Iron and Steel; 20th Century AH [RE/Continuation/OOC/OPEN]

[Military Lands of the Scottish People]

Speaking of ships some time in the game want to combine our scientific minds for more navy ships, not just trade?

Sure. If this army thing pans out. I may need to quickly bomb the Irish ship building infrastructure first...jk.

. Sanabel I think we are going to be good friends in this game heh. And also, why don't we invite Ireland to our little thing going on here? I want to help your nations become emergent or atleast be able to not be miniscule and weak. Not saying you are.

[Vichtander]

Sure. If this army thing pans out. I may need to quickly bomb the Irish ship building infrastructure first...jk.

. Sanabel I think we are going to be good friends in this game heh. And also, why don't we invite Ireland to our little thing going on here? I want to help your nations become emergent or atleast be able to not be miniscule and weak. Not saying you are.

What benefits are there to this?

[Sanabel]

Sure. If this army thing pans out. I may need to quickly bomb the Irish ship building infrastructure first...jk.

. Sanabel I think we are going to be good friends in this game heh. And also, why don't we invite Ireland to our little thing going on here? I want to help your nations become emergent or atleast be able to not be miniscule and weak. Not saying you are.

Yes we will be good friends.

No, dont invite the Irish. They are my shipping competition, and that might antagonize the UK. We don't want that.

[Bolovia]

*slam fist on table* I DEMAND RUSSIA... To be reserved please.

[Military Lands of the Scottish People]

*slam fist on table* I DEMAND RUSSIA... To be reserved please.

Russia is already taken, unless you will be some kind of rebellion or living in the Kola Peninsula.

[Military Lands of the Scottish People]

. Sanabel I think we are going to be good friends in this game heh. And also, why don't we invite Ireland to our little thing going on here? I want to help your nations become emergent or atleast be able to not be miniscule and weak. Not saying you are.

Yes we will be good friends.

No, dont invite the Irish. They are my shipping competition, and that might antagonize the UK. We don't want that.

You're right. We will need to expand our little organization though to further our research.

[New Rnclave]

Full Nation Name: Emergency Government of the United States of America
SHORT Nation Name: America
National Flag: That Good 'Ol 'Murican Flag
Territory: Territroy of the United States in the prior rp, Plus Cascadia, Florida, Colorado ( No Louisiana )
Official Language(s): English, Spanish, French
Form of Government:
- De Jure: Presidential Federal Republic
- De Facto: Corrupt Fascist Dictatorship
Head of State: President James Hanna
Head of Government: President James Hanna
Capital City: Pennsylvania
Population: 88,970,000
Religion:
- De Jure: Secular
- De Facto: Protestant and Roman Catholic Majority
Army:
- Active: 130,000
- Reserve: 70,000
- Quality: The United States Army is a well trained force, led by a plethora of Generals from the Second States Rebellion, and that's where the corruption seeps in. General of the Army George Custer, a cocky, incompetent leader, remains galvanized to the ways of old, preferring massive human wave attacks, over the new advancements in Cavalry combat.
- Morale: The Army is a sad, depressing place. Most of the Officers have stuck in service since the Second States Rebellion, and have expirenced first hand the brutality that the Government and the Upper Echelons of the Military are willing to go to in order to put down rebellions. Most of the Generals are unaware of the sweeping Socialist movement within the Army and Navy...
Navy:
- Active: 50,000
- Reserve: 60,000
- Quality: The United States Navy is a strong force, one of the strongest in North America. Ships from Germany and years of experience, have ensured the Navy is the strong suit of the United States.
- Morale: The Navy is monotonous place, brought about during the Second States Rebellion. The Navy's job during the Rebellion was to blockade the region, and starve the area of resources and food. But the last 14 years have been kind to them, thanks to Navy training from Germany and German ships. Few know that almost the entire Navy is a socialist entity...
Economic Strength: The Economy of the United States has been in free-fall since 1886. It's industrial power and agricultural power are one of the few reasons the US hasn't collapsed from the inside yet. But as workers take to the streets in protest and anger, the US reenters its decline.
Infrastructure: The US has modern infrastructure, mostly thanks to the Military's harsh reconstruction program, which quickly rebuilt the nation and managed to catch it up to some European nations.
Primary Goals: Get it's house back in order, Put down the rebellion
History:
- 1810- EVen with American invervention, Quebec gains independence from the Canadian Union, Talks of invading Quebec fill the Department of War
- 1813- American soldiers leaving Canada find themselves whisked away to the Cascadian frontier, On May 13th, American soldiers enter Cascadian territory, war breaks out.
- 1815-1817- War ends with the entire annexation of Cascadia, American soldiers occupy the region for the remainder of their deployment there.
- 1845 - The United States purchases the rest of Colorado territory from Mexico, even with the purchase, tensions continue to grow between the two powers.
- 1850's - More Americans flood into Oregon territory and Colorado, Starting the assimilation process. Hispanics start to move out and into the south and other regions as well. There is a much more liberal atmosphere in Washington.
- 1861-1865- Civil War happens as IRl. John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators succeeded in assassinating President Lincoln, Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward. A period of major instability follows.
- 1871- The US purchases 21 modern destroyers and Florida from Germany, this begins the special relationship between Berlin and Washington
- 1860-1880- Industrial Revolution. Reconstruction finally ends with the final surrender of Southern rebels in May 13th, 1880.
- 1887- John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators succeeded in assassinating President Lincoln, Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward. A period of major instability followed, as Reconstruction turned into a guerrilla war which only ended in the 1880s. The unstable United States suffers from an aborted communist revolution and another attempt by the South to secede in 1887, brutally put down by the Military within a year.
- 1888- The Second Era of Reconstruction begins, led by the autocratic military. American workers, desperate for some semblance of normal life to return, work in factories as American indsutrial power grows, and so does the Military's.
- 1896-

