warfare to fend off the advances of the French and Russians.

Summer 1934- War commitments from Junkers slows work on the Von Ohain project's.He continues his studies at Goettenburg

May 1934- Belgian refugee weapon designer Dieudonne Saive develops a gas-operated self loading rifle for the British Army. The weapon enters production in late 1935 as the Enfield-Saive Mark I. The rifle was loaded by a ten round .303 detachable magazine but lacked the selective fire capability of the AVS-32.

May 1934: Hearst goes back to what made him famous in the first place: Yellow Journalism. His papers and stations become overwhelmed with discussions of the terror of war. The reporters claim that the US weapons are simply prolonging the war, while Swing stands on the sidelines, refusing to let the conflict come to the end. "End the guns or bring the guns" becomes a common pro-war slogan.

May 1934 -- With war in Asia and a less-welcoming climate in the USA, refugees from dozens of East Asian minorities flood into Canada, using the "war refugee" loophole in the General Immigration Act. Unlike the first wave, which largely stopped at the mountains, this group spreads far and wide: Mongols tend to gravitate towards the Arctic towns; aboriginal Taiwanese to Thunder Bay; Hmong to Montreal; and Ainu to Toronto.

May 2nd 1934: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. suggests in a memo to the War Department a military mobilization, and federal funding for the creation of anti-submarine technology.

May 7th 1934- Ethiopian forces arrive to Benghazi before retreating Italian forces. The reduction of the pocket in Cyrenaica took close to three weeks to crush and close to 40,000 men, some French but mainly Italian, were captured.

May 11th 1934- First use of gas on the Italian front reported on the province of Carinthia.

May 11, 1934 -- Louise Carson becomes the first person to earn a doctoral degree from Mellon University, having successfully defended her thesis on how modern industry can be reformed to aid conservationist efforts. Having the first person to get a doctorate be a woman would be a stir in and of itself, but Yale's Professor Herbert Hoover makes the story even bigger by praising the thesis.

May 12th 1934- Russian forces coming from Galicia reach the lines of the Romanians in Transylvania, joining their efforts.

May 18th 1934- First shipment of weapons arrive to a nationalist cell under Josef Broz in Croatia.

May 18th 1934- Lae surrenders to Japanese forces.

May 18th 1934- First Panzerjager I units attached to the German motorized divisions. The vehicle, a mating of a copy of the French landship suspension with the 88mm antiaeroplane-gun with an armored shield. They were a nasty surprise for the French forces in the summer of 1934 and for the Russians in the fall of the same year.

May 19th 1934- Siege of Hong Kong ends.

May 21st 1934- Panic ensues in some circles of the Australian government and the call is made to Great Britain to free the troops fighting in the Middle East to return home and for the transfer of capital ships from the Atlantic and European theaters to the area.

May 22nd 1934- Tbilisi captured by advancing Russian forces.

May 24th 1934- French forces reach outskirts of Bremen.

May 27th 1934- Battle of the Bremen pockets commences. Two French armored and two infantry divisions are pocketed south of the city by the elite divisions of the German Motorized Corps. After close to two weeks the enemy French forces were forced to surrender after failing to break the lines.

May 28th 1934- Brunei surrenders after a short siege. British Borneo declared secured. Japanese troops began moving south.

May 29th 1934- Japanese naval leaders are impressed by the success of the ideas of Yamamato and ordered the conversion of three liners been constructed into aircraft carriers.

May 29th 1934- Istanbul fell to Russian forces. Damage is extensive in the city but the impressive Hagia Sophia is not damaged after direct orders from the Tsar himself prohibited the Church to be targeted. Russians changed inmediately the name to Constantinople. An armistice is agreed to by Tsar Alexis.

June 1934- Hoover, somewhat fed up with the incoherent economic and foreign policy of both Congress and the Presidency, announces that he will once again seek election to Congress, running from New Haven.

June 3rd 1934- Battle of Nasinyah. Forces under Georgy Zhukov surrounds the retreating Indian forces, cutting their withdraw. In the battle trying to escape the forces were annihilated, the worst defeat in the Middle East in number of troops lost so far in the war. Over 30,000 men were either captured or dead.

June 3rd 1934- Central Powers arrive to El Agheila and began to dig in.

June 4th 1934- Tsar Alexis himself in a radio address orders the stopping of offensive operations on the front due to the thousands of casualties. He promised the deployment of this so-called weapons will not be forgotten and retribution will be inflicted.

June 12th 1934: A military funding and mobilization bill with many points in common with the Roosevelt memo is proposed in congress by a ranking Republican. It is still widely debated by historians whether it was, in fact, planned by Roosevelt.

June 13th 1934- Mustafa Kemal refuses to acknowledge the order to surrender and order his troops to continue the fight.

June 17th 1934- Firebombing of Warsaw and Konigsberg. On this date the first recorded massed used of heavy bombers, armed with incendiary bombs, was launched over both cities causing extensive damage to both.

June 18th 1934- Belgrade captured by advancing Russian and Bulgarians. A government in exile is created in Vienna.

June 19th 1934- Basra surrounded by Russian troops.

June 21st 1934- Last British forces are evacuated from Bandar Abbas.

June 27th 1934- Russian forces capture Zahedan and British Baluchistan was now threaten.

June 29th 1934- Last French forces cross back into the other bank of the Rhine. The offensive is declared over.

July-August-September 1934- Balkan Front:In a move harshly criticized during and after the war by many of the officers of the Russian General Staff (especially Mannerheim), the remaining offensive strength of the Russian Army, including several carefully husbanded armored car divisions and the first division of license-built French landships are used to conquer Greece. Their arguments that landships and armored cars will not do well in the mountainous and constricted terrain of Greece are ignored.

July-August-September 1934: Asian front: The Japanese continued their unhindered advance in the German East Indies with the final reduction of Celebes and the capture of the Moluccas occurring during this time. Also during this period the first Japanese forces land in Annam, near Hue, and in Tonkin. The Chinese troops on the area were of lower quality than the ones in Northern China and even in the South of China. Facing an army mainly composed of reserves and not of front line soldiers, the Japanese captured Haiphong and launched a furious attack that captured the city of Hanoi.

July-August-September 1934: Middle East front: With the shifting of Russian troops to the Balkans the Russians in Persia stayed on the defensive but it wasn’t possible for the British to take advantage of the situation due to more pressing concerns in the Far East. In the Crescent a limited offensive aimed at defeating the rebel Kemalists forces failed with the arrival of troops from South Africa and the newly created 2nd Middle East Landship Division to Palestine and Syria, that repulsed the attacking Russians with heavy casualties. This same troops launched a counteroffensive that recovered Tripoli in Lebanon and Tadmur in Syria.

July-August-September 1934; African Front: With the Army in Palestine now called the 7th Army, the new mix and match of troops from Great Britain and Ethiopia and colonial troops from Great Britain and Germany that was facing the Italians was named the 8th Army. This same army, under the overall command of the German Colonial General Ludwig Beck but in reality under the operational control of the Ethiopian general Benjamin Davis, achieved the conquest of Tripolitania and Niger by the end of September. But more important was the two defeats inflicted on the Italian fleet on consecutive months, which pretty much eliminated them as a fighting force for the rest of the war.

July-August-September 1934; Western Front: With the French forces, still recoiling of their terrible defeat in Bremen and of the shock of the use of gas against them, being on the defensive the Germans and the Expeditionary forces (the IEF, the BEF and the CEF) launched limited offensives to eliminate the last remaining enemy forces still remaining in Baden and in the parts of the Netherlands north of the Rhine. A slow affair, the French fought tooth and nail for every inch of ground. Even the use of mustard gas in the offensive failed to create the expected rout of the French forces, finally taking close to three months to push the French completely out of the objectives.

July-August-September 1934; China Front- The Chinese were forced to move some of their elite units south to stop the advancing Japanese forces in both South China and Indochina. While the Chinese were successful in stopping the Japanese after the evacuation of Annam and Tonkin, their operation in the south of China have only limited success. By the end of September the war continued to be a drain for the Japanese, with over 60% of their forces being used in this theater.

July-August-September 1934; South American front- The Brazilian-Chilean alliance achieved some progress in the prosecution of the war during this months, with the defeat of the Peruvian forces in Ecuador and the combined victories of Paraguay and Brazil over Bolivia. Meanwhile Chile achieved some victories over both the Bolivian and Peruvians and by the end of September it seemed the Bolivians were ready to discuss terms. Argentina launched a couple of limited offensives to help relieve the pressure on their allies that achieved limited success.

July-August-September 1934; Eastern Front- With the Western front being relatively calm the Central Powers launched their first offensive operation in this front since the beginning of the war. Using gas on the offensive for the first time on this war, both the Germans and Austrians recovered some valuable pieces of real state. The Austrians achieved the biggest success, pushing the Russians out of the Hungarian plain and back into the Carpathian Mountains. Meanwhile the Germans pushed the Russians further away from the cities of Konigsberg and Warsaw, culminating with the capture of Memel and Brest by the end of September. Still the Central Powers showed no great operational innovations in these offensives. Later historians compare these offensives to “Russo-German War offensives using gas to achieve the breakthroughs.”

July-August-September 1934; Italian Front: The front was calm during the summer months. The Italians were too exhausted plus they had to sent their operational reserves to Africa to try to stop the Central Powers' juggernaut invading Libya. On the other hand both the Germans and the Austrians were too busy in the other fronts to do anything in the area. The main operations were only artillery duels and small patrolling.

July 1934- The Russians grind south slowly to Thermopylae.

July 1934- The Russian and Ottoman peace representatives meet at Bursa. The conference drags on throughout the month due to arguments amongst the Russian delegates about how harsh a peace should be imposed. Eventually, those favoring a somewhat more lenient peace win out after receiving the backing of the Tsar, and an agreement is made. The Russian delegates insist on the treaty being signed in Constantinople at the beginning of the next month.

July 1934- As the successes of the early days of 1933 get farther and farther away, and the French tanks' are now showing serious shortcomings in the slower-paced, deadlier war that some strategians and tacticians are beginning to call a "Slow-Go" war, a convention of French tank designers is called together at Fontainebleau to discuss new designs. The French General Staff insists on allowing only one design of tank to be mass-produced, easing logistics problems. After heated arguments between medium-tank and heavy-tank supporters, the heavy-tank proponents are successful in pressing their case.

July 1, 1934- HIJMS Fuso blows up at port in Kagoshima, Japan. Chinese saboteurs are blamed for the attack, although it was most likely caused by unstable explosives onboard.

July 4, 1934- Koba is shot and killed when his guerilla band's location is pointed out to the Russian Army. Their mistreatment of his corpse is photographed and filmed by an NBC reporter named William Schwartz. Schwartz's piece, which portrays Koba as a freedom fighter and the Russians as barely human murderers, is a major propaganda success for the Central Powers in the United States.

July 6th 1934- Flight Lt Frank Whittle is killed during a French raid on the Gibraltar Straits. Among his effects are the beginning plans for a scale model of a axial compressed turbine engine.

July 7, 1934 - France recognizes a new nation of Wallonia in Southern Belgium.

July 11th 1934- Japanese troops land in Halmahera, capturing the island with slight resistance.

July 11th 1934- The 8th Army launches their offensive in the direction of Tripoli while German colonial forces move north from Kamerun in the direction of Niger.

July 12 1934 German and Austrian Physicists under the guidance of Leo Szilárd with assistance from Ede Teller create the Berlin Pile at the University of Berlin.The pile was the world's first artificial self-sustaining nuclear reactor, consisting of uranium and graphite blocks with Cadmium coated control rods for neutron absorption. With Szilárd monitoring the neutron activiy and Teller working the control rods, the pile went critical at 11:20 a.m. and sustained the reaction for 33 minutes before Szilárd shut it down.

July 18th 1934- Ambon surrenders to a detachment of Japanese Special Landing Forces.

July 19th 1934-Zhanjiang captured by Japanese, putting in peril the lines of communication to Indochina.

July 20th 1934- Japanese troops land in Hue and in Haiphong in a coordinated attack to capture IndoChina.

July 28th 1934- Nanning is captured by advancing Japanese forces. Direct supply lines to Hanoi cut.

August 1934- The Russians make no less than seven unsuccessful attempts to land enough troops behind Thermopylae to survive Greek counterattacks and take the pass from behind before an eighth attempt succeeds. Nearly all of the French-designed landships are lost either at the failed beachheads or at sea when the lighters they are being moved on are sunk by Greek torpedo boats and aircraft.

August 1, 1934- Having traveled secretly to Istanbul, Tsar Alexis himself signs the Treaty of Constantinople in the great basilica of Hagia Sophia. The Ottoman Empire renounces to all claims to Kars, Armenia, Kurdistan, and cedes both sides of the Straits of Bosporus and Hellespont and the Sea of Marmara to the Russian Empire. In addition, Sinop will be occupied and fortified by Russia for a period of twenty years. The Ottoman Empire military is reduced in size and the government announces their neutrality in the current conflict.

August 4th 1934- Battle of Malta occurs. The British intercept a convoy of much needed Italian reinforcements 20 miles northwest of Malta, escorted by two Doria class battleships and one Roma light battleship. The British have recently transferred the four Saints to the Mediterranean Fleet and they all were present in the ambush. The superiority of the British was evident, with only the old battleship Bellerophon being the only major British casualty, while the three Italian ships were eliminated and the convoy forced to retire.

August 5, 1934 -- Always eager for good press, the Pennsylvania Railroad tries out one of Dr. Carson's ideas, turning the track from Pittsburgh to Cleveland into a "parkway" lined with native flora. American Weekly magazine calls Ms. Carson, "The Princess of the Technocratic Movement."

August 14th 1934- In a broadcast to the nation, President Swing reiterates his belief that the United States should remain neutral for the duration of the ongoing war given the lack of clear moral right for either side, citing the aggression of the Entente and the recent use of gas warfare by the Central Powers.

August 14th 1934- Chinese forces recapture the important city of Nanning, pushing the Japanese to the coast. But the damage was already done to the precarious situation in Indochina.

August 18th 1934- Hanoi falls to the Japanese. Chinese general decide to evacuate Annam due to the fear of encirclement.

August 21st 1934- Chaco region declared secured by Paraguayan Marshall Estigarribia. Estigarribia stopped offensive operations in the area and have to move forces south to face the Argentinean threat to the Paraguayan heartland.

August 23rd 1934-Japanese forces land in Nha Trang and began to move south in the direction of Saigon.

August 24, 1934 - General Granados of Costa Rica engages in secret negotiations with the French to attack the Nicaraguan Canal. However, when several French generals make it to San Jose to see the state of the Costa Rican army, they strongly warn Paris that Costa Rica could not be counted on.

August 25th 1934-Hefei fell to the Japanese after a four day battle. Further attempts by the Chinese to dislodge the Japanese failed.

August 29th 1934- Brazilian forces reach the Madre de Dios River on the north and the San Pablo River in the Santa Cruz province of Bolivia.

Fall 1934 - Republic of Central America intelligence claims to have unearthed a plot by the French to bribe the Costa Ricans in an attack on the Republic and the Panama Canal, in an attempt to cut it off from British forces. After negotiations thru the fall and with threats of invasion by the Republic of Central America finally Costa Rica agreed to a border change, pushing their border south 20 miles.The extra territory was considered a buffer zone to protect the Canal.

Fall 1934- A design for the new French tank is finally decided upon. The new tank will be much larger (and more expensive) than any other in the world. It weighs 75 tonnes and features two turrets, one with a 75mm gun in the front and one with a machine gun in the rear, plus three other independent machine gun positions along its immense 12 meter-long hull. It is well-armored (90mm in front, 75mm on sides), but can only go 15 mph, even with an advanced engine design. Prototypes are ordered.

September 1, 1934- The Greek government is moved by British destroyers to Crete.

September 3rd 1934- Paraguayan capital of Asuncion captured by Argentina after a three-week siege. Government moves to Pedro Juan Caballero City near the Brazilian border. Colonel Peron personally leads the final Argentine ground assault that sweeps through the battered city of Ascuncion. He is photographed as he helps several enlisted personnel hoist the Argentine flag over the presidential residence. He instantly becomes a hero in Buenos Aires.

September 4th 1934- City of Macara recaptured by Ecuadorian forces, last city under Peruvian occupation.

September 8th 1934- Battle of the Straits of Otranto. The Austrians recognized their fleet could be trapped and after coordinating with the British they tried to run the blockade in the Straits. The battle was the biggest dreadnaught battle in history, even bigger than the South China Sea battle of only five months before. The whole Austria-Hungarian Fleet tried to break the blockade of the Franco-Italian forces. The battle, part of it fought close by to minefields, was carnage for both the Italian and Austro-Hungarian fleets. From a original eight dreadnaughts and two battlecruisers in the Austro-Hungarian Fleet only seven dreadnaughts made it to open sea, with two of them under severe damage and three of the ships being sunk after hitting mines. Of the Italian forces present four battleships were sunk, all of them after the arrival of the British Saints. The French loses were two old battleships of the Courbet class. The British and Greek forces only lost the old British Battleship Neptune and the Greek battleship Crete.

September 8, 1934 - To try to force the French's hands into supporting him, General Granados has evidence of his secret discussions leaked by a subordinate. It turns out to be a horrible political miscalculation.

September 10, 1934- The Russian army enters Athens.

September 10, 1934 - France issues a denial of the Costa Rican documents. The Republic of Central America threatens to invade Costa Rica unless General Granados and his men are turned over to Managua, and Costa Rica agrees to a number of conditions that would make it a sitting duck for RCA annexation.

September 10th 1934- City of Lianyungang captured by Japanese, joining the Japanese Shantung and Central China Armies. The whole Chinese coast except by Tientsin was now on the hands of the Japanese.

September 11, 1934 - General Granados issues a strong, angry speech condemning the Republic of Central America, but quietly asks the United States to mediate in the crisis.

September 11th 1934- Japanese declares the independence of Vietnam with the puppet Cuong De as the new Emperor.

September 12th, 1934 - A French submarine mistakes the venerable ocean liner Titanic for a troopship and sinks it. The ship had been on its Dublin to New York run, and several prominant Irish-Americans were lost with the ship, including Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

September 15th 1934- Tripoli falls to the advancing 8th Army.

September 16th 1934- Chilean forces capture the city of Tacna in Peru.

September 17, 1934- The Russians are able to push past the Isthmus of Corinth using sheer numbers against the exhausted Greek defenders. Organized resistance ends soon, and the Russians move to occupy the Peloponessus as quickly as the ground troops can get there.

September 17, 1934- HMS Orion is sunk by an Italian submarine off the west coast of Crete.

September 17th 1934- The British Empire allows the creation of a local Parliament in New Delhi. Considered by many the first step in the expected road to Dominion status for India.

September 18th 1934- Irish troops finally accept the surrender of the last remaining troops in the city of Rotterdam. The city was completely wrecked and the toll in the civilian population was enormous.

September 18th 1934- Production of the first German landship began in earnest. The Panzerwagen I is a copy of the French suspension mounting a 75mm gun in a turret. While a little bit slower than the French landships currently being used due to the extra armor and the heavier gun it was considered fast enough to be used in the type of offensive used during the last year in the Western Front.

September 18, 1934 - A proposal wherein the Costa Rican border would be shifted south fifteen miles is shown to the RCA and Costa Rican officials in Washington. The RCA surprisingly accepts it, however Costa Rica angrily refuses.

September 21st 1934- Generals Erwin Rommel and Heinz Guderian replaced as commanders of their respective Motorized Divisions and given command of the two Panzer Divisions being raised.

September 23rd 1934- City of Tumbes captured by advancing Brazilian forces in northern Peru.

September 27th 1934- Advance of the 8th Army is stopped in the Tunisian-Tripoli for reorganization of the troops.

September 27th 1934- City of Santa Maria in Brazil captured by advancing Argentinean troops. First recorded use of landships in the South American theater when twenty British build A1’s were used by the Argentineans in their advance to the coast.

September 28th 1934- Chilean forces reach Desaguadero River in Bolivia and plans were being made to capture La Paz during the summer.

September 29th 1934- France announces they are ending their unrestricted submarine campaign but still all military vessels will be targets.

September 30th 1934- Brazil puts an order to purchase one hundred American armored cars to counter the appearance of the British landships on the area.

September 30, 1934- The last Greek troops are evacuated from the Peloponessus by RN ships. The evacuated survivors of the Greek Army, numbering over 30,000, are transferred to the African front to participate in offensives against the French and Italians.

October-November-December 1934; Asian Front: The Japanese decided to concentrate their efforts against the remaining German forces in the area and they achieved their purpose by the end of the year. The British tried to support their German allies but the defeat of the remaining ships of the German/Dutch fleet forced the British to withdrew their Far East Fleet to the Indian Ocean or to Australia to forestall any attempt by the Japanese to move against either Australia or India.

October-November-December 1934; Middle East front- With the defeat of Greece more Russian forces were available to try to defeat the Central Powers forces in Syria and Palestine. An offensive was launched on the middle of October that pushed the “Free Turks” and the other forces further South by the end of the year. Only the arrival of more South African forces helped to slow down the tide. The British Indian Command launched an offensive into Persian Baluchistan to relieve the pressure of the forces on the east that achieved the recaptured of the area but was finally stopped by late December.

October-November-December 1934; African Front- The French moved forces from the European front to push the Central Powers forces away from their North African colonies, very important to their war effort. The joint Franco-Italian offensive into Tripolitania was successful, pushing the Central Powers forces into El-Agheila but the one in Niger wasn’t as successful with only limited gains been made.

October-November-December 1934; Balkan Front- The main event during this period was the start of The Uprisings. Serbian separatist forces under launched an uprising while Russian forces began moving north to support their rebellion. While the advance was slow the majority of the Austrian chemical weapons were further north. By the time some of the stock was moved to try to stop the Russian the remains of Serbia and the province of Montenegro was completely in the hands of the Russians. The year ended with street fighting in some cities in provinces with Serbian mayorities and the declaration of martial law in Croatia and Bosnia.

October-November-December 1934; Eastern Front- Both sides sat the months of the fall of 1934 facing each other thru the front, both sides preparing their next moves. The Russians were using their offensive strength in a massive operation in the Middle East and a minor one in the Balkans but preparations were being made for the next year. The Russians finally produced enough mustard gas to be a credible chemical threat to the Central Powers and the stocks were being stored for the future use in the front. Also the arrival of gas masks finally gave an effective countermeasure to the Central Powers chemical weapons and morally rose accordingly.But on the other hand the Germans also were preparing. The twelve divisions of the Motorized Corps were finally together for the first time since the middle of 1933, being brought up to strength and training with the still forming Panzerwagen divisions in the training fields in Saxony. The next year was going to be big in this front.

October-November-December 1934; Western Front- With the French rebuilding their landship forces and all available reserves of the French Army being used in North Africa the front was peaceful during this period. The French began to fortify their positions while the Germans decided to move the motorized forces in the front to the East.

October-November-December 1934; China Front- The Chinese shocked the world, achieving the only victory of the period for the Central Powers. In an offensive starting on November 3rd, General Zhu De used the 48th and 46th Route Armies to defeat the Japanese in the province of Guangdong attacking from bases in Hunnan and Guangxi, ending their offensive with the capture of Hong Kong.

October-November-December 1934; South American Front- The most important event during this period was the surrender of Bolivia on December 18th 1934. That event forced the Argentinian government to ask the British Empire to reach an negotiated peace with the Alliance but the offer was refused.

October-November-December 1934; Italian Front- The war also slowed down to a crawl in this front, with all nations in the war exhausted after over a year and a half of conflict. Combat in the area was reduced to small unit patrolling only but both sides were preparing for the next year.

October 1934 -- After an 8-year reign, Anderson's Populists are swept out of office by a resounding margin, with Liberals winning 64%. PM Jimmy Gardiner's first act is to repeal the General Immigration Act. And just in time, too -- for the first time in decades, Canada's ravenous demand for manual labor was drying up. The new Welcoming New Canadians Act encourages immigrants to go to school, learn a profession, and become more productive members of Canadian society.

October 1934-With the Fascisti Alliance seemingly on the run in the Mediterranean, the French military decides to attempt to change their fortunes. A grand and extremely risky naval, land, and air assault is planned by the French, Italians, and Russians for mid-October.

October 1, 1934 - Angry with the delay, the Republic of Central America moves many troops onto the border and brings the Central American Navy to blockade the city of Puerto Limon, Costa Rica's major Caribbean Port.

October 1st to 10th 1934- The New Orleans Cajuns surprise the baseball world by coming from a fifth place finish the season before to win it all 4 games to 3 over the Boston Blue Sox. With rookie first baseman Art Trojovsky (.332-36-144) winning the Leadership Award for the National League supported by second year outfielder Lee Johnson (.308-33-97) third year third baseman Joe Vaughn (.333-12-94) plus the pitching of Curt Davis (19-11-2.99-5) and Freddie Fitzsimmons (18-11-3.04-1) the Cajuns were a sensation on the South during this season, with thousand of fans making the trip from neighboring states to see them play.

October 2, 1934 - General Granados reluctantly agrees to the United States' proposal. The Republic of Central America says they will no longer agree to it, and demands twenty miles rather than fifteen. Realizing he has no hope of winning a war, and that the United States will support their ally but France will not support him, he agrees.

October 8th 1934- Saigon falls to the advancing Japanese forces. The Siamese army with British support and the remaining German forces in IndoChina moves into Cambodia and stops the Japanese in the Mekong River after some heavy fighting.

October 15th 1934- Port Moresby is captured after a surprise Japanese amphibious landing near the city. The island of New Guinea is declared secured by the Japanese High Command.

October 17th 1934- China puts an order for over 400 American M1A1 armored cars. The vehicles were delivered the next couple of months thru India.

October 17th 1934- BEF commander Lord Haig dies from a heart attack on his headquarters in Amsterdam. He's replaced as BEF commander by his subordinate Lord Gort.

October 18th 1934-The French moved 36 more submarines from the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar during a three-day air assault by bomber units of the French air force. They will begin preying on the British convoys in the Mediterranean. The casualties to the air units that attacked Gibraltar were minimal but three of the French submarines failed in crossing the Gibraltar Straits defenses.

October 20, 1934 - General Federico Tinoco Granados flees San Jose after riots hit the capital demanding the return of democracy in the small nation.

October 27th 1934-The Italians launched a surprise attack on the British and Central Powers battlefleets in Alexandria using midget submarines and frogmen. They achieved moderate success, sinking an Austro-Hungarian battleship and damaged a Greek one. But they failed in their main objective of damaging the British Saints. They were on their way to the Far East and not berthed on Alexandria at the time of the attack.

October 28th 1934-Nearly a hundred Italian and Russian strategic bombers spared for the ocasion attack Alexandria. The losses were staggering and achieved very little thanks to the failure on coordination between the naval and air attackers. The defenders were on high alert after the attack by submarines the day before and the attack lacked total surprise.

November 1934: Herbert Hoover is elected congressmen, and regains his place on Capitol Hill with tremendous applause from both parties.

November 1934: Candidates working with Welles and his firm are almost all re-elected with over 54% of the vote. Welles is boosted into political prominence as an advisor, and his firm quadruples in size practically overnight. Welles, a very confidant public speaker, begins to personally promote Democratic legislative agendas across the nation. He deals with both national and very local politics. His firm, unlike other political organizations, has a strong focus on grass roots politics. He works with both big business and Populist farmers, helping all Democrats out, from all factions.

November 1934- Jose Coll y Cuchi wins the presidential election in Puerto Rico. A more conservative man than the former president, he still continued to work to raise the standard of living of the Puerto Ricans and to launch the economy forward. Even when his nation stayed neutral during the Global War, the nation’s economy suffered due to the reduction of the trade with the European markets for their agricultural products like coffee and sugar.

November 1934- Rafael Espaillat wins the Dominican Republic elections in a very close election, defeating the designated successor of President Arias, Francisco Pratt Ramirez. A member of the Liberal Party, he began to get closer during his administration to the Puerto Rican president Coll y Cuchi and began to copy the socialist measures of Puerto Rico. On the international front the nation was neutral during the war but their economy suffered due to the reduction of trade with Europe.

November 8th 1934- Japanese forces land in Timor. The neutral small Portuguese garrison is overran and now the city of Darwin was in range of Japanese long range bombers.

November 11th 1934- Boeing delivers the first monoplane fighter aircraft to the United States Army Air Corps. The aircraft, know as the P-14, was armed with two .30 caliber guns with a range of 635 miles, capable of cruising 200 MPH and having a ceiling of over 27,000 feet. The aircraft was faster and had a better range than the current fighters being used in the European war, with the German Hansa-Brandeburg 65 being the closest one in performance. By the end of 1936 some nations in both sides of the conflict have the export version P-14 on their inventory. The export version was a little bit slower and with less range than the USAAC production model but proved still very popular thru the world.

November 11th 1934- City of Tripoli in Lebanon falls to the Russians.

November 12th 1934- Portugal declares war to the Japanese Empire.

November 14th 1934- Baluchistani front finally broken by Royal Indian Army. City of Zahedan falls to the advancing Indians.

November 16th 1934- Another two volunteer Jewish Brigades are raised in Palestine from refugees from Salonika. David ben Gurion began speaking of an “Army for a New Israel.”

November 17th 1934- Battle of the Java Sea. The remaining German/Dutch East Indies fleet was ordered to intercept the Japanese invasion force moving in the direction of Java. The battle was a terrible affair, with one battleship, the Dutch Amsterdam, being present at the beginning. The Central Powers fleet almost broke thru the screen of cruisers protecting the troop carriers and only the arrival of the Battleship Division 4, composed of the four Kaga Class battleships, saved the day. The Central Power fleet was forced to retire but the Amsterdam was the main target of the Japanese dreadnaughts that sunk after a heavy barrage by the Japanese ships. Only 27 men survivors were picked up by the Japanese ships. The Japanese lost five cruisers, one heavy and four light ones, while the German/Dutch lost the battleship and two light cruisers. But more important, the attempt to stop the invasion of Java failed.

November 17th 1934- Canton is recaptured by the 48th Route Army.

November 18th 1934- City of Santa Cruz falls to the Brazilian forces.

November 18th 1934- Japanese forces land north of Surabaya and west of Batavia.

November 19, 1934 -- José Vasconcelos of the Liberal Party wins on a platform of pan-Americanism and emphasis on education. While Zapata's party had been supporting Otilio Montaño Sánchez, Zapata urged, "All South Mexicans should accept this result. The elections were fair, they were free from intimidation, and they produced a man who promises to respect the rights of all South Mexicans. Today I can resign, because South Mexico is finally a true democracy."

November 19th 1934- Macao is recaptured by the Chinese, who began using the nearby airfields to bomb the now surrounded city of Hong Kong.

November 29th 1934- Last remaining forces in Java surrender to the Japanese.

November 29th 1934- Bandar Baheshi captured. Advance to the coast continues. Russian began moving forces from occupation duty further west to try to stop the advance.

November 30th 1934- Bazman falls to the Indians. Persian Baluchistan is under Anglo-Indian control.

December 7th 1934- Front in the Desaguadero River finally broken by Chilean troops, the road to La Paz was open.

December 10th 1934- Ireland puts an order for over 120 American armored cars to build their first landship unit.

December 11th 1934- Russian announce the creation of a Kingdom of Montenegro with the former ruling house being brought back to the throne.

December 14th 1934- Damascus is captured but advance is being slowed down with the arrival of fresh troops.

December 17th 1934- Japanese General Staff decides to began the evacuation of Hong Kong after the attempts to retake Canton and lift the siege of Hong Kong ended in failure.

December 18th 1934- Bolivia asked for a ceasefire and terms to end the conflict to Brazil, Chile and Paraguay.

December 22nd 1934- Argentina began a tactical withdraw in both Paraguay and Brazil to better defensive positions. The Argentinian General Staff recognized the danger the surrender of Bolivia was for their survival. The again-promoted Major General Peron is given command of the Argentine armies facing Brazil and Paraguay.

December 25th 1934- A message was send to London requesting their help in achieving a ceasefire. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill responded he will try to do his best to end the war in a positive way for the Argentinians.

December 27th 1934- Beirut falls to the Russians but operations are stopped due to exhaustion.

December 28th 1934- Russian advance is stopped south of Sarajevo by the use of chemical weapons in masse.

December 29th 1934- Japanese main force is evacuated from the city of Hong Kong. The small garrison left behind surrenders two days later.

December 31st 1934- Brazil, Chile, Paraguay refused to discuss terms. The war continues.

Winter 1934- As the prototypes' production is delayed by the lack of a suitable engine, the tank manufacturers are ordered to delay retooling their factories for the new design and continue building the old tanks.

perdedor99

May 8th, 2006, 03:59 AM

1935

1935- Baja California becomes a state of the Union.

1935- Vigilante white supremists outraged by the killing of a white man by another race, start aggressive attacks on what they call Chinamen which is pretty much anyone who has almond shaped eyes. Murders start popping up in Asian enclaves in the United States, most notably in Oakland and Los Angeles.

1935 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin begins making propaganda broadcasts out of the German Empire to the Russian troops, encouraging them to revolt and to give up the war in the name of the workers.

1935 - Rocket barrages deep behind each side's lines, some hundreds of miles, become a regular part of the war.

1935- Shortstop Paul Dimaggio contract is sold to the Chicago Cubs by the San Francisco Seals. One of the most beloved players on the history of the Cubs, he has to retire in 1952 after chronic back injuries sapped his power and reduced his playing time since 1949.

1935- After reporting several excellent pieces from the Great War, Schwartz, now famous, is thrust into the spot as "anchor" for NBC's "The Evening News". He will hold this spot for 30 years, solidify NBC's lead in news broadcasting for nearly twenty years, and become an American icon.

1935 - Flamethowers and gas warfare has become common practice on both sides of the conflict in Europe, and are beginning to be used in Asia as well.

January-June 1935; African Front- The front in Lybia turned into trench warfare, with neither side strong enough to force the issue in the region. With a big part of the forces in the area been moved to the Middle East, the defense of Central Power occupied Lybia felt mainly to the Ethiopian Expeditionary Force and the German Askaris. Meanwhile further south for the first time since the recapture of Ghana an offensive was launched in the area. While the mainly South African force pushed west into the Ivory Coast, a amphibious force mainly composed of recently raised Canadian troops and Royal Marines landed near Freetown in Sierra Leone capturing the city by June 18th.

January-February-March 1935; Western Front- The Germans were on the defensive on this front, especially after the shock of the massive Russian winter offensive that started in early January forced them to use all available reserves in the Eastern Front. Still the Expeditionary Forces (BEF, IEF and CEF) launched an offensive to liberate the parts of the Netherlands still on the hands of the French. In the narrow front the casualties were heavy and for the first time the French have effective countermeasures to gas, making the advance very slow. By the end of March the attacks were ended but Central Powers forces were inside Belgium for the first time since 1933.

January-February-March 1935;China Front- The Chinese, soaring with their success in Guangdong, tried to launch an offensive aimed at Nanking and Shanghai that continued until the end of June and ended in failure. The quality of the forces used was not of the best the Chinese army could offer and the Japanese forces had time to fortify their positions during the lull in this part of the front.

January-February-March 1935; Middle East Front- With the Russians launching their massive offensive on the Eastern Front aimed at ending the war this front was calm during the early months of the year. A limited offensive was launched by the British Indian Army that captured Bandar Abbas by late March plus a surprise push from Arabia recaptured the city of Basra.

January-February-March 1935; South American Front- The surrender of Bolivia forced both the Peruvians and the Argentinians on the defensive. While the Peruvians surrendered in late January, the Argentinians put a very credible defense, defeating Chileans advances in the provinces of Mendoza, La Rioja and Catamarca forcing them back into Chile while slowly given land in the Patagonia and in the occupied territories in Paraguay and Brazil.

January-May 1935; Asian Front- This front saw two offensives been launched by the Japanese during this period, both of them continue thru the summer and one ended in a victory and the other in a defeat. The Sumatran Offensive started in early February and by the end of March was still a going concern. But the biggest surprise was the defeat of small Anglo-Australian naval force defending Queensland and the landing of a three division force north of Brisbane. The Australian forces were badly positioned, expecting an invasion either in Darwin or in northern Queensland, and the Japanese took advantage of the situation to gain some ground. By the end of May they were still in the rampage and moving in the direction to Sydney.

January-June 1935; Eastern Front- In early January 1935 more than a million Russians launched forward in the greatest offensive in the history of the world. Using chemical weapons and by sheer numbers alone they pushed forward into Poland, East Prussia, Hungary and Slovakia. By the end of June the front sat near Konigsberg, going south putting Breslau, Pressburg and Budapest on the very front lines. Many defeatist in the Central Powers were calling for an end of the hostilities but their movement didn’t have enough strength yet to force their governments into the negotiation table.

January-June 1935; Italian Front- The front continued to be a meat grinder with the Italian advance been measured in meters. While not widespread, opposition on some sectors of the Italian government to the war began to appear.

Spring 1935- The French prototypes are finally finished and tested with their engines, but tank production is greatly slowed by the need to retool for the new design.

Spring 1935- First reported use of mustard gas in the South American front and in the Middle East fronts.

January 1935 In his State of the Union Address, President Swing calls for implementation of a windfall tax on arms sales. The arms industry begins to move away from support of Swing due to this proposal.

January 7th 1935- Due to his success in the Western Front, Field Marshall Paul von Lettow Vorbeck named German Army Chief of the Generals' Staff.

January 8th 1935- Roger Hornsby announces his retirement from baseball after a last season with the Cajuns. Having a third consecutive sub-par season (.239-7-33) he considered his playing time were over and accepted a position as manager for the lowly Brooklyn Mets.

January 12th 1935- Chilenian forces recapture Puerto Santa Cruz in the Patagonia but any further attempts to advance are defeated.

January 17th 1935- Irish forces cross the Waal river and continued to move south under heavy pressure.

January 23rd 1935- Peru asks for a ceasefire and terms from Ecuador, Chile and Brazil.

February 1935: Swing introduces a new guest worker program to help increase the number of Mexican workers in the US to provide manpower for his proposed public works projects. The move angers many nativists, and alienates many Populist politicians, most notably Senator Hanslow, who is afraid of New Mexico being overrun.

February 3rd 1935- Island of Pulau Bangka captured to serve as base of operations for the coming invasion of Sumatra.

February 12th 1935- First use of mustard gas in South America. Used to defeat the advancing Chilenian troops advancing in the direction of Mendoza and La Rioja. Chilenian troops routed and returned back into Chile.

February 12th 1935- British and Dutch troops finally cross the Meuse river after two weeks of heavy fighting.

February 17th 1935- Japanese forces land north and east of Palembang and began to converge in the direction of the city while another force cross the Sunda Strait and began moving north thru the western coastal road.

February 18th 1935- Sarajevo falls to Russians.

February 19th 1935-Germany began raising four more motorized divisions. The Motorized forces were being kept out of the war by the Chief of Staff Von Lettow, awaiting for the right moment to be used.

February 21st 1935- Memel finally surrender after close to a months siege.

February 23rd 1935- First battle between landships in South America. 30 Argentinian A1 forced a draw with the first Brazilian armored regiment composed of 100 American build M1A1 armored cars. The Argentinian landships covered the retreat across the Uruguay River from Brazilian territory but losing more than half of their numbers while inflicting over 40 vehicles damaged of destroyed in the process. The Brazilian vehicles were lighter in both armor and weapons to the British build ones and the lack of training of the Brazilians was also noticed by foreign observers.

March 4th 1935- A major air attack is launched against Singapore to eliminate the air bases in the city . The attack was a fiasco, with the majority of the expected aircrafts already moved to fields out of the range of the Japanese land based bombers in Borneo.

March 7th 1935- Russian forces reach Warsaw. House to house fighting began but main forces by-pass the city and continued moving West.

March 11th 1935- City of Breda captured after heavy fighting.

March 13rd 1935- Battle of the Coral Sea. The small Anglo/Australian forces try to stop the invasion fleet detected by recon seaplanes. The battle was a true carnage. The Japanese loss two old dreadnaughts(the Aki and the Kawachi ) and the battlecruiser Ikoma to combat and the battlecruiser Hiruna to a submarine later on the day while supporting the landings. The Central Powers capitals ships losses were the Australian battlecruiser Canberra and the British battleship Poseidon of the Colossus class. But the rest of the British Task Force suffered damage and has to withdraw, failing to stop the invasion fleet.

March 14th 1935- Treaty of La Paz signed with Bolivia. Bolivia is forced to renounce to their claims to the Chaco region and accept Paraguay's control of the area. Brazil moves the border into San Pablo River in the Bolivian province of Santa Cruz while Chile gains small territorial concesions in the provinces of Potosi, Oruro and La Paz.

March 15th 1935- Eindhoven falls to the Central Powers.

March 17th 1935- French forces in the north of the Rhineland made a tactical retreat with the threat of being cutoff looming over their heads. The new line was located north of Dusseldorf.

March 18th 1935- Bandar Abbas captured by the 7th Indian Division. The Russian hold to the entrance of the Persian Gulf is ended.

March 20th 1935- Brisbane is declared an open city after being captured by Japanese.

March 21st 1935- Chaos erupts in Australia as their worst fears occurs. The British orders BattleCruiser Division 2 (composed now of the four Hood Class battlecruisers) to sail from Bombay south while Battleship Division 9 (composed of three Formidable Class battleship) to sail from Great Britain to Australia.

March 21st 1935- Central Powers troops enter Belgium territory for the first time since 1933.

March 23rd 1935- Basra falls to a joint Anglo-Ottoman force.

March 24th 1935- Ali bin Hussein declares the independence of the Hejaz. This is supported by the British and the "Free Ottomans" leader Kemal agrees to the fact. Russians began to ship weapons to a rival faction based in Riyadh led by the Saud family.

