Timeline 191

**Timeline 191**, is a nickname given to a Universe in which the Confederate States won the American Civil War and formed their own nation. This event had greater repercussion in the coming Decades, determining the outcomes of multiple wars, and the fate of Countries, resulting in a Communist United States while Russia became a Constitutional Monarchy.

## **History**

### **1862**

POD: On Earth One, Before the Battle of Antietam, Federal troops accidentally recovered a copy of Special Order 191, which detailed Lee's plan for the invasion of Maryland. Using this intelligence, Federal forces under George B. McClellan moved north and forced the Battle of Antietam, ending the invasion.

**October 1:** In this timeline, C.S. troops recovered Lee's orders before the papers fell into Union hands. The resulting C.S. advance catches McClellan and the Union Army by surprise. General Lee forced McClellan into a battle on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Keystone(Pennsylvania) and destroyed the Army of the Potomac in the Battle of Camp Hill on October 1, 1862. Shortly after the conclusion of the Battle of Camp Hill, C.S. general Braxton Bragg completed the conquest of Kentucky.

### **1863**

The Dominion of Canada is created(Four years earlier than on Earth One).

**May 12:** General Ulysses S. Grant was killed by being accidentally thrown off his horse at the start of the Vicksburg Campaign. In the aftermath, General John Alexander McClernand insisted on assuming command despite being a political appointee who was not fit for the job. By thoroughly bad generalship, McClernand managed to totally lose the Vicksburg Campaign and get the Army of the Tennessee almost completely destroyed. Soon afterwards, at the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee made some better decisions than in our history and managed to win the battle and largely destroy the Union Army.

### **1864**

**January:** Men with strange accents and oddly-mottled clothing approached Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia. They demonstrated a rifle far superior to all other firearms of the time. The men called their organization "America Will Break" (or "AWB"). They offered to supply the Confederate Army with the rifles, which they referred to as AK-47s. The weapons operated on chemical and engineering principles that were unknown to Confederate military engineers. The AWB established a base in the little town of Rivington, North Carolina, making it into a combined fortress and arsenal. They also set up offices near the War Department, in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

The AWB continued to offer inexplicable intelligence and technology to the Confederacy, providing Lee with what they called nitroglycerin pills, which eased his frequent chest pains. Finally, Lee questioned their leader, Andries Rhoodie, who provided Lee a partially true explanation. The men of AWB are Afrikaner Neo-Nazi ultra-nationalists from the South African nation of Draka, having traveled back in time from 2014, 150 years into the future after the end of the Civil War. The newcomers claimed that white supremacy had not endured to the modern era and that blacks had marginalized whites. Lee was told that President Abraham Lincoln would act as a vicious tyrant during his second term and that his successor, Thaddeus Stevens, would continue his work to ensure that blacks would become the dominant political faction in the former Confederacy, as they outnumber whites in many areas. The AWB said that blacks would take over other countries, including the United Kingdom.

The AWB men trained soldiers to use their new weapons and issue ammunition. As the men saw the power of the new weapons, the Confederate morale improved considerably in the campaign against Union forces. With the AWB's guns and some direct military aid from the time-traveling Afrikaner South Africans, the Army of Northern Virginia drove Union forces out of Virginia. The United Kingdom and France recognized the Confederacy. The two European nations forced mediation on the United States.

While considering the mediation offer, Abraham Lincoln mentioned to the his Vampire Ally "Henry" that he has a proclamation that will free the slaves in the C.S. Lincoln has discussed the proclamation with his cabinet, but after the U.S. defeat at Camp Hill, they warned Lincoln that to have issued the proclamation would have been seen as acting in desperation. The Union at the time was ready to officially concede defeat. When Lincoln warned "Henry" that the C.S. only won due to the Aid of their mysterious allies, and the situation may change in the future if the Union can find such allies of its own, Henry scoffed that no other such allies currently exist.

In a surprise night attack, the C.S. captured Washington City, thus ending the Civil War. To the amazement of most of the Confederate troops, Lincoln refused to flee the capital during their advance and appeared on the White House lawn, holding an Axe, which he promptly dropped as he fell on his knees. He addressed them before personally surrendering to Lee. Lee wanted to negotiate Secession, with the mobs howling for Abraham Lincoln's blood, it was safest for him to be taken into a comfortable custody at Richmond, Virginia from where he sent northwards a letter announcing his resignation and conceding the Confederacy's victory.

Rhoodie told Lee about the Vampires and that they would rise up to threaten humanity almost as much as the Blacks. He then began to share his knowledge of Vampire Weaknesses with Lee and his men. In Private, Lee was confronted by Henry, who revealed Lincoln to be a Hunter. Henry demonstrated his powers and convinced Lee the Vampire Menace he helped spread would need to be exterminated. Under Henry's guidance, Lee became a Vampire Hunter. After Lincoln stepped down his Vice President, Asa Trenchard surrendered officially to the Confederacy. This "War of Secession" also known as the War of Southron independence ended.

### **Post-War: American Changes**

Already there was tension between the CS and its allies. France and Britain despised the brutal slaughter of a surrendering foe, which reminded the two nations of the incident that began the Seven Years War. Lee realized he needed these allies if he were to face the Vampiric Threat. As more and more Vampires entered the country.

In the debate over the location of the new US capital, President Trenchard strongly opposed the proposal of making Philadelphia the capital, which would have alienated all the states west of the Alleghenies, and supported the finally-accepted compromise of Columbus, Ohio, which is renamed "Columbia". Trenchard was unpopular and Lincoln would run again in the 1864 presidential election, To President Trenchard, fell the bitter work of negotiating the border with the newly independent CS. The most bitter pill he had to swallow was to concede the permanent loss of Washington and its transformation into the Confederate capital (with the District of Columbia being renamed the District of Dixie). As Confederate forces begin to end their occupation of Washington, and Union troops withdraw from the portions of the Confederacy that they had captured earlier in the war, the new country started to determine its future social and political direction. In negotiations between the two countries, to which Lee was made a Confederate representative, the Union reluctantly agreed to pay millions of dollars in war reparations. The Confederacy, in turn, gave up any claim to Maryland and West Virginia. After much debate, both sides agreed for Kentucky and Missouri to hold elections to determine whether they would remain in the Union or secede and join the Confederacy. Trenchard's main achievement was the retention of West Virginia in the Union as well as preventing pro-Confederate militias in Missouri from detaching that State. The Indian Territory remained an unresolved bone of contention. The pro-C.S. Five Civilized Tribes of the Indian Territory received territory of their own in the C.S., later to become the State of Sequoyah.

At one point, AWB men were caught smuggling weapons into Tompkinsville, Kentucky. When questioned, they denied any effort to affect the outcome of the elections. They claimed to be selling weapons, which was highly unlikely because of the group's overwhelming wealth. Other supporters, both official and unofficial, poured into both states to try to sway voters. Despite an assassination attempt on Lee by a former slave in Louisville and the machinations of the Rivington men, the election went as planned, with Kentucky voting to join the Confederacy and Missouri voting to remain in the Union.

Lincoln was released by the Confederates in 1864 and started a law office in Chicago. While in prison he had witnessed the execution of Harriet Tubman from his cell. He attempted once more to run for President.

1864- Abraham Lincoln(Republican) lost the presidential election in a landslide to the Democratic candidate, Horatio Seymour and Clement Vallandigham. Seymour would not actually get to take residence in the new capital, which was only made ready years later.

1867- Russia offered Alaska to the United States with a purchase price of US$7 million, the U.S. is financially drained and could not purchase the territory. It continued as a Russian colony.

Confederate slaves freed during the war by the US violently resisted returning to slavery; many who made up US military units during the war continued to fight Confederate forces long after the Union formally surrendered. That frightened many Confederate whites and infuriated the troops charged with fighting them, particularly Benjamin "Forrest" Cameron and his men. Lee, already dubious about slavery and respectful of the courage of the United States Colored Troops during the war and knowing how freeing the Slaves would harm the Vampires, became convinced that continuing to enslave blacks was both morally wrong and ultimately impracticable. He believed that it was impossible to try to return to prewar conditions. He thought that black guerrillas would continue to raid and perhaps prompt a general slave rebellion in the near future. The parts of the Confederacy that had fallen to the US during the war had already lost many of their slaves, who were freed as soon as the US troops had arrived and did not return to their previous masters. In other parts of the Confederacy, many slaves had run away, mostly to US lines, where they gained their freedom. Despite threats from Rhoodie and the AWB, Lee made no effort to hide his views.

### 1867: **President Lee**

At the urging and with the full backing of Jefferson Davis, who may not be reelected under the Confederate Constitution after his six-year term, Lee ran for President in the 1867 Confederate States presidential election, despite Davis's initial reservations about Lee's views on slavery. The Rivington men convinced Cameron to run against Lee's pro-abolition, anti-slavery Confederate Party, on a pro-slavery Patriot Party ticket with Louis Wigfall as his running mate, and they put their considerable resources into Cameron's campaign; their offices in Richmond serve as his campaign headquarters. They drew from their large supply of gold coins (in the form of Krugerrands). The Vampires attempted to oppose Lee through Elections while attempting to murder him with Eugene Buckingham chosen as their candidate. Lee' vampiric hunting abilities increased in the run up to the election. Lee achieved a narrow victory after he won Tennessee's electoral votes. Lee won the national election 69-50 in the Electoral College and by 32,000 popular votes out of 963,437 cast. He carried the Confederate states of Florida, Georgia, the newly-admitted Pennsyltucky, Catawba, Tennessee, and Virginia. Cameron won the Confederate states of Alabama, Sequoyah, Lemoyne, Mississippi, Apodidraskiana, and Texas. While Buckingham's death left the Vampires without a candidate. Following his loss, Cameron conceded defeat and paid a call to Lee at Arlington, promising to help rally the young nation behind its new president.

Soon after the election, Lee received a history book that was stolen from the Rivington men from a former Confederate soldier, though he suspected "Henry" had a hand in bringing it to him, which covered the Civil War and the original outcome that was supposed to happen without the AWB's intervention. Enraged at the lies that Rhoodie had told him about the future, Lee confronted the AWB leader by using the modern history book as proof of Rhoodie's dishonesty. Lee compared his fanaticism to that of John Brown. Faced with the accusations, Rhoodie promised to show the AWB's true colors to Lee.

Thanks to the discovery of the book, this chronology can be compared to events as originally intended to happen, providing differences and similarities.

At Lee's inauguration on March 4, 1868, AWB men tried to assassinate him by using Uzis, which resulted in the death of Lee's wife, Mary; his vice president, Albert Gallatin Brown, various dignitaries and generals, and many civilians. Police forces seized the AWB offices in Richmond after a fierce battle. Lee entered the stronghold to find more technological marvels (such as fluorescent light bulbs and air conditioning), books that document the increasing marginalization of racism from 1865 into the 21st century, and the efforts made to improve relations between blacks and whites. Lee showed the books to Confederate Representatives in the hope that the future's nearly-universal condemnation of slavery and racism will convince them to vote for his plan for gradual abolition. Appalled at the AWB attempted assassination, Cameron offered his services to Lee without reservation and was put in command of the hastily-remobilized Confederate forces. They were ready to do battle with the AWB men, and Lee declared martial law in the Rivington area.

### **The Battle of Rivington**

Confederate forces laid siege to Rivington and engaged the AWB, which used modern weaponry such as belt-fed machine guns, sniper rifles, mortars, barbed wire, and land mines to inflict heavy casualties on the Confederate forces. During the campaign, Henry Pleasants, an American soldier who was captured by Confederate forces late in the war and decided to remain in the Confederacy, where his skilled labor would be more in demand, conceived a similar scheme, as he did in the original timeline's Battle of the Crater. It is quickly accepted by commanding General Cameron, and President Lee ordered for Pleasants's name be kept a secret to avoid tipping off the Rivington men aware of Pleasants's real history. Unlike in the original battle, the infantry successfully capitalize on the opportunity.

Despite suffering heavy casualties because of the vast technology gap, Confederate infantry destroyed the AWB's time machine during the fighting and seized the town after they broke through the AWB defenses. The few surviving AWB who were unable to escape back to their own time lose hope and surrender, some attempted to cross into Draka but were prevented from doing so.

Soon after being captured, Rhoodie was killed by an enraged slave. Well aware of the Rivington men's cruelty and treason, the Confederates spared the slave from any harm. In Richmond, the Confederate Congress narrowly passed President Lee's gradual emancipation bill. Despite being technically freed, the C.S. black population continued to live in apartheid-like conditions, under a dehumanizing status like not even being allowed to have surnames.

### **Post-Rivington Aftermath**

Pharmacists copied the nitroglycerin pills brought by the AWB, and Lee hoped, with their help, to live to see the effects of his plan for emancipation. Meanwhile, a few of the stranded Afrikaner South Africans agreed to help the Confederacy replicate their 21st-century technology from 2014 so that Lee could counter the Union in both its replica AK-47s and its greater industrial strength. Though the Confederacy has maintained strict neutrality in a war that the Union had started with the British Empire by invading Canada, Lee feared that the Union would later attempt a war of revenge against the Confederacy.

Lee then had to deal with the Vampires. Lee's liberation of the Slaves was successful and starved out Vampires from within. Against Henry's wishes, Lee exposed the existence of Vampires to his allies of France and Britain. France, prior to the Revolution had developed an antidote to Vampirism. The hope of the spread of this information was that France and Britain would attack Transylvania and other Vampire locations, beginning a Vampire Genocide. Thanks to awareness of Vampire weaknesses, a brief alliance with the Union and the aid of a Silversmith named Reid from Texas, the Confederacy vanquished the Vampire Presence in the South. Lee rest assured that the Confederacy would remain the most technologically advanced country in the world for many decades to come. Unknown to Lee at the time, this Vampire genocide set into a motion several plans to retaliate against the nations responsible, particularly by the Vampire Count Dracula.

### **1870's**

1871- Germany unified into a single sovereign state after the Franco-Prussian War, which ended in a Prussian/German victory.

1876- Samuel Tilden (Democrat) is elected President of the USA.

1878- the C.S. purchased the Caribbean island of Tropico from Spain for $3,000,000, and admitted it as the 14th C.S. state.

## **The Second War Between the States**

### **1881-1882: Second Mexican War(Second War Between of the States)**

The newly independent Confederacy suffered some instability, especially since the restive Texas seized the contested Indian Territory and finally declared its complete independence. That brought the specter of war close, with either the US going to war over the Indian Territory or the Confederacy seeking to retain Texas by force, but it was averted; Texas was allowed to amicably go its own way, and relations between all three nations steadily improved.

A great sense of Pride to the Confederates was the nation's annexation of the moon due to the presence of a Confederate loyal Princess on the landmass. With nowhere else to regain lost strength or vent its military frustrations, the U.S. conquest of the Great Plains in the Indian Wars proceeded a little faster than in the original timeline, largely concluding by 1880. Owen Thursday and his younger brother Thomas Thursday survived to 1881: as there was no Battle of Little Bighorn. In reaction to the Sioux uprising of 1862, the US Army conducted a war of extermination against them. Prior to the Great War, the Dakota Territory entered the Union as a single state know as Dakota (rather than North Dakota and South Dakota in the original timeline). While the US annexed territory from Canada.

In the Presidential election of 1880, Republican James G. Blaine of Maine defeated the incumbent Democrat Samuel J. Tilden of New York due to people being tired of democrats conciliatory approach.

