Divide and Conquer

Benjamin Judah, a southern Jew from the Confederate States of America, was sent as a missonary to England to gain British support for the Confederacy's struggle for independence. Great Britain refused to aid the Confederates, remaining neutral in the American Civil War.

But what if Judah was successful? What if Britain entered the war on the side of the South?

Southern Victory
Judah Benjamin, a Confederate representative, travels to London and convinces Great Britain to join the Civil War for the Confederate cause. British troops are present at the Battle of Gettysburg, a Confederate victory. Washington and Baltimore fall to Confederate forces, and British and Confederate troops prepare an attack on Philadelphia. With a British blockade and Confederate advance in the west, Abraham Lincoln is forced into signing a treaty recognizing the Confederate States of America- ending the war as a Southern success.

Normalizing Relations
Relations between the United States and the Confederate States are weak and un-easy. In an era called Normalization (rather then Reconstruction), many problems are dealt with including both sides: establishing a secure government for the Confederacy, dividing western territory, and stopping the

“skirmishes” so often- or clashes between armed farmers near the border.

Two years after the war ends, Abraham Lincoln is assisinated by a radical Republican, John Wilkes Booth, who was upset about how Lincoln surrendered. Durin this time, Radical Republicans wanted to attack the Confederacy and defeat the nation once and for all. By the time a Republican comes to power, Ullysses S. Grant, it's too late to do this, but Grant will lead the nation into a war with Britain later on.

The Confederacy is willing to open up all diplomatic relations with the United States. But in the North, it is not that simple. The house is divided- Radical Republicans against Democrats against Liberal Republicans.

The Treaty of 1867 is the first formal agreement between the two nations. A buffer state is created in the west, called the Republic of Colorado, stretching from the Mexican Border to the Platte River, covering the Great Plains and southern Rocky Mountains. Oklahoma becomes an independent Indian reservation, but the United States remained in diplomatic control over the territory. By 1869, the two nations opened up trade.

Economic Differences
Economic differences between the North and South raise tensions, as the two nations begin to trade with each other. The North faces massive immigration and industrialization, the South prefers a policy of isolationism, it dubs “Pure Americanism.” Even though they aren’t dependent on international trade, Confederate citizens (whites) are general richer the US citizens, because slaves create products they sell, and therefore all the money they make is a profit. Capitalism is done away with in the south, and Americanism takes it’s place- basically slavery. The United States industrializes rapidly, while the Confederacy remains a slightly economically-weaker farm country. This will be a major factor that causes the USA's victory in World War I.

The War of 1870
The War of 1870 was a conflict between the British Empire and Canada against the United States of America. The North American Confederation, of which it was a member, and Mexico aided the United States. The complete victory of the United States marked the downfall of the Dominion of Cana

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partially ruled by Great Britain, and was replaced by a pro-US Republic of Canada. As part of the settlement, the territory around Toronto, Montreal, and Nova Scotia was taken by the United States, which it would retain until over a century later in 1980.

The conflict was a culmination of years of tension between the two nations, which had been building since the British intervention in the War of Secession, and the British aid to the Confederacy. Republican president Ulysses S. Grant took office in Washington in 1868, and began ending normalization efforts and calling for the Confederacy to repay damage done at the battles of Philadelphia, Washington, and Gettysburg, which the south refused to do. Fearing a US invasion of the Confederacy, Britain came to the South’s side.

Vital efforts were made by Democrats and Liberals in the US to prevent a second war with the Confederacy, but none of the opponents of the Republican party could foresee a war with the British. Meanwhile, the Confederacy was growing in power- it’s fast-growing army quadrupled in men from 1865 to 1870. This was mainly because of it’s strong alliance with Britain.

On July 2nd, 1870, US-president Ulysses S. Grant sent a telegram to London requesting the United Kingdom cut off trade relations with the Confederacy, or else American forces would invade Canada. The British and Canadians were outraged at the telegram. Britain, fearing the growing power of t

he United States, mobilized, and on July 19th declared war. Britain only declared war on the USA, but Mexico and Colorado quickly joined the side of the United States.

