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An alternate United States.

History:
1783: Nova Scotia and St John Island, through the efforts of Jonathan Eddy, join the Union. This has the side effect of sending the Loyalists to Newfoundland, while also creating the need for the British for more settler colonies, and turning to Africa earlier for colonies. By 1800, Patagonia would be opened to the British by agreement with Spain.
1794: UK claims New Caledonia
1803: US purchases Louisiana from France
1806: Minor war with Spain and the UK, resulting in loss of all of Patagonia and Chile, and Paraguay to the British; South Brunswick remained in the hands of the German Confederation at this time, though it was seized by the British during the Napoleonic Wars to keep it out of French hands during the war.
1815: Alsace-Lorraine is ceded to the German Confederation. New Caledonia is opened for penal settlement and later colonial settlement. Dunkirk and Artois and Cambrai are settled as part of the Netherlands, while the Netherlands gives Luxemburg province to Luxembourg.
1819: US purchases Florida and Cuba from Spain, after a series of slave revolts and poor harvests make Cuba more trouble to the Spaniards than it's worth. US claims Washington (Marquesas) Islands, and soon, the rest of Polynesia.
1836: Texas wins independence from Mexico
1840: Yucatan and Rio Grande win independence from Mexico with Texan help and the help of US filibusters
1846: US settles Oregon Country issue more in its own favor, settling the 49th parallel as the US-UK border to the Continental Divide, thence along the crests of the mountains themselves, thence west along the 52nd parallel. This causes some issues, though, with the small US town of Bilkella (Bella Coola), which operates for over 20 years as US territory. In 1872, the US, UK, and Canada settle this by putting the border at south of King Island, north of Calvert Island, to Bilkella, then two miles in to the Bilkella River, thence south to 52nd parallel, and thence east to the Continental Divide. This lack of relatively mild western ports limits Canadian settlement inland and in the Pacific.
1846-48: US-Mexican War: Mexico declares war over the annexation of Texas, whose independence Mexico does not recognize. The two year war ends with Mexico occupied by the US, and ceding the territories of Alta and Baja California, New Mexico, Rio Grande, Texas, Yucatan to the Usumacinta river in Tabasco, Sonora, and Chihuahua.
1850: Compromise of 1850: settlers in California from the North and the South result in two competing capitals and constitutions, and the compromise is reached to bring them in as two states, divided at the 37th parallel. This foreshadows the future split of the US.
1850s: John Brown's raid, along with Republican electioneering aimed against the South sour public opinion in the south against the Union
1860: Lincoln's election causes South Carolina to secede
1861: six other states secede, and they form the Confederate States of America. After Lincoln pressed for raising an army of 75,000, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Cuba secede. After the Union bungles into Kentucky, it votes to secede, since the Union violated its neutrality. Kentucky will be overrun in 1861-2 and "remain in the Union" at gunpoint, even though it voted to secede. The Cotton Diplomacy results in cotton being run through the blockade, which is not too effective at this point, to Europe, in exchange for non-war material: medicines, boots, uniforms, backpacks, blankets, food, and manufactured goods. Davis uses legislation to require at least half the blockade runners to carry war-priority materials, even though that cuts into their profit margins and they largely ignore this, but they do manage to carry in every run, militarily helpful materials.
1862: CS forces have a number of victories this year, but their manpower issues press them to accept statehood for the Indian Territory as Oklahoma, and full, equal citizenship, in exchange for Oklahoma fighting on the CS's side. CS naval forces in Havana help destroy Union blockade ships. General Butler's proclamations about women anger foreign public against the Union when published, helping encourage donations to the Confederate cause, leading to his removal from leadership. General Grant's General Order 11 banishing Confederate Jews from captured territory also angers the foreign public, especially European Jews. Some foreign Jews come to the Confederacy to fight, and a number of Irish, English, Scotch, Welsh, French, Dutch, Scandinavian, German, Polish, and even Greek fight in the CS Army, mixed in after training. Even a Prussian Captain, Justus Scheibert, fought on the Confederate side, along with Heros von Borcke, who eventually became a Lt Colonel.
1863: The CS tide is turned back at Gettysburg, and the Confederates are pushed out; Kirby Smith pushes into Missouri, and manages to help get a Confederate Governor and government elected. Its secession is not recognized by the US. The Emancipation Proclamation gives the Union a moral cause to fight for in the eyes of the world, but domestic opinion is more negative; enlistments fall and army desertions rise. Union Naval forces shell Havana, causing the city to burn.
1864: Patrick Cleburne's memorial is published in Richmond, and Lee meets with Davis to give his opinion, which urges him to adopt it officially. Now, the CS will allow slaves to serve side by side (General Order 14) at equal pay for their freedom and that of their families (freedmen can purchase the freedom of their families with their wages at a discounted rate), and their owners will be compensated at 1861 value of the slaves. CS is defeated several times, but turns the Union back several times. Lincoln's election looks in doubt unless the Union can capture Atlanta before the election. Sherman is repulsed at Atlanta by Johnston, and he falls into a psychological break, so Grant goes to Atlanta to press the attack. He feints with 2/3 of his army at Montgomery and Selma, which causes Johnston to try to intercept him at West Point in GA, but Grant turns back and beats Johnston back to Atlanta. Grant destroys East Point and occupies it on November 6th, and starts shelling the city, giving rise to the quick fall of the rebellion.

