Cotton Party

Civil War
On July 12, 1860 the Cotton Party is founded in Richmond as a pro-slavery, and pro-states' rights, political party

1860 Elections, in a stunning election the Cotton Party's Jefferson Davis is elected president of the United States of America, as a result New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, and California secede from the USA and form the Confederate Commonwealth of America who elect Abraham Lincoln as president

1862 Jefferson Davis who had been having peace talks with the CCA decides that they will not give in and invades the fledging nation. The Armies meet at the First Battle of Gettysburg, the US armies are routed after two days of battle, sporadic fighting occurs all over the CCA/USA border; Abraham Lincoln has a nightmare about a totalitarian dictatorship in America

1863 Ulysses S. Grant becomes the supreme comander of the Confederate Army, he lauches assaults all over the long frontier, eventually his Maryland Campain captures US General Robert E. Lee by surprise in Annapolis where the much better supplied CCA Army routs the entire Army of Northern Virginia, this act makes Maryland join the CCA and gains the CCA recognition from Austria, and Prussia who force Jefferson Davis to recognize the CCA as an independent nation. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis sign the Treaty of Baltimore wich does these things:

A) the Confederate Commonwealth of America would be recognized as an independent nation

B) The Dakota, Washington, Nebraska, and Nevada territory would become CCA territory

C) Slavery in the CCA whould be officialy abolished and slavery in the USA whould be abolished January 1, 1866

Reconstruction
January 1, 1864 Jefferson Davis signs the Treaty of Baltimore

Janurary 29, 1864 Lincoln selects the CCA's new flag

May 22, 1864 Philidelphia is selected as the CCA's new capitol

July 4, 1864 the CCA, Austria, Italy, and Prussia sign the Quadruple-Ente Alliance

October 12, 1865 Former US President Jefferson Davis is killed by an anti-slavery radical who is later identifyed as Robert Jackson III

October 15, 1865 President Michael McMan declares the third part of the Treaty of Baltimore "null and void" and is support by the mostly Cotton Party Congress; war between the CCA and the USA is narrowly avoided by a quick move by Prussia, the capitol of the US is moved to Richmond and the captiol of Virginia is moved to Jamestown

January 1, 1866 Slaves in the USA are mourning for the lost of thier freedom once more

Januaruy 5, 1866 the CCA changes the title of President to Consul and creates a one house congress with 3 representitives from each state that are elected every second Friday in November

January 10, 1866 the CCA Congress passes the Freedman's Act wich grants every slave who escapes to the CCA citizenship

March 7, 1866 The USA, the Ottoman Empire and Persia sign the العبودية التحالف

March 10, 1866 " The national government shall never infringe the right to own or purchase a slave." Becomes the 13 admendment to the constitution of the USA

April 13, 1866 the Alliance between the USA, Ottoman Empire and Persia changes its name to the

Constanitinople-Richmond Pact

May 12, 1866 France joins the Quadruple-Ente, the name of the Quarduple-Ente is changed to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

June 22, 1866 a slave revolt in Jamestown kills 13,000 civilians and soliders while only 2,000 slaves are killed- federal troops arive to quell the revolt

June 23, 1866 the govenor of Virginia is killed by rebelling slaves; the CCA seceretly sends guns and ammunition to the slaves

June 24, 1866 Union troops burn Jamestown to the ground and kill every man of color they can find- this effectivley ends the Jamestown Slave Revolt

June 30, 1866 the leader of the Jamestown Slave Revolt is captured and whipped to death

November 1, 1866 the DC Treaty is signed making the District of Colombia a meeting place for the CCA and the USA governments

Cold War
April 3, 1867- November 8, 1899 the CCA and the USA have a time of weary almost cold war like state during this time the US fights a second Civil War with Florida after the state secedes because of anti-slavery feelings from the arriving refugees from the North and West Europe but this one is put down in 22 weeks.

The Confederate Commonwealth of South America is created incorporating all of South America and Central America except (with OTL borders) Brazil, and Mexico.

British occupation of Egypt and French domination of North Africa is thwarted

the Ottoman Empire and Persia modernizes, The US turns Mexico into a protectorate

Great Britain joins NATO along with the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg and the new nation of Greece

Russia, and Serbia join the Constantinople-Richmond Pact (C-R Pact)

November 9, 1899 US forces occupy DC the CCA threatens war if they don't withdraw

World War
November 10, 1899 CCA Consul Ulysses S. Grant II declares war on the USA, the rest of the Constantinople-Richmond Pact declare war on NATO; US troops enter Maryland

November 11-13, 1899 NATO troops fight US troops at the battle of the Potomac, NATO troops suffer almost 40% casualties while the US troops suffer 50%-60% losses but NATO troops withdraw first; Austrian troops enter Serbia and march to 15 miles outside of Belgrade loosing 140 men to unorganizd miltia; Russian troops invade Germany and reach Konigsberg only to find the main German army lying in wait there, the Russian troops are over-welmed by the massive number of partisan and professianal soliders