March 26th 1935- Asuncion declared an open city by the Argentinian defenders. The recognition of the war being lost was setting in and the city was spared to help them in the negotiation table.

April-December 1935; Middle East Front- With the Russians being forced to move reserves north to first keep their offensive in the Eastern Front going and later to counter both the Austro-German offensives plus to deal with growing guerilla unrest in occupied Turkey and Greece gave the joint British/Free Turk forces the chance to launch another offensive against the now beleaguered Russians. By the end of the year Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut were all in the hands of the Central Powers while further east the Russians were finally pushed from the coasts of the Persian Gulf.

April-December 1935; Western Front- France launched their expected offensive starting in late April aimed to support the Russian one going on in the East. But this time the methodical use of the new CA2 landships to support the infantry after long preparatory bombardments and the use of great quantities of mustard gas made up for a slow advance. The defenders in this front, mainly the British-Canadian-Irish Expeditionary forces with the Dutch territorial Army included, were shocked by the new weapons of the French Army but the French tactics made possible an organized fighting withdrawl back to the Rhine, pretty much taking the French eight months to recover the land they loss during the early months of the year.

April 1935- Japan put an order for 120 P-14 fighters with Boeing. The plan is to use the aircrafts in the new aircraft carriers expected to be completed by the end of the year.

April-June 1935 Ernest Hemingway investigates the story of one of Quentin Roosevelt’s secretaries regarding his meeting with the French and the Italians. He discovers that the story was actually a fabrication by a rival of Roosevelt Aviation. He publishes a large expose which vindicates Roosevelt and causes a major shake-up at the rival corporation.

April-May 1935; South American Front- Argentina was now facing alone the combined forces of Brazil, Paraguay and Chile and the strain began to show. While putting a credible defense the sheer numbers of their attackers forced them out of the last captured territory in Brazil and Paraguay by late April and the situation seemed lost by the middle of May. Lucky for them the other side has problems of their own. Chile was exhausted also after over three years of war, Brazil still was reeling of the effects of their civil war while the occupation of half of Paraguay for a short time hurt the economy of that nation. All that coupled with the US decision to cut arms shipments to the area brought all parts to the negotiation table by late May of 1935. The war in South America was over.

April-December 1935; China front- The war in China slowed down to a positional one until late on July, when the Chinese under guidance of their German instructors used US build armored cars(tanks) to push deep into Manchurian territory for the first time on the war. But after the capture of Mukden the lack of training of the Chinese in maintenance of their vehicles showed and the rate of breakdowns forced them to stop their advance. Also mustard gas was used for the first time in the failed attempt by the Chinese to capture Nanking due to the Japanese already using copies of Russian gas masks.

April 6th 1935- The leader of the Gendarmerie Elie Lescot leads a failed coup in Haiti. The decimation of the suspected sympathizers of Lescot in the Gendarmerie weakened the already weak Peralte’s position.

April 9th 1935- Reinforcements from India allocated to be sent by the British Far East Command to try to at least hold on to the northern part of the island of Sumatra are instead diverted to Australia.

April 11th 1935: Quentin Roosevelt meets at their request with the French and Italian ambassadors. The meeting is leaked by a secretary, who claims that confidential information not yet known by the US government was passed along.

April 15th 1935- Japanese forces reach Coffs Harbor. Japanese forces defeat an attempt by the Australian 6th Division to capture Brisbane by defeating them in the Battle of Toowoomba.

April 19, 1935 -- Following up on a major campaign promise, South Mexico's Congress passes the Education and Mayan Culture Act. It significantly increases school funding so that the longstanding promise of free universal education through age 18 can be a reality for all of South Mexico, not just children in big cities. It creates the Institute for the Advancement of the Mayan Language, with offices at the U. of Veracruz, Chiapas State U., and College of the Virgin Mary. Each school district is required to offer optional classes in Mayan and English literature, and may switch to Mayan-language instruction in other areas "where it would not prejudice Spanish-language instruction."

April 26th 1935- Russian forces reach the outskirts of Budapest.

Summer 1935- The new French tanks finally begin rolling off of the assembly line in reasonable quantities, but there are fewer of the new tanks being built than there were of the old design.

Summer 1935- Dr. Hans Von Ohain with the help from the Junkers Technical team produces the first practical jet engine, the Junkers RTO. But due the sudden death of Hugo Junkers and the growing concerns of the global war no further work is done and the engine is put in storage and soon forgot.

May 1935- President Garcia-Morelos wins the first presidential elections of the Commonwealth of Rio Grande, him being appointed by President Swing in 1931 with the idea of giving time for the development of political parties in the area. Garcia -Morelos was what it can be called a Republican, with factions tied to the United States Democrats and to the Populists movements also in existence. Also some factions existed that were clamoring for union with US and others with the existing rump Mexico. But violence was over and both the US and the Commonwealth government were hoping that peace last.

May 1935: With opposition from the Populists, nativists, and industrialists, Swing's windfall tax fails to pass Congress. With the newer entitlement programs eating into revenues it is impossible for Swing to gain funds for his more ambitious public works programs yet again.

May 16th 1935- The new British landship, the A2, entered production. With more armor, close to 60mm all-around and armed with a 6 pounder and two 2 pounders in separate turrets the engine needed to be reworked to carry the additional weight. Still the British were surprised when the comparable French behemoths appeared about the same time on the Western Front.

May 17th 1935- Major General Archibald Butts asks the US Department of the Army for the design of a heavier armored car after the poor demostration of the American build armored cars in South America.

May 18th 1935- A British naval force attacks a major Japanese convoy aimed for Brisbane. The carnage was brutal for the Japanese Imperial Navy. The Japanese escorts, led by the battecruisers Hiei and Ibuki, were sunk and the supplies and reinforcements forced to retire.

May 18th 1935- Treaty of Callao signed with Peru. Peru gave the province of Tumbes to Ecuador and recognized their borders as “binding and eternal.” Chile acquired the province of Tacna while Brazil received small territorial concessions on the Amazons.

May 26th 1935- First use of the new French landship near Dusseldorf.

May 29th 1935- Last Central Powers troops in Warsaw finally surrender after close to three months of terrible fighting.

June-December 1935; Asian Front- The Japanese concluded their conquest of Sumatra by the end of July of 1935 after the final evacuation of the British forces from Aceh. But most shocking was the landing of Japanese forces in Johore and Penang and by the end of the year Singapore was under siege. But all was not well for the Japanese Empire. The forces in Australia were checked in their advance in the direction of Sydney by the redeployment of forces from the north and the fast arrival of Indian troops to help in the defense of the Australian Continent. By the end of the year the Japanese forces in Australia were cutoff from supplies and were considered lost by the Japanese General Staff. They received orders to resist as long as possible to tie down Australian forces until the city of Singapore could be captured. As a site note, with the evacuation of French Polynesian islands by Australian and New Zealander troops the islands were captured by Japanese naval landing teams late in September.

June 7th 1935- Russians fail in their attempt to cutoff the city of Konigsberg from the rest of Germany but pressure was put on the city.

June 15th 1935- Half of Budapest on the hands of the Russians. Talks of separate peace by some elements in Austria-Hungary start.

June 15th 1935- With situation in the Commonwealth of Rio Grande considered now under control, the last US troops cross the border back into the US.

June 30th 1935- City of Breslau reached by Russian forces. High tide of their advance thru the war.

July-December 1935; Eastern Front- The Germans finalized launched their counteroffensive on late July, when they achieved air superiority over Western Poland and used the tactics first devised by Charles De Gaulle on a scale never seen. Sixteen motorized divisions and two Panzer divisions attacked the flanks of the Russian forces and in three weeks pocketed 60,000 men in Silesia. Only heroic actions permited the Russians to save some their forces but by the end of the year the front was sitting on the Bug River. Also the less succesful Austro-Hungarian offensive forced the Russians to raise their attack of Budapest but the severity of the casualties forced the Austro-Hungarians to end their offensive by the end of November. The Russian gamble to end the war failed. For the rest of the war the Russians stayed on the defensive on this front.

July-December 1935; African Front- The war in Africa sat to a standstill with both alliances shifting forces to other fronts, with the only major event being the invasion and capture of the island of Madagascar by a combined South African/German Colonial force.

July-December 1935; Italian Front- The Italian continued their slow advance into the Austro-Hungarian Empire but by now the Italian Fascisti government was being forced to keep more troops on the rear due to a growing movement clamoring for the end of the war.

July 17th 1935- First nuclear reactor build in Germany on a secret location using the concept of heavy water to create the reaction as a joint German-Austrian venture. Still Leo Szilard and other continued to try to find alternate ways to produce enriched uranium.

July 23rd 1935- Germany launched their expected counteroffensive on the East, “Operation Wotan.” Two fast moving thrusts attacked the Russian flanks and tried to pocket the Russian forces in Silesia and in Prussia.

July 25th 1935- Austria-Hungary launches their counteroffensive in an attempt to tie as many Russians as possible.

July 29th 1935- Treaty of Montevideo signed, finally ending the war in South America. Argentina was forced to make territorial concessions to both Brazil and Chile but the threat of continuing the war make the terms considerably mild. Chile claims to Patagonia up to the Rio Chico are recognized by Argentina while Brazil annexed the province of Misiones and got the demilitarization of all provinces east of the Parana River for twenty years. Paraguay got navegation right to the Parana River for eternity and monetary compensation for the damages caused during the short occupation of parts of their country.

July 31st 1935- Russian forces began moving away from Pressburg. Major Adolph Hitler II, son of the painter and author of the same name, wins the highest military awards of the Empire for his actions during the capture of the city.

August 2, 1935 -- Gertrude Stein moves from New Orleans back to her hometown of Pittsburgh, specifically to the suburb of Moon, where she takes a position on the Mellon University faculty. Despite the Crescent City's liberalism, Gertrude Stein's "wife" Mercedes de Acosta has increasingly become "an embarassment" cited by some of Louisiana's more caustic politicians.

August 18th 1935- General Georgi Zhukov, commanding an ad hoc force composed of armored car and mounted cavalry, keeps the front lines north of Lodz open for three days before being overwhelmed by the advancing German forces. His actions let close to 20,000 men escape to safety further east. It was the first action between Russian armored cars and the new German Panzers. General Zhukov actually escaped with part of his forces and was promoted to the rank of Lt. General for his actions.

August 19th 1935- First use of the American build P-14 fighter in the Great War by the French airforces. By late 1936 France has the biggest number of these aircrafts out of the United States with close to a thousand of them.

August 28th 1935- Chinese forces capture Mukden after heavy fighting.

August 29th 1935- Finally Russian forces pushed away from Budapest after close to a month of house to house fighting.

September 4th 1935- Krakow recaptured by the Polish 7th Army.

September 5, 1935 -- The Vasconcelos administration passes the South Mexican Civil Service Act, creating a body of the same name to act as a watchdog in government hiring. The Service is ordered to standardize job descriptions and whereever possible tie hiring criteria to good grades at University. The Act borrows heavily from similar laws in the USA and Ethiopia.

September 8th 1935- German mobile forces achieved three major crossings on the Vistula River and continued to move east. The city of Warsaw is bypassed.

September 19th 1935- Russian forces based in Warsaw launched an attack against the advancing German forces but are forced back into the city.

Fall 1935- First reported use of mustard gas in the African and the Far East fronts.

Fall 1935: Stories begin to be published claiming that in his everyday dealings as Secretary of State, Roosevelt favors his brother when it comes to trade negotiation. The evidence is slight, and both Roosevelt brothers deny it. The Freemans Journal and UV, the Hearst Founadation with AW, and even the pro-Swing Pullitzer Inc. with NBC all jump on this as evidence that part of the administration is in the pocket of the arms industry. Pulitzer Inc., with the support of Hemmingway, takes a very different angle, stating that Roosevelt had betrayed Swing in his support of the arms industry. Hemmingway’s view is seen as more credible given his recent positive story regarding Quentin Roosevelt.

September 30th 1935- German mobile forces are moved away from the front lines due to exhaustion. But the principle of “Blitzkrieg”, a word coined by Guderian, was proved as correct.

October 1935 - Patton sends a memo to General Butt, commenting on the recent 'Blitzkrieg' tactics of the Germans in Europe. He suggests changes to the armored car development program to capitalize on these types of tactics.

October 1935 -- The Top League becomes the first all-pro Mexican Football League. It will fold 6 years later, but serves as the template for the more successful Gulf League.

October 1st to 6th 1935- New York Yankees return to the World Series after a two year absence, beating the defending champs New Orleans Cajuns 4 games to 1. In a Yankee team where the perennial leaders of the team Al Szymanski (.287-16-79) and George Ruth (.288-21-59) have sub-par seasons due to age and injuries the lead of the team was taken by a new generation of players; Five year veteran player Max Gomez (26-5-2.31-0) and third year player Rodrigo Amador (20-7- 2.99-0) led the pitching staff while second base Al Serrano (.327-37-118-31) won the Continental League Leadership Award by being the first man to hit 30 homers and steal 30 bases on the same season.

October 18th 1935- German colonial forces land near Diego Suarez.

October 22nd 1935- South African forces disembark on the south of the island of Madagascar and began moving north in the direction of the capital.

October 24th 1935- Sarajevo recaptured with signs of massacres of suspected pro-Austrian sympathizers found. Hungarian corps commander Bela Ferenc Blasko announces the “Russian horde will be expelled of the sacred lands of the Empire by the end of the year.” He was wrong of course but very significative progress was made. Still his standing orders to execute all rebel Serbs in Bosnia was called controversial at the end of the war.

Late October 1935: Swing, who had appointed Roosevelt under pressure from the Party, begins to see an excuse to get rid of the hawkish Roosevelt.

November 1935: The American Musical Guild, an association that encourages cooperation among the various professions associated with music, decides to create the Note Awards, an awards show patterned on the Motion Picture Awards. Awards will be presented every February for the best contributions in artistic and technical endeavors over the previous year.

November 1st 1935- When word leaks out of the Swing Executive Mansion that President Swing is considering removing Roosevelt from State, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. becomes despondent. That night, however, his brother Quentin meets with him and challenges him to rise to the occasion. Together, they plan to face the accusations wrongly leveled at their family.

November 2nd 1935- Theodore Roosevelt Jr. calls a news conference, where he publicly resigns and castigates the rumor mill that has unjustly persecuted him and his family, as well as the Swing Administration for its several failings. He announces a joint lawsuit by his family for libel against those new services that have tried to implicate him of impropriety.

November 7th 1935- President Swing nominates James Couzens as the new Secretary of State, a popular figure who had already announced that he was not running for re-election, though most assumed that he would be running for the senate in '36.

November 7th 1935: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. hires Darrow to be his lawyer.

November 11th 1935- Russian 9th Army’s commander surrender in Poznan. 60,000 Russians go into POW camps.

November 17th 1935- First operational Hansa Brandeburg 68's,an upgrade of the 65's, enter service into the German Air Corps. By the end of the war the 68's were the only frontline biplanes still in service in any major power. While superior to the P-14 in speed with 215 miles and in service ceiling with 28,000 feet, it was armed with only two machineguns and have a very short range of 380 miles. After the war it was know that the airforces suffered due to funds being used for the "Thor Project."

November 18th 1935- Germany puts an order to purchase the American P-14 to supplement the number of their aircrafts.

December 1935 - The Republic of China protests to the American government the recent spurt of violence against ethnic Chinese.

December 17th 1935- German forces clear the last Russian forces west of the Bug River except for the entrenched forces in Warsaw and Lublin.

December 18th 1935- French authorities in Madagascar surrender to the advancing Central Powers troops.

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May 16th, 2006, 01:03 PM

1936

1936- The attacks persist. Many of the Asian immigrants in question now carry handguns or knives to protect themselves. But on April 17th, a few Chinese take matters into their own hands. After witnessing a friend being beaten to death by 3 white men in an alley at the docks, 5 Chinese workers, all armed with knives or handguns, kill the 3 white men. In retaliation the white rascists kill every single person in a Chinese-run opium den in Oakland. Counter-attack after counter-attack follows, and the Chinese part of town in many cities starts becoming a bad place for whites to go, sort of a ghetto.

1936- German leading rocket researchers Walther Hohmann and Willy Ley develop the V-3 rocket. A multi stage rocket, it was capable of hitting Moscow from deep in German territory.

1936- Sonora becomes a state.

1936- Olympic games cancelled due to the Great War. The host city was supposed to have been Rome.

January-June 1936; Asian Front- The fall of Singapore early on the year was a heavy blow for the British Empire but it was balanced with the surrender of the ill fated Japanese forces in Australia. While defeating the Japanese in Australia was a political decision, the bulk of the British armed forces were either in Europe or in the Middle East so the front was considered a secondary one by the Empire. On the other hand the Japanese Empire was exhausted. With the war in China turning into a quagmire, political feelers to end the conflict were send to the British and German Empires but were refused out of hand.

January-June 1936; Middle East Front- Grand Duke Michael, commanding the front, used his political cloud to get recently promoted Lt. General Zhukov moved to his front plus valuable reserves, troops and equipment to launch a massive offensive to reach the Persian Gulf again. Operation Babylon was a success for the Russian Empire and only supply problems stopped them in Kuwait. Zhukov used Russian made copies of the French CA-1 landships and troops in lorries to achieve something similar to the events in Poland late last year in the plains of Mesopotamia. Still many officers and members of the Russian government resented the way the Grand Duke used his power to get what he wanted while troops in other fronts suffered. This being the last time the Russian launched any major offensive in the war.

January-June 1936; African Front- The Central Powers decided to concentrate into defeating France before tackling the mighty Russian Empire and as such the 8th Army moved forward in Tripoli, in an attempt to tie French forces in the area while events were unfolding in Europe. The casualties were very heavy at the beginning but with the French been forced to move troops back to Europe a breakthrough was finally achieved in this front in late April.

January-June 1936; Western Front- The Central Powers decision to concentrate in eliminating France before tackling Russia once and for all was a very controversial one at the time, especially in Germany, but it proved to be the correct one at the end. With the German mobile divisions still recovering from the late 1935 campaign in the Eastern Front the bulk of the fighting fell to the so-called Expeditionary forces and to the German-Dutch territorial divisions. The advance was very slow at the beginning, but the offensive began to gain momentum by early March, with all Dutch territory free of French forces for the first time since the middle of 1933 and the fall of Antwerp in late April was hailed as a great victory in the British and German news. By the end of June the French were also forced to evacuate all the Rhineland territories north of Dusseldorf due to the fear of being encircled.

January-June 1936; Eastern Front- Except for limited offensives by the Germans that recaptured Memel and cleared the Masurian Lakes area in Prussia from Russian soldiers the front was in relative calm. The Russians were exhausted while the Germans and the Austrians were too busy in other fronts to push the issue in the area.

January-June 1936; Italian Front- For the first time since the beginning of the war the Austro-Hungarian forces took the initiative in this front. The terrain channeled the forces and casualties were severe but the Italians were pushed back all thru the front, the biggest achievement being the recapture of Trieste.

January-June 1936; Balkan Front- The Austrian-Hungarian forces took advantage of the movement of forces by the Russians to other fronts to advance forward and clear Bosnia of Russian forces. Meanwhile in Greece partisan activity increased due to the reduction of the number of troops in the area and Russia asks the Bulgarians to help in the pacification of the area. The puppet Greek government lost a lot of credibility and support due to this.

January-June 1936;China Front- The Chinese continued their attacks into Manchuria but their offensives failed due to the weather and the Japanese in the area receiving logistical and material help from the Russians. On the other hand further south the Chinese achieved a major coup with the capture of the city of Nanking, hailed in China as the sign of their eventual victory.

January 1936- A disappointed Juan Peron resigns his military commission. He declines at this time to run for political office, instead turning to his Catholic roots to seek personal meaning for his life.

January 1936 -- Gertrude Stein publishes what turns out to be her last play, The Sapphic Sophist. The play, especially its line, "don't worry, darling, there are Sapphires on the Moon," signals the beginning of the Pittsburgh suburb's reign as the mecca for American homosexuals.

January 7th 1936- A team under the direction of Enrico Fermi achieves a working nuclear reactor in Rome.

January 12th 1936- First Russian Sikorsky's heavy bombers of a batch of 100 purchased by the Japanese arrive to their new bases in Korea.

Febuary, 1936: Wendell Wilkie announces that he intends to seek the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the United States. Baker, previously the front runner, stands down. Hanslow appears as the main competitors, but quickly trails in almost all primaries.

February 2, 1936: Some more extreme Progressives decide that it is necessary to prove that Roosevelt was truly never on the side of Swing, and a Senate committee begins to investigate the case, despite the rather lackluster evidence of corruption.

February 6th 1936- The Blackburn Fury a fighter derivative of Mitchell's M.2 race flies for the first time. Thou the design is proven sound. However its powerplant, the 2200 hp Bristol Colossus, is plaqued with issues which keep it from entering service. Do to the stress and other factors doctors tell Mitchell he has colon cancer.

February 19th 1936- Singapore falls to the Japanese 25th Army under Yamashita. Prime Minister Churchill stated that “this is a dark day for the British Empire. But rest assured that we will continue to fight on the air, we will fight on the fields of Holland, we will fight on the jungles, we will fight on the deserts, we will never surrender.”

March 7th 1936-The Roosevelt Aviation Falcon III enters service with the United States Army Air Corps. The Falcon III was the most succesful aircraft of the late 1930's with over 6,000 build from 1936 to 1941 and serving in the airforces of eleven nations. With a maximum speed of 300 miles, a service of ceiling of 28,000 feet, a range of 650 miles and armed with one .30 and .50 caliber machineguns it was superior to their rival the P-14 on the weapons market.

March 12th 1936- Baghdad is recaptured by the Russians. British and Free Turks are send reeling back in the direction of Basra.

March 14th 1936- Russian 19th Cavalry Brigade (Armored Cars) captures Najaf while the 24th Cavalry Brigade (landships) captures Al Kut, cutting bulk of the British forces between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

March 20th 1936- First baseman-third baseman Tommy Ott traded by the Brooklyn Superbas to the Baltimore Saints for two pitchers.

April 10, 1936 - A British doctor serving on the Middle East Front attends to General Mustafa Kemal. He bluntly informs the Turkish leader that if he does not stop drinking, he probably won't live to see his nation freed from the Russian heel. On this day, Kemal commits himself to drink only one glass of raki a week, in honor of the homeland. All other days he swears abstinence, in duty to the homeland.

April 12, 1936 Quentin Roosevelt testifies to the Senate committee, and thoroughly embarrasses the Senate committee with his scathing denouncement of their witch hunt. The Pulitzer press, not named in the libel suit, begins to dub Theodore and Quentin ‘The Fighting Roosevelts’.

April 16th 1936- Tripoli captured by the 2nd Ethiopian Division (Motorized).

April 17 1936: Quentin Roosevelt donates 40 million dollars to the Red Cross. He also pressures many other prominent arms dealers to take similar action.

April 18th 1936- After their latest defeats, France announces unrestricted submarine warfare will be reinitiated around the British Islands and the North Sea.

April 18th 1936- First British motorized division organized in Bremen from recently arrived conscripts. This unit was joined later by the territorial 52nd Lowland Division and the 2nd Canadian Division to form the basis of the first British Motorized Corps after training with German instructors in the Saxony training fields.

April 20th 1936- The US government issues a formal protest to the French on the new policy.

April 20th 1936- Antwerp is captured by the German 17th Corps (Dutch Territorials with a Free Belgium detachment.) Attempts by the French to recover the city were repulsed by the arrival of the Irish Expeditionary Force under the command of Richard Mulcahy.

Summer 1936- In response to the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare, the US navy institutes a convoy system to escort US flagged ships travelling to and from Europe.

Summer 1936: Republican National Convention, Baltimore Maryland: A disaster performed in front of live television. The convention begins with George Cabot-Lodge officially refusing to run a second term as Vice President, a move that Swing was not prepared for. Many other prominant pro-Central Powers Republicans also follow TR JR lead and refuse to attend. Al Smith delivers the key note speech, a necessary decision considering that he and LaGuardia, the moderate faction of the party, are by far the most popular. In desperation Swing offers the Vice Presidency to LaGuardia, who politely refuses, mostly because he thinks that this is the only way to keep as speaker, and that connecting himself with Swing is a bad idea. Swing calls several prominent figures, including Hemingway, who all refuse a place on the ticket. Swing, true to his progressive ideals, finally decides that, at least he could make history, and chooses former governor Nellie Ross to be his running mate.

May 1936 After a protracted court battle, the Roosevelts win their libel case and the news services that libeled them are forced to print full page retractions and pay hefty fines.

May 3rd 1936- The first major casualty of the revived French submarine offensive is the battleship Queen Elizabeth, sunk by a combined 6 torpedos launched by three enemy submarines. The roar in the British press was incredible, with accusations flying of how it was possible this ship was ambushed that way.

May 16th 1936- 8th Army commander Benjamin O. Davis asks for volunteers for an experimental unit. The volunteers flocked from the different complements in the Army and by the end of the month enough volunteers were available to begin training. The Provisional Air-transportable Regiment formed. While the Regiment itself was race mixed, the companies were as homogenous as possible.

May 18th 1936- Central Power’s troops cross the border into Tunisia.

May 20th 1936- Japanese Prime Minister Konoye sends a peace offer to the British and German Empires that asked for peace with the status quo in Asia as the new borders. The offer was refused without even being discussed by both the British and Germans.

May 25th 1936- Basra changes hands again, falling to forces led by Zhukov himself.

May 26th 1936-Another major British ship falls to enemy subs when the battleship Collingwood(a St. Vincent class) is sunk while escorting a convoy to Bremenhaven.

May 28, 1936 With the favorable finding in the libel case, and the embarrassments of the committee hearings, which have actually engendered more support for the Roosevelts, the committee closes its investigation.

June 9th 1936- General De Gaulle is severely wounded by a passing aircraft near Gabes in Tunisia. Later considered by many the father of mobile warfare, he fell in disfavor late in 1934 and was “exiled” to the African front since 1935.

June 13th 1936- Trieste falls to Austrian troops. Major Adolph Hitler II is severely wounded during the capture of the city and is send to the rear to recover from his wounds.

June 14th 1936 - In a clandestine operation, Okrana agents of Russia manage to assassinate VI Lenin, a propagandist for the Germans.

June 17th 1936- Last Japanese forces in Brisbane finally surrender. The city falls after close to a month of block to block battle.

June 19th 1936- Kuwait City’s garrison surrenders after a short fight to advancing Russian forces. This is the apex of the Russians advance.

July-December 1936; Asian Front- The main event in this theater was the declaration of war of the Japanese Empire to the United States on December, that further expanded the war and changed this theater from a secondary one into a major one on the next year. By them the Japanese Empire was severely overextended. They suffered minor defeats when joint Siamese/British forces captured northern Malaya with the front finally anchored north of Kuala Lampur in the West and Pekan on the East of the peninsula while the Siamese further north, with material support by the British, pushed the Japanese out of the areas of Cambodia they controlled.

July-December 1936; African Front- The Central Powers continued their unrelenting advance into Tunisia and Algeria, capturing the valuable Algerian oilfields near the Lybian border early on October but the surrender of the Italian colony of Tunisia late on December was considered by many the means to open a second front against the Italians on the future.

July-December 1936; Western Front- The French decided to abandon their now dangerous holdings in the German Rhineland and the Saar and as such began a slow withdraw of the area while at the same time destroying the infrastructure in the area. The Germans were appalled by the destruction inflicted and moved regular troops into the area to try to force the French out of the area before the destruction was too great. They failed in this. The French defeated the German attacks while a limited offensive launched by the Expeditionary Forces in Belgium also failed in gaining any ground or any momentum. By the end of December the French were out of the Rhineland and the Saar, anchoring their defenses on the borders of Alsace and Lorraine. The destruction they inflicted to the German infrastructure in the area was incredible and considered by many the reason of the terms inflicted on them later.

July-December 1936; Middle East Front- The front was calm during the last part of the year, with the Russians trying to rebuild the supply lines to the new frontlines while the Central Power forces tried to recover from the casualties suffered during the just ended Russian offensive. Still limited offensives were launched by the Central Powers in Lebanon and in Persia that achieved small territorial gains in those areas.

July-December 1936;Italian Front- The Austro-Hungarians continued their advance and achieved some important victories in the process. While the Italian forces continue to pour men to try stop the tide, the Italian public began to turn against the Pasolini government. By the end of the year King Victor Emmanuel III asked Pasolini for his resignation.

July-December 1936; Balkan Front- The Austro-Hungarian continued their advance against the weakened Russian forces in the Balkan during this time. Rapid success in the Vojvodina area was the inmediate result of the Austro-Hungarian attacks but with the forces reaching the outskirsts of Belgrade the advance slowed down to a crawl and attempts to liberate the city ended in failure. Meanwhile further west an invasion of Montenegro was launched that achieved moderate success and captured the Montenegrin coast all the way to the city of Cetinje, forcing the Montenegrin government to relocate to Podgorica. But most important was the decision by Field Marshall Mannerheim to withdrew the Russian forces from Greece up to the city of Larissa. Greece erupted in a virtual civil war, with the Greek puppet forces not been enough to control the pro-Central Power partisans and the situation been made worse by the landing of Free Greek troops late in November.

July-December 1936; China Front- This front turned into a quagmire for both the Japanese and the Chinese. The Japanese didn't had the strength to force the issue in this area due to commitments in other areas while the Chinese didn't have the necessary training and equipment to achieve their objectives. The Chinese began limited offensives aimed in capturing Shanghai and Tsingtao but both fell short of their objectives.

July-December 1936; Eastern Front- With the German forces still building their strength plus other fronts being considered more of a priority the offensives in the area were of a limited character. The Russians were pushed from the Bug River but the terrain aided the defenders and the offensive bogged down in the Pripet marshes. But the surrender of the surrounded Russian garrisons in Warsaw and Lublin late in July after a six month siege were hailed as victories by the Central Powers press and a sign the tide was turning.

July 1936: Welles begins to personally campaign for over 20 clients on all levels of national and local government. Hearst newspapers and AW begin to feature him prominently as a young attractive face to the party.

July 8th to 13th 1936- Battle of Medenine. After considerable casualties the Franco-Italian defensive line is broken and the Central Power forces began pouring north. The Allies began a fighting withdraw north and west.

July 8th 1936- With chances of winning the pennant for the first time since 1923, the Toronto Blue Jays signed outfielder James Bell and pitcher Leroy Paige in an attempt to upgrade their offense and pitching. The two negro league stars were a big help for a Blue Jays team that still finished the season in third place, seven games behind the Yankees. The first black players to play major league baseball since the turn of the century, they went to have decent careers, especially Paige. Paige was a 20 game winner twice times in his career and ended his career in 1955 with 180 victories and in his later years was a precursor of the short relieve pitcher. Meanwhile Bell set the single season record of 102 stolen bases in 1937, that was later broken by George Smalls in 1959.

July 12th 1936- Subotica's garrison surrenders to the Hungarian 17th Corps of the Honved.

July 29th 1936- The first of the Shinano class is commisioned, followed by her two sister ships two months later.

July 29th 1936- Gabes captured after a short fight.

August 8th 1936- Novi Sad falls after heavy fighting to the advancing Austro-Hungarian troops.

August 13th 1936- A third British battleship is sunk by submersible when the Centurion(a King George V class) is sunk while returning from the Caribbean.

August 19th 1936- Udize is captured by advancing Austro-Hungarians.

September 1936: Working with representatives from the Populist League, the Equality League, several major corporations, with personal assistance from Charles Seymour and Henry Stimson, George Welles writes "The Democratic Party" a simple, clear, concise explanation of the Party's beliefs and values. The focus of the paper is the emphasize the new found party unity, and to create a concise political goal for all Democratic candidates. With Welles' assistance, the paper helps the the entire party colaborate together, and gain more support.

September 2nd 1936- A USN destroyer on convoy duty is sunk by a sub in the North Sea. The French claim that though they mistook it for a British ship, but remind the USA that they have no business entering a warzone.

September 2nd 1936- Balkan Front commander Mannerheim orders the occupation troops in Greece to be moved north to help in stopping the advancing Central Powers.

September 5th 1936- Important naval facilities in Kotor are demolished by retreating Russian troops.

September 16th 1936- City of Shiraz captured in Persia by Indian troops.

September 17th 1936- German researchers began the development of the railroad gun Kaiser Wilhelm IV for long distance bombardment.

September 18th 1936- General Marmaduke Grove announces that the new provinces of Santa Cruz and Patagonia will send representatives to the Chilean Parliament by the end of next year. He also announces in his speech that the women will receive the right to vote thanks to their “sacrifices during the Victorious War.”

September 18th 1936- Charles De Gaulle dies in Marseilles from complications caused by the wounds suffered early in June.

September 19th 1936- Partisan activity increases in Greece, culminating with the capture of Sparta by partisans that clamored for the return of the King.

September 19th 1936- Production of the new cavalry armored car begins. The M1A2 armored car has more armor than the M1A1 but the US industry wasn't ready to build a turret that supported a 75mm gun so the main gun was located in a sponson on the side. Still the vehicle was faster than any vehicle in production at the time anywhere in the world and the lack of a turret gave it a low profile. Still it was considered a transitory vehicle until the arrival of the M1A3. But this vehicle with the M1A1 were the main vehicles of the 1st Cavalry Division (armored) that served in the European front under George Patton.

September 27th 1936- A high ranking Naval Officer is arrested after is considered he has been leaking information to the French of the routes followed by British major ships. He was tried and executed in 1938 after proof surfaced in the post-war of his treachery.

October 1st to 7th 1936- The New York Yankees repeat as champions by defeating the Buffalo Braves 4 games to 2. With Rodrigo Amador (21-7-3.86-0) and Max Gomez (21-11-2.33-0) leading the pitching staff again and the offensive load being carried by Al Serrano (331-29-133-24), Al Szymanski (.327-13-112) and rookie Mickey Marble (.290-14-67-10) the Yankees won the pennant by six games over the Boston Blue Sox and over the Toronto Blue Jays by seven games. Rookie Marble took over right field late in July after a season ending injury ended the season of George Ruth (.272-19-63) and was named the official right fielder in spring training the next year.

October 5th 1936- Congress passes sanctions against France, forbiding the shipping of armaments to France until they renounce unrestricted submarine warfare and respect the neutrality of US shipping, as well as paying reparations to the US for the loss of their warship in September.

October 7th 1936- While recovering from his wounds in Vienna, Major Hitler joins his father’s Pan-Germanic movement.

October 9th 1936- Dr Herbert Wagner and Hans Ohain are kidnapped and later murdered by MVD operatives, who also stole valuable research papers. Adolf Muller disappears soon after. It is believed that information stolen from the pair was used to jump start the Russian jet program. It is later learned that Muller has fled to Great Britain and helped with the development of the De Havilland Javelin,Britain's first jet.

October 13th 1936- France outright refuses to stop unrestricted submarine warfare under, "thuggish threats" from the Americans. In response, they announce that they will expand submarine operations throughout the North Atlantic, both in defiance of the Americans and in a bid to "take off the gloves" and hasten the end of the war.

October 14th 1936- Bolzano falls to the combined Austro-German Mountain Corps. Colonel Michael Skorzeny of the Austrian Heer is the first man to breach the city defenses and the man that received the surrender of the city. His valor is noted in dispatches.

November 1936: Edward McCarthy is elected District Attorney as a Democrat.

November, 1936: Wendel Willkie is elected President of the United States by a small margin, having underestimated how much of the nation was pro-war. Many scholars comment that if Swing had appeared to have a stronger personality, he would have won, but that instead Swing just seemed incompetent. The Democrats gain control of the House but the Republicans kept control of the Senate.

November 1936 - For the first time, the anti-lynching laws are applied in the case of whites killing Chinese, as three men are convicted of the lynching that started inter-racial violence in California.

November 3rd 1936- Mannerheim announces his resignation after being blamed by the Grand Duke Michael himself of the events occuring in Greece. His defense was that his front was stripped of troops for the offensive in the Middle East and he was forced to retire from Greece to use those forces to stop the advancing Central Power troops. He personally blamed the Grand Duke for the lack of troops and even stated privately the Grand Duke "was losing the war for Mother Russia."

November 10th 1936- Austro-Hungarians troops reach the outskirsts of the Montenegrin capital of Cetinje.

November 24th 1936- Free Greek forces landed by British fleet near Navplion after the port been secured by British Royal Marines.

December 1936-Henry Cabot-Lodge Jr. resigns from the State Senate in order to serve in the war as a captain.

December 3rd 1936- Kerman captured by Indian and Persian partisan forces.

December 4th 1936- King Victor Emmanuel of Italy ask Prime Minister Pasolini for his resignation.

December 5th 1936- Tunis falls after a two week siege to the Central Powers. A large part of the garrison was successfully evacuated to Sicily.

December 6th 1936- Prime Minister Pasolini of Italy resigns after failing to secure the help of the Army. King Victor Emmanuel names his son Umberto as provisional head of the government. Umberto promises "peace with honor" and send feelers to all the Central Powers.

December 7th 1936- Paul Schimdt finally achieves a functional pulse jet engine. He patents his invention soon after.

December 9th 1936- The luxury liner Goliath is sunk in the North Atlantic by a French submarine. Fortunately, US destroyers accompanying a convoy are close enough to respond to the distress call and arrive to pick up the survivors, but not before the French sub had surfaced and started sinking lifeboats, apparently in an attempt to leave no survivors to identify the cause of the sinking.

December 11th 1936- After the third failed attempt to cross the Danube fails all operations aimed at capturing Belgrade ceased for the time being.

December 13th 1936- An emergency joint session of Congress is called, and the US declares war on France.

December 14, 1936: Quentin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. join the army, claiming that even though they believe in peace, that they are patriotic Americans and that if the nation is to fight the war, they'll make damn sure that its a victory.

December 14th 1936- Due to leaks in the press, Umberto is forced to stop his diplomatic attempts to sue for peace for the time being so not to cause a possible French invasion.

December 15th 1936- French allies Russia, Italy and Japan declare war on the USA in response to the US declaration of war to France.

December 16th 1936- Corinth falls to the Free Greeks and the partisans.

December 17th 1936- The Provisional Air-Transportable Regiment is considered battle ready after over six months of training. The name of the unit is changed to the 1st Joint Air-Transportable Regiment, with a Ethiopian battalion, two German battalions (one colonial and one white) and three British ones with the air complement being also British.

December 19th 1936- Japanese troops land on Guam with little resistance.

December 19th 1936- National Guard Divisions are activated for the coming war.

December 21st 1936- Battle of Wake Island: The US Pacific Fleet, with eight battleship, the six Constellation class battlecruisers and the carriers Langley and Enterprise, is attacked by a strong Japanese force composed of the more modern part of the Japanese Battleship forces, and the Japanese Carrier Force under Admiral Yamamoto off Wake. The Battle is very destructive for both sides, but due to the surprise attack of the Japanese carriers and ferocity of the Japanese surface ships, many of the US capital ships and both carriers have been sunk and the Pacific Fleet is forced to turn back. But the Japanese invasion fleet has been damaged enough that Wake's invasion must be held off. The battle was the swan song of the battlecruiser with the US learning what the other nations already knew, that the battlecruisers have no place in a battle versus battleships. The total tally was one battleship lost by the Japanese and three by the US, one Japanese carrier and two US ones but the difference was the sinking of the whole Constellation Class battlecruisers. (1) Japanese ships sunk: One Kaga with 5 dual 16” and the IJN carrier Hosho with 18 aircrafts.(2) US ships sunk: One New Mexico with 5 dual 16”, one South Carolina with 4 dual 12”, one Delaware with 5 dual 12”, the whole six Constellation Class with 5 dual 14”, the Langley with 22 aircrafts and the Enterprise with 24 aircrafts.

December 22nd 1936- A draft is authorized by Congress to help in the prosecution of the war.

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May 16th, 2006, 01:04 PM

1937

1937 - Wallonian partisans begin operating against the invading Central Powers. Many Walloons flee to Northern France to avoid feared reprisals for Walloon acts against Flemish Belgians.

1937 Fiorello LaGuardia is elected Governor of New York.

1937- Groups of Chinese start traveling together, and protecting each other, and basically form small gangs. This is the beginnings of the Chinese Mafia.

January-June 1937; Eastern Front- The terrain supported the Russian defenders but still the German and Polish forces continued their advance into the Pripet Marshes and the Russians were forced to move troops from the Middle East to try to stop the slow German-Polish advance.

January-June 1937; Balkan Front- The early part of the year were for the most part a streak of Central Power victories, the Russians and their allies not being capable of stopping the forces coming from two sides. Even the arrival of troops from the Middle East were only capable of slowing the advancing Austrians and Free Greek troops. The conquest of Montenegro and the recapture of the cities of Belgrade and Athens were the highlights of this period on this front.

January-June 1937; Asian Front- The US entering the war changed the scope of the front and brought a sense of urgency to the Japanese Empire to end the conflict. With their victory in the Battle of Wake the Japanese considered the US Pacific Fleet to be neutralized until they received reinforcements and as such they concentrated in defeating the British Far East Fleet. This is now considered to had been an error, giving time to the US to use their available deployable forces in two minor offensives and giving the US a minor naval victory while the Japanese were busy decimating the British fleet.

January-June 1937; African Front- With the French being occupied with the situation in Europe the Central Powers launched simultaneous offensives aimed in the direction of Algiers and Dakar respectively. Both of them failed in reaching their final objectives but the territory captured was considerable. At the same time the British Force Gibraltar forced the French naval units in Oran to open sea, decimating them. This victory, late in June, effectively cutoff North Africa from France.

