Autumn in America: A TL-191 Continuation

Introduction: What is Autumn? (Aims, Premise, Notes, and Acknowledgements)

Nearly 15 years ago now, Harry Turtledove completed his Southern Victory series, a wide-reaching tale of a divided North America, plagued just as much as the rest of the world by the wars and horrors of the early 20th century. Though definitely flawed and often criticised for overt parallelism and historical determinism, it nonetheless remains a substantial work of alternate history, and Turtledove’s magnum opus. Like many others, I discovered the series through Alternatehitsoryhub and Emperor Tigerstar’s series on the novels, inaccurate as it was, and I found myself reading the novels exploring the world Turtledove created not too long after.

Having spent some time reading through and discussing many people’s interpretations of the series, two different views of how the story might continue became apparent; that the United States would either survive and successfully bring the once independent Confederacy back into the fold, or that it would falter, and share the fate of the otl Soviet Union. For a while, I found myself accepting the first interpretation, exemplified in David bar Elias’ After the End which covered the history of the world after In at the Death up until the then-present day. Though I had my own interpretation of events, it was heavily influenced by David’s. That was until I encountered this map https://www.deviantart.com/rvbomally/art/TL-191-Yankee-Spring-624703561 and accompanying lore and text, by RvBOMally. In his writeup, he outlined why he believed that the United States would ultimately fail to fully reintegrate the former Confederacy, and would be forced to either grant it independence under a client regime, or collapse under its own weight. Since then, my view has aligned with the latter category, and it is with that presumption in mind that I am writing this timeline.

Before I begin to put pen to paper however, I must acknowledge some very key things, notably including my complete inexperience in this sort of thing. This is the first project of this type that I have attempted; I am far more familiar with bringing alternate worlds to light through code, in focus trees, event chains, and portraits, all while dealing with the usual shit-flinging of the Hearts of Iron 4 community. I am not by any means an experienced writer or worldbuilder, and I’m not beginning this with much more than a general outline of world history in mind. I therefore welcome any suggestions or ideas.

Another thing I have to be clear on is the influence of David and RvBOMally’s timelines and ideas on my own. My timeline will share some aspects with After The End, most notably Humphrey and Blackford both becoming President at the same time in each timeline, though under different circumstances, especially for Blackford, and I acknowledge his influence on that. I also borrow the general premise of Yankee Spring, vaguely following a similar story outline to that map.

My general aim with this timeline is to follow a similar level of parallelism as Turtledove did, and to stick with the central theme of the Southern Victory series; that being a rebuke of American Exceptionalism. I am writing it to be consistent with the lore of the Southern Victory mod for Hearts of Iron 4, which I lead the development of, and to which this is essentially a side project.

With that out of the way, let us begin.
 
Chapter 1: Pacts of Steel (1945-53)

“I fear a curtain has fallen across the North Atlantic…The day where Germany and America come to blows draws near.” - Kurt Schuschnigg, 1946

“The American People have seen the consequences of standing idly by while inhuman oppression carries on…We do not seek conflict with Germany, nor with Europe as a whole, but we will not cower in the face of forces we once let destroy a nation.” - Thomas E. Dewey, 1948

“I never knew Tom Dewey that well, all things considered. I met him a few times during his time in office, and once or twice when I was Secretary of State, but he wasn’t someone I would consider anything more than an acquaintance…What one must understand about Dewey is that he was the first Democratic President to truly accept the Socialist Party. Coolidge especially saw us as a temporary nuisance. Dewey was different.” - Joshua Blackford, The Presidents, 2003

February 1, 1945 - Thomas Edmund Dewey is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States.

February 5, 1945 - Elections are held in the United Kingdom. The ruling Conservatives, currently leading a minority government under Horace Wilson are resoundingly defeated for their role, losing over 80% of their 212 seats. The Labour Party under Herbert Morrison wins over 450 seats, with the Liberals coming a distant second. The Silver Shirts’ political front, the New Party, is expelled from Parliament, while the Communists double their representation. Morrison will be invited by King Edward VIII to form government by the end of the week. He takes on the arduous task of rebuilding a nation soundly defeated in war and ravaged by superbomb attacks, and with a rapidly crumbling Empire.

February 7, 1945 - Britain finishes its final withdrawal from Ireland. A German expeditionary force assists the Irish Provisional Government in maintaining law and order while new elections are organised.

February 10, 1945 - Irish President-in-Exile Michael Collins returns to Dublin.