November 14-17, 1899 Austrian troops are backed by French and German troops take Belgrade and kill the Serbian king sending the troops into dissaray; German troops push the Russians back; Great Britain lands troops in Alexanderia, Egypt and take the city; US troops from Kentucky enter Ohio; CCA troops liberate DC

the rest of November, 1899 US troops and militia encircle the NATO troops but aren't able to hold the line; Ottoman troops beat the Brits back into the sea but are unable to stop nearly 70% from escaping to Athens; French troops land in Tripoli and take the region of Tunisia; all of Serbia is taken by Austria who then push into the area surrounding Constantinople; a draft begins in the CCA and all of the warring nations

December, 1899 Russian troops land in New Orleans, USA and support the thrust up the Mississippi to nearly St.Louis; US troops once again thrust into Maryland and make head killing and pillaging and raping all the way to Baltimore and they are constanly attacked by NATO troops but beacuse of the recent surrounding although they broke out they have little food; Ottoman troops break out of Constantinople and push the Austrians into a full fledge retreat

Janurary, 1900 US troops surround Annapolis and force the city to surrender, they capture Baltimore and force the state's legislature to seccede by killing off the old legislature and replacing it with thier own; CCA troops push from St.Louis but fail to break the combined US-Russian force's line; Ottoman troops chase the Austrians and engage them at every time they can, eventually they reach the gates of Vienna but fail to enter the city

Feburary, 1900 Austrian toops break out of Vienna; Spain joins NATO; Persian troops enter India but are beaten back rather quickly but the Brittish orders of "to stay and defend" don't allow them to take this advantage; the CCA asks the other NATO countries wether a cease-fire should be called all but Greece say no

March, 1900 the US-Russian force surrounding St.Louis finally forces the CCA troops to surreder conditionally the terms of the surrender for fair treatment is broken and they are all slaughtered, this rallies CCA troops and civilians to fight harder, Baltimore is retaken; Austrian troops push the Ottomans to Zagreb where they await German reenforcements, whe they arrive they find a heavily dug in mass of troops but through tactical smarts and heavily patriotic troops manage to kill all but 29 of the Ottoman force

The Fall of the Golden Crescent

April, 1900 the Austrian-German force recaptures the Balkans and razes Kosovo, Skopje, and Sofia, they then clash with Ottoman forces outside of Instanbul before capturing the city and grant non-military persons safe leave to Sarajevo; CCA troops fight US forces outside of Annapolis and recapture DC for 16 hours before being forced out; British troops in India are finally given the green light and march into Persia where they kill nearly 340,000 troops and losing 1,230

May, 1900 CCA troops with British assistance reclaim all of Maryland who on the 12 of the month officialy rejoin the CCA; US troops fortify DC; Austrian-German troops repel 13 attempts to retake Instanbul, they then enter Asia Minor establishing a front 24 miles outside of Instanbul

June, 1900 NATO (mostly CCA and Spanish) land in Gallipoli and barely capture the city; Maxim guns begin to be mass produced in Germany, Austria and France; the mondernized gattling gun (comonly called the G-gun) is mass produced in the US and CCA although the two versions are radicaly different in the truning operator as the CCA's is moved by venting gasses from the bullet when they fire to move it while the US's is still manually powered, but they both are belt fed; G-guns are first used on mass in the Battle of Bull Run where the CCA's troops defend against the attacking US troops who are all either slaughtered or from a "accidental" miscomunication all killed after battle

July, 1900 US propogandist fail to use Bull Run as a rallying cry dopping morale; NATO troops in Asia Minor meet in Ankara after two weeks of extremely bloody warfare, the city is captured but the insurgency in the city cuses nearly 2/3 of the deaths in the battle; Thomas Edison creates electric motors for cars (wich are still quite primitive) and makes them reliable, easy to make and rechargeabe, he works alongside his friend Ford to vreate large assembley lines to make the process fast and cheap

August, 1900 the Ottoman Empire's military stages a coup and suddernders to NATO the Treaty of Vienna is signed wich says these things

1) The Ottoman Empire is to be disolved and this is to be the new map of the Middle East and former Ottoman Empire:[look at picture to the right](note: the Caucasus was Ottoman)

2) Turkey's government is to be ruled by the same people as the Ottoman Empire was after the coup

3) Turkey will join NATO and the rest of the former Ottoman Empire will join NATO all as unvoting members until 1915 

4) NATO forces are given permission to pass through the formerly Ottoman areas unharmed

August, 1900 (after Treaty of Vienna) Angered by the Ottoman's surreder crimes against the formerly Ottoman citizens spike in the US and Russia; the Constantinople-Richmond Pact is renamed the Richmond-St.Petersburg Pact