Nevada is made a state, and Nova Scotia accepts St John Island being made its own state; both are Republican strongholds and would be needed to ensure Lincoln's victory in the fall.

At the same time, Manton Marble is publicly found guilty of accepting bribes from the Confederates to pay Democrats, which results in a stunting of their electoral victories, but Lincoln squeaks by in the electoral college by 10 votes. Had Nevada and St John Island not been made states, he'd have lost reelection. Democrats take the House, but Republicans hold the Senate by 3 seats.

The CS feel the time is now and they're desperate to win, seeing Lincoln as wanting victory any way possible. They manage to turn Grant back from Atlanta in a pincher movement between Cleburne in Atlanta's defenses, and Johnston to the west. A Confederate spy blows up the US arsenal outside Atlanta, denying them valuable ammo and gunpowder. General Kirby Smith retakes St Louis and Jefferson City with Oklahoman help. Lee is pushed out of northern Virginia by Grant, who has returned north, and they journey past Richmond. Grant wants to crush Lee before spring.

The UK and France diplomatically recognize the CS and grant them loans to purchase boots, uniforms and war materials.

1865: Kentucky is liberated from Union Control as is Tennessee, by Johnston, Cleburne, and Forrest; Forrest and Jubal Early meet up with Lee at Appomattox Court House, reinforcing him with ammo and men, allowing them to surround Grant and force his surrender on April 9 after two ferocious days of fighting and suffering 19,000 casualties. Missouri is freed from Union Control, and Vicksburg and New Orleans are freed, along with Havana; Union morale was buoyed by Lincoln's reelection but after the defense of Atlanta and the enlistment of so many colored soldiers, the Confederates held and grew stronger while the Union seemed to slowly lose their will to fight. This loss would mark the armistice in the east while the two sides agreed to arbitration by the UK of their grievances.

On April 26, the last Union army east of the Mississippi surrendered at Lexington, KY.

