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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President of the United States from 1921 until his retirement in 2005. The Longest serving President, he would win every election of his tenure, serving a total of eighty three years. He was also the oldest president upon leaving office at the age of one hundred and twenty two. The Roosevelt Administration would be the only president millions of Americans knew for their adult lives. His Presidency has often been derided as a dictatorship, with his defenders and even loyal members of his personal church arguing he won the electoral mandate from the people for eighty years. They often point to how he had voluntarily opted to "retire" and not run for another term in 2004 as proof of his benevolent rule.
Initially working his way into New York politics as a secretary to republican Frank S. Black in the early 1900s, he would work his way to Naval Secretary under William Howard Taft. Seeing an opportunity for higher office, he gave a few phone calls to the local Democratic Party and to the U.S Director of Food and Opium Herbert Hoover for talks of a potential ticket. The two would agree and managed to run a campaign against republican Calvin Coolidge. The campaign almost fell through him with a diagnosis of Polio nearly ending his ambitions, though Hoover agreed to on the condition that some person named J. Edgar Hoover would be appointed Attorney General in a future cabinet.
Noted Mississippian and ardent FDR backer John Sharp Williams would campaign vigorously across much of the north, singlehandedly handing the campaign Massachusetts and the election to Roosevelt in his narrow first term victory. Wanting to dole out patronage to all his loyal friends and minions, he quietly appointed Williams to the Supreme Court, Hoover to that Attorney General position and his cousin Teddy got the position of Secretary of the Navy. He would be president under an unprecedented time of economic prosperity that contributed to his re-election in 1924. Coming up in 1928, he opted to break precedent that every president had done since Washington, and announced a third term. His personal popularity remained high, and managed to defeat breakaway southerner Ellison D. Smith. He opted to boost his progressive leanings with the removal of Herbert and the placement of William McAdoo as his second vice president.
However, he would be forced to deal with one of his largest challenges, with the Great Depression occurring under his presidency. Republicans saw this as their opportunity to rally together under progressive Quentin Roosevelt in 1932. They would run a campaign of comparing Roosevelt's increasing age to Roosevelt's youth and mobility. The more difficult question the voters had was to say which Roosevelt was which. In the end, thanks to a combination of a few bumbles by Quentin's campaign staff, FDR won a more than comfortable margin of victory. He implemented a large scale public works projects, bank holidays and worked with Democratic super majorities in both houses of Congress to pass government intervention proposals through. Yet the economy still dragged it's feet by the start of World War II, so he opted to salvage his popularity with a false flag attack on the USS Utah by a german submarine. The economy finally kicked itself enough for him to win in a blow out against rising republican darling Wendell Wilkee.
The War, while it helped the economy, did not go very well for the Allies at the start. The German Battleship Bismark not only escaped from the North Atlantic, but began to shell american towns for the first time since the war of 1812. American coastal defenses forced Roosevelt's priorities away from building up an army for a time, though he was able to finally Marshall enough courage to organize the invasion of Italian Tripoli with the co-ordination of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain was able to talk FDR into the assassination of Hitler under the pretext of peace talks in neutral Geneva, Switzerland. While this action was heralded immediately afterwards, the effect of the bloody eight year slog into Germany under the fanatical Gobbles and Goring, even with the invasion of the Soviet Union. Roosevelt's more consequential action involved the pressuring by generals Patton, MacArthur and British General Winston Churchill to attack the Russian forces in Operation Unthinkable. The 1946-1949 World War III dragged on for years, even with the fall of Paris and London forcing the English to form a government in exile. Even after the treaty of Tripoli, Hot wars with the Soviet Union occurred frequently in boarder clashes and proxy conflicts that involved numerous nuclear weapons throughout the 1950s to early 2000s.
By far the most damaging and controversial of these conflicts was India, with British controlled India having constant revolts which lead to american intervention in order to prevent the collapse of imperial Britain. Anti-Imperialistic sentiment rose as a result of the long winding war within the Indian Subcontinent, even with the 22 nuclear bombs dropped against civilian and military targets of Indian nationalists.
