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Before the United States defeat in the Second Mexican War, military service was voluntary. Afterwards, it adopted Prussian methods of conscription in both peace and wartime. In addition, U.S. officers began attending German military academies to learn German military doctrine. Sometime between the Second Mexican War and the Great War, U.S. military uniforms were changed from dark blue to green-gray. The uniforms of the U.S., German, and Austro-Hungarian armies were similar in color, design, and cut, differing in rank insignia. Officer's rank insignia were unchanged from the War of Secession. During the Great War, 'coalscuttle' helmets were adopted, based on the recommendations of then-Colonel Irving Morrel. They were later adopted by the German Army, and during the Second Great War, the Confederate Army adopted a model very similar to them. Medals included the Purple Heart (for wounds), the Remembrance Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Medal of Honor. Civilians could receive the Order of Remembrance, First and Second Classes. When the Second Great War erupted, the United States Army retained its policy of how to treat of civilians in occupied territory the First Great War. Executing hostages was a policy which had been in force since the Great War. Towards the end of the war, twenty-five civilian hostages from a nearby town would be shot for every U.S. soldier killed, and one hundred for each use of a car bomb. During Morrell's drive to the sea several towns were wiped out, and their populaces murdered without warning, despite next to no Confederate resistance. This war of terror was waged with the goal of teaching the Confederate populace never to oppose the United States government again. In the case of South Carolina, in particular, the U.S. forces, aware of its role in the War of Secession, had no sympathy at all for the state. As the war went on, camouflaging efforts by both sides became more extensive. For example, the Union supply depots run by Major Dover were well-camouflaged from the air; a dummy supply post, deliberately less well-camouflaged, was placed nearby. This worked against air strikes. General Morrell used dummy tanks, smoke, false gas shells, and recordings of gunfire and troop movements to paralyze Confederate forces in Kentucky during the amphibious crossing of the Ohio River in 1943. In one case, a United States destroyer escort, the USS Josephus Daniels, was made out to be a Confederate destroyer escort, the CSS Hot Springs, and used to delivered munitions to rebels in Cuba. At the beginning of the Great War, there were 33 states in the Union. The State of Dakota covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of North Dakota and South Dakota, and the State of New Mexico covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of Arizona and New Mexico. At the conclusion of the Great War, the United States grew by two. A pro-United States legislature in Kentucky voted to rejoin the Union in 1916 and West Texas with its capital at Lubbock, in 1917. In addition, Virginia, Sonora, and Arkansas which were occupied by U.S. forces at the time of the Armistice were incorporated into West Virginia, New Mexico, and Missouri respectively. The Confederate state of Sequoyah was also annexed. The territory lost by Maine to Canada was rejoined to the state. The Sandwich Islands, Canada, Newfoundland, the Bahamas, and Bermuda all became U.S. territories. The Mormons of Utah attempted during the Great War to secede and form their own nation, but were suppressed in 1916. They tried again in 1941, and were again suppressed. Following the Richmond Agreement of 1940 between Presidents Al Smith of the U.S. and Jake Featherston of the Confederacy, voting was held in Kentucky, Houston, and Sequoyah; the former two states voted to rejoin the Confederacy. Sequoyah, possibly due to a large number of settlers from the USA, decided to remain in the Union. In 1943, the U.S. announced plans to revive Houston, as well as readmitting Kentucky and Tennessee to the Union following the advances towards Georgia and east Texas. After the Second Great War ends in 1944, the United States divides the defeated Confederacy into a number of Military Administrative Zones and announces that all former Confederate States will eventually be returned to the USA. Washington, D.C., remained the de jure capital of the United States, but its proximity to the Confederate States made governing impractical from there. Philadelphia is the functional capital of the United States. The Powel House is the home of the President. A side-effect is that Washingtonians are granted to have a representative of their own in Congress (unlike in our timeline). During the period of U.S. occupation in the Second Great War when the Confederacy was returned to the Union in 1944, the Union State Police were, in effect, the countries secret police force, aimed at suppressing Confederate rebels and neutralizing threats to the country. The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 which dealt with the resolutions of international conflict and the conduct of war. An international court sat at The Hague, in the Netherlands. Practically, however, because of the distance between the Netherlands and North America, and far more importantly, as in our timeline, because the tribunal lacked any coercive power, the conduct of war and the treatment of captives were tempered only by the fear of retaliation. The United States adopted the German tactic of hostage execution in occupied lands (in our timeline, this was not covered by the 1907 Hague Convention). This practice continued during the Second Great War. Civilian snipers were executed on the spot. Confederates occupying the United States treated civilians harshly, and U.S. soldiers occupying the Confederacy executed rebels in areas where U.S. soldiers were killed by civilians. This led to a proclamation by the Freedom Party that U.S. soldiers who executed rebels that supported the Confederacy would not be treated as prisoners of war. After the occupation of Canada and Newfoundland, the existing government was abolished and the U.S. governed the gained territories. The Occupation Administrative Code served as the basic law of the land. It provided courts for civilians, and allowed the use of confidential informants to provide evidence, but also allowed for defense counsel of the defendant's choosing, and in many cases charges could be dropped or penalties reduces based on exculpatory evidence. During the occupation of the former Confederate States following the unconditional surrender of July 1944, the Confederate national government was abolished, but state and local governments remained in place to carry out directives from U.S. military governors. Hospitals tended to be respected by all belligerents in the Great War; in the Second Great War, the Confederates in some cases used ambulances to transport President Featherston and assumed that similar abuses went on behind U.S. lines. Prisoners of war were treated relatively well during the Great Wars. As per the 1907 Hague Convention in this timeline, there were conventions both sides followed. Attempted escape could be punished by the captors; however, prisoners who escaped and reached their own lines could not be punished for the escape. The Geneva Convention was generally followed by the U.S., as U.S. soldiers’ state, "We follow the Geneva Convention. We play fair with prisoners." Privileges of POWs included the ability to write home on occasion. The United States, however, provided more amenities, such as wireless sets, to Confederate prisoners than the minimal amenities provided in Confederate POW camps such as Andersonville, Georgia. Civilian prisoners were exchanged between the U.S. and the Confederacy in both the Great War and the Second Great War. The United States had some form of rationing from sometime after the Second Mexican War until the victory in the Second Great War. During the Great Wars, kerosene, food and coal was rationed; this extended to the U.S. Occupied Territories of Canada. Despite the official hostility between the United States and the Confederate States, however, trade between the two nations continued. U.S. manufactured goods and automobiles, such as the Ford Model T, were sold in the Confederate States, and Confederate agricultural goods, such as cattle, cottonseed oil cakes, and tobacco, were sold in the U.S. During the hyper-inflation of the early 1920s, U.S. currency was itself a commodity to be sold to the south. During the Great War and the Second Great War, informal trading between the two armies went on despite official efforts to stop it. Confederate tobacco products were traded for U.S. Army rations. United States canned ham was the most popular item Yankees traded; Duke Cigarettes and coffee were traded in return. Abolitionist books such as Uncle Tom's Cabin were banned in the Confederacy for its independence. Both sides censored the radio and press during the Great War and the Second Great War; however, the Confederate Featherston administration also censored incoming material from the United States, including Superman comics. Confederate blacks who had been fighting as guerrillas during the War were recruited as auxiliary soldiers by the United States Army in occupied Confederate territory. They were issued rifles, wore at U.S. Army uniforms, with an armband in red, white, and blue with the legend "USA". As the auxiliaries were better organized, they were issued helmets. They were also given the U.S. Army dress uniform. The proximity of the United States to the Confederate States, and the use of a common language, made intelligence gathering efforts easy for both sides. For example, in the Confederate occupation of Washington, D.C. during the Great War, the U.S. was able to develop a network of civilian agents that routinely reported intelligence back to Philadelphia and to perform various acts of sabotage. Between the wars, visits by U.S. warships to Confederate ports, commercial travel, and aviation became means of gathering detailed information. The Union intelligence service was offensively-oriented, however also emphasized counter-intelligence. The Second Great War saw the development of special operations conducted by other than regular forces. The Union developed a unit of men who wore Confederate uniforms and spoke with 'Southern' accents to disrupt Confederate defenses in Ohio. On the 1943 crossing of the Tennessee River, when the U.S. 133rd Special Reconnaissance Company, dressed in Confederate uniforms, caused sufficient confusion for General Morrell's army to seize a bridgehead. In addition to these special operations, the United States Marine Corps and Navy mounted special raids on the Confederate coastline. In our timeline, the game of baseball was played by soldiers in both armies during the latter years of the Civil War, and became a national sport when those soldiers took it home with them after the war. Since the war ended in 1862, baseball never achieved the status of a national sport in this timeline. It was played as a regional sport in New England and New York. Football is the dominant sport of both the Confederacy and the United States. It is played during Christmas between the two armies. The U.S. rules allowed the introduction of the forward pass before the Great War; the Confederacy adopted the forward pass after the war. A nation-wide professional league was formed in the U.S. in the 1920s. Semi-pro and minor-league teams were common, such as the Toledo Mud Hens. California's leagues, which included teams such as the Los Angeles Dons, the Portland Columbias, and the Seattle Sharks. The United States tried, and failed, twice to host the Summer Games. In 1928, the U.S. attempted to have the Games in Los Angeles, but Berlin was selected instead. Los Angeles was also the base of the U.S. bid for the 1936 Games, but again, it lost, this time to Richmond. The Japanese raid on Los Angeles in 1932 may have had an impact on the final decision, which came in 1933. The wireless became a key cultural tie in the period between the two Great Wars. Broadcasting networks spanned North America. It can be inferred from "The Grapple" that U.S. and Confederate broadcasters use a channel separation of 10 kHz instead of the 9 kHz used in Europe and Asia. Once war began, both sides used jamming equipment to inhibit each other's broadcasts that could be heard in the other's territory. Broadcasting involved propaganda for the war effort, sports, crime, and local news filled time at stations away from the front lines. Movies were also a means of mass entertainment in this timeline. United States movie studios were in Hollywood. The Broadway revue and Broadway musical also developed in this timeline. "O, Sequoyah!" was released in 1943 and became a hit musical. The United States comic book Superman was popular in both countries, despite its official banning by the Confederate government. The airplane was invented in the United States; the need to produce other sorts of weapons prevented an indigenous U.S. design during the early years of the Great War. The principal U.S. scout/fighter was the Wright, (it looks like out timelines German Albatros fighter) and they also used the Sopwith Camel. U.S. aircraft were marked with an eagle in front of two crossed swords. Despite the short distances between major cities in the U.S. and the Confederacy, the U.S. developed several long-range bombers between the wars. Plus bomber development for use back home focused on increased bomb load and armament. This proved to be a advantage in the Pacific War and during the Second Great War with Japan. Richmond was raided routinely in both the Great War and the Second Great War, incurring heavy damage; while Philadelphia was also raided its advanced air defense systems protected it from any serious damage. New York could be reached by bombers with more fuel and less payload, and was less damaged. In the West, U.S. bombers based in Clovis, New Mexico, caused massive amounts of damage to Dallas and Fort Worth in 1942 in daylight raids. The Confederacy mounted a one-way raid on the United States nuclear facilities in Hanford, Washington, from air bases in Texas, Sonora, and Chihuahua; the planes, however, required a light bomb load, caused little to no damage and had to be ditched. The United States tactical bomber aircraft during the Second Great War included the B-17 Flying Fortress, Avro Lancaster, B-29 Superfortress, B-24 Liberator, P-61 Black Widow and the DH Mosquito. The P-51 Mustang, the P-40 Tomahawk, Spitfire XVI, and the F6F Hellcat were the main US single seat fighters. Union planes had superior firepower and performance, as well as reliability. The U.S. also used the Me-109 and the Me-110 in which both claimed 928 victories. The Ju-87 Stuka was a bomber and fighter developed by the Confederacy. It made a terrifying whine as it swooped down to attack targets, and was effective during the invasion of Ohio. However, U.S. fighters and anti-aircraft guns showed the Stuka's vulnerabilities. The PBY Catalina was a United States Navy amphibious reconnaissance plane. In the third year of the Second Great War, the United States introduced fighter-bombers, fighter craft with attached bombs and rockets. These new planes largely supplanted earlier dive bombers, and provided brutally effective air support. The main U.S. fighter bomber was the P-47 Thunderbolt which is described as being armed with a mix of several cannons, machine guns, and missiles. In mid-1943, the United States began introducing jet-propelled fighters. These models included the P80-B Shooting Stars, F2H-2 Cutlass, F-86 Saber, the Dassault Mirage III, the Union Electric Lightning, the F-15 Eagle, and the F-35 Lightning II. The code name for the development of a mobile armored vehicle by the U.S. during the Great War was “tank”. The United States led the way in tank development during both Great Wars. After the War, the various Tank Works were established across the country under the command of Colonel Irving Morrell. The Confederacy did not openly develop tanks until the Featherstone Administration. However, Confederate volunteers with the Mexican Imperial forces gained operational experience using tanks. The US tanks of the Second Great War were the first to sport sloping armor. The Union used sloping armor, on their tanks which were equipped with a heavy 75 mm cannon, making them the most powerful tanks yet deployed. The C.S.A. Mark II upgrade was an attempt to hold back superior Union tanks and tank formations while a new, more powerful, barrel could be built. While both sides use different caliber rounds for their rifles, both sides' tanks use M2 Browning machine guns, most likely on their turrets. Union tanks include the Panzer III, Panzer IV, T-34, M4 Sherman, Panther Tank, Valentine Mk II, and IS-2, the IS-3, M-48 Patton, M24 Chaffee, and the Churchill tank, the Centurion Mk. 3 Tank, the KV1 1942 Heavy Tank, the Tiger II, the Sherman Firefly, the SU-100, the SU-152, and the Comet Tank. Armored vehicles used by the Union include the Daimler Armored Car Mk. II, the T-20 armored tractor, the LVT Amtrak, the M3 Half-Track, the M3 GMC, the M7 Priest, the M8 Greyhound, the M18 Hellcat, the M40 GMC, the Marmon-Herrington Armored Car, the T17 Armored Car, and the Bren Gun Carrier. This new development known as “tank busters”, implemented in 1943, started as a Union solution to support U.S. tank formations. Union tank busters are superb at killing tanks at any range and with single hits. It was speculated that the C.S.A. would have begin production of their own, to maximize armored presence on the battlefield. Union tank busters include the Sturm III, the ISU-122, ISU-152, the M36, and the M10 Tank Destroyer. The M1903 Springfield rifle of the Great War was in use throughout Great War II, it was shortened and modernized. The M1 Garand and the Lee-Enfield Mk. 3 is also used by the U.S. Army. In the GWII, Union forces also wield M2 Carbines, Thompson 1928s, and M3 Grease Guns. The BAR or Browning Auto Rifle is also used. It is clearly stated that the Confederate as well as the Union sidearm was the Colt M1911. The Union also used the Winchester Model 12 shotgun. During the Second Mexican War, the U.S. experimented with Gatling guns. A Gatling gun unit commanded by George Custer stopped the British invasion of Montana in 1882. Both the U.S. and the Confederacy used machine guns with great effect in the Great War. The U.S. used the Maxim, and later in the Great War deployed the Browning Automatic Rifles which were deployed as light machine guns by US forces during the Great Wars. The Springfield 1903 rifle and M1 Garand rifle remained the main infantry weapon of the U.S. Army in both the Great War and the Second Great war. The Springfield is a bolt-action rifle with a 5-round clip. These rifles were later supplemented by Thompson submachine guns, "big, brutal, and Made in the USA" sometime in late 1943. The M-14 with a 20-round magazine and the PPSH-41 with a 35 and 71 round drum magazines were main weapons of the Union Army during the Second Great War. These were popular weapon with US troops, due to their overall superiority to bolt-action weapons. Union troops also used submachine guns to supplement their automatic rifles. The Union machine gun described as firing so fast it sounded like "a giant tearing a sail in half", which is the MG 42. The USA also uses the M1919A4 Browning machine gun. The USA and CSA are equipped both equipped with M2 Browning machine guns. The U.S. and Confederate Armies used different caliber ammunition for their weapons. The principal cannon of the Confederate Army during the Great Wars were the 75 mm howitzers used by the French Army. The Confederate army also used a 100 mm howitzer. Infantry units started using 66 mm mortars in the Great War. The Union army also used 105mm and 107mm mortars during the Second Great War. Another notable mortar used by the Union was the NBW-40 which was a 105mm mortar. The U.S. army used various artillery pieces which include the SIG 33 artillery gun, the SFH 18, the Ordnance QF 25 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 17 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 6 Pounder Mk.2, the PAK 44, the PAK 43, the PAK 41, the D-1 Howitzer, the M-30 Howitzer, the ML-20 Howitzer, the M1919 Coastal Gun, the M3 90mm Dual-Purpose Artillery Gun, the 155mm Long Tom, the GPF 155mm Cannon, the M101 Howitzer, the M1 240mm Howitzer, the M114 Howitzer, the M115 Howitzer, the BL 7.2-inch Howitzer Mk.1, the BL 5.5-inch Medium Gun, the BL 4.5-Inch Medium Gun, and the Flak 88mm Artillery Gun. Both the U.S. and Confederacy used poison gas in both the Great War and the Second Great War, including blister agents, blood agents, and nerve agents, which required soldiers to get into chemical protective suits. A Molotov cocktail is used by the Union army and is composed of gasoline in a bottle, lit by a cloth wick, and thrown at armored vehicles from close range. The U.S. is one of the first nations to introduce the portable flamethrower, first using it in 1915 against Confederate auxiliaries and rebels in Utah. The models include the M2 flamethrower and the Flamethrower-41. The unique nature of the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river system led to the development of specialized naval vessels to fight on these rivers. The United States river gunboat carried two 150 mm guns, cannons, machine guns, and grenade launchers which could be used to attack both other ships or enemy forts and ground positions. The Great Lakes provided both a defensive shield for Canada and the United States, and a chance to attack each other. On the Great Lakes, both the United States and Canada had Great Lake battleships, which were armored cruisers. The Union used them in the defense of New York during the Great War; Canada intended theirs to be war-winning weapons but mines and submarines quickly put that idea to rest. The United States developed the first aircraft carrier, the USS Remembrance. This ship first sailed in 1920 and assisted the Irish government in suppressing a pro-British rebellion in Ulster. The Remembrance was only the first of many U.S. aircraft carriers. During the Great War, the two principal missions for navies were to project power overseas and to protect or disrupt enemy commerce. The United States attacked the British forts at Pearl Harbor in the Sandwich Islands in 1914 and held these islands subsequently. The battleship was the primary weapon of all belligerent navies. The Battle of the Three Navies was the biggest battle in the War, between the U.S., British, and Japanese Navies, and proved to be a draw. Disruption of enemy commerce, protection of friendly merchant ships, and the destruction of enemy ships was the function of both the submarine and surface ships. Both the Quadruple Alliance and the Entente patrolled the Atlantic, which accelerated the development of convoys to protect merchantmen and specific anti-submarine tactics and weapons, such as Q-ships and depth charge projectors. However, with the oceans open to both sides, surface ships were able to disrupt enemy commerce. Confederate President Gabriel Semmes remarked that the difficulties of obtaining supplies from the Entente made defeat more possible. The entry of the Brazilian Empire on the side of the Quadruple Alliance led to the final disruption of Argentine food shipments to Great Britain, resulting in the armistice at sea in 1917. A third mission of navies was to provide supplies to rebels and guerrilla forces fighting enemy nations. In the Great War, the U.S. supplied rifles and machine guns to Ireland; the Pacific War was triggered by the U.S. discovery of Japanese supplies to British Columbia. New technologies were developed during the years between the Great War and the Pacific War. The aircraft carrier and the radar developed into a mature technology with the Union leading in the race. All of the powers had radar of one sort or another. To fight the submarine, sonar was used which was the term used for underwater sound equipment. The North Atlantic was the site of a large-scale naval battle in 1943 between the United States and the Royal and French Navies. The U.S. won the battle, enabling forces to land and recapture Bermuda from the British. As in the War of Secession, the Confederate navy was small, and in the War of 1941 was primarily focused on coastal defense. By the time of the Second Great War, their heaviest ships were four battlecruisers. The CSA made heavy use out of cruisers, commerce raiders, and submarines to try to damage US shipping and combat formations. Confederate coastal defenses weren’t strong enough to ward off US raids, and so the US was able to capture various parts of the coast during the Great Wars. The Union was the first state to consider rockets in war, based on a paper presented to President Robert Taft by the Huntsville Rocket Association. Union scientists invented the antitank rocket, such as the Bazooka, the M67 Recoilless Rifle, L6 Wombat, and the Panzerschreck. Rocket artillery, known as the BM-13, BM-31, and the T34 Calliope, and were also first used in by the Union Army. Finally, V-2 ballistic missiles were used as against C.S. cities, military bases and troops. U.S. fighter-bombers also mounted rockets to attack tanks when in the antitank role; however it was also useful to attack ground targets. A notable ground attack aircraft used by the Union is the Ilyushin II-2 due to number of tanks it destroyed. The German Empire was the first state suspected of having a program to develop fission bombs. Prominent scientists, such as Albert Einstein, disappeared from public view and papers on nuclear fission vanished after the Otto Hahn experiment on fission. The United States' nuclear program was based at the Hanford site in Washington State and at the Denver site. The program was supervised by the Assistant Secretary of War, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Confederate nuclear program began in 1943, when intelligence indicated the U.S. was developing the facilities to separate uranium-235 from -238. The Union program was able to start a self-sustaining nuclear reaction at the program at Hanford in Washington State, in 1943. In addition to uranium, the Union also succeeded in creating plutonium and neptunium. The one in Denver then started research on hydrogen bombs. The Confederates, fearing that the U.S. program was far ahead of theirs, launched an airstrike on the U.S. facilities in Hanford in 1943, causing little damage. A counterstrike by the U.S. on the Confederate program in the summer of 1943 killed three scientists key to the program, and maimed another. By 1944, Germany, the United States, Great Britain, and the Confederate States all built nuclear weapons, termed atom bombs. Germany used five in total, against the following locales: Petrograd, Paris, London, Norwich, and Brighton. The United States used two, against Newport News and Charleston. Britain used one against Hamburg, then had a second one intercepted and destroyed in Belgium. The Confederate bomb was to be used against Philadelphia; however the plane was intercepted and destroyed. After the Confederate surrender, Union scientist Henderson Belmont briefly discusses the creation of hydrogen bombs with US General Abner Dowling, saying that he wouldn't be surprised if they were perfected within the next 4-5 years. The United States of America Declared the Union to Be Whole Once More and the Confederate States of America Has Been Dissolved. The United States was no longer about freedom, democracy, and human rights. It was about conquest, domination, and economic and military might. This had led to a America governed by military rule, corporations focused and developing military weapons, and generals that had won many battles in face of a deadly enemy. This rule had lead to communism as the Socialist States of America or the SSA.