The superiority of the American, Mexican, and Coloradoan forces was soon evident, due in part to efficient use of railways and impressively superior Krupp steel artillery. The United States had the second densest rail network in the world, and Canada not even close. A swift series of American victories in southeast Canada culminated in the Battle of Toronto, at which the bulk of the Canadian and British army was captured on September 2nd.

This ended the Canadian Dominion, and the Republic of Canada was established two days later, independent from Great Britain. Although American officials planned to make peace with the new regime, the Republic of Canada refused to loose territory. Thus, the United States launched a second offensive into Canada that week, the war continuing.

Over a five-month campaign, American armies defeated the newly recruited Canadian and British forces in a series of battles fought across eastern Canada. Following a prolonged siege, Ottanta fell on January 28th, 1871. All remaining French forces surrendered, and the Republic of Canada signed a peace armistice with the United States two weeks later. After the war, the United States had a huge rise in nationalism. The Treaty of Detroit was signed in June of 1871 between the United States and Britain. The treaty ended the war, and re-established a pro-British dominion in Canada, with southern Ontario, southern Québec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia all annexed by the United States.

The War of 1877
The War of 1877, between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, lasted from 1877 to 1880. It was fought chiefly on the Atlantic Ocean and on the land, coasts, and waterways of North America.

There were several immediate stated causes for the US declaration of war- first, a series of trade restrictions introduced by the United States to impeded American trade with Britain, a country with which the United States was at war at the time ; Second, the US “Grant Doctrine” that refused to allow Confederate expansion into western North America ; third, the Yankee military support for black slaves who were often revolting in the south against white masters.

Also, a huge rise of Yankee nationalism after the US victory in the War of 1870 caused a feeling of “war fever”, as Yankees realized if they could defeat Canada and Britain so easily, then we could defeat the south. This was known as the “we could” theory.

Confederate expansion into the southwest was strongly discouraged by the United States. For example, in 1874 the Confederacy requested rights to build a Pacific port in San Diego, and a railroad to connect it to the rest of the Confederacy through Yankee Arizona and New Mexico. The United States stubbornly refused, and came back with it’s own request for the Confederacy to remove it’s naval base from Norfolk Virginia, due to it’s proximity to the United States.

Some Yankee historians in the early 20th century maintained that Confederates had wanted to seize Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Colorado from the United States, a view that most Yankees still share, while others argue that including the fear of a seizure had merely been a CSA tactic to obtain a bargaining chip. Members of the United States congress at the time claimed that land hunger and expansionism, rather then maritime trade disputes, were the main motivation for the Confederate declaration of war.

By 1875, the Confederacy demanded rights to trade freely with Britain and other nations, such as Mexico and Canada, but the anti-confederate Republicans in power refused. The United States also had the goal of preserving the Republic of Colorado, which the Confederacy wanted the conquer and divide between the US and CSA. The United States made the demands to preserve the state as late as 1879 during a peace conference, but gave in after realizing the Confederacy wasn’t going to stand for it.

So frustrated with shipping, the United States torpedoed a Confederate ship in Chesapeake Bay bound for Britain. This occurred on June 12th.

On June 18th, 1877, the Confederate States of America declared war on the United States.

The "Second War of the North and South"
The war started poorly for the Confederacy. In August, 1877, when an attempt to invade the North was repulsed by General George Custer and a force of 1,350 US troops he commanded. This led to the Yankee capture of Nashville. A second invasion, further east against West Virginia and Maryland, was defeated quickly at the Battle of Washington.

The Confederate strategy relied in part on state-raised militias, which had the deficiencies of poor training, resisting service or being in competently led. Financial and logistical problems also plagued the Confederate effort. Military and civilian leadership was lacking and remained a critical Southern

weakness until 1879. Tennessee and Arkansas opposed the war because, being lightly defended, they were faced with the largest threat of Yankee invasion.

The United States had excellent financing and logistics, yet under the “poor” leadership of US-president Rutherford B. Hayes, Yankee strategy was a defensive one for the first year of the war. The United States did not go on the offensive until 1878, but by then the Confederates were fully mobilized and prepared

for attack.

