Divide and Conquer

Benjamin Judah, a southerner from the Confederate States of America, was sent as a missionary 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. == Early Years of the Confederacy==

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.

Foreign Relations Tense: 1870-1900
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 Canada, 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 the 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.

Crisis Point
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.

War of 1877
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.” After this event, the Confederate capitol was relocated to Atlanta, which it not only would remain for the rest of the war, but Atlanta would be the Confederate capital permanently for now on.

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 evacuated 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. The 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 than 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.

"Grover's 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 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 sabotaged plans for the canal, and construction would not begin until 1906.

Confederate Imperialism: Wars with Japan and Spain
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 nationalism, 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 surprise 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 because of the distance between the two powers and that, because 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.

Latin America as the "Powder Keg"
At the turn of the century, the Confederate States of America and the United States are locked in a rivalry for supremacy in the Western Hemisphere. The Confederacy still controls Sonora, Cuba, and Panama, and has built the Panama Canal and strategic naval bases at Midway and Samoa. Great Britain is threatening war with the United States- if the Canadian territories of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and parts of Ontario aren't returned to Canada. But in 1904, The Confederacy invaded Mexico and several island-nations in the Caribbean. The Confederacy occupies Cuba, Santa Domingo, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the USA owns Alaska and Hawaii.

On top of that, both nations have built up huge militaries and have built alliances with European Countries- Germany, Britain, France, Russia, and Austria were locked in an arms race. With these circumstances, the North and South seem to be charging down a path toward a third war between them.

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

Following the assassination, the Confederacy made three demands to Mexico: That Mexico hand over all members of the Black Fist it was harboring, that Mexico hand over all weapons and arms to the United States, and pay a fine for $30 million. Mexico refused.

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 demanding the Confederacy make peace with Mexico and withdraw from Cuba. Two days later, Britain mobilized armies in Canada. Forecasting war, Great Britain saw an opportunity to reclaim lost territory (the Canadian provinces). 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- In Europe, France and Britain declared war on Germany, and Austria attacked Russia. World War I had began. == World War I==

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 Cuba Crisis of 1908-1909 by officially annexing the former Spanish territory of Cuba, which it had occupied since 1898. 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 Latin America. Confederate political maneuvering in the region destabilized peace all over the continent.

The War to End All Wars
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Effects of World War I
World War I radically altered the diplomatic and political situations in Eurasia and North America with the defeat of the Entente Powers, including France, Great Britain, and the Confederacy ; and the failed Bolshevik uprising in Russia, in 1917. Meanwhile the successes of the Central Powers including Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the United States resulted in a major shift in the balance of power in Europe. In the aftermath of the war major unrest in both Europe and North America rose, especially with radical nationalism and class conflict. Irredentism and revanchism was strong in the Confederacy, which was forced to accept significant territorial, colonial, and financial losses as part of the Treaty of Toronto. Under the treaty the CSA lost about 20% of it's home territory and all of it's overseas colonies, while Confederate annexation of other states was prohibited, massive reparations were imposed, and limits were placed on the size of the Confederate military. Meanwhile, after the Bolshevik Uprising was put down, Russia remained weak and neutral in most foreign affaires.

In the interwar period, domestic civil violence occurred in the Confederacy, involving nationalists and reactionaries versus communists and moderate democratic political parties. A similar scenario occurred in France. Germany never returned the French territory of Alsace-Lorraine, and then took away two more provinces- the Framche-Comte and the Ardenne. France was screaming out for more territory. From 1922 to 1925, the French Fascist movement led by Charles Maurras seized power in France with a nationalist, totalitarian, and class collaborationist agenda that abolished representative democracy, repressed political forces supporting liberalism, and pursued an agressive foreign policy aimed at forging France as a world power.

Fascism became internationally popular amongst people against democratic government, liberalism, and class conflict. In the Confederacy, the White Party led by Alan Hotherwood pursued establishing such a fascist government in the Confederacy. With the onset of the Great Depression, White Party support rose and in 1933, Hotherwood was elected President of the Confederacy, and in 1935, became a totalitarian dictator turning the CSA into a police state.

The Road to a Second War
The Kuomintang (KMT) party in China launched a unification campaign against regional warlords and nominally unified China in the mid-1920s, but was soon embroiled in a civil war against its former communist allies. In 1939, an increasingly militaristic Russian Empire, which wanted to regain influence in China lost at the end of the war, invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria. Russia established a puppet state in the region. Too weak to resist Russia, China appealed to the Pact of Nations for help. Russia withdrew from the Pact of Nations after being condemned for it's invasion of Manchuria.