January-June 1937; Italian Front- The Austro-Hungarian troops continued a slow advance until stopped in the Piave River by the Italian defenders early in March 1937. The Austrians decided not to push the issue with their main concerns turning to the war on the Balkans and both sides began to dig in on this front. The Italians in late May send again secret peace feelers to the Austrians but the terms offered were found not good enough by the Austrian and German governments.

January-June 1937; China Front- The Chinese decided to concentrate their strength and stayed on the defensive except for their offensive in the Shantung Peninsula. In the narrow front of the peninsula the Chinese advance was very bloody but the liberal use of chemical weapons and flamethrowers plus the use of the non-elite divisions as cannonfodder made possible the important victory of the surrender of the port city of Tsingtao in late June. The Japanese attempts to launch spoiler attacks to relieve the pressure of the beleguered defenders in the peninsula achieved some minor gains but the Chinese followed the counsel of their German advisors and never let down their attack until achieving their objective in Shantung.

January-June 1937;Western Front- The hammer fell over the French nation on March 17th 1937. On that date the combined Expeditionary Forces(British, Irish and Canadians), the Bavarian Army, a large part of the Imperial Army and the new Combined Motorized Army ( Two panzer divisions, eight German motorized divisions, two British and one Canadian motorized divisions) launched forward. The plan was very similar to the plan utilized in the Franco-German War of 1913 but this time this massive motorized force was used to follow thru the breach of the front between Spa and Malmedy. This same force crossed the Bastogne forest and after achieving a crossing of the Meuse River instead of continuing in the direction of Paris like in the last war and doing what the French expected they turned in the direction of the coast in an attempt to pocket the defenders in Belgium. The fall of Calais in early April pocketed close to 100,000 French soldiers in Belgium. The attempts made to try rescue them pretty much failed, with only 30,000 making it back into France and the rest surrendering by the end of May. The next phase saw the bloody French retreat of Alsace-Lorraine during June back to the pre-war border fortifications while small territorial gains were made in northern France.

January-June 1937; Middle East Front- Grand Duke Michael was furious when a big part of the forces assigned to the theater were transfered to Belarus and the Baltic States. He resigned his command in disgust and privately began to be critical of the decisions of the Tsar, reminding many that he was the defacto ruler of Russia as regent for the Tsar from 1915 to 1925 and that the nation did very well under his leadership. His successor as commander in the Middle East, Marshall Pavlov, decided to shorten the lines and abandoned the gains of last year offensive during this period, but not before destroying anything that couldn't be carried away in Mesopotamia and southern Persia. By the end of June Basra, Kuwait and Baghdad were back in the hands of the British and the Free Ottomans.

January 8th 1937- First squadron of the new British Hawker Tornados is operational in Dover. The aircraft, the first monoplane in service in the RAF, has a shorter range than the Americans P-14 or the Falcon III at 600 miles but it was faster and better armed than them with eight .303 machineguns on the wings, a maximum speed of 330 miles and a service ceiling over 30,000 feet.

January 11th 1937- USS Bunker Hill and USS Cowpens ordered to the Pacific Ocean to replace losses.

January 16th 1937- Funds are appropiated by the US Congress to build new ships due to losses in the Pacific. After debate it was decided to make the construction of aircraft carriers the main priority.

January 18th 1937- Major General Archibald Butts named to command a forming American Expeditionary Force marked for duty in Europe and promoted to the rank of Lt. General. His first order of business was to swap cavalry brigades between the 1st and 2nd Cavalry divisions to create the first true all mechanized division in the United States Army and naming George Patton to command it. He also began the integration of three National Guard division to the three regular army infantry divisions expected to make the trip to Europe.

January 18th 1937- Bialystok surrenders after a ten day battle around the city.

January 26th 1937- First and only operational use of the Air-Transportable Regiment. They are dropped behind the Italian lines in the Kasserine Pass in an attempt to blockade their escape. The operation was successful and more mission are planned for the unit. Sadly no other operations were launched by this unit due to different reasons. The unit was finally disbanded in late July 1937.

January 29th 1937- Ethiopian forces defeat the last major Italian presence in Africa in the battle of Kasserine Pass.

February 1937- With parts of China under Japanese occupation it was considered impossible to held elections in China. As such the Chinese Senate agrees to extend President Soong term for another four years or till the end of hostilities, whatever is the latest of the two choices.

February 3rd 1937- Gafsa falls to British troops.

February 6th 1937-Liberia declares war to France and moves forces into Guinea.

February 6th 1937- Athens is declared an open city by the pro-Russian Greek Republican forces. The Greek King and his government arrived to the city from Crete ten days later under popular acclaim.

February 7th 1937- 2nd Ethiopian Division enters city of Tebessa.

February 7th 1937- Russian researchers began investigating ways to use MWD's to guide missiles into their targets.

February 11th 1937- Trent falls to the Austro/German Mountain Corps.

February 14th 1937- The fall of Kovel to Austro-Hungarian troops is used by the Central Powers' propaganda machine as a sign of the faltering Russian resolve and in the radio and TV stations claims are made that the end of the war is near.

February 18th 1937- Japanese Carrier Task Force under Yamamato composed of five carriers is ordered into the Indian Ocean and surprises the British forces anchored in Colombo. During "Black Tuesday," four British capital ships(1) and the last remaining Chinese capital ship(2) were sunk plus severe damage inflicted to other ships and the port facilities with only 37 Japanese aircrafts being shot down. While two of the British ships were salvaged and repaired in the post-war this operation is called the swan song of the battleship and effectively eliminated any threat the Royal Navy represented to the Japanese in the Indian Ocean for the first half of 1937. (1) 1 Revenge with with 4 dual 15” , 2 Formidable with 4 dual 15" (later salvaged and repaired), 1 Queen Elizabeth with 4 dual 15". (2) 1 Ching Yuan with 6 dual 12” (former German Helgoland Class)

February 19th 1937- The 1st Infantry Division is bound under heavy escort for Belfast, their first leg on their trip to Europe. It was the first unit to leave for the War.

February 21st 1937- Conakry surrenders to the 2nd Brigade of the British Royal Marines.

February 23rd 1937- The Vindicator completed. The first capital ship completed by the Royal Navy since the Treaty of New York due first to Great Britain obeying the letter of the treaty and them after the start of the war priority was given to escort ships instead to capital ships. The Vindicator was the only one of it class ever build, her sister ship Victorious being converted into an aircraft carrier and completed as such late in 1937, too late to see service in the war. The Vindicator had a main battery of two triple 20" guns put forward like the Saints but their secondary guns were the biggest AA guns ever put on any ship and her service after the war was more as an AA defense platform for the carriers.

February 24th 1937- 10th Infantry Division (Negro) is created by fusing the Regular Army Negro troops with National Guard Negro units. This divisions is put under the orders of recently promoted Dwight D. Eisenhower.

March 1937: LaGuardia remains a popular figure in Washington, and appeals to many moderate Democrats and the Democrats have trouble finding a new Speaker of the House. Republicans are optimistic, saying that this proves that moderate Republicans can still be popular, and that Swing did not destroy the party. Though many view him as a has been, former speaker Herbert Hoover is the only man with enough respect to eventually gain the position.

March 2nd 1937- First baseman Lou Camarillo traded by the Brooklyn Mets to the Baltimore Saints for outfielder Henry Walker and pitcher Jose Santiago.

March 10th 1937- Kaunas is captured after heavy bombardment forced Russians east.

March 15 1937- Soldiers in Brazil returning home from the war seek work at the new hemp plantations that are springing up across the country.

March 18th 1937- German troops breach the front lines between the cities of Spa and Malmedy. German and Allied motorized forces poured thru the gap.

March 19th 1937- French forces defeated and forced to abandon city of Constantine after been overwhelmed by rushing Ethiopian troops.

March 19th 1937- Lt. General Archibald Butt decides to motorize the whole AEF. This process was started in the US and was continued after their arrival to Bremenhaven but never completed. The arrival of a partial motorized force, even one untested as the American one, was a pleasant surprise for the Germans. They used the bulk of the US force in the Eastern Front in conjunction with their Second Motorized Army while the non-motorized part (the National Guard Divisions) were used in the Western Front as an independent Corps under the command of young Major General Mark Clark.

March 19th 1937- With the Balkan front unraveling, Austro-Hungarian troops were moved east to try to dislodge the Romanians from Transylvania. The city of Satu Mare was the first major city recovered from Romanian occupation.

March 25th 1937- Liege is captured by British troops after a four day battle.

March 26th 1937- The Meuse River is crossed by the 2nd Panzer Division, followed by other units later.

March 26th 1937- City of Podjorica falls and Montenegrin government goes into exile to Constantinople.

March 28th 1937- French forces order the orderly withdraw of their forces from Belgium.

April 1937: With Herbert Hoover named the Speaker of the House, Arthur Vandenberg officially registers as a Democrat.

April 1st 1937- The joint German-Austrian team succeeds in detonating the first atomic bomb, called 'Valkyrie'.

April 3rd 1937- Battle of Valenciennes. The French used the last of the original divisions using the CA1 in an attempt to stop the advancing Central Power troops. In the biggest battle until them between armored units, three divisions faced each other for close to eighteen hours and finally the arrival of the faster German motorized units forced the French off the field and the advance to the coast continued.

April 6th 1937- Lille falls to the 11th German Motorized Division.

April 7th 1937- Battle of Timor. In what now is considered the battle between the largest ships ever build, the British Battleship Division 1 (composed of two of the British St. Andrews) were intercepted by the three Japanese Shinanos while trying to arrive to Darwin from India. In what is now considered to be a true slugfest the two British ships were sunk but not before achieving hits in all the Japanese ships and many saying the reason the Shinano was later sunk by the US Navy was due to the damage inflicted in this battle.

April 10th 1937- The British 52nd Division (motorized) is the first unit entering Calais. A large part of the French garrison in Belgium is considered pocketed.

April 12th 1937- Irish forces entered the city of Brussels under the cheers of the population.

April 14th 1937- Two French divisions surrounded in Gent. They will surrender two weeks later.

April 15th 1937- The Bavarian army surges forward in Alsace and after casualties achieves beachheads on the Alsace side of the Rhine.

April 18th 1937- Belgrade finally is captured after a two month house to house battle. The picture of the Free Serbian troops raising the flag of Serbia over the battered fortress of Kalemegdan is still considered a classic.

April 19th 1937- French forces evacuate the occupied Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau to shorten the defensive lines.

April 21st 1937- Brugge captured by Canadian troops.

April 21st 1937- Timisoara is the second major city to fell in Austro-Hungarian hands since the beginning of their offensive since the middle of March. Further Russian troops moved north from Greece and Macedonia to try to keep the Romanian nation on the war and their supplies lines south still open.

April 27th 1937- Battle of Lille. The French XIV Corps attempted to escape and close to 30% of their strength made it back into France before the arrival of reinforcements forced the French back into Belgium while the forces trying to help them escape have to retire form the field.

May 5th 1937- Dinant falls to advancing British. The nooze around the French froces began to get tighter.

May 11th 1937- After close to sixteen days of heavy fighting Ostende falls to the Canadians. Casualties to the CEF were extensive and they were removed from frontline duty at the end of June to recover.

May 11th 1937- An American adhoc unit composed of ready for deployment troops began landing in the former French Polynesian islands, surprising the Japanese garrison on the islands. The force, named the Ameripol Division by their members, achieved the capture of the islands by the end of the month.

May 12th 1937- Free Greek forces fail in their attempts to break the Russo-Bulgarian lines in Larissa. The Republic of Greece set their temporary capital in Salonika.

May 17th 1937- Italy sends secret peace feelers to Germany and Austria. They offered a return to the pre-war borders and the promise they will declare war to France three months after the end of the hostilities.

May 18th 1937- With the success of the "Thor Project" a delivery system was deemed necessary. The German and Austrian researchers found out the aircrafts available weren't capable of supporting the weight of the devices, so it was decided to modify the devices to be delivered by railroad guns.

May 18th 1937- Battle of Namur- The fortress of Namur falls to a combined Irish/Free Belgium force.

May 19th 1937- Austro-Hungarian forces enter Albania for the first time since 1934 and capture Scutari.

May 21st 1937- Battle of Hirsun. In misnomer, this action was the most succesful achievement by the French in their attempts to rescue the beleguered garrison in Belgium. Close to 10,000 men made it thru the defenders before the arrival of the motorized fire brigades closed the hole on the frontlines.

May 22nd 1937- The Central Powers counter offer, the lost of all colonies by Italy and the acceptance of negotiations to change the current European borders, was refused by Italy.

May 24th 1937- Offensive operations in Argelia are stopped after the supply lines proved too thin to continue the advance. The front now was anchored from the city of Bou Saada to the coast east of the city of Bejaia.

May 26th 1937- Recently arrived Russian reinforcements, under the command of Lt. General Zhukov, defeat the advance of the Central Powers in the Battle of Baranavichy. That battle lasted for three days and was considered part of the "Pripet Battles", that included the defeat of the advancing Austro-Hungarians in Sarny in early June and a Polish army in Pinsk on the middle of June.

May 27th 1937- Last organized French forces in Belgium surrender in Mons.

May 30th 1937- Strasbourg finally falls. The news were viewed live in German television thanks to a brave TV crew that entered the city two days later and was present at the moment of the surrender ceremony.

May 31st 1937- Kragujevac is captured after the Bulgarian garrison mutinies and changes sides. This is the basis for the creation of a Free Bulgarian Army.

June 1937: Wendell Wilkie presents a new energy plan which would eliminate the need of many public works projects proposed by Swing, but not yet built. The plan includes experimentation into solar energy, and increased investments into the study of nuclear energy.

June 5th 1937- Reginald Mitchell dies from colon cancer. Sidney Camm takes over work on the Blackburn Fury. Camm decides to replace the troublesome Colossus engine with the Rolls Royce Titan. However its over a year before the design is fleshed out.

June 7th 1937- Mulhouse falls to the Bavarians. Casualties are very heavy and many considered stopping the attacks.

June 8th 1937- Battle of Tarawa. The Japanese were surprised of how fast the US recovered from their defeat in Wake and were badly positioned to respond to this attack. The Japanese were forced to throw their last remaining battlecruisers, the only ships close enough to respond, against the mighty American North Carolinas supporting the landings. The three Japanese battlecruisers were sunk and the 1st Marine Division was landed on the island, achieving their capture after three days of heavy fighting.

June 19th 1937- Colmar falls after a eight day battle around the city. By now the divisions of the Bavarian Army were exhausted and only the first recorded use of nerve gas was considered the reason the French were forced to withdraw.

June 19th 1937- Finally the whole AEF is together in Bremenhaven. The later news of their expected use was a let down for the troops but the assurances they will be an independent command was at least well received.

June 20 1937- The Umanzor regime begins to seek out foreign investments. Known only to a small few, the civil and continental wars has almost brought Brazil's economy to its knees.

June 23rd 1937- Battle of Oran. The British Force Gibraltar, led by Battleship Division 2 and 4 (Two St. Andrews and three Formidables), forced the French African Fleet led by two Courbet class and two Normandie class to go into battle. The battle was a foregone conclusion, with the undergunned French ships trying to escape the superior gunnery and range of the British ships. The four French major ships were sunk after close to a five hour battle with the British suffering the lost of a couple of cruisers.

July-November 1937; Italian Front- The Austro-Hungarian troops breaks through at the Piave River in early July and peace talks begin to gain some acceptance in the German government, but these are still not considered acceptable by the Italians. But by the end of July and early August The breakthrough at the Piave river is pushed back, but barely and peace talks gain no more acceptance on either side. The short respite didn’t last long enough for the beleaguered Italians. On late August the Austro-Hungarians breached the Piave front a second time and by September the defenders were forced south in unorganized groups. A thrust south was launched by the Austro-Hungarian and meets scattered resistance in Venetia and Lombardy. By the beginning of November the major cities of Venice, Padua and Milan were in the hands of the Central Powers and the Italian government asked for a ceasefire without conditions to end the carnage on Italy. The Federated Empire accepted the Italian plea and the guns fell silent, but that didn’t last long in the peninsula.

July-November 1937; Balkan Front- The front continued to be a bloody affair, with minimal gains been made by the Austro-Hungarian and the reformed Serbian Army during the summer months. But in late September the deteriorating situation in Italy helped the advancing Central Powers, with the surviving Italian garrison in Albania surrendering by the middle of October and the Russian and Bulgarian garrisons began to pull out of Republican Greece due to fears of the possibility of being encircled. The agreement of a ceasefire between Russia and the Central Powers in November was a result of the use of two atomic bombs that ended the war in France that convinced the Russians the war was lost but the ceasefire still found the Russians in control of large sections of the Balkans and a lot of situations needed to be resolved due to the sudden end of conflict.

July-November 1937; China Front- The last months of the war saw the Chinese fail in their attempts to completely dislodge the Japanese from coastal central China. While victories were achieved with the capture of Fukien and Nanking, the Japanese still had the city of Shanghai and other coastal areas under their control by the beginning of November of 1937. Them events in other fronts and the political reality made the Japanese send political feelers to the Central Powers and the United States in late November, with the above nations telling Japan that China needed to be included in any agreement and it was non-negotiable. Japan was forced to accept and a ceasefire entered into effect in China on November 29th 1937.

July-November 1937; Asian Front- The last months ofthe war were a string of Japanese defeats in the far islands of the South Pacific, with the harried Japanese forces being forced back while being attacked from different directions. The Japanese were overextended on those islands, with the garrissons either overwhelmed by superior numbers or were forced to evacuate the islands they were defending. The news of the surrender of Italy and the use of terrible weapons against France made the Japanese realize the war was over. They send feelers thru the Swiss Embassy asking for a ceasefire and it was finally accepted on November 29th 1937.

July-November 1937; Western Front- The last months of the war saw, different to the early part of the year, positional warfare due to the exhaustion and losses suffered by the Combined Motorized Army. With the motorized troops being kept on reserve and the Canadians being badly battered and kept in garrison duty in Belgium it was up to the British, the Irish, the Dutch and the recently arrived Americans to defeat the French. The advance was slow and methodical, but that all changed with the use of the Thor devices. Their use opened breaches in the front that were exploited by the now recovered motorized units and the relatively fresh US troops to advance south in the direction of Paris. The destruction caused by the new weapons were a shock for the French government that asked for terms five days after the use of the second device. The war in the West was over on November 19th 1937.

July-November 1937; Middle East Front- The war during the last months was a small affair compared with the events unfolding in Europe and in the Pacific. A limited offensive launched by the Free Ottomans cleared Syria and Lebanon from the last remaining Russian troops and the decision on the first week of November by Marshall Pavlov to evacuate central Anatolia to shorten lines was still an ongoing concern when the ceasefire between the Central Powers and Russia was agreed on November 30th. Many critics of Pavlov in post-war Russia called him "the man that advanced in the opposite direction" and was considered a terrible commander.

July-November 1937; African Front- The last gasps of the French presence in Africa were anticlimatic. After years of heavy resistance, the last remaining forces in Argelia and the other African colonies were demoralized and when a heavy push was started by the Central Powers in early August the lines were broken and resistance turned into small bands of holdouts that surrender at the first chance they got. By late September the French commander in North Africa, Field Marshall Weygand, surrender his remaining forces in Oran. The war in Africa was over on September 30th 1937.

July-November 1937; Eastern Front- The war was far from being won in this front by the Central Powers when the Russians asked for a ceasefire to discuss terms to end the conflict. The Austrian offensive into Ukraine was defeated and actually lost terrain but their offensive in Transylvania was very succesful, only the presence of Russian troops in Romania saving that nation of complete collapse.In the center the marshes protected the front until the breakthough that made possible the massive battle of Minsk in early September and pushed the Russians past the Berezina River. It was on the Baltic States were the Germans achieved their greater successes during this time period, with Lithuania been completely liberated and parts of Latvia and Estonia free of Russian control by the time the ceasefire was agreed on.

July 1937- Major Adolph Hitler II rejoins the military, reporting to a infantry division in the Italian Front.

July 8th 1937- Second Battle of Sarny. Austro-Hungarian forces fail in breaking the Russian defenses in the area after three days of intense battle.

July 10th 1937- The US 1st Cavalry Division (armored), the US 1st, 2nd, 5th and 10th Infantry Divisions (all motorized with the 10th being a colored division) were moved east on the direction of Poland. The National Guard divisions (the 26th, the 36th and the 29th infantry) were send west in the direction of France.

July 16th 1937- Battle of Rivna. Russians swing around the main Austrian forces and hit their flank forcing them back all thru the sector.

July 17th 1937- German troops capture Belfort, last major city still on French hands on Alsace. Germans troops began to enter the Vosges were the terrain helped the defenders.

July 19th 1937- Australia launches their first amphibious invasion ever when they landed troops in the former French colonies of New Caledonia and in the island of Fiji, that second operation being launched in conjunction with New Zealanders. The small garrisons in the islands were overwhelmed and in less of a week the islands were declared secure.

July 22nd 1937- Japanese forces evacuate the Cook Islands.

July 24th 1937- City of Vilnius falls to the 18th Army under von Manstein.

July 29th 1937- With the British Home Fleet in support, the BEF captures the city of Boulogne.

July 30th 1937- Battle of Kovel. A two day battle that stabilized the front in this area for the rest of the war. The Russians were defeated in their attempts to continue their advance into Galicia but events further south and north forced the overall theater commander Zhukov to swing troops around.

August 1937: Milwaukee mayor Maynard Jones, a strong supporter of Wilkie, encourages energy experimentation in the outskirts of the city.

August 3rd 1937- British and Siamese forces began moving south in the Malayan peninsula. The campaign was a very bloody affair, with the city of Singapore still on Japanese hands by the ceasefire but not a lot more of the peninsula on their hands.

August 2nd 1937- City of Clausenberg captured by advancing Austro-Hungarian forces.

August 3rd 1937- Battle of Arras. The IEF stops a French counterattack aimed in the direction of Lille. The casualties were heavy for both sides and only the arrival of Dutch reinforcements saved the day.

August 5th 1937- US 2nd Cavalry Division (dismounted) is landed in both Samoan islands and after fierce fighting captures the islands five days later.

August 17th 1937- Courtland is declared secure by von Manstein. German press began to hail him as "a savior of the German cause."

August 18th 1937- Battle of Metz-Verdun. In a battle that lasted close to a week German, Belgian and Dutch troops forced used for the first time nerve gas in a massive scale to dislodge the French from both cities. This was the last time the weapons were as effective, the French making a priority to copy the captured protective suits used by the Central Power troopers.

August 18 1937- The United States invests millions of dollars to help in the recovery of Brazil.

August 25th 1937- A breach on the front lines in Belarus is achieved. The German 1st Motorized Corps, composed of one Panzer Division and eight motorized ones, and the American Expeditionary Force rushed thru the gap. It was later noted the friendly race between the 3rd Panzer Division under Rommel and the US 1st Cavalry Division under Patton to be the first units to reach Minsk.

August 29th 1937- German troops reach Riga. Russians defend every city block and the city turned into a quagmire.

September 1937: Hearst contacts Wilkie and presents certain 'observations' regarding agriculture in the mid-west. He uses his name recognition, media power, and machine power through Charles Seymour to push for traditional Democratic reform. His reasoning is that it is necessary to retain Populist support for the Democrats.

September 12th 1937- 1st Cavalry Division reaches the outskirts of Minsk two hours before the 3rd Panzer Division. Four hours later Zhukov send his operational reserves, three landship divisions equip with the Russian copy of the French landship and seven armored car brigades to spring a trap for the mobile Central Power units.

September 13th 1937- Start of the Battle of Minsk. The biggest battle between armored vehicles ever, even bigger than the Battle of Valenciennes fought in France four months before. Over 2,000 vehicles fought for three days around the city while German motorized troops fought a bloody block by block battle inside the city. The Russians had numerical superiority but the German and American vehicles were better protected and armed. The Russians finally left the field after suffering close to 700 destroyed or damaged vehicles. The German/American forces suffered heavy casualties also and the remaining AEF gave a half hearted chase to the Berezina River, were the front stabilized for the rest of the war. The Germans were surprised by the excellent demostration of the green US troops, especially of the Colored 10th Division and the 1st Cavalry Division, their commanders receiving condecorations from the German government for their actions.

September 17th 1937- City of Ste. Menehould captured by the US 2nd Corps. First major action of the war by the US troops on the Western Front.

September 21st 1937- St Quentin falls to advancing Irish.

September 21st 1937- Russians pushed to the other side of the Daugava River.

September 29th 1937- Herman Ruth plays his last game as a New York Yankee. He retired with 783 homeruns on his career, a twenty-three years long distinguished one spend with the same team. During that time the Yankees won 10 World Series and participated in a total of 15. He spend his last years playing less and less due to age and injuries, his place as regular rightfielder of the team taken by a young switch hitter called Michael Marble in 1936.

October 1937: Hearst begins making public commentaries on Wilkie's performance in regards to both foreign and domestic issues. Wilkie ignores all of Hearsts suggestions. Hearst puts preassure on Wilkie, and begins to lower the presidents credibility among the party.

October 1st to 10th 1937- The New Orleans Cajuns won their second World Series by beating the Toronto Blue Jays 4 games to 3. The impressive Cajuns lineup, led by the hitting of Art Trojovsky (.298-32-128), Lee Johnson (.308-25-108) and batting champ Joe Vaughn (.388-5-72), plus the pitching of Lee Brown (13-6-2.88-0), Joe Allen (15-1-2.55-0) and George Caster (19-12-3.43-1) took this team to win the National League pennant in maybe the closest pennant race ever, with the Cajuns only winning 89 games and the team that finish fifth won 80 games.

October 6th 1937- 7th Australian Division and the 17th Indian Brigade are landed in Guadalcanal. The main event of the action was the raid launched by the Japanese Carrier Task Force 2 composed of the light carriers Junyo and the two Zuikaku class carriers against the growing beach head and the naval escorts. Two British cruisers were sunk and a lot of equipment was loss during the attack. Still this force was ordered north when news of the US Pacific Fleet left Pearl Harbor were received in the Japanese Naval Headquarters.

October 11th 1937- First semi-active MWD homing antiship missile Golden Eagle is used by the Russians to damage the battleship Kaiser in the Baltic.

October 13th 1937- US 2nd Marine Division is landed in Kwajalein and Enewetak atolls on the Marshalls. Japanese Naval leaders decide to fight the US fleet in the area in an attempt to achieve a victory similar to the battle of Wake. In a battle that could be divided in three parts both fleet were battered but the US Pacific Fleet achieved the upper hand. The first part was the attack by the Japanese Carrier Task Force 2 to the supporting ships of the landing. The carnage was very heavy on the old battleships, with the US losing the old battlehorses, USS Alabama (a South Carolina Class) and the New York (a Delaware Class) and damage to a couple of newer battleships and cargo ships. This was as expected, with the two massive US carriers, the Cowpens and the Bunker Hill, starting the second part. Hiding out of the sight of the Japanese they launched their aircrafts in the direction of the fleeing Japanese aircrafts and achieved complete surprise over the Japanese carrier force. In what is considered a lopsided affair, the three Japanese carriers were sunk when the US aircrafts arrived while the Japanese aircrafts were being rearmed and refueled. The lost of those carriers was a terrible hit for the Japanese fleet but the naval actions weren't over. The third part was the ambush led by the four North Carolinas against the Japanese surface force been send to face the fleet northwest of the Marshalls. The Japanese force, led by the damaged Shinano, was decimated. The Shinano received the attention of the four North Carolinas while the other older battleships concentrated in the other ships. The tally was terrible for the Japanese fleet. The mighty Shinano, her sisters on repair in Subic, was sunk as two of the Yamashiro class battleships. The US loss was the USS South Dakota and damage was received on all the North Carolina ships. The US considered this battle a shift on the naval balance of power between them.

October 13th 1937- Marshall Pietro Badoglio, Italian military commander in Albania, surrender his forces to the Central Powers.

October 13th 1937- Nancy put under siege. The city garrison lasted until the ceasefire, defeating three attempts to capture the city.

October 16th 1937- Von Manstein declares Riga secured and began a slow movement in the direction of Estonia.

October 19th 1937- Russian and Bulgarian troops began evacuation of Republican Greece territory, but they left as much equipment as possible behind for the Republican forces.

October 20th 1937- Oil production facilities in Ploesti captured. Chaos ensues in Romania, with only the presence of ten Russian divisions making possible the continued existance of the Romanian regime.

October 27th 1937- Rails lines in the direction of Rheims and Amiens are announced as serviceable by the German engineers.

November 1937: Quentin Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway meet, and quickly become close friends.

November 4th 1937- Australian 9th and 8th Division are landed near Port Moresby. Japanese defenders put a spirited resistance and combat was still going on when the ceasefire was agreed.

November 4th 1937- The Wilhelm IV railway cannon arrives near Rheims while further west the Wilhelm III arrives near Amiens.

November 8th 1937- Zhukov send a memo to Stravka reporting that the war will be eventually lost. Even with increased production of weapons and continuing to shorten the lines Russia was going to be defeated by late 1938 at the earliest and by 1939 for sure. He stated he was capable of still launching limited offensives and an attempt to recapture Minsk was possible but will not change the outcome of the war.

November 11th 1937- At 05:03 minutes the first atomic device was shot in the direction of the administrative center of Rheims. The device used as target the Cathedral and reached it's destination less than four minutes later. Many suffered blindness while looking at the flash on the distance but the destruction inflicted was a surprise for attackers and defenders alike. The center of the city was leveled and due to have been a ground explosion the center of the city is still hot. The explosion was followed by the Germans rushing forward taking advantage of the disarray of the defenders.

November 13th 1937- A second device is used in Amiens with the same results as the first. This time the weapons was made to denotate as a air burst, expanding the damage over a larger area. The Central Powers motorized forces moved forward and began moving in the direction of Paris.

November 14th 1937- Battle of Chalons sur Marne- US troops cross the Marne and continue their advance west after forcing a very difficult crossing of the river.

November 16th 1937- Dieppe falls to the advancing BEF.

November 17th 1937- Battle of Clermont. The last coherent French defenders in the direction of Paris are pushed away by the Germans.

November 18th 1937- Petain resigns as Prime Minister of France. Napoleon IV names foreign minister Pierre Laval as Prime Minister and ask him to seek terms for the surrender of France.

November 18th 1937- Japanese Prime Minister Konoe sends an offer with the Swiss Embassy for a ceasefire in place to start negotiations.

November 19th 1937- The Central Powers offer a ceasefire in place but with no terms or guarantees being offered beforehand. After deliberations by the French they relented. The war was over in the Western Front.

November 22nd 1937- The news of the use of atomic bombs by the Central Powers in France, the surrender of France and the memo send by Zhukov made an impression on the Tsar. He orders his foreign office to send peace feelers thru the Swedish embassy to the Central Powers to end the conflict.

November 29th 1937- After eleven days of back and forth negotiations, a ceasefire is agreed in the area. A main player in accepting this deal was President Wilkie's views that France was the main culprit against the US and not Japan. Many view this actions and the somewhat lenient peace treaty with Japan as one of the causes for his defeat in the 1940 election.

November 30th 1937- A ceasefire is agreed on the Eastern Front. The war is over.

December 1937- After the damage on the Kaiser is studied in Kiel after the war. A request is sent to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy that the Navy ought to seek out such weapons and to find a counter for them.

December 1937- Former Prime Minister Pasolini, leader of the still powerfull Fascisti movement, tries a coup against the monarchy to return to power. His bid in Rome and in the south except for the cities of Naples and Bari failed. The tragic death of the King Emmanuel and his son Umberto after being captured by Fascisti militiamen, shot by an overzealous commander, threw the government into disarray.

December 4 1937: Hearst, Seymour, Gatling, and other loyalists meet privately in Washington to discuss Wilkie and the future of the party. Their main problem with the president is not his policies. They are afraid that he is far too much of a loose cannon. Seymour comments that both parties have become very centrist, and that a Republican who reppresented Hearst's ideologies could be a useful tool in future elections.

perdedor99

May 16th, 2006, 01:04 PM

1938

1938 - The reconstituted Belgian legislature accepts the invitation of the German Kaiser to become a part of the German Empire. Wallonia is returned to Belgium within the framework of the German Empire, but German troops will continue to occupy the region for the foreseeable future.

1938 - A large scale renovation is done on the Atlantic Avenue Elevated Line. It is decided to split the Elevated Line into two, with the Atlantic line extending to the growing communities of Malden, and the two diverging after Devon Station (later East Berkeley), and a second connection at Sullivan Square, though the plan takes several years to come to fruition.

1938 - Austrian Empire troops are announced to be remaining in Romania for 'an indefinite period' of occupation.

1938 - US President Wilkie introduces his concept of a 'World Congress' to the Central Powers as the centerpiece for a plan to secure the peace after the dreadful Global War.

1938- A post war recession strikes the world.

1938 - Respected former president Al Smith actively campaigns for his former protege, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. in the general election in New York.

1938 - In the aftermath of the Global War, British Guyana and the Republic of Guiana petition the British government to allow the merger of the two nations. After intensive discussions on the issue, it is agreed that the two will merge and form the first non-white Dominion of the British Empire, the Dominion of Guyana. Within the new Imperial Council system, they will acknowledge the King as ceremonial head of state, but the local Parliament will have complete control of internal matters, and send elected representatives to the Imperial Council which decides matters of inter-Empire relations and foreign relations.

January 1938- With a brewing Civil War forming in Italy the Austro-Hungarian troops were ordered to dig in Lombardy and Venetia while their government tried to find anyone with any authority to sign a peace treaty.

January 1938- The operational history of the 1st Joint Air-Transportable Regiment was studied by the General Staffs of the victor powers; the Austro-Hungarians were interested in the possibilities but their pressing concerns made impossible to further develop the concept; the Germans considered the concept interesting but they were enamored with the concept of motorization and considered that dropping troops from aircrafts as a “passing fad”; the British continued studies to maybe create units to be operational in the colonies using the concept; the United States began studies similar to the British ones but with the idea of maybe rapid deployment to troubled areas in the Western Hemisphere using that same concept; and finally the Ethiopians embraced fully the concept by using their surviving members of the 1st Joint Regiment to create a school in Addis Abbeba and later the creation of the first permanent Air-transportable unit, the 1st Royal AirMobile Guards Battalion.

January 14th 1938- Brigadier General Michael Skorzeny ordered to the Austro-Hungarian garrison in Lombardy. With the area festering with partisans and demobilized Italians soldiers, he was tasked with creating a special unit to deal with partisans in the area. His unit, Regiment 999, turned into an well-armed elite mountain, ski and later airmobile unit that eliminated partisan activity in Lombardy and Venetia by the end of 1939. Many now consider Skorzeny as the man that creates the modern camo uniforms, when he ordered a batch of camouflage uniforms to be made for his unit on the summer of 1938. By the end of the 1940’s all major nations combat uniforms were camouflaged.

January 18th 1938- 1st Battle of Larissa. Monarchist forces fail in dislodging the Republican forces fortified in the area. King George II of Greece ask the British government for support.

January 20th 1938- A young Italian army Captain named Giacomo San Pietro called for the citizens of southern Italy to help in the defeat of the fascisti holdout in Naples and Bari, calling them "the ones that caused the dead of our rightful leaders."

Febuary 1938: Seymour handpicks Theodore Roosevelt Jr. as a logical Republican sucessor to Hearst. The Hearst papers begin to run possitive articles on Roosevelt. The Hearst loyalists begin pulling strings behind the scenes ensuring Roosevelt a huge supply of money, and support from many key Democrats.

February 1938- The La Folletes had kept a spot in the Senate for almost the entire century. It was believed that no candidate could defeat long term incumbent La Follete Jr. Edward McCarthy steps forward as a potential candidate, hoping that the name recognition would help him when he moves into private legal practice.

February 1938: Eager to expand into new markets while its European rivals struggle from the postwar recession, DuPont opens sales and R&D offices in Canada, Australia, Ethiopia, and India. The branches become productive quite rapidly, and British investment wizard John Maynard Keynes makes their success the subject of his best-selling investment guide, The Borderless Corporation.

Febuary 1938: Speaker of the House Hoover presents an economic recovery plan to deal with the post war crisis. It is based on his traditional tax realignment strategies, and receives much more general support from the Democrat Party than Wilkie's more interventionist tactics. Hoover uses his influence in both parties, while maintaining mild popularity among Populists in order to get the legislation passed. The legislation reverses many of Wilkie's propositions.

February 1938- Pasolini consolidates his power in the parts of northern Italy not occupied by the Austro-Hungarians. His purge of pro-royalist sympathizers in the troops in the area was swift and brutal. Farther south, dissatisfied workers and farmers rose in arms declare a People's Republic under the leadership of the former genovese Palmiro Togliatti in the provinces of Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and Umbria.

February 4th 1938- First of the ten ship Hornet Class of carriers is commissioned by the US Navy. The USS Hornet weighted 27,000 tons, have a maximum speed of 33 knots, with an armored flying deck similar to the Cowpens and her sister and capable of carrying 90 aircrafts. It was the first of a class that carried the US flag for close to thirty years. The last five of the class were build at a more leisured pace than the first five of the class, that were completed and commissioned in less than two years.

February 17th 1938- Al Szymanski traded by the New York Yankees to the Boston Blue Sox for two players after a sub-par season.

February 18th 1938- Repairs began to the oil facilities in Persia and Basra after the end of the Global War. By the end of 1941 all facilities in the area were at full capacity and under British or Turko-Arabic administration.

February 19, 1938 -- Having watched the Toronto Blue Jays successfully experiment with Negro players for a season and a half now, the Pirates touch off a sudden rush to sign all the best players. Striking first, they land Judy Johnson, Allen Dixon, Fenn Leonard, and -- last but not least -- Cumberland Posey himself, who is hired to run the Homestead Grays as a farm league for the Pirates.

March 1938- Pope Clement XV asks the Austro-Hungarian government for protection in the very volatile situation that existed at the time, with the possibility of the now Kingdom of Italy forces in Naples or the People's Republic making a move in the direction of Rome. Even with Austria-Hungary streched to the limit, they send a three division expedition that landed in Anzio and created a cordon sanitaire around the city of Rome.

March 17th 1938- Prime Minister Churchill informs the Greek government that they will help them with all they can afford. While the land troops promised were minimal, two Royal Marine Brigades, the decision to send three aeroplane squadrons and a sizable part of the Mediterranean Fleet was well received.

March 31st 1938- The Treaty of Geneva is signed, the treaty that ended the French part of the conflict. France was stripped of all their colonies and their military forces were reduced to no more than a heavy armed police force. Their armed forces were prohibited of having landships or heavy bombers, prohibited of having chemical or atomic weapons and the use of flamethrowers. The navy was reduced to the size of a small coastal fleet, only allowed to keep their two Normandie class battleships as capital ships. They were also prohibited of ever having submarines. The French districts of Meuse, Pas de Calais, Nord, Somme, Aisne, Marne, Ardennes, Moselle, Meurthe, Vosges and Haute Saone were put under German, British and US occupation for a period of five years or until reparations are paid for the damages incurred by France against the Central Powers. Later it was agreed that the Central Powers' war debt to the United States was instead acquired by France in lieu to reparations. The other Central Powers wanted a complete occupation of France but the United States president Wendell Wilkie used his economic leverage to made them accept a reduced occupation of the defeated nation. The bulk of their African colonies went to Great Britain except for Madagascar, the Ivory Coast and Guinea that were adjudicated to Germany and the French Somaliland to Ethiopia. British Somaliland (ITTL it includes the former Italian Somaliland) was ceded to the Ethiopians as promised for their help during the war. When the news of this treaty reached Paris the outroar in repudiation of this treaty was inmense. This treaty is one considered one of the causes of the 2nd French Civil War.

April 1938: Charles Seymour dennounces the current Democratic Party, and joins the Republicans. He goes on NBC to explain the importance of centrism in American politics.

April 1938: McCarthy begins a strong muckraking campaign against La Follete, attempting to expose three decades worth of corruption in the family. He uses distate for Swing and the entire progressive movement to fuel fire. Many politicians believed that the old Progressive movement was out of date, and McCarthy recieves major funding. The Equality League, trying to keep a centrist reputation rather then just seeming to be in the Progressive's pocket refuses to assist La Follete Jr. as they had done in the past.

April 1938- Pasolini moves south in the direction of the People's Republic while the forces of San Pietro began to move north. The beginning of the Second Italian Civil War.

April 1938: Wilkie declares his support to grant all newly gained insular territories independance after an adjustment period of five years. Many Republicans, lead by George Cabot-Lodge object to this move, claiming that these islands are crucial to national security. Stimson officially leaves the Democratic Party over the issue, though he rejoins a year later.

April 1938- A large bulk of heavy landships and other weapons prohibited by the Geneva treaty were illegally crossed into Spain and Northern Italy from France. The Central Powers suspected the illegal sale of war material to Spain and the Italians but they had no proof of that type of that actions occuring until months later.

April 3rd 1938- Madagascar officially was transferred to German hands. Still the political scene was very unstable. Economic and social concerns, like food shortages, black-market, labor conscription by the occupying Germans since their invasion of the island, ethnic tensions between the new masters and the natives and the return of veterans from the war strained the situation on the island. The worst was that the native Malagasy expected their independence and were shocked when they were transferred to German rule.

April 5th 1938- Massive demonstrations against the terms of the Treaty of Geneva in various major French cities put down by police and troops.

August 17th 1938- Lt. Colonel Adolph Hitler II renounces his commission in the Austrian LandHeer and began to work as a civilian instructor in the Austrian military academy in Wiener Neustadt.

April 18th 1938- Stafford Cripps is elected as the first Labour Prime Minister in the history of Great Britain. As leader of a coalition of the Liberal and Labour he began an economic program to try to get Great Britain out of their economic woes.