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MY HISTORY FOOLS!!!

American Empire-Southern Victory Series
Before the United States defeat in the Second Mexican War, military service was voluntary. Afterwards, it adopted Prussian methods of conscription in both peace and wartime. In addition, U.S. officers began attending German military academies to learn German military doctrine. Sometime between the Second Mexican War and the Great War, U.S. military uniforms were changed from dark blue to green-gray. The uniforms of the U.S., German, and Austro-Hungarian armies were similar in color, design, and cut, differing in rank insignia. Officer's rank insignia were unchanged from the War of Secession. During the Great War, 'coalscuttle' helmets were adopted, based on the recommendations of then-Colonel Irving Morrel. They were later adopted by the German Army, and during the Second Great War, the Confederate Army adopted a model very similar to them. Medals included the Purple Heart (for wounds), the Remembrance Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Medal of Honor. Civilians could receive the Order of Remembrance, First and Second Classes. When the Second Great War erupted, the United States Army retained its policy of how to treat of civilians in occupied territory the First Great War. Executing hostages was a policy which had been in force since the Great War. Towards the end of the war, twenty-five civilian hostages from a nearby town would be shot for every U.S. soldier killed, and one hundred for each use of a car bomb. During Morrell's drive to the sea several towns were wiped out, and their populaces murdered without warning, despite next to no Confederate resistance. This war of terror was waged with the goal of teaching the Confederate populace never to oppose the United States government again. In the case of South Carolina, in particular, the U.S. forces, aware of its role in the War of Secession, had no sympathy at all for the state. As the war went on, camouflaging efforts by both sides became more extensive. For example, the Union supply depots run by Major Dover were well-camouflaged from the air; a dummy supply post, deliberately less well-camouflaged, was placed nearby. This worked against air strikes. General Morrell used dummy tanks, smoke, false gas shells, and recordings of gunfire and troop movements to paralyze Confederate forces in Kentucky during the amphibious crossing of the Ohio River in 1943. In one case, a United States destroyer escort, the USS Josephus Daniels, was made out to be a Confederate destroyer escort, the CSS Hot Springs, and used to delivered munitions to rebels in Cuba. At the beginning of the Great War, there were 33 states in the Union. The State of Dakota covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of North Dakota and South Dakota, and the State of New Mexico covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of Arizona and New Mexico. At the conclusion of the Great War, the United States grew by two. A pro-United States legislature in Kentucky voted to rejoin the Union in 1916 and West Texas with its capital at Lubbock, in 1917. In addition, Virginia, Sonora, and Arkansas which were occupied by U.S. forces at the time of the Armistice were incorporated into West Virginia, New Mexico, and Missouri respectively. The Confederate state of Sequoyah was also annexed. The territory lost by Maine to Canada was rejoined to the state. The Sandwich Islands, Canada, Newfoundland, the Bahamas, and Bermuda all became U.S. territories. The Mormons of Utah attempted during the Great War to secede and form their own nation, but were suppressed in 1916. They tried again in 1941, and were again suppressed. Following the Richmond Agreement of 1940 between Presidents Al Smith of the U.S. and Jake Featherston of the Confederacy, voting was held in Kentucky, Houston, and Sequoyah; the former two states voted to rejoin the Confederacy. Sequoyah, possibly due to a large number of settlers from the USA, decided to remain in the Union. In 1943, the U.S. announced plans to revive Houston, as well as readmitting Kentucky and Tennessee to the Union following the advances towards Georgia and east Texas. After the Second Great War ends in 1944, the United States divides the defeated Confederacy into a number of Military Administrative Zones and announces that all former Confederate States will eventually be returned to the USA. Washington, D.C., remained the de jure capital of the United States, but its proximity to the Confederate States made governing impractical from there. Philadelphia is the functional capital of the United States. The Powel House is the home of the President. A side-effect is that Washingtonians are granted to have a representative of their own in Congress (unlike in our timeline). During the period of U.S. occupation in the Second Great War when the Confederacy was returned to the Union in 1944, the Union State Police were, in effect, the countries secret police force, aimed at suppressing Confederate rebels and neutralizing threats to the country. The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 which dealt with the resolutions of international conflict and the conduct of war. An international court sat at The Hague, in the Netherlands. Practically, however, because of the distance between the Netherlands and North America, and far more importantly, as in our timeline, because the tribunal lacked any coercive power, the conduct of war and the treatment of captives were tempered only by the fear of retaliation. The United States adopted the German tactic of hostage execution in occupied lands (in our timeline, this was not covered by the 1907 Hague Convention). This practice continued during the Second Great War. Civilian snipers were executed on the spot. Confederates occupying the United States treated civilians harshly, and U.S. soldiers occupying the Confederacy executed rebels in areas where U.S. soldiers were killed by civilians. This led to a proclamation by the Freedom Party that U.S. soldiers who executed rebels that supported the Confederacy would not be treated as prisoners of war. After the occupation of Canada and Newfoundland, the existing government was abolished and the U.S. governed the gained territories. The Occupation Administrative Code served as the basic law of the land. It provided courts for civilians, and allowed the use of confidential informants to provide evidence, but also allowed for defense counsel of the defendant's choosing, and in many cases charges could be dropped or penalties reduces based on exculpatory evidence. During the occupation of the former Confederate States following the unconditional surrender of July 1944, the Confederate national government was abolished, but state and local governments remained in place to carry out directives from U.S. military governors. Hospitals tended to be respected by all belligerents in the Great War; in the Second Great War, the Confederates in some cases used ambulances to transport President Featherston and assumed that similar abuses went on behind U.S. lines. Prisoners of war were treated relatively well during the Great Wars. As per the 1907 Hague Convention in this timeline, there were conventions both sides followed. Attempted escape could be punished by the captors; however, prisoners who escaped and reached their own lines could not be punished for the escape. The Geneva Convention was generally followed by the U.S., as U.S. soldiers’ state, "We follow the Geneva Convention. We play fair with prisoners." Privileges of POWs included the ability to write home on occasion. The United States, however, provided more amenities, such as wireless sets, to Confederate prisoners than the minimal amenities provided in Confederate POW camps such as Andersonville, Georgia. Civilian prisoners were exchanged between the U.S. and the Confederacy in both the Great War and the Second Great War. The United States had some form of rationing from sometime after the Second Mexican War until the victory in the Second Great War. During the Great Wars, kerosene, food and coal was rationed; this extended to the U.S. Occupied Territories of Canada. Despite the official hostility between the United States and the Confederate States, however, trade between the two nations continued. U.S. manufactured goods and automobiles, such as the Ford Model T, were sold in the Confederate States, and Confederate agricultural goods, such as cattle, cottonseed oil cakes, and tobacco, were sold in the U.S. During the hyper-inflation of the early 1920s, U.S. currency was itself a commodity to be sold to the south. During the Great War and the Second Great War, informal trading between the two armies went on despite official efforts to stop it. Confederate tobacco products were traded for U.S. Army rations. United States canned ham was the most popular item Yankees traded; Duke Cigarettes and coffee were traded in return. Abolitionist books such as Uncle Tom's Cabin were banned in the Confederacy for its independence. Both sides censored the radio and press during the Great War and the Second Great War; however, the Confederate Featherston administration also censored incoming material from the United States, including Superman comics. Confederate blacks who had been fighting as guerrillas during the War were recruited as auxiliary soldiers by the United States Army in occupied Confederate territory. They were issued rifles, wore at U.S. Army uniforms, with an armband in red, white, and blue with the legend "USA". As the auxiliaries were better organized, they were issued helmets. They were also given the U.S. Army dress uniform. The proximity of the United States to the Confederate States, and the use of a common language, made intelligence gathering efforts easy for both sides. For example, in the Confederate occupation of Washington, D.C. during the Great War, the U.S. was able to develop a network of civilian agents that routinely reported intelligence back to Philadelphia and to perform various acts of sabotage. Between the wars, visits by U.S. warships to Confederate ports, commercial travel, and aviation became means of gathering detailed information. The Union intelligence service was offensively-oriented, however also emphasized counter-intelligence. The Second Great War saw the development of special operations conducted by other than regular forces. The Union developed a unit of men who wore Confederate uniforms and spoke with 'Southern' accents to disrupt Confederate defenses in Ohio. On the 1943 crossing of the Tennessee River, when the U.S. 133rd Special Reconnaissance Company, dressed in Confederate uniforms, caused sufficient confusion for General Morrell's army to seize a bridgehead. In addition to these special operations, the United States Marine Corps and Navy mounted special raids on the Confederate coastline. In our timeline, the game of baseball was played by soldiers in both armies during the latter years of the Civil War, and became a national sport when those soldiers took it home with them after the war. Since the war ended in 1862, baseball never achieved the status of a national sport in this timeline. It was played as a regional sport in New England and New York. Football is the dominant sport of both the Confederacy and the United States. It is played during Christmas between the two armies. The U.S. rules allowed the introduction of the forward pass before the Great War; the Confederacy adopted the forward pass after the war. A nation-wide professional league was formed in the U.S. in the 1920s. Semi-pro and minor-league teams were common, such as the Toledo Mud Hens. California's leagues, which included teams such as the Los Angeles Dons, the Portland Columbias, and the Seattle Sharks. The United States tried, and failed, twice to host the Summer Games. In 1928, the U.S. attempted to have the Games in Los Angeles, but Berlin was selected instead. Los Angeles was also the base of the U.S. bid for the 1936 Games, but again, it lost, this time to Richmond. The Japanese raid on Los Angeles in 1932 may have had an impact on the final decision, which came in 1933. The wireless became a key cultural tie in the period between the two Great Wars. Broadcasting networks spanned North America. It can be inferred from "The Grapple" that U.S. and Confederate broadcasters use a channel separation of 10 kHz instead of the 9 kHz used in Europe and Asia. Once war began, both sides used jamming equipment to inhibit each other's broadcasts that could be heard in the other's territory. Broadcasting involved propaganda for the war effort, sports, crime, and local news filled time at stations away from the front lines. Movies were also a means of mass entertainment in this timeline. United States movie studios were in Hollywood. The Broadway revue and Broadway musical also developed in this timeline. "O, Sequoyah!" was released in 1943 and became a hit musical. The United States comic book Superman was popular in both countries, despite its official banning by the Confederate government. The airplane was invented in the United States; the need to produce other sorts of weapons prevented an indigenous U.S. design during the early years of the Great War. The principal U.S. scout/fighter was the Wright, (it looks like out timelines German Albatros fighter) and they also used the Sopwith Camel. U.S. aircraft were marked with an eagle in front of two crossed swords. Despite the short distances between major cities in the U.S. and the Confederacy, the U.S. developed several long-range bombers between the wars. Plus bomber development for use back home focused on increased bomb load and armament. This proved to be a advantage in the Pacific War and during the Second Great War with Japan. Richmond was raided routinely in both the Great War and the Second Great War, incurring heavy damage; while Philadelphia was also raided its advanced air defense systems protected it from any serious damage. New York could be reached by bombers with more fuel and less payload, and was less damaged. In the West, U.S. bombers based in Clovis, New Mexico, caused massive amounts of damage to Dallas and Fort Worth in 1942 in daylight raids. The Confederacy mounted a one-way raid on the United States nuclear facilities in Hanford, Washington, from air bases in Texas, Sonora, and Chihuahua; the planes, however, required a light bomb load, caused little to no damage and had to be ditched. The United States tactical bomber aircraft during the Second Great War included the B-17 Flying Fortress, Avro Lancaster, B-29 Superfortress, B-24 Liberator, P-61 Black Widow and the DH Mosquito. The P-51 Mustang, the P-40 Tomahawk, Spitfire XVI, and the F6F Hellcat were the main US single seat fighters. Union planes had superior firepower and performance, as well as reliability. The U.S. also used the Me-109 and the Me-110 in which both claimed 928 victories. The Ju-87 Stuka was a bomber and fighter developed by the Confederacy. It made a terrifying whine as it swooped down to attack targets, and was effective during the invasion of Ohio. However, U.S. fighters and anti-aircraft guns showed the Stuka's vulnerabilities. The PBY Catalina was a United States Navy amphibious reconnaissance plane. In the third year of the Second Great War, the United States introduced fighter-bombers, fighter craft with attached bombs and rockets. These new planes largely supplanted earlier dive bombers, and provided brutally effective air support. The main U.S. fighter bomber was the P-47 Thunderbolt which is described as being armed with a mix of several cannons, machine guns, and missiles. In mid-1943, the United States began introducing jet-propelled fighters. These models included the P80-B Shooting Stars, F2H-2 Cutlass, F-86 Saber, the Dassault Mirage III, the Union Electric Lightning, the F-15 Eagle, and the F-35 Lightning II. The code name for the development of a mobile armored vehicle by the U.S. during the Great War was “tank”. The United States led the way in tank development during both Great Wars. After the War, the various Tank Works were established across the country under the command of Colonel Irving Morrell. The Confederacy did not openly develop tanks until the Featherstone Administration. However, Confederate volunteers with the Mexican Imperial forces gained operational experience using tanks. The US tanks of the Second Great War were the first to sport sloping armor. The Union used sloping armor, on their tanks which were equipped with a heavy 75 mm cannon, making them the most powerful tanks yet deployed. The C.S.A. Mark II upgrade was an attempt to hold back superior Union tanks and tank formations while a new, more powerful, barrel could be built. While both sides use different caliber rounds for their rifles, both sides' tanks use M2 Browning machine guns, most likely on their turrets. Union tanks include the Panzer III, Panzer IV, T-34, M4 Sherman, Panther Tank, Valentine Mk II, and IS-2, the IS-3, M-48 Patton, M24 Chaffee, and the Churchill tank, the Centurion Mk. 3 Tank, the KV1 1942 Heavy Tank, the Tiger II, the Sherman Firefly, the SU-100, the SU-152, and the Comet Tank. Armored vehicles used by the Union include the Daimler Armored Car Mk. II, the T-20 armored tractor, the LVT Amtrak, the M3 Half-Track, the M3 GMC, the M7 Priest, the M8 Greyhound, the M18 Hellcat, the M40 GMC, the Marmon-Herrington Armored Car, the T17 Armored Car, and the Bren Gun Carrier. This new development known as “tank busters”, implemented in 1943, started as a Union solution to support U.S. tank formations. Union tank busters are superb at killing tanks at any range and with single hits. It was speculated that the C.S.A. would have begin production of their own, to maximize armored presence on the battlefield. Union tank busters include the Sturm III, the ISU-122, ISU-152, the M36, and the M10 Tank Destroyer. The M1903 Springfield rifle of the Great War was in use throughout Great War II, it was shortened and modernized. The M1 Garand and the Lee-Enfield Mk. 3 is also used by the U.S. Army. In the GWII, Union forces also wield M2 Carbines, Thompson 1928s, and M3 Grease Guns. The BAR or Browning Auto Rifle is also used. It is clearly stated that the Confederate as well as the Union sidearm was the Colt M1911. The Union also used the Winchester Model 12 shotgun. During the Second Mexican War, the U.S. experimented with Gatling guns. A Gatling gun unit commanded by George Custer stopped the British invasion of Montana in 1882. Both the U.S. and the Confederacy used machine guns with great effect in the Great War. The U.S. used the Maxim, and later in the Great War deployed the Browning Automatic Rifles which were deployed as light machine guns by US forces during the Great Wars. The Springfield 1903 rifle and M1 Garand rifle remained the main infantry weapon of the U.S. Army in both the Great War and the Second Great war. The Springfield is a bolt-action rifle with a 5-round clip. These rifles were later supplemented by Thompson submachine guns, "big, brutal, and Made in the USA" sometime in late 1943. The M-14 with a 20-round magazine and the PPSH-41 with a 35 and 71 round drum magazines were main weapons of the Union Army during the Second Great War. These were popular weapon with US troops, due to their overall superiority to bolt-action weapons. Union troops also used submachine guns to supplement their automatic rifles. The Union machine gun described as firing so fast it sounded like "a giant tearing a sail in half", which is the MG 42. The USA also uses the M1919A4 Browning machine gun. The USA and CSA are equipped both equipped with M2 Browning machine guns. The U.S. and Confederate Armies used different caliber ammunition for their weapons. The principal cannon of the Confederate Army during the Great Wars were the 75 mm howitzers used by the French Army. The Confederate army also used a 100 mm howitzer. Infantry units started using 66 mm mortars in the Great War. The Union army also used 105mm and 107mm mortars during the Second Great War. Another notable mortar used by the Union was the NBW-40 which was a 105mm mortar. The U.S. army used various artillery pieces which include the SIG 33 artillery gun, the SFH 18, the Ordnance QF 25 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 17 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 6 Pounder Mk.2, the PAK 44, the PAK 43, the PAK 41, the D-1 Howitzer, the M-30 Howitzer, the ML-20 Howitzer, the M1919 Coastal Gun, the M3 90mm Dual-Purpose Artillery Gun, the 155mm Long Tom, the GPF 155mm Cannon, the M101 Howitzer, the M1 240mm Howitzer, the M114 Howitzer, the M115 Howitzer, the BL 7.2-inch Howitzer Mk.1, the BL 5.5-inch Medium Gun, the BL 4.5-Inch Medium Gun, and the Flak 88mm Artillery Gun. Both the U.S. and Confederacy used poison gas in both the Great War and the Second Great War, including blister agents, blood agents, and nerve agents, which required soldiers to get into chemical protective suits. A Molotov cocktail is used by the Union army and is composed of gasoline in a bottle, lit by a cloth wick, and thrown at armored vehicles from close range. The U.S. is one of the first nations to introduce the portable flamethrower, first using it in 1915 against Confederate auxiliaries and rebels in Utah. The models include the M2 flamethrower and the Flamethrower-41. The unique nature of the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river system led to the development of specialized naval vessels to fight on these rivers. The United States river gunboat carried two 150 mm guns, cannons, machine guns, and grenade launchers which could be used to attack both other ships or enemy forts and ground positions. The Great Lakes provided both a defensive shield for Canada and the United States, and a chance to attack each other. On the Great Lakes, both the United States and Canada had Great Lake battleships, which were armored cruisers. The Union used them in the defense of New York during the Great War; Canada intended theirs to be war-winning weapons but mines and submarines quickly put that idea to rest. The United States developed the first aircraft carrier, the USS Remembrance. This ship first sailed in 1920 and assisted the Irish government in suppressing a pro-British rebellion in Ulster. The Remembrance was only the first of many U.S. aircraft carriers. During the Great War, the two principal missions for navies were to project power overseas and to protect or disrupt enemy commerce. The United States attacked the British forts at Pearl Harbor in the Sandwich Islands in 1914 and held these islands subsequently. The battleship was the primary weapon of all belligerent navies. The Battle of the Three Navies was the biggest battle in the War, between the U.S., British, and Japanese Navies, and proved to be a draw. Disruption of enemy commerce, protection of friendly merchant ships, and the destruction of enemy ships was the function of both the submarine and surface ships. Both the Quadruple Alliance and the Entente patrolled the Atlantic, which accelerated the development of convoys to protect merchantmen and specific anti-submarine tactics and weapons, such as Q-ships and depth charge projectors. However, with the oceans open to both sides, surface ships were able to disrupt enemy commerce. Confederate President Gabriel Semmes remarked that the difficulties of obtaining supplies from the Entente made defeat more possible. The entry of the Brazilian Empire on the side of the Quadruple Alliance led to the final disruption of Argentine food shipments to Great Britain, resulting in the armistice at sea in 1917. A third mission of navies was to provide supplies to rebels and guerrilla forces fighting enemy nations. In the Great War, the U.S. supplied rifles and machine guns to Ireland; the Pacific War was triggered by the U.S. discovery of Japanese supplies to British Columbia. New technologies were developed during the years between the Great War and the Pacific War. The aircraft carrier and the radar developed into a mature technology with the Union leading in the race. All of the powers had radar of one sort or another. To fight the submarine, sonar was used which was the term used for underwater sound equipment. The North Atlantic was the site of a large-scale naval battle in 1943 between the United States and the Royal and French Navies. The U.S. won the battle, enabling forces to land and recapture Bermuda from the British. As in the War of Secession, the Confederate navy was small, and in the War of 1941 was primarily focused on coastal defense. By the time of the Second Great War, their heaviest ships were four battlecruisers. The CSA made heavy use out of cruisers, commerce raiders, and submarines to try to damage US shipping and combat formations. Confederate coastal defenses weren’t strong enough to ward off US raids, and so the US was able to capture various parts of the coast during the Great Wars. The Union was the first state to consider rockets in war, based on a paper presented to President Robert Taft by the Huntsville Rocket Association. Union scientists invented the antitank rocket, such as the Bazooka, the M67 Recoilless Rifle, L6 Wombat, and the Panzerschreck. Rocket artillery, known as the BM-13, BM-31, and the T34 Calliope, and were also first used in by the Union Army. Finally, V-2 ballistic missiles were used as against C.S. cities, military bases and troops. U.S. fighter-bombers also mounted rockets to attack tanks when in the antitank role; however it was also useful to attack ground targets. A notable ground attack aircraft used by the Union is the Ilyushin II-2 due to number of tanks it destroyed. The German Empire was the first state suspected of having a program to develop fission bombs. Prominent scientists, such as Albert Einstein, disappeared from public view and papers on nuclear fission vanished after the Otto Hahn experiment on fission. The United States' nuclear program was based at the Hanford site in Washington State and at the Denver site. The program was supervised by the Assistant Secretary of War, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Confederate nuclear program began in 1943, when intelligence indicated the U.S. was developing the facilities to separate uranium-235 from -238. The Union program was able to start a self-sustaining nuclear reaction at the program at Hanford in Washington State, in 1943. In addition to uranium, the Union also succeeded in creating plutonium and neptunium. The one in Denver then started research on hydrogen bombs. The Confederates, fearing that the U.S. program was far ahead of theirs, launched an airstrike on the U.S. facilities in Hanford in 1943, causing little damage. A counterstrike by the U.S. on the Confederate program in the summer of 1943 killed three scientists key to the program, and maimed another. By 1944, Germany, the United States, Great Britain, and the Confederate States all built nuclear weapons, termed atom bombs. Germany used five in total, against the following locales: Petrograd, Paris, London, Norwich, and Brighton. The United States used two, against Newport News and Charleston. Britain used one against Hamburg, then had a second one intercepted and destroyed in Belgium. The Confederate bomb was to be used against Philadelphia; however the plane was intercepted and destroyed. After the Confederate surrender, Union scientist Henderson Belmont briefly discusses the creation of hydrogen bombs with US General Abner Dowling, saying that he wouldn't be surprised if they were perfected within the next 4-5 years. The United States of America Declared the Union to Be Whole Once More and the Confederate States of America Has Been Dissolved. The United States was no longer about freedom, democracy, and human rights. It was about conquest, domination, and economic and military might. This had led to a America governed by military rule, corporations focused and developing military weapons, and generals that had won many battles in face of a deadly enemy. This rule had lead to communism as the Socialist States of America or the SSA.