September, 1900 CCA 'ironclads' (really battle ships) destroy the Port of Miami and the battle that ensues is a decisive CCA victory, Austrian-German troops go through the Caucasus into the southern border of Russia and race up to the City of Kiev; Spanish land in the Crimea and win only after nearly 60% casualties but morale is still strong and the event gains the Spanish military "Дьявол Собаки" or "Devil Dogs" titles French and CCA troops arrive the next day

Operation: November Rush

November, 1900 US troops lauch the November Rush and launch simotaneous attacks in Maryland, the North West and the Western border in one week they capture Chicago, Anapolis, and Las Angelas areas, the CCA forces fall back from the surprise attacks but the US forces are relentless with Russian reenforcements arriving they capture Las Vegas, Sacramento, Baltimore, Gettysburg and they continue, by the end of the month they're approaching Philidelphia; Edison extends the life of the Edison Electric Motors to 3 hours (nearly a 300% increase)

December, 1900 the Russian front becomes a very bloody stalemate after Russian troops hastily yet adequate trenches with serfs doing nearly 1\2 of the work; US troops surround Philidelphia and make camp for winter

Winter 1900-1901 the winter sees little action as both sides are very cold and don't want to fight eventually spring arrives and much too soon for some people's taste

March, 1901 CCA officials were thankfuly evaquated hours before the US breeched the city's defences, they fled through the sewer system and arived 8 days later in Providence, Rhode Island the de facto capital; US forces burn the city although carefully making sure Independence Hall does not burn, the city's residents either join the resistance or flee

April, 1901 CCA Consul Grant II pleas to other NATO countries for help but they are already pushing thier limits; Russian troops launch a front wide offence and break the stalemate; the CCA vies to the other NATO nations for a peace treaty and all but Luxembourg agree to that peace is necessassary; the Treaty of Washington DC is signed on the last day of the month wich says these things

1) the CCA would be reduced to Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, New England, California, Oregon, Washington, Michingan, Wisconisn, Illinois, Indiana, and Kansas (note: all state borders are same as in OTL and virginia still owns west virginia)

2) Washington DC shall become a DMZ and a meeting place between either just the USA and the CCA or the NATO and R-M Pact

3) Virginia, Kansas, Maryland, 22 miles inside the Russian-Euro border, and the Caucasus would become DMZs in all aspects except that they can have only 1,500 military personnel inside for essential task unless the nation that the DMZ is in is at war

4) the Treaty of Vienna would be respected

5) India (OTL India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh) is to be granted independence from Great Britain

Uneasy Peace and Change
May, 1901 the Treaty of Washington DC is signed and within 48 hours all nations withdraw troops from the DMZs; 12 Turkish officials kill themselves after relizing the Ottoman Empire could have lived if they had waited, but many point out that in all actuality the Ottoman Empire would not have lasted that long and they stopped while they were ahead; the Confederate Commonwealth of America reorganizes itself as the Commonwealths of America the constitutional convention that follows creates these Articles of the Commonwealth

We the PEOPLE of the Commonwealths of America to provide common security, defened liberties, and proctect the well-being of our citizens whom we serve out of respect herebye establish these Articles of the Commonwealth

I) No religon shall be prohibited or exalted by any part of the government

II) Slavery shall be prohibited in the Commonwealths of America

III) The right of the people to keep and Bear Arms shall not be prohibited

IV) The right to an attorney (and if one can not afford one one will be provided by the Commonwealth), the right to a speedy trial, the right to a fair trial, the right to not testify against self, the right to not testify against spouse, the right to remain silent when questioned by law enforcement, the right to not have cruel or unusual punishment sentenced upon you, and all stated above shall not be prohibited

V)The right to peacefuly gather shall not be prohibited

VI) The right to the freedom of speech shall not be prohibited

VII) The Freedom of the Press shall not be prohibited

VIII) The right to not be unlawfuly searched or unlawfuly questioned shall not be prohibited 

IX) The right of the people to freely travel throughout the Nation shall not be prohibited except for National Security

X) All the articles above and this article is not to be repealed or moddified in any way, shape or form

XI) Congress shall be made up of two Representitives from each Commonwealth who are elected every second Friday in November; the Congress shall have the power to enact laws in accordance to the constitution,create and levy taxes,mint currency, reapeal laws, impeach the President of the Congress with a 22/25% vote

XII) The President of the Congress will be elected every 730 days except when the term runs along side with a leap year (every year evenly disible by 4) in wich case it is 731 days with the term starting on and ending on the second Tuesday in November ; the President of the Congress shall put forth what issues will come before Congress, pardon a criminal, declare war, and sign bills that have passed congress into law or veto said bill wich can be over-ruled by a 65% majority; the President of the Congress shall serve as the Head of State; the President of the Congress shall choose 9 people to serve on a supreme court which shall preside for life but they must also be approved by Congress

