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Ups and Downs
In 1862, a quick Confederate capture of Union artillery in the fields of Maryland and subsequent usage of them behind Union lines caused the destruction of the Army of the Potomac. Confederate forces occupied Washington and pushed on Baltimore. Throughout the rest of 1862 and 1863 the Confederates truly occupied Maryland chasing refugees to Pennsylvania. Where Union troops met the CSA on a head long advance in Central Virginia at Gettysburg. The battle there was fought to a stalemate. The first form of Trench Warfare was seen. A grinding stalemate in the East saw Confederate forces, angered by the loss of Confederate "Arizona", invaded Kentucky and grabbed it from General Ulysses S. Grant who committed suicide after a drunken rage. His second in command William T. Sherman quickly organized a brilliant defense of Ohio. By The Spring of 1864 both sides had fought each other to a standstill. Only a peace negotiated by the British in the Treaty of Halifax ended the conflict with a Confederate Victory. The later part of the 1860s saw the Democrats sweep into office. Lincoln, discruntled formed a small socialist party in Syracuse which would effectivly become a major 3rd Party (but wouldn't stop Joe Franklin in the 30s). Whigs and Radical Liberals filled the Democrats and Republicans in the south. The Whigs under the Presidents, Davis, Lee, and Longstreet were able to maintain high power until Fitzhugh Lee of the Radical Liberals came to power in the 1880s.

The USA and CSA came to head in 1884 with another war known as the Sonoran War. The US bitterly lost this and the Confederates retained their territories in Baja, Sonora, and Chihuahua yet thanks to Britain outlawed slavery. The US adopted the "Prussian Way" of Germany. The CSA quickly gained support from Britain and Napoleon III or France. The arms race continued into the 1900s. The Spanish-American War saw Puerto Rico and the Philippines transfered to the US. Cuba was already in Confederate hands. Aircraft technology advanced at a quicker rate post-1903. The spark came in the Balkans where the Great War flamed out.

The Confederates used their numbers advantage to quickly overrun Maryland while mainting large defensive positions in Sequoyah and Texas. The US used their tactical genious now and need in the Midwest to attack Kentucky.

Red Germany, Black Russia
The Great War had lasted 6 years. The ignorance of General Pershing and President Wilson allowed the Germans to push to the outskirts of Paris. It took from September 1918 to March 1920 to defeat Germany. The Kaiser managed to stay in power longer but was shot by a radical anarchist in February 1920. A young man named Adolf Hitler is wounded and later leads a minor Austrian based resistance group fighting against Communist Germany. When Baron Ungern-Sternberg died in 1935, he gave the Russian position to Konstantin Rodzaevsky who turned Russia into a fascist state. Russia began to become aggressive with huge industrialization by 1938 and large farm production. Russia became the main aggressor and faced acts of discontent in Germany, Britain, and France.