Civil War AH: North Still wins
In 1990, the South is similar to the West Bank or Northern Ireland; Washington, D.C. is comparable to Jerusalem in OTL. A guerrilla army, the Southern Liberation Army, fights for independence. Imperial Germany, under the leadership of Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm III has been the most powerful country in the world since 1917, controlling all former Spanish holdings, virtually all of Africa, Vietnam, and several Chinese cities. German gunrunners from Cuba keep the SLA in Mobile and New Orleans supplied with weapons. Ted Kennedy is president. Norman Schwarzkopf serves as Internal Security Secretary. Bill Clinton is the military governor of Arkansas and Mississippi. Johnny Van Zant is a cell commander in the SLA.
United States Presidents since 1865
1865-1868 Andrew Johnson (D)
1868-1876 William T. Sherman (R)
1876-1884 Edwin M. Stanton (R)
1884-1892 Grover Cleveland (R)
1892-1905 Theodore Roosevelt (R)
1905-1912 John Pershing (R)
1912-1924 Henry Cabot Lodge (R)
1924-1932 Calvin Coolidge (R)
1932-1940 George Dern (R)
1940-1948 James Forrestal (R)
1948-1956 Douglas MacArthur (R)
1956-1964 Joseph Kennedy, Jr. (R)
1964-1972 John F. Kennedy (R)
1972-1978 Robert F. Kennedy (R)
1978-1984 Michael Dukakis (R)
1984-present Edward M. Kennedy (R)
Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Kennedy are the second and third presidents, respectively, to be killed by SLA assassins. (John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was not technically a member of the SLA, but modern historians consider him to be a forerunner thereof.)
American Wars 1865-1990
Name Years Opponent(s)
Sioux Insurgency 1881-1883 Sioux, Cheyenne
Caribbean War 1896-1898 Spain Vancouver War 1908-1912 Canada, Great Britain
Rio Grande War 1971-1980 Mexico
Notes on international affairs since 1865
The Sioux insurgency, fought primarily in the Dakota and Montana territories, was unsuccessful in its attempts to quash the power of the Native Americans. It did, however, make a hero of General George Custer. His fame was short-lived, however, as it was discovered he was a Democrat. He might have been president were he a Republican, but the propaganda machine was able to brand him a traitor.
The Caribbean War was fought on the islands of Cuba, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico, as well as southern Florida. Congress issued a declaration of war after Spanish-made rifles were found in SLA encampments. The US military encountered many difficulties in the staging of the war, as all invasions had to be launched from the South. US troops intending to fight the Spanish in the Caribbean ended up battling guerrilla fighters of the Southern Liberation Army. The United States was unable to expand their territory into any of the Spanish possessions, but the war did serve to severely weaken the Spanish military and civil authority in the American colonies, allowing for an easy takeover by Imperial Germany in 1905.
Also in 1907, the newly-powerful Empire of Japan acquired the Philippines from the crumbling Spanish Empire and Hawaii.
It was after the Caribbean War that President Theodore Roosevelt realized how great a threat to national security the SLA presented. He proposed a massive reorganization of the Federal government, forming the Department of Internal Security, headed by former Colorado congressman Henry Teller, charged with “rooting out and destroying all internal threats to the sovereignty of the United States federal government.” It was also at this time the citizenship of every individual not in service of the federal government residing in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas was permanently and irreversibly revoked.
After the official end of the Civil War, Britain believed that the United States no longer showed the potential to be a viable threat, and would be easily subdued. It was correct. The British Prime Minister David Lloyd George called for a renegotiation of the treaty that settled the border dispute over the Oregon territory, knowing that a war would precipitate. The British Empire defeated US troops in both the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast, reclaiming both the Oregon territory and the northern portion of Maine, whose boundary had been negotiated in 1848. President John Pershing, who distinguished himself during his military career fighting both the Spanish and the Southern Libs, was blamed for the failure of the US to even hold their territory against the British. He did not seek the Republican nomination in 1912, but the Republican nominee, Henry Cabot Lodge was still able to win a sweeping victory, as the American public could not forget that the Democrats were the “Party of the Southerners”.
The costs of the Vancouver War to Britain were more than anticipated. The great empire was sufficiently weakened in 1914 that Imperial Germany was able to defeat it along with France and Russia within three years of the Great War’s start. France was the primary target of Germany’s wrath, though. It was stripped of virtually all of its colonies, which were then placed under German control. The one exception was the Empire of Mexico, which was given full autonomy. The English were forced to hand over only South Africa and their possessions in the Caribbean to the Empire of Germany. England was forced to give independence to Ireland, Canada, India, and Australia, with the requirement that they could form no alliances, even those defensive in nature. This made it fairly easy for Japan to take over Australia in 1925.