Hoping to contain the Confederacy, the United States, Mexico, and Canada formed the North American Front. The United States, concerned due to the Confederacy's goals of capturing vast parts of North America, wrote a treaty of mutual assistance with Germany. In June 1935, Germany made an independent naval agreement with the Confederacy, easing prior restrictions. The Ottoman Empire, concerned with events in Europe and North America, passed the Neutrality Agreement in August. In October, France invaded Algeria, with Britain the only major European nation supporting the invasion. Meanwhile, in the Confederacy, Alan Hotherwood began a massive rearmament campaign. The situation was aggravated in early 1935 when Virginia was legally reunited with the Confederacy and Hotherwood repudiated the Treaty of Toronto, speeding up his rearmament programs and introducing conscription.

Hotherwood defied the Treaty of Toronto once again by remilitarizing forced in Tennessee in March, 1936. He received little response from other European powers. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July, Hotherwood and Maurras supported fascist national forces in a civil war against the US-supported Spanish Republic. 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 France formed the Atlanta-Paris Axis. A month later, the Confederate and Britain signed the Tripartite Pact, which France then joined. In China, the nationalist and communist forces agreed on a ceasefire in order to present a united front to oppose Russian aggression.

Small-scale war breaks out:
On September 1st, 1939, the Confederacy attacked Mexico. Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the countries of the Grand Alliance declared war on the Confederacy but provided little military support to Mexico other than a small German bombing of Raleigh, North Carolina. On September 17th, after signing an armistice with Japan, the United States launched their own invasion of Mexico. By early October, Mexico was divided among the United States, the Confederacy, Guatemala, and Belize, although Mexico never officially surrendered and continued to fight outside it's borders. At the same time as the battle in Mexico, Russia launched its first attack against Beijing, the Chinese capital, but was repulsed by late September.

Following the invasion of Mexico, the United States forced Canada to allow it to station US troops in their countries under pacts of "mutual assistance." Canada rejected US territorial demands and was invaded by the United States in November, 1939. The resulting conflict ended in March, 1940, with Canadian concessions. Germany and Austria-Hungary, treating the Yankee attack on Canada as tantamount to entering the war on the side of the Confederates, responded to the Yankee invasion by expulsing the United States from the Grand Alliance. In June 1940, the United States fully occupied Canada.

In response to the Confederate invasion of Mexico, Honduras joined the allies and declared war on the Confederacy, as well as Guatemala and Belize. Germany decided to use Honduras as a "spring-board" into North America. Despite German forces landing in North America, neither side launched major operations against each other until April, 1940. The United States and Confederacy entered a trade pact in February of 1940, pursuant to which the Yankees received Confederate military and industrial equipment in exchange for supplying raw materials for the CSA. In April, the Confederacy invaded Panama and Colombia to secure the Panama Canal. Panama immediately capitulated, and despite Allied support, Colombia was conquered within two months.

1940: Axis Advance
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 t hree 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 Chicago began. After two months of fierce battles, the Confederate army almost reached the city's downtown and reached Lake Erie at some points, but 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 retained ofa 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. Germany 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 a t 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.

=== 1942: Stalemate and Turning Point===

In early May, 1942, the Confederacy initiated operations to capture Port Moresby by amphibious assault and thus sever communications between Germany and Australia. This failed, and allowed Japanese and German forces to regroup in the southern Pacific. Japan’s next plan, motivated by the earlier Confederate bombing of Tokyo, was to seize the Midway Atoll and lure Confederate carriers into battle to be eliminated. As a diversion, Japan would send forces to invade the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The Battle of Midway, the largest only-naval battle of the war, was a Japanese Victory.

With its capacity for aggressive action greatly diminished as a result of the Midway battle, the Confederacy chose to focus on an attempt to capture Port Moresby by an overland campaign in the Territory of Papua. The Japanese planned a counter-attack against Confederate positions in the southern Solomon Islands, primarily Guadalcanal, as a first step towards capturing Rabaul, the main Confederate base in south Pacific.

Both plans started in July, but by mid-September, the Battle of Guadalcanal took priority for the Confederates, and troops in New Guinea were ordered to withdraw from the Port Moresby area to the northern part of the island, where they faced Japanese and German troops who now controlled the Solomon Basin. The Confederacy, determined not to loose the entire Solomon Islands-New Guinea region, launched a major offensive at Guadalcanal. By the start of 1943, the Confederates were defeated on the island and withdrew there troops.