Blaine ran on a hard-line platform, which ultimately brought about a war against the C.S. over the latter's purchase of the Imperial Mexican provinces Sonora and Chihuahua from a cash-strapped Emperor Maximilian(Who originally did not survive until this time in 1881). This purchase allowed the C.S. to build their own Trans-Continental railway lines, along the southern route (as advocated by United States Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi prior to his ascension to Confederate President). The CS avoided having to use the heavily taxed United States lines through the Rocky Mountains further North.

Early on in the war, C.S. troops under Jeb Stuart captured a large quantity of gold and silver ore from a Union mining town after successfully occupying the newly purchased Mexican provinces. Meanwhile, Union Colonel Owen Thursday launched a raid from Kansas into Sequoyah, using Gatling guns against Kiowa Indians and C.S. cavalry. The United Kingdom, France and Draka, both C.S. allies, blockaded and bombarded U.S. port cities such as Boston and New York City.

During the war, the Mormons in Deseret Territory rebelled by severing transcontinental communication, and transportation around Salt Lake City was disrupted. John Pope was appointed as the military governor, put down the revolt, and imposed martial law. The Church of Latter-day Saints was classified as a political organization and the Mormon leaders were executed, including Alvin Miller.

The U.S. attempt to invade the now-C.S. state Virginia was easily thrown back by Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson as the U.S. struggled to find a man his equal. A key reason for the C.S. success in the war, in addition to fighting a defensive war, was that the C.S. was led by excellent generals like Jackson, while the United States' military, despite possessing an advantage in numbers and resources, suffered from incompetent leadership. William Rosecrans, the commander of the U.S. Army, said at one point that there was no overall strategy for winning the war *whatsoever*. He envisioned the opposing armies trading counteroffensives and believed the U.S. could win. This lack of strategy left the German/Prussian military observer, Alfred von Schlieffen, aghast (this purportedly influenced him to develop his own invasion plans for use by Germany against its enemies). Another factor was that the Confederacy possessed many more figures known as "Gunslingers", such as Jonah Hex, Ethan Edwards, and the Texan John Reid. While had the Union won the civil War, these individuals would have wandered the Lawless land, and gained heroic reputations despite the hostility towards Confederate Troops. The Confederate Victory, led to many of these Gunslingers, being promoted in the ranks of the Southern Army. There was also the aid of geniuses such as Arliss Loveless.

The United States began to invade Louisville to repel the C.S. out of Kentucky. They were fought to a stalemate by the C.S., commanded by "Stonewall" Jackson. The Union's use of the technology of breech-loading artillery and repeating rifles was seen to hamper its ability to take a position. Under Jackson, the C.S. Army never went into U.S. territory which it did not control before the war. First, it did not have the resources for an offensive into hostile lands. Second, C.S. success hinged on the support of the United Kingdom and France, who felt they are aiding a smaller nation wrongfully attacked by a larger one. Invading U.S. territory might cost the C.S. its allies. Galled by orders to wage a purely defensive war, Jackson took them to the extreme, pioneering tactics of full-scale trench warfare, which devastated Louisville (akin to the original timeline's description of World War I). The Louisville campaign quickly bogged down for the United States, and resulted in a bloodbath with little territory gained. The United Kingdom and France continued to shell the Great Lakesports; France also shelled the small southern California towns of Los Angeles and San Pedro, while the British bombard San Francisco and raided the Federal mint there.

The United States received some good news when a young volunteer cavalry colonel, John Smith Norton, Henry Fleming, John Henry and Owne Thursday routed a British division under Gen. Charles "Chinese" Gordon, invading Montana from Canada's western province of Saskatchewan. However, the British invaded northern Maine in the East and annexed it to the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Finally, facing defeat on almost all fronts, Republican president James G. Blaine was forced to capitulate. The U.S. surrendered on April 22, 1882, ending the Second Mexican War.

C.S. President James Longstreet, in an attempt to appear the conciliator, offered generous terms to end the war, and asked the U.S. to officially recognize the C.S. acquisition of the two Mexican provinces. Most of northern Maine was annexed into the Canadian province of New Brunswick, demanded by the British for their participation in the war. President Blaine took the end of the war hard.

Both American nations experienced major changes after the war. In the United States, many Republicans were voted out of Congress in the 1882 elections. Stung with the loss in the Second Mexican War, Blaine was ousted as president two years later. The elections of 1882 and 1884 began Democratic control over Congress and the White House, which lasted 36 years.

The defeated United States, realizing it needed powerful allies to counter the C.S. alliances with the United Kingdom, France, and Draka began an alliance with the newly unified German Empire (helped by the fact that both countries had large German populations, the U.S. in particular being home to a sizable German community as well as an ever-increasing anti-British Irish population). It adopted many of the latter's military and economic practices under Chancellor Otto von Bludiron. This was likely influenced by Germany's brief occupation of the United Kingdom in 1871.

Following the collapse of the Republican Party, the remaining members of the Party such as Austin Stoneman, Jacob Ajax, Abner Dilworthy, and Silas P.Ratcliffe allied with U.S. socialists and lead left-wing Liberal Republicans into their fledgling Socialist Party including Former President Abraham Lincoln. Meanwhile, Benjamin Butler lead most of the right-wing Conservative Republicans to the Democrats, which resulted in pushing the party even further to the right and causing a majority of it to adopt a hard-line foreign policy and the gearing of American society to nationalism and revanchism. Both of these groups were attracting many of the new European immigrants, who comprised the working class in the U.S. industrial cities thus the ideology of "Remembrance" was born. April 22nd became known as Remembrance Day, a somber commemoration holiday. With the exodus of its right-most and left-most members, the remaining Republican party faded into obscurity, though it still limped along as a minor regional party representing only the Midwest (which was booming in the late 19th and early 20th centuries). They did not win the presidency or another Congressional majority.

The two terms of US President James B. McPherson (in original history, a Union officer who was killed during the Battle of Atlanta in July 1864) were marked by a strong tendency towards reconciliation with the Confederate States. His Second Inaugural Speech, arguing that the war ending in 1864 saved the lives of many who would have been killed had it dragged on, was warmly received south of the Mason–Dixon line, became part of the school curriculum, and helped achieve an eventual reunification (though it came only long after his death).

## Anno Dracula

### **1885: The Dracula Years**

1885-Dracula launched an invasion of Great Britain. While he had originally proposed an invasion in the original timeline and been ignored, the many deaths and failure of their American endeavor convinced many of Dracula's cause and he struck along with an army of Vampires, successfully occupying Britain after killing Van Helsing and those who seeked to oppose him and rebuilding the nation as a Vampire community in which criminals were jailed or impaled without trial. This new regime was faced by acts of rebellion inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders. Dracula's position of Prince Consort would be lost when Queen Victoria committed suicide, but he would remain in power by force, resulting in greater resistance forming against him. An alliance against Dracula was formed that included the government in exile of Britain, its ally of France, The US and Germany. The CS still had a large vampire population and even a Vampire President and so refused to become involved.

### **1895: Seven Days of Mayhem**

In February of that year, a massive fleet was assembled to combat Dracula's England. the French fleet was led by Erik, the former Phantom of the Opera, who made his existence very public to aid in liberating the England. The Germans included General Von Kronhelm and their own vampire Von Bayern.. The famous British General Jack Harkaway led the British fleet. The American fleet included inventor William Hattison. The undead creatures summoned by Dracula including those of the Deep would destroy the fleet with many nations quick to disown the effort. The Kaiser retreated to Bavaria soon after. France sued for Peace and ceded some islands. The German Ambassador attempted to kill Prime Minister Ruthven but this failed and he was killed by General Iorga.

Resistance came from within England as a group known as the Council of Seven Days formed. Its members were vampire journalist Kate Reed(Wednesday),the Russian Vampire Alexander Ossipon(Monday), Paul Muniment(Tuesday) Kate's Reed's then boyfriend. Christina Light(Saturday), the Princess Casamassima, Peter Piatkov(Friday) a Polish Painter, and Gabriel Syme(Thursday). Fianlly there was the mysterious Sunday or Mr.Bloody Sunday. This group was raided by a group led by Sergeant Ottermole. Mr.Sunday demonstrated bizarre yet not vampire abilities to provide a distraction but Syme and Ossipon were captured fleeing. Reed and Muniment met with Fu Manchu, Mortiarty, Irma Vep and Mack the Knife, intending to work together against Dracula.

Ruthven decreed the holding of a Tin Jubilee in celebration of Dracula's ten year rule. The Revolutionaries attempted to destroy the Tower of London but were thwarted by Kate Reed, Penelope Churchward and Fah Lo Suee, who betrayed her own father Fu Manchu and Vep returned the stolen crown jewels.

### **1897-1901: Texan Rebellion and Spanish-American War**

Seeking to expand their own territories, The Union entered into a war with Spain which had them gain Tropico from the CS, Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, which they quickly attempted to make States so as to appear larger than the C.S. while also surrounding it. Sort skirmishes broke out as the C.S. attempted to prevent the Union from acquiring the islands and reclaim their lost territory. During the war, the Union aided in Black nationalist uprisings in Texas led by Henry Belgrave, which broke away from the CS to establish an independent African-American nation in Texas, which became the United Societies of Africans, Mulattos, Quadroons, and Octoroons (AMQUO).

1898- The Mollusc Invasion hit the US and CS less hard than other nations. Most devastated was the United Kingdom. The Molluscs decimated Britain's vampire Population, leading to the overthrow of the Vampiric governmeny. US President Thomas Bracket Reed had William Hattison reengineer the Mollusc technology. This conflict strengthened previous alliances that would come to define the wars of the 20th century. This included the Central Powers: US, Germany, Russia, and Japan, and the Entente: CS, Britain, France and China. Tensions grew further when Mars was attacked and it was discovered the Molluscs had invaded the planet as well and were now seemingly gone for good, leaving much technology for war and only other nations to use it on.

### **1899: Yokai Town**

A ship full of Vampires, led by Genevieve Dieudonne, Captain Kostaki, Sergeant Daniel Dravot and Princess Christina Light, were exiled from Great Britain by the British Government(who had exiled their Vampire population). They were allowed to settle in Yōkai Town, the district of Tokyo set aside for Japan’s own vampires, an altogether strange and less human breed than the Nosferatu of Europe. Yet it was not the sanctuary they had hoped for, as a vicious murderer set vampire against vampire, and Yōkai Town was discovered to be more a prison than a refuge. Geneviève and her undead comrades were forced to face new enemies and the horrors hidden within the Temple of One Thousand Monsters.

## 20th Century

### **1907: The Airship Wars**

In 1907, the German Empire(choosing not to attack America as they were allies), instead attacked the United Kingdom with Airships, Beginning the Airship Wars. Across the Atlantic, Democratic President Matthew Harrison Brady ordered the U.S. military to mobilize in late July, following Germany's lead. In response, C.S. President Rel Stuart ordered the C.S. military to do the same. Fighting soon broke out on their common border and the high seas in early August 1907. C.S. President Stuart responded in kind, although he had hoped to avoid a war. Stuart's speech, given in a tightly-packed public square in the capital of Richmond, Virginia decorated with statues of Southern war heroes George Washington from the Revolutionary War and Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston from the War of Secession, became particularly famous.

Unlike the Second Mexican War, the C.S. allies the United Kingdom and France were now preoccupied fighting Germany (and the other Central Powers) in Europe, and the Draka had welcomed the AWB into its borders, where they had become sympathetic and so refused to help the C.S., leaving the North American powers to decide their front of the war without outside intervention. This left the C.S. outnumbered by the much more populous United States. Moreover, this new generation of industrialized, stalemated trench warfare granted even further advantages to the United States, with its greater industrial base. The C.S. was able to humiliate the U.S. in two wars in part because of the brilliant leadership of its generals like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson - but after their generation died out, the C.S. did not attempt to maintain a rigorous officer corps.

Instead, the plantation-owning class formed a generational aristocracy (mirroring older European patterns): many of their current military leaders owed their positions simply to being the grandsons of actually skilled generals (i.e. JEB Stuart III, many other III's and IV's). In contrast, the United States was so utterly humiliated by its incompetent generals in the Second Mexican War that it "reformed along Prussian lines", improving the efficiency of not only its economy but actively trying to produce better military leadership. Even if the South did produce another Stonewall Jackson - which it didn't - this new era of attrition warfare in trenches removed the X-factor of a brilliant general outmaneuvering the enemy with weaker forces.

Hoping to emulate General Robert E. Lee's successful Maryland Campaign, the C.S. Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) launched a massive invasion of Maryland and Keystone in August, targeting the northern *de facto* capital of Philadelphia. The ANV quickly overran the de jure capital of Washington, D.C. and pushed on through Maryland. Baltimore was surrounded by the ANV but was unable to take the city, which is resupplied and reinforced from the sea.

The U.S. Army took a different approach and ordered the U.S. First Army under Lieutenant General Owen Thursday and the U.S. Second Army under Major General John Pershing to cross the Ohio River and invade Kentucky. Although C.S. resistance is high, especially from river gunboats modeled after the original iron-clad U.S.S. *Monitor* of the 1860s, the U.S. succeeded in establishing a bridgehead on the southern bank. U.S. forces also invade western Virginia, aiming for the rail junction at Roanoke, Virginia, which came to be known as "Big Lick". A separate U.S. invasion of Sonora, intended to capture the sole C.S. Pacific Ocean port of Guaymas, soon becomes bogged down.

The U.S. also launched attacks on Canada, specifically in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. Perhaps the most successful maneuver during these early stages of war was the U.S. Navy's capture of the British base at Pearl Harbor in the Sandwich Islands in a surprise attack.

1909- Kaiser Wilhelm set about to create Die Zwielichthelden, a German Counterpart to the British and French Leagues. Wilhelm was joined in this effort by the creation of an American League. However, they lacked access to figures such as Tom Sawyer, Irene Adler and John Reid, and so followed the Germans in gathering criminal individuals, modeled after Charles Foster Kane's attempt to form a League of Villains. This group was composed of Mabuse, Cagliari, Owen, Benett and Rotwang, who attempted to cause infighting between the British and French leagues in the hopes of starting a war between the two nations.

### **Japan-American War and Confederate-German War**

Both American offensives soon stalled, however; the U.S. armies found it difficult to push south, and the Army of Northern Virginia was slowed by the winter of 1907-1908. The C.S. invasion of Keystone soon grinded to a halt at the Susquehanna River, only 50 miles from Philadelphia. From that high-water–mark, U.S. forces slowly started to push the C.S. back into occupied Maryland.

Although the U.S. forces easily conquered the southern bank of the St. Lawrence River, crossing it proved another matter. The geography of the Niagara Peninsula soon bottlenecked the invading army. Though Winnipeg, Manitoba, as a major rail junction, lied relatively close to the U.S. border, the War Department allocated too few troops to capture it. Overseas, France surrendered and was occupied while British cities were decimated, specifically London.

The Warring North America war was halted when both sides were attacked by outside Nations. Japan, which had conquered China, launched a surprise attack on America and the US engaged in a war with them while the U.S. ally Germany launched an attack on the C.S. while there was intended to be a coordinated attack between the two factions, Japan's attack halted this. The Confederate allied Floating City of Columbia repelled German invasion. However, the Germans had allies in the form of Dracula, who was granted sanctuary in the nation following the overthrow of his British rule. He had also been given a position of power in Transylvania once more. The Floating City of Columbia was destroyed by Vampires. The South defended themselves while the war with Japan continued in the US. All sides simply stop fighting, too exhausted to resume.