On July 4, both sides agreed to the independence of the Confederacy; West Virginia and Maryland, and Arlington county remained in the Union, while Kentucky and Missouri remained in the confederacy, and the western line at 37 N was agreed as their border, save for the portion of Arizona territory west of 120 W and the Colorado River.
1866: Lincoln is impeached by the House for his war crimes (suspension of habeas corpus, commandeering houses, suppressing newspapers, interfering with the mail, along with various other accusations), but the Senate acquits him. Both houses agree to limits on Presidential War Powers, which Lincoln vetoes, but they override him. Congress also passes the 13th amendment, creating an explicit process for secession (2/3 federal Congress must approve, 2/3 of the states must approve, and 2/3 of a convention of the state must vote for it), 14th freeing slaves in compensated emancipation, and 15th limiting war powers such that the president cannot suspend habeas corpus without prior consent of Congress, among other items done by Lincoln, and forbidding as crimes some of the actions of union troops during war.
1866: Union sympathizers in the Confederacy leave for the western territories to remain in the Union. The trans-mississippi US becomes a bastion of 'conservative' or 'traditional' US sentiment, providing a check on New England's population.
1867: The US does not buy Alaska due to more pressing concerns internally with dealing with compensated emancipation, the fallout from Lincoln's impeachment, and trying to adjust to the loss of the South.
1870: The US buys the northwestern territories from the UK, following the Continental Divide to the 120 W mark, thence north to the Arctic Ocean.
1870s-80s: US economy booms and trade with the CS flourishes. The west is settled after the Indian Wars clear the Indians, and the Great Lakes, Middle States (NY, PA, NJ, MD, WV, DE) and Pacific states all turn on the New England states in the federal Congress, passing legislation outlawing a lot of their centralization agenda, which was seen as helping cause the 'recent unpleasantness.' New England threatens to secede again, like in 1803 and 1814, but it comes to naught.
1893: US citizens overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii and create the Republic of Hawaii to be annexed by the US.
1896: Gold is discovered in Alaska and the Yukon, bringing settlers north into Columbia and the Yukon.
1904: the US purchases the Philippines from the Confederacy for $13 million, and the Panama Canal Zone
1913: US creates the Federal Reserve but fails to pass the income tax
1914: Panama Canal opens, shortening the trip around South America. France draws into war with Austria-Hungary over Serbia. Russia soon enters the war, then Ottoman Empire, then Spain and Italy, then finally Germany and the UK after France invades Alsace-Lorraine and
1916: TR begins prepping the US for war but keeps the US out for now
1917: The Lusitania is sunk, and TR asks for war with France. Confederates also join in war. The joint war effort does much to smooth over the prior animosities of the 19th century. Russia bows out of the war due to the Soviet Revolution. The royal family safely escapes to the Scandinavian peninsula. Some marry into Norwegian royalty but keep their claim to the Russian throne.
1919: Treaty of Versailles is signed; France cedes Guadeloupe, Martinique to the US. French Guiana goes to the Confederates, to US chagrin. Ottomans cede the Aegean and Cyprus to Greece, and after the discovery and documentation of the Armenian Genocide, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, Greater Armenia, Assyria (Christian state), Syria (Christian state; OTL Lebanon and southern Syria, incl. Damascus), Northern Syria, and the British Mandate of Palestine are created. Turks are expelled from Greece, and Greeks expelled from Turkey; Constantinople becomes Greece's capital and church services are held in the Hagia Sophia for the first time since 1493. Austria-Hungary breaks up: Hungary gains the Slovakian Hungarian area and the Transylvanian Hungarian area. Teschen, Sudetenland, Burgenland, German Bohemia, Southern Bohemia-Moravia, Carinthia, South Tyrol, and Marburg in Styria become Austrian, while Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia become Czechoslovakia. France loses Corsica to Italy.