At sea, the slightly larger Yankee navy blockaded most of the Southern coastline. The blockade devastated Confederate agricultural exports, especially cotton and sugar. The Confederate strategy of using wooden boats failed, as the Yankees raided the coastline at will.

In August 1878, Yankee forces invaded the Virginia coast. US soldiers landed at various points in Chesapeake Bay, including an attack of Richmond. The Yankees burned down the Confederate Capitol Building and other public centers in what was known as the “Burning of Richmond.”

The turning point occurred in 1878 when the Confederate forces crossed the Potomac River and began the Siege of Washington. After massive bombardment and naval raids, the older US capitol fell on September 15th. As the President and government officials ev

acuated to Baltimore, the Confederacy enjoyed their first major victory over the North.

The Confederates were more successful at sea, as they built several fast frigates in it’s large shipyard in Norfolk. They sent out several small gunboats and some ironclads that attacked US ships ; Yankee commercial interests were damaged, especially in Latin America.

The decisive use of naval power came on Chesapeake Bay and control of the Mississippi River. In 1878, the Confederates won control of the entire Chesapeake Bay and bombarded Baltimore. This cut off Yankee forces to the west from their supplies, and as the Southerners reached the Glasgow Canal the entire Delaware Peninsula fell to the Confederates.

After Delaware fell, Confederates turned their attention to the mouth of the Delaware River, called Dover Bay. If they took this bay, they would cut off the US navy from the huge shipyards in Philadelphia.

Control of Dover Bay changed hands several times, with neither side able or willing to take advantage of any temporary superiority. The Americans ultimately gained control in 1879, and the victory forced a huge Yankee army about to invade to turn back that year. Th

e two sides continued

at a stalemate for an entire year. The Yankees tried throughout 1879 and early 1880 to take back the Chesapeake, but failed. In the United States, Republican popularity fell as it became clear the Republican Party failed to re-unite the country.

In the election of 1880, Democratic nominee Winfield Hancock won. He set out to make peace with the Confederacy, and did so by offering the territory of New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Arkansas all to the Confederacy. Meanwhile, the territories of Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming were all annexed by the United States. In 1880, the United States and Confederate States of America agreed to a peace that left prewar boundaries in the east intact.

After four years of warfare, the major causes of the war had disappeared. Neither side had any reason to continue or any chance of gaining a decisive success, as by 1880 both the North and South were nearly equal in military strength, even though the Confederacy controlled more territory. As a result of the stalemate, the two nations signed the Treaty of Baltimore on December 24th, 1880.

The war had the effect of uniting the populations within both countries. The United States celebrated because they avoided conquest and lost much less life then the Confederacy. The unadmitted goal was to unite the whole country under US-rule failed, and because of this the Republican Party would not gain popularity again until 1912, and for a long time would be replaced by the ever growing Reform Party, or "Yankee" Party.

The Confederates celebrated another victory over the North. This led to a surge of nationalism in their own country. After this war, they would take a platform of imperialism and interventionism in the Pacific and Latin America.

"Grovers Race"
In 1888, US president Grover Cleveland coined the term of a "race" between the United States. After the War of 1877, relations between the two nations were still weak. But now, the United States finally accepted the fact that Confederacy won two wars and gained full independence. The Yankees created this theory that they had the right to expand into the Pacific and Latin America, justified by the territory they lost during the War of Secession. The Confederates, with a huge surge of nationalism felt after the War of 1877, took on a similar imperialistic platform. The Confederacy annexed Mexico's Baja territory in 1887, giving the Confederacy naval access to the Pacific. This began what Grover Cleveland called a race between the two nations, and the race later became known as "Grover's Race". The Confederacy bought up all of the debt of nations in the Caribbean, mainly of Mexico, Haiti, Panama, Santa Domingo, Jamaica, and the Bahamas. In 1896, the United States (under President W



illiam McKinley) annexed Hawaii, and then purchased Alaska from Russia. The Confederacy, striving not to loose their lead over the Yankees, purchased Panama and planned to build a canal across the country, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Yankee spies sabatoged plans for the canal, and construction would not begin until 1906.