March 1-8, 1945 - President Dewey meets with Franz von Papen, his German counterpart, in Versailles, France, to determine the shape of the post-war world. Though the two agree to work to avoid superbomb proliferation, the two leaders clash on the issue of German colonial possessions in Africa - a sign of things to come.

March 19, 1945 - With US control over the occupied Confederate States secured, General Irving Morrell returns to Philadelphia with fanfare. He is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions in the invasion of Georgia.

March, 1945 - Germany moves to occupy formerly French West Africa. Morocco declares independence, while Italian forces occupy Tunis. Anti-colonial forces have already gained a foothold in the region during the collapse of French power however, and will prove an enduring thorn in Germany’s side.

April, 1945 - The last of the major Philadelphia Trials conclude, with the final high-ranking Freedom Party members being sentenced. Most notable is the 20-year sentence of Featherston’s Secretary of the Treasury, and later Secretary of War, James F. Byrnes. Byrnes professed remorse for his role in the Rapture, and for preparing the confederate economy for war. Later historians will reflect that Byrnes’ light sentence was undeserved, considering later revelations about the true scale of his involvement in the Featherston Regime.

April 22, 1945 - The largest Remembrance Day Parades in history take place, second only to the July 1944 victory parade in Philadelphia. General Morrell leads the procession in the capitol. It is here that the General’s daughter meets then-Private Joshua Blackford, placed in the General’s escort through the connections of his mother.

May 10, 1945 - President Wright Patman of the Second Republic of Texas is overthrown in an American-backed coup. The New Social-Democratic President, Lyndon Johnson, drafts a new constitution.

June 30, 1945 - General Abner Dowling retires from active service.

July 29 - October 15, 1945 - The Berlin Peace Conference takes place, determining the final fate of the Entente powers. The terms of the Berlin Peace Treaties include the following:
-Canada is permanently ceded to the US, ending the ambiguous status of the former Dominion since the end of the First Great War.
-The Confederate States of America ceases to exist, and is annexed by the United States of America, for the purposes of “reuniting rightful American territory”.
-The Second Republic of Texas is internationally recognised.
-The French and British West Indies are ceded to the United States, with their final status to be decided by an American-overseen referendum.
-British Guyana is divided between Venezuela and the Netherlands.
-The German occupation of mainland France is to continue until 1952.
-The German-organised Fourth French Republic is internationally recognised.
-France is forbidden from maintaining an army of more than 100,000, an air force of over 200 planes, or a navy more than 10% the size of Germany.
-Britain, France, and Russia are to each pay billions of Marks in reparations. All three are also forbidden from possessing Superbombs.
-Britain is to withdraw from all colonies by 1955. Britain’s minor atlantic and pacific are to be split between the United States and Germany.
-Britain is forbidden from maintaining a navy more than 50% the size of Germany.
-The independence of the Republic of Byelorussia is recognised internationally.
-States annexed by Russia in the leadup to the Second Great War are restored to independence.

Russia is granted a degree of lenience due to the ongoing Bolshevik revolt.

August 20, 1945 - South Africa holds its first post-war elections, resulting in the white-supremacist National Party taking power. Under Prime Minister D. F. Malan, a policy of Apartheid is introduced, and Confederate expatriots are welcomed into the country. The United States closes its embassy in the country in 1946 in response.

October, 1945 - Japan secures its hold over its South-East Asian colonies; the ongoing indochinese revolt is suppressed and driven into the countryside for the time being, and Indonesia is likewise pacified.

October 15, 1945 - Former Minister of War Oswald Mosley is assassinated in his home in outer London. The culprit is never caught, leading to many a conspiracy theory.

October 26, 1945 - President Dewey signs the landmark Civil Rights Act into law, forbidding discrimination on the basis of race.

November 1, 1945 - President Dewey creates the 5-star rank of Marshal of the United States, appointing Generals Irving Morrell, Daniel MacArthur, and Smedley Butler to the position.

November 27, 1945 - Australia holds its first post-war elections, electing opposition leader Ben Chifley as Prime Minister. Chifley’s Australian Labor Party will lead Australia’s alignment into the Western Bloc, in response to Japanese encroachment and aggression.

December 10, 1945 - Henry Stimson’s report on the state of the occupied south is handed in to President Dewey. Its lenient terms for granting citizenship and statehood are rejected by the administration.

January 5, 1946 - Abner Dowling marries Ophelia Clemens in San Francisco. The two have begun to write Dowling’s autobiography, which many will describe as a “hit piece”, “defaming the legacy of two great American heroes (George Custer and Daniel MacArthur)”. When it is released in late 1946, it sells like wildfire.