In, 1922, Germany financed the construction of a canal through Nicaragua, when a revolutionary group attempted to seize power (and thereby the canal), German troops subdued them, and Nicaragua was declared a protectorate of the German Empire. When the insurgents fled across the border to Costa Rica, the government in San Jose refused to give them up. The German Empire declared war on Costa Rica and annexed it to Nicaragua.
During the 1920’s and 1930’s, several leftist revolutionary groups broke out in Russia. The leftists were supported by the Germans to ensure that Russia would not pose a viable threat in the near future.
In 1965, a separatist group seized power in the Canadian province of Quebec. Many feared that a civil war would ensue, but the Canadian government in Toronto, seeing the troubles that attempting to quash such a movement had caused their neighbors to the South, decided to allow their French-speaking citizens to leave the country peacefully, keeping them as an ally and a trading partner.
After being hammered into poverty by the continuing guerrilla struggle in the South and the Great Plains, the United States turned to the only reliant source of new lands that they had ever found: Mexico. Hoping to expand the United States borders even further, supplying them with a fresh source of troops and resources, as well as a new staging point for the fighting in Texas, President John F. Kennedy authorized General Edward Lansdale to cross the Rio Grande in 1971. The Americans won victories in Matamoras, Monterrey, and Tampico. Norman Schwarzkopf, a US army major at the time, became a hero in the Battle of Monterrey. The German Empire unofficially supported the Mexicans, supplying them with weapons, and also leading an embargo against the US. The Mexicans, through guerrilla warfare, caused public opinion of the war in Mexico to go so low, that the Americans were forced to withdraw in 1980. In the end the war accomplished nothing but the deaths of US soldiers and the depletion of it resources. The war also prompted an insurgency among Mexican nationalists in California and other US possessions taken from Mexico in 1948; these groups became the targets of Internal Security.
In 1990, the South is similar to the West Bank or Northern Ireland; Washington, D.C. is comparable to Jerusalem in OTL. A guerrilla army, the Southern Liberation Army, fights for independence. Imperial Germany, under the leadership of Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm III has been the most powerful country in the world since 1917, controlling all former Spanish holdings, virtually all of Africa, Vietnam, and several Chinese cities. German gunrunners from Cuba keep the SLA in Mobile and New Orleans supplied with weapons. Ted Kennedy is president. Norman Schwarzkopf serves as Internal Security Secretary. Bill Clinton is the military governor of Arkansas and Mississippi. Johnny Van Zant is a cell commander in the SLA.
United States Presidents since 1865
1865-1868 Andrew Johnson (D)
1868-1876 William T. Sherman (R)
1876-1884 Edwin M. Stanton (R)
1884-1892 Grover Cleveland (R)
1892-1905 Theodore Roosevelt (R)
1905-1912 John Pershing (R)
1912-1924 Henry Cabot Lodge (R)
1924-1932 Calvin Coolidge (R)
1932-1940 George Dern (R)
1940-1948 James Forrestal (R)
1948-1956 Douglas MacArthur (R)
1956-1964 Joseph Kennedy, Jr. (R)
1964-1972 John F. Kennedy (R)
1972-1978 Robert F. Kennedy (R)
1978-1984 Michael Dukakis (R)
1984-present Edward M. Kennedy (R)
Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Kennedy are the second and third presidents, respectively, to be killed by SLA assassins. (John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was not technically a member of the SLA, but modern historians consider him to be a forerunner thereof.)
American Wars 1865-1990
Name Years Opponent(s)
Sioux Insurgency 1881-1883 Sioux, Cheyenne
Caribbean War 1896-1898 Spain Vancouver War 1908-1912 Canada, Great Britain
Rio Grande War 1971-1980 Mexico
Notes on international affairs since 1865
The Sioux insurgency, fought primarily in the Dakota and Montana territories, was unsuccessful in its attempts to quash the power of the Native Americans. It did, however, make a hero of General George Custer. His fame was short-lived, however, as it was discovered he was a Democrat. He might have been president were he a Republican, but the propaganda machine was able to brand him a traitor.