In Burma, German forces mounted two operations. The first, an offensive into Confederate-held Laos in late 1942, went disastrously, forcing a retreat back into Burma in May 1943. The second was an attack behind Confederate lines, via China. This, although not effecting the Confederate stronghold in southeast Asia, was a success and forced a 50-mile American retreat.

Meanwhile, on the North American Front, the Confederates defeated American offensives in northeast Indiana and enjoyed a victory in the Battle of Indianapolis.



In June 1942, they launched their main summer offensive against the Yankees in the Northeast. The Confederates their local forces in the area into two forces. Group A would swing northwest and capture the Niagara Falls area,

and Group B would have the more important goal of taking the Hudson River, which if the Confederates took, then New England would be cut off and easy to conquer. The Americans decided to make their stand at Albany, which was not only in the path of advancing Confederate armies but on a strategic city on the Hudson River. By mid-November, the Confederates had nearly taken Albany in bitter street fighting when the Americans began their second winter counter-offensive, starting with the encirclement of Confederate armies throughout New York State. Meanwhile, the Confederacy's plan to take the Niagara Peninsula was a disaster, and to avoid being cut off, Confederate forces retreated from New York State as well as New York City.

The Confederates were more successful further west, in Nebraska, after taking Lincoln and Omaha in March. This, along with a retreat from Chicago, created a salient in the front line around the American city of Des Moines.

By March 1942, German forces had launched a counter-offensive, Operation Catapult, in Europe, reclaiming East Prussia. This success was soon offset after by an Russian offensive in Poland that pushed the Germans back into Prussia until the Russians were stopped at Poznan, less then 150 miles from Berlin. In August, 1932, Germany succeeded in repelling a second Russian attack against Poznan. A few months later the Germans commenced an attack of their own on the Eastern Front, dislodging the Russians and beginning a drive east into central Poland.This attack was followed up by a joint German-Ottoman invasion of Ukraine and Crimea, which would eventually meet up with the German Army advancing through Poland.Crimea fell in April 1943, and Russia responded by ordering a massive counterattack in southern Ukraine. The now-pincered Russian armies withdrew to Moldova and southwest Ukraine, yet German and Ottoman forces conquered both areas in May 1943. Russian forces surrendered, and Russia would remain under Allied occupation until the end of the war in 1945.

=== 1943: Allies Gain Momentum===

Following the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific, the Allies initiated several operations against the Confederacy. In May 1943, Japanese troops were sent to Laos to assist the Germans in taking the country from the Confederates. The Germans blockaded and bombed New Britain, containing the only remaining Confederate stronghold in the south Pacific, Rabaul. Rabaul fell in March 1944, with the south Pacific free of Confederate influence. The Japanese then broke through the Confederate defense line, blockaded, bombed, and eventually landed in Taiwan. Taiwan was liberated in April.

In North America, both the Yankees and Confederates spent the spring and early summer of 1943 making preparations for large offensives in the Great Plains.



On July 4th, 1943, the Confederacy attacked Yankee forces around the Des Moines Budge. Two Confederate armies attacked the well-defended Iowa area, with the Chicago Army attacking from the East and Omaha Army attacking from the West. Within a weak, the Confederates had exhausted themselves against the Yankees well-constructed defenses. For the first time in the war, Alan Hotherwood cancelled the operation before it achieved tactical or operational success. This decision was partially affected by the Allies invasion of France, launched on July 9th. The Confederates felt it was there duty to fight the Germans in France, diverting troops from the North American Front. On July 22nd, the Americans launched their own counter-offensives, thereby dispelling any hopes of Confederate victory or even stalemate in North America.

The Yankee Victory at Des Moines was one of the decisive turning points of the war, giving the United States general superiority in North America. The Confederates attempted to stabilize the front at the heavily-fortified Baltimore Line, however, the Americans easily broke through during offensives in Denver, Indianapolis, and Baltimore. Confederate operations in the Atlantic also suffered. By May, 1943, as Allies began to gain naval superiority, the resulting Confederate submarine losses forced a halt on the Confederacy’s trade with Britain. In November 1943, leaders of Allied nations met in Cairo. They determined there that the United States had the right to occupy the Confederacy after the war, and that the Allies would invade Britain in 1944.

In January of 1944, the Allies captured Paris, and France came under Allied control. By the end of the month, a major Yankee Offensive in North America finally expelled Confederate forces from California, ending the longest and most lethal siege in history. The Yankees captured Sonora. Following the attack, the Confederacy lost all access to the Pacific Ocean via the West Coast, and had to resort on the Panama Canal to conduct the war in the Pacific. The following Yankee offensive was halted at the Colorado River by a surprise Confederate counter-attack. This delay slowed subsequent Yankee Operations in the Southwest. By May 1944, the US had liberated Delaware; largely expelled Confederate forces from Maryland and began incursions into Virginia, which were repulsed by Confederate forces.