By the Turn of the 20th Century, North America had grown immensely from even even 50 years prior. With over 100 million people, it had become the greatest industrial power in the world, the factories of the Great Lakes and Eastern Seaboard churning out goods for the new mass market living in growing cities. New farming techniques and settlements stretched far across the interior, turning it into one vast breadbasket for the hungry world. All these things had created enormous wealth, and in the gleaming new steel soarers in New York, Boston, Chicago, Toronto and other cities, the continent looked forwards to a bright and peaceful future after a turbulent century.

This was an illusion. Away from the city center, the continent roiled with conflict. Between nation and nation, race and race, class and class. Growth had given its bounty to a select few, the "gilded" men of the most democratic continent of the world. Astor, Carnegie, Esperson, Martin, Vanderbilt, the great mean of the era, wealthy beyond all measure. The wars of the last 40 years were not done either, the Second States Rebellion was almost 10 years old and already the US was on the brink of war . Mexico was still under the thumb of tyrants, and America was the same in all but name. Radical union organizers - the Federation of America Labor, the Unified Workers of the World, the Tommys, and many others - sought to end the traditional capitalist system, although how much to replace and what with were greatly debated. The United States struggled to keep the masses down after the Constitutional crisis of '93.

The United States was clearly the major power of the Continent. It had become one of the greatest industrial powers in the world, on-par with major European powers. However, with the rise of President Hanna, and the Bourbon Crew, the USA teetered on the edge of complete tyranny. New Unionism as an ideology was heavily damaged, with Theodore Roosevelt banished to the Badlands and stringent new censorship rules placed on all publications. Pinks had become a common site on city streets, their unsleeping eye a symbol of fear from the lowest beggar to the highest Industrialist. The Democratic Party was the only party remaining, opposed only by the quiescent New Unionists and increasingly by radical socialists. Hardy, Debs, Parsons may have all been in jail, but many others still remained, organizing strikes, disrupting the capitalist system, fighting in massed battles with the Pinks. And in a small hovel in Chicago, five men signed the charter for the "American Marxist Party" and plotted revolution.

- 1899-1900-

Widespread strikes and mass protests ensued in the spring and summer of 1899 as the snow began to thaw from the Union. The serious effects of the banking crash of 1898 had not alleviated within a year as President Hanna had repeatedly stated to the press, and this combined with the effective end of legal multi-party politics in the United States by 1899 pushed the situation to a crisis point. Labor strikes and violence became prominent by spring, prompting widespread fear in the ruling classes of America.

Union action led the most important and widespread disturbances in 1899. The AFL was generally uninterested in labor activism, as they had been bought out by Democratic connections, so most strikes were done by smaller unaffiliated Unions, usually under the mantle of industrial unionism. Railroad and longshoremen strikes were frequent during the year with the biggest in the fall of 1905 paralyzing the entirety of the United States for several weeks. Steelworkers across the industrial heart of America staged violent strikes demanding an increase in wages and recognition of Unions, with the city of Pittsburgh almost a war zone for several days in June. Thousands of small trade unions also struck in almost every city in the United States, if only consisting of a few men for a few days. The greatest labor unrest took place in the traditional heart of American labor unrest: the mining industry. By the fall of 1900, the Western Federation of Miners had managed to stage protests in the Rocky Mountains, and the Mine Workers of America (officially banned by order of the Federal Government in any state with a cola mining industry) had declared a mass strike. The MWA managed to ally with the Union of American Railway Workers under the banner of the Industrial Congress (an umbrella organization for unions in the Industrial unionism movement) and declared a blanket restriction on the selling of coal. Limited coal amounts were shipped on special trains was delivered to poor areas determined by local UARW and IC organizational heads. Emboldened by the Federal Government's inability to prevent this limited syndicalism, IC leaders in cities from Sacrament to New York declared a general strike as part of a popular front of leftist groups. Mass protests with demands from a limited tax decrease, to the restoration of American Political Rights and free elections, to the impeachment of the entire Hannah Administration, to the overthrow of the Capitalist System.