XIII) The Federal Government shall be able to draft all males between 18 and 45 for service in the National Army but they can only be drafted for four years and must wait one year inbetween drafts; the Federal Government can draft all males between 13-60 in case of invasion and suspend all drafting time limits for the duration of the invasion; one can enlist volantiraly and become a full-time solider for the National Army

XIV) A new Constitutional Convention can be called to recreate the Articles of the Commonwealth with 9/10 of the Commonwealths calling for one; new Articles can be added or reapealed by 8/10 of the Commonwealths voting on the act

XV) The Commonwealths can enact laws in acordance to the Constitution; No price control laws shall be enacted in any part of government except for weapons going to the military, but the price can only be less then or equal to a 22% change of the price; income shall not be taxed except when at war for over 4 years but must stop the tax once the war is over

June, 1901 the Articles of the Commonwealth are signed June 22, 1901 the first CA President of the Congress is suprisingly is ,Hercule Poirot, a former Belgian Detective, and Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey; the CA Congress estabilshes the Department of Defence with Joint Chiefs from the CA Army, CA Navy, CA Coast Gaurd; the CA Congress establishes the Department of the Treasury, Department of Agriculture, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Office of Strategic Services; the CA Congress also passes the Freedman's Act; the Israeli President and the Eygyptian President meet in Cairo and Eygypt ends up buying 1,200 of the latest "desert proof" rifles wich is some of Israel's best weapons; the Russian Tsar drafts a constitution and submits it to his best advisors for review

July, 1901 the Reconstruction of War Damaged Areas Act of 1901 is passed in the CA Congress and $15,000,000 is sent to damaged states to aid war recovery the de facto capital of Providence's population begins to increase from refugees; The French Foriegn Legion stops a coup attempt from several ministers including the minister of defence and the minister of finances, they are tried for treason and executed by firing squad; US exports double to the Middle East and Asia Minor to help in reconstruction but seceretly they also send ammunition and the latest rifles; President Poirot issues an order for a Great War Memorial and gives $10,000, half of it is his own money

August, 1901 Pro-Slavery terrorist in Kansas kill 32 but is put down by local citizens; Small Pox vaccines are created in New York for the first time and exported to other NATO countries; Jordanian artillery fire on Israel after thier President called the Jordanian King a qoute "Idiotic Moron" for allowing guns from the military aromories go un-guarded wich allowed Muslim extremeist to raid the entire facility, the Israel Event is put down within hours beacuse of good diplomacy and the extremely accurate Israeli Artillery Corps; the CA Congress is given the power to end fraud and break up monopolies in the Economic Regulation Act of 1901

September, 1901 Many US slaves escape to Kansas and beacuse of the Freedman's Act are now protected from slave catchers, in responce the US government put a concrete wall about 20 feet out side of the Kansas-US border, The CA government calls for the wall to be taken away but the US government scofs at them and the US President Woodrow Wilson says"I'm not taken down this wall you dang Yanks can give us.", in responce President Poirot says his now famous line "There they go again."; the Israeli Army mobilizes hours after Jordan's army does; the French foriegn minister to Israel urges both to stand down, niether does

October, 1901 President Wilson is almost killed after falling off his horse and hitting his head on a rock, he make a full recovery with no brain damage in two weeks, to help the President of the US recover the First Lady of the CA sends a bouquet of roses to Wilson; Jordanian artillery is carted to the Jordan River banks, in responce Israel does the same as well; the UK ambasador and the CA ambasador call for the armies to stand down and de-mobilize

November, 1901 President Poirot asks Congress to tax the sale of tobacco, the Tobacco Tax Act of 1901 is passed with a 52% majority, the TTA of 1901 sets a 2% tax on the sale of tobacco; Poirot sends the navy to seceratley destroy US trading with Jordan but niether admit any thing is happening, the event is later published in the book Poirot's Secret War ; the Jordanian King orders the draft to be started and all males between 18-40 is mobilized

December, 1901 Problems with filing the taxes leads the CA Congress to create the Internal Revenue Service or IRS to help with the process, to make sure taxes are paid, and economic regulations are carried through correctly; the CA navy continues to devestate US shipping, rumor spreads that pirates funded by the CA are destroying US shipping but nothing is confirmed (or denied); the NATO nations (minus Jordan and Israel) meet in Amsterdam to discuss the tensions between Jordan and Israel