April 19th 1938- Treaty of San Francisco signed between the combatants in the Pacific. While later historians consider this treaty to have been too lenient with the Japanese the delegates present had to consider the situation in Europe at the time, the war weariness of the Central Powers and the real possibility of renew combat in the area if the terms were too harsh. The Chinese gained the former Japanese territory of Shantung. They also annexed the former French colony of Tonkin and created a protectorate over Laos and Annam. The Siamese annexed their territorial claims in the Malayan and Cambodian borders and created a puppet nation of Cambodia. The Germans gained a protectorate over the area of Cochinchina. Australia gained the former French colonies of New Caledonia and Vanuatu. The United States acquired French Polynesia and the Marshall Islands from Japan. A neutral nation of Manchuria is created as a buffer zone between China and Japan. The Japanese agreed to withdrew back to their pre-war borders except for the mentioned territorial changes to their Empire. The British, German, Portuguese, Americans, Chinese and Australians regained all pre-war colonies and territories captured during the war. Japan was forced to pay reparations for damages incurred during their occupation of Central Power territory. The reparations were later ammended to the Central Powers war debt to the United States been transfered to Japan. Japan was prohibited of the use of poison gas and atomic weapons plus their naval and land forces were reduced in size. The Japanese ground army was reduced to ten infantry divisions and twenty reserve ones. The Navy was ordered to reduce their battleship fleet to nine and their carriers to three, with the excess being given as reparations to some of the victorious nations. They also were prohibited to build new battlecruisers or battleships for twenty years, except to replace allowed ships and to build new carriers for a period of ten years.

May 1938- The Italian Civil War turns into a stalemate. Neither force was organized enough to achieve their expected objectives. While the Northern Fascisti troops from Pasolini were better armed the majority of the trained officers either went to People’s Republic or to the remaining forces of the Kingdom of Italy based in Naples.

May 1938: The International Recovery Act is drawn up by Democrats, but receives mostly bi-partisan support. The war debt owed to the US after the Treaties of Geneva, Stockholm and San Francisco are reinvested into all European nations and Asian nations to help them rebuild and reorganise. Huge amounts of American investment are placed into rebuilding war torn infrastructures from both sides. The US, having become by far the richest nation on Earth having profited from the war, becomes a necessary crouch for Europe.

May 1938- Cabot-Lodge Jr. takes over the Massachusetts school board system, and introduces more sweeping reforms. He becomes a center in the media spotlight as he starts to date celebrities and make a serious dent in East Coast social high society, why all the while remaining a reform minded moderate Republican. He was a novelty is the way he broke the mold, and became an iconic symbol for class co-operation. Many questioned why he took such a minor job when he could probably sucessfully run for congress or mayor. His response was simply "I don't care about the glamour. This job just has to be done, and I'm the one who's bothered to do it." He hosts a bi-weekly TV talk show on NBC which focuses not just on politics but also on human intrest, and even high-society.

May 1938- The Nigerian troops are demobilized with the end of the Global War. While only a regiment was kept for security in the colonies, the ideas brought by the veterans were to shape the post-war Nigerian politics.

May 2nd 1938- Japan announces the two remaining Yamashiros (with five dual 14") were ceded to China. They also announced the whole remaining Mutsu class ( with five dual 16") were being divided with two going to Australia and one to Siam.

May 6th 1938- Japan announces that Germany and United States will receive the two Taisho class carriers (38 aircrafts each).

May 14th 1938- Treaty of Stockholm is signed. The Russian Empire is considered to have received lenient terms by later historians, the actions of the US delegation being considered important in the terms received by the Russians. Pretty much Eastern Europe returned to the pre-war borders between Russia and their neighbors. Russian forces evacuated Romania, who felt under Austria-Hungary occupation until reparations could be paid for the damages inflicted in Transylvania by them. Russian also evacuated their current holdings in the Middle East, Anatolia and the Bosphorus. Bulgaria lost their holdings in Macedonia, Thrace and the city of Adrianople was ceded to the Ottomans. (Pretty much Bulgaria is being reduced to OTL borders.) Armenia, the Kurd Kingdom based in Mosul and Georgia recover their independence but were considered as neutral nations to ease fears of the Russians of being encroached. Northern Persia returned to their former position as a Russian protectorate. Russia was prohibited of having chemical or nuclear weapons. Their naval forces in the Baltic Sea were reduced by half and reparations were set to pay for the damages caused by the Russian occupation of Eastern Europe. This was later changed to the Central Powers war debt being given to the Russian Empire instead.

May 17, 1938 -- Ball-Davis score their biggest box-office smash with "War Widow," an uncharacteristically dark and pointedly anti-war epic written by Ball. It wows critics, too, sweeping up all the major awards. Joanie Carson, whose German husband died in the 1934 Battle of Tobruk, becomes the first Black person to win Best Actress.

May 20-29, 1938 -- The British Imperial Council meets in Aseb, Ethiopia with the leaders of its East African colonies. Honoring the famous 30-year pledge, the British Empire agrees to give Egypt its independence. Its western border is the 27th parallel; land to the west will go to the British Provinces of Libya in the north and Tchad in the south. Its southern border will be the 11th parallel; in deference to pressure from Ethiopia and Christian political groups, the largely black-skinned and recently Christianized population south of the 11th will form the new British Province of Upper Nile. The Aseb Accords also provide for greater autonomy in British Kenya, an event that in retrospect was the tipping point in Kenya eventually winning Dominion status.

May 22nd 1938- Major Frank Halford is tasked to complete a full scale jet engine based on both of Whittle's designs. The project didn't receive priority due to the ongoing recession and later to the post war cutbacks on the military.

June 1, 1938 -- Elections in Austria-Hungary bring in a fairly conservative bunch, with the major exception being a new minority party, Slovenija Europa, which is dedicated to two causes: protecting the Slovene nationality and establishing peace in Europe through supra-governmental bodies. Lead by the venerable Father Anton Korošec, they score 20% of the Slovene vote.

June 19th 1938- British troops entered Hong Kong, the first time in close to four years, to take over the administration of the city but instead Portugal announced they renounced to their rights to Macao after receiving financial considerations from China. The Chinese were furious of being forced to give over Hong Kong back to the British after having them under their control and hurt the Anglo/Chinese relationships for a long time.

July 1938: Quentin Roosevelt invests 90 million dollars into expanding his business interests into Europe. However he refuses to build arms factories in France.

July 17th 1938- In an historic meeting, Presidents Cardenas of Mexico and Vasconcelos of South Mexico meet in Veracruz and signed the historical Veracruz Accord. Both nations recognized each other, trade agreements were reached between their nations and a mutual agreement to reduce the size of their militaries was also achieved in this meeting.

July 17th 1938- First French “volunteers” began to make their appearance in the Socialist Republic of Italy’s troops. Pasolini gave his thanks to the many men that considered “the Fascisti cause as the one that should rule Italy.” It was interesting for observers to see the volunteers arriving well equipped with military hardware banned to the French Army by treaty.

July 18th 1938-An historical agreement is reached in New Delhi, where the Maharajas agreed to help the Indian National Congress in achieving the status of Dominion in response to the announced acceptance of Guyana as a Dominion in the British Empire. The agreement created a House similar to the house of Lords were the Maharajas were going to be represented with veto power over legislations in India but their vetos could be overturned with a two-thirds vote in the now lower house of the Indian Parliament.

August 1938: McCarthy appears nationally on AW and attacks the Progressive movement. He is careful to praise the Populists, who were, at this point, a stronger force. He showed how the La Folletes and Swing had in the past dissenfrachised the farmers and Populists while focusing only on the towns and cities. He also bashed the Progressives as being anti-war. He recieves national recognition as the new leader of the radical Democrats. Stimson travels to Wisconsin to help him campaign.

August 1938- San Pietro’s forces captured south Latium but refrain themselves of entering Rome or the area under protection of Austro-Hungarian forces.

August 8th 1938- In a surprise move, and under the protection of the guns of the Royal Greek battleship battleship Vasileus Georgios and the HMS Vindicator plus the aircrafts of the HMS Albatros and Victorious, one British Marine brigade captured the port city of Kavala and it was later followed by the three Greek infantry divisions. The Republican forces were in shock and were forced to strip their defenses in central Greece to face this new threat.

August 21st 1938- Paul Schimdt is hired by Blohm & Voss to develope a pulsejet based anti ship weapon.

September, 1938: Quentin Roosevelt buys AT&T and quickly branches out into several new forms of businesses.

September 1938- First commercial oil discovery in Nigeria occurs at Olobiri in the Niger Delta. The discovery of oil in Nigeria brought the prospects of economic development for the colony to what it seemed a bright future.

September 2nd 1938- Salonika is bombed by the first time by the British squadrons. The British squadrons suffered minimal losses but achieved their objective of damaging the airport facilites and the infrastructure in the city.

September 6th 1938- Germany sell their two remaining Defflingers class battlecruisers to Argentina. This action is considered by many as the beginning of the arms race that caused the Second South American War.

September 10th 1938- The city of Florence surrenders to the Socialist Republic of Italy troops. The People’s Republic government is formed east in the city of Ancona. Secret arrangement is reached with the Austro-Hungarian government by the People's Republic of Italy to receive weapons to help defeat Pasolini and San Pietro, seeing by the Austro-Hungarians as greater threats than the Communists in Central Italy are.

September 12 1938- Brazilian Veterans begin to demonstrate, clamoring to the government that they should help find them jobs as they had served their country in time of war.

September 18th 1938- First recorded terrorist attack against occupation forces in France. Two US servicemen die went a bomb exploded near their guard position.

September 19th 1938- 2nd Battle of Larissa. Counting with air superiority and with the reduction of the Republican forces in the area to deal with the growing threat coming from Kavala the Monarchists break the enemy lines and forced them north in a rout.

September 29th 1938- Forces staged from Kavala are stopped in the Struma River but now the Republican forces are caught between two pincers.

Fall 1938- Situation in France is rapidly deteriorating; with the harsh terms of the Treaty of Geneva being felt everywhere in France, even in the occupied areas. Rising resistance against the British, German and US troops coupled with political instability in the rest of France made the nation like a cauldron ready to explode.

October 1st to 9th 1938- Baltimore Saints win their first World Series since 1915, 4 games to 2 over the Pittsburgh Pirates. With pitcher Hugh O’Brien(18-8-3.47-0) and Will Dubois (18-9- 3.43-0)leading the pitching plus with third baseman Tommy Ott (.294-31-99) and first baseman Lou Camarillo (.289-24-102) leading a well balanced offense the Saints won their division by 3 games over the Toronto Blue Jays.

October 6th 1938- Dr Alber Fono approches the German Navy with a ramjet powered version of his aerial torpedo.

October 12th 1938- Republican forces fail in their attempt to stop the Monarchists forces moving north from Larissa.

October 17th 1938- Former Japanese carrier Usho arrives Pearl Harbor, where the name is changed to Langley in honor of the carrier sunk in the Battle of Wake Island.

October 17th 1938- The Nigerian National Movement was created in Lagos by Nigerian veterans and members of the growing Nigerian middle-class. Their views at the beginning were to get recognized as a Dominion of the Empire but it later changed with time. Also the party believed in dividing the colony into a federated state, with all ethnic groups united only by a central government but the regions keeping some semblance of autonomy for local matters.

October 19th 1938- Prime Minister Laval is assassinated while returning to his home from his office. A bomb was planted under the pavement on the route to his house, a tunnel been dig from a nearby house to the middle of the street. The execution of the murder demonstrated that it was a well planned and organized plan, with enough explosives being planted to make the Prime Minister’s armoured car fly over a three story house and fall on that house’s courtyard.

October 20th 1938- Napoleon IV declares martial law in France while a pledge is made to find “the murderers of Laval.”

November 1938: Charles Seymour publishes a book about the primary system. He uses logic and philosophy to argue that the convention is a more Democratic system. His book has a strong influence on the Republican leadership who are eager to encourage former Democrats, and many of the primaries are cancelled. Seymour is put in charge of a commitee to plan the next convention.

November 1938 Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is elected Junior Senator of New York.

November 1938- Roberto “Tio Beto” Diaz Leon wins a fourth term as president of Cuba in an election were his party was the only one in the ballots. On the local front the economy slowed down due to the lack of commerce during the Global War but the economy began to recover thanks to the need of the European nations to acquire agricultural goods after the war. On the international front he was neutral during the Global War but after the war he opened his arms to refugees from all the nations of Europe, but specially Italians and French.

November 1938: The Democrats lose seats in the house, but retain a slim majority in a coalition with eight Populists from Oklahoma, South Dakota, New Mexico, and Colorado.

November 1938: Populists, moderate Republicans, and Democrats vote for McCarthy.

November 1938 -- Britain's Sopwith-Rolls and Ethiopia's Gesgeshi, seeing opportunity in the utter chaos of Europe's post-war auto market, establish major ventures on the Continent.

November 1938- Luis Muñoz Marin, son of the first President of Puerto Rico, defeats the incumbent due to the slowing economy being the main issue of the campaign, with the growing numbers of inmigrants from South America and Europe jobs began to get scarce. For the next four years President Muñoz Marin began a program to make the Puerto Rican even more dependant of manufacturing and technology and less of agriculture, with the agreement that brought a Roosevelt Aviation plant to the town of Aguadilla being the highlight of that program.

November 4th 1938- United States Marines began studies to develop a way to land troops in defended beaches. The lessons of the Global War, were the Marines were decimated in the beaches of Tarawa and the Marshall Islands while trying to land in open barges, demonstrated the Marines needed a vehicle capable of giving some kind of protection to the troops in the beaches while at the same time being an amphibious transport.

November 5, 1938 -- The British Imperial Council reorganizes the remainder of Britain's Sarahan possessions, gained from France and Italy after the War. All lands north of the geographic divide between the Sahara desert and the semi-arid Sahel are reorganized into two territories, Punica and Sahara. The border between the two is formed by the fall line on the southern side of the Atlas mountains, but the real division is cultural. Punica, consisting of the balmy, fertile Algerian and Tunisian coasts, began the war 60% of European immigrant stock, mainly Basque and the various Romantic ethnicities. After the war, it is now 65% European, as Arabs and Berbers took a severely disproportionate percentage of war casualties. Sahara, meanwhile, is 97% Arab and Berber, with the European immigrant population being confined almost entirely to Tripoli, Tobruk, and Bengasi. Geographically, it is by far the largest territory (as opposed to nation) in the world, but it is very sparsely populated.

November 10th 1938- The former Japanese carrier Taisho arrives to Hamburg, were the name is changed to the Kaiser Wilhelm III.

November 15 1938- Following the victory of the war and Fernando Moreira Umanzor is easily reelected president.

December 1, 1938 - Mustafa Kemal proclaims the abolition of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the Turko-Arabic Federation. It is modeled heavily off the Austrian Federated Empire and the British Imperial system, but with a President rather than royalty.

December 4th 1938- Three Caracciolo battleships in Taranto explode and suffer terrible damage while being in port under strange circumstances. The People’s Republic were blamed for the decimation of the part of the fleet under the control of the faction under the control of Giorgio San Pietro but it was later proved in the 1970’s that the attack was launched by Austrian commandos that cut the submarine nets and allowed a pair of submarines to torpedo the ships while in port. The ships were never repaired and were finally sold for scrap in the middle 1940’s.

December 17th 1938- Salonika is captured by Monarchists forces. This is consider the end of the conventional part of the Civil War, but guerilla forces were active for the next three years in the northern districts.

December 18th 1938- Chile announces the purchase of three of the fairly modern former French battlecruiser of the Lorraine class. The Argentinean reaction was one of shock to the news.

December 29, 1938 -- Another Freddy Ball & Barbie Davis shocker dominates celebrity news as they file for divorce.

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1939

1939 - American investments hit an all-time high in the Austrian Federated Empire and even the newly acquired territories. One of the most successful ventures is the investment of Standard Oil in the refurbishing of the Ploieşti oil complex damaged during the war.

1939-40 President Kemal pushes through extreme economic and social reforms on the Turkish and Arabic regions of the nation, compelling industrialization and westernization. While many would try to resist him, in decades to come his reform programs would come to be fondly known as the 'strong medicine' needed by the nation.

1939 - Spurred by Guyana's surprise rise to Dominion status, India petitions the Crown for Dominion status.

1939- The Islamic Empowerment Party, better known as Allah's Will, crops up in the Middle East. The founder Saddam Al-Hadim gives a speech in Jerusalem to people about the sacrifices neccessary so that Islam can once again rule. he says that all muslims should be brothers in Islam.

January 1939: Quentin Roosevelt uses his vast ammounts of money to found a non-profit organisation called The Roosevelt Institute. It is focused on helping rebuild the world after the war. He is offered and accepts a slot every Thursday night on NBC.

January 24th 1939- Former commander of the AEF during the Global War, Archibald Butt dies on his sleep. The 73 year old Lt. General was a candidate for the position of Army Chief of Staff but his dead forced president Wilkie to seek for another men for the post.

February 1939 - The Austrian Legislature votes to make Romania a 'protectorate' of the Empire. Rioting and guerilla attacks from Romanians in response to the announcement are harshly put down but will continue for the next six years, forcing Austria-Hungary to keep a sizable garrison in Romania.

February 1939 -- Vlad Kardelj of Slovenija Europa begins a friendship with Bosniak politician Mehmed Spaho, begun by the pair's silent dissent over the Romanian annexation. Kardelj convinces Spaho to leave the Liberals and form Bošnjaci Europa.

February 7th 1939- The Royal Navy orders the first of the Colossus Class of aircraft carriers. The British nation was still reeling of the economic effects of the war and it was considered they can’t compete with the new carriers being build in America, so an expedient solution was found. The Colossus class were build up to commercial, instead of naval standards so they could be build in number sufficient to compete with the coming US carriers. The Colossus lacked the armored decks common of the earlier British carriers and the newer US ones, but in less than two years 10 of them were completed. They were slower than the US carriers, at 25 knots, and carried less aircrafts, at 48, but they were useful ships that served for a long time in the Royal Navy.

February 16th 1939- First reported use of gas in the 2nd Italian Civil War. The desperate forces of the People’s Republic used mustard gas to defeat an advance by Fascisti forces in center Italy. The nations of Europe were shocked by the brutality this new conflict was reaching, with TV showing scenes almost daily of the ongoing conflict.

February 17th 1939- The Russians comply with the naval terms of the Treaty of Stockholm. One Borodino class battlecruiser, two Gangut and one Imperatritsa Mariya class battleships are escorted into the hands of a joint Anglo/German task force for disposal.

February 18th 1939- With the lessons of the Global War been taken into account the new US landship, the M3A1 entered service. Replacing the interim M2A1, this vehicle was an upgrade over the previous vehicle. With overall armor of 80mm, with a maximum road speed of 25 miles and armed with a 75mm gun in a turret with a coaxial .30 machine gun and one machine gun by the driver. This vehicle was the main combat landship of the US military after the cancelation of the proposed heavy infantry one in late 1939 due to be seeing as a waste of funds by many in the Senate and in the House.

March 1939: Hoover draws up a mild education reform bill that does not infringe upon states rights. It receives general support, though some radical Equality Republicans claim that it does not do enough. Ironically, the radicals attacking the legislation actually gives Hoover credibility, and he maintains his popularity among both Democrats and moderate Republicans. Though many Democrats approch him, he refuses to run against Wilkie for the nomination.

March 8th 1939- Following the advice of their German ‘advisors”, the Chinese Army began the demobilization of the massive number of troops used in the Global War. The plan was to build an Army following the German ideas of motorization as the basis for a professional force. By the end of the year close to 40 divisions were demobilized.

March 12, 1939 - Mustafa Kemal is formally elected President of the Turko-Arabic Federation.

March 14th 1939- France announces the last two remaining Courbet class battleships are being scrapped to comply with the Treaty of Geneva.

March 14th 1939- French sells their two remaining Lorraine battlecruisers to the Turko-Arabic Federation. This purchase doubled the size of the capital ships in the Turkish fleet.

April 1939: Hearst buys out Franklin Roosevelt. Hearst takes control of the New York Times, finally establishing himself as the undisputed king of American newspapers.

April 16th 1939- Theodor Heuss is elected Chancellor of Germany. His election is considered by later historians as backlash to the terrible casualties of the war and a public response clamoring for peace. His policy was one of military reduction, especially in the Imperial Fleet and in the Heer, with funds being allocated to the development of a delivery vehicle for the atomic weapon and to the creation of a smaller but better armed Heer and Air Force. The reductions in military spending were used to rebuild the German infrastructure and to pay for projects like the Space Program. He also was a believer in the superiority of the German culture and he later began cultural and economic exchanges with Austro-Hungary after the Teutonic Party achieved power in that country.

April 18, 1939 -- A judge refuses to grant Ball & Davis's divorce, saying that California law does not recognize divorce without fault. Ball & Davis petition for rehearing.

May 1939: Believing that there was trickery involved, Franklin Roosevelt take up law suits against Hearst. He find himself picking a fight with the wrong man, as investigators ransack his life and records to find evidence against him. He lost in court.

May 10th 1939- Skopje Accords. With no peace treaty still signed with the Italians, an agreement was reached by Serbia and Greece to divide the Italian Albania between them. Finally an agreement was reached that gave 60% of Albania to Serbia and the remaining parts to Greece.

May 17th 1939- Germany announces they are keeping the former Russian Borodino class battlecruiser for duty in the Far East colonies.

June 1939: With Hoover's legislation in place, the American economy begins to restore itself. Wilkie recieves no credit.

June 1939 -- President Mustafa Kemal's two most famous nicknames appear in print for the first time. In Turkish newsmedia, he is "Ataturk", the father of the Turkish nation. His Arab political enemies, though, have taken to referring to him as "Kafir at-tabarri", for having supposedly renounced Islam and taken up Christianity; they point to his championing of the Turkish written language over Arabic and laws protecting Jews and Christians to an even greater extent than in Ottoman times as "proof" of his apostasy. Despite this slur, Kemal remains immensely popular among the common Arabs, who are already learning to take politicians' claims with a grain of salt.

June 1, 1939: The Gesgeshi Marathon, a fuel-efficient sedan, is now the best-selling car in Southern Persia. It is the first time that an Ethiopian company has risen to the top of a foreign market.

June 4th 1939- A military coup led by the former commander in Malaya Lt. General Yamashita takes over power in Japan. They blamed what they considered "ineffective leadership on the Home Islands" as the real cause of the defeat in the Global War and that "traitors need to eliminated and kept away of his Highness the Emperor so they don't cloud his judgement ever again."

June 18th 1939- New Japanese Prime Minister Yamashita announces emergency measures will be taken to ensure the elimination of defeatist politicians and factions in Japan. He also announced all political activity was going to be banned for the “time being” until the Emperor decided it was time to return to democracy.

July 1, 1939-The Federal Boundary Commission, ordered by Mustafa Kemal to propose the exact boundaries of the Provinces of the Turko-Arabic Federation, returns with its proposals. Most of the states are only slightly larger than the typical European province and are fairly ethnically and religiously homogenous, as least as much as is possible in such a nation.

July 17th 1939- With growing casualties in France, President Wilkie announces that the US troops were pulling out of France by the summer of 1940 and gave the order to the occupation troops commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower, to began making preparations to turn over the areas under their control to the British and the Germans.

July 19, 1939 -- At the rehearing of the Ball-Davis divorce, Joanie Carson testifies that she had slept with Ball soon after learning that her husband had died in battle. The judge grants the divorce. The truth, that Carson fabricated the tryst to help Ball keep his homosexuality concealed, only comes out decades later, through the memoirs of Carson's second husband, "Negro Abroad" star journalist Lincoln Baldwin.

August, 1939: Franklin Roosevelt decides to enter local LA politics, lobbying for urban reform, harkening back to his old Equality days.

August 1939 - The German Reichstag passes legislation requiring the consent of both the Chancellor and the Emperor before the release of nuclear weapons.

August 6th 1939- An attempted right-wing coup fails in Paris. Former French Prime Minister Henri Petain arrested after being identified as the leader of the coup.

August 14th 1939- Greece receives a former Russian Gangut as part of the war reparations owned by Russia to their nation.

August 24th 1939- Right wing militia in France rises on arms in major French cities. Army is called to try to stop the militias but part of the Army deserted to the rebels. This date is considered the date the 2nd French Civil War started.

September 1939- India is accepted as the second non-white Dominion in the British Empire. British educated Jawaharlal Nehru elected first Prime Minister of the Indian Commonwealth.

September 1st 1939- Pope Clement XV dies.

September 9th 1939- French government announces the city of Paris is under the control of the Army but the right-wing militias are in control of Brittany, Normandy and other major cities in the west and center. Napoleon IV is formed to seek the help of the just formed labor unions to try to eliminate the rising threat.

September 11th 1939- Michael von Faulhaber is elected as Pope. Many view this as the Catholic Church accommodation with the victorious Central Powers. He takes the name of Paul VI.

September 11, 1939 - Mustafa Kemal narrowly avoids an assassination attempt by a former Ottoman official.

September 18th 1939- The former Russian Imperatritsa Mariya is turned over to the Austro-Hungarian fleet. After considerations the ship was sent to be upgraded with four dual 15” turrets in place of the original weapons. The upgrades were completed by the end of 1941.

September 19th 1939- President Wilkie orders General Eisenhower to accelerate the withdrawal of American troops from Occupied France.

October 1st 1939- Under the leadership of shortstop Paul Dimaggio and catcher Gabby Harnett the Chicago Cubs win their first of two consecutive World Series. The team won 103 games and was led by the league leading .352 batting average of Dimaggio, who also hit 39 homeruns and had 127 ribbies in only his third major league season.

October 3rd 1939- Due to financial hardship of the down turn in Germany economy Junkers sells half its engine manufactioning and research divisions. Due to unknown circunstances the plant with the revolutionary Junker RTO is sold to the Fokker A.G.

October 3rd 1939- City of Florence recaptured by People’s Republic Army forces. With the withdrawal of the majority of the French “volunteers” and the massive use of gas by the Communists the Fascisti forces were in disarray.

October 10, 1939: Leland Motors releases the Atlas, a full-size truck that uses a hybrid engine to acheive horsepower levels previously associated only with military vehicles -- not too surprising, since they had largely cornered the defense market as of late. Leland successfully parlays the good press into a new brand image as the "cowboy" car company, opening a giant new plant in Kansas City and releasing high-powered hybrids on its Willys and Nash lines.

October 16th 1939- Chilean president Marmaduke Grove announces an economic program to promote import substitution industrialization and welfare measures for the urban middle and urban classes. He also allowed urban labor unions but he barely allowed reforms in the rural areas to appease conservative landowners. Also a large part of the GNP was used to upgrade the Chilean military, both as a thread for their neighbors and the civilian population of their own nation.

November 1939- Lt. General Bela Ferenc Blasko made military commander of Romania. Know as "Vlad the Impaller" or "Dracula" behind his back by his troops due to actions fighting Montenegrin partisans in the 1920's was considered the perfect man to deal with the growing guerilla activity in Romania.

November 1939- In the Philippines, Nacionalista Party returns to power after the backlash of the defeat in the Global War. The Nacionalista Party candidate Manuel Roxas wins with a 65% of the popular vote over the incumbent Ramos.

November 9th 1939- Charlemagne Peralte is forced into exile when the rebels began an offensive in the south and the Gendermerie changed sides, with Peralte barely making it alive out of the country. The leader of the rebels is assassinated three days later and the commander of the Gendermerie, Pierre Rouche, takes over as President of Haiti.

November 19th 1939- Liberal minded group in Brittany launch a coup against the right-wing forces in Brittany.

December 17th 1939- The French to comply with the Treaty of Geneva turned over the whole remaining ships of the Bretagne Class to Greece, Austria-Hungary and the Turko-Arab Federation as part of reparations.

December 17th 1939- Last American troops leave the port of Calais. The US evacuation was a very unpopular move in Europe, with the Germans and British being forced to take over the former American zone almost overnight. The growing resistance to the remaining occupation forces was an expected result of all this.

December 21st 1939- The Blackburn Fury enters service with the Royal Air Force . The Fury withs it massive 3200 hp Titan was the fastest of the postwar fighters and is considered today the epitome of the propeller fighters. While other aircrafts later had better armament and more range it was still the faster fighter of the era except for the rocket powered interceptors. With a maximum speed of 480 miles, a service of ceiling of 40,000 feet, a range of 525 miles and armed with 4 20 mm cannons. The Fury was a deadly combination of speed range and firepower. Served well into the early 1950's for the RAF.

perdedor99

May 16th, 2006, 01:06 PM

1940

1940- Many of the groups of Chinese around Oakland are united by a powerful gang, known as the T'ang Dragons.

1940- Clinton Anderson runs for the state senate in Sonora, winning in his district.

1940 Fiorella LaGuardia resigns from the Governorship to run for Roosevelt's Senate seat, which TR Jr. is not running for in order to concentrate on his race for the Presidency. He hands the Governor's office over to his trusted Lt. Governor, to give him the incumbant advantage in the next Gubernatorial election.

1940 - The Imperial Council is formally renamed the Imperial Senate. All powers of oversight of inter-Imperial relations and foreign relations have been ceded by Westminster to the Senate, which has three elected representatives from each Dominion as well as Great Britain in its composition. The Prime Minister of Great Britain and the Sovereign both may wield a veto power over the Senate, which in turn can be overturned by a 3/4 vote of the Senate or a vote for overturning the veto in 2/3rds of the Dominions plus Great Britain.

January 1940: Seymour publishes an article in a Pulitzer paper again about the nature of comitees. He encourages more men of the people to be invited, and discourages the old tendancy of only bringing in party big whigs.

January 4, 1940 - Officials in Brittany declare the Breton Republic and petition London, Madrid, Lisbon, and Berlin for recognition. Some see this more of an attempt to avoid reparations than a true revolution, but the breakaway region is recognized by most nations by the end of the year.

January 13th 1940- Left wing counter-coup occurs in the South of France, with Marseilles being declared the capital of a Socialist Provencal Republic. The French fleet is taken after a short fight almost intact.

January 16th 1940- Infant Vittorio Emanuelle is declared King of Italy by Giacomo San Pietro, who declares himself regent. In reality the young King's rule was only effective over the lower third of Italy, Sicily and Sardinia.

January 25th 1940- The Saud faction in the Arabian Peninsula is finally eliminated, their pipeline to Russian weapons already dry and with no foreign support. The leaders went either into exile or died but many later joined the extremist Allah’s Will movement.

January 27, 1940 - The Boston, Revere Beach, and Lynn Railroad goes defunct. It is decided by the MTA to purchase the section of the line going from Wood Island to Lynn and convert it to extend the Bowdoin-Airport Line.

February 1940: The convention comitee agrees to adopt Seymours suggestions. Seymour's theory is that Roosevelt's support comes not from party leadership but from the middle class. Though LaGuardia and Cabot-Lodge both reppresent their party's beliefs much better then Roosevelt, they lack the media appeal. Thus Hearst ensured a Roosevelt primary victory. Roosevelt remained unaware of any of this planning.

February 1st 1940- Chaos reigns in France. By now separatists movements are in place in at least two areas of France while the rule of the French monarch effectively only exists in the immediate area of Paris and in Occupied France.

February 7th 1940- Regiment 999 is used by the Austro-Hungarian Army as the parent unit for the creation of an elite division, the Guards Division. Under Michael Skorzeny the unit, while their members were fully trained as airmobile troops, they were an unconventional unit used to defeat irregular forces using the teachings of their commander Skorzeny.

February 13th 1940- Frank Anthony, one of the prominent leaders of the Anglo-Indian community in India, is named as Minister of Education in the Nehru’s cabinet.

February 22nd 1940- First Amphibious Armored vehicles or AAV’s for short were ordered into production by the Department of the Navy. With the reduction going on of the military only 120 were ordered, a quantity considered not enough by many of the leaders in the US Marines. Tracked and capable of 9 mph on water, they were considered to fill the expectations of the Marines’ experts but the actions in Cuba in 1945 demonstrated some changes needed to be made in the design.

March 1940- Erich von Manstein, German Chief of the General Staff, announced his plan for the reduction in size of the German Heer. While personally opposed to this, he was told that the funding for the Heer was being slashed and was forced to come up with a plan to how to use the available funds. The main shock to the press was the announced reduction of the number of divisions from the 52 current post-war divisions to 28. He announced that was going to be a process that they expected to finish by 1946, with the end result being better equip divisions, armed with the most modern weapons systems build by that time. A lot of the available funds were being made available to the Heer’s R&D division to ensure his promise was a reality.

March 1st 1940- Manchurian Republic Army is formally organized. With Manchuria being declared independent since early 1938 only the Treaty of San Francisco guaranteed the continued existence of the nation while Chinese making overt moves to end their existence. While the organization followed the traditions of the Japanese Army in the size and shape of the units, the equipment was a mix of Japanese and Russian equipment on the first years while neutral “advisors”, in majority of the cases American but some Russians and South Americans were also included in the first years. By the end of the year the Army reached the higher echelon level organization that still exists today of four army groups but the composition of the units included in those army groups changed with time but originally were three infantry divisions each of 15,000 per group.

March 7th 1940- Napoleon IV abdicates the French throne in what he stated “to end the cycle of violence our nation is falling.”

March 16th 1940- Irish prime minister Michael Collins steps down due to health reasons. He's replaced by his political ally Richard Mulcahy, former commander of the Irish Expeditionary Force during the Global War and recently Minister of the Interior for Collins' cabinet.

March 17th 1940- Japan began production of the Mitsubishi A5M to replace the remaining American build P-14 on their carrier-based inventory. With a maximum range of over 900 miles, with a maximum speed of 330 mph and armed with two 20mm cannons and two 7.7mm machineguns it was build in duralumin alloy to save weight and made it very maneuverable. It was the best carrier-based aircraft of the early 1940’s but it was superseded by newer designs by 1948.

March 18th 1940- Sir Oswald Mosley is named to the Cripps cabinet as a minister without portfolio. A member of the Labour Party since 1922, Mosley returned to politics after serving in a Territorial Division during the Global War and being wounded in 1936.

March 18th 1940- King Alfonso XIII of Spain dies and his succeeded by his son Alfonso, who took the throne as Alfonso XIV.

March 29th 1940- Malagasy nationalist revolted against the Germans. Although the revolt eventually spread to 1/3 of the island, the Germans were able to defeat the revolt after the arrival of Askaris from Tanganyika and the Congo by the end of the year. Estimates put the casualties in between 20,000 to 30,000 Malagasy with close to 2,000 German and Askaris being counted as casualties. The revolt polarized the politics in the island, forcing the German to rule by decree until 1951.

April 8th 1940- Even with the Russian Baltic Fleet still a threat even in their reduced state, budget cutbacks affected the German Imperial Fleet. Finally after some arm twisting, enough funds were found to build a new class of battleships, a three-ship class with one of the ships being build for the German Far East Fleet. Three ships with three triple 18” turrets, they turned out to be obsolete by the time their construction was ended in early 1947.

April 12th 1940- Germany develops the first ship/submarine launched surface to surface missile. Using semi active MWD the "Raptor" was a Pulsejet/ramjet hybrid that could be launched from any catapult-equipped ship. The "Hawk" the submarine launched derivative used pulse jets with solid rocket boosters and was radio command guided. It was launched from a converted UA type sub. Unfortunatly due to budget constrains a modified version of the Hawk called the Hawk 1A, which used the guidance package of the Raptor, was employed in small numbers as a coastal defence weapon. Become operational in 1942.

April 19th 1940-Japanese Prime Minister Yamashita announces a process of integration of the citizens of the Empire. His idea was to force Japanese culture into the minorities of the Empire in an attempt to eliminate what he called “the dissention that caused our defeat in the past war never happens again.”

April 23 1940 -- A coalition of Asian Canadian groups, reacting to Japan's planned crackdown on its minorities, begins petitioning Parliament to expand immigration quotas and streamline the naturalization process. Millions of Asians arrived in Canada as "war refugees" or through other special programs, but the public is increasingly willing to allow Asian immigrants in through the front door.

April 24th 1940- Leon Blum returns to France from his exile in Mexico and in Calais announces he was willing to lead a coalition of moderate groups to bring an end to the chaos in France. The British and Germans support Blum’s attempts to bring an end to the French quagmire.

May 1940: New oil fields are discovered in Bahrain and Qatar. Petrol prices plummet to 20-year lows, as the post-war auto market in Europe has been dominated almost entirely by fuel-efficient cars while Americans continue their love affair with half-electric hybrids. The more-expensive oil sands petrol fields in Canada and Venezuela begin losing money.

May-June 1940 -- Although a sizeable portion of voters, especially in Quebec, are still opposed to increased immigration, the Asian Canadians seem to be having their "breakthrough moment", as the Toronto Star called it. Parades, speeches, and community action campaigns have gathered hundreds of thousands of volunteers. In the oldest Asian communities, Victoria and Vancouver, there are almost as many White volunteers as Asian.

May 2nd 1940- Lt. General Erwin Rommel is ordered to lead the German advisor team in China to help build the Chinese Army on the German mold. Rommel’s recommendation was to further reduce the size of the Chinese Army, from the current 70 infantry divisions with a small armored complement, into 40 divisions with a preponderance in armored vehicles plus independent brigades included. He stated the process will be a long one and he has his doubts it will completed during his four-year tenure in the post.

May 10th 1940- The city of Paris is captured by forces loyal to the new Republican government of Leon Blum. Air assets of the British and German occupation forces supported the advancing forces.

May 17 1940 -- Canadian Parliament begins debate on a series of new proposals designed to encourage further Asian immigration and continue integrating the existing immigrant population.

May 18th 1940- Igor Sikorsky, the Russian aircraft engineer, unveils the S-7. The very first production helicopter to enter service in any armed forces, they made a very showing during the short 1941 civil war and served with the Russian military for the rest of the decade until replaced by faster and more capable designs.

May 21st 1940- The 2nd and 3rd Cavalry Divisions are dismounted and replaced their horses with armored vehicles. The new Cavalry Corps, with the 1st Cavalry in Fort Riley, the 2nd in Fort Hood and the 3rd in Fort Huachuca, was put under the overall command of the war hero George Patton.

May 22 1940 With the oil prices plummeting, President Gomez orders the sale of Venezuela's oil to its ravaged neighbors in South America at a discount of the world price in an attempt to dominate the market in the area plus he made massive sales of oil to China at special rates. By the end of the year the size of the new markets pushed the Venezuelan economy back in the right direction. President Gomez uses the oil generated funds to begin a crash program to industrialize and strengthen his country as a whole.

June 4th 1940- Henri Petain finally agrees to meet his former opponent in Paris to end the Civil War in France. Petain was very sick due to his age and the months he spent in prison during 1939 and early 1940. The old warrior was very condescend and after days of meetings he agreed to speak to the right-wing factions to lay down their weapons and to work together in a coalition government. Petain was offered the position of President while Blum took for himself the position of Prime Minister. Still Brittany and the Provencal areas refused to acknowledge the new Paris government.

June 8th 1940- China announces the purchase of over 600 surplus American M1A1 and M2A1 armored cars. Those vehicles, with the remaining vehicles from the Global War and the ones donated by the Central Powers from French stock made possible to raise three armored divisions by the end of 1942.

June 25 1940- After news are leaked that money that had been received to help the economy was being spent on the military the public begin to protest the action of President Umanzor, as not wanting to help his country but on the contrary to appease his power base on the military.

June 27, 1940 -- Before a cheering crowd in Rideau Hall, Ottowa, Governor General Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne signs the Reformed Naturalization and Education Acts. He is accompanied by Willie Ah Poy and Stanley Chong, the first two Asian-Canadian MPs. The acts greatly ease the process for Asians, especially ethnic minorities from China, Manchuria, and Japan, to immigrate to Canada. They also reform the educational system, first and foremost to make it easier for Asians to learn English and French, but also so that other Canadians can learn various Asian languages in public schools.

July 1940- The German Army used the lessons of the Great War to bear in the design of their new main battle rifle, the GEW 40. The recognition that the majority of battlefield casualties occurred at shorter ranges brought forward the idea of improved firepower coupled with the use of a smaller caliber round for the main battlerifle. The ideas for the development of this weapons have to wait until the end of the war due to the use of funds for the "Thor Project." Still this weapon was revolutionary. A selective fire 30 round detachable magazine rifle, the use of the 7.92 x 33 MM round made it possible to be used as a submachinegun at shorter ranges but with greater accuracy and range than submachineguns in longer range encounters.

July 4, 1940 - Jews in Salonika start a revolt against Greek rule. They demand the restoration of the Autonomous state.

Jul 4th 1940- William Lincoln Roberts is born in Alexandria, Virginia. The son of a a veteran of the 10th Infantry Division (colored) and a schoolteacher, he was a well educated and athletic boy, receiving allocades by all his teachers and piers during his school years.

August 1940: Hearst gives an official endorsement to Roosevelt.

Fall 1940 - Republican presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt Jr. holds appeal to several Democrats, who come to be called 'Roosevelt Democrats'.

September 1940 -- Through the financial backing of Spanish-Basque businessmen, especially those with Euskal Europa Party leanings, the University of Deusto sets up a second campus in Rennes, with the mission of "encouraging academic brotherhood between the Basque and Celt peoples." Deusto-Rennes quickly develops excellent linguistics and archaeology programs.

September 8th 1940- Japan goes around the Treaty of San Francisco by raising the size of the Special Naval Landing Forces to a size never seem before. By the end of the decade close to eight divisions of this nation's equivalent to Marines were serving in active duty.

September 9th 1940- Giacomo San Pietro agrees with Pope Paul VI and the Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Rome in the terms later called the Rome Accord. San Pietro agreed to recognize the city of Rome and a small corridor from the coast to that city as “temporal territory of the Pope” and under the eternal protection of the Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Also he recognized the lost of Lombardy and Venetia to the Austro-Hungarians in exchange for the recognition of his Regency as the “true” government of Italy and for the Austro-Hungarians to stop sending support to any other factions in the ongoing Civil War.