1920s: US enters a boom time with returning veterans, but pension issues mar their early 20s. Harding gives way to Coolidge who halves the budget and the debt.
1929: The NYSE crashes and the US enters a Great Depression.
1932: FDR is elected, the first Democrat in over a decade. He promises to end the depression but his policies, admittedly, only worsen it.
1938: FDR's Treasury secretary publicly admits they continued Hoover's policies and those of the Federal Reserve, and they only made the Depression worse. Republicans take back control of Congress; Social Security declared unconstitutional, and many states create their own government-run pension systems in its place.
1940: Republican Vandenburg and Nary defeat FDR for a third term after his administration's corruption and soviet spies are revealed.
1941: Nary is instrumental in passing a bill to repeal the Federal Reserve; he is found dead under mysterious circumstances soon after, and a huge round-up of CFR members and bankers result in numerous convictions for complicity in the murder of the VP and the Fed's role in the depression and unjustly enriching them. While gold is still $35/oz, the Republicans repeal the remainder of the New Deal which causes the budget to reduce and the debt to go down. In December, however, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, causing the US to declare War on December 8. The Confederates are attacked on the 8th when the Japanese invade the Confederate Marianas Islands. France, Japan's ally, declares war on both the US and CS. France, Spain, and Italy form an Axis with Japan and Turkey. Poland, nominally independent from the USSR, sides with France and attacks Germany in the east to allow France's attack in the west.
1945: the US and CS finally defeat France and Japan. Europe is redrawn and Germany's royal house joins with the Hapsburgs. Briey and Belfort go to Germany; Savoys and Nice to Italy, which retains its Carthage province. Roussillon to Spain; Basque and Brittany become independent. Poland is occupied by the USSR and allies, and becomes divided into East and West Poland.
1948: Iron Curtain speech given by US President. US enters boom time and the civil rights movement finally begins helping drop the north's black codes, which had been in place since the 1870s.
1961: Warsaw Wall goes up in Warsaw, dividing and separating East and West until 1989. Civil Rights act of 1961 is passed helping black people in the north to vote unobstructed for the first time since the 1870s.
1980s: Ronald Reagan becomes President and helps lead a military build-up of US forces, leading to the fall of the USSR. Guadeloupe and Martinique have statehood movements gain steam. American Samoa is fine as it is, as are Polynesia and the Washington Islands.
1991: USSR becomes the Russian Federation; Poland reunites October 3.
1993: Russian Federation becomes the Russian Kingdom, and the monarchy is restored with a constitution based on that of the US and CS, with a Duma modeled after that of the UK Parliament.
2018: The United States is a relatively free and prosperous country, with a higher standard of living and less inflation without the Federal Reserve and having eliminated its nascent welfare state. Each state has its own unique retirement, disability, unemployment, and health savings account plans, once Social Security was declared unconstitutional. Since the 1980s, almost all were privatized except in New England, which is only now beginning to have the debate.