Janurary, 1902 The IRS's first case of major case of fraud ends with 38 people be tried and convicted for fraudulant loans; CA Congressman Von Bismark from Maine suggests that the IRS be given clearence to sieze property if taxes are not paid (with 22 day notice), but the act fails to pass; NATO declares gives the declaration that "an attack against one of the members of NATO shall be considered an attack against all of the members, unless war is declared between two NATO members in wich NATO shall remain neutral until a third party helps in the attack or defence in wich case it will be considered an attack against all"; Israel recieves almost 13,000,000 bullets and artilery shells from the CA; the US tries to send nearly 52,000,000 bullets and artillery rounds to Jordan but it 'disapears'

United Socialist States of America
Feburary, 1902 US President Wilson is wounded by a sniper and loses his left arm as a result, hours afterwards Congressman Alan Jackson from South Carolina is killed, the next day the Supreme Court is arsoned, Wilson uses the crisis to call for emergency powers to secure the nation, he is granted them; he then systematicly plans and executes the assaissination of 23 more Senators and Representitives; just as proficently he does show trials that emplify the failure of the Court System; outrage sweeps across the nation; again playing the people like a fiddle he declares the constitution out-dated and gives the people a new plan the Wilson Plan as he calls it wich says:

''In these times of troubles the Government must step forth and help the people. They must protect its citizens to the end. Thus we establish the Wilson Plan for the United Socialist States of America''

I) The government will own all property public, private or otherwise

II) The Premier will have complete control over the nation and will apoint state govenors

III) The Premier will select 21 Commisars to advise the Premier, the oldest Commisar will become Premier opon the former Premier's death

IV) Govenors will function as a Supreme Court of thier State and enact laws in conjunction with the Premier's laws and the United Socialist States of America's Constitution, and appoint judges in thier state

V) People have the freedom of religon, the right to peacefuly assemble, the right to a lawyer (and if one can't afford one, one will be provided by the state); the people will elect 11 men to a State Council from popular vote who will advise the govenors

(Later) Feburary, 1902 the Wilson Plan is accepted and Woodrow Wilson accepts his nomination as Premier and apoints the State Govenors and Commisars; President Poirot and the rest of Congress puts in place the Trade Embargo Act of 1902 and bans all trade with the USSA; Russia even seems disgusted with this with this event and officialy chastizes them; a Russian man by the name of Lenin begins to get ideas from the Bloodless American Coup of 1902 as it is now being called; Jordan and Israel finally back down after Jordan relises it would be totally over-welmed by the superior amount of rounds and the superior training of Israeli troops

March, 1902 Premier Wilson adopts the current flag for the USSA; Great Britain changes the Union Jack to include Wales after Welsh and Irish Officials joined together to caimpain for the change, but the military was alowed to keep the Welsh addition off of thier battle flags



April, 1902 Russian serfs rebel in Kiev but the rebellion is short lived after imperial shock troopers slay the rebellers; the Western Counties of Virginia ( OTL West Virginia) after 4 petitions to Wilson to give the right to bear arms secede from the USSA, Union troops enter the area but are unprepared for the guriella warfare encountered there; anti-British setiment in Wales falls after the new addition to the flag

May, 1902 the CA seceretly sends weapons, food and money to the rebelling counties; Union troops lose 32,000 out of the 90,000 troops die to the guriellas; France sends weapons to the West Virginian rebelers in secret; Lenin is arrested in Moscow after conspiring to overthrow the gvernment, he is found guilty of only planning protests without a license and sentenced to 3 weeks in jail

June, 1902 56,000 is the new death toll for the Union troops, the morale lowers to the point where a single death makes an entire brigade turn and run; Wilson pumps 200,000 soliders from Tennese and Kentucky into West Virginia; the Israeli-Jordanian position flairs again during Jordanian military exercises as the Israelis mistake it for a build up of troops but the situation is quickly resolved in 5 days

July, 1902 the death toll is now 123,000 troops dead, public oppinon of the war falls to 61% but those who speak out are given the option of shutting up or being sent to Georgia as a 'voluntary' worker, most shut up; Georgian salt mines for reasons un-said suddently flair to life; Russian serfs rebel in Moscow but the up-rising is put down by Impearil Shock troopers

August, 1902 Wilson and Poirot meet in DC and Poirot agrees to give $1,000,000 and to make the area a 1,500 troop cap DMZ zone for the annexization of West Virginia and to send the rebel leaders positions; West Virginia is annexed by the CA and the rebel leaders are caught hours before the territory became a CA terrirtory; Egypt scorns the CA for letting the rebel leaders be caught

September-December, 1902 West Virginia is rebuilt by the working class and the now emancipated black men; Wilson consolidates his power by showing that in the end he had won by making the area a DMZ he reduced CA troops on the border and he got rid of the dumbest section of Virginia, the people somehow sees his since and comes to believe him and Wilson's approval ratings reach 85.25% (and yes the statistic is real not a castro statistic); France colonizes Indo-China and establishes the colonies of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma

Zweite Kalte Krieg
Janurary, 1903 the 21 Commisars of the USSA or the Big 21 along with many state councils begin to identify themselves with one of two parties either the Socialist Party or the New Cotton Party, both basicaly want the same thing except the NCP wants to focus gov't attention on agriculture, while the SP wishes to focus on weapons; French ambitions in South East Asia are halted by India issuing the Indo-China Doctrine wich basically states that colonization in South East Asia after Janurary 1, 1903 would be taken as a declaration of war against India;France chastises India for issuing the declaration

Feburary, 1903 the SP advises Wilson to look into new weapons such as armored cars (a few were used in the West Virginia rebellion), while the NCP advises Wilson to focus on defining a slave from a citizen; 13,50 USSA citizens and 1,200 slaves escape into the CA, the Congress extends the Freedman's Act into including refugees from nations the Congress has chosen, within hours of the extension of the Freedman's Act the Congress choses the USSA and Mexico; Wilson changes his title to Chairman; Birmingham, England becomes the second largest producer of vaccines after New York

March, 1903 the CA creates the first reliable armored car, the car has enough armor to stop a G-gun or machine gun bullet; Wilson is outraged that the CA created a better armored car then him sides with the SP and puts $2,000,000 to speed up the progress; Israel orders 1,000 of the CA's armored cars; Chinese peasents rise up in Shanghai but are destroyed by the disciplined Chinese Home Gaurd

April-August,1903 the CA gives Israel designs to its armored car program, they moddify it to a desert type and convert the G-gun mounts to machine gun mounts; Wilson's armored car program works finally and creates a car at least to par with the CA; the Russian Tsar is almost overthrown in a coup attempt lead by Lenin but stops the revolution in 3 days, to make sure that the socialist won't rise again he meets with Lenin and signs the Petrograde Accordes wich makes the Tsar much like the USSA Chairman except his seat is hereditary and otherwise adopts the Wilson Plans, but the moddifications make the name the Nikolas Plan much more common

September-November, 1903 Poirot is reelected to the Preident of the Congeress with over 92% of he vote even higher then when he was first elected; Wilson mokes the Presidency Races in the CA as little more then the "blind electing the blind to see for them"; the CA begins creating 10-inch fixed guns 10 miles inside the USSA-CA border in Maryland with plans to extend them along the entire border, the New York Times editor calls it the Poirot Line and the name sticks; Great Britain begins to send weapons to Socialist rebels who still are fighting Russia

December, 1904 Poirot and Wilson have christmas dinner in the former White House; French mercenaries in Russia nearly kill the Tsar but miss by 1 inch, the Tsar puts out a shoot on sight order for all rebels

Janurary-March, 1904 West Virginia applies for Commonwealthship, the Congress gives the entire area commonwealthship, the Commonwealth of West Virginia is established; Chairman Wilson defines a slave as an african-american who is at least 75% african; the USSA begins to mass produce machine guns days after the CA announced it will; France begins reasearch into rocketery with the help of CA scientists; the French Mercenaries are killed in a massive artillery bombardment on a rebel camp

April-August, 1904 President Poirot asks Congress to adopt the Battle Hynm of the Republic as the national anthem, the song was written during the Civil War by a Nothern Officer, the song is accepted by a unanimous vote, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMxJBenigY&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/music/watch/v329674SCFqeN7t

September-November, 1904 New York's first case of smuggling is prosecuted by the IRS and won the smugglers are sent to prison for 12 years; Thomas Edison creates a electric engine with a 9 hour charge after learning how to store the charge more effectivley

December-Feburary, 1904-1905 CA President Poirot and USSA's Wilson eat Christmas dinner in the White House and play golf the next day, citizens from both sides of the CA-USSA border meet to play Christmas games and have fun; Tsar Nikolas changes the name of Russia to the Socialist Tsardom of Russia and adopts a new flag; English troops put down a staged revolt in Hong Kong, and after finding the organizors of the revolt execute them by firing squad

March-May, 1905 Chinese merchant Chang Zhou is killed in his New York appartment the body is exaimend and the report is given to Chinese authorities,the killer is never found; the Maryland and West Virginia section of the Poirot Line is completed; Chairman Wilson complains of the Poirot Line's threat to the USSA as the 10 inch artillery can hit USSA territory, the Poirot denies this beacuse the 10 inch artillery though massive can not fire over 10 miles and he added that "they might be able to... if I could change the laws of physics"; the CA Congress defines the way it makes Commonwealths in the Articles on the Creation of Commonwealths

The Congress shall approve the creation and boundaries of a Commonwealth from the suggestions made by Congress, the territorial govenors, and the President of the Congress

June-August, 1905 President Poirot signs the Boder Protection Bill and permits the Poirot Line to extend to the enire USSA-CA border including the begining of construction of the line in the West Coast States; German soliders are fired upon by Communist exremist protesting in Berlin, the protesters are given a baptism in fire by German flame-thrower regiments

