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World in 1902- (see attachment. I believe in lots of maps.)

1902. The world is restless. America is charging forward, and surpassed Europe in many ways, from industrial output to population. America's steel production was more the England's and Germany's combined. While it would take another decade or so for the USA to achieve complete dominance, the wave of the future was coming fast, and nothing seemed able to derail the massive economic giant.
Politically the USA was a growing player. For now it mostly stayed in the Western Hemisphere but the dynamic and outspoken American president was trying to change all of that. The conquering of the Philippines had made the USA an Asiatic colony power which was also shown though the 2,00 troops dispatched to China in 1900. The Monroe Doctrine was being upheld by Teddy's “Big Stick”, and dreams of a “Open Door” policy, and a “Canal Zone' were in the air.
But despite all of this, America had a tiny army, and a medium sized navy. It's army was a minisucle force of 96,000 men, smaller then Italy or Japan. It navy, while larger was still one third the size of the royal navy, and slightly more the half of France's tonnage. As if in utter disregard of this stark numbers, TR was as bombastic as usual during the Venezuelan Crisis of 1902.


Unbroken Chains​

Part 1. Weltpolick​

A usual sad song was playing out in South America. A small, poor nation was unable to pay its debtors and Europe was coming to collect its pound of flesh. In this case Venezuela was incapable of paying a English-German Consortium. Despite the recent German-English cooling, relations among businesses were still running quite high. And they defiantly united to collect they bills from war-torn Venezuela. The nation had just come through a terrible civil war which damaged much European property, and the newly peaceful nation was totally incapable of paying up.


On 2 December 1902, the diplomatic representatives of the British and German governments at Caracas presented an ultimatum to the Venezuelan government which made clear that in the event of an unsatisfactory response, forcible measures would be employed. On 3 December 1902, Italy asked to be allowed to join in the ultimatum against Venezuela as an ally of Great Britain and Germany, a request quickly granted. The players were gathered at the table as Venezuelan president (and strongman) Cipriano Castro pondered his options. Soon he arrived at a happy conclusion, he would bring the Americans in.
At first, Teddy Roosevelt was immure to Castro's complaints. “If a South America nation should misbehave, Europe should spank it.” he was quoted as saying upon reading the request for arbitration. Soon however his attitude changed as he learned that Germany, and to a lesser degree England wanted land as payment. At hearing this TR thundered that the Monroe Doctrine can't be broken, and quickly sent a telegram to Germany and England confirming the USA's role. Knowing how the American's would rule, Germany resisted. It had few colonies, compared to England, and it had dreams of a Caribbean with a German presence, a large one. The new and powerful German Navy was gathered, as was a few sections of the Royal Navy.
As the situation worsened, TR took stock of the situation. He weighed many things in his mind. A war hero himself, he had no desire to engage in war with England and Germany, two nations that he affiliated himself highly with. But he could;'t ignore the clear danger here. His Canal Zone of the future laid very close to the region, and besides, American policy clearly forbade and direct European influence in the America's. He made a very clear statement as he gathered America's fleet in the Caribbean under Admiral Dewey, the Hero of Manila. Dewey was also a well known German-phobic, and he had no computations about following orders.

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