Description
An alternate United States.

History:
1783: Nova Scotia and St John Island, through the efforts of Jonathan Eddy, join the Union. This has the side effect of sending the Loyalists to Newfoundland, while also creating the need for the British for more settler colonies, and turning to Africa earlier for colonies. By 1800, Patagonia would be opened to the British by agreement with Spain.
1794: UK claims New Caledonia
1803: US purchases Louisiana from France
1806: Minor war with Spain and the UK, resulting in loss of all of Patagonia and Chile, and Paraguay to the British; South Brunswick remained in the hands of the German Confederation at this time, though it was seized by the British during the Napoleonic Wars to keep it out of French hands during the war.
1815: Alsace-Lorraine is ceded to the German Confederation. New Caledonia is opened for penal settlement and later colonial settlement. Dunkirk and Artois and Cambrai are settled as part of the Netherlands, while the Netherlands gives Luxemburg province to Luxembourg.
1819: US purchases Florida and Cuba from Spain, after a series of slave revolts and poor harvests make Cuba more trouble to the Spaniards than it's worth. US claims Washington (Marquesas) Islands, and soon, the rest of Polynesia.
1836: Texas wins independence from Mexico
1840: Yucatan and Rio Grande win independence from Mexico with Texan help and the help of US filibusters
1846: US settles Oregon Country issue more in its own favor, settling the 49th parallel as the US-UK border to the Continental Divide, thence along the crests of the mountains themselves, thence west along the 52nd parallel. This causes some issues, though, with the small US town of Bilkella (Bella Coola), which operates for over 20 years as US territory. In 1872, the US, UK, and Canada settle this by putting the border at south of King Island, north of Calvert Island, to Bilkella, then two miles in to the Bilkella River, thence south to 52nd parallel, and thence east to the Continental Divide. This lack of relatively mild western ports limits Canadian settlement inland and in the Pacific.
1846-48: US-Mexican War: Mexico declares war over the annexation of Texas, whose independence Mexico does not recognize. The two year war ends with Mexico occupied by the US, and ceding the territories of Alta and Baja California, New Mexico, Rio Grande, Texas, Yucatan to the Usumacinta river in Tabasco, Sonora, and Chihuahua.
1850: Compromise of 1850: settlers in California from the North and the South result in two competing capitals and constitutions, and the compromise is reached to bring them in as two states, divided at the 37th parallel. This foreshadows the future split of the US.
1850s: John Brown's raid, along with Republican electioneering aimed against the South sour public opinion in the south against the Union
1860: Lincoln's election causes South Carolina to secede
1861: six other states secede, and they form the Confederate States of America. After Lincoln pressed for raising an army of 75,000, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Cuba secede. After the Union bungles into Kentucky, it votes to secede, since the Union violated its neutrality. Kentucky will be overrun in 1861-2 and "remain in the Union" at gunpoint, even though it voted to secede. The Cotton Diplomacy results in cotton being run through the blockade, which is not too effective at this point, to Europe, in exchange for non-war material: medicines, boots, uniforms, backpacks, blankets, food, and manufactured goods. Davis uses legislation to require at least half the blockade runners to carry war-priority materials, even though that cuts into their profit margins and they largely ignore this, but they do manage to carry in every run, militarily helpful materials.
1862: CS forces have a number of victories this year, but their manpower issues press them to accept statehood for the Indian Territory as Oklahoma, and full, equal citizenship, in exchange for Oklahoma fighting on the CS's side. CS naval forces in Havana help destroy Union blockade ships. General Butler's proclamations about women anger foreign public against the Union when published, helping encourage donations to the Confederate cause, leading to his removal from leadership. General Grant's General Order 11 banishing Confederate Jews from captured territory also angers the foreign public, especially European Jews. Some foreign Jews come to the Confederacy to fight, and a number of Irish, English, Scotch, Welsh, French, Dutch, Scandinavian, German, Polish, and even Greek fight in the CS Army, mixed in after training. Even a Prussian Captain, Justus Scheibert, fought on the Confederate side, along with Heros von Borcke, who eventually became a Lt Colonel.
1863: The CS tide is turned back at Gettysburg, and the Confederates are pushed out; Kirby Smith pushes into Missouri, and manages to help get a Confederate Governor and government elected. Its secession is not recognized by the US. The Emancipation Proclamation gives the Union a moral cause to fight for in the eyes of the world, but domestic opinion is more negative; enlistments fall and army desertions rise. Union Naval forces shell Havana, causing the city to burn.
1864: Patrick Cleburne's memorial is published in Richmond, and Lee meets with Davis to give his opinion, which urges him to adopt it officially. Now, the CS will allow slaves to serve side by side (General Order 14) at equal pay for their freedom and that of their families (freedmen can purchase the freedom of their families with their wages at a discounted rate), and their owners will be compensated at 1861 value of the slaves. CS is defeated several times, but turns the Union back several times. Lincoln's election looks in doubt unless the Union can capture Atlanta before the election. Sherman is repulsed at Atlanta by Johnston, and he falls into a psychological break, so Grant goes to Atlanta to press the attack. He feints with 2/3 of his army at Montgomery and Selma, which causes Johnston to try to intercept him at West Point in GA, but Grant turns back and beats Johnston back to Atlanta. Grant destroys East Point and occupies it on November 6th, and starts shelling the city, giving rise to the quick fall of the rebellion.

Nevada is made a state, and Nova Scotia accepts St John Island being made its own state; both are Republican strongholds and would be needed to ensure Lincoln's victory in the fall.

At the same time, Manton Marble is publicly found guilty of accepting bribes from the Confederates to pay Democrats, which results in a stunting of their electoral victories, but Lincoln squeaks by in the electoral college by 10 votes. Had Nevada and St John Island not been made states, he'd have lost reelection. Democrats take the House, but Republicans hold the Senate by 3 seats.