Despite the mass protests at home, Roosevelt still won with comfortable and rigged majorities in 1960 and 1964, with an unexpected challenge from far right wing nationalist George Lincoln Rockwell resulting in the loss of two southern states, South Carolina and Virginia (and his first two states from the solid south to vote against the Democratic Party since Roosevelt's first election). Nevertheless, his imposing mandates from the people gave him the confidence to fully intervene against new foreign conflicts appearing in Brazil and crushing a left wing government of France. He would be under the spell of McCarthyism, appointing him as the Director for Anti-Communist Activities. The ACA would morph into more of a controversial detention policy, egged further on with the replacement of McCarthy with Rockwell. The biggest internal threat was the sudden spike in Civil Rights protests which grew militant under Eldrige Cleaver and radical preacher Martin Luther King, who had forsaken nonviolence upon the atomic sacrifice of Mahatma Gandhi. Dealing with the protests was one of controversy, as if this president wasn't filled with it enough. He would Marshall soldiers and follow the advice of his former vice president, the aging Herbert Hoover in sending in the army to crush the revolts.
During the 1970s, he would sack the aging McCarthy and replace him with bulldog Richard Nixon, who would streamline the process of guilty, ramming through numerous amendments to the Constitution signed at gunpoint by militants within the government. One thing Roosevelt was careful about, was the cult of personality that had developed around himself, with fifty years in office. "The Most Walk able and Benevolent Franklin" and "The Eternally enlightened and merciful Roosevelt" were common propaganda phrases shouted out during the National Conventions and often spoken during his state of the union addresses. All pretense of Democracy died with the 1984 election, as the centennial FDR managed to acquire a total of 600 million votes despite the population being just 160 million at the time, winning the title of"most fraudulent election" By 1985, Roosevelt had finally reached an agreement with local Indian leaders to have all 1.5 million american troops withdraw in stages from India.
His later years saw increasingly poor health, even as he celebrated his 120th birthday in 2002, many military and political leaders simply wondered when the stubborn man would finally die or if he truly was immortal as Public Broadcasting Service, the monopolistic government media giant , proclaimed. The rumor and propaganda of the "eternal Roosevelt" would be seen as propaganda when FDR announced he would be stepping down from office. Staunchly conservative members such as Vice President Fritz Hollings to more liberal Michael Dukakis of a northern state were anxious to manage the 2004 general election. For the first time in eighty years, Roosevelt's name would not be on the ballot.
However, the initially dead Republican Party had life breathed into it by moderate and conservative members ranging from Newt Gingrich to Bob Smith, with a refounded effort to oust the longstanding Democratic Party from power. Neither Hollings nor Dukakis managed to win the Democratic nomination, with it falling onto Patrick Buchanan, an alienating figure within the Democratic Party that finaly, with a single speech, shattered the longest political party system in american history. The Republican party insurgent Katherine Harris eeked herway onto the Republican nomination with little fanfare. Harris would attack the incumbent president who had stepped down, hammering with numerous incidents throughout FDR's nearly eighty year political baggage that was dumped onto Buchanan, who struggled and lagged behind in polling and fundraising. FDR was heard to say on election night "Huh, so a woman can do it after all." This is in-spite of himself having two female vice presidents during his time in office.
The circumstances of his death were cause to the War with North Korea by the Harris administration, resulting in World War IV. By far the historical legacy of Roosevelt has been one of condemnation as his reign of dictatorial powers, with mass crimes against humanity perpetrated against foreign powers and internal threats. The single party state instituted by him has not yet been cast out, as every president Since Roosevelt have been Democratic, although no longer aligned with the Roosevelt faction of the Democratic Party, it still retains a large sway over the political policies and ideas of future nominees and candidates.