[The Grand Socialist States of America]

MY HISTORY FOOLS!!!

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Before the United States defeat in the Second Mexican War, military service was voluntary. Afterwards, it adopted Prussian methods of conscription in both peace and wartime. In addition, U.S. officers began attending German military academies to learn German military doctrine. Sometime between the Second Mexican War and the Great War, U.S. military uniforms were changed from dark blue to green-gray. The uniforms of the U.S., German, and Austro-Hungarian armies were similar in color, design, and cut, differing in rank insignia. Officer's rank insignia were unchanged from the War of Secession. During the Great War, 'coalscuttle' helmets were adopted, based on the recommendations of then-Colonel Irving Morrel. They were later adopted by the German Army, and during the Second Great War, the Confederate Army adopted a model very similar to them. Medals included the Purple Heart (for wounds), the Remembrance Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Medal of Honor. Civilians could receive the Order of Remembrance, First and Second Classes. When the Second Great War erupted, the United States Army retained its policy of how to treat of civilians in occupied territory the First Great War. Executing hostages was a policy which had been in force since the Great War. Towards the end of the war, twenty-five civilian hostages from a nearby town would be shot for every U.S. soldier killed, and one hundred for each use of a car bomb. During Morrell's drive to the sea several towns were wiped out, and their populaces murdered without warning, despite next to no Confederate resistance. This war of terror was waged with the goal of teaching the Confederate populace never to oppose the United States government again. In the case of South Carolina, in particular, the U.S. forces, aware of its role in the War of Secession, had no sympathy at all for the state. As the war went on, camouflaging efforts by both sides became more extensive. For example, the Union supply depots run by Major Dover were well-camouflaged from the air; a dummy supply post, deliberately less well-camouflaged, was placed nearby. This worked against air strikes. General Morrell used dummy tanks, smoke, false gas shells, and recordings of gunfire and troop movements to paralyze Confederate forces in Kentucky during the amphibious crossing of the Ohio River in 1943. In one case, a United States destroyer escort, the USS Josephus Daniels, was made out to be a Confederate destroyer escort, the CSS Hot Springs, and used to delivered munitions to rebels in Cuba. At the beginning of the Great War, there were 33 states in the Union. The State of Dakota covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of North Dakota and South Dakota, and the State of New Mexico covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of Arizona and New Mexico. At the conclusion of the Great War, the United States grew by two. A pro-United States legislature in Kentucky voted to rejoin the Union in 1916 and West Texas with its capital at Lubbock, in 1917. In addition, Virginia, Sonora, and Arkansas which were occupied by U.S. forces at the time of the Armistice were incorporated into West Virginia, New Mexico, and Missouri respectively. The Confederate state of Sequoyah was also annexed. The territory lost by Maine to Canada was rejoined to the state. The Sandwich Islands, Canada, Newfoundland, the Bahamas, and Bermuda all became U.S. territories. The Mormons of Utah attempted during the Great War to secede and form their own nation, but were suppressed in 1916. They tried again in 1941, and were again suppressed. Following the Richmond Agreement of 1940 between Presidents Al Smith of the U.S. and Jake Featherston of the Confederacy, voting was held in Kentucky, Houston, and Sequoyah; the former two states voted to rejoin the Confederacy. Sequoyah, possibly due to a large number of settlers from the USA, decided to remain in the Union. In 1943, the U.S. announced plans to revive Houston, as well as readmitting Kentucky and Tennessee to the Union following the advances towards Georgia and east Texas. After the Second Great War ends in 1944, the United States divides the defeated Confederacy into a number of Military Administrative Zones and announces that all former Confederate States will eventually be returned to the USA. Washington, D.C., remained the de jure capital of the United States, but its proximity to the Confederate States made governing impractical from there. Philadelphia is the functional capital of the United States. The Powel House is the home of the President. A side-effect is that Washingtonians are granted to have a representative of their own in Congress (unlike in our timeline). During the period of U.S. occupation in the Second Great War when the Confederacy was returned to the Union in 1944, the Union State Police were, in effect, the countries secret police force, aimed at suppressing Confederate rebels and neutralizing threats to the country. The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 which dealt with the resolutions of international conflict and the conduct of war. An international court sat at The Hague, in the Netherlands. Practically, however, because of the distance between the Netherlands and North America, and far more importantly, as in our timeline, because the tribunal lacked any coercive power, the conduct of war and the treatment of captives were tempered only by the fear of retaliation. The United States adopted the German tactic of hostage execution in occupied lands (in our timeline, this was not covered by the 1907 Hague Convention). This practice continued during the Second Great War. Civilian snipers were executed on the spot. Confederates occupying the United States treated civilians harshly, and U.S. soldiers occupying the Confederacy executed rebels in areas where U.S. soldiers were killed by civilians. This led to a proclamation by the Freedom Party that U.S. soldiers who executed rebels that supported the Confederacy would not be treated as prisoners of war. After the occupation of Canada and Newfoundland, the existing government was abolished and the U.S. governed the gained territories. The Occupation Administrative Code served as the basic law of the land. It provided courts for civilians, and allowed the use of confidential informants to provide evidence, but also allowed for defense counsel of the defendant's choosing, and in many cases charges could be dropped or penalties reduces based on exculpatory evidence. During the occupation of the former Confederate States following the unconditional surrender of July 1944, the Confederate national government was abolished, but state and local governments remained in place to carry out directives from U.S. military governors. Hospitals tended to be respected by all belligerents in the Great War; in the Second Great War, the Confederates in some cases used ambulances to transport President Featherston and assumed that similar abuses went on behind U.S. lines. Prisoners of war were treated relatively well during the Great Wars. As per the 1907 Hague Convention in this timeline, there were conventions both sides followed. Attempted escape could be punished by the captors; however, prisoners who escaped and reached their own lines could not be punished for the escape. The Geneva Convention was generally followed by the U.S., as U.S. soldiers’ state, "We follow the Geneva Convention. We play fair with prisoners." Privileges of POWs included the ability to write home on occasion. The United States, however, provided more amenities, such as wireless sets, to Confederate prisoners than the minimal amenities provided in Confederate POW camps such as Andersonville, Georgia. Civilian prisoners were exchanged between the U.S. and the Confederacy in both the Great War and the Second Great War. The United States had some form of rationing from sometime after the Second Mexican War until the victory in the Second Great War. During the Great Wars, kerosene, food and coal was rationed; this extended to the U.S. Occupied Territories of Canada. Despite the official hostility between the United States and the Confederate States, however, trade between the two nations continued. U.S. manufactured goods and automobiles, such as the Ford Model T, were sold in the Confederate States, and Confederate agricultural goods, such as cattle, cottonseed oil cakes, and tobacco, were sold in the U.S. During the hyper-inflation of the early 1920s, U.S. currency was itself a commodity to be sold to the south. During the Great War and the Second Great War, informal trading between the two armies went on despite official efforts to stop it. Confederate tobacco products were traded for U.S. Army rations. United States canned ham was the most popular item Yankees traded; Duke Cigarettes and coffee were traded in return. Abolitionist books such as Uncle Tom's Cabin were banned in the Confederacy for its independence. Both sides censored the radio and press during the Great War and the Second Great War; however, the Confederate Featherston administration also censored incoming material from the United States, including Superman comics. Confederate blacks who had been fighting as guerrillas during the War were recruited as auxiliary soldiers by the United States Army in occupied Confederate territory. They were issued rifles, wore at U.S. Army uniforms, with an armband in red, white, and blue with the legend "USA". As the auxiliaries were better organized, they were issued helmets. They were also given the U.S. Army dress uniform. The proximity of the United States to the Confederate States, and the use of a common language, made intelligence gathering efforts easy for both sides. For example, in the Confederate occupation of Washington, D.C. during the Great War, the U.S. was able to develop a network of civilian agents that routinely reported intelligence back to Philadelphia and to perform various acts of sabotage. Between the wars, visits by U.S. warships to Confederate ports, commercial travel, and aviation became means of gathering detailed information. The Union intelligence service was offensively-oriented, however also emphasized counter-intelligence. The Second Great War saw the development of special operations conducted by other than regular forces. The Union developed a unit of men who wore Confederate uniforms and spoke with 'Southern' accents to disrupt Confederate defenses in Ohio. On the 1943 crossing of the Tennessee River, when the U.S. 133rd Special Reconnaissance Company, dressed in Confederate uniforms, caused sufficient confusion for General Morrell's army to seize a bridgehead. In addition to these special operations, the United States Marine Corps and Navy mounted special raids on the Confederate coastline. In our timeline, the game of baseball was played by soldiers in both armies during the latter years of the Civil War, and became a national sport when those soldiers took it home with them after the war. Since the war ended in 1862, baseball never achieved the status of a national sport in this timeline. It was played as a regional sport in New England and New York. Football is the dominant sport of both the Confederacy and the United States. It is played during Christmas between the two armies. The U.S. rules allowed the introduction of the forward pass before the Great War; the Confederacy adopted the forward pass after the war. A nation-wide professional league was formed in the U.S. in the 1920s. Semi-pro and minor-league teams were common, such as the Toledo Mud Hens. California's leagues, which included teams such as the Los Angeles Dons, the Portland Columbias, and the Seattle Sharks. The United States tried, and failed, twice to host the Summer Games. In 1928, the U.S. attempted to have the Games in Los Angeles, but Berlin was selected instead. Los Angeles was also the base of the U.S. bid for the 1936 Games, but again, it lost, this time to Richmond. The Japanese raid on Los Angeles in 1932 may have had an impact on the final decision, which came in 1933. The wireless became a key cultural tie in the period between the two Great Wars. Broadcasting networks spanned North America. It can be inferred from "The Grapple" that U.S. and Confederate broadcasters use a channel separation of 10 kHz instead of the 9 kHz used in Europe and Asia. Once war began, both sides used jamming equipment to inhibit each other's broadcasts that could be heard in the other's territory. Broadcasting involved propaganda for the war effort, sports, crime, and local news filled time at stations away from the front lines. Movies were also a means of mass entertainment in this timeline. United States movie studios were in Hollywood. The Broadway revue and Broadway musical also developed in this timeline. "O, Sequoyah!" was released in 1943 and became a hit musical. The United States comic book Superman was popular in both countries, despite its official banning by the Confederate government. The airplane was invented in the United States; the need to produce other sorts of weapons prevented an indigenous U.S. design during the early years of the Great War. The principal U.S. scout/fighter was the Wright, (it looks like out timelines German Albatros fighter) and they also used the Sopwith Camel. U.S. aircraft were marked with an eagle in front of two crossed swords. Despite the short distances between major cities in the U.S. and the Confederacy, the U.S. developed several long-range bombers between the wars. Plus bomber development for use back home focused on increased bomb load and armament. This proved to be a advantage in the Pacific War and during the Second Great War with Japan. Richmond was raided routinely in both the Great War and the Second Great War, incurring heavy damage; while Philadelphia was also raided its advanced air defense systems protected it from any serious damage. New York could be reached by bombers with more fuel and less payload, and was less damaged. In the West, U.S. bombers