1910-Woodrow Winthrop was elected President of the C.S. in 1910.

1912-In the US, John Norton ran as the Progressive Party candidate with Charles Foster Kane as his running mate and won.

## **The Weltkrieg**

### **1914: Declaration and Invasion**

On the 28th of June, The Osterlich-Zubrowkan Imperial Crown Prince and Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia were both assassinated by a bomb while touring the city of Sarajevo in the newly annexed Osterlich province of Markovia in June 1914. The Osterlich government quickly learned that a Servian group was responsible, and the Osterlich-Zubrowkan Empire quickly accused the government of nearby Servia of colluding with the terrorists. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia backed Servia, while Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany backed Osterlich-Zubrowka. The major powers of each system mobilized their militaries, effectively signifying their intent to go to war. In August 1914, the "Great War" began, initially putting the CS, Great Britain, France, and Russia against the Empires of America, Germany and Osterlich-Zubrowka. The US under President John Norton declares war on the CS, led by President Woodrow Winthrop.

When Germany invaded neutral Belgium to execute the **Schlieffen Plan**, the British Empire declared war on Germany. The German advance to Paris is halted at the Marne and a series of flanking attempts, known as the Race to the Sea, prove unsuccessful. The war in the West grinds down to a halt.

The Germans are much more successful in the East, repulsing the Russian invasion of East Prussia and defeating the Russians at the battles of the Masurian Lakes and at Tannenberg. The architects of these victories, Field Marshal von Hindenburg and General Ludendorff, would play key roles in the final German victory.

The Ottoman Empire joins the Central Powers in October, after a dispute with Britain about the confiscation of ships being built for the Empire.

Almost all German colonies are occupied before the end of the year, besides German East-Africa. It is here that Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck will play a game of cat and mouse with the Allied forces until the end of the war.

Japan joins the war in late August and occupies most of Germany's Pacific and Asian colonies, including Tsingtao and the Mariana, Caroline & Marshall Islands.

After the Airship Wars, the technology had been outlawed. Trench warfare became ubiquitous as each side dug in for protection from machine guns. Troops huddled in these trenches as heavy artillery in their rear pounds the enemy lines night and day. They dreaded the order "Over the top!" which meant they had to leave the safety of their lines to charge into No man's land, in the hope of capturing the enemy trenches on the other side. The US, drawing on German chemical expertise, seeked to push forward using chemical warfare. The use of chlorine gas, however, made only minor gains. Far from the quick, glorious conquest each side had imagined, the "Great War" became a long, bloody stalemate.

### **1915**

Early in 1915, another front opened when the Deseret Mormons attempted to secede from the United States and declare themselves the independent nation of Deseret. Mormon relations with the rest of the country had been hostile since the Deseret War of the 1850s and the brief uprising during the Second Mexican War. They wrongly believed that the distracted U.S. government would be unable to subdue them. However, as Deseret is on one of the major transcontinental rail lines, President Norton stated the U.S. would not tolerate unlawful rebellion. The Mormon rebellion raged until mid-1916, when it was finally crushed and Salt Lake City was captured. Deseret was then placed under military rule by Norton, a situation that would continue until the 1930s.

In the West the lines remain static, but the fighting increases in brutality, with chlorine gas being first used during the **Second Battle of Ypres** on 22nd of April.

In the East, Russia is being pushed back by the Germans, but manages to hold on to Galicia.

Vulgaria joins the war on the side of the Central Powers, relieving the struggling Osterians in the Balkans.

Italy joins the war on the Allied side, hoping to claim Osterlich Zubrowka's Tyrolian and Illyrian provinces as well as Freedonia. The campaign bogs down into trench warfare.

In an ill conceived effort to knock the Ottomans out of the war, Allied troops land near Gallipoli in February, hoping to gain control of the vital Dardanelles. It is the beginning of the **Gallipoli Campaign.**The whole campaign becomes a disaster and the Allies pull back their forces before the year ends. A British invasion of Mesopotamia is repelled and the remaining troops retreat to Kut, where a disastrous siege will start.

In the autumn of 1915, as the armies of the C.S. are fighting those of the United States along the border regions, blacks in the C.S. rose up in revolt. Bitter over their treatment by whites, and fueled by a rhetoric of Spottsism(named after Communist Manifesto Karl Spotts) and the teachings of Abraham Lincoln, the blacks declare "Red Revolution" in several areas across the C.S. and establish "socialist republics", while massacring whites and seeking justice against their former white masters; most trials are shams, however, and the executions brutal. These rebellions were gradually crushed by 1916 despite intervention by Texas and the Union, although white justice mellowed somewhat as thoughts were preoccupied with winning the war. Ironically, the lasting effect of the "Red Revolt" was to make white people start to believe in the military potential of blacks.

The **Fourth Invasion of Servia** between October and December 1915, a joint campaign by German, Osterlich-Zubrowkan & Vulgarian forces, lead to the Central Powers occupation of Servia, Montenegro and most of Freedonia. The Servian Army, trapped in no man's land, decides to retreat over the Freedonian mountains with the goal to reach the Adriatic & evacuate to French-occupied Korfu. During this so-called **Great Retreat**, over 200,000 people die in the cold winter.

A German submarine sinks the RMS Veritania. A severe backlash in the United States leads to Germany abandoning its unrestricted submarine warfare, which had hoped to strangle Britain into submission. Many speculated that a continuation of the unrestricted submarine warfare could have led to the entry of the United States into the war.

### **1916:Slaughter**

The Battle of Verdunstarts, attempting to bleed the French Army dry. In reality, all sides bleed equally in a battle which soon loses its military objective. A similar attempt against the British forces at the Somme has the same outcome.

On November 2 1916, US President Norton was assassinated while personally Quelling a Chicago Worker's Riot by sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Charles Foster Kane became President and launched a retaliatory strike on the Confederacy with the help of "The Twilight Heroes". He captured C.S. President Woodrow Winthrop and locked him in a prototype of his proposed "Euthanization Chambers" built by Rotwang. This occurred very close on the same day as Confederate elections when Gabriel Semmes, Winthrop´s Vice President defeated Radical Liberal candidate El Guapo in the 1915 C.S. Presidential Election.

Taking advantage of C.S. plight, the U.S. First Army marched into western Tennessee after slogging through western Kentucky, while the C.S. Army of Northern Virginia was pushed south toward Washington, D.C., a new armored technical advance called the "barrel" (referred to as a tank by the British) was introduced to combat for the first time by U.S. forces operating in the Roanoke River Valley of southwestern Virginia.

In this case, as in the original timeline, the name of the vehicle comes from the cover name used. In Great Britain, those assembling the vehicle were told they were mobile water tanks; in this timeline, they were coded 'barrel,' though there is some indication something called a 'barrel' was coming. Private Reginald Bartlett(relative of original timeline President Josiah Bartlett), escaping with a C.S. naval officer, heard U.S. soldiers singing a song, "Roll Out the Barrels".

While in the C.S. state of Tennessee, Lieutenant General Thursday transformed his tactics for cavalry into a doctrine for the new barrels (which anticipated the German "blitzkrieg" tactics of World War II in the original timeline), but the U.S. War Department was not interested. When Thursday's summer offensive began, tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers were lost attacking C.S. lines, and the new barrels, deployed singly in an infantry support role rather than massed as an armored fist, broke down in the hilly terrain to little effect.

The lack of British troops in Canada meant that the U.S., while initially held back by the Canadians, slowly advanced toward their triple objectives of Quebec City, Toronto, and Winnipeg. Largely thanks to the efforts of Irving Morrell, U.S. forces pushed up to Banff, Albertain the Canadian Rockies and cut off the second of three mountain passes that connect the Pacific coast to the rest of Canada.

At sea, the great Battle of the Three Navies was fought, with the U.S. on one side and the United Kingdom and Japan on the other. This prevented the "Entente" from recapturing the Sandwich Islands (Alola). With the Central Pacific in American hands, a U.S. Navy flotilla made its way south toward Cape Horn and around to the Atlantic, with the intent of cutting off Argentine grain and beef shipments to Great Britain.

On the Maryland front, the state was cleared of C.S. soldiers, save for those holding Washington, the *de jure* U.S. capital. In the autumn, the U.S. continued to attack the state capital of Nashville, Tennessee to no avail, raising the spectre of a possible Democratic victory at the polls, and the possibility that a Socialist President will seek peace with the C.S. and renounce all the bloody gains. Except for a local attack on the Roanoke Front that pushed the U.S. out of western Virginia, the C.S. stayed on the defensive through the autumn, attempting to drain the U.S. dry in the hope that the U.S. population would become sick of the war.

Unhappiness Under Kane escalated and he would lose to Socialist David Israels in the 1916 November election. He refused to give up his power. Already seen as a tyrant, Israels led a Revolution against Kane. In Richmond, however, the hopes of new President Semmes(a descendent of naval commander Raphael Semmes), elected in 1915, and his Cabinet were dashed. The U.S. government had four years to crush the C.S. before needing to seek re-election, while the C.S. were running out of white soldiers to further the conflict. President Kane forced a bill to authorize the training and arming of black troops to serve, with civil rights (excepting interracial marriage) to follow after the war, including citizenship in the C.S. Gradually Kane was leading the C.S. into greater levels of oppression, class division and bureaucratic incompetence and corruption. Meanwhile, the U.S. began the process of formally returning Kentucky to the Union.

In Europe, Germany declares war on Neutralia after Neutralese troops confiscate German ships interned in Neutralese ports. In the East, the **Brusilov Offensive** is launched. While very successful at first, the offensive doesn’t manage to either knock the Osterlich Zubrowkans out of the war or drive Germany out of Russian Arztozka.

The British troops at Kut are forced to surrender, dealing a heavy blow to British prestige. The Ottomans are being pushed out of the Caucasus and Armenia by a successful Russian campaign. The Sharif of Mecca starts off a general Arab revolt against the Turks.

At sea, the **First Battle of Jutland** ends in a tactical German victory, but a strategic British victory, as the Hochseeflotte will remain in port until late 1918.

Ruritania tries to profit from Osterian setbacks and invades Transylvania. German assistance on the side of Dracula would lead to a quick collapse of Ruritania, with Bucharest being taken by August von Mackensen within the year. Further south the Allies have taken positions around Salonika.

The French fortress of Verdun was captured by the Germans, and an apparently heavier use of North African infantry by the French Army. In addition, Italy announces it shall not remain neutral in the conflict and the "Easter Rising" by the nascent Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Dublin was not put down, spreading to the rest of Ireland.

### **1917: Breakthroughs**

On January 8th, the Kaiser hears arguments from military leaders for reopening unrestricted submarine warfare, but ultimately decides against them.

Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg is forced to resign and is replaced by Georg Michaelis. It is soon clear that Michaelis is little more than a puppet for Generals von Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Michaelis resigns still in the same year and is replaced by Georg von Hertling.

On the Western Front, the heavy French casualties at Chemin des Dames lead to a strike among the French soldiers. This disaster discouraged the French high-command from continuing great offensives until the end of the year, giving Germany a chance to recover from the Brusilov Offensive.

Russia collapsed into anarchy, with the Tsar abdicating in March 1917 (O.S. February). A provisional government was formed under Alexander Kerensky, but this government was overthrown by Pasha Antipov's Bolsheviks in November (O.S. October), starting the Russian Civil War.

Lieutenant General Thursday secretly developed a scheme for the U.S. to quickly win the war, using a massed-barrel formation, despite its prohibition by the War Department. Disguising his true intentions to all but his adjutant, Major Abner Dowling, and Lieutenant Colonel Irving Morrell, and lying to President Kane, Custer launched his Barrel Roll Offensive on Remembrance Day — April 22, 1917 — and quickly broke through the C.S. trench lines north of the Tennessee capital of Nashville.

The C.S. withdrew to a line centered on Nashville, where Custer hit them again three weeks later by outflanking the city using a plan concocted by Morrell. Nashville soon fell, despite the best efforts of the newly formed C.S. colored regiments to stave off Custer's barrels, and the state capital became the U.S. First Army's headquarters.

Greece joins the war in June.

In Italy, the **Caporetto Offensive** beats the Italians back to the Piave river, where only a last minute defense saves Venice from occupation.

The Ottomans receive blow after blow, with both Agrabah and Jerusalem being lost to British forces.

A British submarine mistakenly torpedoes an American freighter carrying Christmas gifts to Germany, killing several US citizens. The public backlash forces a partial opening of the blockade, averting the looming spectre of famine in Central Europe.

From Nashville, in July, Thursday attacked the C.S. lines in the direction of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Near Nolensville the U.S. received a C.S. request for a local armistice. President Kane assented, and peace on the North American front came to Tennessee a week before the rest of the U.S. – C.S. frontline. Thursday was outraged at the halt, but Kane explained that it would be difficult for the U.S. to defend the large salient into Tennessee it had captured, and at the same time, the southeastern chunk of Kentucky that still remained in C.S. hands would prove a nuisance in postwar years as Kentuckians elected to the C.S. Congress would constantly demand a new war against the U.S. to recapture lost territory in their state. Kane's plan called for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from captured Tennessee territory in exchange for all remaining parts of Kentucky.

On the same day that the "Barrel Roll Offensive" began in Tennessee, the U.S. Army in northern Virginia attacked southward toward Manassas(the site of two major battles fought in the War of Secession) at the same time that U.S. troops entered occupied Washington, D.C. The *de jure* U.S. capital was recaptured after several days of intense street fighting, which leveled the city and its famous landmarks (such as the Washington Monument and the White House).

In northern Virginia, several U.S. attacks forced the C.S. Army of Northern Virginia to retreat south. In battles at Round Hill, Centreville, and Bull Run (at the same site of a famous War of Secession battle), rear-guard actions led by a few battered batteries of the "First Richmond Howitzers" prevented the complete destruction of the latest incarnation of Robert E. Lee's fabled army. However, it was obvious the war was on the verge of being lost; this did not sit well with C.S. soldiers, who reckoned the war won only a few months before.

The C.S. started sending peace feelers to Philadelphia as early as the fall of Nashville, but Kane refused to grant a cease-fire until certain that the C.S. was severely hammered elsewhere. The last hammers on the C.S. Army came in late July, when fighting reached the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia, only fifty miles from the C.S. capital. With a cease-fire already in effect in Tennessee, Sequoyah was overrun, and fighting in Texas and Arkansas diminishing, the C.S. agreed to a general armistice on land and at sea. For the first time since August 1914, the guns fell silent in North America.

At sea, the submarine CSS *Bonefish*, led by C.S. Navy officer Roger Kimball, carried out a sneak attack on the USS *Ericsson* (named for Swedish-born inventor/engineer John Ericsson who developed the iron-clad ships and transformation of naval power during the War of Secession) despite being fully aware of the war's end. For a few years after the war, both the U.S. and C.S. believed that the ship's destruction was the work of the British Royal Navy, the war between the U.S. and the British Empire at sea still not over at that point.

In Europe, mutinies in the French Republic Army proved serious enough to lead to France's exit from the war (in reality, these mutinies — caused by French soldiers' disgust at being ordered into suicidal and utterly pointless attacks across "no-man's" land — resulted in the French Army command agreeing to order no more offensives in exchange for French soldiers continuing to fight only defensively until the Hundred Days Offensive). Without the U.S. troops, this caused France to surrender. The Russian Empire was threatened by revolution and anarchy, leaving only the Confederate States and the United Kingdom to fight against the United States, Germany, Transylvania and Osterlich-Zubrowka. Italy remained neutral and the Ottoman Empire was taken over by the Draka and then invaded by Count Dracula and his Vampires. In South America, Brazil abandoned the neutrality it had held since the beginning of the War and allied with Chile and Paraguay (who supported the "Central Powers") against Argentina (which supported the "Allies" (Entente), threatening the South Atlantic supply line to Britain.