The Allies experienced mixed fortunes in Asia. In March 1944, the Confederacy launched the first of two last-ditch invasions in the Pacific. The Confederates attacked Laos and Cambodia, but these attacks failed, mainly because the Confederate shipping was re-routed through the Panama Canal and was severed more easily by German and Japanese ships. By May, the Confederacy was considering abandoning the Asian mainland altogether and focus on fortifying Indonesia, the Philippines, and Taiwan.

=== 1944: Allies Close In ===

On June 6th, 1944 (known as Britain-Day, or B-Day), the United States, Germany, Italy, and Japan invaded southern Britain, and soon after Scotland. These landings were successful, and led to the defeat of Axis troops in Britain. The local resistance liberated London on August 25th. With Europe finally peaceful, Germany and Italy could now focus on expelling Confederate forces from the Pacific and a possible seaborne invasion of the Confederacy in the North America to aid the advancing Americans.

On June 22nd, the United States launched a strategic offensive, the Battle of Indianapolis, that resulted in almost complete destruction of the entire bulk of Confederate forces remaining in the Midwest. Soon after that, another strategic offensive in Kentucky pushed the Confederates back over the pre-war border into Tennessee. The successful advance of Yankee troops prompted the Americans to penetrate the border. In September 1944, the Yankee army advanced into Arizona and New Mexico, meeting up with another Yankee Army that originated in southern California. By October, the Allies with only southern Oklahoma occupied by the Confederacy, liberated the entire western half of the continent. Later that month, the Americans launched a massive assault against Virginia that lasted until the fall of Richmond in February 1945. In contrast to the impressive American victories in the southwest, the bitter Canadian resistance in the North denied the Americans occupation of Canada. This led to the signing of the American-Canadian Armistice, and resulted in Canada’s shift from being an Axis to an Ally.

As they were in North America, the Confederacy was loosing its grip in the Pacific. At the start of July, German and Japanese forces invaded various islands of Indonesia, still held by the Confederacy. Japanese forces continued to press back against the Confederate perimeter. In mid-June of 1944, they beg an their offensive in the Mariana and Palau Islands, which proved a decisive victory.

Following the battle, Germany began massive bombings of the Confederate Philippines. In August, Indonesia was liberated. In late October, Japanese forces invaded the island of Leyte, and soon after, Allied naval forces scored a huge victory during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Confederates withdrawal from the Philippines later that month, as back in North America the Confederacy itself was being invaded by the United States.

=== 1945: Allied Victory===

On December 16th, 1944, the Confederacy attempted its last desperate measure for success on the North American Front by launching a massive counter-offensive in the Appalachian Mountains, the light-defended area of West Virginia. The offensive was an attempt to split the invading US armies, encircle large portions of Yankee troops and capture the capital and key city of Washington. The offensive had been repulsed by January with no strategic objectives fulfilled.

In Asia, the Allies remained at a stalemate against the Confederacy at the Alor Setar defensive line set up across the Malacca Peninsula.

In mid-January 1945, the Yankees attacked North Caroline, pushing south into Raleigh, and the occupied the entire state by the end of February. On February 4th, Yankee, German, and Japanese leaders met in Yalta. They agreed on the occupation of post-war France, and when the United States would enter the war in the Pacific.

Later that month, the Yankees invaded Tennessee and Arkansas, while German and Italian forces aided the Yankees advancing east from Mexico and the Southwest. A Yankee Army from Oklahoma attacked the Shreveport area of eastern Texas, and reached the Beaumont by mid-March. This action encircled the bulk of Texas, and led to the elimination of there Confederate armies.

As the Yankees advanced on the crumbling Confederacy, they discovered concentration camps- for African-Americans. The government had forced them to do slave labor in these camps, some with gas chambers for massive extermination. These discoveries would be the main justification for total citizenship for blacks, a movement led by Lyndon Banes Johnson.

In early April the Japanese finally pushed forward in Malacca. The Japanese reached Kuala Lumpur in two weeks, but total victory in the Pacific against the Confederates was no longer necessary, for on April 25th the United States seized Atlanta, the Confederate capital.

Meanwhile, the Germans were dashing through Louisiana and Mississippi, virtually unopposed as the Confederates were caught up with defending Atlanta. An army that originated in New York and the one that originated in California met up Birmingham, symbolizing

the how far the Americans have come and how close they were to total victory. On April 30th, 1945, the Hall of Confederation was captured, signaling the military and political defeat of the Confederate States of America.

