AHC: The Great American War

The challenge is to make a war that'd be called the Great American War. It should involve both North and South America.

Bonus if it triggers a World War.
 

Zlorfik

Banned
Is it okay if the title is given ironically?
Always a good way out :p

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Well, it's not exactly easy to get two hemisphere involved in the same war. Particularly when there's only one country there with the necessary power projection

But...
Panama could be the source of contention.

(This is way out of my area, but) if you can somehow get Columbia and whatever ragtag allies it can muster to make a stand at Panama vs. the US, it'll fit the bill.

Off to do some quick research
 

Zlorfik

Banned
The Chileans weren't too thrilled about America's intrusion into Panama.
A combined Colombian-Chilean ( + whomever else) effort to drive out the yanks could be called some sort of Grand American War.

Requires a Colombia that doesn't erupt into open rebellion every time someone sneezes.
 
You need to break up North America more with no U.S. being a must. From there maybe there could be a naval race between chile and a independent California over the control of the Pacific.
 
You could have a united Latin American invasion of America :p

But could have larger and more populated Gran Colombia or Mexico .it probably battle the U.S. for control of the Caribbean and Central America
 

jahenders

Banned
Perhaps you could have this such that it specifically did NOT include the US/Canada (and maybe Brazil), at least initially. For example, perhaps you have some border and oil disputes and then some contest over the Panama Canal. You could have Mexico, all of Central America, and some of Northern South America involved.
 

Buzz

Banned
Have Spain keep a colony like Peru, so the US grows closer to the South American republics and makes a grand alliance

During the Civil War, the British and French help the CSA. The British invade from Canada into from Washington to Maine. The French invade California from Mexico while the Royal Navy raids the coasts.

Russia joins the Union, invades British Colombia from Alaska. The Latin American nations help the Mexicans rebels, invade the European colonies, and invade Brazil. Brazil joined the CSA as a fellow slave country.

The war now covers all of North and South America. The US, Russian, and Latin American alliance wins. The US annex Canada and the CSA back. The French leave Mexico and all the European powers leave the Western Hemisphere for good. The Caribbean colonies go to the US

The war cost Russia a lot of money and a lot of men died in the arctic fighting. A revolution starts and they sell Alaska to the US

What do y'all think?
 
World War between the States

I could easily make this a thread!

1861:
First 96 hours of the war-
-Fort Sumpter bombarded.
-Tsar Alexander II allies Russia with the USA against CSA.
-France invades Mexico, Mexico allies with USA.
-France allies with CSA, and in a secret agreement, so do Turkey, Spain, and Brazil (the other three slave-holding states at the time).
-Bismarck unites the German states against France, and Prussia allies with the USA.
-Austria remains neutral.
-Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Venezuela ally with the USA. Chile allies with the CSA.
-The Emperor of China allies with the USA, the Taiping Rebellion sides with the CSA.
-Influenced by the Taiping Rebellion joining the CSA, the UK allies with the USA.
-Ethiopia allies with the USA, the Zulus ally with the CSA(!), and the various nations of Africa begin taking sides.
-Sweden allies with the USA, Denmark and Norway ally with CSA. Tsar Alexander considers giving Finland to Sweden as a gift.
-Belgium and Portugal ally with USA, Netherlands and Morocco ally with CSA.

First year of the war:
-After debating what to do with Prince Albert ("Do something to get it over fast!" he says), Queen Victoria personally leads an army of 5 Corps to Belgium and meets at Bastogne with the Prussian General Von Moltke. Prince Albert leads another 5 Corps down into Portugal.
-General Guiseppe Garribaldi, in a war independent of the greater war, unites the various italian states and leads them to victory in the battle of Trent, forcing the Austrians out of Lombardy.
-The First battle of Bull Run happens. ITTL, George McLellan has already organized the Army of the Potomac, and after an embarrassing defeat at Bull Run ("There stands Jackson like a stone wall!") McLellan is sent by Lincoln to be the General-in Chief of the coalition of the USA's allies. Joseph Hooker is given command of the Army of the Potomac, while out west Ulysses S. Grant is given command of the Army of the Tennessee. On the confederate side, Joseph Johnston is 'rewarded' by Davis by being promoted to 'Supreme Commander of the Coalition of Confederate Allies', and Robert E Lee is given command of the Army of Northern Virginia.
-Reeling from their defeat by the Italians, Austria declares war on both the USA and the CSA(!), only to be defeated at the battle of Koniggratz by Von Moltke and Queen Victoria. The Koniggratzer March is composed in honor of the event. Both Austria and Italy ally with the USA after the battle, agreeing on an as-is border.
-The Confederates send John Wilkes Booth with 5,000 Confederates down to Chile. Booth and his Chilean allies defeat the combined Bolivian and Argentine armies at the battle of Santiago. Davis promotes Booth to Commander of the Confederate coalition in south America, where he remains until the war's end in 1875.

Theaters of war:
Overall- George McLellan (USA) and Joseph Johnston (CSA).
East US- Joseph Hooker (USA) and Robert E. Lee (CSA).
Mississippi Valley- Ulysses S. Grant (USA) and A.S. Johnston (CSA).
West US- John C. Fremont (USA) vs Braxton Bragg (CSA).
Mexico- George Thomas (USA) and Napoleon III (CSA).
South America- Ambrose Burnside (USA) and John Wilkes Booth (CSA).
Europe- Helmuth Von Moltke/Queen Victoria (USA) and Napoleon III (CSA).
Africa- Prince Albert (USA) and several leaders (CSA).
Asia- Tsar Alexander II (USA) and several leaders (CSA).

So now we got the ACW turning into a 53-years-too-early WWI, heads of state going off to war as generals, commanders where they weren't IOTL (Burnside not bungling his South American war only because Booth is green as of yet!), and a war on 6 continents. Soon enough uniforms will start turning either blue or gray (or in Prussia's case gray with blue piping!).
 
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Thande's Look To The West fulfills the nomenclature challenge, though it has a POD over a hundred years beforehand.
 
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