In Canada, Thursday's barrel methods were used to break through the Anglo-Canadian lines, leading to the fall of Quebec City and Winnipeg. The United States establishes the Republic of Quebec out of the Canadian province, and U.S. and French-speaking "Québécois" forces charged towards Toronto, Canada. By this point the C.S. has been defeated, and with all the U.S. soldiers on the U.S. – C.S. Front now ready to head to Canada, the British Empire requested a cease-fire, which was granted in early June 1917. With U.S.–German-Brazilian naval operations cutting off the United Kingdom from its Argentine and Australian food suppliers, the United Kingdom sued for peace later that summer; it was the last opponent of the "Quadruple Entente" still in the war. Charles Foster Kane still refused to leave Office and the revolution led by Israels forcibly removed him and had him executed with Israels becoming the New President.

### **Armistice: Post War**

The terms of surrender imposed upon the Entente by the Quadruple Alliance were harsh.

* Britain gave control of Canada, Newfoundland, the Bahamas, and Bermuda to the United States. (The half of Maine lost during the Second Mexican War was returned, with some additional territory from New Brunswick.)

* The German Empire annexed the portion of Lorraine left to France after the Franco-Prussian War.

* Belgium remained under German occupation and the Netherlands and Denmark came under German influence.

* The Belgian Congo became a German colony.

* Osterlich-Zubrowka received Freedonia and Servia as economic satellites.

New countries created as a result of this war included the following:

* The Republic of Quebec, allied to the United States

* The Republic of Ireland, allied to both the United States and Germany

* The Kingdom of Arztozka and an officially independent Ukraine (both allied to the Germans).

U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing helped negotiate these terms.

## **The American Empire**

### **1918: Old Animosities Rekindled**

In early March, after a successful **Operation Faustschlag**, the **Treaty of Brest-Litovsk** was signed between the Germans and the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks had to renounce all territorial claims in Cimmeria, the Baltic states, most of Belarus, and Ukraine as well as in parts of the Caucasus.

#### **The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (3 March 1918)**

1. *Russia has to renounce all territorial claims in Arztozka, Courland and Lithuania.*
2. *Livonia, Estonia and most of Belarus stay under German occupation for the time being.*
3. *Cimmeria & Ukraine are recognized as sovereign states.*
4. *The districts of Ardahan & Kars as well as the city of Batumi are returned to the Ottoman Empire.*

***Supplementary Agreement from August 1918***

1. *Russia has to renounce all claims on Livonia, Estonia and Pottsylvania.*
2. *Russia has to pay 6 billion gold marks to Germany.*
3. *Germany promises to withdraw all troops from Belarus.*
4. *Germany assures to not intervene on the Allied side against the Soviet regime.*

* In May, the **Treaty of Bucharest**is signed by the Central Powers and Ruritania.

#### **The Treaty of Bucharest (7 May 1918)**

1. *Ruritania and the Central Powers declare the end of the state of war between them and that the diplomatic and consular relations between them would be resumed.*
2. *The Ruritanian military has to be demobilized.*
3. *Ruritania returns Southern Dobruja and cedes the southern part of Northern Dobruja to Vulgaria.*
4. *The rest of the province is ceded by Ruritania to the Central Powers and thus remains under joint Central Powers' control. The Central Powers guarantee the commercial road to the Black Sea for Ruritania by way of Cernavodă and Constanța.*
5. *Ruritania cedes various Carpathian mountain passes to Zubrowka.*
6. *All parties renounce war indemnities, except for special agreements regarding the regulation of war damages.*
7. *Ruritania leases its oil wells to Germany for 90 years.*
8. *The Central Powers recognize the Union of Bessarabia within Ruritania.*
9. *The German and Osterian occupation of Ruritania continues until a date "later to be determined".*
10. *All of the occupation costs are to be paid for by Romania.*
11. *All of Romania's "surplus" agriculture has to be handed over to Austria-Hungary and Germany with an Austro-German commission deciding what was Romania's "surplus" production and what price to be paid for the "surplus" production.*
12. *All of the railroads, telephones, telegram and post systems in Romania are to remain under the control of Germany and Austria-Hungary.*
13. *German civil servants with the power to veto decisions by Romanian cabinet ministers and to fire Romanian civil servants are appointed to oversee every Romanian ministry, effectively stripping Romania of its independence.*

**Operation Teutoburg** is launched, attempting to conquer the still fighting Greece and drive out the resisting forces out of Freedonia & Saloniki. Instead of assaulting the Salonika stronghold head on, the Central Powers make extensive use of specialized storm-troopers and so called "infiltration" tactics. The defenders at Salonika are pinned down while the rest of the German-Vulgarian forces sweep through Greece. Athens falls on July 3rd, causing the Greek government to surrender. The western forces at Salonika are evacuated soon afterwards.

Anti-Bolshevik White Russian forces of the "Volunteer Army" under General Lavr Kornilov retreat south from Rostov across the frozen Kuban steppe from February to May. The famous "Ice March" campaign concludes with Kornilov narrowly escaping death from an artillery shell on his headquarters during the Battle of Yekaterinodar. The city's capture cements the Whites' control over the Kuban Cossack heartland.

General Allenby continues to fight and manages to pull off the last great Allied victory of the war, encircling and destroying large parts of the Ottoman Army and conquering Damascus. Only the last minute arrival of two German divisions in Asia Minor prevent an invasion of Anatolia.

Pasha Antipov, the famous leader of the Russian Bolsheviks, is assassinated by Fanny Kaplan following the Bolsheviks' suppression of the Left SRs. Lev Kamenev quickly succeeds Antipov, but Bolshevik spirits are seriously shaken.

A desperate sally of the Hochseeflotte, now led by Admiral Hipper. The **Second Battle of Jutland** ends in a tie, but the shock of being assaulted forces the Royal Navy to break their blockade. The total end of the blockade and the influx of Ukrainian grain ends all fears of Germany being starved into submission.

After an unsuccessful socialist uprising in Germany in September, the so-called Enabling Act is passed by the *Reichstag*in November*.* It grants Reichskanzler Georg von Hertling (and indirectly Erich Ludendorff) the ability to pass laws without a vote, and bans all socialist parties in the German Empire (excluding the SPD). It is the beginning of the Ludendorff dictatorship(Wonder Woman never left the island fo Themyscira to kill him due to Steve Trevor never crashing onto the island.

Meanwhile, Kaiser Karl, under pressure by the ever-swelling spirit of revolution, issues the "Völkermanifest", promising national self-determination within the Empire once the war is won, placating Osterlich's numerous ethnic minorities. Even though the manifesto did not pose any demands to Zubrowka, self-determination of a Croat state was agreed upon by both sides of the Dual Monarchy by the end of October, resulting in the Kingdom of Croatia achieving the same status as Zubrowka.

After almost a month of negotiations between the anti-Bolshevik Constituent Assembly and Siberian governments, Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak reluctantly launches a British-backed coup to unite the fractious Whites. The situation is salvaged by the arrival of Boris Savinkov, who convinces Kolchak to accept many of the SR's demands, and limit his power to only supreme command over military affairs.

The United Baltic Duchy is proclaimed in late 1918 through the merger of the Duchy of Courland & German-occupied Livonia & Estonia. Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg is elected as its monarch.

*Reichskanzler*Georg von Hertling resigns in December and is replaced with Paul von Hindenburg.

The United States celebrated during 1918, having finally taken revenge on the C.S., with parades and parties lasting well into the autumn. President Israels and General Thursday (who was now a four-star general, Israels having promoted the aging officer in Nashville towards the end of the war) rode together in the Philadelphia Remembrance Day Parade, the biggest to date. The tradition of showing the national flag upside down to show distress was put aside to show that the U.S. had reversed the outcomes of 1862 and 1882.

Longer term ramifications of war begin to be felt, and both the U.S. and C.S. navies had to deploy minesweepers to clear their harbors, an activity which continued through to the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Not everyone in the victorious United States shared in the celebration of the victory, however. Returning veterans found scabs working for cheaper wages in the factories and mines they worked at before going away to fight. More veterans found themselves being put down by factory owners, and went on strike in industrial centers like Pittsburgh and Toledo. The owners deployed the "Pinkertons" and police against the strikers, but the war veterans, who had faced far worse challenges in the trenches, repelled them. The country seemed to be on the verge of another revolution, and the Socialist Party capitalized on gains among the lower classes. In November 1918, they captured the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time, Cementing Israels's future plans for domestic and foreign affairs.

Meanwhile, citizens of the defeated and truncated C.S. were hardly in a mood to celebrate. President Israels forced humiliating terms upon them in return for peace, President Semmes having no choice but to agree to them. Significant amounts of territory were lost: Kentucky had already rejoined the Union in 1916; western Texas had been admitted into the Union in 1917 as the State of Houston (named after former president and governor of Texas Sam Houston who was staunchly opposed to secession as a Southern Unionist during the War of Secession), with its capital at Lubbock, and the Territory of Sequoyah was under occupation. Pieces of northeastern Arkansas, northwestern Sonora, and Virginia north of the Rappahannock River held by U.S. troops at the Armistice were also annexed into Missouri, New Mexico (a state that comprised our modern American states New Mexico and Arizona), and West Virginia respectively.

In addition, the post-war settlement severely curtailed the size of the C.S. Army and Navy, and demanded the payment of massive reparations to Philadelphia. These terms contributed further to C.S. anger. The reparations caused the C.S. dollar to spiral out of control, as hyperinflation ruined the C.S. economy. (This is directly analogous to the inflation in the newly proclaimed German Republic at Weimar after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles).

As a result, anti-U.S. sentiment among C.S. whites increased, and several reactionary political parties formed across the C.S.. One of these fringe groups was the Freedom Party, founded by Anthony Dresser in Richmond, Virginia, sometime after the end of the "Great War" (in the original history, the original early founder of the then-fringe National Socialist German Workers Party Nazi Party of whom the Freedom Party mirrors — later ousted by Adenoid Hynkel — was named Anton Drexler).

President Israels forced London to recognize the Republic of Quebec (established in April 1917 as the war in Canada was drawing to a close) and the Republic of Ireland (including all of the largely Loyalist Ulster in northern Ireland), and to relinquish claims to the Atlantic island chains of the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Sandwich Islands, Newfoundland, and all of the Dominion of Canada in North America.

The German Empire annexed the French Congo and Belgian Congo colonies in central Africa, occupied Belgium, and set up the puppet states of Ukraine and the Kingdom of Arztozka, which "had the same relation to Germany as Quebec had to the United States of America". The exact status of the Baltic states (such as Pottsylvania, Latveria, and Laurania) was unsure during peace talks, but they eventually chose to remain neutral.

In Canada, the Dominion government was declared an illegal assembly. The U.S. Army set up its occupation headquarters in Winnipeg and turned each province into a military district. The U.S. Army uses a harsh policy of hostage-taking to prevent Canadians from rising up. If a U.S. soldier was shot or another act of rebellion occurred, U.S. forces took 10 to 30 hostages and demanded that the perpetrator turn him or herself in or the hostages will be executed by firing squad. "Occupied Canada" was declared U.S. territory as part of the new "American Empire", "stretching from the Gulf of California to the Arctic Ocean." In 1919, General Owen Thursday requested and was granted the post of governor-general of "Occupied Canada" in retribution for what he perceived to be the Canadian "murder" of his brother Tom in the previous fighting of 1881.

### **1919-1924: Blood & Iron**

On March 2nd the Germans launch a campaign to destroy French resistance groups in St. Mihiel, south of Verdun. Their infiltration tactics prove to be successful, with Nancy falling on the 16th. The French organize an ad hoc defense, leaving their flank exposed. An attack on Reims on the 26th splits the Allied forces in two. An attack on Château-Thierry meant the French couldn’t retreat back to the Marne. In effect, the entire French army was forced to retreat south and Paris was placed under siege.

**Operation Radowitz** was launched on the 11th of March, attacking the Italian forces from Trento instead of the Piave. Vicenza and Verona fell on the 24th, pinning the Italians between two Central armies after Venice was reached on the 10th of April. An armistice was signed with Italy, allowing Osterlich-Zubrowka to garrison Lombardy and Venetia until a peace was signed.

As Italy collapsed, Empress Zewditu of Ishmaelia and Sayyid al-Hasan of the Dervish State declared war on the fledgling nation, retaking Italy's colonies and reversing a European colonization of Africa for the first time.

Allied setbacks would lead to Allenby, and most of his troops, being redeployed to France. Allenby's successor, Sir William Marshall, is forced to slowly retreat because of a lack of manpower.

The retreat of the French Army leads to the positions of the BEF becoming indefensible. Most of the British forces were evacuated at Dieppe in June, leaving the French on their own. At this point the French Army, battered, war-weary and with little hope of victory was in open rebellion. With a second mutiny, a general uprising of the working classes imminent, the fall of Paris a certainty and Marseilles in German hands, the French government capitulated on the 4th of October, ending the war in Europe. On Christmas Eve, the Central Powers and the remaining Allied Powers sign a Ceasefire at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen.

#### **The Treaties of Versailles (1919)**

1. *The fall of France, Russia, Italy and their allies in the Balkans reduced the Entente to the British Empire, Japan and Neutralia. While none of these countries were under direct German threat, none were able to pose a threat to Germany likewise. The battle between Germany and Britain continued for two more years by proxy, in Ireland and elsewhere, while the otherwise victorious Central Powers divided up their conquests.*
2. ***Servia** cedes Vardar Macedonia to Bulgaria and is forced to acceptOsterlich-Zubrowkan oversight in most of her domestic and foreign affairs.*
3. ***Freedonia** becomes an Osterian-dominated protectorate.*
4. ***Montenegro** is annexed by Osterlich outright.*
5. ***Greece** is forced to cede Greek Macedonia to Vulgaria and islands in the Aegean to the Ottoman Empire.*
6. ***France** cedes Dahomey, Cote D'Ivoire, Madagascar, all of French Equatorial Africa south of Lake Chad, Pondicherry, Indochina, and her Pacific colonies, along with a swath of territory from Pas-de-Calais to Lorraine. However, the revolution prevents the occupation of anything outside Lorraine.*
7. ***Belgium** is reorganised into the Kingdom of Flanders-Wallonia, with the Kaiser's son Adalbert becoming the new king. The new kingdom however receives the French port of Dunkirk. The Belgian Congo is given to Germany and southeast Wallonia would be occupied as long as the German government deemed necessary. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg would become a constituent state of the German Empire.*
8. *In the East, the acquisitions of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk were organized into a series of puppet states. The former Russian Baltic governorates were reorganized into the United Baltic Duchy, with Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg becoming its first Duke. The Kaiser's brother Heinrich became King Genrikh I of White Ruthenia (**Belarus**). **Poland** and **Finland** became independent states under German protection, with the Kaiser's brother-in-law Friedrich-Karl von Hessen becoming King of **Cimmeria**. **Lithuania** became independent with Wilhelm von Urach, Duke of Urach, becoming King Mindaugas II. In **Ukraine**, Hetman Skoropadsky's power was officialized, aligning the country with Mitteleuropa.*

### **1919**

The Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), led by anarcho-syndicalist Emile Pouget, declares a general strike in reaction to the bloody defeat of the French army during the German Great Offensive and the second mutiny. After the fall of Paris, the government of Georges Clemenceau was replaced by a Provisional Government under Aristide Briand.