The CS feel the time is now and they're desperate to win, seeing Lincoln as wanting victory any way possible. They manage to turn Grant back from Atlanta in a pincher movement between Cleburne in Atlanta's defenses, and Johnston to the west. A Confederate spy blows up the US arsenal outside Atlanta, denying them valuable ammo and gunpowder. General Kirby Smith retakes St Louis and Jefferson City with Oklahoman help. Lee is pushed out of northern Virginia by Grant, who has returned north, and they journey past Richmond. Grant wants to crush Lee before spring.

The UK and France diplomatically recognize the CS and grant them loans to purchase boots, uniforms and war materials.

1865: Kentucky is liberated from Union Control as is Tennessee, by Johnston, Cleburne, and Forrest; Forrest and Jubal Early meet up with Lee at Appomattox Court House, reinforcing him with ammo and men, allowing them to surround Grant and force his surrender on April 9 after two ferocious days of fighting and suffering 19,000 casualties. Missouri is freed from Union Control, and Vicksburg and New Orleans are freed, along with Havana; Union morale was buoyed by Lincoln's reelection but after the defense of Atlanta and the enlistment of so many colored soldiers, the Confederates held and grew stronger while the Union seemed to slowly lose their will to fight. This loss would mark the armistice in the east while the two sides agreed to arbitration by the UK of their grievances.

On April 26, the last Union army east of the Mississippi surrendered at Lexington, KY.

