The American Empire

By the year 1968 the world is divided amongst a few mega-states, racing to explore space. =Timeline= 1926: Ritterman joins the National Party. 1931: The full impact of the Great depression is felt. The National Party,which once only held regional offices(their higest office until 1932 was a state senator), gains huge populatiry,even ouside the South.
 * 1892: William Augustus Ritterman is born to Aldolf and Maria Ritterman(both children of Prussian immigrants) in Fort Worth Texas.
 * 1916: William Ritterman joins the Marine Corps as a Lieutenant.
 * 1917-18: William Ritterman serves in World War I. He distinguishes himself in the Battle of Belleau Wood,being promoted to Captain, then in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel(skiping the ran of Major).
 * 1919: Attorney General Mitchell Palmer and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt are killed by a bomb in Mitchell's library. It is widely believed to have been planted by anarchists.
 * 1921: The National Party is founded by Charles Victorson in Dallas Texas. It preaches that Jews, Blacks and Mexicans were the cause of world war two, but it also holds some socialists idealst that all white men should share wealth and the economy sould be planned. It gains marginal popularity in the deep south

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