The Southern White Russians begin their "Volga Campaign" with the capture of the city of Tsaritsyn. Led by General Pyotr Wrangel, the Whites swiftly seize Saratov, but are halted at Samara by Ostap Bender. It takes until July for a Siberian White counter-offensive to force Bender to withdraw and surrender Samara, ultimately uniting the two largest White fronts.

In the Baltics, the White Russian Northwestern Army under General Nikolai Yudenich launches its offensive towards Red Petrograd. The outnumbered Reds are quickly forced to withdraw to Petrograd itself, and the Whites (with White Ruthenian and Baltic support) place the city under siege.

The Southern and Siberian Whites meet in the recaptured city of Ufa to negotiate a union of their governments. It is ultimately decided that Aleksandr Kolchak will remain supreme military commander of all White Russian forces, with Sergey Sazonov acting as prime minister. Most importantly, however, the Siberian Whites agree to follow the example of the Southern Whites, and cut ties with the Entente. Petrograd falls shortly afterwards to Yudenich's troops, and he presents the city as a gift upon also ratifying his support for the new, unified Provisional All-Russian Government.

Jacobin radicals, inspired by their Russian brethren and Antpovist theories about a revolutionary vanguard start a series of attacks on government officials and public buildings, ending the chance of the CGT and Provisional Government of reaching any agreement. An attempt of the government to use demobilized soldiers to restore order ends in many soldiers joining the revolutionaries. France is engulfed in a short but bloody war, ending in a victory for the revolutionaries. Emile Pouget starts with the difficult task of changing the French Republic into the Commune of France.

The remains of the French establishment flee from Nice to Algiers, setting up a government-in-exile, led by Marshal Ferdinand Foch.

Pursuant to a clause in the 1815 Treaty of Paris, Switzerland occupied Haute-Savoie during the closing stages of the French Civil War.

Following the armistice, republican and nationalist rebels rose up all over northern Italy, fighting against both the forces of the disintegrating Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian garrisons in the Italian Civil War. Central Italy fell to the rebels by November, and looked to proceed into Rome and Abruzzo.

Unfortunately for their cause, the republicans would soon split into feuding "Red" and "White" factions, leading to yet more devastation and conflict in Northern Italy. Meanwhile, the Savoyard loyalists were driven out of Liguria by the Socialists and the Savoy-Aostas fled to Sardinia, where they would remain for the next twenty years.

The Hashemite Rebels, in disarray and without any foreign support, are crushed by a joint Wasabi-Ottoman campaign.

Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg and his 'Wild division' take the Mongolian capital of Urga, with Sternberg declaring himself Mongolia's supreme ruler.

Uruguay establishes its Council of National Administration, ending political tensions for the time being.

In British India, unrest leads to the bloody Amritsar Massacre in April. This proves a flashpoint for a widespread **Indian revolt**. Governor General Rufus Isaacs is forced to declare a state of emergency.

### **1920**

On January 1st, Wilhelm Karl von Urach is officially crowned King of Lithuania.

Though Moscow had been under siege from a combined army of Whites since November of 1919, it takes until January 22nd, 1920 for the Bolsheviks to finally submit a formal surrender. Outnumbered, outgunned, and crippled by starvation and desertion, the Reds have little choice but throw themselves at the mercy of the Provisional Government. The Whites stand victorious at the formal conclusion of the civil war.

The White Russians send a delegation of Aleksandr Kolchak, Sergei Sazonov, and Alexander Kerensky to ratify a modified version of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, despite furious protestations from nearly all elements of Russian society. With the nascent Russian Republic in almost as poor shape as the Bolsheviks had been in 1918, the Russians have little choice but agree to German demands, lest they face "punitive action" by the Kaiser's armies.

In the summer, an accord is reached between the Ottoman Empire and the British, who still occupy parts of Khemed and Quraq despite the signing of the Ceasefire of Copenhagen the year before. Two autonomous regions are established, the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem in Khemed, stretching from the Allenby line to the Red Sea, and an autonomous region for the Assyrians in the Vilayet of Basra. The Mutasarrifate is to be governed by an International Council consisting of the German Empire, British Empire, Osterian Empire, United States of America and the Ottomans themselves. Forbidding the entry of Ottoman troops into the region, an international gendarmerie force would maintain the peace within Khemed. The British hoped to maintain their influence in the Middle East via those two autonomous territories.

The Italian Civil War reaches its *de facto* end, as Osterian and Republican forces defeat the Socialist attackers in the "Miracle at the Po". Wary of starting a full scale war with Osterlich, and with most of its territory devastated by conflict, the SRI quits its offensives. The "White" republicans join an Italian Federation as part of their deal with Osterlich, formally becoming the Republic of Lombardy-Venetia. The Prime Minister of the Republic would become the Interim Head of the Council of the Federation.

A general strike breaks out in Patagonia in response to low wages and poor conditions among sheep farm laborers

#### **The Treaty of Trieste (4 October 1920)**

1. *After a civil war served to effectively end the Kingdom of Italy's authority, what remains of **Italy** is reorganized into a decentralized Italian Federation aligned with Austria.*
2. ***Carbombya**is returned to Ottoman rule. Direct Ottoman control is reasserted in Tripolitania and Fezzan, while the Senoussi Order retains control of Cyrenaica.*
3. ***Wadiya** is granted to Ishmaelia.*
4. *Zanj falls under the control of Warsangali, a British protectorate in Somaliland.*
5. *The **Dodecanese islands** are returned to the Ottomans.*

The Freedom Party achieved success in Richmond. Its chief speaker — a vengeful, spiteful, and bitter ex-sergeant named Jake Featherston— harangued crowds at public meetings and squares about how the C.S. has been "stabbed in the back" by the Whig Party, the War Department, and, most of all, the black minority, who rose up in Red rebellion in 1915. Featherston's angry mannerisms connected him and his Party to the masses, and soon the Freedom Party became the white man's proto-version of the Socialists popular with C.S. blacks and Northerners in the U.S. Featherston comes to be seen as the Party's true leader, and the "Sarge" won the Party's leadership in a power struggle against Dresser in mid-1919. Once comfortably settled in his new office, Featherston reorganized the Freedom Party into a political party revolving around his goals and ambitions, and white-shirted "stalwarts" are soon elected into the C.S. Congress, while their assault squads take on Featherston's enemies.

The victorious United States, with its "American Empire", ignored political events occurring in the C.S. Most members of the American Congress paid no attention to the rise of the Freedom Party, save for Flora Hamburger, a worried Socialist Representative from New York City. Despite her calls for action, her party took no notice on either the C.S. Freedom party or the rise of Tony Camonte in the Socialist party, instead focusing on voting David Israels out of office in 1920. The Socialist party head Jurgis Rudkus was Lithuanian but was still chosen as the Socialist Party formed their new government. Rudkus was inaugurated president of the United States on March 4, 1921 to much rejoicing from the Democratic party.

As the ceasefire began to run out and with neither side willing to re-enter direct conflict, General Ludendorff proposed a ‘Peace with Honour’ to the Entente. The remaining Entente members would acknowledge the peace treaties between Germany and the former Entente members and return Germany's colonies (including those transferred in the peace treaties) in exchange for status quo ante bellum. The peace itself was signed at 11 AM on the 11th of November, 1921, ending the Weltkrieg after seven long years, even though the fight was considered over when the largest Entente members were occupied.

### **1921**

Kaiser Karl reconvenes the Imperial Council and announces his intent to move forward with the institution of national self-determination within the Empire.

Ostap Bender dies during the shelling of Tsaritsyn by White Russian and German forces.

The promising political career of Craig Stanley is tragically cut short when he succumbs to Guillain–Barré syndrome.

The Battle of La Anita between the Argentinian Army and striking workers grants the latter decisive victory. Faced with monetary difficulties amidst a poor economy and hoping for a peaceful solution, the Argentinian government abandons any attempt to control of Patagonia. There its authority is usurped by the Patagonian Worker's Front.

Fearing that an official end to the war with Germany would allow the United Kingdom to divert forces to crush the Indian Rebellion, the Indian National Congress forms an eclectic coalition of Islamic, socialist, and nationalist rebels and declares independence.

Later in 1921, Jake Featherston ran for office against Wade Hampton V of the Whigs and Ainsworth Layne of the Radical Liberals. Featherston loses by a narrow margin to Hampton, but resolves to fight on. In 1923, Grady Calkins, a deranged Freedom Party stalwart, assassinates President Hampton at a Birmingham, Alabama rally. The Freedom Party immediately begins to lose support, suffering losses in the elections of 1923 and 1925. Another factor limiting the Freedom Party's chances for success is American President Rudkus's lifting of the war reparations (requested by Hampton's successor, Burton Mitchel), which removes a key plank from the Freedom Party's platform. Featherston and his most ardent stalwarts spend the next several years in the "political wilderness" (analogous to the Nazi Party's popularity and status post-Munich Beer Hall Putsch).

### **1922**

After the Easter Uprising in 1916 and five years of war, a peace treaty is concluded between the UK and Irish rebels that leads to the creation of a new Free Irish State on 1st January, 1922. With the Protestant north as an autonomous region and the King as a figurehead only nominally acknowledged, opposition to the treaty is minimal.

During the "**Red Summer of 1922**", Indian socialist rebels execute the Maharajah of Travancore along with most of his family. Palaces are ransacked and lands taken forcibly from the wealthy.

South Rhodesia joins Draka, nervous of potential German expansionism in its region.

In Neutralia, the Monarchy is restored after a coup led by Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro.

With the Tsingtao Accord, the state of war between Germany & Japan, which had not been resolved with the Peace with Honour, is finally ended.

### **1923**

After being linked to a mass embezzlement of public funds, Ludendorff is removed from his post, ending the Junta in Germany. Hindenburg resigns as well. Grand Admiral von Tirpitz is elected Chancellor, beginning the golden age of Weltpolitik.

When the Victoria Police Strike leads to a Syndicalist uprising and the brief formation of a Melbourne Commune, George V implements the Emergency Protocols, and the Commune is brutally suppressed.

In U.S. occupied Canada, Governor-General Thursday rules the former Dominion with an iron-felt glove, surviving several assassination attempts by Manitoban farmer Arthur McGregor. Thursday killed McGregor in the farmer's final attempt as he was parading through Winnipeg, Manitoba. At this point, the war hero was retiring, having been forced out by the new Socialist administration. Cassidy aimed to return the U.S. to the days of peace, hoping that by treating its neighbors with respect there will never be another war, and won re-election in 1924— the same year the Freedom Party began to involve its stalwarts in the Mexican Civil War, an action where the U.S. supported the Republican rebels, but its meager support was limited, compared to the supplies, weapons, and barrels that the C.S. gave to Emperor Maximilian III.

## **1924-1934: The Centre Cannot Hold**

### **1924**

In Russia, a coup is attempted by a loose coalition of businessmen, industrialists, centre-right conservatives, and Siberian autonomists, all of whom are united chiefly by strong anti-German resentment. Aleksandr Kolchak, despite having little involvement with the plot, is declared provisional dictator. However, only a handful of units in Siberia side with the plot, and all ultimately agree to stand-down rather than fight the army units sent to suppress them. Seeing the writing on the wall, the plotters disperse, with Kolchak accepting an Anglo-Japanese offer to be installed as an anti-German pretender in the "Russian Republic" of Transamur.

Seeing the chaos engulfing Russia in the wake of the Kolchak Putsch and resentful of broken promises for autonomy, the Don, Kuban, and Terek Cossacks mutiny on the urging of General Pyotr Krasnov. Though support for the rebellion is far from universal among the Cossacks, the feeble state of the Russian army leads Kerensky to reluctantly agree to Krasnov's demands. The newly-created Don-Kuban Union that arises is independent from Russia in all but name.

The Consolidation of Resources Act merges **Australia** and **New Zealand** into the Australasian Confederation. Elections are suspended and much of the new Dominion is put under martial law.

The 1924 Summer Olympics, the first games in over a decade, are held in Berlin.

### **1925**

Sun Yat-sen dies of cancer, setting off a power struggle in the Kuomintang (KMT). Eventually, Wang Jingwei of the left faction assumes the position of generalissimo and Chen Zhen of the rightists becomes commander of the KMT's military.

A British general strike over coal tariffs escalates into a nationwide uprising when government troops massacre striking miners. After the army begins to stand down or defect and the Royal Navy begins to mutiny, the government flees to Canada. A coalition of leftists centered around the Trade Unions Congress take control under the charismatic John Maclean, creating the Union of Britain.

Michael Collins dissolves the **Irish Free State** and the autonomy of Ulster, proclaiming the Republic of Ireland with himself as President.

The collapse of the British government leads to a massive land-grab for its overseas possessions. Gibraltar finally falls into Spanish hands, the French Republic occupies Malta, Argentina quickly seizes the Falkland Islands, Egypt gains sole authority over the Sudan, Nejd invades the Trucial States, Jabal Shammar ensures the fealty of Kuwait, and the Ottoman Empire regains control over Cyprus, the Sinai Penninsula, and Aden, placing the latter under Yemeni jurisdiction. Germany manages to secure most of the British African holdings as well as the strategic colonies of Suez, Berbera, the Strait Colonies, Brunei, and Sarawak.

Australasia keeps control over the British parts of New Guinea and Fiji.

The facade of a protectorate Britain claimed in Zanj collapses, and Sultan Mohamoud formally proclaims Zanji independence.

Draka manages to secure the Bechuanaland Protectorate. Tensions between the pro-Entente Smuts and pro-republic Hertzog grow.

The Royal Navy's Caribbean Squadron secures the British colonies in the region. These colonies, together with the former French colonies in the region would form the Caribbean Federation. Venezuela protests its claims in Guyana to the United States yet again.

The retreat of the United Kingdom's East China Station to Australia leaves their Chinese possessions undefended. A request by Governor Claud Severn of Hong Kong for German protection leads to the Shanghai Scramble where the foreign powers in the region, particularly Germany and Japan, begin a series of standoffs across the remaining concessions.

Emboldened by the British Revolution, the Socialist Republic of Italy mobilizes with the goal of pushing south into the Mezzogiorno. Ostelrich-Zubrowka, facing instability and fiscal difficulties, withdraws its troops from southern Italy rather than risk entanglement in an Italian War. This angers the government in Naples, which officially withdraws from the Osterian-aligned Italian Federation, followed by Sardinia and the Papal States. However, fearing German intervention and a new Weltkrieg, France and Britain refuse to support Torino, and it decides to quickly demobilize.

A supposedly Serv-sponsored pan-Slavic revolt sweeps over the Southern parts of the Osterian sphere, endangering Osterian hegemony in the region. The Kaiser deals with this by playing the Croats against the Servs, establishing a Croat-led Panslavic kingdom under the name of Illyria. Zubrowka is not amused.

### **1926**

The Kuomintang launches the Northern Expedition, a campaign against the Zhili Clique with the long-term goal of reuniting China. Perceiving the KMT as syndicalist due to their backing by the French Commune, Germany begins supplying the besieged Wuchang garrison with food (claiming it to be mail) causing fighting to break out. This gives Germany justification to launch a full intervention in China, using forces from Indochina to take the KMT's provisional capital Guangzhou.