Pinkertons had already engaged in violent conflict with various labor groups throughout the year, in cities such as Pittsburgh and Cleveland and in the massacres of Coal Creek and Uniontown, but the mass Industrial Congress experiment with syndicalism and general strikes unleashed a wave of attacks previously unseen. Military units stationed on the Mexican frontier were moved north to act as strike breakers, which they did violently in many American cities. In several, such as New York and Detroit, IC General Strikes faded away faced with stiff resistance, if not before achieving several days success. In other areas, such as Chicago and Pittsburgh, local socialists had managed to seize several arms supplies and fought back - if poorly - engaging federal troops and Pinkertons in running street battles. Miner resistance in Colorado and Appalachia was particularly fierce, with Miner's gaining several successes against Federal troops and several towns razed.

Concurrently, the continuing deflation of the Early 20th Century and the rapid increase in agricultural output worldwide hit American farmers particularly hard. Already hurting from bad years in 1897 and 1898, American farmers organized themselves into Agrarian Parties and engaged in their own resistance to what the unresponsive and city dominated Hanna Administration. Agrarian resistance took many forms, with some simply forming cooperatives and machine collectives, but many engaged in violent attacks against what they perceived as enemies: banks, local Democratic Leaders. The ability of Agrarians to work with the IC was hampered by mutual distrust, a feeling that would become increasingly important as time went on.

The onset of snow in 1900 dampened the enthusiasm for protesting, and Federal Troops managed to regain control over most of the USA by December (with some exceptions). The damage however had already been done. Violent action had radicalized many protesters, and Communist lead movements had gained strength against those of more moderate minded socialists. Violent Anarchists active on the East Coast had assassinated several important city leaders, and more philosophically minded anarcho-syndicalists had begun to work on how to organize the next round of syndics for the production of what they saw as the coming war. IC leaders had been arrested en mass, allowing smaller groups lower in the IC, like the American Marxist Party to seize control in the secret "Emergency Congress" of December. Thousands of Democratic Party Offices had been destroyed and burned by protesters, shaking the confidence of the Democratic Regime, and an untold number of suspected Pinkerton Agents had been lynched (or even tarred and feathered) in the streets of America.

As President Hannah prepared to resign in favor of a "Grand Coalition" comprised mostly of New Unionist Leaders, an action which split the IC in a moderate and radical camp, one thing was clear: the alumnus snows in Washington may have turned the city a comfortable peaceful white, but a second revolution was coming to the USA.

RP Example: Bottom of the Page, posted by New Neros

[Bolovia]

*slam fist on table* I DEMAND RUSSIA... To be reserved please.

Russia is already taken, unless you will be some kind of rebellion or living in the Kola Peninsula.

Someone told me that it was all open but those provinces, so now it's not open? Sorry for my confusion.

[Sanabel]

Russia is already taken, unless you will be some kind of rebellion or living in the Kola Peninsula.

Someone told me that it was all open but those provinces, so now it's not open? Sorry for my confusion.

It hasn't been. Sorry for the confusion. But we need a Burma/Thailand, lots of Arabia is open, Ethiopia is open(plus like half of Africa), as is Central Asia(despite the map) and Colombia. A cool White Russian rump state in central Asia would be cool...like if it was taken over after the collapse of the Persians. Idk. There are some options, tho. Oh and Scotland.

[Bolovia]

Someone told me that it was all open but those provinces, so now it's not open? Sorry for my confusion.

It hasn't been. Sorry for the confusion. But we need a Burma/Thailand, lots of Arabia is open, Ethiopia is open(plus like half of Africa), as is Central Asia(despite the map) and Colombia. A cool White Russian rump state in central Asia would be cool...like if it was taken over after the collapse of the Persians. Idk. There are some options, tho. Oh and Scotland.

Might do that white Russia rump state, could I use what's left of Persia and Central Asia to create it?

[The Danish Confederacy]

It hasn't been. Sorry for the confusion. But we need a Burma/Thailand, lots of Arabia is open, Ethiopia is open(plus like half of Africa), as is Central Asia(despite the map) and Colombia. A cool White Russian rump state in central Asia would be cool...like if it was taken over after the collapse of the Persians. Idk. There are some options, tho. Oh and Scotland.

Might do that white Russia rump state, could I use what's left of Persia and Central Asia to create it?