January 9, 1946 - On his 18th Birthday, Cassius Madison is commissioned as an officer in the Bureau of Military Information. His ambiguous title and rank conceal his real role-that of liaison to Haiti, Liberia, and other African independence and liberation movements, and as the United States’ handyman in those regions. He continues in his role after the formation of the GBI.

February 10, 1946 - The Berlin Peace Treaties are signed and take effect.

February, 1946 - 1950 - Remaining Mormons in Utah are expelled from the state. Roughly half of the 500,000 survivors of the war are moved to the largest of the Sandwich Islands, while the rest scatter as an expatriate community across Latin America. Their anti-American sentiments will play a large role in the nations they choose to emigrate to. New immigrants are brought in to grow the “gentile” population, and by 1950 Utah’s population is 90,000.

March, 1946 - A Bolshevik revolt in Alaska is suppressed with the assistance of an American naval and Marine task force. The initially thankful White Russians are less than enthused when the Americans refuse to leave. Sam Carsten appreciates the weather though, even as his cancer worsens.

April 12, 1946 - South Africa is declared a Republic after a hastily organised referendum, with voting open to whites only.

June, 1946 - The Paris Trials conclude with the sentencing of the remaining major members of the Action Française regime in France.

July 4, 1946 - Local elections are organised in Canada for the first time under military supervision. Turnout is higher than expected, raising hopes that the timetable for integration could be pulled forwards.

August, 1946 - Hyperinflation takes hold in Britain.

August 10, 1946 - Britain completes its withdrawal from the rapidly disintegrating India. The core of the country soon becomes split between a federation of formerly British-aligned, but now pro-German Princely States and Nehru’s Free Indian government, backed by the United States.

September 28, 1946 - Like South Africa, Australia is declared a Republic. New Zealand soon follows in December.

November 5, 1946 - Midterm elections are held in the United States - The Democrats gain an outright majority in the Senate, but lose a few seats in the House. The results are seen as a strong vindication of the Dewey Administration.

December 20, 1946 - Thousands die in the Nankai earthquake in Japan.

Winter, 1947 - Heavy snowfall compounds the already dire situation in Britain. Thousands starve and freeze to death due to hyperinflation and food shortages.

January 3, 1947 - After successive defeats in the Congressional Elections, the House Socialist caucus undergoes a change in leadership. Flora Blackford finds herself a Minority Whip.

February, 1947 - German and Austro-Hungarian representatives meet to discuss the formation of a new organisation to replace the defunct Quadruple Alliance and to better integrate the Mitteleuropa economic sphere. Here, the foundations of what will become the Reichsbund are layed.

1947 - The worst of the immediate post-war Bolshevik uprisings are suppressed in Russia, but remaining Red Army cells remain a prevalent issue for the foreseeable future. Unlike in the aftermath of the First Russian Civil War, there is no widespread and organised crackdown on the Communists, meaning they retain much of their influence. Russia remains a backwater for the foreseeable future.

March 15, 1947 - A border clash between the “Princely Federation” and Free India threatens to spill over into open conflict.

April 4, 1947 - After much delay, Ireland holds its first post-war elections. President Michael Collins and his party are re-elected, and Collins requests the withdrawal of German troops from Ireland.

April 5, 1947 - The First Irish Crisis begins, as Chancellor Papen, fearing the potential of an American-aligned Ireland, requests a permanent treaty of mutual defence with Collins’ government before a German withdrawal, as technically required by the Berlin Peace Treaties.

April 6, 1947 - Collins in response requests diplomatic assistance in “preserving Irish independence” from Philadelphia, ironically creating the very situation Papen attempted to avoid.

April, 1947 - A standoff ensues, as Papen attempts to achieve a neutral Ireland diplomatically before he is forced to either order German forces to occupy Dublin or withdraw the Heer entirely by the imminent arrival of American forces, at Collins’ request.

April 14, 1947 - Mere hours before American troops are due to arrive, Philadelphia, Berlin, and Dublin come to an agreement, guaranteeing Irish neutrality under the protection of both powers, and that Ireland would not host military forces from either side. German-American relations are forever tarnished however, with Americans viewing German hegemony over Europe in a far more negative light, and with Papen’s fear of American adventurism vindicated to an extent.

1947 - This is generally agreed to be the beginning of the Shadow War.