Brazil falls into Civil War after São Paulo state-president Washington Luis is assassinated, after heightened tensions due to federal troops trespassing into said state.

The new medium of "the wireless" (original timeline's radio) offered novel ways for politicians to reach the people. Jake Featherston was the first politician to realize its potential, and soon people sitting in their homes could hear his raspy, thundery voice shouting from their radio sets, telling them the "truth" about the Yankees, Whigs, and blacks. For the U.S. things suddenly got much worse when, the same year David Israels passed away in 1926, Tony Camonte rose to power. Camonte was a former mobster who arranged the disappearances of his competition, causing Israels's intended successor Jurgis Rudkus to flee the country as he took over in a coup. Capone proceeded to rule over the newly formed USSA with a brutal, repressive fist of iron, establishing a cult of personality around himself, exiling and executing his political rivals and ruling the country more brutally and ruthlessly (and incompetently) than any of the robber barons who were previously deposed during the Presidency of Charles Foster Kane.

### **1927**

A major battle near Jinhua pitches the core of the National Revolutionary Army against the forces of warlord Sun Chuanfang, supported by German reinforcements from Qingdao. The Kuomintang is decisively defeated. Combined with the loss of their capital, morale is severely damaged and various units defect, desert, or outright disintegrate. Blamed for the disaster, Chen Zhenis assassinated after which Wang Jingwei flees to the French Commune. Some remaining KMT units retreat to Yunnan, while others form an underground resistance.

The Third Zhili-Fengtian War occurs, with the former victorious and taking Beijing with German assistance. Wu Peifu agrees to reinstall the deposed Xuantong Emperor to the throne in return.

After the assassination of Washington Luis, Governor of the Brazilian state of São Paulo, the Brazilian Civil War is triggered; internally long-divided, the country finally implodes.

King Ferdinand of Ruritania dies and is succeeded by his son Carol II, who is determined to make things better than his father & transform Ruritania into a regional powerhouse again.

### **1928**

The Fourth Zhili-Fengtian War breaks out, and soon escalates into a proxy war between Germany and Japan. When a train with foreign occupants is captured by bandits outside Shanghai, a portion of the Japanese military attempts an unauthorized rescue which devolves into a battle with local German and Chinese forces. Escalation is prevented by American mediation. The Shanghai Conference has all the warlords of China, besides the Fengtian Clique, recognize the Qing government. Several eastern cities become the International Mandate for the Concessions, where foreign powers are free to trade equally and no Chinese armed forces may enter. After the war, Zhili dominace in China is sealed and a period of peace begins.

King Mindaugas II of Lithuania dies & is succeeded by his second son Karl Gero.

Republican Judson Hammond was defeated by Hosea Blackford in the election. Norman Thomas ran for the Socialist Party, and won several Midwestern states, while Jack Reed was elected Senator for New York in an upset. Willie Stark becomes Governor of Louisiana.

Brazil has it's first elections of its New Republic. João Pessoa's Republican Party wins a landslide victory.

Juan "The Catfish" Gomez is ousted from power in Venezuela after losing military support.

Siamese troops invade Burma, which is heavily plagued by internal unrest, and trigger the 36th Siamese-Burmese War.

In the C.S., Even with this broadened appeal to the masses, the Freedom Party's hopes ebbed further with Featherston's defeat at the polls in 1927 against incumbent Burton Mitchel III. The C.S. people were just starting to enjoy the fruits of peace and prosperity, and the War and black uprisings were coming to be seen as part of the past, despite Featherston and his stalwarts, doing their utmost to keep them alive in the collective memory. Things changed when, in early 1929, the world's stock markets crash and financial and economic depression results.

In the C.S, Burton Mitchel III was blamed. In the U.S. which came out of the 1920s with a booming economy after Camonte was dethroned and replaced with Hosea Blackford, with the Canadian revolt having been crushed in 1925, new President Blackford took the heat, with shantytowns and slums being named "Blackfordburgs". Millions lost their jobs, and in Deseret, (occupied since 1916), a fanatical Mormon sniper gunned down Governor-General John J. Pershing. Japan and the U.S. went to war in 1932 after Japan was caught smuggling weapons to the occupied Canadian province of British Columbia by the warship USS *Remembrance*, and Japanese bombers attacked Los Santos.

### **1929**

Miranda launches an attack against Paraguayan-held positions, triggering the Chaco War.

After German and Japanese mediation, the 36th Siamese-Burmese War ends in a decisive Siamese victory and the Treaty of Moulmein is signed during summer. Some territories are directly annexed into Siam, some stay under "temporary" occupation.

### **1930**

Reichskanzler Alfred von Tirpitz dies on March 6th. Considered the most successful and popular chancellor in German history behind Otto von Bludiron himself, he is replaced by Kuno Graf von Westarp.

The current Council of the Italian Federation's term expires, and, seeing the Federation as a dead idea, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lombardy-Venetia decides not to renew the Council, forming instead the Italian Republic.

### **1931**

The Creditanstalt, Osterlich's largest bank, almost collapses after a brief, but intense, banking scandal. A major CS politician is implied to be among the guilty parties, putting in hazard the Christlichsoziale influence over Osterian politics.

The autocratic rule of Georgios Kondylis in Greece ends in a bloody revolution. Kondylis is deposed, killed & the Fourth Hellenic Republic is proclaimed.

Chile, after bankruptcy and several years of instability, has a Syndicalist revolution breaking out and succeeding in toppling the government thanks to large amounts of Navy and Army support. Arturo Puga becomes head of state.

Chile beings to help the Patagonian rebels.

During the "**Purge of Dhaka**", the Muslims in East Bengal are bloodily suppressed by Indian forces of the newly established Azad Hind government. Leaders of the All India Muslim League take that as a clear indication there would be no place for them in Azad Hind and secede in early 1932.

During the 1932 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois, the party had decided on two front runners: California Congressman Joe Steele, and; incumbent Governor of New York Stephen Wayne. However, after two days of votes, neither candidate had the needed two-thirds majority, although Wayne had a slight edge. Realizing he might lose after another day of voting, Steele directed one of his aides Vince "The Hammer" Scriabin to have Wayne burned alive at the New York State Executive Mansion in Albany. Steele's other assistants Lazar Kagan and Stas Mikoian were not privy to the initial planning. However, Charlie Sullivan, by happenstance, overheard Scriabin on the phone giving the order for the arson. Steele never knew this. However, in light of Sullivan's "fairness" in his reporting, Steele personally met with Sullivan and promised that Sullivan would always have access to Steele's camp.

When the New York State Executive Mansion was set ablaze, Wayne was burned alive in the fire. His wife Lucy Chase Wayne and several members of the mansion staff were also killed in the fire. The Waynes were then buried in Hyde Park, New York following their deaths.

With Wayne dead, the Democratic Party had little choice but to nominate Steele as their candidate for the 1932 Presidential election with John Nance Garner of Texas as his running mate, with whom Steele had reached an early arrangement. Steele would go on to defeat Blackford and become the 32nd President of the United States.

Judson Hammond was chosen by the House of Representatives after the socialists won enough states to deny any party an electoral majority. Denied the Democratic nomination, Willie Stark forms his own American Union Party.

In China, the Shanghai Uprising begins mid-way through the year. Although the unrest is violently suppressed (with the help of German military officers), the incident showcases structural problems within the League of Eight Provinces, between signatories to the Legation Treaty, and for the Central Government. A dangerous precedent is also set for German involvement in China.

In Draka, Barry Hertzog wins the elections and declares Drakaa to be a republic, and the country leaves the Entente.

Otávio Mangabeira is elected President of Brazil

At the same time in the C.S., whole cities are echoing to the boot-steps of marching Freedom Party stalwarts, their ranks flowing once more with angry citizens, preparing for Election Day 1933. Jake Featherston attacked the Mitchel C.S. Administration with the venom and hate, blaming Mitchel for the Crash, and condemning his ineffectual response to the floods that devastated the Mississippi River valley in 1927. The C.S. responds well to Featherston's rants. On taking the oath of office on March 4, 1934, the world holds its breath: "Freedom" is on the march.

### **1933**

The Chaco War ends in crushing Paraguayan victory. Miranda, in utter disarray, sees its republic dissolve into a dictatorship.

In Europe, the storm clouds were also beginning to gather. In Russia, the Germans had instilled a Constitutional Monarchy, keeping Princess Anastasia alive but in reduced power with the sorcerer Rasputin blamed for the deaths of the Romanovs. Russia remains a primarily agricultural, backward country. Frequent anti-Semitic pogroms and foreign loans manage to deflect further restlessness but the latter were a contributing factor in the 1929 crash when Osterlich-Zubrowka demanded the repayment of a loan that Russia was unable to fulfill.

Osterlich Zubrowka itself remained a united empire but only the Osterians and Zubrowkans felt any loyalty to the Bombhurst Dynasty monarchs. In fact, the multi-ethnic federation seems to be held together only by German financial and military aid. The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) also appeared to be in the same boat, undertaking the genocide of its Armenian population. Despite strong censure from the USSA, and more lukewarm protests from Berlin, the Turks continue the genocide until the Ottoman Empire is nearly devoid of Armenians.

Kaiser Wilhelm II ruled a strong Germany and his troops continued to occupy Belgium, the Ukraine, and the puppet Kingdom of Arzotzka, but post-war relations with the U.S. soured to the point that many people on both sides of the Atlantic believed that Germany and the United States would someday be engaged in a full-fledged war. The Business Collapse put an end to that, however, and the old alliance reasserted itself once more.

After the Collapse, France found itself under *Action Française* and a new monarchy under King Charles XI, who began talking about the return of Alsace-Lorraine to French rule. In Britain, the fascist-inspired "Silver Shirts" under Roderick Spode held similar views, and supported *Action Française*, though they never became more than a minority in the British Parliament, that is until they joined with another party, IngSoc.

In the Pacific, the Empire of Japan was far from quiet. Prior to the Pacific War with the USSA, Japan pressured both France and the Netherlands to cede Indochina and the East Indies, respectively, with proper compensation. Great Britain feared that its Pacific colonies of Hong Kong, Malaya, Borneo Madripoor, and possibly India would also be invaded and annexed by Japan; however, Japan showed no interest in doing so. Japan also gained much influence in the Nationalists' Republic of China during this period and seemed to have established a puppet state of Manchukuo in the northeast of Manchuria as well. This empire is in addition to Japan's possessions in the Philippines which it "liberated" from Spain in the early years of the 20th century.

### **1934-1941:The Victorious Opposition**

The Great Depression lingered on in the U.S. and "Occupied Canada" through 1934 and 1935, with millions of men out of work and productivity down. Steele implemented the Four-Year Plan( in lieu of Stalin's Five-Year Plan), which entailed massive infrastructure projects, nationalizing the banks and the formation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, but also the formation of prisoner work camps for the pseudo-enemies of the state, called wreckers. Steele arrested four dissenting Supreme Court Justices (Pierce Butler, James Clark McReynolds, George Sutherland and Willis Van Devanter) known as the "Supreme Court Four" on charges of aiding foreign world powers, and had them executed. Additional political foes find similar charges leveled against them, including Willie Stark, who fled to his power base of Louisiana, but would later be assassinated regardless. Steele ended the Japanese War but many people continued to question why it was fought in the first place. In the U.S.S. Congress, Flora Hamburger Blackford questioned why Steele and the Democrats were allowing the C.S. to enlarge its army in violation of the peace treaty. Steele insisted that he made a peace treaty with Featherston and that the CS President would not violate it. At the same time, Congress had to deal with several Freedom Party congressmen from the former C.S. states of Kentucky and Houston (formerly part of western Texas), who disrupted Congressional sessions with calls for a plebiscite in their home states.

In 1936, Steele and Judson Hammond were reelected in a landslide against Republican candidate Alf Landon with Frank Knox as running mate, who only carried eight electoral votes from Maine and Vermont, and Socialist candidate Alfred E. Smith with Charles W. La Follete as running mate, whose support from Kentucky and Houston wasn't enough. However, this started a Civil War due to Steele's reign of terror, with Featherston, General Henry Howell, and Willie Stark forming their own factions.

The Freedom Party in the C.S. had begun to turn the country into a one-party state, with the C.S. Congress passing laws proposed by President Jake Featherston. He faced no opposition from the C.S. Supreme Court, having maneuvered the high court into making its position vulnerable, whereupon he merely extended executive power and abolished the judicial branch. Forced elections in 1935 and 1937 solidified and confirmed Freedom Party control of the House and Senate, with state legislatures and governorships captured as well. The Army was purged in 1936 and conscription recommenced in 1938. The troublesome Vice President Willy Knight was removed from office after his attempt on Featherston's life later that year and soon imprisoned. The police force was slowly padded with stalwarts and soon, with a nod from the national administration and Attorney General Ferdinand Koenig, the states were installing correctional camps for "riotous" and "unruly" Whigs and Radical Liberals.

Radical Liberal Louisiana is toppled by Freedom stalwarts, with Willie Stark assassinated in 1938, his regime being replaced by an administration more compliant with Featherston's interests. With black rebellions flaring up all over the C.S., Featherston had begun looking for quiet and suitable places to exact revenge for real or imagined (mostly imagined) wrongs that the blacks have committed. To Featherston, Louisiana was the perfect place to begin "reducing population." Featherston would begin to worry with the Appearance of Superman in 1938, quickly pushing the C.S. efforts to create a superhuman of their own "Hyperman". Meanwhile in the Union, Berzelius Windrip and his attempt to create a Fascist regime in the US was thwarted by Steele.

In late 1940, Joe Steele narrowly defeated Wendell Willkie in the 1940 presidential election and finally agreed to hear Jake Featherston's demands for the former C.S. states of Houston, Kentucky, and Sequoyah. In the resulting plebiscites of January 7, 1941, Kentucky and Houston voted to return to the C.S. with Houston also rejoining Texas. Featherston promised not to remilitarize them, or to ask for Sequoyah (which voted pro-U.S.) or other former C.S. territory such as the annexed areas of northern Virginia, northeastern Arkansas and northwestern Sonora. Within weeks, Featherston broke his promise and planted his modernized and expanded C.S. Army on the Ohio River, convincing Steele that the time to face Featherston down had finally come.

Tensions rose in Europe when Germany's ruler Wilhelm II  suddenly died. The new Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm III refused to return the former French territory of Alsace-Lorraine that France's ruling party had demanded. The United Kingdom, France and the C.S. soon declared war on Germany, with Russia joining in days later.

With war breaking out in Europe, Jake Featherston felt it was time to have his revenge against his greatest enemy: the United Socialist States of America. On the first day of summer in 1941, he ordered Operation Blackbeard to begin. The next day — June 22, 1941 — the C.S. brought the war to North America with a surprise attack on Philadelphia and southern Ohio (the German invasion of the Soviet Union — in the original timeline — occurred on the same day. The name of the German invasion plan was Operation Barbossa).

## Settling Accounts

### **1941-1942: *Return Engagement***

At 3:30 am on June 22, 1941, the North American front of the Second Great War kicked off with massive bombing raids on Philadelphia and military installations all over southern Ohio. In an immediate joint session of Congress, President Steele called for and received a unanimous declaration of war against the C.S. Soon afterward, Rupert Catskill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the rest of the Entente announced hostilities against the U.S.

Philadelphia expected Featherston to strike in the east, following the pattern of the last war, but instead the C.S. blow took the form of a massive combined-arms assault into Ohio. Brigadier General Abner Dowling and Colonel Irving Morrell knew better and had prepared for the coming strike as best they could, but U.S. forces in Ohio did not have the equipment or manpower needed to halt the C.S. Army under George Patton.