Confederate Imperialism: The Japanese-American War and the Spanish-American War
In 1898, the Confederacy went to war with Spain over Cuba and the Philippines, supposedly aiding a Cuban revolt against Spanish rule. The Confederates quickly won the Spanish-American War. Meanwhile, the United States annexed the Oklahoma Panhandle, a more local Yankee gain. In 1900, when the Boxer Rebellion broke out in China, both the United States and Confederacy helped European powers quash the anti-Western revolt. Tensions rose very high. The Confederates opposed the USA's "Open Door Policy" from the start. After the Rebellion was destroyed, the Confederacy requested it's own "Sphere of Influence" in China. European powers refused, mainly Japan, who opposed Confederate influence in the Pacific. The Confederacy, again with a surging high sense of pride and nation

alism, began threatening Japan, attempting to provoke a war. But the Confederates didn't make the first move. Japan did.

On February 8th, 1904, Japan attacked the American harbor of Manila in the Philippines during a suprise attack, followed by a declaration of war. Before American forces could even to combat the Japanese, Japan quickly blockaded, bombarded, and began to take over the Philippines. The Americans failed at invading Japan's sphere of influence in Manchuria (China). Japanese forces also attacked Confederate Guam and Samoa. The war was fought at a slow pace, mainly becuase of the distance between the two powers and that, becuase the Panama Canal wasn't built, the Confederate's only port in Baja had to be their entire base of the Pacific War. The Confederates also requested that they could use the Yankee bases at Midway and Hawaii. The United States refused.

A year and a half later, in the fall of 1905, the Japan won the war following a Confederate exit from China and other Pacific. The war embarrassed the Confederacy, and because of the USA's support for Japan, it raised tensions even further between the USA and the CSA. By the late 1900s, the USA and CSA looked to a new part of North America which would play a new role in relations between the two powers: Mexico.

Mexico as the Powder Keg
Both the United States and the Confederacy take on a strongly imperialistic stance. The United States establishes an empire in South America and the Pacific, builds the Panama Canal and strategic naval bases at Midway and Pearl Harbor. The United States, in a short war with Britain, took over the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and parts of Ontario. The Confederate States of America invades Mexico and several island-nations in the Caribbean. The Confederacy occupies Cuba, Santa Domingo, Jamaica, and Pue



rto Rico. With nationalism high and each nations possessing huge militaries, the North and South seem to be charging down a path to a third war between them.

On June 28th, 1914, Confederate president Woodrow Wilson was touring Havana, in occupied Mexico. Felipe Ponarez, a Mexican nationalist, shot him in Wilson’s motorcade. Ponarez was a member of the Puño Café, Spanish for the Brown Fist, a terrorist organization that fought against Confederate imperialism. The Brown Fist was also funded and supported by Mexico.

The Confederacy declared war on Mexico a month later, on July 28th. The United States, with influence in Central America being threatened, mobilized its armies and demanded a Confederate withdrawal from Mexico. Two days later, Britain mobilized armies in Canada. Forecasting war, Great Britain saw an opportunity to reclaim lost territory. On August 4th, the United States declared war on the Confederate States of America. The next day, Britain declared war on the United States, and Japan took the side of the US. By the end of the week, fighting was already starting. World War I had began.

Background
In the 19th century, powers in Europe and North America had gone to great lengths to maintain a balance of power throughout the world, resulting in 1900, in a complex network of political and military alliances.

After the War of 1870, European conflict was averted largely due to a carefully planned network of treaties between the United States and Europe, along with the Confederacy; orchestrated by US president Ulysses S. Grant. He especially worked to hold the Confederacy at America’s side to avoid a two-front war with the Confederacy and British Canada. With the new Democratic domination of American politics, Grant’s system of alliances was gradually demoted. For example, the United States refused to renew the American Treaty with the Confederacy in 1890. Two years later, the Anglo-Confederate Alliance was signed to counteract the force of the United States’ partnership with Denmark, Austria, and the Ottoman Empire.

In 1904, the United Kingdom sealed an alliance with France, the Entente cordiale, and in 1907, the United Kingdom and the Confederacy signed the Anglo-American convention. This was a bi-national agreement that formed the Triple Entente.