based in Clovis, New Mexico, caused massive amounts of damage to Dallas and Fort Worth in 1942 in daylight raids. The Confederacy mounted a one-way raid on the United States nuclear facilities in Hanford, Washington, from air bases in Texas, Sonora, and Chihuahua; the planes, however, required a light bomb load, caused little to no damage and had to be ditched. The United States tactical bomber aircraft during the Second Great War included the B-17 Flying Fortress, Avro Lancaster, B-29 Superfortress, B-24 Liberator, P-61 Black Widow and the DH Mosquito. The P-51 Mustang, the P-40 Tomahawk, Spitfire XVI, and the F6F Hellcat were the main US single seat fighters. Union planes had superior firepower and performance, as well as reliability. The U.S. also used the Me-109 and the Me-110 in which both claimed 928 victories. The Ju-87 Stuka was a bomber and fighter developed by the Confederacy. It made a terrifying whine as it swooped down to attack targets, and was effective during the invasion of Ohio. However, U.S. fighters and anti-aircraft guns showed the Stuka's vulnerabilities. The PBY Catalina was a United States Navy amphibious reconnaissance plane. In the third year of the Second Great War, the United States introduced fighter-bombers, fighter craft with attached bombs and rockets. These new planes largely supplanted earlier dive bombers, and provided brutally effective air support. The main U.S. fighter bomber was the P-47 Thunderbolt which is described as being armed with a mix of several cannons, machine guns, and missiles. In mid-1943, the United States began introducing jet-propelled fighters. These models included the P80-B Shooting Stars, F2H-2 Cutlass, F-86 Saber, the Dassault Mirage III, the Union Electric Lightning, the F-15 Eagle, and the F-35 Lightning II. The code name for the development of a mobile armored vehicle by the U.S. during the Great War was “tank”. The United States led the way in tank development during both Great Wars. After the War, the various Tank Works were established across the country under the command of Colonel Irving Morrell. The Confederacy did not openly develop tanks until the Featherstone Administration. However, Confederate volunteers with the Mexican Imperial forces gained operational experience using tanks. The US tanks of the Second Great War were the first to sport sloping armor. The Union used sloping armor, on their tanks which were equipped with a heavy 75 mm cannon, making them the most powerful tanks yet deployed. The C.S.A. Mark II upgrade was an attempt to hold back superior Union tanks and tank formations while a new, more powerful, barrel could be built. While both sides use different caliber rounds for their rifles, both sides' tanks use M2 Browning machine guns, most likely on their turrets. Union tanks include the Panzer III, Panzer IV, T-34, M4 Sherman, Panther Tank, Valentine Mk II, and IS-2, the IS-3, M-48 Patton, M24 Chaffee, and the Churchill tank, the Centurion Mk. 3 Tank, the KV1 1942 Heavy Tank, the Tiger II, the Sherman Firefly, the SU-100, the SU-152, and the Comet Tank. Armored vehicles used by the Union include the Daimler Armored Car Mk. II, the T-20 armored tractor, the LVT Amtrak, the M3 Half-Track, the M3 GMC, the M7 Priest, the M8 Greyhound, the M18 Hellcat, the M40 GMC, the Marmon-Herrington Armored Car, the T17 Armored Car, and the Bren Gun Carrier. This new development known as “tank busters”, implemented in 1943, started as a Union solution to support U.S. tank formations. Union tank busters are superb at killing tanks at any range and with single hits. It was speculated that the C.S.A. would have begin production of their own, to maximize armored presence on the battlefield. Union tank busters include the Sturm III, the ISU-122, ISU-152, the M36, and the M10 Tank Destroyer. The M1903 Springfield rifle of the Great War was in use throughout Great War II, it was shortened and modernized. The M1 Garand and the Lee-Enfield Mk. 3 is also used by the U.S. Army. In the GWII, Union forces also wield M2 Carbines, Thompson 1928s, and M3 Grease Guns. The BAR or Browning Auto Rifle is also used. It is clearly stated that the Confederate as well as the Union sidearm was the Colt M1911. The Union also used the Winchester Model 12 shotgun. During the Second Mexican War, the U.S. experimented with Gatling guns. A Gatling gun unit commanded by George Custer stopped the British invasion of Montana in 1882. Both the U.S. and the Confederacy used machine guns with great effect in the Great War. The U.S. used the Maxim, and later in the Great War deployed the Browning Automatic Rifles which were deployed as light machine guns by US forces during the Great Wars. The Springfield 1903 rifle and M1 Garand rifle remained the main infantry weapon of the U.S. Army in both the Great War and the Second Great war. The Springfield is a bolt-action rifle with a 5-round clip. These rifles were later supplemented by Thompson submachine guns, "big, brutal, and Made in the USA" sometime in late 1943. The M-14 with a 20-round magazine and the PPSH-41 with a 35 and 71 round drum magazines were main weapons of the Union Army during the Second Great War. These were popular weapon with US troops, due to their overall superiority to bolt-action weapons. Union troops also used submachine guns to supplement their automatic rifles. The Union machine gun described as firing so fast it sounded like "a giant tearing a sail in half", which is the MG 42. The USA also uses the M1919A4 Browning machine gun. The USA and CSA are equipped both equipped with M2 Browning machine guns. The U.S. and Confederate Armies used different caliber ammunition for their weapons. The principal cannon of the Confederate Army during the Great Wars were the 75 mm howitzers used by the French Army. The Confederate army also used a 100 mm howitzer. Infantry units started using 66 mm mortars in the Great War. The Union army also used 105mm and 107mm mortars during the Second Great War. Another notable mortar used by the Union was the NBW-40 which was a 105mm mortar. The U.S. army used various artillery pieces which include the SIG 33 artillery gun, the SFH 18, the Ordnance QF 25 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 17 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 6 Pounder Mk.2, the PAK 44, the PAK 43, the PAK 41, the D-1 Howitzer, the M-30 Howitzer, the ML-20 Howitzer, the M1919 Coastal Gun, the M3 90mm Dual-Purpose Artillery Gun, the 155mm Long Tom, the GPF 155mm Cannon, the M101 Howitzer, the M1 240mm Howitzer, the M114 Howitzer, the M115 Howitzer, the BL 7.2-inch Howitzer Mk.1, the BL 5.5-inch Medium Gun, the BL 4.5-Inch Medium Gun, and the Flak 88mm Artillery Gun. Both the U.S. and Confederacy used poison gas in both the Great War and the Second Great War, including blister agents, blood agents, and nerve agents, which required soldiers to get into chemical protective suits. A Molotov cocktail is used by the Union army and is composed of gasoline in a bottle, lit by a cloth wick, and thrown at armored vehicles from close range. The U.S. is one of the first nations to introduce the portable flamethrower, first using it in 1915 against Confederate auxiliaries and rebels in Utah. The models include the M2 flamethrower and the Flamethrower-41. The unique nature of the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river system led to the development of specialized naval vessels to fight on these rivers. The United States river gunboat carried two 150 mm guns, cannons, machine guns, and grenade launchers which could be used to attack both other ships or enemy forts and ground positions. The Great Lakes provided both a defensive shield for Canada and the United States, and a chance to attack each other. On the Great Lakes, both the United States and Canada had Great Lake battleships, which were armored cruisers. The Union used them in the defense of New York during the Great War; Canada intended theirs to be war-winning weapons but mines and submarines quickly put that idea to rest. The United States developed the first aircraft carrier, the USS Remembrance. This ship first sailed in 1920 and assisted the Irish government in suppressing a pro-British rebellion in Ulster. The Remembrance was only the first of many U.S. aircraft carriers. During the Great War, the two principal missions for navies were to project power overseas and to protect or disrupt enemy commerce. The United States attacked the British forts at Pearl Harbor in the Sandwich Islands in 1914 and held these islands subsequently. The battleship was the primary weapon of all belligerent navies. The Battle of the Three Navies was the biggest battle in the War, between the U.S., British, and Japanese Navies, and proved to be a draw. Disruption of enemy commerce, protection of friendly merchant ships, and the destruction of enemy ships was the function of both the submarine and surface ships. Both the Quadruple Alliance and the Entente patrolled the Atlantic, which accelerated the development of convoys to protect merchantmen and specific anti-submarine tactics and weapons, such as Q-ships and depth charge projectors. However, with the oceans open to both sides, surface ships were able to disrupt enemy commerce. Confederate President Gabriel Semmes remarked that the difficulties of obtaining supplies from the Entente made defeat more possible. The entry of the Brazilian Empire on the side of the Quadruple Alliance led to the final disruption of Argentine food shipments to Great Britain, resulting in the armistice at sea in 1917. A third mission of navies was to provide supplies to rebels and guerrilla forces fighting enemy nations. In the Great War, the U.S. supplied rifles and machine guns to Ireland; the Pacific War was triggered by the U.S. discovery of Japanese supplies to British Columbia. New technologies were developed during the years between the Great War and the Pacific War. The aircraft carrier and the radar developed into a mature technology with the Union leading in the race. All of the powers had radar of one sort or another. To fight the submarine, sonar was used which was the term used for underwater sound equipment. The North Atlantic was the site of a large-scale naval battle in 1943 between the United States and the Royal and French Navies. The U.S. won the battle, enabling forces to land and recapture Bermuda from the British. As in the War of Secession, the Confederate navy was small, and in the War of 1941 was primarily focused on coastal defense. By the time of the Second Great War, their heaviest ships were four battlecruisers. The CSA made heavy use out of cruisers, commerce raiders, and submarines to try to damage US shipping and combat formations. Confederate coastal defenses weren’t strong enough to ward off US raids, and so the US was able to capture various parts of the coast during the Great Wars. The Union was the first state to consider rockets in war, based on a paper presented to President Robert Taft by the Huntsville Rocket Association. Union scientists invented the antitank rocket, such as the Bazooka, the M67 Recoilless Rifle, L6 Wombat, and the Panzerschreck. Rocket artillery, known as the BM-13, BM-31, and the T34 Calliope, and were also first used in by the Union Army. Finally, V-2 ballistic missiles were used as against C.S. cities, military bases and troops. U.S. fighter-bombers also mounted rockets to attack tanks when in the antitank role; however it was also useful to attack ground targets. A notable ground attack aircraft used by the Union is the Ilyushin II-2 due to number of tanks it destroyed. The German Empire was the first state suspected of having a program to develop fission bombs. Prominent scientists, such as Albert Einstein, disappeared from public view and papers on nuclear fission vanished after the Otto Hahn experiment on fission. The United States' nuclear program was based at the Hanford site in Washington State and at the Denver site. The program was supervised by the Assistant Secretary of War, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Confederate nuclear program began in 1943, when intelligence indicated the U.S. was developing the facilities to separate uranium-235 from -238. The Union program was able to start a self-sustaining nuclear reaction at the program at Hanford in Washington State, in 1943. In addition to uranium, the Union also succeeded in creating plutonium and neptunium. The one in Denver then started research on hydrogen bombs. The Confederates, fearing that the U.S. program was far ahead of theirs, launched an airstrike on the U.S. facilities in Hanford in 1943, causing little damage. A counterstrike by the U.S. on the Confederate program in the summer of 1943 killed three scientists key to the program, and maimed another. By 1944, Germany, the United States, Great Britain, and the Confederate States all built nuclear weapons, termed atom bombs. Germany used five in total, against the following locales: Petrograd, Paris, London, Norwich, and Brighton. The United States used two, against Newport News and Charleston. Britain used one against Hamburg, then had a second one intercepted and destroyed in Belgium. The Confederate bomb was to be used against Philadelphia; however the plane was intercepted and destroyed. After the Confederate surrender, Union scientist Henderson Belmont briefly discusses the creation of hydrogen bombs with US General Abner Dowling, saying that he wouldn't be surprised if they were perfected within the next 4-5 years. The United States of America Declared the Union to Be Whole Once More and the Confederate States of America Has Been Dissolved. The United States was no longer about freedom, democracy, and human rights. It was about conquest, domination, and economic and military might. This had led to a America governed by military rule, corporations focused and developing military weapons, and generals that had won many battles in face of a deadly enemy. This rule had lead to communism as the Socialist States of America or the SSA.

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MY HISTORY FOOLS!!!

