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Kaiserreich, An American Caesar
Presidents of the United States:
1921-1929: William Gibbs McAdoo/Alexander Mitchell Palmer (Democratic)
def 1920: Miles Poindexter/Leonard Wood (Republican)
def 1924: Robert M. La Follette/Thomas C. DuPont (Republican), Eugene V. Debs/George Roewer (Socialist)
1929-1936: Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis (Republican) [1]
def 1928: Al Smith/Joseph Robinson (Democratic), Norman Thomas/James H. Maurer (Socialist)
def 1932: Alben W. Barkley/George White (Democratic), Norman Thomas/James H. Maurer (Socialist)
1936-1944: Douglas MacArthur/Vacant (Military Junta) {Acting} [2]
General Secretaries of the Combined Syndicates of America:
1936-1939: Jack Reed (CSA)† [3] [4]
1939-1944: Earl Browder (CSA)† [5]
President of the American Union State
1936-1942: Huey P. Long (America First)† [3] [6]
Protectors of the American Republic:
1944-1953: Douglas MacArthur (Military Junta) [7]
1953-1965: Dwight Eisenhower (Military Junta)
1965-1982: Curtis LeMay (Military Junta)
1982-1985: James Stockdale (Military Junta) [8]
1985: Transition to Civilian Rule
1 – In response to the growing chaos during the lead up to the 1936 Election, President Hoover, now known to have been spurred on by a letter sent by Canada's Edward VIII, handed over control to General Douglas MacArthur...
2 – Who promptly declared martial law, outlawed both the CSA and the America First Party, and issued arrest warrants for Reed, Long, and both of their inner circles...
3 – Causing both to make their respective declarations of their governments legitimacy, and MacArthur's government's illegitimacy, marking the beginning of the Second American Civil War
4 – Jack Reed came to leadership in the wake of Alexander Berkman's death, and his selection as the CSA's presidential candidate in the 1936 Election, and was the leader of the American Syndicalists until his illness and death from stomach cancer in late 1939
5 – There was a power vacuum at the top of the CSA in the wake of Reed's death, and in the end, the leader of Totalist faction, Earl Browder took power, and began to consolidate power in the CSA under his person. He was captured and executed by American troops following the fall of Philadelphia.
6 – Huey Long radicalized quickly in the wake of his failed Presidential Run, and his failed assassination attempt, falling in even more readily with the likes of William Dudley Pelley of the Silver Legion. He and his Union State persisted bravely against MacArthur's military, but once Entente the front began to collapse, his government collapsed equally as fast. He died at his own hand during the fall of Baton Rouge.
7 – In the wake of the end of the Second Civil War, MacArthur decided against his original plan of restoring democracy like Cincinnatus, because after this long he had begun to like his power. As such, he formally dissolved the position of [Acting] President, and replaced it with the position of Protector of the American Republic. He restored American control to New England, the West Coast, and the Southwest, although Hawaii had already slipped into the Japanese sphere, a power MacArthur did not want to tangle with in America's still-fragile state. His main project aside from rebuilding America was the Congress of American States, an alliance of [Authoritarian] democracies in the Western hemisphere, overthrowing the Syndicalist governments of Mexico, and Centroamerica. However this system came crashing down in the wake of his death in 1953, with his central government only maintaining control of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states (The de facto capital having been moved to Denver during the war, and never moved back) Regional governors and renewed democratic rebels carving off their own sphere's of influence from America's rotting carcass.
8 – The rump United States government chugged along fairly calmly, with successive Protectors slowly democratizing the government, and freedoms being slowly restored. Finally, with the Ascension of Admiral Stockdale to the protectorship, his place America on the firm path to democracy, formally handing power over to a civilian government on July 4, 1985.
Presidents of the United States:
1921-1929: William Gibbs McAdoo/Alexander Mitchell Palmer (Democratic)
def 1920: Miles Poindexter/Leonard Wood (Republican)
def 1924: Robert M. La Follette/Thomas C. DuPont (Republican), Eugene V. Debs/George Roewer (Socialist)
1929-1936: Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis (Republican) [1]
def 1928: Al Smith/Joseph Robinson (Democratic), Norman Thomas/James H. Maurer (Socialist)
def 1932: Alben W. Barkley/George White (Democratic), Norman Thomas/James H. Maurer (Socialist)
1936-1944: Douglas MacArthur/Vacant (Military Junta) {Acting} [2]
General Secretaries of the Combined Syndicates of America:
1936-1939: Jack Reed (CSA)† [3] [4]
1939-1944: Earl Browder (CSA)† [5]
President of the American Union State
1936-1942: Huey P. Long (America First)† [3] [6]
Protectors of the American Republic:
1944-1953: Douglas MacArthur (Military Junta) [7]
1953-1965: Dwight Eisenhower (Military Junta)
1965-1982: Curtis LeMay (Military Junta)
1982-1985: James Stockdale (Military Junta) [8]
1985: Transition to Civilian Rule
1 – In response to the growing chaos during the lead up to the 1936 Election, President Hoover, now known to have been spurred on by a letter sent by Canada's Edward VIII, handed over control to General Douglas MacArthur...
2 – Who promptly declared martial law, outlawed both the CSA and the America First Party, and issued arrest warrants for Reed, Long, and both of their inner circles...
3 – Causing both to make their respective declarations of their governments legitimacy, and MacArthur's government's illegitimacy, marking the beginning of the Second American Civil War
4 – Jack Reed came to leadership in the wake of Alexander Berkman's death, and his selection as the CSA's presidential candidate in the 1936 Election, and was the leader of the American Syndicalists until his illness and death from stomach cancer in late 1939
5 – There was a power vacuum at the top of the CSA in the wake of Reed's death, and in the end, the leader of Totalist faction, Earl Browder took power, and began to consolidate power in the CSA under his person. He was captured and executed by American troops following the fall of Philadelphia.
6 – Huey Long radicalized quickly in the wake of his failed Presidential Run, and his failed assassination attempt, falling in even more readily with the likes of William Dudley Pelley of the Silver Legion. He and his Union State persisted bravely against MacArthur's military, but once Entente the front began to collapse, his government collapsed equally as fast. He died at his own hand during the fall of Baton Rouge.
7 – In the wake of the end of the Second Civil War, MacArthur decided against his original plan of restoring democracy like Cincinnatus, because after this long he had begun to like his power. As such, he formally dissolved the position of [Acting] President, and replaced it with the position of Protector of the American Republic. He restored American control to New England, the West Coast, and the Southwest, although Hawaii had already slipped into the Japanese sphere, a power MacArthur did not want to tangle with in America's still-fragile state. His main project aside from rebuilding America was the Congress of American States, an alliance of [Authoritarian] democracies in the Western hemisphere, overthrowing the Syndicalist governments of Mexico, and Centroamerica. However this system came crashing down in the wake of his death in 1953, with his central government only maintaining control of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states (The de facto capital having been moved to Denver during the war, and never moved back) Regional governors and renewed democratic rebels carving off their own sphere's of influence from America's rotting carcass.
8 – The rump United States government chugged along fairly calmly, with successive Protectors slowly democratizing the government, and freedoms being slowly restored. Finally, with the Ascension of Admiral Stockdale to the protectorship, his place America on the firm path to democracy, formally handing power over to a civilian government on July 4, 1985.
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