After Prussia was defeated in the War of 1870, the German Confederation dissolved into 39 smaller German states. France gained the Saarland and the Rhineland, both territories that were considered part of Germany. Austria was no longer part of the confederation, although it did grow and become a major power. By the mid-1910s, it became obvious that France, Denmark, Austria, and Russia (all surrounding Germany) were to clash over the weaker interior German states.

Yankee industrial and economic power had grown greatly after the end of the War of 1870. From the mid-1890s on, the United States used this power to devote significant economic resources to building up the American Imperial Navy, in rivalry with the British Royal Navy for world supremacy.

As a result, both nations strove to out-build each other in terms of capital ships. With the launch of the HMS Dreadnought in 1906, the British Empire expanded on its significant advantage over its Yankee rivals. The arms race between Britain and the United States eventually extended to the rest of Europe

and North America, with all the major powers devoting their industrial base to the production of equipment and weapons necessary for a global conflict. Between 1908 and 1913, the military spending of European and North American powers increased by 50%.

The United States precipitated the Baja Crisis of 1908-1909 by officially annexing the former Mexican territory of Baja California, which it had occupied since 1878. This greatly angered the Mexicans all over Central America as well as Confederate president Woodrow Wilson, as the CSA rivaled with the US over trade and economic power in Mexican kingdoms. Confederate political maneuvering in the region destabilized peace all over the continent.

On June 28th, 1914, Confederate president Woodrow Wilson was touring Esenada, in occupied Baja California. Felipe Ponarez, a Sonorian nationalist, shot him in Wilson’s motorcade. Ponarez was a member of the Puño Café, Spanish for the Brown Fist, a terrorist organization that fought against Confederate imperialism and a united The Brown Fist was also funded and supported by Sonoria, pushing for a united Mexico.

The Confederacy declared war on Mexico a month later, on July 28th. The United States, with influence in Central America being threatened, mobilized its armies and demanded a Confederate withdrawal from Mexico. Two days later, Britain mobilized armies in Canada.

Forecasting war, Great Britain saw an opportunity to reclaim lost territory. On August 4th, the United States declared war on the Confederate States of America. The next day, Britain declared war on the United States, and Japan took the side of the US. By the end of the week, fighting was already starting. World War I had began.

The Interwar Period
A variety of evens led up to the escalation of hostilities between the Axis and Allied powers prior to the start of the war. In the aftermath of World War I, a defeated Confederate States of America signed the White House Treaty. This caused the Confederacy to lose about 25% of its home territory and all of its overseas colonies, prohibited Confederate annexation of other states, imposed massive reparations and limited the size and makeup of the Confederate armed forces.

In the United States, the socialist party rose to power in a massive economic depression. In the election of 1928, Al Smith came to power and reversed economic policy towards a more left-wing system. In the United Kingdom, conservative Winston Churchill gained power and Britain stuck to a far-right anti-communist stance. British forces secretly assassinated Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky came to power, and under his rule, Russia remains a technologically backwards state with a small military and little industrial power, unlike how it would have been under Stalin.

The Kuomintang party in China launched a unification campaign against regional warlords and nominally unified China in the 1920s, but was soon embroiled in a civil war against its former Chinese communist allies.

From 1931 to 1934, the United States of America and Japan fought a war over dominance in the Pacific Ocean. Japan emerged victorious. The Confederacy supported the Japanese and at one point Confederate and US troops engaged, in the Battle of Hawaii. After the Japanese-American war, the Confederacy saw an opportunity to expand influence in the Pacific, for the first time.

Alan Hotherwood, after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the American government in 1923, became the President of the Confederate States of America in 1933. He abolished democracy, espousing a radical, radically motivated revision of the world order, and soon began a massive rearmament campaign. The situation was aggravated in early 1935 when the Oklahoma Panhandle was reunited with the Confederacy. Featherston then repudiated the White House Treaty, speeding up his rearmament program and introducing conscription.

Hoping to contain the Confederacy, the United States, Great Britain, Italy, and Germany formed the Berlin Front. In June 1935, the Canada made an independent naval agreement with the Confederacy, easing prior restrictions. The Soviet Union, weak under the rule of Leon Trotsky and concerned with events in Asia, passed the Nonalignment Act in August that year.