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Before the United States defeat in the Second Mexican War, military service was voluntary. Afterwards, it adopted Prussian methods of conscription in both peace and wartime. In addition, U.S. officers began attending German military academies to learn German military doctrine. Sometime between the Second Mexican War and the Great War, U.S. military uniforms were changed from dark blue to green-gray. The uniforms of the U.S., German, and Austro-Hungarian armies were similar in color, design, and cut, differing in rank insignia. Officer's rank insignia were unchanged from the War of Secession. During the Great War, 'coalscuttle' helmets were adopted, based on the recommendations of then-Colonel Irving Morrel. They were later adopted by the German Army, and during the Second Great War, the Confederate Army adopted a model very similar to them. Medals included the Purple Heart (for wounds), the Remembrance Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Medal of Honor. Civilians could receive the Order of Remembrance, First and Second Classes. When the Second Great War erupted, the United States Army retained its policy of how to treat of civilians in occupied territory the First Great War. Executing hostages was a policy which had been in force since the Great War. Towards the end of the war, twenty-five civilian hostages from a nearby town would be shot for every U.S. soldier killed, and one hundred for each use of a car bomb. During Morrell's drive to the sea several towns were wiped out, and their populaces murdered without warning, despite next to no Confederate resistance. This war of terror was waged with the goal of teaching the Confederate populace never to oppose the United States government again. In the case of South Carolina, in particular, the U.S. forces, aware of its role in the War of Secession, had no sympathy at all for the state. As the war went on, camouflaging efforts by both sides became more extensive. For example, the Union supply depots run by Major Dover were well-camouflaged from the air; a dummy supply post, deliberately less well-camouflaged, was placed nearby. This worked against air strikes. General Morrell used dummy tanks, smoke, false gas shells, and recordings of gunfire and troop movements to paralyze Confederate forces in Kentucky during the amphibious crossing of the Ohio River in 1943. In one case, a United States destroyer escort, the USS Josephus Daniels, was made out to be a Confederate destroyer escort, the CSS Hot Springs, and used to delivered munitions to rebels in Cuba. At the beginning of the Great War, there were 33 states in the Union. The State of Dakota covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of North Dakota and South Dakota, and the State of New Mexico covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of Arizona and New Mexico. At the conclusion of the Great War, the United States grew by two. A pro-United States legislature in Kentucky voted to rejoin the Union in 1916 and West Texas with its capital at Lubbock, in 1917. In addition, Virginia, Sonora, and Arkansas which were occupied by U.S. forces at the time of the Armistice were incorporated into West Virginia, New Mexico, and Missouri respectively. The Confederate state of Sequoyah was also annexed. The territory lost by Maine to Canada was rejoined to the state. The Sandwich Islands, Canada, Newfoundland, the Bahamas, and Bermuda all became U.S. territories. The Mormons of Utah attempted during the Great War to secede and form their own nation, but were suppressed in 1916. They tried again in 1941, and were again suppressed. Following the Richmond Agreement of 1940 between Presidents Al Smith of the U.S. and Jake Featherston of the Confederacy, voting was held in Kentucky, Houston, and Sequoyah; the former two states voted to rejoin the Confederacy. Sequoyah, possibly due to a large number of settlers from the USA, decided to remain in the Union. In 1943, the U.S. announced plans to revive Houston, as well as readmitting Kentucky and Tennessee to the Union following the advances towards Georgia and east Texas. After the Second Great War ends in 1944, the United States divides the defeated Confederacy into a number of Military Administrative Zones and announces that all former Confederate States will eventually be returned to the USA. Washington, D.C., remained the de jure capital of the United States, but its proximity to the Confederate States made governing impractical from there. Philadelphia is the functional capital of the United States. The Powel House is the home of the President. A side-effect is that Washingtonians are granted to have a representative of their own in Congress (unlike in our timeline). During the period of U.S. occupation in the Second Great War when the Confederacy was returned to the Union in 1944, the Union State Police were, in effect, the countries secret police force, aimed at suppressing Confederate rebels and neutralizing threats to the country. The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 which dealt with the resolutions of international conflict and the conduct of war. An international court sat at The Hague, in the Netherlands. Practically, however, because of the distance between the Netherlands and North America, and far more importantly, as in our timeline, because the tribunal lacked any coercive power, the conduct of war and the treatment of captives were tempered only by the fear of retaliation. The United States adopted the German tactic of hostage execution in occupied lands (in our timeline, this was not covered by the 1907 Hague Convention). This practice continued during the Second Great War. Civilian snipers were executed on the spot. Confederates occupying the United States treated civilians harshly, and U.S. soldiers occupying the Confederacy executed rebels in areas where U.S. soldiers were killed by civilians. This led to a proclamation by the Freedom Party that U.S. soldiers who executed rebels that supported the Confederacy would not be treated as prisoners of war. After the occupation of Canada and Newfoundland, the existing government was abolished and the U.S. governed the gained territories. The Occupation Administrative Code served as the basic law of the land. It provided courts for civilians, and allowed the use of confidential informants to provide evidence, but also allowed for defense counsel of the defendant's choosing, and in many cases charges could be dropped or penalties reduces based on exculpatory evidence. During the occupation of the former Confederate States following the unconditional surrender of July 1944, the Confederate national government was abolished, but state and local governments remained in place to carry out directives from U.S. military governors. Hospitals tended to be respected by all belligerents in the Great War; in the Second Great War, the Confederates in some cases used ambulances to transport President Featherston and assumed that similar abuses went on behind U.S. lines. Prisoners of war were treated relatively well during the Great Wars. As per the 1907 Hague Convention in this timeline, there were conventions both sides followed. Attempted escape could be punished by the captors; however, prisoners who escaped and reached their own lines could not be punished for the escape. The Geneva Convention was generally followed by the U.S., as U.S. soldiers’ state, "We follow the Geneva Convention. We play fair with prisoners." Privileges of POWs included the ability to write home on occasion. The United States, however, provided more amenities, such as wireless sets, to Confederate prisoners than the minimal amenities provided in Confederate POW camps such as Andersonville, Georgia. Civilian prisoners were exchanged between the U.S. and the Confederacy in both the Great War and the Second Great War. The United States had some form of rationing from sometime after the Second Mexican War until the victory in the Second Great War. During the Great Wars, kerosene, food and coal was rationed; this extended to the U.S. Occupied Territories of Canada. Despite the official hostility between the United States and the Confederate States, however, trade between the two nations continued. U.S. manufactured goods and automobiles, such as the Ford Model T, were sold in the Confederate States, and Confederate agricultural goods, such as cattle, cottonseed oil cakes, and tobacco, were sold in the U.S. During the hyper-inflation of the early 1920s, U.S. currency was itself a commodity to be sold to the south. During the Great War and the Second Great War, informal trading between the two armies went on despite official efforts to stop it. Confederate tobacco products were traded for U.S. Army rations. United States canned ham was the most popular item Yankees traded; Duke Cigarettes and coffee were traded in return. Abolitionist books such as Uncle Tom's Cabin were banned in the Confederacy for its independence. Both sides censored the radio and press during the Great War and the Second Great War; however, the Confederate Featherston administration also censored incoming material from the United States, including Superman comics. Confederate blacks who had been fighting as guerrillas during the War were recruited as auxiliary soldiers by the United States Army in occupied Confederate territory. They were issued rifles, wore at U.S. Army uniforms, with an armband in red, white, and blue with the legend "USA". As the auxiliaries were better organized, they were issued helmets. They were also given the U.S. Army dress uniform. The proximity of the United States to the Confederate States, and the use of a common language, made intelligence gathering efforts easy for both sides. For example, in the Confederate occupation of Washington, D.C. during the Great War, the U.S. was able to develop a network of civilian agents that routinely reported intelligence back to Philadelphia and to perform various acts of sabotage. Between the wars, visits by U.S. warships to Confederate ports, commercial travel, and aviation became means of gathering detailed information. The Union intelligence service was offensively-oriented, however also emphasized counter-intelligence. The Second Great War saw the development of special operations conducted by other than regular forces. The Union developed a unit of men who wore Confederate uniforms and spoke with 'Southern' accents to disrupt Confederate defenses in Ohio. On the 1943 crossing of the Tennessee River, when the U.S. 133rd Special Reconnaissance Company, dressed in Confederate uniforms, caused sufficient confusion for General Morrell's army to seize a bridgehead. In addition to these special operations, the United States Marine Corps and Navy mounted special raids on the Confederate coastline. In our timeline, the game of baseball was played by soldiers in both armies during the latter years of the Civil War, and became a national sport when those soldiers took it home with them after the war. Since the war ended in 1862, baseball never achieved the status of a national sport in this timeline. It was played as a regional sport in New England and New York. Football is the dominant sport of both the Confederacy and the United States. It is played during Christmas between the two armies. The U.S. rules allowed the introduction of the forward pass before the Great War; the Confederacy adopted the forward pass after the war. A nation-wide professional league was formed in the U.S. in the 1920s. Semi-pro and minor-league teams were common, such as the Toledo Mud Hens. California's leagues, which included teams such as the Los Angeles Dons, the Portland Columbias, and the Seattle Sharks. The United States tried, and failed, twice to host the Summer Games. In 1928, the U.S. attempted to have the Games in Los Angeles, but Berlin was selected instead. Los Angeles was also the base of the U.S. bid for the 1936 Games, but again, it lost, this time to Richmond. The Japanese raid on Los Angeles in 1932 may have had an impact on the final decision, which came in 1933. The wireless became a key cultural tie in the period between the two Great Wars. Broadcasting networks spanned North America. It can be inferred from "The Grapple" that U.S. and Confederate broadcasters use a channel separation of 10 kHz instead of the 9 kHz used in Europe and Asia. Once war began, both sides used jamming equipment to inhibit each other's broadcasts that could be heard in the other's territory. Broadcasting involved propaganda for the war effort, sports, crime, and local news filled time at stations away from the front lines. Movies were also a means of mass entertainment in this timeline. United States movie studios were in Hollywood. The Broadway revue and Broadway musical also developed in this timeline. "O, Sequoyah!" was released in 1943 and became a hit musical. The United States comic book Superman was popular in both countries, despite its official banning by the Confederate government. The airplane was invented in the United States; the need to produce other sorts of weapons prevented an indigenous U.S. design during the early years of the Great War. The principal U.S. scout/fighter was the Wright, (it looks like out timelines German Albatros fighter) and they also used the Sopwith Camel. U.S. aircraft were marked with an eagle in front of two crossed swords. Despite the short distances between major cities in the U.S. and the Confederacy, the U.S. developed several long-range bombers between the wars. Plus bomber development for use back home focused on increased bomb load and armament. This proved to be a advantage in the Pacific War and during the Second Great War with Japan. Richmond was raided routinely in both the Great War and the Second Great War, incurring heavy damage; while Philadelphia was also raided its advanced air defense systems protected it from any serious damage. New York could be reached by bombers with more fuel and less payload, and was less damaged. In the West, U.S. bombers based in Clovis, New Mexico, caused massive amounts of damage to Dallas and Fort Worth in 1942 in daylight raids. The Confederacy mounted a one-way raid on the United States nuclear facilities in Hanford, Washington, from air bases in Texas, Sonora, and Chihuahua; the planes, however, required a light bomb load, caused little to no damage and had to be ditched. The United States tactical bomber aircraft during the Second Great War included the B-17 Flying Fortress, Avro Lancaster, B-29 Superfortress, B-24 Liberator, P-61 Black Widow and the DH Mosquito. The P-51 Mustang, the P-40 Tomahawk, Spitfire XVI, and the F6F Hellcat were the main US single seat fighters. Union planes had superior firepower and performance, as well as reliability. The U.S. also used the Me-109 and the Me-110 in which both claimed 928 victories. The Ju-87 Stuka was a bomber and fighter developed by the Confederacy. It made a terrifying whine as it swooped down to attack targets, and was effective during the invasion of Ohio. However, U.S. fighters and anti-aircraft guns showed the Stuka's vulnerabilities. The PBY Catalina was a United States Navy amphibious reconnaissance plane. In the third year of the Second Great War, the United States introduced fighter-bombers, fighter craft with attached bombs and rockets. These new planes largely supplanted earlier dive bombers, and provided brutally effective air support. The main U.S. fighter bomber was the P-47 Thunderbolt which is described as being armed with a mix of several cannons, machine guns, and missiles. In mid-1943, the United States began introducing jet-propelled fighters. These models included the P80-B Shooting Stars, F2H-2 Cutlass, F-86 Saber, the Dassault Mirage III, the Union Electric Lightning, the F-15 Eagle, and the F-35 Lightning II. The code name for the development of a mobile armored vehicle by the U.S. during the Great War was “tank”. The United States led the way in tank development during both Great Wars. After the War, the various Tank Works were established across the country under the command of Colonel Irving Morrell. The Confederacy did not openly develop tanks until the Featherstone Administration. However, Confederate volunteers with the Mexican Imperial forces gained operational experience using tanks. The US tanks of the Second Great War were the first to sport sloping armor. The Union used sloping armor, on their tanks which were equipped with a heavy 75 mm cannon, making them the most powerful tanks yet deployed. The C.S.A. Mark II upgrade was an attempt to hold back superior Union tanks and tank formations while a new, more powerful, barrel could be built. While both sides use different caliber rounds for their rifles, both sides' tanks use M2 Browning machine guns, most likely on their turrets. Union tanks include the Panzer III, Panzer IV, T-34, M4 Sherman, Panther Tank, Valentine Mk II, and IS-2, the IS-3, M-48 Patton, M24 Chaffee, and the Churchill tank, the Centurion Mk. 3 Tank, the KV1 1942 Heavy Tank, the Tiger II, the Sherman Firefly, the SU-100, the SU-152, and the Comet Tank. Armored vehicles used by the Union include the Daimler Armored Car Mk. II, the T-20 armored tractor, the LVT Amtrak, the M3 Half-Track, the M3 GMC, the M7 Priest, the M8 Greyhound, the M18 Hellcat, the M40 GMC, the Marmon-Herrington Armored Car, the T17 Armored Car, and the Bren Gun Carrier. This new development known as “tank busters”, implemented in 1943, started as a Union solution to support U.S. tank formations. Union tank busters are superb at killing tanks at any range and with single hits. It was speculated that the C.S.A. would have begin production of their own, to maximize armored presence on the battlefield. Union tank busters include the Sturm III, the ISU-122, ISU-152, the M36, and the M10 Tank Destroyer. The M1903 Springfield rifle of the Great War was in use throughout Great War II, it was shortened and modernized. The M1 Garand and the Lee-Enfield Mk. 3 is also used by the U.S. Army. In the GWII, Union forces also wield M2 Carbines, Thompson 1928s, and M3 Grease Guns. The BAR or Browning Auto Rifle is also used. It is clearly stated that the Confederate as well as the Union sidearm was the Colt M1911. The Union also used the Winchester Model 12 shotgun. During the Second Mexican War, the U.S. experimented with Gatling guns. A Gatling gun unit commanded by George Custer stopped the British invasion of Montana in 1882. Both the U.S. and the Confederacy used machine guns with great effect in the Great War. The U.S. used the Maxim, and later in the Great War deployed the Browning Automatic Rifles which were deployed as light machine guns by US forces during the Great Wars. The Springfield 1903 rifle and M1 Garand rifle remained the main infantry weapon of the U.S. Army in both the Great War and the Second Great war. The Springfield is a bolt-action rifle with a 5-round clip. These rifles were later supplemented by Thompson submachine guns, "big, brutal, and Made in the USA" sometime in late 1943. The M-14 with a 20-round magazine and the PPSH-41 with a 35 and 71 round drum magazines were main weapons of the Union Army during the Second Great War. These were popular weapon with US troops, due to their overall superiority to bolt-action weapons. Union troops also used submachine guns to supplement their automatic rifles. The Union machine gun described as firing so fast it sounded like "a giant tearing a sail in half", which is the MG 42. The USA also uses the M1919A4 Browning machine gun. The USA and CSA are equipped both equipped with M2 Browning machine guns. The U.S. and Confederate Armies used different caliber ammunition for their weapons. The principal cannon of the Confederate Army during the Great Wars were the 75 mm howitzers used by the French Army. The Confederate army also used a 100 mm howitzer. Infantry units started using 66 mm mortars in the Great War. The Union army also used 105mm and 107mm mortars during the Second Great War. Another notable mortar used by the Union was the NBW-40 which was a 105mm mortar. The U.S. army used various artillery pieces which include the SIG 33 artillery gun, the SFH 18, the Ordnance QF 25 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 17 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 6 Pounder Mk.2, the PAK 44, the PAK 43, the PAK 41, the D-1 Howitzer, the M-30 Howitzer, the ML-20 Howitzer, the M1919 Coastal Gun, the M3 90mm Dual-Purpose Artillery Gun, the 155mm Long Tom, the GPF 155mm Cannon, the M101 Howitzer, the M1 240mm Howitzer, the M114 Howitzer, the M115 Howitzer, the BL 7.2-inch Howitzer Mk.1, the BL 5.5-inch Medium Gun, the BL 4.5-Inch Medium Gun, and the Flak 88mm Artillery Gun. Both the U.S. and Confederacy used poison gas in both the Great War and the Second Great War, including blister agents, blood agents, and nerve agents, which required soldiers to get into chemical protective suits. A Molotov cocktail is used by the Union army and is composed of gasoline in a bottle, lit by a cloth wick, and thrown at armored vehicles from close range. The U.S. is one of the first nations to introduce the portable flamethrower, first using it in 1915 against Confederate auxiliaries and rebels in Utah. The models include the M2 flamethrower and the Flamethrower-41. The unique nature of the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river system led to the development of specialized naval vessels to fight on these rivers. The United States river gunboat carried two 150 mm guns, cannons, machine guns, and grenade launchers which could be used to attack both other ships or enemy forts and ground positions. The Great Lakes provided both a defensive shield for Canada and the United States, and a chance to attack each other. On the Great Lakes, both the United States and Canada had Great Lake battleships, which were armored cruisers. The Union used them in the defense of New York during the Great War; Canada intended theirs to be war-winning weapons but mines and submarines quickly put that idea to rest. The United States developed the first aircraft carrier, the USS Remembrance. This ship first sailed in 1920 and assisted the Irish government in suppressing a pro-British rebellion in Ulster. The Remembrance was only the first of many U.S. aircraft carriers. During the Great War, the two principal missions for navies were to project power overseas and to protect or disrupt enemy commerce. The United States attacked the British forts at Pearl Harbor in the Sandwich Islands in 1914 and held these islands subsequently. The battleship was the primary weapon of all belligerent navies. The Battle of the Three Navies was the biggest battle in the War, between the U.S., British, and Japanese Navies, and proved to be a draw. Disruption of enemy commerce, protection of friendly merchant ships, and the destruction of enemy ships was the function of both the submarine and surface ships. Both the Quadruple Alliance and the Entente patrolled the Atlantic, which accelerated the development of convoys to protect merchantmen and specific anti-submarine tactics and weapons, such as Q-ships and depth charge projectors. However, with the oceans open to both sides, surface ships were able to disrupt enemy commerce. Confederate President Gabriel Semmes remarked that the difficulties of obtaining supplies from the Entente made defeat more possible. The entry of the Brazilian Empire on the side of the Quadruple Alliance led to the final disruption of Argentine food shipments to Great Britain, resulting in the armistice at sea in 1917. A third mission of navies was to provide supplies to rebels and guerrilla forces fighting enemy nations. In the Great War, the U.S. supplied rifles and machine guns to Ireland; the Pacific War was triggered by the U.S. discovery of Japanese supplies to British Columbia. New technologies were developed during the years between the Great War and the Pacific War. The aircraft carrier and the radar developed into a mature technology with the Union leading in the race. All of the powers had radar of one sort or another. To fight the submarine, sonar was used which was the term used for underwater sound equipment. The North Atlantic was the site of a large-scale naval battle in 1943 between the United States and the Royal and French Navies. The U.S. won the battle, enabling forces to land and recapture Bermuda from the British. As in the War of Secession, the Confederate navy was small, and in the War of 1941 was primarily focused on coastal defense. By the time of the Second Great War, their heaviest ships were four battlecruisers. The CSA made heavy use out of cruisers, commerce raiders, and submarines to try to damage US shipping and combat formations. Confederate coastal defenses weren’t strong enough to ward off US raids, and so the US was able to capture various parts of the coast during the Great Wars. The Union was the first state to consider rockets in war, based on a paper presented to President Robert Taft by the Huntsville Rocket Association. Union scientists invented the antitank rocket, such as the Bazooka, the M67 Recoilless Rifle, L6 Wombat, and the Panzerschreck. Rocket artillery, known as the BM-13, BM-31, and the T34 Calliope, and were also first used in by the Union Army. Finally, V-2 ballistic missiles were used as against C.S. cities, military bases and troops. U.S. fighter-bombers also mounted rockets to attack tanks when in the antitank role; however it was also useful to attack ground targets. A notable ground attack aircraft used by the Union is the Ilyushin II-2 due to number of tanks it destroyed. The German Empire was the first state suspected of having a program to develop fission bombs. Prominent scientists, such as Albert Einstein, disappeared from public view and papers on nuclear fission vanished after the Otto Hahn experiment on fission. The United States' nuclear program was based at the Hanford site in Washington State and at the Denver site. The program was supervised by the Assistant Secretary of War, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Confederate nuclear program began in 1943, when intelligence indicated the U.S. was developing the facilities to separate uranium-235 from -238. The Union program was able to start a self-sustaining nuclear reaction at the program at Hanford in Washington State, in 1943. In addition to uranium, the Union also succeeded in creating plutonium and neptunium. The one in Denver then started research on hydrogen bombs. The Confederates, fearing that the U.S. program was far ahead of theirs, launched an airstrike on the U.S. facilities in Hanford in 1943, causing little damage. A counterstrike by the U.S. on the Confederate program in the summer of 1943 killed three scientists key to the program, and maimed another. By 1944, Germany, the United States, Great Britain, and the Confederate States all built nuclear weapons, termed atom bombs. Germany used five in total, against the following locales: Petrograd, Paris, London, Norwich, and Brighton. The United States used two, against Newport News and Charleston. Britain used one against Hamburg, then had a second one intercepted and destroyed in Belgium. The Confederate bomb was to be used against Philadelphia; however the plane was intercepted and destroyed. After the Confederate surrender, Union scientist Henderson Belmont briefly discusses the creation of hydrogen bombs with US General Abner Dowling, saying that he wouldn't be surprised if they were perfected within the next 4-5 years. The United States of America Declared the Union to Be Whole Once More and the Confederate States of America Has Been Dissolved. The United States was no longer about freedom, democracy, and human rights. It was about conquest, domination, and economic and military might. This had led to a America governed by military rule, corporations focused and developing military weapons, and generals that had won many battles in face of a deadly enemy. This rule had lead to communism as the Socialist States of America or the SSA.

