Part 2 (Imperial States of America)

An Empire Disunited(1930-40)
1930- Rebels across Latin America converge in the Tegucigalpa Revolt, but are crushed by American troops. In the U.S, riots over the economy are widespread. Dawes extends credits to some business, but refuses to aid individuals. He raises tariff rates, which worsens the Depression. The third Ghazi attack is barely stopped.

1931- A coup in Russia by Joseph Stalin overthrows the coalition government and establishes the fascist New Russian Empire. Stalin, a native Georgian, plans to wrest away his homeland from the United States. Later that year, he invades. American and Greek troops repel the Russians from Armenia, but fighting continues. Russian and American naval ships clash in the North Pacific. Thousands of soldiers die. Neither of the nations really want a war, with the Depression hitting them hard, and rebellions domestically. A ceasefire is negociated the following year. While the Americans fight the Russians, Saudi Arabia and its' Ghazi allies attempt to take Mecca again. The American appointed Mufti of Medina organizes an army with the British to repel the invaders. The Saudis are defeated, but recent oil disoveries boost their economy.

1932- The Russian army is allowed to take over Georgia, in return for wartime reparations. This allows the Americans to focus on their Saudi enemy, which, after a campaign of desert warfare, is overwhelmed, and is jointly occupied by the U.S and Britain. Casualties reach as high as 1500 dead. An insurgency in the Philippines has also grown costly. The wars and depressions add to the American people's frusteration with the Republican party, leading to Al Smith's landslide victory.

1933- President Smith initiates a series of programs known as the " Real Deal". Government aid is extended to the poor, and public works programs are pushed through congress. It is partially financed through the selling of Georgia, but much of this has gone to maintenence of the colonies. Lenin, a Russian refugee, and leader of the Communist International, rises to power in Germany, establishing the German People's Republic. He quickly supresses domestic opposition, and builds up the military to fight against the " Capitalist agressors."

1934- To deal with budgetary issues, Smith raises taxes in several colonies. With most native hispanics living in poverty, the extra taxes spark a revolt. Delegations from Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba meet in Havana and declare the Latin American Union, nominating Lazaro Cardens as its' President. Smith sends extra troops to the colonies, but the uprisings are very numerous and take time to be crushed.

1935- The United States army invades Venezuela, to oust L.A.U rebels and protect its' assets there. While the government formally cooperates with the Americans, some Venezuelan dissidents join the L.A.U and fight untill they surrender in 1937 from their bases in the South of the country.

1936- The economy has improved somewhat, due to the " Real Deal" and an oil boom in Saudi Arabia, which is dominated by the Standard Oil Trust. However, costly wars in the colonies remain unpopular. The United States is winning the war, but still has a long way to go. Cardenas and the Latin American Congress have fled to Buenos Aires, and conduct the war from there. The unpopularity of the war leads to Smith losing the election to William Borah.

1937- The Sino- Japanese war begins, killing millions. American arms manufacturers make huge profits selling weapons to both sides. Riots take place in Armenia protesting American rule. In Germany, Lenin dies, leading to the asencion of the more militaristic Leo Jogiches, a leader of the 1918 revolution, rising to power. He brings the Socialist Fascist party in Italy to power, who threaten to go to war with Britain.

1938- Panama and Costa Rica are formally annexed. Revolts in the colonies resurge somewhat, due to funding from South America and Germany. A newly militaristic Argentina establishes a puppet government in Chile after a year of fighting, and annexes Uruguay. In Europe, Jogiches takes over Czechoslovakia. Britain and France prepare for war.

1939- In Capitalist Poland, a general strike by workers, organized by communists, is brutally crushed by the government. Jogiches orders the German army into Poland, leading to declarations of war from Britain and France. World War II had begun. Revolts in the colonies, funded by Germany become a crisis, with Borah doing little. He is overthrown in a bloodless coup leading to Robert Taft becoming president. It is unknown how he will react to the war.