September 10th 1940- United States develops the first surface to air AA missile. Using semi-active MWD homing like the Russian Golden Eagle, the Bulldog was designed to be used either in ships or as static air defense due to being too large to be mobile. It enter production in 1942.

September 17th 1940- British Prime Minister Cripps announces that no further construction of battleships or battlecruisers is on the immediate future. Instead major capital ships were going to be send to be refurnished to extend the lifetime of those ships. Also he announced that the five oldest dreadnaughts and the three battlecruisers in the Royal Navy were going either to be decommissioned or transferred to Dominion’s fleets. Critics accused Cripps of reducing the Royal Fleet to “second to the US”, but he defended himself by stating that the Royal Navy has still almost a 2:1 advantage in battleships versus the US and almost parity on carriers with the Colossus class.

Fall 1940 -- With the introduction of the 1941 model year, the two newcomers on the European auto market surge into prominence. Britain's Sopwith-Rolls, which until 1938 had contented itself with the British market, is now #1 in revenue in France, a position largely won because high-end manufacturing has been almost impossible in France. Gesgeshi, meanwhile, has won the #1 spot in Italy through an innovative sales technique -- by only selling their cars at dockside dealerships, they feed on the association of anything Italian with turmoil and failure. Businesses in other industries soon mimic Gegegshi, further warping the Italian economy.

October 1st to 10th 1940- Chicago Cubs won their second consecutive World Series, by defeating the Boston Blue Sox 4 games to 3. Shortstop Paul Dimaggio (.374-37-119) wins the National League Leadership Award by winning the batting crown and leading his team to victory for a second consecutive year.

October 8th 1940- Enrico Fermi is spotted in Moscow by diplomatic attaches under the German Naval Intelligence Department.

October 17th 1940- The Socialist Republic of Italy leader Pasolini is assassinated while reading on his study in Genoa. The assassin was a member of his security detail, disgruntled with the continued bloodshed and no end in sight to the fighting in Italy. A provisional Junta was immediately formed and their first order of business was to ask for a ceasefire with the Italian People’s Republic that was accepted three days later.

November 1940 Despite signs that the economy is reviving, incumbent president Wendell Wilkie is defeated by Republican challenger Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

November 1940- Rafael Espaillat is reelected as President of the Dominican Republic. The next six years saw the economy slowly taking a turn for the better while in the international front the nation was more active in the Caribbean, with the border with Haiti being closed after a border clash with the Gendermerie in 1942 and his nation taking part in the stabilization of Cuba in 1945.

November 14th 1940- Brazil puts an order to the British for the construction of two brand new ones fast battleships to increase the size of their fleet. The ships had a displacement of 27,000 tons, a max speed of 32 knots and armed with three dual 12” guns. The main guns were taken from old decommissioned British ships to save in cost and the armour on the ships really made them battlecruiser. A terrible mistake in the opinion of many naval experts, it was considered a fast ship that handled very well but it lacked the armour and guns to stand up in any fight against the main ships of their possible rivals.

December 19th 1940- The Dominion of India informs the British government their intention of acquiring as many ships as possible from the ones being mothballed by the Royal Navy, to what Prime Minister Nehru stated “to build a true Royal Indian Navy.”

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:02 PM

1941

1941- Chihuahua becomes a state of the Union.

1941 - An attempted coup by forces loyal to Grand Duke Michael fails, but Tsar Alexis I is killed in the process. His son Tsar Alexis II is proclaimed Tsar by the Duma, which has remained loyal to the memory of the charismatic Tsar Alexis. A civil war breaks out in the nation, with the forces rallying under Grand Duke Michael holding Moscow and Kiev while those loyal to the young Tsar Alexis II and the Duma hold St. Petersburg and Gorky. The Finns remain loyal to the Duma, but the Ukrainians join with the Southern Russians. However, both sides are still suffering from the fatigue of the end of the Great War, and by the end of the year the two sides reluctantly agree to a division of the nation, with the Ukraine and South European Russia froming a new state of Russia Ukraine under Tsar Michael, while Tsar Alexis II continues to rule the Russian Empire under the guidance of the Duma.

January 1941: Though many Roosevelt Democrats have fundamentally become Republicans, they remain in support of Hoover, who keeps his speakership.

January 1941: Three new cities are founded in Ethiopia's new Somali territories -- Point Asia on the easternmost point, Jubba at the mouth of the Jubba River on the Kenya-Ethiopian border, and Garveytown on Somalia's Tuddi coast. To the outside world, it is the beginning of the Second Great Immigration, a 15-year wave where American Negroes again flock to Ethiopia, joined this time by Africans and Carribeans; the wave only ends when the USA passes the Civil Rights Act. To native Somalis, it is the Great Fading, when the Somalis become a minority in their own nation and Somali children grow up learning English and Amharic in the schools.

January 1941 Theodore Roosevelt Jr.’s Inauguration Speech promises, in the words of his father’s generation, a ‘Square Deal’ for the nation.

January 7th 1941- Last of the Hornets, the USS Bonhomme Richard, is commissioned.

February 1941- In a meeting between the different military commanders of the British Dominions celebrated in London it was agreed in the size, shape and training needed for the Dominions to respond to the post-war world. The Canadians have demobilized the eight divisions that fought in the Global War but it was decided that the units that formed the first two divisions were going to form part of the Permanent Force while two more divisions were put into Territorial status. The Canadians depots were close to train stations, their forces being considered the first reinforcements the Empire received after the Irish. In Australia the result of the Japanese invasion was the decision to raise a very large permanent force in comparison to their population, with four permanent divisions been in the books while a large volunteer militia also existed. Australian troops were trained for the defense of their homeland and deployment was considered as a last resort. New Zealand, not directly affected by the events on the Pacific, demobilized the two divisions that fought the Global War and preferred to spent their money in better air and naval defenses with a very small permanent Army cadre taking care of the equipment depots for the militia. South Africa surprised everyone by keeping a large territorial force in place while Ireland and Guyana decided to keep both their permanent and militia forces small to the dismay of the British Royal Army planners. The Indian Army on the other hand was very large indeed, with the process of training Indian officers to replace British ones going very well, with close to 45% of the officer grades in the Indian Army ten divisions being natives. Also it was good news for the British planners than two of the Indian Army divisions were fully motorized but it was a dismay that traditionalist still kept four cavalry brigades on the active list.

February 1941- Chiang Kai-Shek wins the presidential election in China. A hero of the Global War, he criticized President’s Soong achievements in the negotiation table after the war and the slowing down of the economy due to the global recession. Also his promises of further expansion and glory for China were welcomed by many of the veterans of the war that felt cheated by the small territorial gains made by their country even after they suffered millions of casualties. Chiang continued and increased the modernization program for his military started by his predecessor and the seeds for the manufacture of heavy weapons were laid down by his administration. Many considered these actions were directed to the Japanese and the Manchurians. Japanese response was to send support to the growing Indochinese rebels in the Chinese new province of Tonkin and in the puppet Kingdom of Annam. This further eroded the almost non-existent relationship between China and Japan.

February 14th 1941- Charlemagne Peralte returns to northern Haiti. After six months he has northern Haiti under his control and considers the area as Free Haiti.

February 19th 1941- Free elections are announced by the new junta in the Socialist Republic of Italy.

March 1941- After meeting the military leaders of the Dominions the British Royal Army decided what to do with the available resources. The garrisoning of the Empire plus France and the former colonies of the vanquished enemies of the British Empire was costing the British a lot. It made impossible for the Empire to demobilize all Territorial units three years after the end of the War. While all second line Territorial units were already demobilized by late 1938, the 1st line Territorial divisions in the majority of the cases were still active; the 5th and 6th Cavalry Brigades, using American misnamed “armored cars” were used to patrol the deserts in Libya and North Africa while twelve infantry divisions were being used for different garrison duties all over the Empire. The Regular Army divisions began to follow the German example and the five infantry divisions in Europe and in the Middle East began to be fully motorized while the 1st Tank Brigade was created, using the A2 landship instead of the two landship divisions that were still using the heavier A1. The A2 was faster but in reality was very similar to the French CA1 and considered by many as a copy. Finally it was decided to slowly reduce the number of Territorial units still in service while funds were being diverted to the development of newer weapon systems. Also it was decided to raise a test unit, the 1st Airmobile Division, to be evaluated as a rapid deployment force.

March 14th 1941- Stephen Smith, an Anglo-Indian rocket scientist living in Calcutta, designs the Aurora. The rocket was later proven capable of delivering the British atomic bomb and was later produced under contract by Germany and Austria-Hungary.

March 15th 1941- The Austrian Guard Division is sent to Romania to help in the “normalization” of the area. They served in the area for three years and helped to calm down the partisan activity in the occupied territory.

March 18th 1941- The Dominion of India announces the purchase of the former battleship Hercules and the three battlecruisers of the Inflexible class. While all the ships were over thirty years old, the Dominion was willing to pay for the necessary repairs to extend the life of those ships. After consideration they refused to purchase the even older Bellerophon and St. Vincent class battleship. After failing to find takers, the British government demobilized them and later were sold for scrap.

March 18th 1941- Attempted coup led by Grand Duke Michael in St. Petersburg fails, but Tsar Alexis I die in the process. Grand Duke Michael is forced to flee south.

March 22nd 1941- After some soul searching, Georgy Zhukov joins his former commander Grand Duke Michael in his attempt to get the Russian Crown and meet with him in Kiev to try to direct operations.

April 3rd 1941- A fast-motorized ad-hoc force under Zhukov captures Moscow from the still surprised garrison. This was the only major victory of both forces during the short conflict (late March to early October), with the war reducing itself to a positional one due to exhaustion in both sides caused by the Global War.

April 3rd 1941- King Monivong of Cambodia dies and replaced by Norodom Sihanouk. The Thais considered him the ideal candidate for the throne of Cambodia from their point of view because of his youth, his lack of experience and his pliability.

Summer 1941- First portable rocket propelled grenades make their appearance during the Russian Civil War. Called armor gauntlets, they were a 40mm rocket launcher where a 82mm grenade was fitted. The weapon was effective against stationary targets only to 150 meters and versus mobile ones at ranges than less of 100 meters. It could penetrate up to 180mm of armor.

May 1st 1941- The Taejon Massacre. A peaceful demonstration in favor of maintaining Korean culture is broken up by Japanese troops and in the process 150 persons were killed and over 300 wounded. The organizer of the demonstration Joo-Chan Lee is forced into exile in China, were he continued to fight the forced Japanization of Korea.

June 6th 1941- President Roosevelt gives the approval for the construction of a class of light carriers for escort duties. The Miami Class, nine ships named after coastal cities, began construction in early 1942 and were completed by the end of 1946. A nine ship class, they were small compared with the Hornet Class. Their maximum tonnage was 12,000, capable of carrying 35 aircrafts and going at speeds of 32 knots.

July 5th 1941- The first JagerGewehr -41 rifles are issued to the Austrian Guards Division for testing in Romania. A 7.92 x 57mm selective fire semi-automatic rifle, it fired in semi from a closed bolt and automatic from a closed bolt. The feed system was a 20 round box magazine mounted on the left side of the rifle. That caused some problems, like the weapon was unbalanced and in addition automatic fire with the full-powered caliber round being used made automatic fire very difficult to control. The weapon was well liked by the Guards Division but the decision was made not to put this weapon into full production, this weapon being only produced in limited quantity for this division.

July 19th 1941- Ramon Serrano Suñer named Prime Minister by the Spanish monarch Alfonso XIV himself. A very conservative member of the Cortes, he was a supporter of the fallen French and Italian regimes and as such allowed many of that fallen nations intelligentsia to immigrate to their nation. Under his guidance, Spain turned into a supplier of weapons by the end of the decade, especially French designed aircrafts and small arms.

August 7, 1941 - The Greeks and Jews in the Balkans agree to a peace. Salonika will have restored to it autonomous status and its own legislature, but will acknowledge the King of Greece as the sovereign and will only handle domestic matters, leaving foreign policy to the Greek government. They are also allowed to form a small national guard, the Salonika Defense Force.

August 11th 1941- Germany began production of their new combat landship, the Panzer II. A further upgrade of the Panzer I, it had better armor protection and was armed with an 88mm gun in a modified turret while tipping the scales at 32 tons. This vehicle was the main German combat landship of the Heer until replaced by the Panzer III in 1949.

September 21st 1941- Giacomo San Pietro agrees to a ceasefire with the People’s Republic of Italy after failing to defeat them on his 1941 summer campaign. By now the economy of the rump Kingdom of Italy was on shambles and he was very dependent by now of Austro-Hungarian and British help.

Winter 1941: Ethel Roosevelt's daughter Sarah, while studying abroad for her Masters' in Education at Chiapas State, meets a charming music major, Rosario Contreras.

October 1941 -- The Gulf League of Mexican Football forms and buys the rights to the International Tournament, instantly turning the chaos of the early pro era into a regimented system. Along with the famous Mobile Home Boys, its members are the Miami Gators, New Orleans Haitians, Habana Cubans, Puerto Rico Marlins, Veracruz Angels, Villahermosa Ironwood, and Yucatan Maya.

October 1st 1941- Last organized guerilla units surrender near Florina. By 1945 the state of emergency in northern Greece was rescinded.

October 1st to 7th 1941- Pittsburgh Pirates win the Series 4 games to 1 over the Boston Blue Sox. Led by the hitting of Fenn Leonard (.334-47-128) and Joe Foxx (.300-20-105) plus the defensive heroics in his last playing season of the 42 year old third baseman Judy Johnson (.299- 4- 78) Pittsburgh won their first pennant since 1938.

November 7th 1941- In the Australian outback the first British atomic bomb is detonated. While the British deny having received any help from the Austro-German team, it was later proved that indeed they shared technical data with the British.

November 15, 1941 - The Finns and Karelians are rewarded for remaining loyal to Tsar Alexis with the formation of the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland-Karelia, with its own legislature and the complete abolition in perpetuity of the Russification laws. The Finns and Karelians in return swear to honor Tsar Alexis Romanov and his progeny as the rightful rulers of Finland-Karelia for all time.

December 7, 1941 - In a special referendum, the people of Hawaii vote to continue their protectorate status rather than apply for statehood by an overwhelming majority. Many site the thriving example of the Rio Grande and the remaining ill feelings among many after the long military governorship of the islands.

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:03 PM

1942

1942-Prescott Bush Jr enters Yale, from were he graduated in 1946. In addition to being a member of all the singing groups, he also proves to be a fine athlete, once scoring 30 points in a basketball game. He decided to go to law school and graduated with a B.A. in law. His father, a US senator, is proud of his son, and hopes he can become very important one day.

1942 The US economy has fully recovered from the post war recession, and is embarking once more on a growth cycle.

January 3, 1942 -- Anton Korošec dies. Known only to Slovenes for most of his life, his Slovenija Europa party suddenly turned him into a cult hero late in life. Two funerals are held, one for family, one for admirers.

January 4, 1942 -- The Unio Europa party forms in a Jesuit residence hall where many foreign admirers were boarding for Korošec's funeral. By now chapters have sprung up among the Basque, Romanians, and Sicilians; Saunders Lewis shows up and excitedly begins preparing for the daunting task of building up a Europa movement in Wales.

Febuary 1942: Roosevelt creates the Departement of Education, and names Cabot-Lodge Jr. secretary. He helps the nation take on the reforms that Massachusetts had already achieved.

March 5, 1942 - The Scottish Equality Movement formally forms on this day. Led by such men as filmaker Basil Wright, it is a movement that crosses party boundaries centered on the reestablishment of the Scottish Parliament with more control over local issues, and representation on par with the Irish (their own Parliament, continued though diminished representation in the British Parliament, and representation on the Imperial Parliament).

March 12, 1942 - To assuage the eastern provinces of the Breton Republic, legislation is passed allowing local governments to choose to have Gallo as a 'heritage language', promoting bilingual signs and offering Gallo as a language of study in their schools, though Breton remains a required language in all publications and a required course in school.

March 14th 1942- 34 year first baseman Joe Foxx is traded by the Pittsburgh Pirates with two minor leaguers to the Cleveland Naps for pitchers Gordon Dobson, Art Harris and Ward Galehouse. His trade opens the first base position finally for Fenn Leonard, forced to play the outfield due to Foxx presence in the team.

April 5th 1942- First Ivan the Great landships enter service in the Northern Russian military. Originally designed in 1939 with a 76mm gun as the main armament, the Civil War of 1941 postponed their development until the end of the Civil war. By them it was considered the main gun was too weak to defeat current German designs so the gun was changed for an 85mm one. The vehicle was an improvement over the Global War Peter the Great landships. Tipping the scale at 31 tons and with 90mm armour. It was very capable and comparable with the German Panzer II.

April 16th 1942- The Royal Small Arms Hactory at Enfield began to design the replacement for the Enfield-Savoie rifle, designing the weapon around the 7x43mm round. The new round was a result of the lessons of the Global War, that demostrated the majority of combat encounters occurred at short ranges and the need of a light, selective fire weapons was a necessity.

April 17th 1942- The Hansa-Brandeburg 70 enters service. Designed by Anthony Fokker, the HS-70 is considered a fighter/interceptor, even when with the use of two engines is considered as a heavy fighter by many. The two engines gave the aircraft a longer range than comparable aircrafts at the time, that at 600 miles it was only exceeded by the 900 of the Japanese A5M. With a maximum speed of 350mph and armed with eight 7.92mm machineguns, it was the mainstay of the German air forces during the 1940’s. It was also capable of carrying rockets, the first fighter capable of doing so.

April 20th 1942- Antonio Salazar elected President of Portugal. During his twelve-year rule the standards of living in his nation increased but still were behind the Central European and British standards. As such he encouraged the emigration of tens of thousands of Portuguese and other European immigrants during his tenure as president, mainly French and Italian to move to the colonies but especially Angola. One of his ideas was to create a head tax to make possible to increase the infrastructure of his colonies. During the next twenty years hundreds of roads were build in all the African colonies and a railroad junction with the British Cape to Cairo Railroad was inaugurated in 1957.

May 9th 1942- Chile and United States sign a new commercial agreement, with Chile selling the United States copper at a discount price in exchange for military hardware and needed dollars.

May 17, 1942
Pennsylvania Railroad buys a small railroad supply company that has been working on tilting-train technology, which allows trains to maintain faster speeds around turns without causing passenger discomfort.

May 29th 1942- The Russian Defender fighter finally reached air units. With their production delayed by the Civil War of 1941 they were beat as the first rocket capable fighter by the HS-70 by only one month. They were also armed with two 20mm cannons and one 14.5mm machinegun, capable of 340mph and with a range of 500 miles it was a very capable little fighter.

June 1942 Quentin Roosevelt sells his businesses for an astonishing figure, goes on a world tour.

July 4, 1942 -- The face of New York City changes, hopefully for the better, with the opening of the new J Train: a subway line from Manhattan's Central Station, across the Hudson to Jersey City inside the brand-new 8-lane Lincoln Tunnel, into Bayonne, across the Kill Van Kull into Staten Island, then across the brand-new Narrows Bridge to its terminus at Coney Island.

August 1, 1942 - The Legislature of the Breton Republic passes the Breton Acts, a legislative package to strengthen the Celtic Language of Brittany. It mostly mandates Breton language classes for all students and the use of Breton in addition to any other languages on all public signs and government publications.

Aug 19, 1942 - Daniel Figueres forms the National Unity Party in San Jose. It calls for an end to the military build-up and animosity towards the Republic of Central America, and instead looking at them as brothers. The National Unity Party rapidly grows in support, as the lower classes are tired of the constant problems with their northern neighbor.

September 8th 1942- All Boxer class battlecruisers are send back to dry docks by the US Navy to be modified to carry two of the new Bulldog AA missile launchers in place of the aft turret, that was removed. The US decided to do this as a test bed for the new AA missiles, to find a place useful use for their remaining battlecruisers in inventory and to copy the Royal Navy use of the HMS Vindicator as an AA platform to support their carriers. This is completed by the end of 1945.

September 19th 1942-Due to US investments, Japanese economy began to recover. These investments, coupled with the ones with China and South America, were very important for the US during the 1940’s.

October 1st to 9th 1942- Pittsburgh Pirates win their second consecutive World Series 4 games to 2 over the Chicago White Sox. Fenn Leonard was honored with the National League Leadership Award for his excellent season (328-41-124).

October 8th 1942- Southern Russia began production of their copy of the Ivan the Great class of landships. Using plans and prototypes left behind in Moscow and Kharkov, the vehicles were incredibly similar and even received the same designation.

November 1942- Luis Muñoz Marin is reelected President of Puerto Rico by a wide margin, thanks to the success of his economic plans for the island. He continued his expansion of the Puerto Rican infrastructure during his next four years in power and was one of the proponents of expanding the Santiago Accords to include military cooperation after the actions in Cuba in 1945. He also believed all Caribbean nations should be included in the Santiago Accords, including South Mexico and the Central American nations.

November 5th 1942- Russian Flute guided ALS missile issued to troops. Too large to be man-portable, it was typically deployed from specialized vehicles. With a range over 6000’ and capable of defeating armour up to 300mm the missile was directed by a wire from an operator’s station. Since the missile spin in flight, a gyroscope is needed to know if the missile is going in the right direction that demanded a high level of operator skill and concentration.

December 14th 1942- The HMS Meridian, the very first aircraft carrier, is decommissioned and set up as a floating museum in Liverpool.

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June 3rd, 2006, 09:04 PM

1943

1943- With the ageing fleets of the major powers reaching the end of their serviceable life, in many cases ships being close to thirty years old, many decisions were made. While Germany decided to build newer battleships to face the Russian Baltic Fleet, the other powers when thru other routes. The Russians and the Japanese were banned of new constructions for a while so they began to upgrade their available units. The Austro-Hungarians was still overwhelmed by internal problems and didn’t have the resources to do anything except to upgrade their ships. France was prohibited of even building new ships while the surviving ships of the former Italian fleet were slowly falling in disarray on port. But the British and the Americans, with their huge battleship fleets, decided to concentrate in carriers and to slowly reduce the size of their battleship fleets.

February 10th 1943- The Organization for the Betterment of Africa is incorporated in New York City. It counted with very influential men in their board of directors, with former US president Wendell Wilkie as Chairman. During the decade their attempts to convince US investors in Africa achieve success, and the infrastructure in Africa receives a big boast due to the injection of US capital.

February 18th 1943- United States General Staff announces the activation of a Division to test the feasibility of using the concept of air-mobility. The division was activated with the designation of 77th Infantry Division, in honor of the division raised for duty in the 2nd Mexican War and inactivated immediately after that war was over. Nicknamed the All-American due to taking volunteers from all active duty divisions and National Guard units, it was the first desegregated unit in the United States Army in early 1944 when black soldiers were allowed to join to already formed units instead of raising all black components.

March 1943 - With the nation on the way to recovery from recession and with organized resitance substancially reduced, the Austrian Federated Empire announces that it will be formally annexing the Romanian 'provinces' in the form of two additional 'Romanian' states, Moldovia and Wallachia. The state of Transylvania already exists as a 'Romanian' state within the Federated Empire.

March 1943 -- After 35 years without any teams moving, Major League baseball sees a flurry of activity. The Brookyln Superbas become the Staten Island Bridges. The St. Louis Cardinals become the Los Angeles Zapatistas. Two expansion teams enter the NL: the San Francisco Bears and the Montreal Habitants.

March 18th 1943- The British government announces the reduction of their forces in the Dominion of India, with three infantry Brigades being removed from the area and moved to Africa to replace Territorial Divisions, making possible their demobilization. That left the only British troops in India the so-called “Bombay Division” and the Calcutta Armored Brigade.

March 17th 1943- India announces they are acquiring the whole Iron Duke Class from Great Britain to further expand the size of the Indian Royal Navy. While critics continue to attack the further reductions on the size of the Royal Navy Prime Minister Cripps defended the decision stating the ships were going to still being part of the Empire and the cost of up-keeping the ships now was an Indian responsibility, saving valuable funds to Great Britain that could be spend in other ventures.

April 1943- Mexican Noe Diaz, Canadian Frank Miller, German business man Franz Karl Mettenescher, Cuban Javier Iglesias, Russian Vladimir Povloi, Australian Jacob Hannings, and Joseph Patterson from the USA, all wealthy businessmen, meet in Vancouver and establish what will become known as the Commerce Fund. The Commerce Fund was a communal fund, were members pool capital and resources to be used by any member of the Fund in case of emergency and/or to be used for special projects but needed a majority approval of the board of trustees of the Fund for the capital to be disbursed. It is created for "the forward progress of the world."

May 2, 1943: Sarah Roosevelt-Darby and Rosario Contreras marry, and the two move to New Orleans.

May 12th 1943- The revolutionary RAF Lighting are finally issued to point-defense interceptor squadrons. The aircraft was the first rocket powered aircraft in the world. While an incredible 825mph and very well armed with two 20mm cannons the main problem was the rate of fuel consumption only made possible for the aircraft to stay airborne for around ten minutes, making impossible for this aircraft to replace the Tornados as the main fighter of the RAF.

Summer 1943- The Turko-Arabic Federation Army began a massive reorganization, building segregated units to ensure unit cohesion and to try to alleviate racial and religious problems. The army was massive for the standards of the post-Global War. The Turko-Arabic armed forces purchased landships from all sources, even purchasing Russian vehicles in the late 1950’s. By the end of the 1940’s the infantry units were completed. The army itself was a very large one. Three Jewish infantry brigades were part of the original units, one of them being replaced by an armored brigade equip with 100 Cossack Cavalry lanships purchased in 1959; two Bedouin infantry divisions; five Syrian infantry divisions, and two armored brigades equipped all with 200 French CA1 purchased after the Global War; six Lebanese infantry brigades divided into religious lines; two Arab Palestinian infantry divisions; one Turkish armored division equipped with 350 different landships but primarily German Panzer II’s purchased in 1950-52 and around fifty Panzer III purchased in early 1960’s, two Turkish motorized divisions plus one infantry division. Also the Turks had over 10 each infantry and armored brigades, the armored brigades armed with a mix of many different models; and finally the seven Mesopotamian brigades also divided by religious lines. The fundamentalist bug infected this army in the late 1950’s but it was eliminated after a massive purge. While numerically an impressive force many analysts in Europe considered this Army as an uneven force, with some units being excellent; for example the Jewish and Bedouin units while other lacked in both in equipment and morale.

August 1943- Swiss millionaire Robert Imthurn contributes to the Commerce Fund, so does the US itself

August 12, 1943 After a crash program instituted by President Roosevelt, the United States of America on this day detonates its first atomic device.

October 1st to 9th 1943- The Cleveland Naps win the World Series 4 games to 2 over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Led by the hitting of the former Cajun star Lee Johnson (.324-17-106), the speedster Walt Moses (.270-3-28 with 56 stolen bases) and rookie Negro player James McArthur Robinson (.298-14-74 with 31 stolen bases), acquired in the Foxx trade in 1942, the Naps won the division by two games over the Blue Sox and three over the Yankees. With their hitting star Joe Foxx (.278-14-54) spending half the season out due to injuries they team was forced to rely in speed to win it all.

October 1st 1943- German and British government announce their troops will leave Occupied France by the end of the year.

October 5th 1943- The US Navy announces the surviving ships of the Florida were going to be decommissioned and the four ships of the Oklahoma Class were going to be sold at a discount to the fleets of South Mexico (two ships) and China (two ships) to upgrade their capabilities.

December 6th 1943- First German guided ALS is unveiled. Designed to be cheap due to budget constrains, many said it was a copy of the Russian Flute, but they can’t be farther of the truth. While sharing the same guidance system almost by chance with the Russian one the range was shorter than the Russian’s at 5000’ and only capable of defeating armour up to 250mm and many blamed that on the independent research done by the German engineers. Lacking the experience of the Russian engineers in regard to ALS missiles this missile was inferior to the Russians’ one but being cheap to made was produced in large quantities, even being exported to the British Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and ten more nations.

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:04 PM

1944

1944 Quentin Roosevelt expands the Roosevelt Institute, his non-profit organization, in include bringing technological progress and prosperity to destitute areas of the country and the world.

March 13, 1944 - Mustafa Kemal is elected to a second term as president of the Turko-Arabic Federation.

June 6, 1944 -- Dr. Louise Carson, of the Mellon Institute, publishes Correlation and Causality between Air Pollution, Plant Growth, and Development. Its shocking conclusions about the negative health effects of air pollution spur a lively debate about pollution control.

June 9th 1944- The first German Imperial aircraft carrier is laid down on this date. A 34,000 ton ship capable of reaching 35 knots and carrying 50 modified fighters and bombers, the funds for the construction were allowed after the Dutch delegates assured the Imperial government that they will take care of a large part of the cost of construction. The ship was ordered to the Far East after commission in 1949.

June 18th 1944- Disillusioned with his life and trying to find some meaning to it, Adolf Hitler II ask for a leave for absence of his job as an instructor in the Austrian military academy.

Summer 1944- By now the demobilization of the last remaining Territorial units was completed, with the British Empire now being forced to garrison their Empire with eight infantry divisions, two armored ones, two armored brigades and one airmobile division. The new government considered that major wars were over and they could rely in the Territorial divisions to deal with any emergency.

summer 1944- Heinz Guderian, former commander of the 1st Panzer Corps, relieves Erwin Rommel as chief of the advisor mission to China. Rommel returned to Germany, promoted to the position of deputy Chief of Staff. Guderian continued his predecessor’s agenda in regard to create a professional Chinese army. He also agreed that only the United States had the industrial capacity to equip the Chinese military and purchases of US equipment need to be continued if feasible.

July 1, 1944: Rosario Contreras scores an unexpected hit by putting a little blues and country twist on the rhythm-heavy flamenco classic, La Bamba. The song stays at #1 on the singles chart for 12 weeks, a new record.

July 7th 1944- A secret military and trade agreement is reached between Imperial Japan and Russia. They pledged to share weapon research and equipment plus tariff-free trade between both nations.

August 7th 1944- Charlemagne Peralte regains the presidency of Haiti after an attempted coup fails in Port-au-Prince but decapitated the leadership of the Gendermerie. He took advantage of the situation to march from Cap Haitien to the capital and take control of the nation.

September 6th 1944- Former Home Secretary under Churchill, Robert Butler, is elected Prime Minister in a Conservative government barely beating Cripps. Many considered the slower recovery from the post-war recession in comparison to Germany and the United States was the cause of Cripps’ defeat.

September 14th 1944- Following the specifications of the Austro-Hungarian government, who wanted a well armed fighter to deal with the heavy bomber being produced in Russia and Ukrainian Russia, the aeroplane division of Skoda comes up with is the SK-1 or heavy fighter one. The aeroplane division of Skoda opened after the Global War with the former Hansa-Brandeburg designer Andy Messerschmitt. Having a turret on the tail was a very noticeable feature but it served their purpose for the rest for the decade. While being very fast, this speed was sacrificed at the expense of fuel economy. The range was very short, only 350 miles but the maximum speed was 400mph and it was a very well armed aircraft with four 7.92mm machineguns on the wings and a dual 20mm turret on the back. With a crew of two, it later used as a night fighter where it also performed very well.

September 18th 1944- The B-14 bomber began it’s service with the USAAC. The largest aircraft even build until them; it was specifically designed to carry the new atomic weapons to their designated targets. While slow at only 265mph the range was an incredible at the time 4,200 miles carrying over 18,000-pound payload. Armed for protection with five .50 caliber machineguns, six .30 caliber machineguns and two 30mm cannons on the tail turret.

September 30th 1944- Respected British diplomat William Henry Pratt is named Foreign Minister on the Robert Butler’s cabinet. Pratt, a grandson of a women of Anglo-Indian ancestry, was considered a friend of India. In his impressive resume were the positions of Ambassador to Japan (1927- 1932) and to the United States (1934- 1939). (OTL Boris Karloff)

Fall 1944- The Royal Indian Army memo reports the current size of ten infantry divisions, two mounted cavalry brigades and one armored brigade plus ten independent Gurkha regiments is enough to deal with any current or future threat to the Dominion for the time being. While the divisions were matched according to their postings, with many being trained for mountain combat or just like the 2nd Division being light infantry, at least four divisions were fully motorized and another two partially motorized.

October 1st to 7th 1944- The Boston Blue Sox win the pennant in a playoff game against the New York Yankees and went on to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4 games to 1. With a pitching rotation led by Joe Kersey (17-13-2.49-0), Bob Martin (13-8-3.01-1) and Tom Paltry (19-7-2.83-0) plus the excellent relieve pitching of Rob Crawford (6-6-2.44-17) they made up for a so-so offense that only counted with the incredible bat of the Leadership Award winner Tom Watson (.369-25-127) to lead their way in the offense. Still they beat the Pirates by the excellent pitching performances of their rotation during the Series, with two shutouts on the Series by the Blue Sox pitchers.

October 22nd 1944- Boeing’s P-18 makes their debut. While the proposed purchase of the P-18 by the US Army Air Corps failed to occur, with the AAC deciding instead for the Roosevelt Aviation Falcon V, the P-18 found a niche in the air forces of at least ten nations including Ethiopia, Argentina and China. Trying to achieve the same range as the Japanese A5M, the aircraft unusual design shows their attempts of doing so. With three engines, one in the fuselage and one at each wingtip, the aircraft was capable of a range of 800 miles and speed of 420mph but unfortunately this engine arrangement resulted in poor handling during dogfights. The armament was very impressive with four 20mm guns and pylons to use rockets on the wings.

November 1944 Bolstered by peace, a prosperous economy, and membership in the nuclear club, President Roosevelt is re-elected to the Presidency by a wide margin.

November 1944- Roberto “Tio Beto” Diaz Leon wins a fifth term in uncontested elections. By now both the Dominican and Puerto Rican governments are distancing themselves of the even more reactionary Cuban government while separate resistance movements began to appear in the provinces of Santiago and Oriente. The nation economy was fairly strong but by now a large part of the budget was been utilized for the repression of the Cuban people.

December 9th 1944- The British First Lord reports the construction of the twelve ship Dido class of AA cruisers. They had a displacement of 10,000 tons and capable of going at a maximum speed of 30 knots. Their armament was two triple 6” main guns forward and two dual Arrow missile launchers. The Arrow missile was capable of destroying enemy aircrafts at high altitudes and was very similar to the American Bulldog missile.

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:05 PM

1945

1945 - Adolph Hitler Sr. becomes Chancellor of the Austrian Empire after the Pan-Teutonic Party gains the plurality of seats in the legislature.

1945 - A new leader arises among the Romanians in Wallachia by the name of Ion Petrescu. In contrast to previous attempts to resist the Austrian authorities using violence, he instead promulgates civil disobedience.

1945 Gas-Electric hybrid engines manage enough power development to allow for their placement in landships, greatly increasing their fuel efficiency and thus maximum range without resupply.

February 1945 -- One of Ernest Hemingway's friends at Negro Abroad convinces Hemingway to attend the International Mexican Rugby Tournament. For the 10th time in 14 years, the championship game comes down to Mobile versus a South Mexican team. Hemingway's collected stories on the tournament, A Mobile Boy in Mexico, become his most successful work in years.

February 1945- Chiang Kai-Shek reelected President of China. During his second term the modernization process of the military continued but the reduction of the size of the military created certain friction with the growing unemployed officer ranks. Even when the GNP of the nation was increasing, a large part was being used either to increase the military hardware production or to fund the forces fighting the growing insurgency problems in IndoChina.

February 19th 1945- The Roosevelt Aviation Falcon V began to be issued to the US military. A truly revolutionary design, using a pusher-prop, a rear mounted engine and a rear wing design that defeated his competition the P-18 in everything but in range. With a speed of 450mphs and an armament of eight rockets, two .30 caliber machine guns and two 40mm cannons mounted in the nose it was also the first fighter to have their own radar set on board. But as always, the design has it’s problems. The range was mediocre at best, only being around 400 miles; the design caused problems at low speeds and had an unusually high stall speed

March 6th 1945- United States decides to go their way in regard to man-portable armour gauntlets, designing an 84mm recoilless weapon to be used in the same niche as the Russian ones. Using a rifled barrel to spin-stabilize the rounds it was superior to the first generation of Russian armour gauntlets, with a range of 700 meters against stationary targets and 400 meters against mobile ones. Also the penetration was very good, capable of penetrating 400mm of armour. This weapon was sold around the world and was the main armour gauntlet weapon in service during the 1940’s to the 1960’s thru the world.

May 5, 1945 - Eli Wassermann, a brilliant young graduate student at Berlin University, for his PhD thesis isolates the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, Δ¹-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC for short.

May 7th 1945- Tsar Michael of Ukraine Russia announces that Lt. General Zhukov was from that date forward Count Georgy of Kharkov. The Tsar stated that the title was a gift for his years of loyal service “to Mother Russia and me.”

June 17th 1945- Lt. General Bela Ferenc Blasko announces his retirement from the Honved and entered politics.

June 26th 1945- Cuban president Roberto Diaz Leon is assassinated while returning from his mistress house on his automobile. The assassins are never identified but they are suspected to be disgruntled members of the MSB.

June 29th 1945- Chaos ensues in Havana and other major cities when news of the death of “Tio Beto” are made public. A power struggle started between the different factions of the former president’s government while the opposition in the provinces announced their intentions to take over power.

July 2nd 1945- President Espaillat of the Dominican Republic send a note to US president Roosevelt asking him to act before “Cuba goes the way of Haiti.”

July 5th 1945- After emergency consultations with his staff, President Roosevelt approves “Operation Scabbards” in conjunction with the nations of the Santiago Accord.

July 8th 1945- First Russian S-7 helicopters delivered to Japan were they are used as cargo transports by the Imperial Fleet. They received the designation as T1S, or helicopter land-based number one used by the Japanese Navy build by Sikorsky.

July 11th 1945- Operation Scabbards is launched two weeks after the assassination of President Diaz Leon in Cuba. By now the city of La Havana is on chaos, with MSB and army troops fighting on the streets while the rest of the country wasn't in better shape. The 77th Airmobile division is dropped on the La Havana airport south of the city while the 10th Infantry Division (Negro) is landed on the beaches near the hotels. Meanwhile a joint Dominican-US Marines force is landed near Santiago while another Marine Brigade is landed in Matanzas. All operations went flawless during the first day, with resistance been minimal due to the shock of the Cubans.

July 12th 1945- The airport is declared secured while the 10th Infantry defeats some resistance in the Presidential Palace and in the National Capitol and by the 14th they declared the city of Havana secured. Further east Matanzas was also declared secured.

July 14th 1945- Battle of the Moncada Barracks. Last remaining troops of the Cuban Army resisting the landings in Santiago were eliminated in an assault by Dominican troops. The battle was a very bloody for the standards of this operation but true heroes emerged on both sides, tragically both of them died. On one side; CSM Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of the Dominican Army led his battalion in capturing the main building of the Arsenal but suffered wounds that resulted on his dead while Cuban Senior Sergeant Fabricio Batista dies leading a suicidal charge over overwhelming odds and is remembered still in Cuba as the “Heroic Taino.”

August 1945- In Cuba the arrival of US troops (around four army divisions and one Marine) plus Dominican and Puerto Rican troops helped to calm the situation on the island and by the end of the month the nation was on the way to normalization. It was announced later in the month a provisional government under exiled politician Jose Guzman Torres was going to take charge of the day to day affairs and elections were going to be celebrated by the middle of next year.

September 13th 1945- Argentina orders 300 P-18 fighters from Boeing Corporation. They were delivered in batches of 100 a year with the last ones delivered late in 1947.

Fall 1945 - The Austrian Federal Government makes German the official language for the entire Empire.

October 1945- With the situation in Cuba beginning to return to normal President Roosevelt announces the US troops were returning home except for the 10th Division for the time being. Also on this month the Dominicans and Puerto Rican troops began leaving Cuba.

October 1st to 9th 1945- The New York Yankees win their first World Series since 1936, led by Mickey Marble's second Triple Crown in the last four years. With the pitching of 38 year old Max Gomez (15-5-3.74-0), 35 year old Rodrigo Amador (21-7-3.31-0) and 28 year old Hank Baxter (21-7-2.57) leading the staff and the hitting of Leadership Award winner Mickey Marble (.371-56-155), leftfielder Al Serrano (.298-31-100 with 30 stolen bases) and rookie 23 year old outfielder Luis Olmo (.309-18-109 with 21 stolen bases) this Yankee team won the pennant by seven games over last year champions and defeated the Los Angeles Zapatistas 4 games to 2.

November 1945 -- After reaching a trademark agreement with The Baltimore Saints and Major League offices, the Philadelphia A's change their name to the Philadelphia Phillies.

November 1945- Filipino president Roxas wins the reelection in a very close election against former president Ramos of the Unitarian Party. With the economy suffering due to trade with their neighbors being curtailed by the effects of the Global War the popularity of Roxas suffered accordingly.

November 1945 to March 1946- German and Austro-Hungarian scientists work together to create the Gelfaschter Mond, the first artificial satellite

November 17th 1945- The lack of suitable armour in the AAV’s plus the lack of defensive weapons was the main concern in the post-actions reports of the Cuban operation and the beginning of the second generation vehicles started in earness. By the end of the decade over a 1,000 of the AAV-2’s were in the Marines’ order of battle and production of an export model began in late 1951.

December 9th 1945- George Patton named Army Chief of Staff of the United States by President Theodore Roosevelt Jr . The hero of the Battle of Minsk, he was a believer in motorization and a supporter of President Roosevelt’s order desegregating US military units. During his tenure three more Regular Army infantry divisions were fully motorized, raising the total of motorized divisions to seven out of ten, and the US cavalry divisions began the transition from M3A1 landships to M4A1 ones.