[The Grand Socialist States of America]

MY HISTORY FOOLS!!!

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Before the United States defeat in the Second Mexican War, military service was voluntary. Afterwards, it adopted Prussian methods of conscription in both peace and wartime. In addition, U.S. officers began attending German military academies to learn German military doctrine. Sometime between the Second Mexican War and the Great War, U.S. military uniforms were changed from dark blue to green-gray. The uniforms of the U.S., German, and Austro-Hungarian armies were similar in color, design, and cut, differing in rank insignia. Officer's rank insignia were unchanged from the War of Secession. During the Great War, 'coalscuttle' helmets were adopted, based on the recommendations of then-Colonel Irving Morrel. They were later adopted by the German Army, and during the Second Great War, the Confederate Army adopted a model very similar to them. Medals included the Purple Heart (for wounds), the Remembrance Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Medal of Honor. Civilians could receive the Order of Remembrance, First and Second Classes. When the Second Great War erupted, the United States Army retained its policy of how to treat of civilians in occupied territory the First Great War. Executing hostages was a policy which had been in force since the Great War. Towards the end of the war, twenty-five civilian hostages from a nearby town would be shot for every U.S. soldier killed, and one hundred for each use of a car bomb. During Morrell's drive to the sea several towns were wiped out, and their populaces murdered without warning, despite next to no Confederate resistance. This war of terror was waged with the goal of teaching the Confederate populace never to oppose the United States government again. In the case of South Carolina, in particular, the U.S. forces, aware of its role in the War of Secession, had no sympathy at all for the state. As the war went on, camouflaging efforts by both sides became more extensive. For example, the Union supply depots run by Major Dover were well-camouflaged from the air; a dummy supply post, deliberately less well-camouflaged, was placed nearby. This worked against air strikes. General Morrell used dummy tanks, smoke, false gas shells, and recordings of gunfire and troop movements to paralyze Confederate forces in Kentucky during the amphibious crossing of the Ohio River in 1943. In one case, a United States destroyer escort, the USS Josephus Daniels, was made out to be a Confederate destroyer escort, the CSS Hot Springs, and used to delivered munitions to rebels in Cuba. At the beginning of the Great War, there were 33 states in the Union. The State of Dakota covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of North Dakota and South Dakota, and the State of New Mexico covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of Arizona and New Mexico. At the conclusion of the Great War, the United States grew by two. A pro-United States legislature in Kentucky voted to rejoin the Union in 1916 and West Texas with its capital at Lubbock, in 1917. In addition, Virginia, Sonora, and Arkansas which were occupied by U.S. forces at the time of the Armistice were incorporated into West Virginia, New Mexico, and Missouri respectively. The Confederate state of Sequoyah was also annexed. The territory lost by Maine to Canada was rejoined to the state. The Sandwich Islands, Canada, Newfoundland, the Bahamas, and Bermuda all became U.S. territories. The Mormons of Utah attempted during the Great War to secede and form their own nation, but were suppressed in 1916. They tried again in 1941, and were again suppressed. Following the Richmond Agreement of 1940 between Presidents Al Smith of the U.S. and Jake Featherston of the Confederacy, voting was held in Kentucky, Houston, and Sequoyah; the former two states voted to rejoin the Confederacy. Sequoyah, possibly due to a large number of settlers from the USA, decided to remain in the Union. In 1943, the U.S. announced plans to revive Houston, as well as readmitting Kentucky and Tennessee to the Union following the advances towards Georgia and east Texas. After the Second Great War ends in 1944, the United States divides the defeated Confederacy into a number of Military Administrative Zones and announces that all former Confederate States will eventually be returned to the USA. Washington, D.C., remained the de jure capital of the United States, but its proximity to the Confederate States made governing impractical from there. Philadelphia is the functional capital of the United States. The Powel House is the home of the President. A side-effect is that Washingtonians are granted to have a representative of their own in Congress (unlike in our timeline). During the period of U.S. occupation in the Second Great War when the Confederacy was returned to the Union in 1944, the Union State Police were, in effect, the countries secret police force, aimed at suppressing Confederate rebels and neutralizing threats to the country. The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 which dealt with the resolutions of international conflict and the conduct of war. An international court sat at The Hague, in the Netherlands. Practically, however, because of the distance between the Netherlands and North America, and far more importantly, as in our timeline, because the tribunal lacked any coercive power, the conduct of war and the treatment of captives were tempered only by the fear of retaliation. The United States adopted the German tactic of hostage execution in occupied lands (in our timeline, this was not covered by the 1907 Hague Convention). This practice continued during the Second Great War. Civilian snipers were executed on the spot. Confederates occupying the United States treated civilians harshly, and U.S. soldiers occupying the Confederacy executed rebels in areas where U.S. soldiers were killed by civilians. This led to a proclamation by the Freedom Party that U.S. soldiers who executed rebels that supported the Confederacy would not be treated as prisoners of war. After the occupation of Canada and Newfoundland, the existing government was abolished and the U.S. governed the gained territories. The Occupation Administrative Code served as the basic law of the land. It provided courts for civilians, and allowed the use of confidential informants to provide evidence, but also allowed for defense counsel of the defendant's choosing, and in many cases charges could be dropped or penalties reduces based on exculpatory evidence. During the occupation of the former Confederate States following the unconditional surrender of July 1944, the Confederate national government was abolished, but state and local governments remained in place to carry out directives from U.S. military governors. Hospitals tended to be respected by all belligerents in the Great War; in the Second Great War, the Confederates in some cases used ambulances to transport President Featherston and assumed that similar abuses went on behind U.S. lines. Prisoners of war were treated relatively well during the Great Wars. As per the 1907 Hague Convention in this timeline, there were conventions both sides followed. Attempted escape could be punished by the captors; however, prisoners who escaped and reached their own lines could not be punished for the escape. The Geneva Convention was generally followed by the U.S., as U.S. soldiers’ state, "We follow the Geneva Convention. We play fair with prisoners." Privileges of POWs included the ability to write home on occasion. The United States, however, provided more amenities, such as wireless sets, to Confederate prisoners than the minimal amenities provided in Confederate POW camps such as Andersonville, Georgia. Civilian prisoners were exchanged between the U.S. and the Confederacy in both the Great War and the Second Great War. The United States had some form of rationing from sometime after the Second Mexican War until the victory in the Second Great War. During the Great Wars, kerosene, food and coal was rationed; this extended to the U.S. Occupied Territories of Canada. Despite the official hostility between the United States and the Confederate States, however, trade between the two nations continued. U.S. manufactured goods and automobiles, such as the Ford Model T, were sold in the Confederate States, and Confederate agricultural goods, such as cattle, cottonseed oil cakes, and tobacco, were sold in the U.S. During the hyper-inflation of the early 1920s, U.S. currency was itself a commodity to be sold to the south. During the Great War and the Second Great War, informal trading between the two armies went on despite official efforts to stop it. Confederate tobacco products were traded for U.S. Army rations. United States canned ham was the most popular item Yankees traded; Duke Cigarettes and coffee were traded in return. Abolitionist books such as Uncle Tom's Cabin were banned in the Confederacy for its independence. Both sides censored the radio and press during the Great War and the Second Great War; however, the Confederate Featherston administration also censored incoming material from the United States, including Superman comics. Confederate blacks who had been fighting as guerrillas during the War were recruited as auxiliary soldiers by the United States Army in occupied Confederate territory. They were issued rifles, wore at U.S. Army uniforms, with an armband in red, white, and blue with the legend "USA". As the auxiliaries were better organized, they were issued helmets. They were also given the U.S. Army dress uniform. The proximity of the United States to the Confederate States, and the use of a common language, made intelligence gathering efforts easy for both sides. For example, in the Confederate occupation of Washington, D.C. during the Great War, the U.S. was able to develop a network of civilian agents that routinely reported intelligence back to Philadelphia and to perform various acts of sabotage. Between the wars, visits by U.S. warships to Confederate ports, commercial travel, and aviation became means of gathering detailed information. The Union intelligence service was offensively-oriented, however also emphasized counter-intelligence. The Second Great War saw the development of special operations conducted by other than regular forces. The Union developed a unit of men who wore Confederate uniforms and spoke with 'Southern' accents to disrupt Confederate defenses in Ohio. On the 1943 crossing of the Tennessee River, when the U.S. 133rd Special Reconnaissance Company, dressed in Confederate uniforms, caused sufficient confusion for General Morrell's army to seize a bridgehead. In addition to these special operations, the United States Marine Corps and Navy mounted special raids on the Confederate coastline. In our timeline, the game of baseball was played by soldiers in both armies during the latter years of the Civil War, and became a national sport when those soldiers took it home with them after the war. Since the war ended in 1862, baseball never achieved the status of a national sport in this timeline. It was played as a regional sport in New England and New York. Football is the dominant sport of both the Confederacy and the United States. It is played during Christmas between the two armies. The U.S. rules allowed the introduction of the forward pass before the Great War; the Confederacy adopted the forward pass after the war. A nation-wide professional league was formed in the U.S. in the 1920s. Semi-pro and minor-league teams were common, such as the Toledo Mud Hens. California's leagues, which included teams such as the Los Angeles Dons, the Portland Columbias, and the Seattle Sharks. The United States tried, and failed, twice to host the Summer Games. In 1928, the U.S. attempted to have the Games in Los Angeles, but Berlin was selected instead. Los Angeles was also the base of the U.S. bid for the 1936 Games, but again, it lost, this time to Richmond. The Japanese raid on Los Angeles in 1932 may have had an impact on the final decision, which came in 1933. The wireless became a key cultural tie in the period between the two Great Wars. Broadcasting networks spanned North America. It can be inferred from "The Grapple" that U.S. and Confederate broadcasters use a channel separation of 10 kHz instead of the 9 kHz used in Europe and Asia. Once war began, both sides used jamming equipment to inhibit each other's broadcasts that could be heard in the other's territory. Broadcasting involved propaganda for the war effort, sports, crime, and local news filled time at stations away from the front lines. Movies were also a means of mass entertainment in this timeline. United States movie studios were in Hollywood. The Broadway revue and Broadway musical also developed in this timeline. "O, Sequoyah!" was released in 1943 and became a hit musical. The United States comic book Superman was popular in both countries, despite its official banning by the Confederate government. The airplane was invented in the United States; the need to produce other sorts of weapons prevented an indigenous U.S. design during the early years of the Great War. The principal U.S. scout/fighter was the Wright, (it looks like out timelines German Albatros fighter) and they also used the Sopwith Camel. U.S. aircraft were marked with an eagle in front of two crossed swords. Despite the short distances between major cities in the U.S. and the Confederacy, the U.S. developed several long-range bombers between the wars. Plus bomber development for use back home focused on increased bomb load and armament. This proved to be a advantage in the Pacific War and during the Second Great War with Japan. Richmond was raided routinely in both the Great War and the Second Great War, incurring heavy damage; while Philadelphia was also raided its advanced air defense systems protected it from any serious damage. New York could be reached by bombers with more fuel and less payload, and was less damaged. In the West, U.S. bombers based in Clovis, New Mexico, caused massive amounts of damage to Dallas and Fort Worth in 1942 in daylight raids. The Confederacy mounted a one-way raid on the United States nuclear facilities in Hanford, Washington, from air bases in Texas, Sonora, and Chihuahua; the planes, however, required a light bomb load, caused little to no damage and had to be ditched. The United States tactical bomber aircraft during the Second Great War included the B-17 Flying Fortress, Avro Lancaster, B-29 Superfortress, B-24 Liberator, P-61 Black Widow and the DH Mosquito. The P-51 Mustang, the P-40 Tomahawk, Spitfire XVI, and the F6F Hellcat were the main US single seat fighters. Union planes had superior firepower and performance, as well as reliability. The U.S. also used the Me-109 and the Me-110 in which both claimed 928 victories. The Ju-87 Stuka was a bomber and fighter developed by the Confederacy. It made a terrifying whine as it swooped down to attack targets, and was effective during the invasion of Ohio. However, U.S. fighters and anti-aircraft guns showed the Stuka's vulnerabilities. The PBY Catalina was a United States Navy amphibious reconnaissance plane. In the third year of the Second Great War, the United States introduced fighter-bombers, fighter craft with attached bombs and rockets. These new planes largely supplanted earlier dive bombers, and provided brutally effective air support. The main U.S. fighter bomber was the P-47 Thunderbolt which is described as being armed with a mix of several cannons, machine guns, and missiles. In mid-1943, the United States began introducing jet-propelled fighters. These models included the P80-B Shooting Stars, F2H-2 Cutlass, F-86 Saber, the Dassault Mirage III, the Union Electric Lightning, the F-15 Eagle, and the F-35 Lightning II. The code name for the development of a mobile armored vehicle by the U.S. during the Great War was “tank”. The United States led the way in tank development during both Great Wars. After the War, the various Tank Works were established across the country under the command of Colonel Irving Morrell. The Confederacy did not openly develop tanks until the Featherstone Administration. However, Confederate volunteers with the Mexican Imperial forces gained operational experience using tanks. The US tanks of the Second Great War were the first to sport sloping armor. The Union used sloping armor, on their tanks which were equipped with a heavy 75 mm cannon, making them the most powerful tanks yet deployed. The C.S.A. Mark II upgrade was an attempt to hold back superior Union tanks and tank formations while a new, more powerful, barrel could be built. While both sides use different caliber rounds for their rifles, both sides' tanks use M2 Browning machine guns, most likely on their turrets. Union tanks include the Panzer III, Panzer IV, T-34, M4 Sherman, Panther Tank, Valentine Mk II, and IS-2, the IS-3, M-48 Patton, M24 Chaffee, and the Churchill tank, the Centurion Mk. 3 Tank, the KV1 1942 Heavy Tank, the Tiger II, the Sherman Firefly, the SU-100, the SU-152, and the Comet Tank. Armored vehicles used by the Union include the Daimler Armored Car Mk. II, the T-20 armored tractor, the LVT Amtrak, the M3 Half-Track, the M3 GMC, the M7 Priest, the M8 Greyhound, the M18 Hellcat, the M40 GMC, the Marmon-Herrington Armored Car, the T17 Armored Car, and the Bren Gun Carrier. This new development known as “tank busters”, implemented in 1943, started as a Union solution to support U.S. tank formations. Union tank busters are superb at killing tanks at any range and with single hits. It was speculated that the C.S.A. would have begin production of their own, to maximize armored presence on the battlefield. Union tank busters include the Sturm III, the ISU-122, ISU-152, the M36, and the M10 Tank Destroyer. The M1903 Springfield rifle of the Great War was in use throughout Great War II, it was shortened and modernized. The M1 Garand and the Lee-Enfield Mk. 3 is also used by the U.S. Army. In the GWII, Union forces also wield M2 Carbines, Thompson 1928s, and M3 Grease Guns. The BAR or Browning Auto Rifle is also used. It is clearly stated that the Confederate as well as the Union sidearm was the Colt M1911. The Union also used the Winchester Model 12 shotgun. During the Second Mexican War, the U.S. experimented with Gatling guns. A Gatling gun unit commanded by George Custer stopped the British invasion of Montana in 1882. Both the U.S. and the Confederacy used machine guns with great effect in the Great War. The U.S. used the Maxim, and later in the Great War deployed the Browning Automatic Rifles which were deployed as light machine guns by US forces during the Great Wars. The Springfield 1903 rifle and M1 Garand rifle remained the main infantry weapon of the U.S. Army in both the Great War and the Second Great war. The Springfield is a bolt-action rifle with a 5-round clip. These rifles were later supplemented by Thompson submachine guns, "big, brutal, and Made in the USA" sometime in late 1943. The M-14 with a 20-round magazine and the PPSH-41 with a 35 and 71 round drum magazines were main weapons of the Union Army during the Second Great War. These were popular weapon with US troops, due to their overall superiority to bolt-action weapons. Union troops also used submachine guns to supplement their automatic rifles. The Union machine gun described as firing so fast it sounded like "a giant tearing a sail in half", which is the MG 42. The USA also uses the M1919A4 Browning machine gun. The USA and CSA are equipped both equipped with M2 Browning machine guns. The U.S. and Confederate Armies used different caliber ammunition for their weapons. The principal cannon of the Confederate Army during the Great Wars were the 75 mm howitzers used by the French Army. The Confederate army also used a 100 mm howitzer. Infantry units started using 66 mm mortars in the Great War. The Union army also used 105mm and 107mm mortars during the Second Great War. Another notable mortar used by the Union was the NBW-40 which was a 105mm mortar. The U.S. army used various artillery pieces which include the SIG 33 artillery gun, the SFH 18, the Ordnance QF 25 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 17 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 6 Pounder Mk.2, the PAK 44, the PAK 43, the PAK 41, the D-1 Howitzer, the M-30 Howitzer, the ML-20 Howitzer, the M1919 Coastal Gun, the M3 90mm Dual-Purpose Artillery Gun, the 155mm Long Tom, the GPF 155mm Cannon, the M101 Howitzer, the M1 240mm Howitzer, the M114 Howitzer, the M115 Howitzer, the BL 7.2-inch Howitzer Mk.1, the BL 5.5-inch Medium Gun, the BL 4.5-Inch Medium Gun, and the Flak 88mm Artillery Gun. Both the U.S. and Confederacy used poison gas in both the Great War and the Second Great War, including blister agents, blood agents, and nerve agents, which required soldiers to get into chemical protective suits. A Molotov cocktail is used by the Union army and is composed of gasoline in a bottle, lit by a cloth wick, and thrown at armored vehicles from close range. The U.S. is one of the first nations to introduce the portable flamethrower, first using it in 1915 against Confederate auxiliaries and rebels in Utah. The models include the M2 flamethrower and the Flamethrower-41. The unique nature of the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river system led to the development of specialized naval vessels to fight on these rivers. The United States river gunboat carried two 150 mm guns, cannons, machine guns, and grenade launchers which could be used to attack both other ships or enemy forts and ground positions. The Great Lakes provided both a defensive shield for Canada and the United States, and a chance to attack each other. On the Great Lakes, both the United States and Canada had Great Lake battleships, which were armored cruisers. The Union used them in the defense of New York during the Great War; Canada intended theirs to be war-winning weapons but mines and submarines quickly put that idea to rest. The United States developed the first aircraft carrier, the USS Remembrance. This ship first sailed in 1920 and assisted the Irish government in suppressing a pro-British rebellion in Ulster. The Remembrance was only the first of many U.S. aircraft carriers. During the Great War, the two principal missions for navies were to project power overseas and to protect or disrupt enemy commerce. The United States attacked the British forts at Pearl Harbor in the Sandwich Islands in 1914 and held these islands subsequently. The battleship was the primary weapon of all belligerent navies. The Battle of the Three Navies was the biggest battle in the War, between the U.S., British, and Japanese Navies, and proved to be a draw. Disruption of enemy commerce, protection of friendly merchant ships, and the destruction of enemy ships was the function of both the submarine and surface ships. Both the Quadruple Alliance and the Entente patrolled the Atlantic, which accelerated the development of convoys to protect merchantmen and specific anti-submarine tactics and weapons, such as Q-ships and depth charge projectors. However, with the oceans open to both sides, surface ships were able to disrupt enemy commerce. Confederate President Gabriel Semmes remarked that the difficulties of obtaining supplies from the Entente made defeat more possible. The entry of the Brazilian Empire on the side of the Quadruple Alliance led to the final disruption of Argentine food shipments to Great Britain, resulting in the armistice at sea in 1917. A third mission of navies was to provide supplies to rebels and guerrilla forces fighting enemy nations. In the Great War, the U.S. supplied rifles and machine guns to Ireland; the Pacific War was triggered by the U.S. discovery of Japanese supplies to British Columbia. New technologies were developed during the years between the Great War and the Pacific War. The aircraft carrier and the radar developed into a mature technology with the Union leading in the race. All of the powers had radar of one sort or another. To fight the submarine, sonar was used which was the term used for underwater sound equipment. The North Atlantic was the site of a large-scale naval battle in 1943 between the United States and the Royal and French Navies. The U.S. won the battle, enabling forces to land and recapture Bermuda from the British. As in the War of Secession, the Confederate navy was small, and in the War of 1941 was primarily focused on coastal defense. By the time of the Second Great War, their heaviest ships were four battlecruisers. The CSA made heavy use out of cruisers, commerce raiders, and submarines to try to damage US shipping and combat formations. Confederate coastal defenses weren’t strong enough to ward off US raids, and so the US was able to capture various parts of the coast during the Great Wars. The Union was the first state to consider rockets in war, based on a paper presented to President Robert Taft by the Huntsville Rocket Association. Union scientists invented the antitank rocket, such as the Bazooka, the M67 Recoilless Rifle, L6 Wombat, and the Panzerschreck. Rocket artillery, known as the BM-13, BM-31, and the T34 Calliope, and were also first used in by the Union Army. Finally, V-2 ballistic missiles were used as against C.S. cities, military bases and troops. U.S. fighter-bombers also mounted rockets to attack tanks when in the antitank role; however it was also useful to attack ground targets. A notable ground attack aircraft used by the Union is the Ilyushin II-2 due to number of tanks it destroyed. The German Empire was the first state suspected of having a program to develop fission bombs. Prominent scientists, such as Albert Einstein, disappeared from public view and papers on nuclear fission vanished after the Otto Hahn experiment on fission. The United States' nuclear program was based at the Hanford site in Washington State and at the Denver site. The program was supervised by the Assistant Secretary of War, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Confederate nuclear program began in 1943, when intelligence indicated the U.S. was developing the facilities to separate uranium-235 from -238. The Union program was able to start a self-sustaining nuclear reaction at the program at Hanford in Washington State, in 1943. In addition to uranium, the Union also succeeded in creating plutonium and neptunium. The one in Denver then started research on hydrogen bombs. The Confederates, fearing that the U.S. program was far ahead of theirs, launched an airstrike on the U.S. facilities in Hanford in 1943, causing little damage. A counterstrike by the U.S. on the Confederate program in the summer of 1943 killed three scientists key to the program, and maimed another. By 1944, Germany, the United States, Great Britain, and the Confederate States all built nuclear weapons, termed atom bombs. Germany used five in total, against the following locales: Petrograd, Paris, London, Norwich, and Brighton. The United States used two, against Newport News and Charleston. Britain used one against Hamburg, then had a second one intercepted and destroyed in Belgium. The Confederate bomb was to be used against Philadelphia; however the plane was intercepted and destroyed. After the Confederate surrender, Union scientist Henderson Belmont briefly discusses the creation of hydrogen bombs with US General Abner Dowling, saying that he wouldn't be surprised if they were perfected within the next 4-5 years. The United States of America Declared the Union to Be Whole Once More and the Confederate States of America Has Been Dissolved. The United States was no longer about freedom, democracy, and human rights. It was about conquest, domination, and economic and military might. This had led to a America governed by military rule, corporations focused and developing military weapons, and generals that had won many battles in face of a deadly enemy. This rule had lead to communism as the Socialist States of America or the SSA.