Initially working his way into New York politics as a secretary to republican Frank S. Black in the early 1900s, he would work his way to Naval Secretary under William Howard Taft. Seeing an opportunity for higher office, he gave a few phone calls to the local Democratic Party and to the U.S Director of Food and Opium Herbert Hoover for talks of a potential ticket. The two would agree and managed to run a campaign against republican Calvin Coolidge. The campaign almost fell through him with a diagnosis of Polio nearly ending his ambitions, though Hoover agreed to on the condition that some person named J. Edgar Hoover would be appointed Attorney General in a future cabinet.
Noted Mississippian and ardent FDR backer John Sharp Williams would campaign vigorously across much of the north, singlehandedly handing the campaign Massachusetts and the election to Roosevelt in his narrow first term victory. Wanting to dole out patronage to all his loyal friends and minions, he quietly appointed Williams to the Supreme Court, Hoover to that Attorney General position and his cousin Teddy got the position of Secretary of the Navy. He would be president under an unprecedented time of economic prosperity that contributed to his re-election in 1924. Coming up in 1928, he opted to break precedent that every president had done since Washington, and announced a third term. His personal popularity remained high, and managed to defeat breakaway southerner Ellison D. Smith. He opted to boost his progressive leanings with the removal of Herbert and the placement of William McAdoo as his second vice president.
However, he would be forced to deal with one of his largest challenges, with the Great Depression occurring under his presidency. Republicans saw this as their opportunity to rally together under progressive Quentin Roosevelt in 1932. They would run a campaign of comparing Roosevelt's increasing age to Roosevelt's youth and mobility. The more difficult question the voters had was to say which Roosevelt was which. In the end, thanks to a combination of a few bumbles by Quentin's campaign staff, FDR won a more than comfortable margin of victory. He implemented a large scale public works projects, bank holidays and worked with Democratic super majorities in both houses of Congress to pass government intervention proposals through. Yet the economy still dragged it's feet by the start of World War II, so he opted to salvage his popularity with a false flag attack on the USS Utah by a german submarine. The economy finally kicked itself enough for him to win in a blow out against rising republican darling Wendell Wilkee.
The War, while it helped the economy, did not go very well for the Allies at the start. The German Battleship Bismark not only escaped from the North Atlantic, but began to shell american towns for the first time since the war of 1812. American coastal defenses forced Roosevelt's priorities away from building up an army for a time, though he was able to finally Marshall enough courage to organize the invasion of Italian Tripoli with the co-ordination of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain was able to talk FDR into the assassination of Hitler under the pretext of peace talks in neutral Geneva, Switzerland. While this action was heralded immediately afterwards, the effect of the bloody eight year slog into Germany under the fanatical Gobbles and Goring, even with the invasion of the Soviet Union. Roosevelt's more consequential action involved the pressuring by generals Patton, MacArthur and British General Winston Churchill to attack the Russian forces in Operation Unthinkable. The 1946-1949 World War III dragged on for years, even with the fall of Paris and London forcing the English to form a government in exile. Even after the treaty of Tripoli, Hot wars with the Soviet Union occurred frequently in boarder clashes and proxy conflicts that involved numerous nuclear weapons throughout the 1950s to early 2000s.
By far the most damaging and controversial of these conflicts was India, with British controlled India having constant revolts which lead to american intervention in order to prevent the collapse of imperial Britain. Anti-Imperialistic sentiment rose as a result of the long winding war within the Indian Subcontinent, even with the 22 nuclear bombs dropped against civilian and military targets of Indian nationalists.