In October, Britain invaded the Soviet Union, with the Confederacy and Japan the only other nations supporting the invasion. The weak communist government fell quickly, and a new Republic of Russia was established. But the communist Bolshevik rebels continued a guerilla war against the British and Russian “royalists”.

Alan Hotherwood defied the White House Treaty by remilitarizing Tennessee, the state with the most vital border along the United States and Confederate States of America. Hotherwood received little response from other majow powers.

When the French Civil War broke out in July, the Confederacy and France supported fascist General Filipe Jule’s nationalist forces in his civil war against the American-supported French Third Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle. Both sides used the conflict to test new weapons and methods of warfare, and the nationalists won the war in early 1939.

Mounting tensions led to several efforts to strengthen or consolidate power. In October 1936, the Confederacy and Britain signed the Richmond-London Pact, restoring the alliance between Britain and the Confederate States of America. A month later, Japan and the Confederacy signed the Cooperation Pact, which was basically an American-Japanese alliance with both powers against the United States. France and Britain would join this pact the following year, creating the Axis Pact between the Confederacy, Britain, France, and Japan.

1940: Conflict Escalates in the Pacific
The Confederacy invaded Indonesia in early 1940 from the Philippines, including Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Indonesia itself. Massive Confederate areal bombing, blockading with the navy, and speedy tactics overran Taiwan within a few days. Indonesia declared war on the Confederacy, and CSA forces used a similar combination of air-sea-land tactics to overrun the country. Vietnam and Malaysia fell shortly after.

Japanese forces were forced to evacuate Taiwan at Taipei, abandoning their heavy equipment by the end of May. On June 10th, Australia vowed to protect the Philippines, declaring war on both the Confederacy and the United States. Twelve days later, Indonesia surrendered and was placed under Confederate occupation. On July 14th, Japan invaded Laos and Cambodia to prevent an American expansion deeper into Indochina.

With Indonesia neutralized, the Confederacy began an air superiority campaign over Japan to prepare for a seaborne invasion. The campaign failed and by September the invasion plans were cancelled. Using newly captured Indonesian ports the Confederate navy enjoyed success over the over-extended Japanese Navy, using submarines against the Japanese shipping throughout the Atlantic.

Britain began operations in the pacific in June, although not at war with any large European enemy yet, with a siege of Jersey. Japan increased it’s blockade of China in September by seizing several small bases in Cambodia, now officially at war with the Confederacy.

Throughout this period, the neutral United States took measures to assist Japan and China (secretly) against the Confederacy. In November 1939, the USA amended the American Neutrality Act to allow “cash and carry” purchases. In 1940, following the Confederate capture of Indonesia, the size of the United States Navy was significantly increased, and after Vietnam fell, the United States embargoed iron, steel, and mechanical parts against the Confederacy.

In September, the United States further agreed to a trade of American destroyers to Japanese bases. Still, the majority of Yankees continued to oppose any direct military intervention into the conflict well into 1941.

At the end of September 1940, the Axis Pact united the Confederacy, Britain, France, and Russia to formalize the Axis Powers. The pact stipulated that any country, with the exception of the United States, that attacked the United States would be forced to go into war against the other three. During this time, the United States continued to support Japan by introducing the Lend-Leases policy authorizing the provision of war material and other items, and creating a security zone spanning roughly half of the Pacific Ocean where the United States Navy protected Japanese shipping lanes.

As a result, the Confederacy and the United States found themselves engaged in sustained, if undeclared, naval warfare in the Pacific, even though the United States remained officially neutral.

The Axis expanded in November 1940 when Cuba, the Bahamas, Canada, and Jamaica joined the Axis Pact. These countries will participate in future warfare in North America.

Despite several offensives by both sides, the war between China and Japan was stalemated by 1940. In order to increase pressure on China by blocking supply routes and to better position Japanese forces in the event of a war with the Western powers Japan had seized military control of southern Indochina.

In August of that year, Chinese communistslaunched an offensive in Central China; in retaliation, Japan instituted harsh measures (the Three Alls Policy) in occupied areas to reduce human and material resources for the communists. Continued antipathy between Chinese communist and nationalist forces culminated in armed clashes in January 1941, effectively ending their co-operation.