[The Grand Socialist States of America]

MY HISTORY FOOLS!!!

American Empire-Southern Victory Series
Before the United States defeat in the Second Mexican War, military service was voluntary. Afterwards, it adopted Prussian methods of conscription in both peace and wartime. In addition, U.S. officers began attending German military academies to learn German military doctrine. Sometime between the Second Mexican War and the Great War, U.S. military uniforms were changed from dark blue to green-gray. The uniforms of the U.S., German, and Austro-Hungarian armies were similar in color, design, and cut, differing in rank insignia. Officer's rank insignia were unchanged from the War of Secession. During the Great War, 'coalscuttle' helmets were adopted, based on the recommendations of then-Colonel Irving Morrel. They were later adopted by the German Army, and during the Second Great War, the Confederate Army adopted a model very similar to them. Medals included the Purple Heart (for wounds), the Remembrance Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Medal of Honor. Civilians could receive the Order of Remembrance, First and Second Classes. When the Second Great War erupted, the United States Army retained its policy of how to treat of civilians in occupied territory the First Great War. Executing hostages was a policy which had been in force since the Great War. Towards the end of the war, twenty-five civilian hostages from a nearby town would be shot for every U.S. soldier killed, and one hundred for each use of a car bomb. During Morrell's drive to the sea several towns were wiped out, and their populaces murdered without warning, despite next to no Confederate resistance. This war of terror was waged with the goal of teaching the Confederate populace never to oppose the United States government again. In the case of South Carolina, in particular, the U.S. forces, aware of its role in the War of Secession, had no sympathy at all for the state. As the war went on, camouflaging efforts by both sides became more extensive. For example, the Union supply depots run by Major Dover were well-camouflaged from the air; a dummy supply post, deliberately less well-camouflaged, was placed nearby. This worked against air strikes. General Morrell used dummy tanks, smoke, false gas shells, and recordings of gunfire and troop movements to paralyze Confederate forces in Kentucky during the amphibious crossing of the Ohio River in 1943. In one case, a United States destroyer escort, the USS Josephus Daniels, was made out to be a Confederate destroyer escort, the CSS Hot Springs, and used to delivered munitions to rebels in Cuba. At the beginning of the Great War, there were 33 states in the Union. The State of Dakota covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of North Dakota and South Dakota, and the State of New Mexico covered the lands which in our timeline are the states of Arizona and New Mexico. At the conclusion of the Great War, the United States grew by two. A pro-United States legislature in Kentucky voted to rejoin the Union in 1916 and West Texas with its capital at Lubbock, in 1917. In addition, Virginia, Sonora, and Arkansas which were occupied by U.S. forces at the time of the Armistice were incorporated into West Virginia, New Mexico, and Missouri respectively. The Confederate state of Sequoyah was also annexed. The territory lost by Maine to Canada was rejoined to the state. The Sandwich Islands, Canada, Newfoundland, the Bahamas, and Bermuda all became U.S. territories. The Mormons of Utah attempted during the Great War to secede and form their own nation, but were suppressed in 1916. They tried again in 1941, and were again suppressed. Following the Richmond Agreement of 1940 between Presidents Al Smith of the U.S. and Jake Featherston of the Confederacy, voting was held in Kentucky, Houston, and Sequoyah; the former two states voted to rejoin the Confederacy. Sequoyah, possibly due to a large number of settlers from the USA, decided to remain in the Union. In 1943, the U.S. announced plans to revive Houston, as well as readmitting Kentucky and Tennessee to the Union following the advances towards Georgia and east Texas. After the Second Great War ends in 1944, the United States divides the defeated Confederacy into a number of Military Administrative Zones and announces that all former Confederate States will eventually be returned to the USA. Washington, D.C., remained the de jure capital of the United States, but its proximity to the Confederate States made governing impractical from there. Philadelphia is the functional capital of the United States. The Powel House is the home of the President. A side-effect is that Washingtonians are granted to have a representative of their own in Congress (unlike in our timeline). During the period of U.S. occupation in the Second Great War when the Confederacy was returned to the Union in 1944, the Union State Police were, in effect, the countries secret police force, aimed at suppressing Confederate rebels and neutralizing threats to the country. The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 which dealt with the resolutions of international conflict and the conduct of war. An international court sat at The Hague, in the Netherlands. Practically, however, because of the distance between the Netherlands and North America, and far more importantly, as in our timeline, because the tribunal lacked any coercive power, the conduct of war and the treatment of captives were tempered only by the fear of retaliation. The United States adopted the German tactic of hostage execution in occupied lands (in our timeline, this was not covered by the 1907 Hague Convention). This practice continued during the Second Great War. Civilian snipers were executed on the spot. Confederates occupying the United States treated civilians harshly, and U.S. soldiers occupying the Confederacy executed rebels in areas where U.S. soldiers were killed by civilians. This led to a proclamation by the Freedom Party that U.S. soldiers who executed rebels that supported the Confederacy would not be treated as prisoners of war. After the occupation of Canada and Newfoundland, the existing government was abolished and the U.S. governed the gained territories. The Occupation Administrative Code served as the basic law of the land. It provided courts for civilians, and allowed the use of confidential informants to provide evidence, but also allowed for defense counsel of the defendant's choosing, and in many cases charges could be dropped or penalties reduces based on exculpatory evidence. During the occupation of the former Confederate States following the unconditional surrender of July 1944, the Confederate national government was abolished, but state and local governments remained in place to carry out directives from U.S. military governors. Hospitals tended to be respected by all belligerents in the Great War; in the Second Great War, the Confederates in some cases used ambulances to transport President Featherston and assumed that similar abuses went on behind U.S. lines. Prisoners of war were treated relatively well during the Great Wars. As per the 1907 Hague Convention in this timeline, there were conventions both sides followed. Attempted escape could be punished by the captors; however, prisoners who escaped and reached their own lines could not be punished for the escape. The Geneva Convention was generally followed by the U.S., as U.S. soldiers’ state, "We follow the Geneva Convention. We play fair with prisoners." Privileges of POWs included the ability to write home on occasion. The United States, however, provided more amenities, such as wireless sets, to Confederate prisoners than the minimal amenities provided in Confederate POW camps such as Andersonville, Georgia. Civilian prisoners were exchanged between the U.S. and the Confederacy in both the Great War and the Second Great War. The United States had some form of rationing from sometime after the Second Mexican War until the victory in the Second Great War. During the Great Wars, kerosene, food and coal was rationed; this extended to the U.S. Occupied Territories of Canada. Despite the official hostility between the United States and the Confederate States, however, trade between the two nations continued. U.S. manufactured goods and automobiles, such as the Ford Model T, were sold in the Confederate States, and Confederate agricultural goods, such as cattle, cottonseed oil cakes, and tobacco, were sold in the U.S. During the hyper-inflation of the early 1920s, U.S. currency was itself a commodity to be sold to the south. During the Great War and the Second Great War, informal trading between the two armies went on despite official efforts to stop it. Confederate tobacco products were traded for U.S. Army rations. United States canned ham was the most popular item Yankees traded; Duke Cigarettes and coffee were traded in return. Abolitionist books such as Uncle Tom's Cabin were banned in the Confederacy for its independence. Both sides censored the radio and press during the Great War and the Second Great War; however, the Confederate Featherston administration also censored incoming material from the United States, including Superman comics. Confederate blacks who had been fighting as guerrillas during the War were recruited as auxiliary soldiers by the United States Army in occupied Confederate territory. They were issued rifles, wore at U.S. Army uniforms, with an armband in red, white, and blue with the legend "USA". As the auxiliaries were better organized, they were issued helmets. They were also given the U.S. Army dress uniform. The proximity of the United States to the Confederate States, and the use of a common language, made intelligence gathering efforts easy for both sides. For example, in the Confederate occupation of Washington, D.C. during the Great War, the U.S. was able to develop a network of civilian agents that routinely reported intelligence back to Philadelphia and to perform various acts of sabotage. Between the wars, visits by U.S. warships to Confederate ports, commercial travel, and aviation became means of gathering detailed information. The Union intelligence service was offensively-oriented, however also emphasized counter-intelligence. The Second Great War saw the development of special operations conducted by other than regular forces. The Union developed a unit of men who wore Confederate uniforms and spoke with 'Southern' accents to disrupt Confederate defenses in Ohio. On the 1943 crossing of the Tennessee River, when the U.S. 133rd Special Reconnaissance Company, dressed in Confederate uniforms, caused sufficient confusion for General Morrell's army to seize a bridgehead. In addition to these special operations, the United States Marine Corps and Navy mounted special raids on the Confederate coastline. In our timeline, the game of baseball was played by soldiers in both armies during the latter years of the Civil War, and became a national sport when those soldiers took it home with them after the war. Since the war ended in 1862, baseball never achieved the status of a national sport in this timeline. It was played as a regional sport in New England and New York. Football is the dominant sport of both the Confederacy and the United States. It is played during Christmas between the two armies. The U.S. rules allowed the introduction of the forward pass before the Great War; the Confederacy adopted the forward pass after the war. A nation-wide professional league was formed in the U.S. in the 1920s. Semi-pro and minor-league teams were common, such as the Toledo Mud Hens. California's leagues, which included teams such as the Los Angeles Dons, the Portland Columbias, and the Seattle Sharks. The United States tried, and failed, twice to host the Summer Games. In 1928, the U.S. attempted to have the Games in Los Angeles, but Berlin was selected instead. Los Angeles was also the base of the U.S. bid for the 1936 Games, but again, it lost, this time to Richmond. The Japanese raid on Los Angeles in 1932 may have had an impact on the final decision, which came in 1933. The wireless became a key cultural tie in the period between the two Great Wars. Broadcasting networks spanned North America. It can be inferred from "The Grapple" that U.S. and Confederate broadcasters use a channel separation of 10 kHz instead of the 9 kHz used in Europe and Asia. Once war began, both sides used jamming equipment to inhibit each other's broadcasts that could be heard in the other's territory. Broadcasting involved propaganda for the war effort, sports, crime, and local news filled time at stations away from the front lines. Movies were also a means of mass entertainment in this timeline. United States movie studios were in Hollywood. The Broadway revue and Broadway musical also developed in this timeline. "O, Sequoyah!" was released in 1943 and became a hit musical. The United States comic book Superman was popular in both countries, despite its official banning by the Confederate government. The airplane was invented in the United States; the need to produce other sorts of weapons prevented an indigenous U.S. design during the early years of the Great War. The principal U.S. scout/fighter was the Wright, (it looks like out timelines German Albatros fighter) and they also used the Sopwith Camel. U.S. aircraft were marked with an eagle in front of two crossed swords. Despite the short distances between major cities in the U.S. and the Confederacy, the U.S. developed several long-range bombers between the wars. Plus bomber development for use back home focused on increased bomb load and armament. This proved to be a advantage in the Pacific War and during the Second Great War with Japan. Richmond was raided routinely in both the Great War and the Second Great War, incurring heavy damage; while Philadelphia was also raided its advanced air defense systems protected it from any serious damage. New York could be reached by bombers with more fuel and less payload, and was less damaged. In the West, U.S. bombers based in Clovis, New Mexico, caused massive amounts of damage to Dallas and Fort Worth in 1942 in daylight raids. The Confederacy mounted a one-way raid on the United States nuclear facilities in Hanford, Washington, from air bases in