POD: 1900: Theodore Roosevelt is killed in action in Cuba.
1901: William McKinley is assassinated and his Roosevelt's successor as VP becomes President. He is weak-willed keeps out of big business' way. He is, in other words, Teddy Roosevelt's polar opposite.
1902-1920: The American economy becomes increasingly laissez-faire, the rich getting rich and the poor getting poorer.
1918-1925: Communism gains popularity with immigrant workers in the Northeast and oppressed balances in the Deep South.
1925: The Union of American Patriots forms to combat communist sentiment. They are a pro-fascist group who espouse the view that the ‘American spirit’ has been ‘polluted’ by immigrants, Jews, and big business. Father Charles Coughlin endorses them on his radio show.
1926-1929: Huey Long and George Van Horn Moseley both join the UAP, which wins gubernatorial nominations in Georgia and Alabama.
1929: The stock market crash ignites the powder keg of resentment toward unchecked capitalism. After Black Thursday, there are riots in the streets and both the communists and the UAP gain popular support.
1930: Two rallies, fascist and communist, march up to the White House to demand that big business be reined in. A fight erupts between the two groups after a racist UAP marcher punches a black communist marcher.
The UAP's extreme elements tell their fellow fascists over the radio to take up arms against the communists.
1931: Battles ensue between the fascists and communists in Virginia, Maryland, Nevada, and Wisconsin. The U.S. Army declares a state of emergency and tries to quell the fighting, but in vain. The army is pathetically small (it was 180,000-strong in '38) and the militias on both sides outnumber the soldiers sent to stop them.
The Civil War II begins in earnest.
1901: William McKinley is assassinated and his Roosevelt's successor as VP becomes President. He is weak-willed keeps out of big business' way. He is, in other words, Teddy Roosevelt's polar opposite.
1902-1920: The American economy becomes increasingly laissez-faire, the rich getting rich and the poor getting poorer.
1918-1925: Communism gains popularity with immigrant workers in the Northeast and oppressed balances in the Deep South.
1925: The Union of American Patriots forms to combat communist sentiment. They are a pro-fascist group who espouse the view that the ‘American spirit’ has been ‘polluted’ by immigrants, Jews, and big business. Father Charles Coughlin endorses them on his radio show.
1926-1929: Huey Long and George Van Horn Moseley both join the UAP, which wins gubernatorial nominations in Georgia and Alabama.
1929: The stock market crash ignites the powder keg of resentment toward unchecked capitalism. After Black Thursday, there are riots in the streets and both the communists and the UAP gain popular support.
1930: Two rallies, fascist and communist, march up to the White House to demand that big business be reined in. A fight erupts between the two groups after a racist UAP marcher punches a black communist marcher.
The UAP's extreme elements tell their fellow fascists over the radio to take up arms against the communists.
1931: Battles ensue between the fascists and communists in Virginia, Maryland, Nevada, and Wisconsin. The U.S. Army declares a state of emergency and tries to quell the fighting, but in vain. The army is pathetically small (it was 180,000-strong in '38) and the militias on both sides outnumber the soldiers sent to stop them.
The Civil War II begins in earnest.