December 14th 1945- Adolf Hitler II leaves Tel Aviv after staying over a year there trying to get closer to his Jewish roots. He met David ben Gurion while being on that city and he was converted into the Zionist movement by that man during his stay in the largest Jewish city in Palestine. He received a letter of recommendation from ben Gurion himself to find work in the Jewish city of Salonika, Hitler trying to hide his relationship to the Austrian Empire Chancellor.

December 16th 1945- Russia explodes their first atomic bomb in Siberia.

December 1945- A new heat resistant material is found by German scientist Karl Mascher

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:05 PM

1946

1946 - Figueres and the National Unity Party win Costa Rican elections, defeating opposition candidate Rafael Ángel del Socorro Calderón Guardia.

1946: Rosario "Roosevelt" Contreras, Jacob "Chinee" Gillespie, and Bailey "One Eye" Robinson come out with albums that come to define the early "Gulf sound" that springs from New Orleans to eventually become the most popular musical form in the world. Gulf music combines soul, country, and folk-Mexican influences. Its unique features are a backbeat that "rocks and rolls", and a highly energetic style of play that lends itself well to the new "electric" instruments that plug right into amplifiers. Unusual nicknames seem part of the genre. "Chinee" Gillespie is so named because his half-Black, half-Bahai Persian ancestry makes him look (to Dixie eyes) Chinese. Bailey "One Eye" Robinson is so named because he nearly went blind from glaucoma as a child, and tends to squint through his right eye. One Eye's vision was saved, albeit barely, by copious amounts of marijuana, resulting in a habit that will haunt him later in life.

1946- Another attempt to abolish the 1917 Drug Laws fails to achieve the necessary votes. Same reasons as in 1933. By now Marijuana products were exported to Europe and around the world while Coca-Cola was turning into the most recognizable name in the face of the Earth. Further attempts to amend the Laws failed until the opposition changed tactics in the late 1970's.

January 17th 1946- Last US troops leave Cuba after the island nation was declared stable with no know violent acts since early October. The 10th Infantry returned to their home base in the Seattle area.

February 1946 - The German and Austrian Federated Empires sign a landmark trade agreement designed to form the two and their territories into a single free trade block. This move was in part spurred by the successful economic recovery seen in the British Imperial Preference system, and in part by the desires for closer ties between 'Teutonic' nations promulgated by the Pan-Teutonists.

February 1946- With the reports of the good performance of the American 77th Division in Cuba, the British decided to raise another airmobile division, a first line territorial. The division elected was the 52nd Infantry Division.

February 5th 1946- With relations with China still chilly, Manchurian military is forced to rely more and more in Russian and Japanese weapons to improve their military. On this date it was announced that Manchuria agreed to purchase 300 Ivan the Great landships and 400 halftrack troop carriers over two years. These vehicles were used to convert the 9th Infantry Division into the 9th Armored Division in 1949.

February 17th 1946- The US Navy atomic capable aircraft is unveiled. The A-2 Sparrow was very fast, capable of 420mph with a payload of 12,000 pounds and a range of 1000 miles, but more important it was capable of being deployable by the new class of carriers being completed at the time by the US Navy.

March 12th 1946- Russia announces they now have nuclear weapons but that they were only defensive in nature and no threat should be implied by their announcement.

March 21st 1946- The First Lord of the Admiralty announces that a eight-ship carrier class, the Arn Class, were going to be laid down on the summer. The ships with a displacement of 30,000 tons, a speed of 32 knots and carrying 60 aircrafts were the largest carriers build by the British Navy until the supercarriers of the late 1960's and the first carriers build with armored decks since the Victorious in 1937. The First Lord also announced the old carrier Argus was being decommissioned at the end of the year.

March 22nd 1946- British Prime Minister Robert Butler, after consulting with the German Chancellor Theodor Heuss and his Austro-Hungarian counterpart Adolf Hitler, announced that while distraught by the Russian announcement his nation and the Central Powers will not go to war with the Russian government due to their violation of the Treaty of Stockholm. Still he requested the Parliament to put economic sanctions to Russia. While many considered Hitler was ready to go to war, the more liberal and anti-war Heuss considered it was too dangerous and Butler finally relented.

May 27th 1946- Wendell Wilkie dies from a heart attack. The former President of the United States is replaced as chairman of the Organization for the Betterment of Africa by former Secretary of the Interior during his administration Cordell Hull.

Spring 1946 - The Austrian Federal Government passes legislation requiring all schools in the Empire to teach in German, and for Teutonic Culture and Mythology classes to be a mandatory part of the curriculum for all levels of education.

April 1946- The last excess divisions are mustered out in Germany. By now the German Heer consisted of four Panzer Divisions equip with the Panzer II and with the Panzer III already being develop, the two Guards divisions, six Bavarian divisions, two Saxon divisions, twelve infantry divisions and two mountain divisions. All the divisions except the mountain ones were fully motorized. The German Heer of 1946 was the only armed force using a self-loading medium size caliber round rifle as their service weapon and copies of the Russian designed armor gauntlet acquired from Ukrainian Russia were ready for general issue by the end of the year.

Summer 1946 - Ion Petrescu and several of his followers are arrested by Austrian authorities for disrupting classes in German and Teuton culture by walking through the classes singing Romanian folk songs in Romanian. The American and British press pick up on the story and make him something of a celebrity.

August 1946- The Gelfaschter Mond is launched.

August 1946- Jose Guzman Torres wins the Cuban presidential elections. He created a unity government, with moderate members of the past administration and opposition leaders of the rule of “Tio Beto” working together to normalize the nation. The first years were difficult but by the end of his first administration a working agreement has been reached by all factions and the nation began to move forward in a peaceful way. One of the first actions of the new Cuban Congress was to pass a Presidential term limit bill that only allowed the President to be reelected once, a response to the “Tio Beto” years.

August 12, 1946 - Due to pressures from beer and wine manufacturers and prohibitionist lobbies, Federal Legislation is passed in the US limiting the amount of THC that may be present by weight in marijuana products.

September 1946-The Rakete Kapsel, a metal capsule plated with Mascher's heat-resistant material that will hold a man inside and be sent into space by a rocket, began to be develop on this date. A working prototype will be ready by October of 1948.

September 9th 1946- President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8973 that effectively eliminated segregated units by ensuring equal treatment and opportunity in the armed forces to all races. By the end of the decade over 90% of the US forces were fully desegregated and completely integrated by 1955.

October 1st to 5th 1946- New York Yankees win their second consecutive World Series by sweeping the Buffalo Braves 4 games to none. Led again by the hitting of Mickey Marble (.347-49-124), Luis Olmo (.294-20-97 with 15 stolen bases) plus new arrival Cuban third baseman Orestes Miñoso (.324-10-79 with 31 stolen bases) together with the pitching of Hank Baxter (23-6-2.48-0), Max Gomez (10-3-1.98-18) and Rodrigo Amador (18-9-3.42-0) the Yankees barely won the pennant in one of the closest pennant runs in the Continental League in many years. 36-year-old leftfielder Al Serrano (.298-17-69 with 25 stolen bases) has his first sub-par season in his fourteen-year career and many in the front office considered his skills were eroding.

November 1946- Luis Muñoz Marin is reelected for a third term as President of Puerto Rico. By now the economy of the island was finally booming after the end of the world recession thanks to the change to manufacturing coupled with the continued sale of their excellent coffee in the European markets. Still the events in Cuba were used in the campaign as a scare tactic by the opposition, resulting in the Presidential Term Limit bill of 1947, that barely pass both Houses and was not vetoed by the President to ensure his nation he was nothing like the deceased Cuban leader. His good will tour to both Mexicos and the Central American nations in 1948 is considered one of the reasons of the expansion of the Santiago Accords.

November 1946- Ramon Tapia Espinal elected President of the Dominican Republic. During his term he supported the attempts of the Puerto Rican president to expand the Santiago Accords to other Caribbean Basin nations but he considered the United States was “a necessary evil” if they desire to expand. “The United States will never let us grow if they are not included in any arrangement made by the nations in the Caribbean,” he stated in an interview to a British reporter in 1948. On the local front the economic development continued but with the normalization of the situation in Europe the flow of new arrivals basically ended.

November 1946: Ted Landry is elected congressmen from Michigan, where he becomes a strong supporter of Roosevelt and his partial big government policies.

November 1946: As the post-war boom continues, the Ethiopian economy hits a GDP of $4,000/capita, blowing past France. The Senate swiftly passes a bill authorizing parades and celebrations for "the Negro economic miracle."

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:07 PM

1947

January 7th 1947- The three ships of the new Kaiser Class enter service in the German Kriegsmarine. The aircraft carrier name was changed to Deutschland so that all three ships could be named in honor of the Wilhelms. To keep with the cutbacks the old Kaiser Class, over thirty years old were finally decommissioned and sold for scrap.

January 17th 1947- The first Automatic Enfield Rifle or AER made his debut with the Royal Marines. The rifle was of the bullpup layout, with the magazine and the barrel chamber behind the trigger guard and pistol handle. It was a very well balanced and laid out rifle, accurate, reliable, capable of firing both in semi and auto fire with a 20 round magazine, using non-adjustable optical sights for aiming but has emergency iron ones. The AER served with the British forces for over thirty years before being replaced by the AER-2 in 1979.

February 12th 1947- China began to build a license copy of the Mauser 98 and the MP-25 to standardize the small arms of the Chinese Army.

March 12th 1947- British Foreign Minister William Pratt tried to revive Wilkie’s initiative of a world organization but found no interest except for the US.

Spring 1947- Lt. General Guderian announces that 16 Chinese infantry divisions will be permanently send to 1st line reserve duty, with their equipment being kept in depots in 16 major cities to ease mobilization concerns. Also he announced the purchase of 600 American M3A1 landships, enough to raise two more armored divisions.

May 18th 1947- United States announces their replacement to the bolt action Springfield 1903 service rifle, the Springfield 1947. It was a gas-operated selective fire 20 round magazine fed rifle that was well liked by the US troopers that used it during the 1950's, being sold to at least 15 countries during the next 20 years and designed around the 7.62x51mm round. The rifle was the only one of the new generation not following the German idea of putting a pistol handle like in submachine-guns and many said it was the reason it was replaced by the Remington 1961.

June 9th 1947- Chile is the first nation to receive the export version of the Roosevelt Aviation Falcon V fighter. With 250 ordered, they lack the onboard MWD unit and they replaced it with a less quality Russian one in late 1949.

June 13, 1947 - Boston Airport is renamed Governor Roger Wolcott International Airport as a large-scale expansion and renovation of the twenty-year-old facility ends.

June 17th 1947- The United States announces the construction of a six-ship AA cruiser class, the Indianapolis Class, the first class of ships only carrying missiles instead of guns. Carrying three Bulldog AA missiles launchers and 45 reloads the ships were designed to be attached to the carrier task forces and to complement the Boxer class battlecruisers in the AA role for the fleet.

August 1947 -- The Pennsylvania Legislature's first attempt to regulate air pollution collapses over concerns about the "balloon effect", where dirty businesses will simply move across the state border.

August 9th 1947- Second-Generation Russian armour gauntlets made their appearance. Similar to the original ones, the only change was the grenade was now a 93mm one. Accurate now to 300 meters against mobile targets and capable of defeating up to 330mm of armour, this weapon was standard issue to the armies of Northern Russia, Japan, Manchuria and some Latin American nations during the 1940‘s and in some cases until the 1970‘s. Also was the favorite weapon of the Unified Islamic Army during the Arabian War, being used to good effect versus British and Turko-Arabic landships.

September 23, 1947 - The Costa Rican military stages a coup to put Rafael Calderon in San Jose. He declines the position, and is forced to flee with Figueres to Cartago, where they form the Costa Rican Legion. The military takes direct control of Costa Rica, and then places all of Costa Rica's provinces under military control.

September 29, 1947 - Daniel Figueres is assassinated by a military assassin.

October 1, 1947 - The Republic of Central America announces that it is against the coup, and offers to aid the Costa Rican Legion with troops. They decline the offer of troops, but do buy weapons.

October 1st to 10th 1947- The Pittsburgh Pirates won a last hurrah for their veteran first baseman/coach Fenn Leonard (.255-7-19), retiring as an active player after the season, by beating the Toronto Blue Jays 4 games to 3. The Pirates brought forward a new generation of Negro players to follow the steps of Judy Johnson and Fenn Leonard, making possible for them to continue the dynasty started in the early 40’s to continue well into the late 1950. Negro rookies second baseman Larry Walker (.301-14-66) and third baseman Curt Thompson (.289-20-91) plus three year outfielder Merrill Irvin (.299-15-89 and 12 stolen bases) together with new acquisitions 34 year old first baseman Art Trojovski (.295-25-93) and 37 year old outfielder Al Serrano (.278-15-75 with 21 stolen bases) led a very balanced offense into victory. Many consider the trades with the Cajuns and the Yankees as one of the reasons of their victory in 1947 but some of the minor league players given in the trade, like outfielders Woody Hertz and Dennis Ennis that went to the Cajuns and pitcher Delmont Newcombe to the Yankees, went on to have very long and productive careers in the majors.

October 11th 1947- First of the four ship class Wake Island carrier laid up by the United States. With a weight of 68,000 tons and with a maximum speed of 33 knots they were designed to carry nuclear capable aircrafts and as such their complement was small, 12 bombers and 54 escorts. One interesting feature of the class was the lack of an island on the deck, a necesity due to the size of the original bombers.

October 14, 1947 - The Costa Rican Legion finally enters battle when the San Jose Government attempts to seize Cartago. Taking heavy casualties, the Legion holds and begins to push the military back.

October 17, 1947 - Groups allied with the Costa Rican Legion overthrow the military governor of Limon peacefully.

Winter 1947- Chinese government announces the beginning of the construction of their first home build landship. The model 47 was in reality a copy of the American M2A1 armored car and it was considered a transitory model to allow the Chinese industries to acquire experience in building landships. By the end of 1949 enough of them has been build to raise three armored divisions.

November 1947- China receives the first of 300 purchased Boeing P-18 fighters that transformed into the bulk of the Chinese fighter force during the 1950’s.

December 1, 1947 - San Jose falls after heavy fighting. Jose Figueres is made President of Costa Rica. He moves the capital to Cartago due to the damage San Jose took, and to honor Cartago for supporting the Legion.

December 17th 1947- Boston Blue Sox acquire Naps speedster Wally Moses and two minor leaguers for journeyman pitcher Al Heineman and third baseman Sid Gordon.

December 25, 1947 - Costa Rica and Central America sign a landmark trade agreement that ends nearly a half-century of animosity.

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:08 PM

1948

1948-George Herbert Walker Bush graduates from Yale and decided to take a career in investment banking like his dad. He continues to drink heavily.

February 15th 1948- The United States began the construction of a three ship class concept “mini-carriers”, designed to be used to support Marine Expeditionary Operations similar to the 1945 Operation in Cuba. The baptist of fire for this small ships was the Marine landings in Haiti during the 1952 operation together with the nations of the Santiago Accord to end over forty years of chaos in that island. The small ships with only a displacement of 9,000 tons, carrying 18 aircrafts but very fast at 34 knots, were a fixture on the Caribbean for over forty years, all ending their careers later as part of the fleets of South Mexico and Puerto Rico in the late 1990’s.

April 17th 1948- Adolph Hitler II announces his conversion to Zionism to his father after returning from traveling to Salonika and Jerusalem, where he met zionist leader David ben Gurion. He surprised his father by announcing him he was learning Hebrew and was moving to Salonika to help in achieving a Jewish state. His father was furious and they never talked to each other after this meeting.

April 18th 1948- Lt. General Michael Skorzeny named commander of the 1st Corps of the Austrian Heer. Composed of his former command the Guards Division, the 1st Uhlan and the 1st Dragoon Divisions, this units were considered the first line divisions of the Austrian Heer and an honor to the new commander.

March 12th 1948 - President Theodore Roosevelt Jr. dies of a heart attack, making him the first president to die in office since Henry Cabot Lodge. The nation mourns.

March 17th 1948- Japan explodes their first atomic bomb in the Palau islands. The Japanese team, led by Yoshio Nishina and Hideki Yukawa, accomplished this after ten years of secret preparations.

March 9th 1948- US Navy purchases the Wright Shark to equip their carrier fighter squadrons. The first composite propulsion aircraft, it could be considered a failure and they were phased out of active duty by 1953. Slower than the British Fury, at 426 mph and with a weaker armament than the Japanese A5M with only eight .50 machine guns as main armament, the Shark wasn’t a popular aircraft at all but now is considered an important step in the development of the current aircrafts.

Summer 1948- Recently appointed German Chief of Staff Erwin Rommel recall Guderian to Germany to take over his former position as Deputy Chief of Staff. By now the position in China began to be seen as a stepping stone to reach the leadership of the German Army and it was a highly sought position. In his last report Guderian stated that the present size of the Chinese Army; 19 motorized divisions, 13 infantry, 8 armored divisions, 15 motorized brigades and 2 mountain brigades, was adequate but small changes could be performed in this order of battle if necessary.

May 7th 1948- The Socialist Republic of Italy announces they will merge with the Provencal Socialist Republic, taking the name of the Provencal Union. The announcement took by surprise the French government, caught in negotiations with Provence themselves.

September 22nd 1948- The Royal Indian Army announced that instead of taking the British AER as their new service rifle they were ready to issue a homegrown service rifle designed around the 7x43mm round by the Indian and British engineers in Ishapore Rifle Factory. The Indian National Rifle, or the national for short, was a twenty round magazine fed selective fire similar in shape to German service rifle instead of taking the bullpup approach. It was a very succesfull weapon but had a shorter life than the AER, being replaced by the Indian version of the AER by 1971.

October 1st to 9th 1948- The Cleveland Naps beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4 games to 2 for their first championship since 1943. With fireballer veteran Bill Feller (22-8- 3.50 and 210 strikeouts), second year pitcher Lloyd Jensen (18-12-3.61), Bernie Koslowski (11-14-2.50-4) and a journeyman pitcher having his best season in the majors by the name Al Heineman (17-10-3.02) leading the pitching during the Series the Naps took care of the hitting of the Pirates, who only hit for a .190 average for the Series. The Naps hitting was led by batting champ third baseman Mac Robinson (.349-16-125 with 39 stolen bases), four year player outfielder Willie Marshall (.291-36-107) and former Blue Sox third baseman/outfielder Sid Gordon (.299-30-107) who has career highs in homeruns in what it can be considered his best season of his career.

October 16th 1948- Chile orders the construction of an aircraft carrier to the Japanese Empire. The Tacna was completed in early 1952 and was a design completely different to the other ships been built by the Japanese Empire at the time. With a displacement of 14,000 tons, capable of reaching a max speed of 31 knots and with a complement of 30 aircrafts it lacked the armored decks typical of the Japanese designs.

November 1948: Democrat Thomas Pinkney defeats Fiorello LaGuardia becoming the first southern president since Andrew Johnson.

December 19th 1948- Japan laid down two aircraft carriers, the first new capital ships being build since 1938. The ships entered service by 1952 as the Soryu and the Hiryu. The ships were capable of 32 knots and carried 50 aircrafts. They had armored decks and they were the first Japanese ships protected by AA missiles, using the Russian Starburst missile in four batteries.

December 15 1948- Argentina orders six Type VII Submarines from Germany.This is done as both a counter to the news of the Chilean carrier purchase and an attempt to save money.

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:08 PM

1949

January 14th 1949- First Japanese A6M fighters enter service in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The A6M was the first aircraft designed as a flying wing. Using two engines facing to the rear plus flaps on the leading and trailing wing edges the A6M can reach a service ceiling of 50,000 feet and had a fearsome weapon payload of two 50mm and two 70mm cannons plus either MWD led rockets or conventional ones. While slower to the current designs of the era at 450 mph, it has been considered the last of the great prop fighters. It was replaced by the A7M in the late 1950’s.

February 1949- President Chiang is defeated by a coalition of the industrialist and disgusted military officers led by Field Marshall Zhu De, at the time commander of the Chinese forces fighting the insurgency in their new provinces and a hero of the Global War who receives the command of the National Chinese Army from the new president Kung Hsiang-hsi. One of the first acts of the new administration was to announce further reductions of the size of the military were cancelled and that the forces fighting the insurgents in Tonkin will receive priority to achieve their final purpose. Also he brought back many social programs eliminated by the Chiang administration in an attempt to raise the standards of education of the Chinese population in general, with the idea to create a better work force able to cope with the changing post-war World.

February 9th 1949- Prime Minister Yamashita of Japan announces the process of integration is showing progress, with the remaining natives in the Outer Territories and in Karafuto fully integrated into the Empire.

February 17th 1949- First Spanish RA-1 rifles entered production. Cheap and easily to produce, they were designed by emigre French arm designers during the 1940’s and were the main battle rifle of Spanish military forces until the 1970’s. Sold mainly to Latin America, China, South Africa, the nations of the Socialist Bloc and Portugal, they were preferred by that nations due to their price compared with the German, British and American designs available on the markets. With a caliber of 7.62 x 51mm, it was a semi auto rifle with an integral ten round magazine but nothing revolutionary about if compared with the British and German rifles, being closer to the US Springfield-47 in shape.

March 5th 1949- Cleveland Naps acquire Bradley Slaughter from the Los Angeles Zapatistas for two players. Slaughter, a good contact hitter and defender, was acquired to play centerfield to try to solidify the team defense.

March 19th 1949- South Russia began construction of their first aircraft carrier, the Canopus. With a displacement of 15,000 tons, a max speed of 30 knots and capable of carrying 36 aircrafts it changed the balance of power in the Black Sea after completed in 1953.

April 1949 - Mustafa Kemal steps down from the Presidency after two terms in office.

April 16th 1949- First Panzer III landships entered service with the German Heer, the Austrian Federated Empire Armies and the British Royal Army in the first important sign of the growing cooperation between the former allies of the Global War. While in Great Britain it received the name of Conqueror, it was basically the same vehicle in all three countries. It was a sign of cooperation, using a suspension of British origin and the armament was a German designed 105mm gun with a coaxial 20mm rapid fire gun for use against soft skinned targets. Tipping the scale at 52 tons and with a maximum road speed of 40 miles per hour, it was slower than the Panzer I but it had comparable speeds to the vehicle it replaced and it was the covered by 120mm armor on the sides and front and 160mm on the turret.

April 22, 1949 -- Freddy Ball makes his first on-screen appearance in 11 years, once again with a controversial box office hit: "Love versus Virginia." Ball plays the segregationist mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia, who is horrified to discover that his daughter seeks to marry a Black William & Mary student, played by Paul Robeson, Jr. Robeson becomes the first Black man to win Best Actor; Ball receives the NAACP's lifetime achievement award.

May 1949- The first man into space is German Air force sargent Adolpus Maeger.

May 1949: Rosario Contreras releases Sarah, the first "concept album" in gulf music. Although the concept -- all the songs are about his wife -- is rather simple compared to the complex masterpieces that will dominate gulf music in the 1970s, it wins over critics and becomes the first gulf music album ever to win a Note Award.

May 17th 1949- Germany began construction of a new carrier to replace the Deutschland. The new carrier was completed by late 1952 and was considered almost a copy to the first German-build carrier.

July 1949
Pennsylvania Railroad completes testing of its tilting-train designs. It settles on model BX-13, rechristened the Hammock.

July 4th 1949- Leon Blum fails in his attempts to reunify the secessionist French provinces, finally accepting a free trade and a defensive agreement between France, the Brittany and the Provencal Union.

August 1949: Bainbridge Colby, now a very old and mostly forgotten man writes "The True Party" which criticizes Hearst for destroying both the Democratic Party and the Progressive movements. He presents well researched and logical arguments pointing to corruption connecting Hearst, Seymour, Senator Gatling, and other political figures in a web of lies. He claims that they formed the ultimate political machine. At the time his work was dismissed by critics as the pessimistic work of a cynical old man.

August 2, 1949: Juliet Cabot Lodge, daughter of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. is born.

Fall 1949- China began to build a licensed copy of the German Panzer II landship. The vehicle proved to be too difficult to build for the Chinese industries due to lack of experience and design problems and the production need to be supplemented by the purchase of 150 German Panzer II’s. By the end of 1950 these vehicles made possible to replace the landships of the 3rd Armored Division by newer models, while the older ones were used to build two independent armored brigades.

October 1st to 6th 1949- Cleveland Naps win their second consecutive World Series by beating the Staten Islands Bridges 4 games to 1. The Naps, after winning 103 games the season before, were heavily pressed to win this time due to the injuries and slumps to the pitching and offensive stars. Using 12 different starters and no player hitting over 26 homeruns they still played good enough to beat the competition on their way to the Series. Outfielder Sid Gordon (.284-26-90), third baseman Mac Robinson (.285-12-85 with 32 stolen bases) and Willie Marshall (.307-12-70) had sub-par seasons on the hitting side while Al Heineman (6-11-4.29-2), Lloyd Jensen(15-16-3.85-0) and Bernie Koslowski (8-10-3.87-3) had the same problem in the pitching side. But thanks to good pitching performances by Bill Feller (26-5-2.18 with 329 strikeouts) and veteran journeyman turned into full time reliever 32 year old Jim Kowalski (16-7-2.66-22) leading the league in saves on the first year it was tabulated as an official stat the pitching did OK while outfielder Bradley Slaughter (.336-13-96) performed to his accustomed numbers and rookie Ed Zernial (.318-7-38) played the three outfield positions and first baseman to be a revelation for the team.

November 1949 Popular philanthropist Quentin Roosevelt is elected Governor of New York.

November 28th 1949- Outfielder/first baseman Ed Zernial is traded by the Cleveland Naps to the Chicago White Sox where he went to have two good offensive seasons and led the team to two second place finish on the Continental League.

December 28, 1949: Former President and media magnet William Randolph Hearst dies. His funeral recieves wide publicity. The Hearst foundation continues to run a wide circulation. Charles Seymour is becomes a member of the board to help continue Hearst's political legacy.

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:09 PM

1950

1950- Nicolaus Tornij is born in Alaska to illegal Russian immigrants

January 12 1950- German sells the old carrier Deutschland to Argentina.She is later named the Veinticinco de Mayo.

February 14, 1950 - Austrian Chancellor Adolph Hitler Sr. announces his retirement from government when he also announces he has the early stages of Parkinson's Disease. He wishes to devote the rest of his life to creating 'Teuton inspired' art.

Spring 1950- Chinese landship factories resolved their engineering and production problems, with over 150 of the Model 49 landship entering service a year. By the end of 1951 the landships of the 1st Armored division were replaced by the new vehicles and the old ones were used to raise two more independent brigades.

April 1950- With the end of the “troubles” the former Austro-Hungarian government began to rebuild their armed forces. While the Landwehr, the Common Army and the Honved were allowed to continue their existence it was decided to began a reduction of their numbers plus it was announced a new Slav army was going to be raised.

May 1st 1950- The very first Nicholas II class of landships is seeing in a parade in St. Petersberg. At the time the most advanced landship in the world, by the time it’s frontline service ended in the early 1960’s it has been superseded by other nations’ designs. Tipping the scale at 48 tons, with a crew of four, a 100mm main gun, protected by 200mm of armour and capable of going 30 miles per hour on the road but their main advantage was the very first landship to have a gyro stabilized gun capable of recovering their target faster than any vehicle at the time.

May 13 1950- In responce of Chile's order of a carrier from Japan, Argentina purchases the Langley from the United States. The Independencia, as the ship was renamed after it arrived, tipped the naval balance in power in favor to that of Argentina

June 1950-German and Austro-Hungarian scientists began to develop the multistage rocket Mutter I, the first phase of Project Mond-Landung, which is the joint effort to put men on the moon. A working prototype was ready by February 1952.

June 13, 1950 - The Massachusetts Legislature passes the Railroad Reorganization Act, which completely restructures the leadership of the state Metropolitan Transit Authority. Many of the changes will take the rest of the year to implement before major changes are seen to customers. The law also expands the area of jurisdiction the MTA can operate in, in hopes of eventual expansion of the lines to the South Shore.

July 4, 1950 -- The state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, and New York sign the Sunshine Pact, setting a multi-state standard for the maximum allowable range of a wide array of industrial and automotive pollutants. The Dayton and Pittsburgh-based auto companies ended up supporting the pact when they realized that they could use new technology like "catalytic converters" to reduce emissions, giving them an advantage over the less-advanced automakers in Detroit and abroad.

Fall 1950 - A driven Adolph Hitler Sr. has a large art showing of new paintings and architectual sketches in Vienna. They receive critical acclaim for capturing 'Teutonic' feeling in a surrealistic manner. One of the sketches becomes the design basis for the new Teutonic Arts Center of Vienna.

October 1st to 6th 1950- The New York Yankees win their first pennant since 1946 and the World Series over the Staten Island Bridges 4 games to 1. The team hitting was led by their outfield of Mickey Marble (.301-39-122), Cuban rookie Pedro Centeno (.320-13-70) and Luis Olmo (.287-19-87 with 29 stolen bases) plus the Cuban third baseman Orestes Miñoso (.313-15-104 with 25 stolen bases) and shortstop Vic Lopez (.326-2-51 with 69 stolen bases). The pitching was led by Hank Baxter (12-12- 4.19), Rodrigo Amador (16-12-3.72-2), rookie Mike Ford (10-1-3.12-1), Del Newcombe (19-11-3.70-3) and reliever Joe Parker (3-7-5.04-17)

October 27th 1950- George Patton retires as Army Chief of Staff. He’s replaced in the post by Lt General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Former commander of the 10th Infantry Division (Colored) during the Global War and overall commander of Operation Scabbards in 1945, he was considered a perfect man for the position by many thanks to his proven record as a combat commander and a military observer during his career.

November 1950- Ernesto Ramos Antonini, a protege of President Muñoz Rivera, elected on a landslide as the new President of Puerto Rico. The first Negro President of Puerto Rico, he was a defender of workers’ rights, campaigning for a minimum wage law and a workers compensation law during the next four years. On the international front, he was a supporter of the Haiti action and continued his predecessor’s attempts to increase the size of the member nations of the Santiago Accords.

December 14th 1950- Even after having a good hitting season, Bradley Slaughter (.290-10-101) was traded by the Cleveland Naps to the Detroit Tigers due to according to team officials “a disruptive presence on the team.” Many blamed his segregationist views as the reason of the trade, with the rivalry between him and his Negro teammate Mac Robinson being well known on the team.

December 17th 1950- The Cleveland Naps continued their dismembering of their team by trading disgruntled Mac Robinson to the Yankees for Joe Parker and Luis Olmo. Robinson feuds with Naps teammate Bradley Slaughter were legendary, even with a fist fight between them in late July 1950.

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:10 PM

1951

1951:Jonathan Bush graduates from Yale, and is immediately signed by the St Louis Cardinals as a center fielder, reaching the majors in 1953. He goes on to have a decent career, and unfortunately is addicted to pain killers late in his career.

1951 - The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Massachusetts is massively reorganized. The Tremont Street Subway becomes the Tremont Line and is assigned the color Green. The Elevated network is consolidated and is granted the color Orange. The Harvard Line gains the color Red, and the Harbor Line is given the color Blue. The Fairmount Line is colored yellow.

1951 -- A new pharmaceutical company based in the New Orleans "Research Quarter", Xavier Inc, makes big waves with two major innovations: an oral polio vaccine and a cannabis-based pill that treat the effects of glaucoma.

January 23rd 1951- Japan began the construction of three carriers and four cruisers specially designed to serve as AA platforms, copying the US and British ideas in that regard.

February 17th 1951- Oil is discovered in the Cabinda enclave in Angola, being exploited mainly by settlers.

February 18th 1951- The first of the SSB’s is commissioned. The German submarine Bavaria was one of a six-ship class that carried six nuclear missiles. They were copied fairly fast by the British in 1954 and the Russians and Americans in 1956.

March 1951- A Mexican immigrant, Juan Santos-Medina and Carlota Gomez de Santos-Medina cross the border to the United States

April 7th 1951- After consultations with the United States, the South Mexican government agrees to sign the Santiago Accords, the first nation to join the original signatories.

April 17th, 1951- Javier "El Rayo" Hernandez is purchased by the Los Angeles Zapatistas from a Mexican farm team.

April 18th, 1951- Javier Hernandez plays his first game with the Zapatistas, scoring 2 runs and stealing two bases.

June 11th 1951- Pope Paul VI dies from a heart attack.

July 9th 1951- British government announces that a six-carrier class will be laid down in January of 1952. The ships, being designated as the Africa Class, were designated to be conventional carriers but the decision to change to jet aircraft in the middle 1950’s forced the designers to build a partially angled deck to be used by the new aircrafts. Those changes slowed the completion of the ships, with two of them finally cancelled by the Bevin administration while the other four were completed by late 1958. With an armored deck, a displacement of 30,000 tons, a speed of 32 knots and capable of carrying 50 aircrafts they were very well build ships, comparable to Japanese designs of the 1950’s but still small compared with the larger US carriers of the era.

August 8th 1951- People’s Republic of Italy joins what will later will be called the Socialist Bloc. Mainly a trade union, they were too weak to resist the powers in Europe in the conventional sense but thanks to their cheap but well manufactured consumer items they began to flood world markets.

September 18th 1951- The new United States landship entered service. It was designed in the early 1940’s and by the time it entered service it was already obsolete. Tipping the scale at 58 tons and with a maximum speed of 40 miles per hour it was comparable to the recent Anglo-German Panzer III in that categories but sorely lacking in both armor and weapons to the Panzer III with only 100mm on the sides and 120mm on the turrets plus with a main gun of 90mm with a coaxial 37mm cannon and three .50 machineguns.

October 1951: Quentin Roosevelt declares his intention of running for the presidency of the United States in '52. Even having political experience and being the brother of the two term President Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Quentin fails to recieve support from many party leaders. However Quentin is a popular bi-partisan figure, and is supported by many Roosevelt Democrats. Pollsters suggest that Quentin could carry some traditionally Democratic states in the plains and western south.

October 1st to 8th 1951- The New York Yankees repeat their performance of the year before with a victory 4 games to 2 over the Los Angeles Zapatistas. The Yankees set the all time record for victories in a season with a record of 112 victories and only fifty losses. The pitching was led by Mike Ford (25-4-2.74-1) in his first full major league season and Del Newcombe (20-9-3.28) supported by veteran forty one year old Rodrigo Amador (17-8-3.05-7) in his last great season and a pitcher acquired in the middle of the season from the Buffalo Braves called Johnny Sanford (7-14 - 4.18- 9 total numbers). Even with Mickey Marble (.261-12-63) being hobbled by injuries the offensive was excellent. A pesky offense with no player having a truly overachieving season , their offensive leaders were Pedro Centeno (.293-17-74), rookie outfielder/first baseman Joe Pantagliano (.267-13-65), third baseman Mac Robinson (.338-19-103 with 25 stolen bases) , shortstop Vic Lopez (.347-8-74 with 81 stolen bases) and outfielder/third baseman/ first baseman Orestes Miñoso (.320-19-116 with 18 stolen bases).

October 7th, 1951- Javier has shown promise with his team, hitting .290-17- 82 with 13 bases stolen while playing shorstop for the team.

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:11 PM

1952

1952- Nicolaus and his family move back to Russia

January 8, 1952 - A train catches fire at Mattapan Station on the Massachusetts MTA Streetcar network, and the blaze rapidly spreads as everything that can go wrong does. The near-complete destruction of the station serves as a proof that the streetcar network needs major changes.

January 22nd 1952- Russian Tokarev-51 rifle enters service in Russia. A 7.62 x 39-mm rifle with a 20 round box magazine, it was very well build and used an unconventional operating system using roller-delayed blowback. It was the service rifle of the Russian military until the 1980’s.

January 29, 1952 - Large areas of the MTA Streetcar network in Boston, Massachusetts, are closed for renovations. There are complaints from commuters, especially when it is announced that the system will remain closed through the winter and most of the spring.

February 1952: In order to restore some party faith, Quentin Roosevelt announces that he has no intentions of running under a third party. Other Republican candidates such as Fiorello LaGuardia, Rev. Baldwin (note: non-OTL preacher who is TRJR's second VP and briefly president, also a maverick), La Follete Jr., and Herbert Brownell failed to gain widespread political support. La Guardia led polls in the north east, Baldwin led pulls in the west coast and south, La Follete led polls in the western midwest, and smaller favorite sons led in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. Quentin came in second in almost all regions, and came in first in Pensylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Delaware.

February 1952- Both partners of the American-Oman oil company T&M Oil give to the fund

March 5, 1952 - On the tenth anniversary of the formation of the Scottish Equality Movement, the monarch opens the first session of the Scottish Parliament in centuries.

March 13th 1952- Outfielder Ed Zernial is traded to the Detroit Tigers in a multiplayer trade that brought veteran players shortstop Lewis Beuregard and outfielder Harry Funicello from the Tigers to the White Sox, making possible for them to win the pennant for the first time since 1942.

March 17, 1952 - The Boston MTA finally announces its plans for the streetcar network. Much of it is to be dismantled completely and replaced with bus service, an unpopular decision. However, the rest will be completely renovated and opened in stages, to be merged with the Tremont Line to create the Tremont/Trolley Line.

March 17th 1952- The Yamamoto Memo. Fleet Admiral Yamamoto sends a memo that recommends the use of helicopters to move the Special Naval Landing Divisions, the construction of ships especially designed to carry helicopters and the troops being carried by the helicopters and the development of what he called “flying landships” to support those troops. His ideas weren’t well received initially by the Army dominated military junta but they recognized this could be the only way they could project power, with the regular army units tied up either in Korea or in garrison duty in Japan and Formosa facing China. The funds were finally approved for this late in 1952.

March 17th 1952- Haitian President Charlemagne Peralte is killed while visiting the southern city of Le Caye. Chaos erupts in the nation, with different factions launching themselves into a fight.

March 18th 1952- Bela Ferenc Blasko elected Prime Minister of Hungary in the Federated Empire. One of his first acts was to rescind the orders of the former Imperial Prime Minister Hitler in regard to Germanization in Hungary and was a political rival of Hitler’s political heirs during the 1950’s.

April 1952- The German and Austro-Hungarian scientists working on the proposed Moon mission develop the Mond-Kapsel, a modified version of the Rakete Kapsel that will be used for both the moon landing and reentry. A working prototype is ready by April 1953 and work start to ensure that both modules work flawlessly before being used for their intended mission.

April 4, 1952 - Hammock tilting trains go into service on Pennsylvania Railroad's longest two lines, New Haven - Cleveland Airport and Milwaukee - Memphis, boosting both lines to a stunning average speed of 90 miles per hour. PRR's young VP of Engineering, Antonio Iacocca, cheerfully predicts, "We'll knock out Republic Air and the New Haven RR out of business by next Friday!"

April 8th, 1952- Javier Hernandez makes a splash in the second game of the season, hitting for the cycle and going 5 for 5.

April 15th 1952- United States began construction of the first all missile battlecruisers. The Bull Run Class, they were named in remembrance of Civil War battles and completed by late 1956. With a weight of 16,000 tons and capable of a speed of 34 knots, their weaponry is what made them different. The main weapon was the anti-ship missile Tiger Shark, capable of carrying 1000 lbs of explosive or a 350 KT atomic weapon. With 8 missile launchers in four dual missile launchers and carrying twenty four missiles as main armament plus one dual Bulldog AA missile launcher these ships served well into the 1980’s.

April 16th 1952- With thousands of refugees fleeing from the fighting in Haiti into the Dominican Republic, President Espinal asks the other members of the Santiago Accord and the United States for help to try to normalize the situation on the island. At the same time he ordered his troops forward ten miles across the border into Haiti, to try to create a safety zone inside Haiti for the refugees.

May 11th 1952- In an emergency meeting in Santiago de Cuba, the Santiago Accord nations’ leaders agreed to do something to normalize Haiti. At the same time United States President Thomas Pinckney announces in TV that “our nation have the mission to try to bring an end to the sufferings of the people of Haiti. As such, together with our Caribbean neighbors, we will take upon ourselves to bring peace at last to that nation.”

May 17th 1952- Operation Broadsword starts. Dominican troops advanced deeper into Haitian territory together with Puerto Rican troops while Cubans, South Mexican and US troops land in major Haitian port cities.

May 19th 1952- US Marines are landed in Cap Haitien and Mole St. Nicholas while joint South Mexican-US troops are landed in Pestel and joint Cuban-US troops are landed in Gonaives and Port-au-Prince. Resistance when from none in Pestel to moderate in Port-au-Prince to heavy in Gonaives.

May 26th 1952- Final organized resistance in Haiti is eliminated. In meeting between the US commander and Santiago Accord nations’ military commanders in Port-au-Prince a division of the country into administrative areas is agreed upon, with each nation getting an area to administer for the time being.

June 1952- Baldwin drops out of the race, and endorses Roosevelt. La Follete recieves very little support outside of the traditional Progressive regions, and drops out in favor of Brownell. Brownell recieved support from traditional Democrats in the plain states, and was viewed as a greater champion of farmers rights than Pinkney, gaining Populist support. Frederick Hanslow makes an announcement saying that he would endorse Brownwell if he were nominated. Republican party leaders believe that Brownwell would expand the party, and by getting rid of the Democratic-Populist aliance make the Republican Party stronger in the future. Brownwell showed himself in campaigning to be a small government conservative, appealing even to classic Smith Republicans such as La Guardia.