World War II
1940- With the conquest of Poland complete, Jogiches invades France, and quickly secures control of the country. Soon, Britain is bombed by German war planes. British aid in extending the American Empire leads to its' demand for aid. Despite Taft's objections, Congress extends loans to the British, and sends a few warships to aid against the Germans, as according to the Treaty of Montreal, establishing the Anglo- American alliance. But as compensation, the U.S gains control of Bermuda and the remaining British bases in the Americas. These are used to further crack down on American rebels. Taft loses election to a rising star, Democrat George Eaton of Virginia. He refuses to accept the results, and is overthrown so that Eaton may assume the presidency.

1941- A military coup results in General Ramirez becoming President of Argentina. As he completes an invasion of Bolivia with Paraguay started the year previously, he turns his eye northwards. On April 4th, he attacks American bases in Ecuador and the Carribean. On the same day, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and attack other American bases in the Pacific. Rallying the nation, Georg Eaton declares war on both of these nations. Germany and Italy then declare war on the U.S. Civil War breaks out in Brazil over whom to support. The Brazilians fear the Americans, and their imperialist ambitions, but are also faced with Argentinian expansion. Eaton deploys troops to repel the invaders, but must also keep troops in the colonies to crush the revolts. Fortunatly for Eaton a new generation of Hispanics have grown up who are loyal to the U.S, and serve as a great labor pool. The French's Carribean holdings are occupied. Intense naval warfare is conducted against Argentina and its' allies Chile, Peru and Paraguay who along with the L.A.U, together form the Pan-American Alliance. In the Pacific, Japan attacks the Philippines, and occupies Guam. The U.S mobilizes its' navy to protect these territories. Manilla is eventually occupied. The U.S, the British Commonwealth, and the Netherlands mobilize to stop the advancing Japanese tide, but it is advancing at an advanced rate, and the allies are occupied elsewhere, such as Greece. The Greeks had previously repelled an Italian invasion, and infilirated Italian Turkey, but a combined German and Italian invasion overwhelms the country. Constantiople continues to be held by Allied forces, but it barely repels the German siege, in part due to its' supplying by Russia. The Italians launch a failed attack on the Hejaz. However, Britains repels the German Air force, and lands troops in Africa, including Italian Ethopia, which it occupies with the U.S. The Russian Empire enters the war after a German invasion to support Ukranian and Lithuanian anarchists, and the conflict becomes global.

1942- With U.S aid, the Pro- American side in the Brazillian Civil War emerges victorious, and attacks Argentina. The U.S occupies Pro-Vichy French Guiana, and begins an invasion of Peru. In the Battle of Easter Island, American and Australian forces destroy large portions of the P-AA navy, breaking the link between South America and its' supply routes to the Japanese Empire. However, these forces must quickly race to Midway, where they defeat the Japanese navy. The victories allow the U.S to deploy more troops to North Africa to aid British and Free French forces there against the Communist forces occupying Libya, Tunisia, and much of Algeria. In Europe, Communist troops press into the Russian Empire, but take heavy casualties despite the Ukrainian Liberation Army's aid. In partitioned Turkey, Turkish rebels and their Italian allies, fight against American, Greek, and British forces, pushing their territory back, with the French withdrawing. Germans continue their raids on Atlantic shipping. Yet slowly but surely, the U.S begins forcing the Japanese navy back. In October, after a campaign conducted throughout the Andes, Lima is occupied, forcing Peru out of the war.

1943- In February, the United States wins the Battle of Santiago, and takes control of the city. The Chilean army holds out a little longer, but it eventually collapses, and only a few militias continue to resist. The victory is widely celebrated, but the morale boost is destroyed when L.A.U rebels capture Managua. The U.S army manages to recapture the city and destroy rebel forces in Nicaragua by June, with heavy casualties due to jungle warfare. Despite this setback, the Allies continue to make advance throughout the South American Theatre, occupying Tierra del Fuego, and various beachheads along the Argentian coast, including Buenos Aires. Brazil also occupies parts of Paraguay and Bolivia. The Turkish theatre is more complicated, with an allied enclave around Constantinople expanding, but Communist forces make gains against in Mainland Anatolia against British Turkey and American Armenia. A surprise attack on Ankara overwhelms the Italians, and afterwards, the Allies begin pressing into Italian Turkey. The Germans are occupied in Africa and Russia, so they can do little except organize another failed assault on Constantinople. The Communists are not only being forced back in Turkey, they are forced to withdraw from Africa as well. Italy has become exhausted from the wars in Africa, the Balkans, and Turkey, so the Allies plan an invasion. Occupation in other theatres prevents an invasion until early October. In Eastern Europe, the Russians are slowly forcing the Germans back after a segment of the Ukrainian Liberation army defects to the Russians. The tide of the war has turned.