Despite the mass protests at home, Roosevelt still won with comfortable and rigged majorities in 1960 and 1964, with an unexpected challenge from far right wing nationalist George Lincoln Rockwell resulting in the loss of two southern states, South Carolina and Virginia (and his first two states from the solid south to vote against the Democratic Party since Roosevelt's first election). Nevertheless, his imposing mandates from the people gave him the confidence to fully intervene against new foreign conflicts appearing in Brazil and crushing a left wing government of France. He would be under the spell of McCarthyism, appointing him as the Director for Anti-Communist Activities. The ACA would morph into more of a controversial detention policy, egged further on with the replacement of McCarthy with Rockwell. The biggest internal threat was the sudden spike in Civil Rights protests which grew militant under Eldrige Cleaver and radical preacher Martin Luther King, who had forsaken nonviolence upon the atomic sacrifice of Mahatma Gandhi. Dealing with the protests was one of controversy, as if this president wasn't filled with it enough. He would Marshall soldiers and follow the advice of his former vice president, the aging Herbert Hoover in sending in the army to crush the revolts.
During the 1970s, he would sack the aging McCarthy and replace him with bulldog Richard Nixon, who would streamline the process of guilty, ramming through numerous amendments to the Constitution signed at gunpoint by militants within the government. One thing Roosevelt was careful about, was the cult of personality that had developed around himself, with fifty years in office. "The Most Walk able and Benevolent Franklin" and "The Eternally enlightened and merciful Roosevelt" were common propaganda phrases shouted out during the National Conventions and often spoken during his state of the union addresses. All pretense of Democracy died with the 1984 election, as the centennial FDR managed to acquire a total of 600 million votes despite the population being just 160 million at the time, winning the title of"most fraudulent election" By 1985, Roosevelt had finally reached an agreement with local Indian leaders to have all 1.5 million american troops withdraw in stages from India.
His later years saw increasingly poor health, even as he celebrated his 120th birthday in 2002, many military and political leaders simply wondered when the stubborn man would finally die or if he truly was immortal as Public Broadcasting Service, the monopolistic government media giant , proclaimed. The rumor and propaganda of the "eternal Roosevelt" would be seen as propaganda when FDR announced he would be stepping down from office. Staunchly conservative members such as Vice President Fritz Hollings to more liberal Michael Dukakis of a northern state were anxious to manage the 2004 general election. For the first time in eighty years, Roosevelt's name would not be on the ballot.
However, the initially dead Republican Party had life breathed into it by moderate and conservative members ranging from Newt Gingrich to Bob Smith, with a refounded effort to oust the longstanding Democratic Party from power. Neither Hollings nor Dukakis managed to win the Democratic nomination, with it falling onto Patrick Buchanan, an alienating figure within the Democratic Party that finaly, with a single speech, shattered the longest political party system in american history. The Republican party insurgent Katherine Harris eeked herway onto the Republican nomination with little fanfare. Harris would attack the incumbent president who had stepped down, hammering with numerous incidents throughout FDR's nearly eighty year political baggage that was dumped onto Buchanan, who struggled and lagged behind in polling and fundraising. FDR was heard to say on election night "Huh, so a woman can do it after all." This is in-spite of himself having two female vice presidents during his time in office.
The circumstances of his death were cause to the War with North Korea by the Harris administration, resulting in World War IV. By far the historical legacy of Roosevelt has been one of condemnation as his reign of dictatorial powers, with mass crimes against humanity perpetrated against foreign powers and internal threats. The single party state instituted by him has not yet been cast out, as every president Since Roosevelt have been Democratic, although no longer aligned with the Roosevelt faction of the Democratic Party, it still retains a large sway over the political policies and ideas of future nominees and candidates.
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Is that even a wkibox though? It looks like it was hobbled together in Paint or something.
This is cool, but I have some questions:
1. Why did Jaures, while a reformist social democrat but at the same time a noted pacifist, support purges against socialists?
2. Will Lagardelle leave labour movement and turn to natsynd/fascism at least for some time like he did in OTL? What if failure of revolution would lead to his disillusionment with socialism and he will try to found a new movement with Valois and others?
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I wasn't sure how likely it was that the Labour Party would work with the Scottish Nationalists beyond forcing another election.
Any man named Norris is automatically guaranteed victory
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Progressive with the White House, the House, and a supermajority in the Senate.
