Confederate Empire

Confederate Empire is a timeline where the confederate states win the War of Secession from 1861 to 1865. The CSA would continue with slavery until around the same period as it was abolished in Brazil. The CSA would join the USA in the expansion east and would find itself in another war with the US over the territories of Arizona and New Mexico. Britain and France would support the Confederacy which would score another victory against the United States. The CSA would purchase Cuba from Spain as the Spanish colonial empire was declining. The CSA would also sponsor the establishment of Liberia, a colony intended to serve as the area of resettlement for confederate blacks. Meanwhile, the United States would develop its own empire in the Philippines, parts of China, and Rio de Oro.

During the turn of the 20th century, a series of secret alliances were formed between the major powers. The USA would have growing antagonism against its encirclement by the British and CSA as well as the lost southwest territories. In 1911, a crisis broke out in Morocco between Germany and Britain. The USA would aid Germany from its colony in Southern Sahara. The standoff would trigger a war between France, Britain, the CSA, Spain vs Germany, Austria-Hungary, the USA. This would be known as World War I.

The Central Powers would win this war thanks to American industrial power and the Confederate States would be shrunk. Arizona, New Mexico, Amarillo, and Kentucky would be added as new states of America while Cuba, Liberia, and Sequyoah would gain their independence in the Peace of Houston in 1916 while Texas would secede in 1920.

The intermediate years would be wracked by class and ethnic conflicts as the coal wars would rage in the northern areas of the confederacy with socialist union groups backed by the United States. Black militias would spring up in Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi while white fascist militias would also spring up to fight against these subversive elements. These militias (known as the Sons of the Confederacy) would shape the following years and lead to a collapse of the old dixiecratic institutions in favor of the centralist and progressive Huey Long. Long would rule more dictatorially though he would be viewed as somewhat softer on the black population. Long would pursue a revanchist policy and would reincorporate Texas and occupy Cuba while nationalist France would amp up border exercises near Alsace-Lorraine. The social democratic government in the united states would seek to appease the confederates and would cede Amarillo and hold a referendum in Kentucky, which would rejoin the CSA. In 1936, tensions would reach a breaking point and France would launch an invasion of Germany and Belgium while Long would launch an invasion into Sequoyah and the USA. Britain would use its vast navy to harass American vessels repeatedly.