Texas, Sonora, and Chihuahua; the planes, however, required a light bomb load, caused little to no damage and had to be ditched. The United States tactical bomber aircraft during the Second Great War included the B-17 Flying Fortress, Avro Lancaster, B-29 Superfortress, B-24 Liberator, P-61 Black Widow and the DH Mosquito. The P-51 Mustang, the P-40 Tomahawk, Spitfire XVI, and the F6F Hellcat were the main US single seat fighters. Union planes had superior firepower and performance, as well as reliability. The U.S. also used the Me-109 and the Me-110 in which both claimed 928 victories. The Ju-87 Stuka was a bomber and fighter developed by the Confederacy. It made a terrifying whine as it swooped down to attack targets, and was effective during the invasion of Ohio. However, U.S. fighters and anti-aircraft guns showed the Stuka's vulnerabilities. The PBY Catalina was a United States Navy amphibious reconnaissance plane. In the third year of the Second Great War, the United States introduced fighter-bombers, fighter craft with attached bombs and rockets. These new planes largely supplanted earlier dive bombers, and provided brutally effective air support. The main U.S. fighter bomber was the P-47 Thunderbolt which is described as being armed with a mix of several cannons, machine guns, and missiles. In mid-1943, the United States began introducing jet-propelled fighters. These models included the P80-B Shooting Stars, F2H-2 Cutlass, F-86 Saber, the Dassault Mirage III, the Union Electric Lightning, the F-15 Eagle, and the F-35 Lightning II. The code name for the development of a mobile armored vehicle by the U.S. during the Great War was “tank”. The United States led the way in tank development during both Great Wars. After the War, the various Tank Works were established across the country under the command of Colonel Irving Morrell. The Confederacy did not openly develop tanks until the Featherstone Administration. However, Confederate volunteers with the Mexican Imperial forces gained operational experience using tanks. The US tanks of the Second Great War were the first to sport sloping armor. The Union used sloping armor, on their tanks which were equipped with a heavy 75 mm cannon, making them the most powerful tanks yet deployed. The C.S.A. Mark II upgrade was an attempt to hold back superior Union tanks and tank formations while a new, more powerful, barrel could be built. While both sides use different caliber rounds for their rifles, both sides' tanks use M2 Browning machine guns, most likely on their turrets. Union tanks include the Panzer III, Panzer IV, T-34, M4 Sherman, Panther Tank, Valentine Mk II, and IS-2, the IS-3, M-48 Patton, M24 Chaffee, and the Churchill tank, the Centurion Mk. 3 Tank, the KV1 1942 Heavy Tank, the Tiger II, the Sherman Firefly, the SU-100, the SU-152, and the Comet Tank. Armored vehicles used by the Union include the Daimler Armored Car Mk. II, the T-20 armored tractor, the LVT Amtrak, the M3 Half-Track, the M3 GMC, the M7 Priest, the M8 Greyhound, the M18 Hellcat, the M40 GMC, the Marmon-Herrington Armored Car, the T17 Armored Car, and the Bren Gun Carrier. This new development known as “tank busters”, implemented in 1943, started as a Union solution to support U.S. tank formations. Union tank busters are superb at killing tanks at any range and with single hits. It was speculated that the C.S.A. would have begin production of their own, to maximize armored presence on the battlefield. Union tank busters include the Sturm III, the ISU-122, ISU-152, the M36, and the M10 Tank Destroyer. The M1903 Springfield rifle of the Great War was in use throughout Great War II, it was shortened and modernized. The M1 Garand and the Lee-Enfield Mk. 3 is also used by the U.S. Army. In the GWII, Union forces also wield M2 Carbines, Thompson 1928s, and M3 Grease Guns. The BAR or Browning Auto Rifle is also used. It is clearly stated that the Confederate as well as the Union sidearm was the Colt M1911. The Union also used the Winchester Model 12 shotgun. During the Second Mexican War, the U.S. experimented with Gatling guns. A Gatling gun unit commanded by George Custer stopped the British invasion of Montana in 1882. Both the U.S. and the Confederacy used machine guns with great effect in the Great War. The U.S. used the Maxim, and later in the Great War deployed the Browning Automatic Rifles which were deployed as light machine guns by US forces during the Great Wars. The Springfield 1903 rifle and M1 Garand rifle remained the main infantry weapon of the U.S. Army in both the Great War and the Second Great war. The Springfield is a bolt-action rifle with a 5-round clip. These rifles were later supplemented by Thompson submachine guns, "big, brutal, and Made in the USA" sometime in late 1943. The M-14 with a 20-round magazine and the PPSH-41 with a 35 and 71 round drum magazines were main weapons of the Union Army during the Second Great War. These were popular weapon with US troops, due to their overall superiority to bolt-action weapons. Union troops also used submachine guns to supplement their automatic rifles. The Union machine gun described as firing so fast it sounded like "a giant tearing a sail in half", which is the MG 42. The USA also uses the M1919A4 Browning machine gun. The USA and CSA are equipped both equipped with M2 Browning machine guns. The U.S. and Confederate Armies used different caliber ammunition for their weapons. The principal cannon of the Confederate Army during the Great Wars were the 75 mm howitzers used by the French Army. The Confederate army also used a 100 mm howitzer. Infantry units started using 66 mm mortars in the Great War. The Union army also used 105mm and 107mm mortars during the Second Great War. Another notable mortar used by the Union was the NBW-40 which was a 105mm mortar. The U.S. army used various artillery pieces which include the SIG 33 artillery gun, the SFH 18, the Ordnance QF 25 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 17 Pounder, the Ordnance QF 6 Pounder Mk.2, the PAK 44, the PAK 43, the PAK 41, the D-1 Howitzer, the M-30 Howitzer, the ML-20 Howitzer, the M1919 Coastal Gun, the M3 90mm Dual-Purpose Artillery Gun, the 155mm Long Tom, the GPF 155mm Cannon, the M101 Howitzer, the M1 240mm Howitzer, the M114 Howitzer, the M115 Howitzer, the BL 7.2-inch Howitzer Mk.1, the BL 5.5-inch Medium Gun, the BL 4.5-Inch Medium Gun, and the Flak 88mm Artillery Gun. Both the U.S. and Confederacy used poison gas in both the Great War and the Second Great War, including blister agents, blood agents, and nerve agents, which required soldiers to get into chemical protective suits. A Molotov cocktail is used by the Union army and is composed of gasoline in a bottle, lit by a cloth wick, and thrown at armored vehicles from close range. The U.S. is one of the first nations to introduce the portable flamethrower, first using it in 1915 against Confederate auxiliaries and rebels in Utah. The models include the M2 flamethrower and the Flamethrower-41. The unique nature of the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river system led to the development of specialized naval vessels to fight on these rivers. The United States river gunboat carried two 150 mm guns, cannons, machine guns, and grenade launchers which could be used to attack both other ships or enemy forts and ground positions. The Great Lakes provided both a defensive shield for Canada and the United States, and a chance to attack each other. On the Great Lakes, both the United States and Canada had Great Lake battleships, which were armored cruisers. The Union used them in the defense of New York during the Great War; Canada intended theirs to be war-winning weapons but mines and submarines quickly put that idea to rest. The United States developed the first aircraft carrier, the USS Remembrance. This ship first sailed in 1920 and assisted the Irish government in suppressing a pro-British rebellion in Ulster. The Remembrance was only the first of many U.S. aircraft carriers. During the Great War, the two principal missions for navies were to project power overseas and to protect or disrupt enemy commerce. The United States attacked the British forts at Pearl Harbor in the Sandwich Islands in 1914 and held these islands subsequently. The battleship was the primary weapon of all belligerent navies. The Battle of the Three Navies was the biggest battle in the War, between the U.S., British, and Japanese Navies, and proved to be a draw. Disruption of enemy commerce, protection of friendly merchant ships, and the destruction of enemy ships was the function of both the submarine and surface ships. Both the Quadruple Alliance and the Entente patrolled the Atlantic, which accelerated the development of convoys to protect merchantmen and specific anti-submarine tactics and weapons, such as Q-ships and depth charge projectors. However, with the oceans open to both sides, surface ships were able to disrupt enemy commerce. Confederate President Gabriel Semmes remarked that the difficulties of obtaining supplies from the Entente made defeat more possible. The entry of the Brazilian Empire on the side of the Quadruple Alliance led to the final disruption of Argentine food shipments to Great Britain, resulting in the armistice at sea in 1917. A third mission of navies was to provide supplies to rebels and guerrilla forces fighting enemy nations. In the Great War, the U.S. supplied rifles and machine guns to Ireland; the Pacific War was triggered by the U.S. discovery of Japanese supplies to British Columbia. New technologies were developed during the years between the Great War and the Pacific War. The aircraft carrier and the radar developed into a mature technology with the Union leading in the race. All of the powers had radar of one sort or another. To fight the submarine, sonar was used which was the term used for underwater sound equipment. The North Atlantic was the site of a large-scale naval battle in 1943 between the United States and the Royal and French Navies. The U.S. won the battle, enabling forces to land and recapture Bermuda from the British. As in the War of Secession, the Confederate navy was small, and in the War of 1941 was primarily focused on coastal defense. By the time of the Second Great War, their heaviest ships were four battlecruisers. The CSA made heavy use out of cruisers, commerce raiders, and submarines to try to damage US shipping and combat formations. Confederate coastal defenses weren’t strong enough to ward off US raids, and so the US was able to capture various parts of the coast during the Great Wars. The Union was the first state to consider rockets in war, based on a paper presented to President Robert Taft by the Huntsville Rocket Association. Union scientists invented the antitank rocket, such as the Bazooka, the M67 Recoilless Rifle, L6 Wombat, and the Panzerschreck. Rocket artillery, known as the BM-13, BM-31, and the T34 Calliope, and were also first used in by the Union Army. Finally, V-2 ballistic missiles were used as against C.S. cities, military bases and troops. U.S. fighter-bombers also mounted rockets to attack tanks when in the antitank role; however it was also useful to attack ground targets. A notable ground attack aircraft used by the Union is the Ilyushin II-2 due to number of tanks it destroyed. The German Empire was the first state suspected of having a program to develop fission bombs. Prominent scientists, such as Albert Einstein, disappeared from public view and papers on nuclear fission vanished after the Otto Hahn experiment on fission. The United States' nuclear program was based at the Hanford site in Washington State and at the Denver site. The program was supervised by the Assistant Secretary of War, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Confederate nuclear program began in 1943, when intelligence indicated the U.S. was developing the facilities to separate uranium-235 from -238. The Union program was able to start a self-sustaining nuclear reaction at the program at Hanford in Washington State, in 1943. In addition to uranium, the Union also succeeded in creating plutonium and neptunium. The one in Denver then started research on hydrogen bombs. The Confederates, fearing that the U.S. program was far ahead of theirs, launched an airstrike on the U.S. facilities in Hanford in 1943, causing little damage. A counterstrike by the U.S. on the Confederate program in the summer of 1943 killed three scientists key to the program, and maimed another. By 1944, Germany, the United States, Great Britain, and the Confederate States all built nuclear weapons, termed atom bombs. Germany used five in total, against the following locales: Petrograd, Paris, London, Norwich, and Brighton. The United States used two, against Newport News and Charleston. Britain used one against Hamburg, then had a second one intercepted and destroyed in Belgium. The Confederate bomb was to be used against Philadelphia; however the plane was intercepted and destroyed. After the Confederate surrender, Union scientist Henderson Belmont briefly discusses the creation of hydrogen bombs with US General Abner Dowling, saying that he wouldn't be surprised if they were perfected within the next 4-5 years. The United States of America Declared the Union to Be Whole Once More and the Confederate States of America Has Been Dissolved. The United States was no longer about freedom, democracy, and human rights. It was about conquest, domination, and economic and military might. This had led to a America governed by military rule, corporations focused and developing military weapons, and generals that had won many battles in face of a deadly enemy. This rule had lead to communism as the Socialist States of America or the SSA.

[Euroslavia]

The Grand Socialist States of America: *** 1-day ban for mass spamming/trolling ***

[Euroslavia]

To: Solmakia
From: The Great Korean Empire

This nation thanks you for your assistance. Those troops will be well-appreciated and we hope that this is the beginning of a excellent relationship between our two great nations. Thank you for your time.

Signed,
Emperor Sejo of the Great Korean Empire

I'd strongly recommend that you not spam your own RP's with puppets. We're well aware of the connection between you and The Grand Socialist States of America. Knock it off.