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Therouxism
This is a bit of a vanity project that god *very* out of hand but this is a breakdown of "Therouxism", a social democratic ideology from To Govern is to Choose, an excellent shared worlds game run by @Gonzo. For context, Andre Theroux assumed leadership of France in the aftermath of the Second World War, was the first Prime Minister of the French Fourth Republic and is a character of mine. Enjoy!
This is a bit of a vanity project that god *very* out of hand but this is a breakdown of "Therouxism", a social democratic ideology from To Govern is to Choose, an excellent shared worlds game run by @Gonzo. For context, Andre Theroux assumed leadership of France in the aftermath of the Second World War, was the first Prime Minister of the French Fourth Republic and is a character of mine. Enjoy!
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Inspired by @Angry_scottsman_1989 steampunk space war, I decided to come up with my own.
SOLAR IMPERIALISM
OR
THE TERRAN BURDEN
"By the second half of the 19th century, space colonization was no longer a game restricted to the British or the Germans. With Venus divided between British and Prussian expeditions, the eyes of the world turned towards the Red Planet. English, French, German, American, Russian, Austrian, Belgian. It made no difference, they all wanted a slice. By the 1870's the European nations came to an agreement to curtail British dominance over space."
"The Lunar Conference, was instrumental in bringing order to the Martian Colonization process. Britain took half of the red planet, turning it into its most prosperous dominion. Phobos was also formally occupied, much to the chagrin of its fenian inhabitants. The other half was divided between the Accord and the United States. With Mars tamed, mankind would need to look further. The Trainsasteroidal Passages were still just a theory back them."
"The Treaty of Phobos proved itself a great victory for the United British Empire. British interests in Jupiter remained unchecked. More importantly, perhaps, would be the clauses of Interasteroidal neutrality. After the destruction of the HMS Atlas by Accord ships, and the blockade of Venus starved half the Empire, it was decided that open-space conflict would be restricted to the Transasteroidal areas. Earth too, would be made a neutral zone in future wars of colonial origin. Just like that, war on Earth became a thing of the past. That, of course, did not stop the slaughter."
"Peace is a fickle thing. When the ACS St. Petersburg left the docks of the Jovian Sky City of New Lancaster, carrying within it two Accord spies, it fell victim to the citie's cannons. The destruction of the ship exploded the powderkeg that was Jupiter, and war came again to the solar system. From her Golden Throne in London, Victoria Gloriana gave the consent to the Prime Minister. her organic eyes almost as liveless as her metallic skin. On the skies of Jupiter ships clashed by the hundreds. The Galilean moons became red with blood from all sides, as Callisto's Accord Cannons bombarded Ganymede, and Io's British shipyards produced hundred of new death machines. The Martian front stalemated in continent wide and kilometers thick trenches. The Venusian front was a evenchanging thing, while the Moons of Saturn were pushed beyond the brink for war resources."
"Any hope for a quick end to the war disappeared after the Battle of the Great Red Spot. Though the Accord held more ships, the British held a monopoly on the greates killing machines of their time. the Aeroclads."
"Larger than any other Aeroship, and designed with a mettalic hull, the Aeroclads were thought invencible. So expensive and novel was their design, that only 3 were in operation throughout the war. The Dauntless and the Godspeed were deployed to the Jovian skies, were they spent the entirety of the war. the Endeavour was deployed on the Martian front. It came as an surprise to all when the Dauntless, returning from a refuel mission to New Lancaster, was attacked by a single Aerocruiser and two Flying Destroyers. These were hardly a match to the titan that was the Aeroclad. Even more incredible was the sacrifice of the Karamazov to disable the frontal guns of the ship in a suicide ram, giving the destroyers time enough to board the ship, and fight a bloody struggle for its control. The capture of the Dauntless, prize of the British crown, was a grave blow to the Empire."