1941: Global War Breaks Out
On June 22nd, 1941, the Confederacy, along with other Axis members and Canada, invaded the United States in Operation Stonewall. The primary targets of this offensive were California and the west coast, Washington DC, and Chicago, with the ultimate goal of ending the 1941 campaign at New York in the East, San Francisco in the West, and Lake Michigan in the Midwest. Alan Hotherwood’s objectives were to eliminate the United States as a military power, exterminate American-style democracy, generate so-called living space by dispossessing the native population, and guarantee access to the strategic resources needed to defeat the Confederacy’s remaining rival, Japan.

Although before the war the United States was preparing for a quick counter-offensive into the south, the invasion forced Washington to adopt a strategic defense strategy. During the summer, the Axis made significant gains into Yankee territory, inflicting immense losses in personnel and material. However, by the middle of August, the CSA decided to suspend the offensive of the invasion force in the Midwest, at this point at Indianapolis, Indiana, and divert forces to reinforce troops in the east advancing toward Philadelphia.

The Baltimore Offensive was overwhelmingly successful, resulting in the encirclement and elimination of four US armies, and made further advance into Philadelphia and the industrial areas of New Jersey and Pennsylvania possible.

The diversion of three quarters of Confederate forces from Indonesia and the eastern Pacific prompted Japan to reconsider it’s grand strategy. In July, Japan and the United States formed a military alliance against the Confederacy, and shortly after jointly invaded the Philippines to secure the oil on the island. In August, Japan and the United States jointly issued the Pacific Charter.

By October, when the Confederates operation objectives in the northeast and southwest were achieved, with only the sieges of San Francisco and Cleveland continuing, a major offensive against New York had been renewed. After two months of fierce battles, the Confederate army almost reached the Hudson River from New Jersey, where the exhausted troops were forced to suspend the attack.

Despite impressive territory gains, the Axis campaign failed to achieve its main objectives. Over 5 key cities remained in the hands of the United States, the Yankee capability to resist was not broken, and the United States a considerable part of it’s military potential. The rapid Confederate advance throughout the Pacific and now North America was at a standstill.

By early December, freshly mobilized reserves allowed the United States to create armies that numbered in size with the Confederates. This, as well as the assumption that Great Britain would not attack the United States by sea, allowed the Yankees to begin a massive counter-offensive that started on December 5th along a 300 mile front from Lake Ontario to New York Harbor. This pushed the Confederates back into Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.

Britain, hoping to capitalize on the Confederacy’s success in North America and the Pacific, made several demands to the CSA. These included weaponry to fight the Germans and a steady supply of oil. The Confederacy refused. The United States responded with a freeze on British assets. German began a total oil embargo of Britain.

Britain did not consider it an option. The British considered the embargo an un-official declaration of war.

On November 19th, British and Confederate officials met secretly in Houston, Texas. Winston Churingham and Alan Hotherwood met to discuss the joint attack they would launch against Germany. The Confederacy would carry out a massive bombing of the German stronghold in Singapore, then invade German Guyana and Bermuda. Meanwhile, the British would bomb various points in Germany itself and blockade the country.

On December 7th, 1941, the Confederate States of America attacked German and Japanese holdings with simultaneous offensives throughout the world. The most remembered and focused part of the offensive was the Confederate bombing of the German navy at Singapore, and a Confederate invasion of German Guyana. Britain also bombed various cities in Germany two days later.

The December 7th attacks prompted Germany, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire to formally declare war on the Confederate States of America. Britain and other members of the Axis Pact responded by declaring war on Germany and the United States.

Meanwhile, by the end of April 1942, the Confederacy had almost fully conquered Burma, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and Singapore. Confederate forces also achieved naval victories in the South China Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. ==Germany retained the initiative as well. Exploiting dubious Confederate naval decisions, Germany ravaged allied shipping of the Confederate Atlantic coast. Despite considerable losses, the Confederacy stopped a major United States offensive in western Pennsylvania, keeping most territorial gains they achieved during the previous year.==