September-Janurary, 1905-1906 Poirot is re-elected after initialy wanting to step down but is persuaded to do so by the Joint Chief of the Army Theodore Roosevelt, he is re-elected by 92%, Wilson and Poirot meet once again for Christmas dinner and a traditon begins of the President of the CA and the Chairman of the USSA meeting for Christmas Dinner; the English King is shot by a leftist extremist but is relativley uninjured

Feburary-May 1906 the Easter Sunday bombings in Russia occur against a local Methodist Church;the Poirot Line is completed and 10 inch artilllery is on the entire border of the USSA-CA border, although in some areas the artillery is 5 miles apart, while in others it is more heaviy built into concrete foundations and only 100-200 yards away from each other; the CA Congress officialy defines the requirements to run for public office in the Articles of the Canidacy

I) The President of the Congress must be at least 22 years of age and a natrual born citizen

II) Congressmen, Govenors, and Mayors must all be CA citizens and above 21 years of age

III) Special canidacy rules for Govenors and Mayors may be apllied by the Commonwealth they are competeing in to become political office holders

IV) a CA natural born citizen is a person who was eigther born in CA territory and to at least on parent who is a CA citizen, a CA citizen is one who came from another country or was born in CA territory to no CA citizen, or natural born citizen, and became a citizen in the CA later in thier life

June-July 3, 1906 President Poirot along with Congress present Thomas Edison and Henry Ford with the Congressional High Medal of Science (the highest award one can get for science); the cash-strapped UK and the CA begin talks about the ownership of Canada

the July Fourth Proclamation
July 4, 1906 the Commonwealths of America and the United Kingdom sign the July Fourth Proclamation, the United Kingdom gives Canada to the Commonwealths of America and the CA agreed to not pursue territorial investments in Europe

(rest of) July, 1906 the CA begins extending the Poirot Line to cover the now extended CA-USSA border; Poirot adopts a new flag; the President of France commisions the first submarine with modern torpedoes

August-November, 1906 the Canadian Territory applies for Commonwealthship, at the meetings the Canadian Territorial Govenor proposes that the enitre Canadian Territory is turned into "one Canada" but is subdivided into Districs wich is then sub-divided into Counties, the CA Congress somewhat accepts his proposal, except that all Canadian territory of the Island of Newfoundland and everything below the St.Lawrence is turned into Nova Scotia, all the land west of the Hudson Bay and above the 180 latitude is turned into the Yukon, and all land east of the Hudson Bay or below the 180 latitude is turned into Canada ; Canadians and Nova Scotians Yukonians celebrate thier Commonwealthship; Russian Tsar Nikolas buys 13,000 rifles from the USSA

December-Janurary, 1906-1907 Wilson and Poirot have christmas dinner in the White House; the English King and the French President have Christmas Dinner in Versailles

Feburary, 1907 Poirot and the Mexican President Hernandez meets in Providence, Rhode Island and agree on the Baja California Purchase; the CA buys the Baja California and Baja California Sur for $18,000,000 and a promise from the Mexican President that there would be a punishmen of 50 years in prison for someone being caught in the act of illeagal immigration from Mexico to another country; the CA Congress grants Baja California and Baja California Sur to California

March, 1907 Wilson speaks out against CA territorial gains; Poirot says that all of the territorial gains were completely legal and helpful to the CA economy; the First Bank of London is robbed by Julius Parker

April, 1907 Riots occur in Baja California against California's high taxes, as a result the CA Congress begins reviewing Californian Taxes; Greek Dollars begins to plumet in value causing many food shortages but order is loosley kept, and in 2 weeks the value rises again

May, 1907 Riots continue in the Baja California, to quell the rioting Congress sends the Baja California a referendum to eigther continue being a part of California, become the Baja California Territory, or become the Commonwealth of Baja California; the referendum shows by a 84% majority that the Baja Californians wish to become a commonealth; the Commonwealth of Baja California is proclaimed; the Russian Tsar encourages the Baja Californian rebels to continue revolting

June, 1907 the reconstruction of Philidelphia is completed and topped off with the unvieling of the Great War Memorial wich is made of 99.999% gold costing well over the $10,000 alloted to it but Poirot paid out of pocket for the difference; the French, UK, Austrian, German, and Greek Kings (or Kaiser/Grand Duke/President) arrive in Philidelphia to watch the unvieling of the Great War Memorial