The Caribbean War was fought on the islands of Cuba, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico, as well as southern Florida. Congress issued a declaration of war after Spanish-made rifles were found in SLA encampments. The US military encountered many difficulties in the staging of the war, as all invasions had to be launched from the South. US troops intending to fight the Spanish in the Caribbean ended up battling guerrilla fighters of the Southern Liberation Army. The United States was unable to expand their territory into any of the Spanish possessions, but the war did serve to severely weaken the Spanish military and civil authority in the American colonies, allowing for an easy takeover by Imperial Germany in 1905.
Also in 1907, the newly-powerful Empire of Japan acquired the Philippines from the crumbling Spanish Empire and Hawaii.
It was after the Caribbean War that President Theodore Roosevelt realized how great a threat to national security the SLA presented. He proposed a massive reorganization of the Federal government, forming the Department of Internal Security, headed by former Colorado congressman Henry Teller, charged with “rooting out and destroying all internal threats to the sovereignty of the United States federal government.” It was also at this time the citizenship of every individual not in service of the federal government residing in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas was permanently and irreversibly revoked.
After the official end of the Civil War, Britain believed that the United States no longer showed the potential to be a viable threat, and would be easily subdued. It was correct. The British Prime Minister David Lloyd George called for a renegotiation of the treaty that settled the border dispute over the Oregon territory, knowing that a war would precipitate. The British Empire defeated US troops in both the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast, reclaiming both the Oregon territory and the northern portion of Maine, whose boundary had been negotiated in 1848. President John Pershing, who distinguished himself during his military career fighting both the Spanish and the Southern Libs, was blamed for the failure of the US to even hold their territory against the British. He did not seek the Republican nomination in 1912, but the Republican nominee, Henry Cabot Lodge was still able to win a sweeping victory, as the American public could not forget that the Democrats were the “Party of the Southerners”.
The costs of the Vancouver War to Britain were more than anticipated. The great empire was sufficiently weakened in 1914 that Imperial Germany was able to defeat it along with France and Russia within three years of the Great War’s start. France was the primary target of Germany’s wrath, though. It was stripped of virtually all of its colonies, which were then placed under German control. The one exception was the Empire of Mexico, which was given full autonomy. The English were forced to hand over only South Africa and their possessions in the Caribbean to the Empire of Germany. England was forced to give independence to Ireland, Canada, India, and Australia, with the requirement that they could form no alliances, even those defensive in nature. This made it fairly easy for Japan to take over Australia in 1925.
In, 1922, Germany financed the construction of a canal through Nicaragua, when a revolutionary group attempted to seize power (and thereby the canal), German troops subdued them, and Nicaragua was declared a protectorate of the German Empire. When the insurgents fled across the border to Costa Rica, the government in San Jose refused to give them up. The German Empire declared war on Costa Rica and annexed it to Nicaragua.
During the 1920’s and 1930’s, several leftist revolutionary groups broke out in Russia. The leftists were supported by the Germans to ensure that Russia would not pose a viable threat in the near future.
In 1965, a separatist group seized power in the Canadian province of Quebec. Many feared that a civil war would ensue, but the Canadian government in Toronto, seeing the troubles that attempting to quash such a movement had caused their neighbors to the South, decided to allow their French-speaking citizens to leave the country peacefully, keeping them as an ally and a trading partner.
After being hammered into poverty by the continuing guerrilla struggle in the South and the Great Plains, the United States turned to the only reliant source of new lands that they had ever found: Mexico. Hoping to expand the United States borders even further, supplying them with a fresh source of troops and resources, as well as a new staging point for the fighting in Texas, President John F. Kennedy authorized General Edward Lansdale to cross the Rio Grande in 1971. The Americans won victories in Matamoras, Monterrey, and Tampico. Norman Schwarzkopf, a US army major at the time, became a hero in the Battle of Monterrey. The German Empire unofficially supported the Mexicans, supplying them with weapons, and also leading an embargo against the US. The Mexicans, through guerrilla warfare, caused public opinion of the war in Mexico to go so low, that the Americans were forced to withdraw in 1980. In the end the war accomplished nothing but the deaths of US soldiers and the depletion of it resources. The war also prompted an insurgency among Mexican nationalists in California and other US possessions taken from Mexico in 1948; these groups became the targets of Internal Security.
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), the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on for close to 60 now and it doesn't look like it's going to end anytime soon. I know some people think that Abbas wil help bring an end to the violence, but it's unlikely. If he does try to make peace w/ the Israelis and not get 100% of what the Palestinians want, he'll share the fate of Anwar Sadat or Itsak Rabin (I know I spelled something wrong there). And if Sharon gives in to very much, the same thing will happen to him. No peace because any truly peaceful leader will be killed by his own people.