The Commonwealth

Events before "The Commonwealth" Timeline
During the World War II, United States of America remained neutral at the first stage of war until the Japanese Empire attacked Pearl Harbour in Hawaiian Islands. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan and the rest of the Axis countries. After 1 month of war declaration, Mexico, by the leading of José Antonio Urquiza from National Synarchist Union, joined the Axis Pact and annexed all the countries in Central America and the Carribeans Islands. It declared war on the United States and its allies on the 18 January 1941. It invaded New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and California as they crossed the borders. President Roosevelt already saw that the war between Mexico and the US was imminent. He quickly sent his forces down south and irradicated all the Mexican Forces by only 2 months and then the American Forces took many Offensive Campaigns throughout the Mexican Territories, As the United States has to help Great Britain to fight with Nazi Germany and the United States itself had to fight with the Japanese by themselves.

After the assasination of José Antonio Urquiza in Mexico City on April 13th, 1942 and the American Forces took the most of the Mexican original territories and recently-annexed territories. Mexican State unconditionally surrendered. United States, as a victor, has annexed the Northern Mexico and the Carribeans Islands. Then President Roosevelt created 2 protectorates in the Former Mexican territories named as Aztlan and Honduras. However they gave 2 countries to Great Britain, which was Belize and Jamaica, as the "gifts" which the British helped the Americans in the war by sending in the Special Forces to assasinate José Antonio Urquiza.

After a year in fighting alone, the Americans started their operations in European Front by sending in bomber aircrafts to destroy the most of the forces in Western Europe. And mostly aid Britain and the resistances across Europe to fought with Germany. The Allied Forces started to invade Normandy and Sicily in the mid-1943, with help from the Eastern Front, the Soviet Union managed to expelled most of the German forces out from the Baltics and the Belarussian Front. The Allied Forces, with the Soviet Forces, started the counter-offensive battles throughout Europe, which cornered Germany. After 2 years of fighting, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his special bunker underneath the Government Building as the Soviets entered Berlin and occupied the Reichstag to find Hitler. Germany, with Admiral Karl Donitz as the Head of State, unconditionally surrendered to the Allied Forces, the Nazi top government officials face the criminal charges. Some were executed and some were jailed with life sentence. However, President Roosevelt died approximately 2 weeks before the war in Europe was officially over on May 1st, 1945. He was succeeded by his Vice President, Harry S. Truman.

However the Pacific Front was not ended as the Japanese fought alone, the Allied Forces, especially the United States was facing with many military casualties as they pushed toward, closer to the Japanese Homeland. President Truman ordered the Atomic Bombs, from a secret "Manhattan Project", to be dropped at the Japanese Islands as soon as possible. The first bomb dropped at Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, left more than 150,000 civilians dead in the blast. 3 days later, the second bomb dropped in Nagasaki, left more than 80,000 civilians dead. Emperor Hirohito was shocked as he saw it in the newspaper that more than 200,000 of the Japanese civilians is killed by the Americans. He wasn't blamed the Americans for causing the death of the civilians. Instead, he blamed his far-right Government which led by Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. He ordered the Military to capture the entire cabinet members and ordered that these people to be executed in front of the Imperial Palace. He was angry towards Tojo that causing the entire war with the United States. He subsequently surrendered to the United States and the rest of the Allied Forces. He agreed that the Japan will be under American administration as long as they like. The war in Pacific Front officially over on September 2nd, 1945.

Point of Divergence of "The Commonwealth" Timeline
During the Entrance of the United States to the World War II, America won the war over the Mexican States in 1942. United States annexed Northern Part of Mexico and the Carribeans Islands and also created 3 American protectorates by President Roosevelt. After the war was officially over as the Japanese Emperor, Hirohito signed the instrument of surrender by himself. In December 1947, President Truman, during his Speech in the House of the Representatives, introduced the bill to the Congress called as "The Commonwealth Act" which to created the Commonwealths in the United States. The first initial seven Commonwealths is Columbia-Yellowstone, Angel, Louisiana, Rio Grande, Virginia, Carolina and New York. the Act was ratified by the Senate on April 7th, 1948. After the Commonwealths established for 3 years, In 1951, United States officially annexed Aztlan Protectorate and then combined to the rest of the states to establish 10 more Commonwealths. There are Califonia, Nevada-Colorado, North Plains, Ohio, New England, Florida, Navajo, Aztlan, Guatemala and Carribean. President Truman officially reconstituted the country from the United States as "United Commonwealths of America". However, the financial crisis got the United Commonwealths into the unemployment rate at 20% and had many debt. President Truman decided to sell the half amount of overseas base to the nearest countries, as he had to gave up their claims to many islands and sold them to many countries. Territory of Hawaii gained independence from the United States and Alaskan Territory sold to Canada. United Commonwealths lost its status as the superpower, leaving the Soviet Union as a sole superpower. However, it left America debt free as the money gained from the countries who bought their oversea bases. President Truman used the rest of his term of Presidency to fix the economy. He left the office in 1953, succeeded by General Eisenhower.