July-November, 1907 Poirot step down and does not run for a fourth term, he retires from political work and returns to Europe to re-establish his reputation as a master detective, he also utters his now famous Poirot's Farewell Speech :'"Today I step down from the Office of the President of the Congress of the Commonwealths of America. Through the past six years I hope I have set a firm foundation for this new nation of freedom. I question now some of the things I have done, but I regret none of them. I truly wish with all my heart, soul, and mind that this nation will prosper and be a beacon of liberty throughout all of God's creation. Now I wish upon the nation this verse from Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.' May God bless us all"';after failing to convince Poirot to run again ,Theodore Roosevelt, is elected by 79.59% beating Howard Taft in the first real Presidential race (as no one even ran against Poirot with any real intention to win, and just a formality); the French President applauds Poirot's ability to step down from power even though he could have easily won again'

Explicit Poirot Senectus et Principium Alterius
December-Feburary, 1908 Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson have Christmas Dinner in the White House; the R-M Pact issues the Kiev Proclamation that they will support any communist or socialist uprising and any communist or socialist nations; the Greek Prime Minister is killed by revolting socialist in Athens; President T. Roosevelt issues 13 bills to the Congress, 2 of the bills pass and 1 new right to the Bill of Rights is accepted, in the same fell swoop he seperates the Articles of the Commonwealth into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (I-IX):

1) Restriction to a 4 hour work day for minors and mandatory sundays off, minors are also banned from working in mines

2) the Age of Adulthood is defined as 16 years of age

Bill of Rights Amendment X) Any employed person has the right to choose wether or not to Unionize with others of the same work type

March-July,1908 the New York times calls President T. Roosevelt the "Great Reformer"; France, the UK, Luxembourg, and Spain implement child labor laws; the Italian King is killed by an assassin, unknowingly hired by the USSA; the panic caused by the Italian King's death is used by communist supporters in Northern Italy and Sardinia, this marks the begining of the Italian Civil War; Italian troops enter Venice, "Blood, sweat, tears, and bullets" said Italian Officer Beninto Mussolini "Is what they out-classed us in and all we could do is try to over-come the odds but we couldn't, even after weeks of street to street fighting we where left with nothing to show for it", Italain troops are forced out of Nothern Italy and almost officialy lose the area after the Battle of Milan cuts off the last supply root to the last pocket of Italian capitalist resistance in Bergamo

August 1908 NATO troops comprised 2/6 of CA troops, 1/6 Spanish, 0.5/6 French, 1.5/6 British, and 1/6 Luxembourgi arive in Rome and under the command of CA 4-star General William McKinley plan to advance along the Italian-Franco border the NATO troops attacked Communist controlled Genoa, they fight street to street for nearly three days but finally force them out of the city, they continue along the coast; R-M Pact sends 20,000 troops to North Italy

Septemer, 1908 NATO and R-M Pact troops meet in Saluzzo, the resulting battle leaves NATO troops decimated with neary all of the Spanish and French troops where killed, the R-M Pact replaced all of thier losses and actually gained 5,000 soliders from the surrounding country-side; the communist troops cut off NATO who are still mainly in Genoa, the R-M Pact then invades Sciliy from its new beachfronts and establishes a beach head

November, 1908 the USSA and Russia recognize the Communist State of North Italy as an independent nation and threatens war if they do not with-draw; NATO and the R-M Pact meet Sarajevo and sign the Sarajevo Accords, all of Italy is united under a communist banner except for the City of Rome wich is put under the Vatican's control

December, 1908 President T. Roosevelt and Chairman Wilson meet in the White House for christmas dinner under heavy tensions; the New York Stock Exchange rises 15 points; Italy joins the R-M Pact

Janurary, 1909 the R-M Pact changes its name to the United Communist Nations; Indian miners rise up against understandably hard working conditions and start the Great Indian Miner's Strike; President T. Roosevelt speaks out against the new communist Italy and praises the Vatican for its strength in these troubled times

Feburary, 1909 the UCN sends aid to the Indian miners; the UCN adopts a flag for thier organization; in responce to the NATO defeat in Italy and the UCN adopting a flag to solidify how they identify themselves NATO adopts a flag and creates the NATO Task Force, wich is made up of paid volunteers

March, 1909 the UCN invades Mongolia; UCN troops under heavy fighting succesfuly captures Ulaanbatar and the surreder of Mongolia within 14 days, but the NATO Task Force had sent grenadiers (elite troops) and succesfully evacuated the Mongolian President and Cabinent and family; the Communist State of Mongolia is proclaimed and it joins the UCN

April, 1909 China joins NATO after the Task Force succesfuly stopped a republican rebellion in Beijing; UCN sends an official letter of remrimand to NATO for ending the           Chinese Republican Rebellion of 1909 in favor of the monarchist

May, 1909 NATO and the UCN meet in DC the first time since the end of the Great War, the two parties agree on a proposal issued by former CA President Poirot to create an organization in wich all nations could freely speak what they think; the United Nations is created and all nations are invited to speak in the Old Capitol Building in DC until a proper building can be built