April 20, 1947 - After the debacle in Ireland, Chancellor Papen is forced to step down by Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm V. He is replaced by Magnus von Braun Sr, who leads a more consensus driven Government than Papen, still under the supervision of Kurt von Schleicher’s camarilla.

May 10, 1947 - In the aftermath of the First Irish Crisis, Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, the Netherlands, Poland, the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Livonia, Lithuania, Serbia, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, and Finland sign the Hague Accords, formally creating the Reichsbund.

June 5, 1947 - New German Foreign Minister Ulrich von Hassell outlines a plan for joint European recovery. The plan facilitates the further integration of the Reichsbund economies, both to prevent any future conflict and to facilitate a faster recovery for all nations on the continent.

August 14, 1947 - Henry Morgenthau Jr. presents his alternative plan for reintegration to President Dewey. Forming the basis of what will become the Party-Patronage System, the President is supportive of the proposal.

September, 1947 - Citing a “breakdown in law and order”, South Africa occupies formerly British held Bechuanaland, Basutoland, and Swaziland. Philadelphia denounces the occupation, while Berlin declines to comment.

November 1, 1947 - Egypt takes direct control of the Suez Canal from the British, as agreed in the Berlin Peace Treaties.

November 5, 1947 - As the British withdraw from East Africa, the Republic of Kenya is declared in Nairobi, with the support of the withdrawing forces. In response, the Germans occupy Zanzibar and the coast, including Mombasa, but are unable to commit the resources to secure the entire country.

1948 - Local rulers take on direct power in the Trucial States as the British withdraw from the Middle East.

January 1, 1948 - A compromise is reached with striking coal miners in West Virginia, guaranteeing higher wages and improved working conditions. The agreement is a blow to Socialist accusations of the Dewey Administration being anti-labor

January - February, 1948 - The 1948 Winter Olympics take place in Stockholm, Sweden.

February, 1948 - Cassius Madison begins a private investigation into his family history. Through Jerry Dover, he learns of the Colleton family, and through Bertha Colleton the history of the Marshlands Plantation and the Congaree Socialist Republic.

February 28, 1948 - Ghana declares independence from the British. The Morrison government institutes a policy of “Total Withdrawal”, leaving behind equipment and arms that would otherwise go unused to prevent German domination of former colonies.

April 10, 1948 - The pro-Japanese Reorganised Government of the Republic of China declares victory over the Kuomintang. Though much of the country’s interior is still ruled by warlords, a measure of stability takes hold, even as Japanese economic exploitation runs rampant.

May 27, 1948 - The Morrison Government introduces a new Pound Stirling, curbing Hyperinflation. This marks the beginning of British post-war stabilisation.

1948 - Socialist candidates begin campaigning for their party’s nomination for President of the United States. The two most prominent candidates are former Secretary of the Interior and Senator from Iowa Henry Wallace and radical Senator from Kansas Earl Browder. Though Browder raises his national profile considerably, Wallace wins the nomination, and selects fellow Senator Glen Taylor from Idaho as his running mate.

July - August, 1948 - The 1948 Summer Olympics take place in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.

September 4, 1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates, due to health concerns. She is succeeded by her daughter, Juliana.

November 2, 1948 - President Dewey wins Re-Election against Senator Wallace and Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota. The President wins 229 Electoral Votes, to Senator Wallace’s 116 and Governor Stassen’s 30. The Democrats lose their outright majority in the Senate, but the Republicans continue to give confidence..

Feb 1, 1949 - Thomas Edmund Dewey is inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States.

1949 - The remaining British colonies in Africa all gain independence this year. Though The Gambia’s independence is short lived, Nigeria and Sierra Leone hold against German sanctions and embargoes, which are denounced by the United States.

April 23, 1949 - France holds its first post-war elections under German occupation, leading to Vincent Auriol of the Socialist Party being elected Prime Minister. The Socialist Government pledges to continue the joint economic recovery with the Germans.

June 1, 1949 - The Empire of Brazil holds elections, resulting in continued Conservative rule.

July 4, 1949 - Martial Law is lifted in Kentucky and Tennessee, and Cuba is admitted into the Union, as per the terms of the Morgenthau plan.

August 7, 1949 - The Kingdom of Portugal joins the Reichsbund.

October, 1949 - With German assistance, a revolt in Algeria is put down by French forces.

November 1, 1949 - A Kuomintang Government-in-Exile is set up in Philadelphia, led by Sun Fo.

