Kaiserreich Story (Part 3: North America)

Kaiserreich is a fictional story made up by an anonymous player of a mobile game; "Hearts of Iron 4", the story is in-depth and has a lot about a great "what if?" question of what would happen if the Central Powers won World War 1.

This is part 3 of a 4-Part wiki page series about the story of Kaiserreich. In this page, we will talk about what happened in places around North America, and we're going to begin with our home nation; the Good ol' US of A.

## United States

As mentioned before, the United States decided to stay out of the war in Europe, but they would have a few border skirmishes with its neighbor; Mexico since Mexico was having its revolution, during this time famous Mexican rebel; Poncho Villa and his band of rebels attacked the small US town of Columbus which was met by heavy military resistance led by the US General John Pershing, they liberated the town, but Villa would escape.

Other than that, the 1910s were a quiet time for the US. But all of that would change for the US by the 1920s and with the Central Powers victory, with Germany now holding a monopoly on global trade and the Syndicalist revolutions in Britain and France which would mean that its loans will go unpaid, the United States is now isolated, and broke. Its allies are now its continental neighbors. With an ongoing clash between 2 different socialist ideology around the world, the US would establish a socialist congress by 1920 in order for the Leftist Politicians to discuss on what to do with the socialist situation. But what it ended up doing is take away.............what would be America's immunity to any kind of Syndicalist uprising in the nation.

At first, these Syndicalist movements began as your typical worker riots complaining about their working conditions, their lousy pay (you know, the usual). It wasn't until 1921 with the "Battle of Blair Mountain" in West Virginia occurred when disgruntled miners would rise up against their employers, the battle would last a few weeks and in the Kaiserreich story, led to over 100 dead. Throughout the 1920s, these worker riots would turn into open hostilities as workers would even destroy buildings and stores in some cities in protest of their bosses.

Like a battering ram constantly hitting a door, these Syndicalist protests against the Capitalist Government and would weaken the United States as a whole. One of the nails in the coffin was when the Great Depression hit, and it hit in 1925 and be a whole lot worse than it was in our reality. This would also make the Democratic and Republican Parties face competition. The Syndicalists would quickly gain in popularity (President Theodore Roosevelt can also be blamed for this), as well as another Imperialist party too.

As the 20s progress, things in the US "regress". The Industrial heartland of America (such as western Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois) would see a rapid sure of Syndicalist movements, and when the 30s "roared" around, the Syndicalist states have now completely turned to the socialist ideology with the Democrats and Republicans falling out of favor in these states.

This would allow another faction to rise in America; the Combined Syndicates of America (or CSA, and \*no\* it has nothing to do with the Confederacy)

A new socialist entity in America who in the Kaiserreich story was led by a man named "Jack Reed" who in our reality was a socialist journalist who always favored communism (and even moved to the USSR in his later life). In the Kaiserreich story, he becomes a politician and leads the Syndicalist faction in America.

With the USSR being dead before it was even born, Socialist Britain and France can now promote their Syndicalist ideology to the US, which is good for the American Syndicalists, but it becomes more fearful to the rest of the nation.

We now go to another party coming into America.

In the south, a lesser known politician named; Huey Long was elected Governor.

Huey Long was a complex figure in American history, he was elected Governor of Louisiana in 1928 in our reality and ruled "almost" like a dictator and even was a senator for Louisiana until he was assassinated in 1935. In Kaiserreich, Long is more influential, especially that he wanted to take his state (ripe with poverty and poorly educated people and almost no infrastructure. Despite his dislike for socialism, he had his own "Share the Wealth" program where he would do anything, and sometimes everything to expand opportunity in Louisiana. He even had a slogan to define his governing of Louisiana.

A Southern Democrat who used his surprising popularity and strong Manning opposition to do good for the people of Louisiana. In the Kaiserreich story with the US economy a wreck, and the US Government losing a lot of its legitimacy, Long decides to run for President. Unfortunately for him, he would lose the Democratic nomination, this is when Long would be done with mainstream parties and he would go on to form his own party.

It would be called the America First Party, which would consist of Southerners, Christians, Baptists, and even pro distribution elements as well as a bit of populism thrown in for good measure.

Soon, the Socialist riots and eventually the formation of Long's Regime Party would become so large, that President Herbert Hoover would order mass military suppression against these protesters, and eventually most people would see the US Government as like a puppet to the rich.

This would spark a rift between the Democrats, the Republicans, and even Progressives, and by November of 1936 (next to election day) all 5 Political Parties had a hand in the Presidential race, and there was no vote by election day, this would be called "Black Monday" in the story, and the Country would dissolve into \*another\* civil war.

### Second American Civil War

The CSA in the Great Lakes region to the Mid Atlantic secedes from the Union, as does Long's Regime in the South (taking the deep south states with it), and eventually California, Oregon, and Washington State would also secede from the union and form the "Pacific States". The New England states also secede and now want to become a part of Canada, and really want nothing to do with this war.

As the Second Civil War begins, the US Government dissolves and is replaced by a Military Junta, and led none other than General Douglas MacArthur who's aim is to reunite the nation with the states and people that are still loyal to the original USA.

The second Civil War is now underway. But when it comes to specific battles, how many people die, and who comes out the winner is still unclear.

## Canada

When the British Royal Family evacuated to Canada when things in their home nation were spiraling out of control, they were hoping that the original British Army would beat the British Syndicalists and they can return, unfortunately (as mentioned before) the British Royal military would be defeated by the Syndicalists and so Canada became their new home. So, Canada became one of the last remnants of the now debunked British Empire, and it isn't like Canada was safer for the Royal Family either. They were under constant threat from Syndicalist spies, the original Canadian Government was ripe with corruption.

There's also the dilemma that Canada has to face with Quebec. Nonetheless, Canada is actually one of the few nations in the western world that remains stable (besides Germany).

That'll do it for this part of this 4-Part wiki page series of Kaiserreich. In the last part (click here) we will talk a bit about Asia as well as other places around the world such as Africa and Australia. Until Net time, this is JohnnyOTGS signing out.