Seven Days to the River Rhine

The term comes from a training exercise that occurred in OTL between the USA and the USSR at the River Rhine in Poland, truth be told it does not in any way relate to this TL I just think the name sounds cool.

Prologue
1848 Karl Marx moves to the United States of America where he publishes "The Communist Manifesto".

1850 Marx's book is incredibly popular among American readers, many people believe that it should be the way the American government works.

1852 The failure of the election of the newly formed American Communist party comes as disappointment and anger among most Americans.

1856 When the United States supreme court disqualifies all presidential candidates for the Communist party, public outrage explodes in the U.S. Rioting occours in many areas of the country particularly in the West Coast. The U.S. government declares martial law on the U.S. west coast.