The Allies celebrated hard in the following two months, especially in the United States, but the war wasn’t over. China was retaliating against Japan, who had taken advantage when Japan was caught up in fighting the Confederacy. The Confederate Armies remaining in the Pacific were still present, and now vowing to “retake” the homeland of the South.

Also, the Ottoman Empire and Germany were involved in a border dispute over occupied Austria. Turks, Arabs, Armenians, and Jews all over the Empire were rebelling. As the Ottoman Empire cracked apart, it soon became clear it’s alliance with Germany and the United States had to end.

Several changes in leadership occurred during this period. On April 12th, US President Roosevelt died and was succeeded by Harry Truman, a hard-core Conservative Democrat. French partisans killed Charles de Gaulle in France on April 28th. Two days later, with Atlanta finally overrun, Alan Hotherwood committed suicide, and was succeeded by Karl Darchwood, who commanded all Confederate forces in the Pacific and rebels in the South.

Confederate forces surrendered in Malacca, and all Confederate influence on the continent of Asia and Oceania were destroyed. Alaska, Hawaii, Midway, Guam, and a bunch of other dots in the Pacific were still under Darchwood’s command.



In North America, the remaining Confederates in the south surrendered in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 8th, although a battered, small army remained in Cuba. The Americans and Germans invaded Cuba, and these troops were destroyed on May 11th. In the Pacific, Japanese and German forces moved towards the shores of North America, taking Samoa by March and Hawaii by June. During this time, the United States began a massive bombing of China, as submarines cut off all there supplies from the Ottoman Empire, now on the Axis side.

On July 2nd, the United States sent an army of 1,000,000, battle-hardened soldiers fresh from the Confederacy to launch a seaborne invasion of the Ottoman Empire. This destroyed the last of the Empire's conventional fighting abilities, and allowed German armies to move in on Istanbul.

On July 11th, the Allies met in Potsdam, Germany. They confirmed earlier agreements about the Confederacy, and reiterated the demand for unconditional surrender by the Ottoman Empire, stating, “the alternative for Turkey is prompt and utter destruction.” They also agreed that the Ottoman Empire would be broken up into Mesopotamia, Palestine, Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, and Bulgaria. They also agreed that the United Kingdom and some of her former colonies would be restored, a new French Republic would be established, and a new Russian Republic would be established. New democratic constitutions will be implemented in Germany, China, and Japan, and the Confederacy would be re-absorbed into the United States.

By then, German forces reached Istanbul in the Balkans, and Confederate and Chinese rebels were being put down by massive Allied bombings.

When the Ottomans continued to reject the Potsdam terms, Germany dropped atomic bombs on the Ottoman cities of Dubai and Kuwait. A division of Yankee soldiers was sent to Guam, and destroyed remaining Confederate possitions. This defeat was considered the end of all major Confederate resistance, besides occasional revolts in the south.

On August 15th, the battered Ottoman Empire surrendered with surrender documents finally signed aboard a German battleship on September 2nd, 1945, ending the war with a victory for the Allies.

== Confederate Collapse==

Following the Confederacy's diplomatic surrender on May 8th, 1945, the United States already knew by then it planned to re-absorb the entire former-Confederacy into the USA. For twenty years, the Confederacy came under Yankee occupation. During this time, the United States focused on physical reconstruction- it received billions of dollars in aid from Germany and Japan. Meanwhile, US president Harry S. Truman had appointed Dwight Esinhower as "military governor" of the South during it's twenty years it would spend under US occupation. Two days after he was apointed, General Esinhower privately met with President Truman.

"Everyone is saying Washington is going to eventually absorb the entire former Confederacy back into the US." Esinhower said.

"Yes. It is the only way to keep peace. This continent isn't meant for two countries. It took us four wars to realize that." Truman responded.

"Bloody ones, too. America should never have split in the first place, back in the 1860s."

"As Ullyses S. Grant said himself 'A divided party can't stand.' "

"Lincoln said that."

"Really?" Truman asked.

"Yes, believe it or not. It's like that old saying, Divide and Conquer."

"I never understood that."

"If you're enemies are divided against each other, it is easier for you to conquer them."

"And America was divided- ever since those cannons fired at Fort Sumpter."

"Yes, we were."

"Then....what exactly conquered us?"

"Four wars. 80 years of bitterness. Isn't that enough?"

After saying that line, General Esinhower left the office and walked out into the streets of a war-torn Washington DC. President Truman stood in awe.