"Few ships are more famous in American history than the Odyssey. By 1909, Roosevelt Mk 2.5 held the white house, and he brought America into the struggle. The first of its class, the ship was designed in the great martian shipyards with the express purpose of rivaling the British Aeroclads. Nicknamed the "American Colossus" by the President, the name soon stuck. Though it also became infamous for its nickname, "The Aeroclad Killer". For that was its mission. To hunt down and destroy the HMS Endeavour. Its hunt is stuff of legend. As was the Battle over Olympus Mons."
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(I obviously didn't drawn the ships, though the wikiboxes are my doing)
SOLAR IMPERIALISM
OR
THE TERRAN BURDEN
"By the second half of the 19th century, space colonization was no longer a game restricted to the British or the Germans. With Venus divided between British and Prussian expeditions, the eyes of the world turned towards the Red Planet. English, French, German, American, Russian, Austrian, Belgian. It made no difference, they all wanted a slice. By the 1870's the European nations came to an agreement to curtail British dominance over space."
"The Lunar Conference, was instrumental in bringing order to the Martian Colonization process. Britain took half of the red planet, turning it into its most prosperous dominion. Phobos was also formally occupied, much to the chagrin of its fenian inhabitants. The other half was divided between the Accord and the United States. With Mars tamed, mankind would need to look further. The Trainsasteroidal Passages were still just a theory back them."
"The Treaty of Phobos proved itself a great victory for the United British Empire. British interests in Jupiter remained unchecked. More importantly, perhaps, would be the clauses of Interasteroidal neutrality. After the destruction of the HMS Atlas by Accord ships, and the blockade of Venus starved half the Empire, it was decided that open-space conflict would be restricted to the Transasteroidal areas. Earth too, would be made a neutral zone in future wars of colonial origin. Just like that, war on Earth became a thing of the past. That, of course, did not stop the slaughter."
"Peace is a fickle thing. When the ACS St. Petersburg left the docks of the Jovian Sky City of New Lancaster, carrying within it two Accord spies, it fell victim to the citie's cannons. The destruction of the ship exploded the powderkeg that was Jupiter, and war came again to the solar system. From her Golden Throne in London, Victoria Gloriana gave the consent to the Prime Minister. her organic eyes almost as liveless as her metallic skin. On the skies of Jupiter ships clashed by the hundreds. The Galilean moons became red with blood from all sides, as Callisto's Accord Cannons bombarded Ganymede, and Io's British shipyards produced hundred of new death machines. The Martian front stalemated in continent wide and kilometers thick trenches. The Venusian front was a evenchanging thing, while the Moons of Saturn were pushed beyond the brink for war resources."
"Any hope for a quick end to the war disappeared after the Battle of the Great Red Spot. Though the Accord held more ships, the British held a monopoly on the greates killing machines of their time. the Aeroclads."
"Larger than any other Aeroship, and designed with a mettalic hull, the Aeroclads were thought invencible. So expensive and novel was their design, that only 3 were in operation throughout the war. The Dauntless and the Godspeed were deployed to the Jovian skies, were they spent the entirety of the war. the Endeavour was deployed on the Martian front. It came as an surprise to all when the Dauntless, returning from a refuel mission to New Lancaster, was attacked by a single Aerocruiser and two Flying Destroyers. These were hardly a match to the titan that was the Aeroclad. Even more incredible was the sacrifice of the Karamazov to disable the frontal guns of the ship in a suicide ram, giving the destroyers time enough to board the ship, and fight a bloody struggle for its control. The capture of the Dauntless, prize of the British crown, was a grave blow to the Empire."
"Few ships are more famous in American history than the Odyssey. By 1909, Roosevelt Mk 2.5 held the white house, and he brought America into the struggle. The first of its class, the ship was designed in the great martian shipyards with the express purpose of rivaling the British Aeroclads. Nicknamed the "American Colossus" by the President, the name soon stuck. Though it also became infamous for its nickname, "The Aeroclad Killer". For that was its mission. To hunt down and destroy the HMS Endeavour. Its hunt is stuff of legend. As was the Battle over Olympus Mons."
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(I obviously didn't drawn the ships, though the wikiboxes are my doing)
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