Within two months, Sandusky, Ohio on Lake Erie fell to C.S. soldiers, preventing raw materials in the west from reaching the factories of the east. Just before Sandusky fell, radical Mormons armed with C.S. weapons began a new drive for independence in Deseret, capturing the Wasatch Front settlement belt from Ogden in the north to Provo in the south.

At sea, the U.S. fared little better although neither side wins control of the sea lanes. In July, the Royal Navy lured the carriers USS *Remembrance* and *Sandwich Islands* away from Bermuda. The island, a strategically valuable submarine and air base, fell to a joint British-C.S. task force as a result. The Bahamas were next to fall, with U.S. Marines being forced to fight island by island before surrendering.

Stalemate characterized the war in the Pacific throughout most of 1941. The first major clash between Japan and the U.S. came at the Battle of Midway(which took place on December 7, 1941, the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor in the original timeline). During the battle the USS *Remembrance*, transferred to the Pacific after the loss of Bermuda, was sunk and the island itself taken. Although Japan suffered one carrier sinking and another damaged, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was now left devoid of aircraft carriers and reliant upon land-based air cover (in this timeline, the Isthmus Canal was never constructed due to the hostility between the U.S. and C.S.; ships must sail around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America to transfer between the two oceans).

The war in Europe spawned early triumphs for the Entente. In Ukraine, the local soldiers and population welcomed the arriving Russians as liberators, ensuring that most of the German satellite nation was lost. Elsewhere, the manpower-swarming tactics of the Russians, unchanged from the last war, ensured that they suffered heavy losses for small gains. The Kaiser's army, particularly its panzers and 88mm flak cannons, proved instrumental in preventing the loss of East Prussia and the satellite kingdom of Arztozka

In South America, a tense peace was maintained between Argentina and Chile, who both decided that they have had enough fighting in the First Great War. All of South America's nations were apparently neutral in this new conflict. Unfortunately they were not immune. An alien invasion by the Race came down to Earth in both Africa and South America. In Africa, the Draka and the hidden society of Wakanda battled the Race. South America had no such defense and was quickly overrun, resulting in an alliance between both the U.S.S.A. and the C.S. The war with the Race would occupied most of the Superhuman population.

In the West, the French Army swiftly recaptured Alsace-Lorraine and stood on the Rhine River. Ireland was overrun by the British, while the Anglo-French thrust through the Low Countries succeeded beyond all expectations. The Belgians welcomed the Entente as liberators. The Dutch, though more pro-German, were brushed aside, and some of the North German Plain was overrun.

Yet victory did not follow. Catskill's plan for a British end-run through Arendelle failed spectacularly, and did nothing more than drive the Arendellians into the "Central Powers" camp. France proved unable to cross the Rhine and the Germans on that front soon rallied. Osterlich-Zubrowka, despite its clear weakness, remained united. Vulgaria wavered as a German ally, but never abandoned Berlin entirely. Only the Low Countries campaign still showed promise for the Entente by the end of 1941, but Bombhurst still remained unconquered. By February 1942, the German Army felt confident enough to launch counter-offensives against the British outside Bombhurst and the Russians in the Ukraine.

In North America, the post-Race War season proved uninspiring for both sides. Shortly after Sandusky fell, Jake Featherston declared that he would make peace with the U.S. if his 'reasonable' demands are met. All the 'unredeemed territory' was to be handed back, the post-"Great War" reparations that destroyed the C.S. economy were to be repaid and the Northern (but not Southern) side of the border was to be demilitarized. President Steele replied that night with the heaviest air raid on the C.S. capital Richmond yet, but not before announcing on the wireless: "I have not yet begun to fight!"

Despite Steele's bravado, the situation for the U.S. seemed bleak into February 1942. A counter-attack in northern Virginia under Dewey Haik soon bogged down. With too many men sandwiched between the Appalachians and the Atlantic, the U.S. Army crossed the Rappahannock River but was held at the Rapidan line. A subsequent C.S. counterattack under Patton failed to dislodge the U.S., and both sides settled in for the winter.

After the Virginia front stalled, Featherston realized that another knock-out blow was needed, and began planning for a drive eastwards in the spring of 1942. Ohio remained quiet, with nothing more than local offensives. The Mormon revolt in Deseret showed no signs of ending; by Christmas 1941, U.S. forces were stalled in Provo.

Neither side achieved a decisive advantage in the air war, which was characterized by Clarence Potter as a "duel with machine guns at a pace and a half." Both air forces soon resorted to night attacks on the East Coast, as flak and fighters make daylight raids too costly. Farther west, daytime raids continued. On a tactical level, dive bombers proved effective at hitting ground targets but were vulnerable to fighters and flak; C.S. "Asskickers" suffered enormously from both. Neither U.S. Wright-27s nor C.S. "Hound Dog" fighters had any great advantage over the other.

It was during this time that the "population reductions" in the C.S. began in earnest. Any black man whose passbook was out of order is immediately arrested and shipped out to a camp; in the cities blacks were used as war plant labor while suffering reprisals for black car bombs and other terrorist acts.

In the Louisianan camps, the slaughter began with submachine guns, a method that proved inefficient. The camps simmered at the edge of rebellion, while most guards could not stomach the job and some commit suicide by gun. Soon poison gas, which one guard used to kill himself, was found to be an acceptable, more efficient alternative. Sealed trucks were ostensibly used to transfer blacks between camps; in practice the fumes left them dead and ready for disposal in mass graves.

Despite the Freedom Party's best efforts, news of the killings reached the U.S. capital at Philadelphia. Congresswoman Flora Blackford announced the crimes of the C.S. to the world, only to receive scathing comparisons with Deseret from the Entente and sympathetic but indifferent reactions from U.S. citizens (with C.S. victory in the War of Secession, the real-life African American Great Migration never happened, leaving the U.S. largely devoid of a black population and disconnected from reports of the killings)

In February 1942, C.S. bombers, which had been bombarding Philadelphia since the war's beginning, managed to hit the Powel House, severely damaging the building and destroying its underground bunker, killing Vice President Hammond.

### **1942–1943: *Drive to the East***

The U.S. determination to keep fighting, even though it is now separated into two non-contiguous territories after the Ohio campaign, is a major setback to C.S. plans; the C.S. hoped for a short war and quick victory. The C.S. decide to concentrate troops in Ohio for an attack into western Keystone to capture Pittsburgh, a major industrial center for the U.S. In order to have enough troops, the C.S. was forced to pull troops from other fronts, as well as under-equipped, unenthusiastic allied forces from the Empire of Mexico.

The campaign succeeded in reaching Pittsburgh but was unable to occupy the city fully. General Benjamin Forrest Cameron III, the chief of staff, commanding the C.S. military, advised that the fighting in Pittsburgh had achieved its strategic aim of destroying the city's industrial capacity and recommended pulling out the C.S. troops. However, President Featherston refused to allow any withdrawal. U.S. forces under Brigadier General Morrell next surrounded and attacked Pittsburgh, destroying the light Mexican screening force. Still, Featherston refused to allow the encircled forces to attempt a breakout. The C.S. Army was whittled down to a few ragged survivors by determined U.S. resistance and brutal house-to-house fighting. On February 2, 1943, the C.S. still inside Pittsburgh were forced to surrender. As a result of this defeat, General Cameron began to discuss with Clarence Potter the possibility of overthrowing Featherston.

In the US, Rep. Flora Blackford became more hawkish on the war, opposing the Administration's attempt to negotiate a settlement in Deseret, where the Mormon uprising continued. She found herself frequently agreeing with Orrin Knox the Democratic Senator from Ohio. (Knox was a Republican in the original timeline)

In Deseret, the Mormon rebels realized that they could not achieve a conventional military victory and so resorted to a series of bombings throughout the United States, first with car bombs and then with suicidal "people bombs". Blacks in the C.S. soon began imitating these attacks.

The C.S. extermination campaign against its black population continuesd and expanded, with Jefferson Pinkard remaining a pivotal figure. Cyclone poison gas, originally used for pest extermination, was brought into the camps. However, the C.S. was worried when a diversionary attack, launched at the same time as the Pittsburgh campaign and led by Major General Dowling, threatened to capture the main extermination camp in Snyder, Texas and expose its operations to the world.

The naval war remained inconclusive. The U.S. beat back a Japanese attack against the Sandwich Islands and achieved an advantage in the Pacific. In the Atlantic, the main activity was preventing British convoys from bringing supplies to the Canadian underground. The Royal Navy and the Imperial German High Seas Fleet met in battle late in 1942, with both sides claiming victory.

The United Kingdom and France were still bogged down in western Germany, while C.S. newspapers reported that the Russians were driving on Warsaw. Partisan and insurgent resistance rose on all fronts: Britain contended with Irish rebellion, Russia foughts Jews, Cimmerians, Chechens, and Azerbaijanis, while the Empire of Ostelrich-Zubrowka bled from (amongst others) Serv, Bosnian, and Ruritanian rebels, with people bombs killing several prominent military leaders.

By 1943, both the United States and the Confederate States, along with other countries, had initiated programs to develop atomic weapons. While no power had developed a weapon yet, it appeared that the United States and German programs were ahead of the C.S. one, with Germany the closest to completion, due to the participation of Jacob Barnhardt. Around the turn of the New Year in 1943, the U.S. achieved its first sustaining chain reaction at its plant in Hanford, Washington. The British and the French were also rumored to be working on atomic weapons.

### **1943: *The Grapple***

Following the defeat of the C.S. military at Pittsburgh (analogous to the Soviets turning the tide at Besstrashnygrad), C.S. forces found themselves on the defensive in Ohio. Neither the U.S. nor the C.S. forces had adequate supplies for a major push; however, the U.S. position was getting stronger daily. After sufficient buildup, a massive invasion from Indiana crosses the Ohio River and enters Kentucky. General Morrell employed the "blitzkrieg"-like tactics which the C.S. first brought to the battlefield, surrounding and bypassing any center of C.S. resistance.

Meanwhile, the Mormon rebellion in Deseret was finally suppressed. Mormons outside of the ruins of Salt Lake City surrendered to occupying U.S. troops. Plans were put forth in Congress to expel the rebels from Deseret, possibly to the Sandwich Islands. These same soldiers were sent to put down the flames of revolt in Canada. In mid-1943, Winnipeg was surrounded and under siege by the U.S. and Québécois armies.

Mexican Army forces were deployed to provide internal security in the C.S., replacing white C.S. soldiers sent to the front lines. Their efficiency against experienced guerrilla bands was limited, and the guerrillas' hit-and-run attacks became more and more brash.

To the surprise of the U.S. Navy, an assault on Midway Island revealed the Japanese have completely abandoned their garrison there. Many suspected that the Japanese were concentrating their resources for an assault on British-held Malaya and Madripoor, abandoning the alliance. An amphibious assault on Wake Island in the western Pacific some months later regains U.S. control of the island but also found no signs of the Japanese.

C.S. President Featherston demanded more progress from the C.S. nuclear program, fearing that the U.S. would develop the weapon first. In an attempt to slow down the U.S. nuclear program, C.S. bombers flew an unsuccessful long-range mission to bomb the "uranium works" in Hanford, Washington. A later U.S. bombing raid on the C.S. atomic program in Lexington, Virginia killed several prominent C.S. nuclear physicists.

The U.S. conquest of the Baja California peninsula took place soon after the beginning of the lull in Pacific operations. U.S. Marines land midway down the peninsula and take Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip, while the U.S. Army pushed from San Diego in Upper California, down deep into the territory, seizing control of the remainder of Baja. Harassment operations soon begin against the C.S. forces in Guaymas and the Sonoran coast.

A seaborne operation led by the U.S. to re-recapture Bermuda from British and C.S. forces succeeds. The United States begins running guns to Irish rebels fighting against the British occupiers. As these operations continuef, the U.S. also sent arms to anti-Freedom Party rebels in C.S. Tropico, including a band led by a teenage Alejandro Costa.

General Dowling's Eleventh Army continues to put pressure on Lubbock, Texas, the linchpin of C.S. defenses in the west. After Lubbock was captured, and the State of Houston subsequently revived, Brigade Leader Jefferson Pinkard destroyed records and gas chambers at Camp Determination before the Yankees broke through. Freedom Party Guard Units were deployed to slow down the U.S. advance, delaying the capture of Camp Determination. These fanatical Featherston loyalists, analogous to the original timeline Waffen-SS, wore camouflage rather than butternut uniforms and were notorious for brutality and refusal to surrender. Pinkard was put in charge of Camp Humble, not far from Houston, Texas, to continue population reductions. The United States used the mass graves at Camp Determination as propaganda.

In Europe, the German Army drove British forces out of their territory and over the Netherlands border. Subsequent operations were undertaken to free the Netherlands and "liberate" Belgium from Franco-British forces. In the east, German armored units dealt a decisive blow to Russian forces outside of Kiev, tightening German control in the Ukraine area. Another thrust was aimed at the capital of Petrograd, which the Russians unsuccessfully try to turn back. Russia was no longer able to mount offensive operations, now trying to defend their "Motherland" with a battered and wounded army. Osterlich-Zubrowka was wracked by terrorist attacks but continued reprisals against the Servs.

Facing off against C.S. General Patton, Morrell grinded down through Tennessee to capture the railroad junction of Chattanooga. Whereas places along the border such as the DC area, the Roanoke Valley, and Louisville have seen ferocious battle and/or changed hands in four different U.S./C.S. wars, the Northerners are now capturing areas that hadn't been under U.S. control since 1860. In August 1943, United States airborne forces seized Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, overlooking Chattanooga, Tennessee, forcing the collapse of the C.S. defenses of the city; General Patton planned to treat the city as a "Second Pittsburgh", forcing a bloody attrition battle on the U.S. Instead, C.S. forces were forced to retreat to northwest Georgia. After several more counterattacks by the ill-equipped C.S. forces, the United States was poised to capture Atlanta, the last major transportation hub still linking both halves of the C.S. As the U.S. Army moves through Tennessee, plans were put forth in Congress to return Kentucky and Tennessee to the United States (under martial law), along with a revived State of Houston.

With the surprising success in its war effort, U.S. President Steele, in a speech to the American Congress in fall 1943, demanded that C.S. President Featherston surrender unconditionally, with him and his inner circle being banished to a distant island. Paralleling Steele's refusal of a similar demand in 1941, Featherston refused, responding to it by ordering two V-2 rockets to be fired into Philadelphia, proving to the United States that he was unwilling to give up so easily. This mirrored how in reality the Germans surrendered in World War One holding most of their prewar territory, but the Nazis were only defeated after the allies pushed all the way to Berlin.

### **1943–1945: *In at the Death***

U.S. forces continued to advance across the board as 1944 opened. Major General Irving Morrell moved to encircle Atlanta, forcing Patton's C.S. army there to escape to the south and west. Mechanized elements of the U.S. Army penetrated deep into eastern Georgia and South Carolina, eventually reaching the sea and cutting the C.S. in half, in a 1940s analogue of Sherman's March to the Sea. Major General Abner Dowling was recalled to Philadelphia from the newly re-created State of Houston to assist in the new thrust on Richmond being planned by General Howell

The world was shocked when Germany used the first superbomb to destroy Petrograd, Russia. The C.S. was not far behind and Featherston sent Potter with a jury-rigged *Jovium* (Plutonium) truck bomb to infiltrate and attack Philadelphia. The C.S. opted for the truck not wanting to risk a rocket failure, as the bomb was still fairly primitive and much too heavy for a standard bomber. The carnage was fearsome, but critical government buildings were spared atomic destruction, as the bomb exploded on the outskirts of the city west of the Schuylkill River. Soon after, Featherston was forced to flee Richmond, while Patton pulled back to Alabama to defend the C.S. munitions works at Huntsville and Birmingham. U.S. planes dropped a uranium bomb on Newport News, Virginia, narrowly missing the C.S. president, who was giving a speech in nearby Hampton Roads. The U.S. drops a second superbomb, this time on Charleston, in apparent revenge for South Carolina being the first state to secede from the U.S. back in 1860.