1944-The Allies push into Italy, and slowly force it out of the war. The fall of Denizili in Italy marks the end of the Italian Empire. With the capture of Anatolia, the Allies continue moving troops from that theatre northwestward, liberating Greece and the Southern Balkans. The United States now occupies most of Anatolia, Libya, Tunisia, Greenland, Iceland, Peru, Chile and Bolivia. Early this year, Brazillian and American troops invade Paraguay, and, after intense fighting, capture Asuncion. The remnants of the Paraguayan army are pushed into Argentina. The Allies continue to press west into Argentina, but distraction in other theatres prevent a blizkreig attack. In the Pacific, the United States and Japan fight desperatly for control of every island. While the Allies have succeeded in pushing the Japanese back, the theatre has become a stalemate, with armies making small advances at great costs. The United States has recaptured Guam and several other Pacific possesions. The war in the Pacific postpones allied efforts elsewhere, such as Europe and South America. However, with the war proceeding well for the Allies, plans to invade mainland Europe are drawn. On September 6th, the Allies begin landing troops in Normandy. While the Allies begin the process of invading France, the Japanese defeat an offensive into Burma, and invade India, aiming for Delhi. Bitter counteroffensives spring across India, with the nationalist movement split between liberating India from Britain, and preserving its' territorial integrity. With Japan occupied in the Pacific, the offensive eventually halts.

1945- With the allied taking of Paris, the Communists are forced out of France by March. The allies march into German held territories liberating the low countries after fierce battles. The Russian Empire presses through Poland. Albania falls to American and Greek forces. And with the capture of Cordoba in Argentina, the P-AA ceases to exist. Lazaro Cardenas is executed, and the L.A.U is disbanded. This leads to the American annexation of Peru. Resistance against the occupying American forces is continued by guerilla factions under Juan Peron. With Germany being attacked on all sides, the United States begins landings in Burma, Thailand, and Japanese held India. While fighting there is intense, the Japanese are more focused on defending their homeland, which has been threatned by Allied advances in the Pacific. After taking Thailand and Bangledesh, the Allied forces meet in Burma. Thailand serves as a base for the reconquest of the Philippines. Japan slowly becomes more isolated. With the fall of Berlin in November, and the capitulation of Germany, Japan becomes the last Axis power standing, holding out despite the dropping of three atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Osaka, which devastate their homeland.

1946- The last remnants of the German army under Rommel are defeated at Vienna. Europe is now divided into the Fascist " Iron Curtain" occupying Finland, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, North Bulgaria, and East Germany. The United States and Britain occupy France, the low countries, Italy, West Germany, and Austria, with a third region in the Balkans consisting of Albania, Macedonia, Thrace, Anatolia and South Bulgaria under joint American and Greek occupation( the British has left Turkey, and ceded its' holding there to the U.S. Tensions between the U.S and the Russian Empire are already evident, with Russian arms dealers secretly smuggling weapons to the Japanese. Stalin considers and intervention against the United States, but rules that the Japanese are too weak at this point. Japan has withdrawn from South Asia, and is barely maintaining a foothold in the Pacific. Another atomic bomb is dropped on a Japanese naval base, and the U.S lands troops in Southern Japan. Japan shows no signs of surrendering until the killing of the Royal Family by an American bomber. The Japanese quickly lose moral, and Tokyo falls in July. While a few diehards continue fighting until 1947, this is generally considered to be the end of World War II. Japan, Korea, Thailand and Libya are temporarily placed under American colonial administrations. With American troops occupying Europe, much of Asia, Africa, and virtually all of the Americas( Venezuela is annexed this year), the United States is now the most powerful nation in the world.