On July 4, both sides agreed to the independence of the Confederacy; West Virginia and Maryland, and Arlington county remained in the Union, while Kentucky and Missouri remained in the confederacy, and the western line at 37 N was agreed as their border, save for the portion of Arizona territory west of 120 W and the Colorado River.
1866: Lincoln is impeached by the House for his war crimes (suspension of habeas corpus, commandeering houses, suppressing newspapers, interfering with the mail, along with various other accusations), but the Senate acquits him. Both houses agree to limits on Presidential War Powers, which Lincoln vetoes, but they override him. Congress also passes the 13th amendment, creating an explicit process for secession (2/3 federal Congress must approve, 2/3 of the states must approve, and 2/3 of a convention of the state must vote for it), 14th freeing slaves in compensated emancipation, and 15th limiting war powers such that the president cannot suspend habeas corpus without prior consent of Congress, among other items done by Lincoln, and forbidding as crimes some of the actions of union troops during war.
1866: Union sympathizers in the Confederacy leave for the western territories to remain in the Union. The trans-mississippi US becomes a bastion of 'conservative' or 'traditional' US sentiment, providing a check on New England's population.
1867: The US does not buy Alaska due to more pressing concerns internally with dealing with compensated emancipation, the fallout from Lincoln's impeachment, and trying to adjust to the loss of the South.
1870: The US buys the northwestern territories from the UK, following the Continental Divide to the 120 W mark, thence north to the Arctic Ocean.
1870s-80s: US economy booms and trade with the CS flourishes. The west is settled after the Indian Wars clear the Indians, and the Great Lakes, Middle States (NY, PA, NJ, MD, WV, DE) and Pacific states all turn on the New England states in the federal Congress, passing legislation outlawing a lot of their centralization agenda, which was seen as helping cause the 'recent unpleasantness.' New England threatens to secede again, like in 1803 and 1814, but it comes to naught.
1893: US citizens overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii and create the Republic of Hawaii to be annexed by the US.
1896: Gold is discovered in Alaska and the Yukon, bringing settlers north into Columbia and the Yukon.
1904: the US purchases the Philippines from the Confederacy for $13 million, and the Panama Canal Zone
1913: US creates the Federal Reserve but fails to pass the income tax
1914: Panama Canal opens, shortening the trip around South America. France draws into war with Austria-Hungary over Serbia. Russia soon enters the war, then Ottoman Empire, then Spain and Italy, then finally Germany and the UK after France invades Alsace-Lorraine and
1916: TR begins prepping the US for war but keeps the US out for now
1917: The Lusitania is sunk, and TR asks for war with France. Confederates also join in war. The joint war effort does much to smooth over the prior animosities of the 19th century. Russia bows out of the war due to the Soviet Revolution. The royal family safely escapes to the Scandinavian peninsula. Some marry into Norwegian royalty but keep their claim to the Russian throne.
1919: Treaty of Versailles is signed; France cedes Guadeloupe, Martinique to the US. French Guiana goes to the Confederates, to US chagrin. Ottomans cede the Aegean and Cyprus to Greece, and after the discovery and documentation of the Armenian Genocide, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, Greater Armenia, Assyria (Christian state), Syria (Christian state; OTL Lebanon and southern Syria, incl. Damascus), Northern Syria, and the British Mandate of Palestine are created. Turks are expelled from Greece, and Greeks expelled from Turkey; Constantinople becomes Greece's capital and church services are held in the Hagia Sophia for the first time since 1493. Austria-Hungary breaks up: Hungary gains the Slovakian Hungarian area and the Transylvanian Hungarian area. Teschen, Sudetenland, Burgenland, German Bohemia, Southern Bohemia-Moravia, Carinthia, South Tyrol, and Marburg in Styria become Austrian, while Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia become Czechoslovakia. France loses Corsica to Italy.
1920s: US enters a boom time with returning veterans, but pension issues mar their early 20s. Harding gives way to Coolidge who halves the budget and the debt.
1929: The NYSE crashes and the US enters a Great Depression.
1932: FDR is elected, the first Democrat in over a decade. He promises to end the depression but his policies, admittedly, only worsen it.
1938: FDR's Treasury secretary publicly admits they continued Hoover's policies and those of the Federal Reserve, and they only made the Depression worse. Republicans take back control of Congress; Social Security declared unconstitutional, and many states create their own government-run pension systems in its place.
1940: Republican Vandenburg and Nary defeat FDR for a third term after his administration's corruption and soviet spies are revealed.
1941: Nary is instrumental in passing a bill to repeal the Federal Reserve; he is found dead under mysterious circumstances soon after, and a huge round-up of CFR members and bankers result in numerous convictions for complicity in the murder of the VP and the Fed's role in the depression and unjustly enriching them. While gold is still $35/oz, the Republicans repeal the remainder of the New Deal which causes the budget to reduce and the debt to go down. In December, however, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, causing the US to declare War on December 8. The Confederates are attacked on the 8th when the Japanese invade the Confederate Marianas Islands. France, Japan's ally, declares war on both the US and CS. France, Spain, and Italy form an Axis with Japan and Turkey. Poland, nominally independent from the USSR, sides with France and attacks Germany in the east to allow France's attack in the west.
1945: the US and CS finally defeat France and Japan. Europe is redrawn and Germany's royal house joins with the Hapsburgs. Briey and Belfort go to Germany; Savoys and Nice to Italy, which retains its Carthage province. Roussillon to Spain; Basque and Brittany become independent. Poland is occupied by the USSR and allies, and becomes divided into East and West Poland.
1948: Iron Curtain speech given by US President. US enters boom time and the civil rights movement finally begins helping drop the north's black codes, which had been in place since the 1870s.
1961: Warsaw Wall goes up in Warsaw, dividing and separating East and West until 1989. Civil Rights act of 1961 is passed helping black people in the north to vote unobstructed for the first time since the 1870s.
1980s: Ronald Reagan becomes President and helps lead a military build-up of US forces, leading to the fall of the USSR. Guadeloupe and Martinique have statehood movements gain steam. American Samoa is fine as it is, as are Polynesia and the Washington Islands.
1991: USSR becomes the Russian Federation; Poland reunites October 3.
1993: Russian Federation becomes the Russian Kingdom, and the monarchy is restored with a constitution based on that of the US and CS, with a Duma modeled after that of the UK Parliament.
2018: The United States is a relatively free and prosperous country, with a higher standard of living and less inflation without the Federal Reserve and having eliminated its nascent welfare state. Each state has its own unique retirement, disability, unemployment, and health savings account plans, once Social Security was declared unconstitutional. Since the 1980s, almost all were privatized except in New England, which is only now beginning to have the debate.