January 10, 1950 - President Dewey orders the formation of the General Bureau of Intelligence, a new unified domestic and foreign intelligence service that supplants the former Military Intelligence Bureau.

February 19, 1950 - British Superbomb Scientist John Callahan, previously presumed dead after the Bombing of London, is spotted in South Africa.

February 23, 1950 - The Labour Party maintains a slightly reduced majority in the United Kingdom general election, mostly losing seats to the Liberals and Communists.

March 18, 1950 - German military rule in Belgium ends, as the country is partitioned by referendum by the Netherlands and a now-independent Wallonia. Wallonia subsequently joins the Reichsbund.

April 15, 1950 - The diary of Constantine, a young victim of the Rapture, is published in the United States.

April 20, 1950 - John Callahan dies under suspicious circumstances.

May 1, 1950 - How I Blew Up Philadelphia, General Clarence Potter’s autobiography, is published.

May 10, 1950 - Free Indian forces, equipped with American provided weapons and Barrels, break the armistice with the Princely Federation - the Indian War begins.

May 11, 1950 - Chancellor von Braun deploys German forces to aid the Federation and preserve Princely independence.

May 30, 1950 - Hyderabad falls to Free Indian forces.

June 17, 1950 - The siege of Bombay begins as Free Indian forces reach the west coast.

August 7, 1950 - Field Marshal Erich von Manstein relieves the siege of Bombay with Reichsbund-provided reinforcements.

Late 1950 - Free Indian forces overrun the north-eastern princely states.

November 7, 1950 - The Socialists make major gains in the midterm elections, gaining a plurality in the Senate and ending the Democratic majority in the House. The Republicans still chose to grant the Democrats confidence in both bodies however.

November 14, 1950 - Japan sends forces to aid Free India, marking its entry into the conflict. American aid also ramps up.

December 3, 1950 - Hopes for a quick end to the war in India are dashed by a joint Japanese-Free Indian victory at Nagpur, after the recapture of Hyderabad by Reichsbund and Princely forces.

January 15, 1951 - Sam Carsten dies of Skin Cancer. His last words are reported to be a complaint about the ineffectiveness of sunscreen.

March 10, 1951 - Joshua Blackford marries Mildred Morrell in a ceremony in Philadelphia.

1951 - Edith Pinkard becomes involved in the disorganised Confederate resistance.

June 4, 1951 - Germany detonates the first “Sunbomb” in South-West Africa. Further tests continue in the region.

June - July 1951 - Thousands of acres of forest are destroyed by fires in the western United States.

July 20, 1951 - Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm V of Germany passes away. His son, Wilhelm III, succeeds him.

August 1, 1951 - Chancellor von Braun retires. Gottfried Treviranus is appointed by the new Kaiser to succeed him.

August 2, 1951 - Armistice negotiations begin in India.

September 1, 1951 - American forces withdraw from the Liberated Republic of Haiti, created as a homeland for survivors of the Rapture.

November 19, 1951 - Iran nationalises the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

February - March, 1952 - The 1952 Winter Olympics are held in Montréal

March 21 - 22 - Tornadoes ravage the Mississippi River Valley, leaving a thousand dead.

April 5, 1952 - Vincent Massey replaces J. Edgar Hoover as Governor-General of Canada, the first Canadian to hold the position.

May 5, 1952 - The Indian War ends in an armistice, as the present frontline holds firm. The princes have lost significant territory in the west, counterbalanced by gains in the south.

June 2, 1952 - The Free Officers overthrow the Monarchy in Egypt and establish a Republic.

1952 - Both major parties hold open nominations for the Presidency. Former President La Follette defeats Senator Browder for the Socialist nomination, while Marshal Daniel MacArthur wins at the Democratic convention. La Follette chooses California Governor Jerry Voorhis as his running mate, while MacArthur chooses Senator John Bricker.

June 5, 1952 - Marshal MacArthur steps down from active service to campaign for the presidency.

July - August, 1952 - The 1952 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles.

August, 1952 - Warring factions in Burma are consolidated into a Japanese-backed Republic, which attempts to crack down on ethnic separatist forces.

October 12, 1952 - The United States detonates its first Sunbomb in Nevada.

November 4, 1952 - In a nail-biting finish, former President La Follette defeats Marshal MacArthur and Governor Stassen in the Presidential Election. President La Follette wins 224 Electoral Votes, to Marshal MacArthur’s 149 and Governor Stassen’s 42. The Socialists gain pluralities in both houses, and the Republicans switch their allegiances to support the new Administration.