June 7th 1952- Southern Russian military unveils their new cavalry landship, build to replace the remaining armored cars in their cavalry brigades. Named the Cossack Cavalry Landship, the compact vehicle had a torsion bar suspension with five roadwheels and two return rollers; the engine runs the length of the tank on the right side with the driver on the left. The speed was an incredible 50 miles per hour on the road. It was deemed necessary due to the armour protection only reaching 25mm. Tipping the scale at only 16 tons but well armed with a 85mm gun fed with an automatic loading system with two six round magazines revolver type. A weakness of the small size was that the reloads were mounted externally, thus requiring the crews to reload the magazines outside the vehicle.

Summer 1952- The reorganization of Central Federation Armies is considered completed. The Austrian Heer consisted of eight divisions; the Guards Division and the 1st Dragoon (motorized) included, plus the landship 1st Uhlan division and an independent mounted brigade. The Hungarian Honved consisted of eight infantry divisions and three-mounted cavalry divisions. The newly raised Vojna consisted of four infantry divisions. The Common Army was reduced in size to ten infantry divisions, half of them motorized, and two landship divisions.

July 1952-Fiorello La Guardia withdraws from the race, endorsing Brownwell.

July 1952- A huge pro-Roosevelt media campaign is launched by Quentin's personal friend Hemingway.

July 15th 1952- King Habibullah of Afghanistan dies from what it seems food poisoning but many said he was assassinated. During his reign of over fifty years his nations stayed as a backwater nation, ruled by Islamic law and with almost no progress all out of the three major cities. Many blamed the British and later the Indians as the main culprits, happy to see their neighbor to the north stayed on the 19th century.

August 1952- The European tour of the British Foreign Minister William Pratt is considered by today’s historian as the basis for the creation of the European Defense Organization in 1968. Pratt visited Germany, the Central European Federation, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, the TAF, the rump Kingdom of Italy and Spain before returning to London on August 30th. After his return he stated “Europe is on the path of peaceful coexistence between all the nations in the continent and its on our best interest to help in keeping Europe that way for a long time.”

August 1952- Jose Guzman Torres reelected President of Cuba. He continued his mission to try to heal the wounds of the “Tio Beto” years during his second term and the political stability of Cuba during the later part of the century is considered to be his legacy to that nation.

August 1952- The Democratic Party uses the name recognition of former Army Chief of Staff Patton on the party ticket, with Patton being put in the ticket as candidate to the vice-presidency.

August 6th 1952- Inayatullah, oldest son of Habibullah, is crowned King of Afghanistan. Many considered the real power of his reign his brother Amanullah, who as his army commander and Treasurer of the Kingdom began some reforms based in the ones made by Kemal Ataturk in the Turko-Arabic Federation.

August 18th 1952- A provisional Haitian government under emigre lawyer Phillipe Lebrun is formed to take care of the day to day affairs, with the troops in the nation being used to ensure the continued normalization of the nation.

October 1952 -- Attempts by several other U.S. states, and by the French, Ethiopian, and Australian governments, to pass pollution-control legislation mimicking the Sunshine Pact flounder.

October 1st to 5th 1952- The Chicago White Sox win the World Series, led by the hitting of veteran shortstop/outfielder Lew Beauregard (.295-9-101),third year shortstop Pete Carrasquillo (.248-1-52), second baseman Nick Fox (.285-3-72) first baseman Bill Robinson (.296-22-104) and veteran outfielder Harry Funicello ( .295-16-91) and the pitching of Walt Pierce (18-12-2.72-3), Joe Davidson (14-10-2.51-1), Ed Grissom (12-5-3.12-2) and reliever Jose Mendocino (8-4- 2.47-21), over the Pittsburgh Pirates 4 games to 0.

October 7th, 1952- Javier Hernandez has had an even better season, hitting .308-19-84 and 43 stolen bases, Cajuns coach Beaux R. Johnson is quoted with saying "that Mexican boy sure can hit, and run too."

October 18th 1952- Admiral Chester Nimitz retires as Chief of Naval Operations after eight years on the post. A well respected officer and commander of the Pacific Fleet during the Global War, he was a supporter of the aircraft carrier and the use of missiles for naval purposes, his construction plans demonstrating that, with United States taking the lead in the construction of aircraft carriers and being the first nation to build ships carrying missiles as their main armament.

November 1952 Governor Quentin Roosevelt is elected President of the United States of America.

November 1952- Rafael Tapia Espinal reelected President of the Dominican Republic by a landslide. Popular with the military thanks to his support to increase their budget due to the ongoing peacekeeping operations in Haiti and with the civilian industrialists that saw the end of the Haitian unrest as a welcome sight of a possible increase of trade and expansion of their businesses with their neighbor in the island.

November 1952 --American Weekly magazine coins the phrase "The Big Green Belt" to refer to the mid-atlantic Sunshine Pact states, which in two years have already seen a noticeable drop in air pollution and a sudden emergence of "green" entrepreneurships that hope to make fortunes helping the railroad, automotive, steel, and mining businesses meet their new pollution targets.

December 1952- Two new expansion teams join the Major Leagues,both in the National League. A resurrected St. Louis Cardinals team together with the Milwaukee Brewers are the new teams, bringing the size of the National League teams to twelve. Due to concerns in regard to travel it was decided to divide the Leagues into two divisions to try to ease the travel concerns. The division was as follows: NL East-Brooklyn Mets, Buffalo Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Habitants, New Orleans Cajuns and Staten Island Bridges; NL West-Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, LA Zapatistas, Milwaukee Brewers, SF Bears and St. Louis Cardinals; CL East-Baltimore Saints, Boston Blue Socks, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies and Washington Senators; CL West-Chicago White Socks, Cleveland Napoleons, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns and Toronto Blue Jays.

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:12 PM

1953

1953 - In a series of agreements over the course of the year, the Germano-Austrian trading union is expanded to include the non-Teutonic states in their respective economic spheres such as Serbia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Byelarus, and Poland.

1953 - The revitalized MTA announces a plan to reimplement rail service on the Greenbush network, and connect the line to the Fairmount Line via Savin Hill Station (Harvard Line). The entire Fairmount Line is replaced with bus service for over five years to bring the thirteen new stations online.

1953 - Riots break out in Muscat, capital of Oman. The Emir of Oman attempts to placate the rioters by terminating his treaty with the British.
Both Russian governments are secretly giving the rioters weapons.

January 1953 - In his Inauguration Speech, President Quentin Roosevelt, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic, challenges the nation to be the first nation to put a man on the Moon.

February 1953- Chinese president Kung Hsiang-Hsi barely wins reelection by defeating former President Chiang, who stood for a stronger response to Japanese's support to resistance movements in the province of Tonkin and the puppet of Annam. Still President Kung social reforms won the majority of the population in the interior of China and that was the difference, with that provinces voting almost in masse for the incumbent.

February 1953: George Cabot-Lodge dies, and by almost unanimous consensus his Senate seat is given to his son.

February 14th 1953- President Jose Figueres of Costa Rica sign the Santiago Accords, his nation being the fifth nation joining that loose association of Caribbean nations.

February 16th 1953- New York Yankees pitcher Rodrigo Amador announces his retirement after 19 years in New York. The Cuban pitcher had six twenty-game winning seasons and finished his career with 302 victories.

March 12th 1953- United States troops leave Haiti, leaving the Santiago Accord nations to continue to ensure their protection of Haiti for the time being.

April 1953- Rioting Basques set houses and businesses on fire in Spain

April 7th, 1953- In the first game of the season, Javier Hernandez hits a grand slam and 2 triples and the crowd screams Ole!, what it turned to be the rally cry of the Zapatistas for the decade.

June 1953- Juan Santos-Medina and wife Carlota have a son, his name is Miguel.

June 1953- Basque rioters in Seville throw homemade bombs at Spanish buildings, and also fire guns

August 10, 1953 - The Imperial Reorganization Act passes Commons, but is vetoed in Lords. It calls for the transformation of the Imperial Council into the Imperial Senate, the expansion of the British Parliament into an Imperial Parliament, and a separate England only Parliament.

October 9th to 18th 1953- "El Rayo" leads the Zapatistas to a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Javier "El Rayo" Hernandez (.314-20-87 with 39 stolen bases) was the hero of the Series but the leadership of Frank Musial (.337-30-113), the Leadership Award winner of the National League,was the one that took the team to the pennant.

November 1953- Spanish police are called out, and suppress rioters, after a Basque attempt to blow up the Palace

November 1953- Mutter I rocket manned mission is launched to ensure the integrity of the system. The rocket worked flawlessly and the two men crew were recovered in the Indian Ocean by a German carrier.

November 25th 1953- The New York Yankees, that finished third on their division, trade third baseman Mac Robinson to the Pittsburgh Pirates for a young 19 year old outfielder from Puerto Rico called Raul Clemente and another minor leaguer. Clemente went on to win the right field position in Spring Training, making possible for Mickey Marble to move to first base and for Orestes Miñoso to go back to third. Clemente went on to play for twenty four years with the Yankees until his retirement in 1978.

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:12 PM

1954

January 1954- The Basques declare the Basque Republic

January 3, 1954 -- Euskal Europa, the leading Basque independence party, repudiates the declaration of a Republic. They release a statement declaring, "Independence is worthless without peace. Those who shed blood in the name of independence only perpetuate the vile slur that the Basques are a violent people."

February 19th 1954- Prime Minister Serrano Suñer orders the military to use "all means necessary to eliminate the threat to the stability of Spain" after his attempts for a compromise with separatists Basques fails.

February 22nd 1954- The Spanish Army invades the Basque provinces and uses mustard gas to defeat any heavy resistance. Thousands of refugees escape to France, were the men are turned back but women and children are allowed to stay.

March 11, 1954 - The revered but elderly Mustafa Kemal comes out of retirement to resume the Presidency of the Turko-Arabic Federation in response to the threat of the UIE and the Allah's Will movement that has tried to penetrate the nation. An immediate crackdown of religious extremists commences.

April 6th 1954- The Basque provinces are declared secured by Spanish Army commander Francisco Franco, who declared the provinces under martial law. The suppression of the Basque movement and their eventual exodus from Spain during the 60's and 70's is well documented.

April 17th 1954- British first SSB enters service. The Narwal Class subs were capable of carrying six nuclear-armed ballistic missiles but it was forced to shoot their missiles on the surface, like the German Bavaria class SSBs.

May 14th 1954- The Royal Indian Army announces that four of the ten independent Gurkha regiments were going to be trained to be used as airmobile units, to make possible their fast deployment in case of emergency.

June 5th 1954- Japanese Prime Minister Yamashita dies suddenly from a heart attack. A rush for power ensues but finally won by Lt. General Seizo Arisue, the commander of the Home Islands troops.
June 6th 1954- China began mobilizing their naval forces in response to the dead of Japanese Prime Minister Yamashita.

June 7th to 9th 1954- Clashes occur between Chinese and Japanese naval and air forces near Formosa. At the time it was believed war could had been a possibility between the two nations, but it was just a show of force by the Chinese taking advantage of the situation in Japan to ensure themselves a good bargaining chip in regard to the situation in Tonkin.

July 8th 1954- Japan secretly agree to stop their support to Tonkinese separatists in exchange for Chinese recognition of the current status of the island of Formosa. The agreement is considered the main cause of the defeat of the Kung government in the 1957 elections, the outroar of the renouncing of the claims to Formosa being used by the Popular Front Party to bring their leader back into power.

July 9th 1954- A new six-ship class of AA cruisers is ordered by the US Navy. The Abraham Lincoln Class, they were named for 19th Century presidents and completed by late 1958. With a weight of 12,000 tons and capable of 35 knots, they were armed with six dual launchers for the new AA missile, the Boxer. A two-stage MWD guided missile, it was more effective against maneuverable targets than the predecessor the Bulldog but had a shorter effective range than the Bulldog.

September 16th 1954- Wilhelm Canaris, head of the German Imperial Intelligence Service, presents a report to the German government that is considered inflammatory. It presented the connection between the US based Organization for the Betterment of Africa and pro-independence movements in all the African colonies. Some parts of the report are leaked to the press and the Roosevelt administration is forced to respond that they were unaware of the activities of the OBA in Africa.

October 9th to 17th 1954- Detroit Tigers win their first World Series since 1909 by defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 4 games to 2. Led by the hitting of their trio of outfielders Ed Zernial (.284-42-108), Bradley Slaughter (.300-11-101) and the batting champ second year player Al Calero (.340-27-102), the Tigers went on to win their division by three games and them to defeat the New York Yankees 3 games to none to go to the World Series.

October 12th 1954- OBA Chairman Cordell Hull announces his resignation after the OBA received a Federal order for an auditory of their books and finances. He stated he was unaware of any misuse of funds of the Organization but the damage was already made.

October 21st 1954- Phillipe Lebrun is elected President of Haiti in the first elections in that nation in more than a decade. The Santiago Accord nations announced a reduction of their troops in Haiti but agreed to keep troops in the nation, “to ensure the path of democracy” in the words of the Puerto Rican president Antonini.

November 17th 1954- The last of the Japanese AA designed cruisers laid down in 1951, the Kuma is commissioned. Named after rivers the Kuma, the Oi, the Kiso and the Isuzu were considered obsolete by the early 1960’s and that saves them of destruction in the Battle of the Marshall Islands in 1967. They were being used as AA cover for the PI Task Force due to the expected Filipino response was considered to be weak. The ships had a displacement of 5,000 tons, capable of reaching 32 knots and their armament was an incredible 8 dual turrets carrying 120mm dual-purpose guns directed by a MWD system linked by a computer on the bridge.

December 15th 1954- Germany announces they were closing all the offices of the OBA in their African colonies, following the arrest of dissidents in the colonies of Congo, Tanganyika, Ivory Coast and Guinea. Their TV trials were used as a show to implicate the connection between the US and dissidence in the African colonies. The resulting embarrassment to the Roosevelt administration in the World opinion was followed by a minor embargo by the African colonial powers.

perdedor99

June 3rd, 2006, 09:13 PM

1955

1955- The Chinese Mafia is mostly united, with only a few rogue gangs left.

1955 - Tens of Thousands of Romanians gather in Bucharest to hear Ion Petrescu speak on the greatness of the Romanian people and the need to gain true equality within the Empire.

1955 - A bill to amend the Constitution to limit the presidential term to one four year period is first introduced to the Congress. It also limits Senators to one term, and Representatives to three terms.

1955- William Bush graduated from Yale, goes to Harvard Business School, and decided to go into the oil business, on the suggestion of a friend of his father.

January 5, 1955 - Dr. Nicholai Nevski in Russia publishes a controversial paper laying out a theory for 'cryogenic suspension' of human beings, based on studying the chemistry of certain antarctic fish and other species adapted to extreme conditions.

February 5th 1955- Ramon Serrano Suñer assassinated by Basques terrorists. Repression againsts Basques increases, with thousands been deported to Spanish Sahara or to the Portuguese colonies after arrangments are reached with the the Portuguese.

February 18th 1955- The Organization for the Betterment of Africa is disbanded, their operations and assets being taken by over by the US government. President Roosevelt announced the assets of the disbanded organization were going to be used to continue their work in Africa but with no political connotations. Still Germany announced they would not allow any successor organization to reestablish themselves in their colonies.

May 8, 1955 - The Imperial Reorganization Act goes into effect. The next elections shall see the establishment of an Empire-wide Imperial Senate and Parliament and the formation of a separate Parliament for England. Critics in other parts of the Empire complain that the representation formulas are heavily skewed towards 'Anglo' Dominions and Crowns within the Empire.

June 5th 1955- The Japanese Arisaka combat rifle entered service. Basically a copy of the Russian Tokarev-51, it used a smaller caliber after it was considered the size of the soldiers using it. The caliber decided upon was the 5.56 caliber that made possible for the weapon to use a fifty round box magazine. It also was decided to shorten the weapon to better fit the Japanese soldier.

July 1955- Mutter V is the first manned vehicle to make an orbit around the Moon. The mission went without a hitch and a go was given to launch Mutter VI early the next year.

September 5th 1955- The last of the Japanese carriers laid down in 1951 is commissioned. Named the “Falcons”, the Kaiyo, the Chuyo and the Unyo were very capable ships, the first ones to carry jet fighters in the late 1950’s after the Imperial Japanese Navy began phasing out prop fighters. They carried armored decks like their predecessors, capable of reaching 32 knots, with a displacement of 40,000 tons and capable of carrying 60 aircrafts.

Fall 1955 - The Equality League and several other organizations come out in favor of a Term Limit Amendment to help fight corruption in the Federal Government.

October 9th to 14th 1955- Led again by their trio of outfielders Al Calero (.317-27-128), Ed Zernail (.254-30-84) and Bradley Slaughter (.291-6-89) the Detroit Tigers repeat as World Champions by defeating the Cincinnati Reds 4 games to 1. The Tigers hitting continue to dominate their division but they have to got to the max of five games to defeat the Boston Blue Sox for the Continental League pennant.

October 17th 1955- Guatemala agrees to join the Santiago Accord nations, the sixth nation to join the group of Caribbean nations.

perdedor99

June 16th, 2006, 05:40 PM

1956

1956 - The Allah's Will movement has been crushed in the Turko-Arabic Federation, despite its flourishing in the Arabian Peninsula. It is believed that the crackdown was more effective in the TAF due to the previous reforms of the 1940s.

1956 - The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman falls, and is replaced with an Allah's Will-dominated regime known as the United Islamic Emirate.

February 1956 - President Quentin Roosevelt signs the Civil Rights and Voting Act into law. It is one of the most sweeping pieces of legislation in American history, prohibiting discrimination in public facilities, government, housing, and employment; outlawing literacy tests and poll taxes for voter qualification, and providing for federal registration of voters all over the United States.

February 1956- The Mutter VI is launched and lands a capsule on the Moon surface. The first men on the moon are German Adolphus Maeger and Austro-Hungarian Franz Ludwig. Reentry is successful and both men were hailed as heros of their respective Empires.

February 7th 1956- The Mannerheim is the first of a six-boat class of SSB build by the Russian Navy. Similar to the submarines in service in all navies at the time, carrying six nuclear tipped missiles.

February 11th 1956- The first operational jet fighter aircraft in the world, the Fokker XXIII had a service ceiling of 45,000 feet, a speed of 620 mph, a range of 800 miles and an armament of four 60mm cannons with pylons for rockets. A very capable aircraft, it went into service with the Imperial German Air Forces five months before the aircraft entered service with the Central European Federation, the new name of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

March 1956 - US President Quentin Roosevelt during a press conference is asked about the the Austro-German landing on the moon in light of his previous comments about the US being the first to the moon. In reply, he states, "Well, I guess we'll just have to be the first to Mars, then!"

Spring 1956 - President Quentin Roosevelt surprises the world by announcing that he will not seek re-election to the Presidency, due to feeling he has done his duty to his country. He wishes to retire from public service on a high note, after a fruitful first term that has seen as one of its shining achievements the formation of the Department of Extraterrestrial Exploration, devoted to reaching beyond the Earth's surface to outer space.

Summer 1956 - Quentin Roosevelt speaks in favor of a Constitutional Amendment limiting the Presidency to one term, feeling this will allow the President to be a statesman and not a politician.

April 19th 1956- The first United States ballistic missiles enter service on this date. The Albacore class was a six-boat class but it was longer than other ships at the time, carrying eight nuclear missiles.

May 7th 1956- Manchuria makes another big purchase of landships to Russia, but this time 300 Nicholas II landships and 400 tracked armored troop carriers. These vehicles are used to convert the 10th Infantry Division into the 10th Armored Division by the middle of 1958.

June 4th 1956- The British Hawker Valiant enters service with the RAF. The first jet aircraft of the RAF, it entered service four months behind the German Fokker XXIII, the first operational jet fighter of the world. With a speed of 610mph, a range of 600 miles and an armament of four 60mm cannons with pylons for rockets it was a very successful aircraft, comparable to the other first generation jets.

June 4, 1956 William Bush is sent to Austrian Romania to work on developing trade ties between the two nations for oil shipments in the post-war world.

August 6, 1956- Tsar Alexei II Romanov has a seizure and dies at age 31. All of Russia mourns for him, and Russia's first manned mission into space is postponed two months. His son Alexander ascends the throne as Tsar Alexander IV.

August 8th 1956- With the failure of the Wright Shark, the US Navy put to the test the possible replacements to that aircraft and the eventual winner was the Boeing Phantom. The aircraft was slower than the new generation of land based jet aircrafts of the time but it was considered by the naval services that an aircraft too fast could not perform adequately from a carrier, still it was replaced by the Wright Barracuda in late 1958, giving the Phantom the shortest operational service time in the history of the US Navy. The aircraft had a speed of 500 mph, a service ceiling of 40,000 feet, a range of 700 miles and an armament of four 40mm cannons with pylons for rockets.

September 1956- A cabal of influential military officers, businessmen, and scientists known as the "Wolf Pack" begin planning the overthrow of the Tsar

September 4th 1956- Sir Oswald Mosley is named as Head of the Exchequer in the new Labour cabinet of Prime Minister Aneurin Bevin.

September 17th 1956- The six Boxer Class battlecruisers are decommissioned after 30 years in service. Two of them are sold to China while one each were sold to the South Mexican and Puerto Rican navies with the other two remaining units being put in mothballs.

October 5, 1956 - Ethnic Romanian terrorists kidnap American businessman William Bush and demands the release of dozens of Romanian 'political' prisoners in return for his release.

October 9th to 17th 1956- Cincinnati returns the favor the Detroit Tigers, by defeating them this time in a repeat of the World Series of the year before by winning the Series 4 games to 2. Led by the hitting of veteran shortstop Phil Rosado (.324-7-66-28), veteran outfielders Charlie Post (.309-40-109)and David Benson (.308-27-104) plus rookie outfielder Bob Robinson (.290-38-83) in the offense and by Joe Newman (13-11-3.72-2), Lee Lawrence (19-10-3.99), Art Foster ( 18-9-3.27-2) and Dutch Klein (14-5-3.40-18) leading the pitching for the team, this team won their division by ten games and easily dispatched the Staten Islands Bridges three games to none.

October 14, 1956-Vostok, Russia's manned mission, explodes its launchpad, killing the two astronauts within. It is discovered twenty years later that this terrible tragedy was actually a planned sabotage by members of the "Wolf Pack" to further demoralize the spirit of the Russian people.

October 15th 1956- The Roosevelt Aviation Hawk VI enters service as the first jet fighter of the USAAC. While slower and with a weaker armament to the European jets entering service at the same time, it had the advantage in range and service ceiling, points that the Roosevelt’s designers found important due to the size of the United States. The aircraft had a speed of 580 mph, a range of 1,100 miles, a service ceiling of 47,000 feet and an armament of four 40mm cannons and two .50 caliber machineguns that make it the main land based aircraft of the US until the arrival of the P-20 in the middle 1960’s.

November 1956: Democrat George Welles defeats Herbert Bronell for the presidency.

November 7th 1956- Yankee outfielder/first baseman Mickey Marble announces his retirement after a twenty year career with his team. He hit 621 homeruns during his illustrious career, winning three Continental League Leadership Award and six World Series rings.

November 10th 1956- Amanullah travels to St. Petersberg were he signs a commercial treaty with Russia, with secret clauses to help to bring the Afghan Army to modern standards. Indian Prime Minister Nehru protested but the Afghani response was “the arrangement we had was with the British not with you Indians and the British are gone.” The mum silence of British Prime Minister Bevin in this regard further separated the Indians from the British.

December 1956 - The Term Limit Amendment proposal to limit the Presidency and Senate to one term, and the House to three terms, is altered in the Congress by an amendment from Representative Commer of Pennsylvania.

December 1th to 10th 1956-"Ten Days in December"- the first great Nuclear Crisis. The Russian SSB Mannerheim and the German SSB Tirpitz are both lost at sea in the same area of water in the Norwegian Sea with their loadouts of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles. In the next few days, Germany and Russia continue to up the ante until a deal favorable to Germany is brokered by the United States.

December 11th 1956- In one of his last official acts, President Quentin Roosevelt announced he brokered the deal that resolved the crisis between Germany and Russia but stated “the dream first brought forward by former President Wendell Wilkie and later by the British Foreign Minister William Pratt is truly a necessity of this world of ours. An organization that helps all the nations in this planet in a peaceful way is a must if we expect to never repeat the horrors of the Global War.”

December 24, 1956- The "Ten Days in December" Crisis has made Tsar Alexander's rule seem weak and ineffective, and a decidedly anti-monarchy government rises to power.

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1957

1957 - A major shake-up of the Cymru Europa party occurs due to its failure to gain support in the UK which is attributed to it being seen as a 'foreign' movement. The party officially renames itself the Cymru Equality Movement, and severs its official ties with Europa parties on the continent, though many of its members still retain personal ties to Europa politicians.

1957- The left leaning government of Bevin began slashing the military budget, considering the high military expenditure “as wasteful” and started a campaign to reduce the number of atomic weapons available.

1957 - Wahabbi Bedouin in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula, led by the surviving members of the al-Saud clan, declare loyalty to the UIE. Raids begin chipping away at British ruled portions of the Hadrhamut.

January 13th 1957- The Calcutta Armored Brigade is demobilized by the cutbacks of the Bevin administration, their vehicles being “donated” to the Commonwealth of India, were they were used to raise the 1st Landship Division of the Royal Indian Army with the already existing landship brigade.

February 1957- Former President Chiang returns to power after close to a decade away from power. One of his first acts is to dismiss his political rival Marshall Zhu De as commander of the Chinese National Army.

February 1957 - The Term Limit Amendment fails in its previous two incarnations, but is revived in a more restricted form, only limiting the President to one term.

February 1957- George Patton is named Secretary of the War by the new Democrat Administration.

February 10, 1957- Young tsar Alexander survives an assassination attempt. His advisors soon discovers that it is the "Wolf Pack" that is behind the attempt.

February 13, 1957- The "Wolf Pack" moves before the Tsar advisors can react. In a quick palace coup that suffers little opposition, the cabal proclaims the Russian Republic and installs a puppet as a President. The Romanov family escapes into exile to Great Britain.

February 17th 1957- Japanese Prime Minister Arisue recognizes the new Russian government and stated “Japan expects their working relationship with the Russian nation to continue for a very long time.”

March 15, 1957 -- The Geneva World Peace Conference begins. The Conference's primary and more practical aim is to update the Rules of War. They are now woefully out of date, as no Convention has been passed since the 1864 Geneva Convention and 1899 Hague Convention. The Conference's secondary and more bold aim is to create a Permanent International Congress, composed of diplomats from all nations.

March 31, 1957 -- The Geneva World Peace Conference hits a setback when, on the fourth ballot, it becomes clear that some of the major powers, as well as smaller nations concerned about the right to a last-ditch defense, will refuse to sign on to a Chemical Weapons ban. The Turko-Arabic Federation and Chile, the major proponents of the ban, begin working on an optional side treaty.

April 2, 1957 -- Germany and Poland submit a joint proposal at the Geneva World Peace Conference for a Federation of Nations, with heavy emphasis on strict free trade agreements and an "international troop reserve." Both nations acknowledge that they are over-reaching in order to present a bold vision out of which a smaller, more realistic, body can form. The result is a maelstrom of media activity, as newspaper and television coverage of the conference spikes.

April 4, 1957 -- The Socialist International announces its opposition to the Federation of Nations concept, calling it "a wicked tryst of the religious capitalist-military movement." Several Socialist bodies in Europe run advertisements against it raising the spectre of a wave of African and Asian immigrants caused by the free trade agreement. The British Labour Party condems the ads as "a crass appeal to racist instincts," and imposes temporary censorship. Socialist International compels the local bodies to stop the ads, insisting, "racism is in total opposition to our beliefs."

April 6th 1957- The Russia unveils their first operational fighter, the MiG-1. The first design of the team of Ustin Gudenich and Vadim Mihailov, the aircraft was named for the team but it was found lacking after being compared to the current European land based jet aircrafts. With a speed of 565 mph, a range of 500 miles, a service ceiling of 43,000 feet and armed with three 37mm cannons plus pylons for rockets it was inferior in all that characteristics to the other designs entering service.

April 17, 1957 -- Major progress at the Geneva World Peace Conference on the Rules of War --
The Red Cross organization adopts several alternative symbols, satisfying all the world's major religions
The rules of battlefield casualties are extended to sea and air
Nations commit to "all feasible efforts to preserve the lives of civilians under their military control", banning both the active and passive forms of the maltreatment of captured peoples that some scholars had taken to calling "geno-cide."
Classifies all people in war zones as "soldiers", "non-combatants", and "spies and saboteurs". The first two groups are called "Lawful Prisoners of War" and are given a wide array of rights, roughly equivalent to the rights of accused criminals in Western nations. "Spies and saboteurs" are granted only (1) the right to have their names reported their homeland, and (2) freedom from torture, but not freedom from military execution.

May 1, 1957 -- In the largest May Day Riots since 1894, the Socialist International gathers 250,000 protesters from all over Europe and marches on Geneva in opposition to the Federation of Nations. The march is completely undisciplined -- racist rowdies, chanting slogans in opposition to Kenya's admission as a full Dominion and to the several proposed laws by European national parliaments mimicking the USA's Civil Rights and Voting Act, have hijacked the protest; almost no one is discussing the Geneva Conference. Police gain control after hours of fighting; the "African Quarter" of Geneva suffers serious property damage.

May 2, 1957 -- In response to the previous day's riots, Adolphus Maeger becomes the first astronaut ever to make a political statement. Live on German TV, and broadcast soon thereafter throughout Europe, he reveals that he was a Socialist, but tears up his membership card and announces he will join the Social Democrats. His speech becomes famous for the line, "That any Germans at all should have participated in this disgusting, racist violence marks the darkest day in the history of the German Race."

May 3, 1957 -- In a voice vote, the Geneva World Peace Conference adopts the preambulatory phrase, "All peoples are equal, and therefore all nations have an equal right to sovereignty." The federal and military aspects of the Federation of Nations proposal, however, are quietly dropped, and all of the talk is now focusing on a "World Agreement on Trades and Tariffs."

May 11th 1957- The Japanese A7M arrives for service in the Imperial Naval Japanese fleet. The first jet on service in the Japanese naval forces, it was pretty much a redesign of the A6M but carrying a pair of Mitsubishi jet engines instead of a pair of prop engines. The A7M was capable of a range of over 650 miles and a speed of 590 mph, at par with the first generation of jet fighters making their appearance in the last years of the 1950’s.

May 18th 1957- The Royal Navy suffered the biggest by the new proposed cutbacks to the military, with the remaining battleships of the Orion, King George V and Queen Elizabeth classes being ordered to be demobilized.

Summer 1957 - The final vote on the Term Limit Amendment fails to garner the necessary number of votes to pass the Senate, mostly due to a loss of support from Senate Republicans.

June 3, 1957 - Kenya becomes the first Black African Dominion. Many credit its importance as the main launch site for the British Imperial Space Ministry giving it the status and clout to do so.

June 25, 1957 -- The Geneva World Peace Conference passes the World Agreement on Trades and Tariffs. The Agreement's immediate effects are mainly informational, as secret trade agreements are banned and an international wire service is created to distribute information about laws and rules affecting international trade. The long-term effects look to be huge, though, as the WATT Organization, a treaty-making body, has been charged with the mission to lower the barriers to international trade by roughly half over the next 2 years, and half again over the next 10.

July 7, 1957 -- Led by the Turko-Arabic Federation and Chile, 25 nations, mostly Muslim and Latin-American, agree amongst themselves to ban chemical weapons. In addition to the leaders, the most notable signatories are Mexico, South Mexico, and Argentina.

July 9, 1957 -- The Geneva World Peace Conference ends on an up note with the creation of the Permanent Diplomatic Forum in Geneva, which will serve as a place where diplomats from all nations, even those at war, can always discuss bilateral or multilateral agreements. The Rules of War, WATT, and Forum treaties, and the optional chemical weapons ban treaties, now go to the national governments for ratification. Bodies will come into existence when they gather 2/3 ratification, although they will have no power over non-members.

August 12th 1957- Dwight Eisenhower retires as Army Chief of Staff and is replaced by Lt. General Mark Clark. Eisenhower when on to be President of Yale until his dead in 1971. Mark Clark, who led the United States troops in France during the Global War, has the shortest stay as Army Chief of Staff in the history of the position.

September 17th 1957- Vostok 2 was a success. The first Russian manned mission to space, it was hailed “as a triumph of the Russian nation” by the Russian junta.

October 9th to 17th 1957- Javier "El Rayo" Hernandez (.322-20-89 with 51 stolen bases) leads his team on the World Series, winning a 4-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Him, together with outfielder Frank Musial (.351-29-102) and Negro outfielder Howie Mayer (.333-35-97 with 40 stolen bases) led the Zapatistas to win the Western Division by nine games and the pennant 3-1 over the Staten Island Bridges.

October 9th 1957- The Bayern Class of SSB entered service, being the second class of German ballistic submarines. Carrying eight nuclear tipped missiles, they suffered from the same problem as the other SSB’s by not being capable of launching while being underwater and measures were being taken to resolve that problem.

December 9th 1957- Lt. General Mark Clark announces he was stepping down as Chief of Staff due to health reasons and been replaced by Lt. General Matthew Ridgway, a veteran of the Pacific front in the Global War. His main achievement during his short stay was his lobbying to get benefits for the veterans from the Global War suffering from cancer related to the atomic blasts in Rheims and Amiens plus to the survivors of chemical and nerve weapons. He died two years later in what is considered to be cancer acquired while touring the destroyed French cities in 1937.

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June 16th, 2006, 05:41 PM

1958

1958- After only three lunar landing missions, the funding for the Austro-German space program is slashed by both nations' governments, which considered that with the moon been reached the money could be spend in other matters. Both nations continued to launch satellites into space, but is forced to cull its manned missions. Both nations' space program is virtually canceled for the next 15 years, with only sporadical communications and military satellites been launched.

1958- The Commerce Fund owns several businesses, and has funded the buying of land and construction of a headquarters in American Polynesia.

January 1958- Albert West, after seeing a bullfight in Ciudad Juarez, starts advocating bullfighting in the US.

January 9th 1958- Lt. Colonel Robert Ferguson of the United States Marines is the first American to set his feet on the moon after winning a bet with his comrade Major John Hamilton of the Army Air Corps. His words setting his feet on the moon were “we Marines always have to lead the way for the damn Army”, as a jest to his crewmate.

February 10th 1958- Nigeria accepted as a Dominion by the Imperial Council, the third African nation to receive that designation.

March 20th 1958- Both Russian nations sell landhips to the UIE. Ukrainian Russia sells 150 Cossack Cavalry Landships while Northern Russia sells 200 Nicholas II vehicles. The nations of the area see this as very provocative actions but after assurances being given to the Bevin government, the British Prime Minister relented in allowing the sale. President Kemal of the Turko-Arabic Federation stated that “the mighty British Empire is truly a weakened giant. The nation that gave us our freedom back twenty years ago now kiss the feet of a group of goat herders.”

April 9th 1958- President Welles announces the assets and operations of the former OBA are being transformed into a non-profit organization named the African Relief Society based in Monrovia.

May 16th 1958- Beginning of “Bloody May.” On this day a two weeklong series of riots protesting that Korean language was banned on the schools started in the port city of Inchon and them expanded to other major cities in Korea. By the end of the month thousands were dead and the movement was sent underground.

June 14th 1958- Secretary of War George Patton dies from complications from a bout with bronchitis.

July 27th 1958- First operational Wright Barracuda enters service with the US Navy. With a speed of 550mph, service ceiling of 32,000 feet, a range of 1,300 miles and an armament of four 40mm cannons and two .50 caliber machineguns with pylons for rockets the aircraft was important due to being the first aircraft with one straight ram duct with its entrance in the nose.

August 1958- Will Roberts is accepted in Yale University in a soccer scholarship. While considered he could have gone pro, he decides to continue his studies after graduation from Public Administration.

October 9th to October 18th, 1958- Javier "El Rayo" Hernandez(.317-21-91 with 53 stolen bases) again is the hero of the Series, leading his team to victory in a 4-3 series against the Baltimore Saints. Again, Howie Majors (.347-29-96 with 31 stolen bases) with Frank Musial (.310-27-109) in his last great season and Javier Hernandez led the offense of the Zapatistas, who won a National League record of 106 games.

November 1958: Ted Landry is elected Governor from Michigan.

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June 16th, 2006, 05:42 PM

1959

1959 - The Emirate of the Hejaz becomes a formal British protectorate as it struggles to fight off radical Islam. This shocks many fundamentalist Muslims, and the Hashemites become a target.

March 17, 1959 - Adolph Hitler unveils one of his last major pieces, the Jewish Valhalla, mixing surrealistic elements from Norse Mythology and Jewish symbolism. It is considered one of his lesser works, but is of interest to students of Hitler's life as it is believed to be a reaching out to his son, Adolph Hitler Jr., with whom he had been estranged from for nearly a decade.

March 18th 1959 - President Kemal is elected to his fourth term in office.

April 9th 1959- Punica accepted as a Dominion by the Imperial Council, the third new Dominion in three years.

April 10, 1959 - Some small riots break out in front of the British Embassy in Washington, DC, by American Muslims angry and protesting at Dominion status for Punica. Protests, mostly non-violent, occured in other countries with large Muslim populations as well, and major Muslim leaders had condemned the recognition of Punica, saying it was a "Crusade against Muslim land".

May 14th 1959- The German Kaiser gave a vote of no-confidence to the Chancellor and orders him to dissolve the government. In the resulting elections a coalition government allowed Jan Eduard de Quay to be the first Dutch Chancellor of the German Empire. His election by the coalition to lead the government came as a surprise to all the political analyists in the world. During his tenure he helped to further assimilate the Dutch, Walloon and Flemish citizens into the Empire, while deciding to expand the funds to the Colonial Office and the General Staff to upgrade the equipment in the last one and to help give the colonies a needed help in their infrastructures.

June 1, 1959 -- With China's ratification of the Forum Treaty, the WATT now has the necessary 2/3 ratifications to become an official international organization.

June 9th 1959- Prime Minister Bevin dies from cancer in his bed accompanied by his wife and immediate family.

August 8, 1959 - The Nevski Center, a cryogenic research facility, successfully freezes and revives a mouse.

August 11th 1959- Rab Butler returns to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain after what was considered a public response to the extreme left -leaning government of Bevin.

August 18th 1959- First Japanese T2M are delivered to the Imperial Fleet. While they could be used in ships also the designation as land-based was kept. They received priority in the production schedule but they began to share production with the arrival of the U1M in early 1962. They were divided between “dolphins”, the troop carrier ones and “sharks” the ones carrying support weapons. They can carry 4,000 pounds, equal to 12 infantrymen and crew or the equivalent weight in cargo. The speed was 135 mph, with a range of 300 miles and a service ceiling of 19,000 feet. The dolphins carried two 7.7mm machine guns on the side for protection while the Sharks carried heavier machineguns on the side-doors and a 40mm grenade launcher in a small turret on the front.

September 19th 1959- Second base George Smalls of the St Louis Cardinals break the single season stolen base record with his 103 against the Cubs. Smalls finished the season with 111 stolen bases.

October 9th to 17th 1959- The New York Metropolitans win their first World Series ever by defeating the Chicago White Sox 4 games to 2, the first of four consecutive National League pennants won by this team. The offense was led by the first baseman Osvaldo Fernandez (.317-27-105), outfielders George Brandt (.270-12-57 with 29 stolen bases), Charlie Kirk (.272-22-68 with 20 stolen bases) and veteran Don Snyder (.308-23-88) while the pitching was led by Johnny Torio (19-10-3.10-1), Sammy Jackson (21-15-2.83-4), Mike Studebaker (12-16-3.99-4), John Stanley (15-12-3.16-1) and closer Len Miller (8-7-2.83-15).

November 1959- After years of financial problems and losing seasons the St. Louis Browns franchise announces their move to the city of Lincoln, Nebraska. The final nail in the coffin of the St Louis Browns was the arrival of the expansion Cardinals in 1952, followed by a string of near the basement seasons by them.The team takes the name of the Lincoln Plainsmen for the next season.

December 9th 1959- The Metropolitans trade starting pitcher Johnny Torio, veteran outfielder Don Snyder and outfielder George Brandt to the St. Louis Cardinals for veteran pitcher Johnny Paterno, young shortstop Marvin Willis and outfielder Tommy Richards.

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June 16th, 2006, 05:42 PM

1960

1960- The German U-1 becomes the world's first nuclear-powered submarine.The U-1 Class carried ten nuclear tipped missiles and were the first submarines capable of launching their missiles while being underwater.

February 22nd 1960- The United States unveils their new landship, the M5A1. The Americans, contrary to the British, the Germans and the Russians, subscribed to the theory than even the heaviest armour would prove unable to keep up with the rapid deployments of the armor gauntlet technology, and that the best way to protect their vehicles was increase their maneuverability. With a weight of only 36 tons it was capable of reaching 45mph, at the time the fastest landship around except for the Ukrainian Cossack cavalry vehicle. The only drawback was the main gun was a 105mm gun that was superseded by the other powers in less than a year with the arrival of the British Commander. But the vehicle was the first to use gyro-stabilized gun to make possible to shoot the gun while the vehicle was moving.

March 7th 1960- The Lincoln Plainsmen send outfielder/first baseman Orestes Miñoso to the Chicago White Sox for two minor leaguers. The former Yankee star was traded to the Plainsmen/Browns after the 1955 season and had some very productive seasons for them before the Plainsmen management decided to get younger players for the 35 year old player.

April 1960 - The political world is rocked when Vice-President Maynard Jones is revealed to be homosexual. He is forced to resign, but the revelation brings sexual orientation for the first time seriously into the public spotlight.

May 10th 1960 -- The Economist publishes its infamous "Don't Answer The Door" issue, making it the first socially progressive publication in Britain to oppose the extension of Dominionship to further territories. "While this newspaper has a proud history as an advocate of racial equality -- and continues to uphold that policy as both morally and economically correct -- the Empire must acknowledge that Negroes, like Britons or any other people, are fairly useless unless they are safe, educated, and well-fed. Sierra Leoneans, regrettably, are too often none of the three. The Council's planned vote on Dominionship later this week puts the cart before the horse."