You can always take Denmark-Norway.

[Sanabel]

Might do that white Russia rump state, could I use what's left of Persia and Central Asia to create it?

You can always take Denmark-Norway.

Wat

[Sanabel]

It hasn't been. Sorry for the confusion. But we need a Burma/Thailand, lots of Arabia is open, Ethiopia is open(plus like half of Africa), as is Central Asia(despite the map) and Colombia. A cool White Russian rump state in central Asia would be cool...like if it was taken over after the collapse of the Persians. Idk. There are some options, tho. Oh and Scotland.

Might do that white Russia rump state, could I use what's left of Persia and Central Asia to create it?

Idk why not. You could always app.

[Bolovia]

Might do that white Russia rump state, could I use what's left of Persia and Central Asia to create it?

You can always take Denmark-Norway.

I thought that was taken by you? Btw, is Sweden and Finland open?

[New Decius]

Sure. If this army thing pans out. I may need to quickly bomb the Irish ship building infrastructure first...jk.

. Sanabel I think we are going to be good friends in this game heh. And also, why don't we invite Ireland to our little thing going on here? I want to help your nations become emergent or atleast be able to not be miniscule and weak. Not saying you are.

I will have supreme naval might in the 30's and 40's due to the fact that unlike Hitler, I will be starting Plan Z when it was supposed to have.

You can always take Denmark-Norway.

Wat

Come again

[Vichtander]

Someone told me that it was all open but those provinces, so now it's not open? Sorry for my confusion.

It hasn't been. Sorry for the confusion. But we need a Burma/Thailand, lots of Arabia is open, Ethiopia is open(plus like half of Africa), as is Central Asia(despite the map) and Colombia. A cool White Russian rump state in central Asia would be cool...like if it was taken over after the collapse of the Persians. Idk. There are some options, tho. Oh and Scotland.

Scotland is already taken. It is included in The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is comprised of England, Wales, and Scotland while Northern Ireland is on the island of Ireland. Thats right, England and Britain are not the same thing.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

It hasn't been. Sorry for the confusion. But we need a Burma/Thailand, lots of Arabia is open, Ethiopia is open(plus like half of Africa), as is Central Asia(despite the map) and Colombia. A cool White Russian rump state in central Asia would be cool...like if it was taken over after the collapse of the Persians. Idk. There are some options, tho. Oh and Scotland.

Scotland is already taken. It is included in The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is comprised of England, Wales, and Scotland while Northern Ireland is on the island of Ireland. Thats right, England and Britain are not the same thing.

But look at the map. Scotland isn't taken. You should check some things first, before going into full fact-rage mode.

[Vichtander]

Scotland is already taken. It is included in The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is comprised of England, Wales, and Scotland while Northern Ireland is on the island of Ireland. Thats right, England and Britain are not the same thing.

But look at the map. Scotland isn't taken. You should check some things first, before going into full fact-rage mode.

It was just a slip up by the host I'm suspecting. There was no rage, just geography.

[Soviet Chernarus]

But look at the map. Scotland isn't taken. You should check some things first, before going into full fact-rage mode.

It was just a slip up by the host I'm suspecting. There was no rage, just geography.

Not a slip-up. Scotland is independent...

[Sanabel]

But look at the map. Scotland isn't taken. You should check some things first, before going into full fact-rage mode.

It was just a slip up by the host I'm suspecting. There was no rage, just geography.

Different timeline. Netherlands and England united then split, not with Scotland.

[Sanabel]

You can always take Denmark-Norway.

I thought that was taken by you? Btw, is Sweden and Finland open?

I think someone is apping it. Idk.

[Soviet Chernarus]

You can always take Denmark-Norway.

I thought that was taken by you? Btw, is Sweden and Finland open?

Both are open.

[Sanabel]

. Sanabel I think we are going to be good friends in this game heh. And also, why don't we invite Ireland to our little thing going on here? I want to help your nations become emergent or atleast be able to not be miniscule and weak. Not saying you are.

I will have supreme naval might in the 30's and 40's due to the fact that unlike Hitler, I will be starting Plan Z when it was supposed to have.

Wat

Come again

This is alt history. Nothing is set in stone. Iberia could surpass you theoretically, though unlikely.

[New Decius]

I will have supreme naval might in the 30's and 40's due to the fact that unlike Hitler, I will be starting Plan Z when it was supposed to have.





Come again

This is alt history. Nothing is set in stone. Iberia could surpass you theoretically, though unlikely.

Unlikely due to Germany also having the technological naval superiority of said time.

[Vichtander]

It was just a slip up by the host I'm suspecting. There was no rage, just geography.

Not a slip-up. Scotland is independent...

Okay then. On another point, is my app accepted?