February 1, 1953 - Charles Winston La Follette is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States.
 
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Interesting concept. I would caution you against following Yankee Spring too closely, as that work is meant to be a parallel and not exactly how I'd think TL-191 would develop.
 
So will the United States be losing Canada here, because the hilarious population disparity seems to make a independent Canada that isn't anything outside of an extremely small rump state unlikely?
 
Interesting concept. I would caution you against following Yankee Spring too closely, as that work is meant to be a parallel and not exactly how I'd think TL-191 would develop.
Thanks. I wouldn’t worry about the two being too similar, I’m intending for Autumn to be a bit less of a heavy parallel than Yankee Spring, even if the US does share a similar fate.

Autumn isn’t necessarily meant to be the most realistic continuation of TL-191 you could possibly make, but instead a detailed and (hopefully) well explained version of events that fits within the themes of the books.
 
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So will the United States be losing Canada here, because the hilarious population disparity seems to make a independent Canada that isn't anything outside of an extremely small rump state unlikely?
Yes, Canada will become independent again at some point. I hope to give a reasonable explanation for it though, along with the rest of what happens to the US, and the consequences of American settlement efforts will not be forgotten.
 
Yes, Canada will become independent again at some point. I hope to give a reasonable explanation for it though, along with the rest of what happens to the US, and the consequences of American settlement efforts will not be forgotten.
Canada is basically Ukraine?
 
Yes, Canada will become independent again at some point. I hope to give a reasonable explanation for it though, along with the rest of what happens to the US, and the consequences of American settlement efforts will not be forgotten.
Will it just be limited to, like, Upper Canada? That seems reasonable. I'd expect entire regions would be majority American.

Another point is that unlike the Soviet Union, TTL America doesn't have a bloc of nations right next to it that could seriously pose any real military threat.

Germany and Japan are across the Atlantic and Pacific. America's immediate neighbors are Texas and Mexico.
 
Will it just be limited to, like, Upper Canada? That seems reasonable. I'd expect entire regions would be majority American.

Another point is that unlike the Soviet Union, TTL America doesn't have a bloc of nations right next to it that could seriously pose any real military threat.

Germany and Japan are across the Atlantic and Pacific. America's immediate neighbors are Texas and Mexico.
No, Canada will be larger than just Ontario, in spite of American attempts to further integrate the west. While the population disparity is large, Canada by the 1940s still has a population of probably 7-10 Million. While the Americans could fill a good fraction of that, I’m sceptical of the idea that they could flood it to an extent that there is no longer any sentiment for independence in any particular province.

You are correct that the geopolitical situation of the US is quite different to the USSR. US doctrine will likely be more outwardly focused than otl Soviet doctrine, and there isn’t really an equivalent of Europe split between the US and Germany.
 
No, Canada will be larger than just Ontario, in spite of American attempts to further integrate the west. While the population disparity is large, Canada by the 1940s still has a population of probably 7-10 Million. While the Americans could fill a good fraction of that, I’m sceptical of the idea that they could flood it to an extent that there is no longer any sentiment for independence in any particular province.
Unless there are actual incentives there would be no reason for Americans to move north of the border, or for that matter US Amercians to move into the old Confederacy.
-Britain, France, and Russia are to each pay billions of Marks in reparations. All three are also forbidden from possessing Superbombs.
The trouble with ordering Britain not to possess Superbombs is a bit of a paper tiger as they already have the technology. Therefore, they can store bombs in parts. I would expect the Germans and Americans would try to impose bomber and rocket bans as well.
 
The US could try to encourage immigrants to move to Canada. Plenty of people in the world might still want to move to America.
Given the state of the world, I bet there is a post-war immigration wave. The question is whether the US government can successfully convince them to move to Canada or the old Confederacy. As damaged as the United States was during the SGW, Canada and the former CSA aren't exactly appealing places for immigrants who escaped a wartorn homeland.
 
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April 20, 1950 - John Callahan dies under suspicious circumstances.

May 1, 1950 - How I Blew Up Philadelphia, General Clarence Potter’s autobiography, is published.

July 20, 1951 - Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm V of Germany passes away. His son, Wilhelm III, succeeds him.

August 1, 1951 - Chancellor von Braun retires. Gottfried Treviranus is appointed by the new Kaiser to succeed him.

May 5, 1952 - The Indian War ends in an armistice, as the present frontline holds firm. The princes have lost significant territory in the west, counterbalanced by gains in the south.

July - August, 1952 - The 1952 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles.
 
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