Germany used its next superbomb against Paris, while the United Kingdom struck Bombhurst with its own superbomb. Germany retaliated with three superbombs on British cities nearly simultaneously; London was the most prominent, along with Norwich and Brighton. Rupert Catskill promised a swift response, but a German turbo airplane shot down the British bomber containing the second British bomb in Belgium, sparing Germany.

In the wake of German atomic attacks, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom, after a change of government, request armistices; the U.S. continued to gain territory and further squeeze the C.S. The U.S. recognized an independent Republic of Texas, which split the C.S. yet again, cutting off Sonora and Chihuahua from the rest of the C.S. The new President of Texas arranges for U.S. forces to liberate the death camps in his state. Jefferson Pinkard ess arrested for crimes against humanity.

With Patton's army surrendering in Alabama under threat of atomic attack and U.S. forces advancing north through the Carolinas, Featherston attempted to flee to what remains of unoccupied C.S. territory by aircraft. Patrolling U.S. fighters shoot down the dictator's plane, and he and his party, surviving, attempt to proceed on foot. In a chance encounter, the black guerrilla Cassius Madison (the son of a former black socialist rebel during the Great War, and sole survivor of his family) recognized Featherston and shot him dead. C.S. Vice President Donald Partridge became President long enough to sign a statement of unconditional surrender, which was accepted by General Morrell on behalf of the United States. With this, the Confederate States of America, after 83 years of independence, ceased to exist.

U.S. troops settled in garrisons for the long occupation of the defeated C.S. The black population of the C.S., decimated by genocide, had been reduced to scattered bands of guerillas who aid the victorious "Yankees". The final infantry campaigns had been brutal, and the U.S. Army had to deal with "bush whacker" insurgents who used small arms and explosives in widespread raids against the "Yankee" occupiers. In retaliation, they shot tens or hundreds of C.S. civilians for every attack against U.S. forces. The U.S. also held criminal trials to punish crimes against humanity in a similar manner to the "Nuremberg Trials" of the original timeline, executing the deposed Attorney General and Director of Communications, as well as numerous camp guards. A defiant Jefferson Pinkard was among them, tried and executed in Texas.

However, the victorious US Army was shown as itself regularly resorting to acts which would be considered as major war crimes, especially the executing of randomly taken civilian hostages in retaliation for the killing of its soldiers; in one episode, thousands of inhabitants of Miami, Florida are rounded up and shot to death in retaliation for an attack on a US naval vessel. Evidently, international law knows nothing resembling the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The final dispensation of the defeated warring powers' territory was unclear, though the U.S. made it clear that it planned to eventually absorb the whole of the former C.S. into the U.S. It was not clear what would become of the new U.S. ally Texas (which voluntarily joined the U.S. in 1845 after its original independence), or the now ex-C.S. states of Chihuahua, Sonora, and Tropico, which were never part of the U.S. Someone suggested letting Mexico have Chihuahua and Sonora back, however, the U.S. intended to keep all three states. In Canada, the simmering rebellion was put down after the U.S. agreed to treat captured Canadians as prisoners of war, and also threatening to superbomb Saskatoon in Saskatchewan.

Meanwhile, President Joseph Steele died in office, ending his reign of terror and trigger a fight for power. Democratic candidate John Lindsay and his running mate Arthur Hockstader defeated Socialist Charles W. La Follette and his running mate Jim Curley in the United States Presidential Election of 1944. Harold Stassen came in third place, running as a Republican, carrying electoral votes from Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. However, because the Democratic victory came as a surprise, the *Chicago Tribune* had printed headlines the night of the election proclaiming "La Follette beats Lindsay" (an allusion to "Lindsay Defeats Hockstader"). It is worth noting that political landscape was different enough for Lindsay and Hockstader to be on the same ticket rather than opponents.

At his inauguration on February 1, 1945, Lindsay pledged to continue the occupation of the former C.S. with the intent to integrate the ex-C.S. states back into the U.S. He also pledged to continue La Follette's policy of racial equality in the armed services. Addressing the international stage, Lindsay proposed a continued partnership with the United States of America's ally, Germany known as the "Lindsay Doctrine". The Lindsay Doctrine would allow the United States and Germany to police the world and prevent the spread of Superbomb technology to former enemies France, Japan, and Russia.

Integrating the Confederate territories into the United States would be an impossible mission, if ever there was one.(...) It would have been far more sensible to revive the Confederate Whig Party under US auspices and establish some kind of pragmatic co-existence with a rehabilitated Confederacy. But it seemed that US decision makers did not even seriously consider this option. Instead, they rushed into establishing an open-ended military occupation of a very large sullen population, which would inevitably burst into rebellion sooner or later. Factor in the smoldering embers of Canada, where nothing was resolved; add the unfinished problem of the Mormons in Deseret. What do you get? The US holding by the tail not one tiger but two, plus a big aggressive wildcat.(...) In this history, the post-1945 United States was nothing like the dominant global position it had in the equivalent period of original history. There were several rival powers with the both the means and the motive to make trouble for the US and actively foment rebellion."

## **Countries**

**United States of America** (formerly Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York State, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, the majority of Illinois, and the southeastern part of Quebec)

**Confederate States of America** (formerly Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, the southwestern portion of Illinois, the eastern half of Kansas, the Philippines, most of Mexico, Tropico, and Hispaniola)

**Republic of Texas** (formerly Texas, Oklahoma, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and the majority of New Mexico)

**First People's Nation** (formerly Sonora, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Arizona, the westernmost portion of New Mexico, the western half of Kansas, the central and southwestern portion of Ontario, and the southernmost portion of Manitoba)

**Franklin** (formerly eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina)

**Deseret** (formerly Utah and the northeastern portion of Nevada)

**Republic of California** (formerly California, Baja California, Oregon, and the majority of Nevada)

**French Canada** (formerly Quebec, Newfoundland, Labrador, and the northeastern portion of Ontario)

**British Canada** (formerly Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Washington State, the northwestern portion of Ontario, the southeastern portion of the Yukon Territory, and the majority of British Columbia and Manitoba)

**New Spain** (formerly Central America)

**Republic of Hawaii** (formerly Hawaii, and the Outlying Islands)

**Russian Amerika** (formerly Alaska, the majority of the Yukon Territory, and the northwestern portion of British Columbia)

## **Presidents of the U.S./U.S.S.A.**

* #1 George Washington (Independent, 1789-1797)
* #2 John Adams (Federalist, 1797-1801)
* #3 Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican, 1801-1809)
* #4 Johnny Tremain(Democratic-Republican, 1809-1817)
* #5 Benjamin Martin(Democratic-Republican, 1817-1825)

* #6 Henry Clay(Democratic-Republican, 1825-1829)
* #7 Peleg Peshell(Democrat, 1829-1832)
* #8 Derrick Van Bummel(Democrat, 1832-1836)
* #9 Quentin Trembley(Whig, 11836-1841)
* #10 Augustine St.Claire(Whig, later none, 1841-1845)
* #11 Puffer Hopkins(Democrat, 1845-1849)
* #12 David Rice Atchison(Democrat,1849)
* #13. John A.B.C. Smith(Whig, 1849-1853)
* #14 Eugene Buckingham(Whig, 1853-1857)
* #15 Arthur Weston(Democrat, 1857-1861)

**Point of Divergence**

* #16 Abraham Lincoln(Republican, 1861–1864)
* #17. Asa Trenchard(Republican.1864-1865)
* #18. Horatio Seymour(Democrat, 1865–1869)
* #19.Benjamin Franklin Butler(Republican, 1869-1877)
* #20 Samuel J.Tilden(Democrat, 1877-1881)
* #21 James G.Blaine(Republican, 1881–1885)
* #22 James B. McPherson(Democrat, 1885-1893)
* #24 Alfred Thayer Mahan(Democrat,1893-1897)

* #25 Thomas Brackett Reed(Democrat, 1897-1902)
* #26 Matthew Harrison Brady (Socialist,1902-1909)
* #27 William Hattison(Socialist, 1909-1913)
* #28 Heeza Liar (Democrat, 1913–1916)
* #29 Charles Foster Kane(Democrat, 1916-1917)
* #30 David Israels(Socialist,1917-1921)
* #31 Tom Cassidy(Democrat,1921-1926)
* #32 Tony Camonte(Socialist,1926-1929)
* #33 Hosea Blackford(Socialist,1929-1933)
* #34 Judson Hammond(Democrat,1933)
* #35 Joe Steele(Democrat, 1933-1945)-Joseph Stalin stand in
* #36 John Lindsay(Democrat, 1945-1953)
* #37 Barry Goldwater(Democrat, 1958-1964)-Nikita Krushchev stand in
* #38 Richard Monckton(Democrat,1964-1982)-Leonid Brezhniv stand in
* #39 Ted Cassidy(Democrat,1982-1985)
* #40 Kilgore Trout(1985-1991)-Mikhail Gorbachev stand in
* #41 J.R. Ewing(1991-1999)-Boris Yeltsin stand in

* #42 Jack Stanton(1999-2008)-Vladimir Putin Stand in
* #43 Al Gore (2008-2012)
* # 44 Jack Stanton(2012-)-Vladmir Putin stand in

## **Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom**

**Note:** The timeline diverges from our timeline around 1824, at which point Charles Babbage completes his Difference Engine and proceeds to develop an Analytical Engine.

**Arthur Wellesley,Duke of Wellington**(1830)

**Charles Babbage**(1830-1831)

**Arthur, Wellesley,Duke of Wellington**(1831)

**Lord Byron**(1831-1845)

**Sidney Wilton**(Whig)(1845-1852)(Endymion)

**Sir Thomas Doodle**(Liberal)(1852-1857)(Bleak House)

**Peter Gresham**(Lib)(1857-1860)(Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux,The Prime Minister)

**Anthony Daubney, Lord de Terrier**(Tory)(1860-1865)(Framley Parsonage,Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux,The Prime Minister)

**Henry Coningsby**(Tory)(1865-1866)(Coningsby)

**Gladraeli Clampvulture**(Lib)(1866-1870)(Died in office)(Bleak Expectations)

**Lord Appin**(Lib)(1870-1872)(A Lodge in the Wilderness)

**Henry Coningsby**(Tory)(1872-1876)(Coningsby)

**Lord Appin(**Lib)(1876-1880)(A Lodge in the Wilderness)

**Henry Coningsby**(Tory)(1880-1885)(Coningsby)

**Lord Ruthven**(Conservative)(1885-1940)(Lord Ruthven Vampire)Premiership(Anno Dracula)

**Rupert Catskill**(Conservative)(1940-1945)(Men Like Gods)-Winston Churchill stand in

**Lord Ruthven**(Conservative)(1945-1955)(Lord Ruthven Vampire)Premiership(Anno Dracula)

**Rupert Catskill**(Conservative)(1955-1961)(Men Like Gods)-Winston Churchill stand in

**Ron Nasty**(1961-1963)(A John Lennon stand in swapped with a John F.Kennedy Stand in).

**Ton Hutchinson**(1963-1969)(The Rise and Fall of Michael Rimmer)Lyndon B.Johnson Stand in

**Michael Rimmer**(1969-1974)(The Rise and Fall of Michael Rimmer)Richard Nixon stand in

**Timothy Hobson**(1974-1977)(The Guardians)Gerald Ford stand in.

**Eric Brooks**(1977-1981)(Blade)Douglas Dillman stand in

**Joan Carpenter**(1981-1989)(A Margaret Thatcher stand in swapped with a Ronald Reagan stand in)

**James Bond**(1989-1993)Jack Ryan stand in

**Dan Dare**(1993-1997)

**Maureen Graty**(1997-2007)(The West Wing)Josiah Bartlet stand in

**John Luther**(2007-2012)Obama stand in

**Ted Crilly**(2012-2014)Nehemiah Scudder stand in

**Francois Urquhart**(2014-2017) Frank Underwood stand in(ironically)

**Roger Barlow**(2017-2020)Donald Trump stand in

## **Premiers of the Russian Empire**

The Divergence point came when Tsar Alexander II was not assassinated and carried out his plan for reforms, including the establishment of a parliament.

**Alexander Kerensky**(1908-1916)

**Vladimir Lenin**(1916-1922)

**Leon Trotsky**(1924-1945)

**Besstrashney Laederev**(1945-1953)

**Yuri Gletkin**(1953-1956)

**Dmitri Kissoff**(1956-1962)

**Innokenty Smoktunovsky**(1962-1964)

(1964-1969)

(1969-1974)

**Natasha Romanoff(1979-1990)**- Romanoff was a competent woman, stronger than most men. Her popularity was stymied by an overseas war.

(1990-1994) Francois Urquhart stand in

(1994-1997) Adam Susan stand in

**Boris Yeltsin(1997-2007)-**A Conservative. Premier during the time, the evil wizard Chuma-Del-Tort, in reality as resurrected Rasputin, returned from the Dead to attack Tanya Grotter

**Dmitry Medvedev(2007-2010)**

**Pavel Ivanovich Ostrov(2010-2016)**

**Valeri Volodin(2016-)** In Office since 2016. Proposed a plan for Russia to exit the European Union.

### Individuals

**Theodore Roosevelt/Nicholas II**

The two were not very similar, though both were assassinated and had similar outcomes in leading to predecessors that were unpopular, leading to revolution.

**Father O'Shaughnessy/Georgy Gapon**

An Irish Civil Engineer for the city of San Francisco, Priest and working class leader before the Second American Revolution. After he was discovered to be a police informant, Gapon was murdered by members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

**Charles Foster Kane/Nicholas II**

Considered a tyrant. Kane murdered former C.S. President Woodrow Winthrop in a euthanization Chamber prototype. He was blamed for many things, including a War with Spain. The Socialist part responded by rising up and executing Kane and his family, including his wife Emily Kane. Only Kane's son, Charles Foster Kane Jr survived.

**Oliver Haddo/Grigori Rasputin**

Crowley was a Magician that gained prominence within the Kane presidency, specifically over Emily Kane as Crowley promised to heal her sick son. Believing him to be dangerous, a group of journalists who worked under Kane prior's to the Presidency, led by Nick Carraway, attempted to assassinate Haddo. They poisoned and shot him repeatedly and yet he somehow still lived. They chained his body and dumped him into the Debs river. Haddo returned as An undead being an attempted to kill the surviving Charlie Kane but was seemingly destroyed for good. He was last seen as part of a C.S. attempt to create a Moonchild. The experiment was only successful in bringing a single Demon infant from Hell.

**Grigori Rasputin/Oliver Haddo**

Rasputin was an occult magician who was thought dead after his house caught fire in 1910. Secretly he survived and attempted to create a Moonchild. He would survive and continue to attempt to create an antichrist. His last attempt to do so involved the boy wizard Tanya Grotter, though this too failed.