User blog comment:YNot1989/The Sandwich that Changed the World./@comment-98.247.26.20-20090809052345

Draft TL:

1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria narrowly escapes assassination while in Sarajevo. He goes on to become emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1916.

1915
As tensions continue to mount in Europe over sphere's of influence, Britain pumps even more money into weapons development, ordering further R&D into Landships.

1920
Isolationist Warren G. Harding wins the Presidency.

1921
Great Britain begins building military bases in Tibet, Russia and Japan Protest. France follows suit in Southern China. By year's end France, Germany, and Great Britain sign a military alliance declaring military aide to each other should one be attacked. Russia, and Japan form an unholy alliance for the dominance of East Asia.

1924
The French Ship Bayonne, while ferrying supplies to French supporters in Manchuria is sunk by a Japanese I-Boat. The Great War finally begins.

1925
The Russian Imperial Army Invades Germany. Japan blocks all Chinese Trade outside of the Eastern Alliance. The US Stock Market, already shaky (due to no wartime economic growth in the 1910s.) crashes on "Black Monday" 1925 with news of the end of the China Trade.

1928
President Coolidge, choosing not to run for a second term with record low approval ratings, is succeeded by New York Governor Al Smith, the first Catholic to hold office. Smith ran on a campaign of joining the Western Powers in the War to reopen Chinese trade and rebuild the US economy. Austria enters the war on the side of the Western Powers. Russia takes Berlin, Germany falls.

1929
President Smith signs a series of military spending acts causing American factories to roar to life building Subs, Tanks, and Aircraft for the war effort. The US begins island hopping Japanese territories in the Pacific and planning a massive invasion of Japan.

1930
Navy Scientist Robert Goddard perfects the first ballistic missile the A-3.

1931
Russian forces invade Northern France. President Smith sends the first US troops to aid in the fighting in Europe.

1933
The US begins the invasion of Japan, X-Day, well over a million US soldiers land in Honshū and Kyūshū, over 300,000 die in the bloodies battle in American history. Japan surrenders on December 22, 1933.

1934
Britain and France push the Russians back past the Rhein. As the US secures Japan they begin to send troops to mainland China to aid the Europeans in the fighting. The US begins to send A-3 missiles to Japan to begin bombarding the Russian forces in China.

1936
Al Smith becomes the first president to win a 3rd Term.

1938
The US detonates an Atom Bomb over Minsk. The Russian Empire surrenders. The Great War ends. President Smith dies days after the Treaty of Vienna. Vice President John Nance Garner is sworn in as the 32nd President of the United States.

1940
President Garner wins his re-election. Congress passes the 22nd Amendment limiting the President to 2 terms.

1944
Huey Long wins the Presidency. Germany resistance leader Mordechaj Anielewicz, is elected President of Germany.

1952
Adlai Stevenson defeats Joseph Kennedy Sr. for the Presidency.

1976
Governor of California John Wayne is elected President of the United States.