May 15th 1960- Sierra Leone accepted by the Imperial Council as a Dominion, with Sir Milton Margai as first Prime Minister of the Dominion.

October 9th to 15th 1960- The New York Metropolitans win their second consecutive World Series, defeating the Boston Blue Sox 4 games to 1. The offense was led by shortstop Marvin Willis (.295-0-27 with 50 stolen bases), first baseman/outfielder Osvaldo Fernandez (.297-24-97), outfielder Charlie Kirk (.252-21-65 with 22 stolen bases) and first baseman Willie McArty (.271-18-50) while the pitching was led by newly acquired veteran Johnny Paterno (14-12-3.08), Sammy Jackson (18-14-3.19), Mike Studebaker (15-12-2.70-3), John Stanley (12-14-3.82), Bill O’Halloran (8-13-3.20-2) and closer Len Miller (7-6-3.90-16)

November 1960: Ted Landry is named Secretary of Commerce.

November 1960: Rick Gatling is elected president of the United States after defeating incumbent George Welles.

December 1960 - On a televised interview, the wife of former Vice-President Maynard Jones reveals that she started out as a friend of the former VP, who so believed in him as a visionary leader that she married him knowing he was a homosexual and that she still respects and loves him as a friend and a leader of the nation.

December 5, 1960 -- The Imperial Council passes the Common Agricultural Policy. In the short term, it provides huge economic benefits to Sierra Leone and Kenya, the two poorest Dominions. In the long term, however, it will prove to be a drag on economic development in rural areas in both rich and poor Dominions.

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June 16th, 2006, 05:43 PM

1961

February 17th 1961- 81 years old Alvaro Obregon dies after serving in the US Senate for sixteen years. A respected member of the Senate and of the Democratic Party, he was considered a bridge between the old school of former Mexicans in the states of Baja, Sonora and Chihuahua and the rest of the States thanks to his charisma and his well respected record as a politician and a military leader.

April 1961 - A year after the anniversary of Vice-President Maynard Jones removal from office, his autobiography is published and becomes a controversial bestseller. The book is banned by many institutions in the US and abroad, but that only increases the publicity for the work.

April 10, 1961 - Adolph Hitler dies. He has a large state funeral. His son, Adolph Hitler Jr. is one of the pallbearers, though they never fully reconciled in life.

April 14, 1961 -- Austrian Parliament ratifies the Rules of War and Forum treaties, giving the Rules the necessary 2/3 vote to become binding international law and the Forum treaty the necessary 2/3 vote to become an official international organization.

April 19th 1961- British new design landship design, the Commander, entered service. While nations like the Germans and US began development of lighter and/or more mobile tanks the British stuck to with a heavier, more survivable design. With armour reaching 275mm and armed with a 120mm gun it’s only drawback was the weight of 70 tons and the slow speed of 30mph. The Commander was the main battle tank of the British Army during the Arabian War.

May 8, 1961 - President Mustafa Kemal of the Turko-Arabic Federation dies in office of heart disease.

June 18th 1961- Joo-Chan Lee, the de-facto leader of the Korean resistance to Japanization, dies in the city of Beijing. His body was moved to Korea later in the century and put down to rest in his hometown of Taejon.

June 28, 1961 - The Greenbush Extension is completed when the first train full of passengers arrives in Greenbush Station.

July 5, 1961 Alaska is admitted as a US state.

July 17, 1961 - A man assassinates former VP Jones at a book signing, making him a martyr for the nascent homosexual rights movement.

August 2nd 1961- The Southern Russian Tsar Michael Romanov dies at age 82. Before dying he has named as his successor his young grandnephew Alexander. Alexander was only eight years old and moved to Moscow in 1962. Count Georgy Zhukov was named regent, position he held until 1971, when young Alexander was crowned as Tsar.

August 17th 1961- Frank Anthony retires after twenty years as Minister of Education of India. During his tenure he established the education programs that raised the literacy percent on the nation to a 57% from a measly 19% it was in 1940.

September 25th 1961- Henrique Rosa declares the creation of the Party for the Liberation of Guinea, or PLG from a hideout in the Guinean jungle.

October 9th to 18th 1961- The Chicago White Sox defeat the New York Metropolitans 4 games to 3 to win their first World Series since 1952. Led by the hitting of their trio of outfielders, composed of Hank Davidson (.285-21-85 with 32 stolen bases), Orestes Miñoso (.280-14-82) and Lamar Wagner (.268-37-107) plus Leadership Award winner first baseman Clay Killbane (.288-46-122) and the pitching of Jim Kowalski (18-14-3.19-1), Cuban pitcher Camilo Pedroza (20-11-3.32), Dominican Pedro Romero (20-11-3.92-2) plus Earl Wyatt (13-12-3.42) this team win their division by eight games and them have to face the Philadelphia Phillies for five games before winning the Continental League pennant on their way to the Series.

October 17th 1961- The four ship class Urakaze (Bay Wind) enters service. Build to carry a SNLF Regiment and helicopters to carry them to their destination they were massive in size for a cargo and helicopter ferrying ship. While they looked like a carrier, with their 35,000 tons and their flying deck, in reality they were troop transports. They survived the war due to have been of the coast of Luzon during the conflict.

November 7th 1961- Japan launches their first SSB submarine. One of a four -boat class, they carried ten missiles and were completed by late 1962.

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June 16th, 2006, 05:43 PM

1962

1962 - Medina, the capital of the Emirate of the Hejaz, falls. Except for the British enclaves in the UAE, Aden, and Shi'ite Yemen, all of the Arabian Peninsula is under the control of the United Islamic Emirate.

January 12th 1962- First Chinese Mayor elected, in Oakland. His name is Patrick Jiang Wu.

February 24th 1962- First U1M entered service with the Imperial Japanese Fleet, the first of their class. With a maximum speed of 160 mph and a range of 500 miles, they were build to scout ahead any resistance ahead of the troops and to stay longer than the T2M’s to provide support for the troops. With a crew of two, the “flying lanships” were armed with a 30mm automatic gun in a rotating belly turret and a 40mm grenade launcher and two 7.7mm machine guns in a rotating nose turret. They used a laser range-finder for the first time in a helicopter and all was tied up by a fire control computer. Also it was armed with four ALM missiles build by Kawasaki in the pylons or twenty-four rockets.

March 27, 1962 - Wales is granted its own Parliament and representation within the Imperial government separate from England.

April 14th 1962- The Remington 1961 entered service with the United States Marines in a trial basis. The weapon was as revolutionary as the German GEW 40 was when it appeared in 1940. The weapon was a gas-delayed blowback operated weapon 5.45mm caliber weapon capable of firing in semi-auto, automatic and three round bursts fire and with a cyclic rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute using a 75 round disintegrating-link belt, pre-packed in a box drum and a clear plastic rear face so the operator could see how many rounds he had left. The weapon carried an integral bipod and a metal folding stock while the use of high strength alloys reduced the weight to less than ten pounds fully loaded. By the end of the year the Marines were asking for more of them and production was approved for all services.

May 17, 1962 - Parisian artist and inventor Pierre Delacroix patents a concept for an integrated circuit where transistors are printed using light exposure directly onto a wafer.

Summer 1962- With increased tension in the Arabian Peninsula, the British 8th Infantry Division is moved from their home base in Algiers to Aden.

July 7, 1962 - The Nevski Center publishes a paper demonstrating that cryogenic suspension of human organs is possible.

July 8, 1962 - The first mass producible oral contraceptive begins testing.

September 8, 1962 - An attempt at the Nevski Center to revive a frozen dog has mixed results. A young Alexander Lysenko begins to theorize on the use of high pressure during cryoinduction and rapid warming to avoid ice formation.

September 16th 1962- The Amatsukaze(Celestial Wind) and her sister Yukikaze(Snow Wind) enter service as the gauntlets of the Imperial Japanese Helicopter Force. Both with a weight of 20,000 tons and capable of reaching 33 knots they carried a complement of either 24 U1M helicopters or 36 T2Ms. They, together with the remaining Shinanos and the carriers Soryu and Hiryu, survived the Three Day War of 1967 due to have been the Task Force supporting the events in the Philippines and didn't participe in the battle of the Marianas Islands.

November 1962 Robert Fiorella LaGuardia is elected the Junior Senator for New York.

December 15th 1962- In a blockbuster trade, the Chicago White Sox send 37 year old Orestes Miñoso, pitchers Camilo Pedroza and Earl Wyatt plus two minor leaguers for two of the Continental League pennant winners Cleveland Naps regular players, shortstop Luis Alcantara and first baseman Roger Severs , pitcher Billy Pearson and one minor leaguer. The trade was criticized in Cleveland at the time due to the age of Miñoso and the players traded for him but the pitchers received in the trade when on to win twenty games apiece, Miñoso have a last great season before moving into a reserve role and the two minor leaguers received in the trade went on to have very decent careers but sadly with other teams.

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June 16th, 2006, 05:43 PM

1963

1963- The Commerce Fund buys the Pike Company, a mercenary group.

1963- Sunni bombings of Shi'ite Yemen start. Captured Russian weapons used by Allah's Will fanatics in Yemen are taken back to London as proof of Russian support to radical Muslim movements.

1963- The United States Army Air Corps unveils the revolutionary Wright Thunderbird. Powered by a turbojet with auxiliary rocket propulsion, it had a top speed of 1000 mph at altitude with a service ceiling of 50,000 feet and a range of 1200 miles, and was armed with no fewer than six 20 mm cannon.

March 3, 1963- Moroccan commandos using Russian purchased helicopters are instrumental in seizing strategic points in the Canary Islands, Melilla, and Ceuta from Spain in preparation for the occupation of those regions by the Moroccan military.

March 4, 1963- The Spanish prime minister vows to "fight for every square centimeter of Espana" as Moroccan troops besiege Ceuta and Melilla, land on the Canary Islands, and move into Spanish Morocco.

March 5, 1963- As the situation looks desperate, Spanish officers in Ceuta and Melilla authorize the use of chemical weapons to try to halt the Moroccan attacks. Civilian casualties rocket, but the Moroccans are halted.

March 6, 1963- Morrocan troops on the Canary Islandsare forced to retreat back to their beachheads.

March 8, 1963- Spanish and Moroccan warships engage each other off of the Canary Islands. The expensive American-built Moroccan missile boats are defeated by the Global War-era ex-German gun destroyers of the Spanish Navy.

March 9, 1963 - Clinical trials of oral contraceptives halted due to an unusually large number of young women in the trial developing dangerous blood clots.

March 12, 1963- A last-ditch attempt to supply the stranded Moroccans on the Canary Islands using an assortment of vessels impressed into military service fails as Spanish aircraft and warships destroy the unprotected convoy easily.

March 14, 1963- Ceuta and Melilla have been reinforced enough to the point where the Spanish Army can go on the offensive.

April 6, 1963- As Spanish forces press towards Fez, Great Britain offers to mediate the conflict. Morocco and Spain agree to send representatives to London.

April 15, 1963- The remaining Moroccan units on the Canary Islands surrender.

April 18, 1963- Spanish forces begin the siege of Fez. This siege became infamous for the liberal use of chemical weapons by the Spanish Army.

April 27, 1963- Sultan Mohammed VI's government is overthrown by his political opponents in a coup.

May 1st 1963- The Russian Luna module lands in the moon, the third nation to reach the earth satellite.

May 19, 1963- Spanish troops capture Fez.

May 20, 1963- A ceasefire comes into effect, as the new Sultan government in Morocco does not wish to continue his father's war of aggression.

June 19, 1963 - In Boston, service is finally reopened between Mattapan and Ashmont stations, completeing the revised system of streetcars in the city.

August 10, 1963- After months of negotiations, Morocco agrees to pay Spain an indemnity for the brief war and to allow Spanish forces to occupy parts of northern Morocco for a period of five years.

September 10th 1963- In the first major US overseas sale of M5A1, 300 of them are purchased by the Manchurians to upgrade their armored units. The old Ivan the Great landships of the 9th Armored are refurnished and used to create two independent armored brigades after the 12th Infantry is demobilized.

perdedor99

June 16th, 2006, 05:44 PM

1964

1964- Britain accuses both Russian countries of supplying the UIE. Both deny it, saying it must have been a third party.

1964 Republican National Convention nominates New York Governor John Fitzgerald LaGuardia as their nominee for President.

1964 Democratic National Convention nominates former actor turned California Governor Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. as their nominee for President.

March 19, 1964 - The first dog is successfully cryogenically vitrified and revived by Alexander Lysenko. He leaves the Nevski Center later that year to start his own cyrogenics group at the University of Saint Petersburg.

April 14th 1964- The Nicholas I landship began to be issued to active duty Russian cavalry divisions. Slower than the Nicholas II landship that it replaced, going at only 28mph, it was still an improvement over the vehicle that preceded them. The first landship armed with a smoothbore gun, a 115mm one, it was very well protected with 275mm of armour. The new gun gave them considerably greater velocity and power than the Panzer III equivalents or the M4A1.

July 1964- With tacit support from the African Relief Society, from where funds for the purchase of weapons were acquired, and with some members of the colonial government in Senegal, that allowed the shipments of weapons to arrive to the Portuguese colony, the PLG pretty much was in control of 2/3 of the territory of the colony of Portuguese Guinea plus half the population and announces they want to began talks with the Portuguese government from their hidden “capital” on the jungle. The Portuguese refused after consultations with the Germans, who also were suffering from increasing unrest in their colonies of Guinea and Ivory Coast. The response of the PLG was to begin funneling weapons to the pro-independence movement groups inside the German West African colonies.

October 1964 With television now the dominant media, former television and film star JP Kennedy Jr. is the clear winner of the debate against John F. LaGuardia. As this is the first election where both major party candidates are Catholic, they both pledge that the Vatican will in no way influence their governance of the nation.

November 1964 Democrat JP Kennedy Jr. wins the US Presidential election, beating Republican John F. LaGuardia. JPK's excellent performance in televised debates and national fatigue with New Yorkers as president are cited as the two major factors contributing to the results.

November 1964: Ted Landry returns to Michigan and is elected governor again, refusing to run for Senate, saying that he prefers local government where he can actually get direct work done rather then "Just sit around and argue with 103 other guys."

perdedor99

July 6th, 2006, 12:12 AM

1965

1965- The UIE organizes its so-called "Unified Islamic Army". The Unified Army was in reality divided into three forces, the Regular Army, the Security Forces and the Mujahideens. The Regular Army was composed of 30,000 with the two Armored brigades; both of them facing the Turko-Arabic Federation and fully motorized with Russian build landships and troop carriers, and two infantry brigades plus support personnel. The air component of the Regular Army was composed of over 100 Russian first generation jet fighters. It was interesting that in the early part of the war the RAF didn’t fly over UIE territory while the UIE aircrafts didn’t ventured into Aden, making Yemen the only area were both forces faced each other. The Security Directorate is a 10,000 strong force used for internal security. The Mujahideens was a 40,000 strong force composed of volunteers from all Islamic countries that bend in exporting their brand of Islam to the rest of the Islamic world that before the 1965 organization were mainly a light infantry force. They were the ones mainly facing the British in the Arabian War, but in that conflict were organized into eight fully integrated light motorized brigades, equipped with American build wheeled armored transports and supported by tracked mobile 105mm artillery and Russian build ALS missiles to combat the British landships. The Unified Islamic Army was a motivated force and one well trained by Russian and American “advisors”; they gave a good account of themselves during the Arabian War until the raw numbers of the Commonwealth and the Turko-Arab Federation finally defeated them.

February 8th 1965-With pressure from the Imperial Council mounting to end their policies of Apartheid, the Dominions of Rhodesia and South Africa announced their intention to withdrew of the British Empire and declared their independence one week later, federating themselves as the Federation of Southern Africa.

February 22nd 1965- President Kennedy announces the US is recognizing the new nation in South Africa, stating “any nation in the world has the right decide how they want to be ruled.” Criticized by certain sectors of the US by this decision, later historians now acknowledge his decision was based in the conclusion that this will weaken the British Empire when at the time the US and British were involved into competition.

March 19th 1965- Portugal recognizes the South African Federation as an independent nation, beginning the ties that bound them for the rest of the Century.

April 7th 1965- Japanese Prime Minister Arisue dies from complications related to pneumonia. In another rush for power no clear winner emerges and a Junta is created, with Lt General Takahashi Ishikawa as the front man of the Junta.

April 8th 1965- South African Federation Prime Minister Augustus Rupert announces a reorganization of their Federation forces, now renamed the South African Federation Army or SAFA. While using old British equipment at the beginning, by the end of the decade they have completed a military weapons deal with the Spanish and Southern Russian governments, making possible the arrival of Spanish Aguila fighter-bombers and Cossack Cavalry landships. The Territorial Forces were composed of three divisions of three brigades, composed of three battalion size “regiments” with three artillery regiments of battalion size. The infantry divisions included infantry, motorized infantry and even armored regiments. The Permanent Force armored forces were composed of the South African Armored Brigade with two full Regiments as part of their order of battle, both of them first issued the British Conqueror but one of them later was issued the Russian Cossack. The infantry branch of the SAFA were one mechanized battalion, three motorized battalions, nine light infantry battalions, one airmobile regiment of two battalions and one territorial battalion and the Special Service Battalion. The Special Service battalion was a mix unit composing infantry, landships and mobile artillery, expected to be the first unit to enter combat. Also the Rhodesian forces were composed of the Rhodesian Rifles Regiment (two Permanent, one territorial battalions) and the Rhodesian African Rifles (three colored infantry battalions with white officers.)

May 19th 1965- Ahmed Yaya Diallo unites the distinct anti-colonial movements in German Guinea and creates the Coalition for the Independence of Guinea. The Germans closed their borders with the Dominion of Sierra Leone, Liberia and the other British colonies in the area but the territory was too primitive to support a blockade for too long and the smuggling of weapons continued; especially from Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Summer 1965- Manchuria began a reorganization of their military. With a massive purchase of troop carriers from Russia it was possible to convert the first three infantry divisions into mechanized ones, with 300 German Panzer III tanks purchased to be used in those divisions landship regiments. Three other divisions were converted into motorized divisions while the other three remaining infantry divisions were disbanded and their effectives being used as independent infantry brigades. The two armored divisions and armored brigades remained with no change. The Chinese were worried by the massive purchase of weaponry but the announcement of the reduction in size overall of the Manchurian Army eased the Chinese concerns a little bit.

July 1965: The Ethiopian Bureau of Commerce announces that the GDP is $10,000/capita, making Ethiopia, by some measures, as wealthy as the British. The Senate celebrates by changing the dollar coin to gold-colored.

September 1965 - Anders Swensson, a graduate student under Alexander Lysenko, attempts the first cryonic suspension of a primate, with limited success. Problems with volume begin to inhibit the current cryonic vitrification process.

September 6th 1965- On this day the first of the Panzer IV rolled of the assembly line. After the lean years of the middle and late 1950’s, when the majority of the German military budget when to the development of ballistic missiles and jet aircrafts, the Heer designers began to work on the replacement of the Panzer III. The vehicle they come up with was revolutionary. Even with a weight of 64 tons the vehicle was capable of reaching 55mph due to the powerful turbine engine capable of 1500hp. It was armed with a gyro-stabilized 120mm gun capable of being used while the vehicle was moving, one coaxial 20mm gun and a 7.62 machinegun mounted on the top of the turret of the commander. But the most revolutionary was the armor protection. A composite armour of ceramic tiles within a matrix layered between steel armour plating designed in response to the increased power of the new generations of armor gauntlets, it made possible to protect the vehicle with less armor.

September 17th 1965- Sir Oswald Mosley is elected Prime Minister of Great Britain in a Labour/Liberal coalition government.

December 19th 1965- The new racial laws in the Portuguese colonies are put into effect. It pretty much assures the assimilados or educated Africans were going to receive the same rights as whites in the colonies, the same as mesticos or half-breeds. Those same rights were implied in the old racial laws, but this time it was being enforced, making possible for the first time for assimilados to have the complete political rights they were entitled by the old law. With the white, assimilado and mestico population only reaching a ten percent of a population of 4 million the government considered the whites needed all the help they can get, especially with growing unrest in the German Congo. But the new laws did nothing to eliminate the tax requisites for the natives, forcing them to work for free for the government if not able to pay for a head tax.

perdedor99

July 6th, 2006, 12:13 AM

1966

1966- The UIE invades Yemen. Britain declares war on the UIE.

1966 - The Turko-Arabic Federation declares war on the UEI alongside the British. The Kemalists in power consider militant fundamentalism the greatest threat to the Turko-Arabic nation.

January 1966- The Imperial Japanese Navy launches the first two "supercarriers". The Zuiyu and Hirkaku carry nearly a hundred modern fighters, and are a full 40,000 tons larger than any other carrier ever built. They are also the first nuclear-powered surface warships.

January 19th 1966- Ukrainian Russia announces the sale of another 150 of their Cossack Cavalry Landships to the UIE. They were used to form the 1st Islamic Armored Brigade with another 150 acquired before. British public opinion attacks this sale stating it was a proof of their support for the guerillas in Yemen, but the Ukrainians defended their actions stating than landships are not the weapons being used by the guerillas plus they have the right sell their products in the open market.

February 7th 1966- General Kurt Nast is assigned to command the German forces in German West Africa. He discovered that while the guerilla movement was very small in the Ivory Coast and based mainly in the Liberian border the colony of Guinea was spiraling out of control.

March 18th 1966- The Russian began their secret Soyuz program. Using the moon missions as cover, the Soyuz were the first space stations ever build. Three of them were launched between this date and July 1967 in different orbits to cover different communication satellite trails. Designed to allow crews to stay for a month, they had highly classified recon equipment and a 30mm cannon designed to destroy enemy communication satellites.

April 1966- Hide Nobugawa advocates Neo-Samurai era architecture, and and buys land near Tokyo

April 14th 1966- United States began construction of their response to the Japanese Zuiyu class carriers. The four-ship Theodore Roosevelt class was named for 20th century presidents. Slightly bigger than the Japanese ships, they were the first US nuclear powered ships and arrived by late 1970. They also arrived right on time, with the casualties of the Three-day War stretching the resources of the US Navy to the limit.

May 1966- Will Roberts graduates from International Law from Georgetown University and accepts a job with the United States State Department after graduation. Many said his political views were shaped by the ones of President John Kennedy, being himself a Democrat and having campaigned for him during his stay in College.

May 7th 1966- Mayor Wu is found dead by his car with the Chinese symbol for death marked with a knife into his chest. The Chinese Mafia is implicated.

June 26th 1966- President John P. Kennedy creates a special Task Force under former Attorney General during the Welles administration Adlai Stevenson to fight what the President described as “the growing danger of organized crime to the fabric of America.” He called the assassination of the Chinese mayor of Oakland “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” and that “all the illicit organizations growing thru the illegal traffic of liquor will be targeted.”

July 14th 1966- Unified Islamic Army troops cross the border into Yemen and began moving in the direction of Saana. British Prime Minister Mosley announces “the move by the UIE is a provocation and we ask for them to retire their forces in 48 hours. Any failure to comply will meant a state of war exist between the British Empire and the UIE.”

July 15th 1966- Expecting the UIE to reject their demarche, British Prime Minister Mosley orders the mobilization of the 1st Line Territorial divisions. But almost twenty years of peace showed in their equipment and in the speed of the units getting ready for action. While the Regular Army landship units were already equip with the Commander, a Territorial Brigade named the 21st Royal Tank Brigade was hastily formed with Conquerors as their combat vehicle. Also the 5th and 6th Cavalry Brigades were recalled and exchanged their old American build landships for Conquerors available from storages depots. In total twelve infantry divisions were recalled in that first wave, including three motorized ones and the Territorial airmobile division.

July 16th 1966- With the UIE ignoring the British demarche, Mosley announced a state of war existed between the British Empire and the UIE. He ordered the immediate insertion of the 1st Airmobile Division to Aden and marked for immediate deployment to the area three divisions, including the Middle East Landship Division and the “Bombay Division.”

July 30th 1966- The Turko-Arabic Federation declares war to the UIE and began moving forces south. President Kemal declares “the British finally have opened their eyes to the threat the Fundamentalist were to peace in the region. We approve of their actions and we join them in riding the world of this evil.”

August 3rd 1966- A major defeat for British forces occurs on this date. With only the 8th Infantry and the 1st Airmobile in country the British forces weren’t enough to force the United Islamic Army from Yemen, with the 8th Infantry pushed south from the cities of Sanaa and Al Hudaydah while the 1st Airmobile was pushed away from the Omani border finally creating a defensive line in Al Mukalla.

August 5th 1966- First major British reinforcements arrive with the 52nd Airmobile Division arriving to Aden’s airport while the Bombay Division began to unload in the harbor.

August 5th to 7th 1966- TAF forces are defeated in their attempts to cross into UIE territory in the Battle of Khafji, with the Mesopotamian Sunni brigades being routed by the more motivated “Islamic Army” troops. The Shiite and Kurdish brigades covered the retreat of the TAF forces back into their territory but the battle demonstrated the problems of the TAF army.

August 17th to 21st 1966- Battle of Aqaba. The city of Aqaba is captured by the “Islamic Army” 1st Armored Brigade, assisted by Security Forces. The TAF was shocked by the attack and the garrison composed of a Palestinian infantry division was overwhelmed before reinforcements arrived. The reinforcements, a Bedouin infantry division, also failed in dislodging the enemy troops from the city.

September 3rd 1966- “Islamic Army” forces abandon Aqaba when news of the imminent arrival of more TAF reinforcements made their position unattainable. They achieved their objective of causing damage to the infrastructure of the city while in principle demolishing two TAF infantry divisions.

September 19th 1966- A design originally presented in the competition for the new German landship is accepted by the Central European Federation to be their new landship, called the Panzer III. Capable of reaching 50mph even with a weight of 60 tons thanks to an engine very similar to the one used by the German IV. The armor consisted of two spaced layers, the inner a softer steel that serve as the liner, and the outer of harder cold-rolled steel. The spacing was included to help defeat the new portable missiles used to defeat landships. The armor was an improvement over all current landships except for the German composite armor that was still secret at the time. With only six feet from the ground to the top of the turret, the vehicle was armed with a gyro-stabilized 120mm main gun, a coaxial 7.62mm machine-gun and a AA 20mm gun covered in a cupola in the turret.

Fall 1966 - The first British offensive fails to push the UIE out of Yemen.

September 24th 1966- With the arrival of the Middle East Landship Division and the 7th Infantry Division, the British launched an offensive to dislodge the “Islamic Army” from Yemen. In an operation where the British 8th and 7th Infantry divisions, the Bombay infantry division and the Middle East Landship Division were utilized the Islamic forces used to their advantage the terrain and their large quantity of armored gauntlets to good effect during what is considered a failed operation.

September 28th to 29th 1966- Battle of Dhamar. The British Middle East Landship Division is ambushed south of the city by missile armed Islamic troops and basically decimated. The armour of their vehicles wasn’t enough to stop the enemy armoured gauntlets and only the vehicles having the engine in the front saved many crews from certain death. Still from 320 Commanders that went into battle close to 200 were either destroyed, damaged beyond repair or need to be left behind. When news of the defeat reached London, Prime Minister Mosley blamed the past administration “for the terrible state in what our forces are forced to go into battle.” He also promised that their deaths were going to be avenged and “in the end the British Empire will survive this new threat to their stability. We will be victorious and you can count on my word that we will do so.”

September 29th to October 1st 1966- Battle of Zabid and Battle of Harib. The British 7th Infantry Division captures the city of Zabid while the Bombay Division did the same by capturing the city of Harib. But after a three days of combat in both cities the casualties were appalling and orders were given to cancel the offensive after only a week into it. The British High Command were surprised by the well armed and trained Islamic forces and it was decided to overwhelm them by numbers, with orders being given to raise the number of units in the area to equal four times the enemy forces. At the same time the Royal Air Force began a campaign to eliminate the enemy infrastructure in Yemen.

October 8th 1966- German General Kurt Nast decides to use chemical weapons and defoliants to try to defeat the rebellion in Guinea.

November 4th 1966- The Royal Indian Army four airmobile Gurkha regiments are sent as reinforcements to Aden, the first Dominion forces to arrive for duty to the Arabian War.

November 18th 1966- The Boston Blue Sox acquire in two different trades outfielder Bob Robinson from Cincinnati and first baseman Osvaldo Fernandez from the Metropolitans on this date. These two players turned into the pillars of a Boston team that won two consecutive World Series and were an important part of this team into the early and middle 1970’s.

Glen

July 9th, 2006, 01:31 AM

1967

1967 - The British push the UIE out of Yemen and begin to invade further into UIE held territory. The British have taken the lessons of their initial poor performance to heart, and the rusty giant is on the move once more.

February 1967 -- The Mellon Institute reports that average temperatures in "The Big Green Belt" have risen by 1.6ºC over the past 15 years after dropping 1.9ºC over the prior 50 years, while local temperatures in virtually every other location associated with heavy industry worldwide have dropped 1.1-2.4ºC. They tentatively credit the change to the large clouds of black smoke that tend to block sunlight in areas with heavy industrial activity.

February 1967- Nobugawa works with architect Pierre LaFontaine to create designs for the buildings. They decide on one that they deem the most "efficient and stylish"

February 19th 1967- South African Federation Prime Minister Augustus Rupert takes advantage of the British situation in Arabia to raise the issue of the status of the protectorate of Bechuanaland. The area was completely surrounded by the South African Federation and a mere appendage of South Africa, supplying migrant workers and surviving thru British Empire subsidies.

February 24th 1967- The British 1st Landship Division arrives to Aden, followed days later by the Territorial 21st Tank Brigade plus the 5th and 6th Cavalry Brigades. Those units, together with the mauled Middle East Landship Division, formed the basis for the British Armored Corps that gave a good account of themselves in the drive to Medina and Mecca.

March 1967- An anti-Japanese government comes to power in the Philippines.

March 1967- Three motorized Divisions arrive to Aden. They were attached to the Armored Corps as soon as they arrived. Also during the month of March one Australian, a Canadian division, one Irish Division, a Caribbean-Guyanian Brigade and the Indian Mahratta Light Infantry Division arrived to Aden, bringing the number of troops in the area to close to four times the quantity of enemies facing them. By the end of the month the British commander in the area, Lt. General William Gott, considered his forces to be ready to advance.

March 17th 1967- After a month long negotiations and with the British Empire fully involved with the war in Arabia, British Prime Minister Mosley finally relented and announced the administration of Bechuanaland territory was going to be transferred to the South African Federation.

April-May 1967- The Philippines government unsuccessfully tries to negotiate a deal with the Japanese military junta that would result in the closure of all Japanese military bases in the country by 1972.

May 12th 1967- Operation Olympus is launched by British forces in Yemen while TAF forces began moving South after reinforcing their forces.

May 13th 1967- The whole 1st Air Mobile Division and the 52nd Air Mobile Division with the Indian Gurkha battalions attached are dropped behind enemy lines in the largest drop of troops ever in history. They achieved their objectives in capturing the roads and supply routes to the cities of Sanaa and Al Hudaydah, resisting attempts to dislodge them and eventually being relieved by infantry divisions by the end of the month.

May 16th to 17th 1967- 2nd Battle of Khafji. The TAF ethnic Turk armored division and the two motorized divisions crushed the “Islamic Army” 2nd Armored Brigade, effectively eliminating it in the biggest battle between landships since the Global War. The casualties were heavy for both forces, with over 200 landships destroyed or damaged on the Turkish side but the 2nd Islamic Armored Brigade was gutted, with only 20 operational vehicles being able to escape. That left the Security forces in the area and the 2nd Infantry Brigade as the only forces capable of stopping the TAF in Eastern Arabia.

May 17th to 19th 1967- Battle of Tabuk- The Jewish Corps defeat the “Islamic Army” 1st Armored Brigade and force them South in the direction of Medina. Political considerations forced the TAF to order the Syrian and Islamic Lebanese units to continue the pursuit, leaving the Jews to garrison the conquered province.

May 22nd 1967- Using massive air power to keep the enemy on the defensive, the British Armored Corps reached Sanaa, cutoff the city and bypassed it, leaving the battle for their capture to the Commonwealth 1st Corps, composed of the Canadian and the Irish divisions.

May 24th 1967- Port city of Dhahran captured by TAF forces. After the defeat in Khafji the Eastern Arabian command of the “Islamic Army” was in disarray and the Turks continued their advance at a fairly fast clip.

May 26th 1967- Port city of Al Hudaydah falls to the 2nd Commonwealth Corps.

June 1967- The Philippines government secretly requests that the nation's armed forces draw up plans to drive out the Japanese military units by force. Aid from the United States is asked for through diplomatic channels, but the Filipino pleas for help are ignored. The plans for a lightning attack on the Japanese bases are still developed, but are not set into motion.

June 3rd 1967- British Armored Corps crossed the Yemeni border and moved north in the direction of Mecca.

June 9th 1967- Sanaa finally is declared secured by the 1st Commonwealth Corps in a press conference celebrated in the ruined Royal Palace. Still sporadically gunfire could be heard on the distance and a curfew was implemented in the city that lasted well into July.

June 18th 1967- Medina falls to advancing TAF forces after city being declared an open city by the city defenders, who withdrew south in the direction of Mecca.

June 23rd 1967- The British Armored Corps reach Mecca before the TAF forces but only concentrated in surrounding the city, political considerations being taking into account.

June 25th 1967- After two days of negotiations the garrison of the city of Mecca is allowed to leave the city after a plea to safeguard the Muslim Holy Places and the promise his forces could leave the city with all their equipment convinced General Ibn Muhammad, commander of Western Arabia, to do so. The General was executed for his troubles after his arrival to Oman. While he lost the Holy Cities he saved the 1st Armored Brigade and the 1st Infantry Brigade that fought very well later in the war.

July 7, 1967 - Anders Swensson and Alexander Lysenko succeed in reviving the first cryogenically suspended chimpanzee. However, it is clear from post revivication study that significant brain damage is still occuring even if the animal is revivable. Whether this is due to continued low level crystal formation or the chemicals used to hamper ice formation or even barotrauma is not known.

August 1967- Work begins on a small neighborhood of the style. The small model community is called Edo, and is located near Tokyo.

August 1, 1967- The Japanese government announces that the hugest military exercise in over a decade will be held off the west coast of Luzon in November.

August 2, 1967- The President of the Philippines survives an assasination attempt against him by a Muslim extremist wearing a jacket filled with explosives.

August 3, 1967- The Philippines government panics, believing that the Japanese exercise and the assasination attempt of their president are linked. The country's armed forces are given orders to launch the offensive against the Japanese on August 17.

August 6th 1967- Puerto Rico agrees to extend the lease of MacArthur Roads for another 30 years.

August 7, 1967- The Japanese government learns of the Philippine plans through their large spy network in the nation. A Japanese delegation secretly comes to Manila, reveals their knowledge of the plan to the Filipinos, and demands that the Philippines allow the Japanese armed forces to occupy and demilitarize the country immediately. The time limit for a response to their ultimatum is 48 hours.

August 8, 1967 - Ion Petrescu is assassinated while speaking in Transylvania. Both Teutonic and Romanian extremist groups claim responsibility, confusing the issue. No one is ever arrested for his death. The death of Ion Petrescu becomes one of the greatest subjects of conspiracy theories in the latter half of the XXth Century.

August 8, 1967- The Philippines frantically conduct diplomacy with the United States. Against the suggestions of all of his advisors, President Kennedy guarantees Philippine independence.

August 9, 1967- With the US guarantee in hand, the Philippines reject the Japanese ultimatum.

August 10, 1967- The Japanese government announces to the world what the Philippines' plans are, and that they intend to disarm the "rogue state" by force if necessary.

August 11, 1967- President Kennedy announces in a television address that Japanese aggression against the Philippines will not be tolerated. He demands that the Japanese military conduct no offensive action against the Filipinos, and that they close their military bases. The US military goes to DEFCON 3

August 12, 1967- In response to President Kennedy's announcement, a huge portion of the Combined Fleet, including two "supercarriers" and six other carriers, sets sail from Japan headed for the Philippines. The Japanese military is put on full alert.

August 13, 1967- The United States' Pacific Fleet, including eleven carriers, sets sail from bases along the West Coast and in Hawaii, enroute to the Philippines. The United States military goes to DEFCON 2. The Combined Fleet detours from its original course and heads east towards the American fleet.

August 17, 1967- The two fleets are nearing each other north of the Marianas Islands when Japanese aircraft and helicopters launch a pre-emptive attack on the Filipino military. Air strikes are immediately launched by the US fleet versus the Japanese, and the most intense naval battle in history begins. Japanese antisubmarine aircrafts turn the battle underwater against the Americans, but superior American missile technology allows the US surface fleet to survive much better than the IJN. By midnight, three Japanese carriers have been sunk, and their two supercarriers are cripples, while the US has lost two carriers and has had another four crippled. The Japanese offensive in the Philippines takes the Filipino military completely off-guard, and aviation units begin seizing key points throughout the country. Japanese long-range bombers attack American bomber bases in Hawaii and Alaska, and US bombers attack Japanese bases in the Kuriles and the Home Islands.

August 17th 1967- The two biggest ships in the Filipino Navy, the PNS Luzon and the PNS Cebu are sunk by Japanese aircrafts while anchored in the Cavite Naval Base. The ships, two coastal battleships build by the Japanese for the Filipinos in the 1920’s, were veterans of the Global War and received extensive upgrades in the late 1950’s but they were surprised by the Japanese actions and were sunk fairly easy by the attacking Japanese.

August 18, 1967- As the battle hangs in the balance in the Marianas, yet appears to be going better for the USN, a IJN submarine commander orders the use of two nuclear torpedos to be used against a USN carrier, which is destroyed. By noon, the USN is retaliating with nuclear torpedoes, depth charges, and missiles launched against the IJN. The Japanese responds in kind. By midnight, nearly thirty atomic devices have been expended, and the IJN is left with no carriers, while only two US carriers still survive, in a crippled state. The Japanese heavy bomber force has been virtually annihilated, while the USAF long-range bombers are severely weakened. The Japanese Army continues to do well in the Philippines.

August 19, 1967- Still under orders from the military junta, one of the two surviving Japanese SSBs that have managed to evade all American submarines and get into firing range launch a "shot across the bows" of that destroys Anderson Air Force Base in Guam with a 1MT bomb that decimated the island. President Kennedy orders a retaliatory strike and a missile destroyed the Imperial Air Base based in Kaneda, Okinawa.

August 19th 1967- The Emperor's Coup. Minutes after the US response to the attack to Guam, the Emperor's aide Captain Matsumoto Kaneda informs him of the actions of the Junta that had resulted in the effective destruction of the island of Okinawa. Emperor Hirohito, unaware of the orders to destroy US bases in American soil, gaves a letter to Captain Kaneda that allows him to convince high ranking Naval and army commanders to rise against the Junta. Thirty five minutes after the US response heliborne SNLF troops secured the TV stations in Tokyo and arrested the Junta in a bunker in the outskirts of Tokyo. Emperor Hirohito appeared in national Television for the first time and announced the crimes commited by the Junta and their arrest. He denies any knowledge of their actions and presents video of their executions. Also he stated he desired a ceasefire and asked the Russian government to serve as intermediary in the negotiations.

August 20th 1967- The former aide to the Emperor, Imperial Navy Captain Matsumoto Kaneda, is named provisional Prime Minister. His first announcement was that elections would be held by August next year, the first free ones in close to thirty years.

August 21st 1967- British Prime Minister Mosley declares that he was appalled by the casualties suffered by both the United States and Japan; sending his condolences to the families of the victims. He also stated that while he considered the United States actions could have a been a provocation to the Japanese Empire more important was the Japanese violation of the 1938 San Francisco Treaty and informed the press that he was flying to Berlin to discuss the situation with his German counterpart.

August 22nd 1967- German Chancellor Gustav Heinemann joined by his British and Central European Federation colleagues on the podium expressed his condolences to the families of the victims but afterwards gave a very stern speech condemning the Japanese violation of the San Francisco Treaty. While mentioning the recent event in the Marianas without showing any preference with either side he was very direct in stating the Central Powers and the British Empire were not going to allow the continued existence of “a Japanese nuclear armed nation sitting in the Pacific” He was adamant in stating what kind of reaction the three nations were going to take but assured the press that “peaceful avenues will be first explored to end this.”

Fall 1967 - Millions of Romanians in the Romanian states take to the streets in silent protest of the death of Ion Petrescu, the Martyr of Romania. They demand not only equality, but a measure of independence from the Austrian empire.

August 24th 1967- With a ceasefire in place, delegates from the United States, Japan, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Great Britain began arriving to Wellington to discuss a permanent end to the crisis.

August 27th 1967- Last organized resistance in the Philippines is defeated by Japanese troops. A provisional government is put in place and announces their intention to extend the lease of the Japanese bases in the islands.

September 11th 1967- An agreement is reached in Wellington to end the crisis in the Pacific. The US was furious with the results but the European nations achieved their objective of disarming Japan of all nuclear weapons under their control in exchange for assurances that their area of influence will be respected. The Europeans privately were glad of the trashing both nations suffered, changing the power structure of the Pacific.

Winter 1967 - The Federal government of the Austrian Empire in the face of both internal and international pressure agrees to a plan for quasi-autonomy for the Romanian states. The former two provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia would be reunited and their independence granted on the model similar to the German Empire. The new nation will recognize the Federated Empire Kaiser as their Emperor but they will have their own ruler, a Grand Duke, and their own domestic government. Foreign affairs will remain under the control of the Federal Empire.